Meeting likely to take place on February 13 in Gandhinagar; development marks major shift in U.S. stand towards the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate
U.S. Ambassador to India Nancy Powell will meet Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, most likely on Thursday in Gandhinagar, said US Embassy and...
Cricket Australia Chairman Wally Edwards has come out in strong support of the BCCI receiving a lion’s share of world cricket revenue, saying that India deserves a fair compensation for contributing 80 per cent of the revenue by “hiring out” its team.
Talking about the new revenue distribution...
A free ticket to VIP meal
In a bizarre case, a Chinese man bought a first-class plane ticket and re-booked it 300 times to have free meals at the VIP lounge of an airport. The frequent diner purchased the first-class, fully refundable ticket aboard Eastern China Airline and re-booked his ticket...
But they are jealous of the political stability here, says Stephen Cohen, senior fellow, University of Illinois
Anti-India sentiment exists no more among the Pakistani youth, but they may be jealous of the positive aspects that India is identified with, according to Stephen P. Cohen, senior...
New Delhi (CNN) -- National elections in the world's largest democracy are always a mind-boggling spectacle. The Election Commission of India estimates some 788 million people are eligible to vote in 2014 -- an electorate that's more than double the population of the United States. How the...
New Delhi: Sunil James, a Merchant Navy Captain who was in jail in Togo, western Africa, for the last five months was released today, the ministry for external affairs said. He is expected to be in India latest by tomorrow.
Another sailor who had been imprisoned along with Captain James...
The Delhi Police Special Cell claims to have averted terror strikes in the Capital with the arrest of a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative from his house at Mewat in Haryana-Rajasthan border. The accused has disclosed the outfit’s plans to set up sleeper cells in the region for logistical...
India has had its way on the Bali Package at the Ninth Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation here. The draft Ministerial Decision put up for endorsement to the member-countries is the draft India submitted; it takes care of India’s position on both food security and trade facilitation...
Our special correspondent report:
CAD narrows to 1.2% of GDP
The Current Account Deficit (CAD) of the country has narrowed down sharply to $5.2 billion, or 1.2 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), for the second quarter — July to September — in the current financial year.
This was...
MUMBAI/KOLKATA: Two 21-year-old, soon-to-graduate IIT Kanpur engineers stunned tech major Oracle by turning down offers of Rs 1.31 crore ($210,000) each, a top person involved in the process told ET. Both have opted for other companies that offered lesser pay, but gave roles the students liked...
At the quay adjoining Sevmash Shipyard’s enormous hull shop no. 55 is the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, getting decked up for its big day. The Cold War–era Russian carrier, which received a new lease of life after a five-year-long controversy-ridden period of “modernisation”, will on...
NEW DELHI: India's exports rose by 13.47 percent to $ 27.27 billion in October while imports dipped by 14.5 percent, helping narrow the trade deficit.
Imports stood at USD 37.8 billion, leaving a trade deficit of USD 10.56 billion as against USD 20.2 billion in October 2012, official data...
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NEW DELHI: India has received over nine billion dollars from two foreign schemes, which were announced in September to attract foreign funds and help the country to bridge the widening current account deficit (CAD).
"Banks have taken advantage of RBI's liberalisation of FCNRB and Tier I capital...
BHUBANESWAR: Cyclone Phailin will move northwestwards and cross north Andhra Pradesh and Odisha coast between Kalingapatnam and Paradip, close to Gopalpur (Odisha) by Saturday evening as a very severe cyclonic storm with a maximum sustained wind speed of 205-215 km per hour (kmph), the met...
Bangladesh, on Friday, began importing electricity from India on an experimental basis, adding 50 MW to the national grid.
The import, which took roughly three years to materialise after it was decided in 2010, was part of the countrys plan to help ease the crisis.
The test-supply of 50...
A young chartered accountant student from Hyderabad has allegedly hacked into the e-filing of income tax returns account of leading industrialist Anil Ambani, with an intention to know his income and tax amount paid over a period of time, police said on Friday.
The 21-year-old woman, who has...
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The government has identified 65 terror groups active in the country, out of which a maximum of 34 are in Manipur, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
Minister of State for Home R.P.N. Singh said available intelligence inputs show that militants/terrorists active in India are often...