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Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj (Photo: PTI)

Cong turns privilege heat on Sushma for 'misleading' House on slain...

The Congress MP demanded that the government should pay a compensation of Rs 1 crore each to the families of the 39...

23 March 2018 4:17 AM IST

Congress President Rahul Gandhi (Photo: AP)

Govt cooked up Congress role in data row: Rahul Gandhi

Prasad said that the pattern of the Congress' campaign in Gujarat suggested that the party had used and abused the...

23 March 2018 12:54 AM IST

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj underlined that the Indian High Commission will provide all help and assistance to the family. (Photo: PTI)

Cong to move privilege motion against Sushma for 'misleading' House on...

Sushma had informed about the death of 39 Indians who were kidnapped in Iraq's Mosul town in 2014.

22 March 2018 9:24 PM IST

Harjit Masih, the only survivor among the 40 India hostages by ISIS in Iraqs Mosul, has claimed that he had been told by the officials in India to not say that his co-workers had died. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Officials told me to say they had not died: Harjit Masih on Indians...

Masih has all along claimed to have seen his compatriots being executed, a version the government did not accept.

22 March 2018 4:29 PM IST

Union Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj during an interaction with women and girl students at a Women Townhall in Ahmedabad. (Photo: PTI)

No jobs at home: Why war zones lure Indians

Successive Indian governments have successfully evacuated stranded Indians from conflict zones.

22 March 2018 12:58 AM IST

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj speaks in the Rajya Sabha during the second phase of budget session, at the Parliament House in New Delhi on Tuesday. Swaraj says that the 39 bodies exhumed from a mount in Badoosh in Iraq has been identified as those of Indians and will be brought back to India on a special plane.

Deaths in Iraq: Govt callousness exposed

It only now becomes plain that the government had not a shred of evidence to even hint that the missing workers were...

22 March 2018 12:49 AM IST

Harjit Masih however, managed to return to India after giving a slip to the ISIS militants suffering gun wound. (Photo: ANI)

Indians made to kneel down, killed in front of me: Escaped IS captive

Giving details of the incident, Masih said that Indians were working at a factory in Iraq in 2014.

21 March 2018 1:37 PM IST

Shashi Tharoor (Photo: Sondeep Shankar)

Opposition slams handling of matter

Ms Badal accused Opposition leaders of playing politics over an unfortunate incident.

21 March 2018 1:26 AM IST

Relatives of Gurcharan Singh, one of the 39 Indian workers whose bodies were found buried northwest of Mosul, mourn in his hometown in Jalal Usma village, Punjab. (Photo: PTI)

Families learn of death on TV, in shock

On Tuesday, Ms Swaraj reemphasised that Mr Masih's account on the massacre of 39 Indians was not correct.

21 March 2018 1:19 AM IST

ISIS killed 39 abducted Indians: Govt

ISIS killed 39 abducted Indians: Govt

The DNA of the 39 bodies, Ms Swaraj said, was then matched with the blood of the relatives of the missing Indians.

21 March 2018 1:10 AM IST

The Centre is keen to get the transgenders bill, which has already been introduced in Lok Sabha, passed in this session. (Photo: PTI)

Parliament proceedings paralysed for 12th day

No-confidence motion against the govt could not be taken up for the third day on Tuesday.

21 March 2018 1:39 AM IST

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh (Photo: PTI)

Shattered at death of 39 Indians, says Punjab CM

Cong expresses grief, AAP MLA says Sushma Swaraj should quit.

21 March 2018 12:23 AM IST