Month: August 2014

New Delhi, Aug 29 (ANI): Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin today confirmed the safety of about a dozen Indian workers who were arrested in Kuwait following a brawl with foreign nationals. The MEA spokesperson also added that around a dozen or two Indian nationals have been taken into custody and another 10 to 15 are injured and are in hospital but assured that all of them were safe. “Our mission has gone to all the hospitals there to check about the welfare of the Indian nationals there and I can confirm to you that no Indian national is in any danger. The rest of the Indian nationals are in their camp and not in any danger at this stage, Akbaruddin added.

New Delhi, Aug. 29 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nalin Kohli on Friday hit back at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for alleging that his party was exploring dubious means to form the government in Delhi, saying the political outfit led by Arvind Kejriwal needs to get serious about politics and stop this politics of anarchy and accusations. “In the Lok Sabha elections, the Aam Aadmi Party lost their deposits in more than 400 seats. Kohli further said the Aam Aadmi Party must understand that people want development.

Colombo, Aug 29 (IANS) Sri Lanka’s main Tamil party has announced it is willing to restart talks with the government after a lapse of nearly three years to find a political solution to a dragging ethnic issue after a three-decade civil war ended in 2009, an official said here Friday. The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) said it was ready to resume discussions with the government to reach a lasting solution to the ethnic crisis based on power devolution within a united Sri Lanka, Xinhua reported. “We have no intention of dividing Sri Lanka. He said the allegation leveled by the government against them that they were cronies of the Tamil rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was incorrect.

New Delhi, Aug. 29 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nalin Kohli on Friday condemned film director Ram Gopal Verma’s atheist tweet on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, saying he should apologise as he is hurting religious sentiments of the people. “On a day when crores of people are with fervor and happiness celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi, this is highly condemnable that someone like Ram Gopal Verma if his Twitter account is true and as I have been told is making comments like this against the celebration of this festival and going ahead then and considering people who are celebrating it as morons. He is hurting religious sentiments of the people,” Kohli told ANI here. The filmmaker has been highly criticized on the social media for his unwarranted tweet on the microblogging site on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi.

New Delhi, Aug. 29 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader J P Nadda said the party has discussed the issue of decreasing number of voters in the Kashmiri migrants voters’ list during their meeting with the Election Commission here on Friday and demanded the process of registration of Kashmiri Migrant voters to be simplified “A delegation of BJP leaders met the Election Commission today to discuss two matters. “The second matter that we discussed with the Election Commission is that we want the process of registration of Kashmiri migrant voters to be simplified,” he added.