New Delhi, Sept. 7 : India has suggested to Pakistan open the Srinagar-Muzafarabad route for trade from October 1 this year.

New Delhi has also expressed its willingness to open new routes to boost trade across the Line of Control (LOC).

In an interview to All India Radio on Saturday, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said: "Our proposal for opening the LOC trade from October 1 has been forwarded to Pakistan and we are awaiting their response. Necessary steps will be taken as soon as we receive Pakistan''s response."

He also ruled out that the proposal for opening the route was connected in any way to the recent political upheaval in Kashmir.

New Delhi, Sept 6 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Saturday held discussions with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and National Security Adviser M K Narayanan on the deliberations of the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) after the crucial two day meeting remained inconclusive on Friday.

New Delhi, Sep 6 : External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate 26th Meeting of Ministers of Health from the countries of WHO South East Asia Region 
(SEAR) and 61st Session of Regional Committee of South East Asia Region of WHO here on September 8.

The meetings are hosted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss will be coordinating the proceedings.

New Delhi, Sept. 4 : External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said that the UPA Government was not in a position to go beyond its commitment to Parliament on the US-India civil nuclear cooperation deal, even as an atmosphere of uncertainty prevails over India getting a waiver for nuclear commerce from the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).

In an interview to All India Radio, Mukherjee said that there was no room for speculation and that the Government would wait for the outcome of the two-day deliberations before initiating the next steps to have the deal operationalised.

New Delhi, Aug 29 : External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said that New Delhi is working with the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) countries to secure a clean waiver on the India-US civilian nuclear deal.

New Delhi - India will not accept any preconditions to get an exemption from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to implement the India-US civil nuclear energy deal, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Saturday.

"We have to see what kind of amendments come. Then only we can decide. But we cannot accept prescriptive conditionalities," Mukherjee told the PTI news agency during a tour to the eastern state of West Bengal.