RAMESH KUMAR SHARMAThe Mayor of Marseilles in France has granted permission for the  construction of Veer Savarkar Memorial at the spot on seashore where the great patriot, at the age of 27 years, jumped from a steamer named 'Moriya' into the sea in the morning of 8th July 1910. However, ...

Norway's mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik was Monday sent to a solitary confinement by a court after he boasted about his crime and warned of "two more cells" prepared to carry out attacks, a media report said.Judge Kim Heger said Breivik had admitted to perpetrating the twin attacks in Oslo ...

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Norway, which has played a key role in peacemaking efforts in Indonesia and Sri Lanka in the past, fell victim to its worst terrorist attack Friday. Following is a fact sheet on the European country.Capital: OsloOther principal cities: Arendal, Bergen and DrammenArea: 324,220 sq kmPopulation: 4.6 million (July 2008 estimate)Sex ...

Shell-shocked Norwegian authorities Saturday searched for more victims after a rightwing Christian massacred 84 people on an island, soon after carrying out a deadly bombing in the capital that killed seven people. A numbed Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg called the bloodbath "a nightmare".As country after country reached out to Norway ...

Forty four people were killed and eight injured after a Tu-134 passenger aircraft crash landed in Russia's northern republic of Karelia, a spokesman for the Russian Emergencies Ministry said Tuesday.The plane en route from Moscow to Petrozavodsk crash landed on a highway one km away from ...

The European Union has appealed to India not to execute Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) terrorist Devender Singh Bhullar, whose mercy petition was rejected by the president last month.The European Union has in a letter to Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram urged the Indian government not to ...

The street opposite to petrol pump near the Municipal Corporation in Bikaner goes to Home, the Center of French NGO AFEV’s (A- Action-F - Formation-E - Education-V –Voyage) activities in India. A knitting center and a bird hospital have been recently added to its several activities with French language school, orphanage, ...

Relations between India and France have traditionally been close and friendly. With the establishment of the strategic partnership in 1998, there has been significant progress in all areas of bilateral cooperation through regular high-level exchanges at the Head of State/Head of Government levels and growing commercial exchanges including in strategic areas such as ...

Switzerland and India have had cordial  and friendly relations since India became independent. The relationship is based on shared values of democracy, multiculturalism and the rule of law.  Independent India’s policy of non-alignment and Switzerland’s traditional policy of  neutrality helped to develop a close understanding between the leaders of the  two countries in the ...