Indian Ministry of External Affairs News

MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, responding to media queries regarding the vandalism at the Hindu Temple in Chino Hills, California, condemned such “despicable acts”. 

Russia welcomes India's decision to not support the price cap on Russian oil. Earlier, West put a cap on Russian oil to $60 per barrel. India's Ministry of External Affairs has defended the decision of purchasing Russian oil.

Portugal Health Minister resigns five hours after Indian pregnant tourist died in Lisbon The government's decision to temporarily stop emergency obstetric services forced the pregnant woman to shift hospitals leading her to death Arindam Bagchi called the incident unfortunate and said we are in touch with the deceased family

Jaishankar is in the central European nation as part of a four-day visit to Slovenia, Croatia and Denmark to enhance India-EU ties and for bilateral talks. Jaishankar also held a cordial meeting with President of the National Assembly of Slovenia Igor Zorcic Slovenia currently holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union and has invited Jaishankar to attend the informal meeting of the foreign ministers of the EU states.

The MEA called upon Pakistan to "ensure the safety, security and well-being of its minority communities." The Ganesh temple was ransacked by a mob in broad daylight with no intervention from the local authorities in Pakistan's Punjab. MEA highlighted that "incidents of violence, discrimination and persecution against the minority communities including attacks on places of worship have continued unabated in Pakistan".

A total of 16 people of Myanmar have crossed the Indian border and have taken refuge in Mizoram Reports suggest 11 of them have were police personnel The MEA said it is ascertaining the facts and will give further updates on the matter later

India took a batch of foreign envoys to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Of the 24 envoys, the largest group of 9 envoys were from Europe Last week's visit was the 3rd such visit organized by the ministry of external affairs

MEA Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said,"There is a growing stress on the crew members on account of the long delay" "Given this and our concern for the increasingly difficult conditions for our crew members, these two cases are being pursued vigorously," he said Srivastava said the Indian embassy in Beijing is in touch with relevant Chinese authorities for berthing approvals to facilitate the crew change

International travel has significantly impacted due to pandemic. The India-Russia Annual Summit did not take place in 2020 because of the COVID pandemic. UNGA meeting, major summits like G20, BRICS, SCO took place virtually for the first time.

Reacting strongly to the map, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) official spokesperson Anurag Srivastava stated that Nepal's unilateral action is not based on historical facts and evidence. 

India's Ministry of External Affairs has strongly condemned the terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.

If Pakistan really wants to contribute to the welfare of the people of J&K, the spokesperson said, "It could do so best by ending cross-border terrorism and desisting from its campaign of violence and false propaganda."

V. Srinivas, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievance and Pensions said the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances has endeavoured to take this message forward by pioneering a number of administrative reforms in e-Governance.

Indian Ministry of external affairs said that Pakistan has tried to attack Indian military bases and Pakistan's F-16 was shot down

India on Sunday said it is taking steps to ensure safe evacuation of its nationals from Yemen after a sailors group claimed that 70 seamen from Gujarat are stranded in the war-torn county.