Indians Killed In Mosul

Union Minister VK Singh, who on Monday brought back the bodies of 38 of 39 Indians killed in Iraq by a special aircraft, has said that the workers had travelled there illegally so the government had no record of them and couldn't help them.

Union Minister VK Singh, who brought back today the bodies of 38 Indians killed in Iraq, was criticized for his sharp retort to reporters who questioned him about compensation for the grieving families: "This is not like distributing biscuits."

A special flight carrying the bodies of 38 Indians killed by the terror group ISIS in Iraq's Mosul landed in Amritsar on Tuesday. Minister of State for External Affairs General VK Singh had left for Mosul on Sunday in an Indian Air Force transport plane to bring the bodies home.

Union Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh will today bring back the bodies of the 39 Indians, killed in the war-torn country, officials said. Last month, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had told Parliament that 40 Indians were abducted by ISIS from Mosul in Iraq in June 2014, but one of them escaped posing as a Muslim from Bangl...

The Congress's Twitter poll against Sushma Swaraj backfired spectacularly with over 76 per cent voting "No" to the opposition party's question: whether the death of 39 Indians in Iraq was her biggest failure as Foreign Minister. Ms Swaraj scored big by re-tweeting the Congress poll

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said that the state government will work out a proper assistance package for families of those from Punjab among the 39 Indians killed by ISIS in Iraq and till then, they will continue to get a monthly pension.

Harjit Masih, the only survivor among the 40 Indians kidnapped by the terror group ISIS in Mosul, has claimed that he had been told by Indian officials to not say that his fellow construction workers had died.

All the 39 Indians, who were abducted by ISIS in Iraq nearly three years back, were killed and their bodies have been recovered, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Tuesday. As many as 40 Indians were originally abducted by terrorist organisation ISIS in June 2015 from Mosul in Iraq but one of them escaped by posing as a Muslim from Ban...

In 2014, 40 Indian construction workers went missing outside the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The city had fallen to the Islamic State militant group just days before. Relatives said they received panicked calls from some of the workers, begging for help

The United Nations today condoled the death of 39 Indian nationals abducted by ISIS in Iraq, saying the tragedy is yet another example of the "barbarism and cruelty" of the notorious terror outfit.

Under fire from the opposition over the centre's handling of the abduction of 39 Indians by the ISIS in Iraq in 2014, Union minister V K Singh today said the government was looking for proof of life in a war-torn country and it was "always the easier choice" to have declared them dead.

As the government today confirmed that all 39 Indians missing in Iraq since 2014 had been killed by the terrorist group ISIS, questions swirled around the account of Harjit Masih, the man who escaped and claimed that he had seen the others massacred

Thirty nine Indians who were kidnapped in Iraq by terror group ISIS nearly four years ago are dead, foreign minister Sushma Swaraj told parliament today. "With full proof I can say these 39 are dead. We wanted to give the families closure only after concrete proof," Ms Swaraj said. While the families feared the worst, their hopes were kept up wit...

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was today unable to make an elaborate statement in the Lok Sabha on the 39 Indians killed in Iraq due to ruckus created by slogan-shouting members.

Thirty nine Indians who were kidnapped in Iraq by terror group ISIS nearly three years ago are dead, foreign minister Sushma Swaraj told parliament today. "With full proof I can say these 39 are dead. We wanted to give the families closure only after concrete proof," Ms Swaraj said.Their bodies were found in a mass grave in Badush, 31 km from Iraq'...

Union Minister VK Singh, who on Monday brought back the bodies of 38 of 39 Indians killed in Iraq by a special aircraft, has said that the workers had travelled there illegally so the government had no record of them and couldn't help them.

Union Minister VK Singh, who brought back today the bodies of 38 Indians killed in Iraq, was criticized for his sharp retort to reporters who questioned him about compensation for the grieving families: "This is not like distributing biscuits."

A special flight carrying the bodies of 38 Indians killed by the terror group ISIS in Iraq's Mosul landed in Amritsar on Tuesday. Minister of State for External Affairs General VK Singh had left for Mosul on Sunday in an Indian Air Force transport plane to bring the bodies home.

Union Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh will today bring back the bodies of the 39 Indians, killed in the war-torn country, officials said. Last month, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had told Parliament that 40 Indians were abducted by ISIS from Mosul in Iraq in June 2014, but one of them escaped posing as a Muslim from Bangl...

The Congress's Twitter poll against Sushma Swaraj backfired spectacularly with over 76 per cent voting "No" to the opposition party's question: whether the death of 39 Indians in Iraq was her biggest failure as Foreign Minister. Ms Swaraj scored big by re-tweeting the Congress poll

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said that the state government will work out a proper assistance package for families of those from Punjab among the 39 Indians killed by ISIS in Iraq and till then, they will continue to get a monthly pension.

Harjit Masih, the only survivor among the 40 Indians kidnapped by the terror group ISIS in Mosul, has claimed that he had been told by Indian officials to not say that his fellow construction workers had died.

All the 39 Indians, who were abducted by ISIS in Iraq nearly three years back, were killed and their bodies have been recovered, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Tuesday. As many as 40 Indians were originally abducted by terrorist organisation ISIS in June 2015 from Mosul in Iraq but one of them escaped by posing as a Muslim from Ban...

In 2014, 40 Indian construction workers went missing outside the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The city had fallen to the Islamic State militant group just days before. Relatives said they received panicked calls from some of the workers, begging for help

The United Nations today condoled the death of 39 Indian nationals abducted by ISIS in Iraq, saying the tragedy is yet another example of the "barbarism and cruelty" of the notorious terror outfit.

Under fire from the opposition over the centre's handling of the abduction of 39 Indians by the ISIS in Iraq in 2014, Union minister V K Singh today said the government was looking for proof of life in a war-torn country and it was "always the easier choice" to have declared them dead.

As the government today confirmed that all 39 Indians missing in Iraq since 2014 had been killed by the terrorist group ISIS, questions swirled around the account of Harjit Masih, the man who escaped and claimed that he had seen the others massacred

Thirty nine Indians who were kidnapped in Iraq by terror group ISIS nearly four years ago are dead, foreign minister Sushma Swaraj told parliament today. "With full proof I can say these 39 are dead. We wanted to give the families closure only after concrete proof," Ms Swaraj said. While the families feared the worst, their hopes were kept up wit...

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was today unable to make an elaborate statement in the Lok Sabha on the 39 Indians killed in Iraq due to ruckus created by slogan-shouting members.

Thirty nine Indians who were kidnapped in Iraq by terror group ISIS nearly three years ago are dead, foreign minister Sushma Swaraj told parliament today. "With full proof I can say these 39 are dead. We wanted to give the families closure only after concrete proof," Ms Swaraj said.Their bodies were found in a mass grave in Badush, 31 km from Iraq'...