Gopal Baglay News

Baglay also visited the Thiruketheeswaram Temple in Northern Province He also attended Shivratri pooja today in Sri Lanka Ramsethu the connecting bridge between India & Sri Lanka for centuries

India on Thursday said it continues to engage with China diplomatically and has been coordinating with Bhutan to find a mutually-acceptable solution to a standoff between the two nations in the Dokalam area in the Sikkim sector.

India has no official information on Pakistan's position on providing visa to Kulbhushan Jadhav's mother, the external affairs ministry said on Thursday.

President Gayoom is accused of rolling back democratic gains the country has made since becoming a multiparty democracy in 2008.

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay, while replaying to a question about Doval's schedule in Beijing, had last week said that if there are any further developments in his programme then the media will be informed.

Consul General of India in Frankfurt (Germany) Raveesh Kumar will be the next Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson, according to several reports. This comes after Senior diplomat and current MEA spokesperson Gopal Baglay was appointed as Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.

Gopal Baglay is a 1992 batch Indian Foreign Service officer.

In a series of tweets on the meeting, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Gopal Baglay said Swaraj welcomed Bishop for framework dialogue of foreign ministers.

India said on Thursday it will continue to use diplomatic channels with China to resolve Dokalam stand off and insisted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held "conversation on range of issues" in Hamburg.

Eleven Indians have been killed in a fire in the southern Saudi city of Najran and the Indian Consulate in Jeddah is providing all assistance to the families of the deceased and those injured in the tragedy, the External Affairs Ministry said on Thursday.

At the end of the session, he also asked the G20 nations to create a strong partnership for skilling, including exchange of best practices. 

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay said the use of the term 'Indian- administered Jammu and Kashmir' merely affirmed Indian position.

The first cargo flight of the Afghanistan-India air freight corridor carrying Afghan goods to India landed in New Delhi on Monday night.

The families said they had last heard from the men on June 14, 2014, when they all called home to say they were being taken away by ISIS fighters.

The Indian government on Friday dismissed the claims made by Pakistan as per which the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has turned down New Delhi's plea to give it six months of time to file its plea in the ongoing Kulbhushan Jadhav case. 

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday asked India and Pakistan to give their respective position in the case relating to Kulbhushan Jadhav, who faces execution in Pakistan for allegedly spying for India.

Former foreign secretary Bhupatray Shashank on Thursday said Pakistan has been giving different expressions all along on alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav.

The Indian government on Thursday strongly rejected the motion passed by the legislative assembly of Ontorio in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. 

India on Friday rejected a motion passed in a Canadian provincial assembly that described the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as a "genocide".

Even as India rebuffed the suggestion, Pakistan has welcomed the US` offer to help de-escalate tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad.