New Delhi, Oct 14 (ANI): Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma on Tuesday said that the joint declaration to be brought at the end of the third India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Summit will focus on the world financial crisis.
Sharma was speaking to reporters at the concluding session of Editors Conference today.
Ahead of the summit, which is beginning on Wednesday, business leaders, editors, women empowerment group and dialogue forum including journalists, women activists, intellectuals and policy makers of the three countries are holding discussions to prepare the agenda for the summit level talks.
New Delhi, Oct. 14 : Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi was on Tuesday described as being in a stable condition but still on respiratory support after suffering a heart attack on Monday morning.
"He is stable but in a serious condition. He requires respiratory support," AIIMS Medical Superintendent D K Sharma said.
Dasmunsi was rushed to the hospital at around 2.30 a. m. on Monday after he complained of breathlessness due to lung congestion caused by heart failure, Sharma said. He was put on a ventilator.
New Delhi, Oct. 14 : Visiting Pakistan national Security Adviser Mahmud Ali Durrani told reporters here on Tuesday that his country''s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had no role in the bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul in July this year.
"No. No. No. Incorrect," Durrani, a former army man and Ambassador to the United States, said here when asked to comment on reports alleging that Pakistan''s ISI had a role in the Kabul blasts.
New Delhi, Oct. 14 : The National Human Rights Commission today issued a notice to the Government of Assam to explain the cause for the communal clashes between immigrant Muslims and Bodo tribe at Rowta in the Udalguri and Darrang districts of North Assam, which led to the deaths of 30 people.
It also sought an explanation from the Assam Government on the displacement of over 70,000 persons from more than 25 villages in both the districts.
New Delhi - India will hold assembly elections in five states in November and December, the country's Election Commission announced on Tuesday, in what could prove to be a test for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's coalition.
The voting will be held in the national capital New Delhi as well as central states Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, northern Rajasthan and north-eastern Mizoram from November 14 to December 4, Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami told reporters in New Delhi.
New Delhi, Oct 14 : Pakistan National Security Advisor (NSA) Mahmud Ali Durrani who is on a five-day visit to India with an agenda focused on promoting friendship between the two countries, met External Affair Minister Pranab Mukherjee here today.
According to sources, issues like the spate of recent ceasefire violations, the rise in cross border infiltrations and the Indian Embassy bombing in Kabul were discussed.