Policy soon to deal with racial discrimination abroad: Preneet Kaur

October 6th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - Police in Nevada state say they have found a 16-year-old Sikh girl who went missing last week. Karamjit Kaur, 16, was with her brother-in-law Parvinder Singh in Indiana state.

September 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Tuesday made a fresh pitch for UN reforms, seeking to revive its bid for a permanent seat in the Security Council, and underlined that a new system of global governance must also have "in-built flexibility" to adapt to the evolving world order. Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur presented India's perspective on New global governance for the 21st Century at the Bled Strategic Forum at the lakeside resort of Bled in Slovenia.

August 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India will restart dialogue with Pakistan only if Islamabad fulfils its "commitments", Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur reiterated Wednesday. I think that we have never wavered from the stand that we have taken.

June 27th, 2009 CHENNAI - The attacks on Indian students in Australia were racial outbursts by anti-social elements, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi said here Saturday. The minister said the Indian government was in touch with the Australian authorities and expressed confidence that the situation will become normal there.

June 26th, 2009 UNITED NATIONS - Warning against protectionist tendencies to address the global economic crisis, India has said that while it has fared much better than others, developing countries must get space to continue To grow. "We have a vested interest in the world economy doing well as that is a key enabler for our growth too," Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur said Thursday at the UN Conference on World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development.

June 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur will represent India at the United Nations' conference on the economic crisis this week. A statement from the ministry said that Kaur's participation was in the context of Indias proactive and constructive engagement with the global community in order to address and meet the challenges posed by the crisis.

June 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - It was her maiden speech in parliament and Speaker Meira Kumar didn't mind giving her an extra two minutes. Akali Dal MP Harsimrat Kaur surprised many with her poise as well as passionate anger over female infanticide and the plight of farmers in Punjab.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian government was seriously considering "an institutionalised mechanism" to prevent racist attacks on Indians abroad, Vayalar Ravi said Friday after taking charge of the overseas Indian affairs ministry. After taking charge of the ministry again with a simple function at Akbar Bhavan here, Ravi said his immediate task was to protect the Indians in Australia as a number of Indian students have faced allegedly racial attacks there this week.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India wants peace with neighbours but it will not tolerate terrorism, Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur said soon after taking charge Friday. We always want good relations with neighbours but the one thing we will not tolerate is terrorism and sheltering of terrorists, Kaur told reporters inside her office when asked if India will resume dialogue with Pakistan.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The new team in the external affairs ministry got down to business Friday as Shashi Tharoor, a former UN bureaucrat and novelist, and Preneet Kaur, Congress MP from Patiala, took charge as ministers of state. Tharoor is expected to deal with issues relating to Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

May 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Shashi Tharoor, who served as UN under-secretary general, was Thursday named minister of state for external affairs. Apart from the first-time MP and author, also named minister of state for external affairs in the portfolio allocations announced late Thursday is Preneet Kaur, wife of former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh.

May 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - As many as 29 MPs - veterans as well as youngsters - will make their debut as central ministers Thursday as part of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 78-member-strong council of ministers. These include former chief ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh and Farooq Abdullah, former UN undersecretary general Shashi Tharoor as well as three women MPs - Agatha Sangma, Krishna Tirath and Preneet Kaur.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prominent winners and losers in the Lok Sabha election: WINNERS: Sonia Gandhi, Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh Rahul Gandhi, Amethi, Uttar Pradesh L.K. Advani, Gandhinagar Lalu Prasad, Saran, Bihar Rajnath Singh, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh Mamata Banerjee, Kolkata Dakshin Varun Gandhi, Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh H.D.

March 23rd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Lok Sabha elections in Punjab are going to be quite a family affair, politically speaking - going by the number of relatives of politicians who figure in the list of candidates for the state's 13 parliamentary seats. The announcement of candidates by the Congress for the state has former chief minister Amarinder Singh's wife, Preneet Kaur, and son Raninder Singh (Tikku) among the names.

March 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - To have or not to have a casino, that seemed to be the question raised by Parminder Kaur, an All India Mahila Congress (AIMC) vice president. Kaur said the 'AIMC had no moral issues vis-a-vis offshore casino gambling in Goa'.