India's junior foreign minister says New Delhi has expressed its "absolute displeasure" to Australia over attacks on Indian students.
"We are doing our utmost to register our absolute displeasure and concern about what is happening to our citizens in Australia," the Press Trust of India news agency quoted Praneet Kaur as saying in New Delhi on Friday.
"I think almost on a daily basis the situation is being monitored," the junior foreign minister added.
The comments came less than a week after Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith telephoned his Indian counterpart S M Krishna to try to cool tensions over the attacks in Australian cities.
Information Minister Ambika Soni said New Delhi is seeking assurances Indians will be safe in Australia.
"A certain clarity or a certain reassurance from Australia should be forthcoming so that the sense of insecurity and fear which is there in the Indian students there and their families especially in India can be assuaged," she said.
Foreign Minister Krishna during his talks with Smith conveyed his "deep concern" over the incidents, which included an attempt by a group of men to set fire to an Indian man in Melbourne last week.
The string of attacks, which included the murder of a student this month in Melbourne, has prompted a strong reaction in the Indian press, with one newspaper likening Australian police to the Ku Klux Klan.
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