Verka visits families of 8 pilgrims killed in accident in HP

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday assured the families of 39 Indians killed in Iraq that the bodies would be brought to India by next week, a relative of one of the deceased said. “We were assured all kind of assistance, including the possibility of a government job to the next of kin,” Davinder Singh, younger brother of Gobinder Singh, who was among those killed in Iraq, said over phone after the families of those killed met Swaraj in New Delhi. To our demand of ...

Chandigarh: As they try to come to terms with the grim reality, family members of the 39 Indians massacred years ago in Iraq by terror organisation ISIS have one question: why did the Centre keep them in the dark all this while? Heart-rending scenes were ...