New York: Stressing the need to clearly define what constitutes the legal lobbying activities by business groups in India, Corporate Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot today uttered that lobbyists should present their views to policymakers in public and not behind the [...]
Mumbai: Reserve Bank today kept the key interest rates unchanged citing elevated food inflation rupee depreciation and uncertainty over foreign fund inflows. The repo rate at which the RBI lends to the system has been retained at 7.25%, while the [...]
New Delhi: BrahMos, the world’s only supersonic cruise missile and a symbol of the India’s military prowess has been billed to be “uninterceptable” for the “next 20 years”, by none other than the “father of BrahMos” itself. “The equivalent of [...]
Washington: US is not rushing to war in Syria, the White House has reveals, days after it said that that Syrian regime led by President Bashar Al-Asaad has crossed the red line by using chemical weapons against its own people. [...]
Wellington: An 11-year-old New Zealand boy was reported Saturday to have fathered a child with the 36-year-old women of a school friend, raising questions on why women cannot be charged with rape in the country. Counselors working in the area of [...]
New Delhi: CBI has started another probe against UK-based helicopter supplier Agusta Westland for alleged corruption in the supply of light utility helicopters to Army. CBI sources said the preliminary inquiry has been registered on the request of the defense ministry after [...]
Islamabad: India is all set to export 400 million cubic feet of gas per day to Pakistan but the matter hinges on finalizing a tariff that is on the lower side, petroleum and natural resources Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has [...]
Moscow : World Champion Viswanathan Anand started with a draw against lowest-ranked Dmitry Andreikin of Russia in the second round of Tal Memorial Chess tournament here. After suffering a shock defeat at the hands of Italian Fabiano Caruana, Anand was [...]
US: The United Nations General Assembly elected by acclamation Ambassador John W Ashe for Antigua and Barbuda as President of its upcoming 68th session. Taking the floor immediately after his election, Mr. Ashe, who is Antigua and Barbuda’s Permanent Representative [...]
Washington: The British Ambassador to the United States has praised Indian businesses for investing massively in his country and succeeding where those from Britain, US and Germany have not done that good. “We would like to see India doing well and [...]
Singapore: Oil prices eased on profit-taking in Asian trade Friday while dealers grow cautious over a supply glut and waning global demand, analysts informed. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in July dropped a Cent to $96.68 a [...]
Washington: The US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to visit India and Pakistan, his spokesperson Jen Psaki said without disclosing time schedule of his maiden trip to the region as top American Diplomat. Without going further into details of Kerry’s [...]
Singapore: India is emerging like Asia’s canary in the ‘hot money’ mine. As financial markets sell off on concerns over rising US rates, what happens in India, an economy with slowing growth and a heavy dependence on foreign money, could [...]
Jerusalem: Considering India as a long-standing strategic partner in fight against terror, Israel has declared that it will “not do anything that could undermine India’s security” in a strong bid to re-assure New Delhi that reports of arms sale to [...]
Unbridled migration may reduce ethnic Goans: Govt Panaji: Goa is virtually standing on the brink of “ethnic dilution” as unrestricted migration from other States is threatening to reduce the native population to an “alienated microscopic minority” by 2021, according to [...]
Wal-Mart Stores Inc has in recent months been only hiring temporary workers at many of its U.S. stores, the first time the world’s largest retailer has done so without a holiday shopping season. The stores run by the largest U.S. [...]
New Delhi: India has offered incentives for exports to Iran, the Trade Ministry announced, a step industry officials informed on Tuesday could double the country’s sales to sanctions-hit Tehran to $6 billion in the current fiscal year that began in [...]
New Delhi: India’s air force expects to take delivery of the first of 126 Dassault Aviation SA fighter jets three years after a final deal is signed, its Chief N.A.K. Browne told reporters at an air show at Bangalore. India chose Dassault, [...]
India is considering simplifying the allocations of Government debt limits to foreign investors, including doing-away with the current system of auctions, claimed a source with direct knowledge of the deliberations between the Government and Regulators. Among the measures being considered [...]
Mumbai: The INR recovered by 19 Paise to 58.20 against the Dollar in early trade on Wednesday at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market afterRBI announced steps to check free-fall in rupee, raising the limit for online repatriation of export proceeds by over three-fold [...]
Washington: The United States has said that Iran has not been able maintain up to its commitments under international law to prove that its pursuit of nuclear technology is for peaceful purposes only. “Iran has failed to continue up to [...]
Beijing: A Chinese manned spacecraft blasted off with three astronauts on board on Tuesday on a 15-day mission to an experimental space lab in the latest step towards the development of a space station. The ‘Shenzhou 10’ Spacecraft was launched from a remote [...]
New Delhi: Former IPS Officer Kiran Bedi was today honored with USD 10,000 ‘Nomura Award’ at Singapore for her outstanding humanitarian works. The activist has decided to donate the reward money for the education of prisoners’ children. “I will be [...]
Washington: A US-based body has decided set up 10 science centers – Spark!Lab – across India to encourage inventive creativity in India’s young people and help to create its next generation of innovators. At an event held at the Indian [...]
Mumbai: He is not just a star, he is a superstar now,” trade analyst Mr. Vajir Singh declared on Friday. “The rate at which ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’ has crossed 100 crore (1 billion) rupees in domestic theater revenues is [...]
Washington: President Mr. Barack Obama has nominated Mr. Jason Furman, a veteran White House economic official, as Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Obama calls Furman, 42, one of the most brilliant economic minds of this generation. He [...]
Jerusalem: Iran is working round the clock to enlarge its nuclear infrastructure with the eventual aim of developing an industry capable of building up to 30 bombs a year, an Israeli Minister charged on Monday. Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem, Intelligence [...]
Los Angeles: Paris Jackson’s mom Debbie Rowe told after her daughter’s recent alleged suicide attempt and subsequent recovery. Rowe took to her Facebook page to defend her family in the wake of the tragic incident, reportedly. “So it’s not enough [...]
Kabul, Afghanistan: At least five heavily armed insurgents were engaged in an hours-long gun battle with security forces near Afghanistan’s main airport on Monday after they apparently attacked NATO’s airport headquarters with rocket-propelled grenades, assault rifles and at least [...]
Islamabad: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan will be the new Pakistan Government’s point man for dealing with law and order problems and a Taliban insurgency while Power Minister Khwaja Asif has been entrusted the task of addressing a crippling energy crisis. [...]
Mumbai: Shilpa Shetty, who made her debut with ‘Baazigar’, is known in Bollywood as the queen of reinvention. Her comebacks are the like that dreams are made of. From every career slump, the lissome belle resurrected herself like Phoenix. Bollywood [...]
Capetown: Former South African President and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela was in a “serious but stable” condition after being taken to hospital early on Saturday with a recurrence of a lung infection, the Government disclosed. The international icon now 94-year-old, [...]
Washington : Welcoming the “peaceful rise” of China as a world power, US President Barack Obama today greeted his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at Palm Springs at California in a two-day summit, with both leaders calling for a new approach [...]
Los Angeles: Late pop icon Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris, who was rushed to a California hospital on Wednesday after she tried to kill herself, she also called a suicide helpline before slitting her right wrist with a meat cleaver and [...]
SEOUL: North Korea said it would restore an official hotline with South Korea but pushed back at Seoul’s proposal of ministerial-level talks to be held in Seoul next week. Pyongyang’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) said the hotline — [...]
Dhaka: “I never dreamed I would return again, I am grateful to everyone,” said 19-year-old Reshma Begum, wearing a bright green scarf and flanked by soldiers in fatigues at an event at the hospital where she was recovering from [...]
Singapore: Oil prices were mixed in Asia today as dealers trod cautiously ahead of US President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech and as Euro zone finance Ministers discuss a debt bailout for Cyprus. Talks of a currency war [...]
Washington: United States today exempted India and eight other countries from sanctions for importing oil from Iran, noting that these countries have significantly reduced their dependence on Iranian oil in the last six months. US Secretary of State John Kerry [...]
Abuja: India has issued a travel warning to its nationals in Nigeria urging them to be cautious while visiting the oil-rich nation’s troubled northeastern region, where a state of emergency had been declared last month. The High Commission of India in [...]
AT least 20 people were killed by a series of tornadoes that swept through the Midwestern US State of Oklahoma last week, including seven children, officials say, providing an updated toll. The State’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said [...]
New Delhi: L&T has steadily expanded its global footprint, recently winning a construction project at the Abu Dhabi airport. The firm is further bidding for about $3 billion worth of projects in the region, including more construction work for Aramco [...]
Singapore: Oil prices rose in Asia today, with dealers buying cheaper crude ahead of key economic releases from the United States, analysts disclosed. New York’s main contract, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light sweet crude for delivery in July added 43 cents to [...]
Melbourne: India and Australia have decided to deepen defence cooperation between the two countries. Indian Minister of Defence Mr. A K Antony and the Australian Minister for Defence Mr. Stephen Smith met at Perth on 4 June and at Canberra [...]
Athens: Greek authorities say a magnitude 4.4 earthquake has been felt near the capital, Athens, without causing damage or injuries. The Athens Geodynamic Institute says the early temblor on Tuesday, which was felt in the city of some four million [...]
Manali: A thirty-year-old American national was reportedly raped by two persons in the tourist resort of Manali, police said on Tuesday. The victim, who reached Manali on Monday, had gone to old Vashisth area to meet some friends. She was allegedly [...]
Islamabad: Mr. Nawaz Sharif is expected to be sworn in for a record third term as Pakistan’s Prime Minister tomorrow with a very small cabinet comprising close aides shortly after he is formally elected. Sharif’s election in the National Assembly of [...]
Mumbai: The Indian Rupee on Tuesday trimmed its early gains but was still quoting higher by 10 Paise in late morning deals to 56.66 against Dollar on fresh selling of Dollars by banks and exporters. The Indian Rupee resumed [...]
Melbourne: Defense Minister Mr. A K Antony will arrive in Australia on Tuesday on a maiden visit as part of his three nation tour aimed at strengthening India’s defense ties with the countries in Asia and Pacific region. During his [...]
New Delhi: A diplomat from Pakistan and his driver were allegedly assaulted by some unidentified people in South Delhi last evening, according to the Pakistan High Commission which has demanded an immediate probe and security for its staff. The [...]
Mexico City: Including seven from India fifteen undocumented migrants have been arrested in Mexico, apparently trying to illegally cross into the United States, authorities claimed. Those detained at a hotel yesterday in Tapachula in the State of Chiapas also included five individuals [...]
London: Barclays has been dragged into an international money laundering investigation as the U.S. prosecutors discovered that Arthur Budovsky, the founder of digital currency exchange Liberty Reserve, held an account with a British bank. The U.S. prosecutors have filed an indictment [...]
Sydney: Julia Gillard the Australian Prime Minister today revealed that the progress on Uranium sale to India was moving on the expected lines and discussions as were underway between the two nations to put a safeguards agreement forward. The progress is as [...]
London: “Star Trek Into Darkness” star Zoe Saldana feels heartbroken when her relationship ends but says she always recovers easily from break-up. The 34-year-old actress, who split from “The Hangover” hunk Bradley Cooper last year, claims it does not take [...]
BANGKOK: The Indian Prime Minister Mr. Singh on Thursday reached here at Bangkok on a two-day visit during his visit he will be holding talks with his Thai counterpart Mr. Yingluck Shinawatra to outline the framework of a Comprehensive Free Trade [...]
LONDON: The London Police have charged a man for murder as in the killing of a British soldier in a suspected Islamic extremist attack in broad daylight on a London street. Michael Adebowale 22, a soldier was charged late on [...]
Wellington: The three Indians accused of raping a woman in Hamilton two years ago have been found not guilty by a Jury in New Zealand today and will be deported to India. A jury of seven women and five men in [...]
Washington: Including six girls, total of 15 Indian-American children, have made it to the National Spelling Bee semifinals, making it almost one-third of the total 42 candidates who have qualified. The girls succeeded are Himanvi Kopuri from Colorado, Nikitha Chandran from [...]
Beijing: The mother of the Chinese newborn trapped in a sewer pipe raised the initial alarm and was present there for entire two-hour rescue operation but did not admit giving birth until confronted by police, according to reports on Wednesday. The [...]
KOLKATA: Rituparno Ghosh passed away at his residence in Kolkata this morning he was 49 at the time of his death. Rituparno is said to have died of a heart attack, according to initial reports. He was also suffering from [...]
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Mr. PJ Kurien, who is facing rape charges, would represent India at a Global Conference to discuss issues related to women and their empowerment. The conference is being attended by 60 parliamentarians from [...]
London: India has probably surpassed Japan to become the world’s third largest economy after the US and China, Paris-based think-tank OECD said today even as it lowered the country’s economic growth projection for 2013 to 5.3 per cent. “China will [...]
Washington: The US President Barack Obama has described Indian-origin Srikanth Srinivasan, who created history by becoming a top Federal Judge, as one of his “favourite” persons. “One of my favorite people right now is, Mr. Sri Srinivasan, who has just been [...]
New Delhi : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh advocates for closer defence and strategic ties with Japan, and the coziness does not go unnoticed by China, where the Communist Party’s mouthpiece published a commentary hitting out at Tokyo for courting New Delhi [...]
WASHINGTON: The US giant of retail Wal-Mart has pleaded guilty to charges of environment crimes including miss-handling of hazardous waste and pesticides, and agreed to pay a total of USD 110 million to settle the cases. The US Justice Department said Wal-Mart [...]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said India sees Japan as a “natural and indispensable partner” in its quest for stability and peace in Asia that is washed by the Pacific and Indian Oceans seeing as solution against “continuing threats” [...]
London:Around a thousand far-right protesters shouting “Muslim killers, off our streets” marched through London in central area on Monday against a backdrop of swelling anti-Muslim feeling following the killing of a British soldier last week. Lee Rigby, the 25-year-old soldier, [...]
Tokyo: Japanese stocks fell flat while the Dollar held steady against the Yen on Tuesday as market players awaited direction from the U.S. and the U.K. markets when they resume trade after holidays on Monday, following last week’s turbulence. The [...]
Tokyo: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here today on a three-day visit to further cement India’s strategic economic, political and security relations with Japan and push for a civil nuclear energy cooperation deal. Singh, accompanied by his wife Gursharan Kaur, [...]
RANCHI: United Arab Emirates Court rejected its request to extradite Mr. Sanjay Chaudhary, a close aide of former Chief Minister Mr. Madhu Koda and hence the Central Bureau of Investigation has suffered a setback. For the past one-and-half year the agency through [...]
The probe has begun into claims by a Tamil Nadu man that he had recced Indian strategic and military sites for a Pakistani diplomat by National Investigation Agency (NIA). The man, Thamim Ansari, was arrested in September 2012 and charged [...]
India’s generic drug industry can’t grudge for the penal actions it has taken by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the US against some of its poster boys recently. This is because the FDA apparently maintains a high degree of [...]
GURGAON: Exuding confidence about the way India has added military muscle over the last decade, Prime Minister on Thursday said the country was “well-positioned” to become a “net provider of security” in “our immediate region and beyond” especially in the Indian Ocean [...]
LUCKNOW: Recently security breach at two payment card processing companies in India led to heists at ATMs around the world has spawned questions about safety measures and security risks here. The $45 million heist has brought into light the vulnerability [...]
An effective way to combat diarrhoea is through oral rehydration salts (ORS). although WHO distributes these packs all over the world, but the unavailability of potable water to administer ORS thwarts the whole process. Aarushi of Gurgaon Near New Delhi [...]
NEW DELHI: As prelude to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit next week, Japan has announced that it remains committed to civil nuclear cooperation with India and its concerns over nuclear safety. The negotiations between the two countries have remained stalled [...]
NEW DELHI: A Norwegian cyber Security firm has alleged, a sophisticated cyber attack infrastructure to originate from India, conducted by private players with no evidence of State-sponsorship. Norman Shark a Norwegian firm has also named an Indian company that is known to [...]
LONDON: A man was hacked to death in a street near an army barracks in London on Wednesday, Prime Minister David Cameron said appeared to be a politically motivated attack. The victim was a British soldier killed in broad daylight by unidentified [...]
Vatican City: The Vatican on Tuesday denied on Pope Francis had performed an exorcism after an Italian religious television channel said footage of the pontiff blessing a boy in a wheelchair showed he had. “The Holy Father did not intend to [...]
Pakistani authorities on Wednesday stopped mobile services in Islamabad and the nearby Garrison city of Rawalpindi showing security concerns on the arrival of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at Islamabad. Li will be reaching at Islamabad on a two-day visit after [...]
MOORE, OKLAHOMA: Approximately 91 people, that includes 20 children, were feared killed when a 2 mile wide tornado tore through an Oklahoma city suburb, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was destroyed. President Barak [...]
Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison’s gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock’s most enduring songs, has died at the age [...]
Washington: May 21, 2013 10:46 IST The Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans has sought expanded cooperation between the two nations on internal security issues. Ahead of the second USA-India Homeland Security dialogue at Washington today. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, [...]
New Delhi: Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held formal talks in New Delhi today and briefed the press. Both sides reaffirmed their commitment to areas of mutual concern focusing the issues related to border. Dr [...]
New Delhi: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said peace and regional stability cannot be a reality without strategic mutual trust between China and India. “And likewise the development of prosperity of the world cannot be a reality without the cooperation and [...]
North Korea fired a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Sunday, citing a South Korean military official. On Saturday, North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea, also known as the East Sea, off the Korean [...]
Paris-The new law, published on Saturday morning after Hollande’s signature, admits France to a small but growing club. It is the ninth country in Europe to legalize same sex marriage. Lawmakers in New Zealand this year made it the first [...]
New Delhi: The key international, regional and bilateral issues find another chance of rejuvenation as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expected to hold formal talks with visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh yesterday in an upfront [...]
ISLAMABAD- On Friday Pakistan said disclosed that it would release 51 imprisoned Indian fishermen on humanitarian grounds, in a hope that New Delhi will reciprocate the goodwill gesture as making relations between the two nations warm and positive. The decision [...]
New Delhi: India seeks to strengthen bilateral relations with the United Kingdom in all sectors especially in trade and investment, and defence, President Pranab Mukherjee has said. Welcoming visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron at Rashtrapati Bhavan here yesterday, the [...]
Washington: After his weekend golf session with Barack Obama, Tiger Woods has praised the game of the US President, whom he called “partner” during the friendly match that they won. “After these four years if he spends more time playing [...]
New Delhi: Russia should induct the joint venture BrahMos supersonic cruise missile to fully appreciate its tie up with India for developing the weapon system, Defence Minister A K Antony said today. “Russia should induct BrahMos in their fleet so [...]
Dhaka: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today arrived here on a two-day Bangladesh visit during which he will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and other top leaders and discuss issues of bilateral interests. Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni received Khurshid [...]
Johannesburg: South Africa’s Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius has been arrested after shooting dead his girlfriend having mistaken her for an intruder, media reported today. According to the Beeld newspaper, Pistorius was arrested early Thursday following the shooting. Police could [...]
New Delhi: India today said it will continue to press for extradition of David Headley from the US after the Pakistani-American LeT terrorist escaped death penalty for helping plot the 2008 Mumbai terror attack and sentenced to 35 years in [...]
Washington: The US today welcomed direct talks between India and Pakistan on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. “We think the best way to work through the issues on the Line of Control is for India and [...]
New Delhi: Top military commanders of India and Pakistan today agreed not to allow escalation of tensions along the Line of Control (LoC) with the Pakistan Army asking its troops to observe ceasefire strictly and exercise restraint. The ways to [...]
Washington: Indian-American Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal today proposed to end individual and corporate income tax, which he argued would be able to attract more investment and people to his State. “My goal is to eliminate all personal income tax [...]
Washington: US health authorities have approved a new medicine to fight multi-drug resistant TB, the first to be approved in the country in more than four decades. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the new drug Sirturo (bedaquiline) [...]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said India-ASEAN relations were at an “exciting stage” and expressed confidence that the free trade agreement in services and investment would be transformational. Flagging down 22-day, eight-nation India-ASEAN Car Rally, Dr. Singh [...]
Tokyo:Japan andColombia held their first round of talks inTokyo today on a possible free trade agreement, with stronger ties through such an accord expected to promote cooperation with a regional economic grouping inLatin America. TokyoandBogotaare slated to discuss areas to [...]
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