New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) After organising road shows in Europe and North America, Road Transport Minister Kamal Nath will now organise similar events in the Middle East to attract investments in ...

By M.R. Narayan Swamy New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Now that the Tamil Tigers have been defeated, it is "very important" to have a political settlement to end Tamil grievances, a senior Sri ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday admitted terror threats, but asserted that it would not affect the industrial development of the country. "We are not ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) The US national arrested in Chicago last month on charges of plotting terror strikes visited India several times before the Nov 26 attacks in Mumbai last ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) The government is considering a special package for the crisis-hit engineering sector, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya M. Scindia said here Tuesday. ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) Reacting to China's "dissatisfaction" over the Dalai Lama's visit to Arunachal Pradesh, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Tuesday said the Tibetan religious leader's ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) India is working towards revising its double taxation avoidance treaties following allegations that many Indians have stashed away unaccounted money in Swiss banks, Finance Minister Pranab ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said India had differences with developed countries over funding to tackle climate change, but left it to the UN Framework Convention ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) Yum Restaurants, which operates the Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) chains, Tuesday said it will open India's first Taco Bell restaurant in Bangalore by the ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) The state-run Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) is targeting an 8-10 percent sales growth this fiscal, company chairman S.K. Roongta said here Tuesday. "We are confident of ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) India will continue investing in agriculture, infrastructure and power to create demand and ensure internal growth till the developed economies witnessed a recovery, Finance Minister Pranab ...

New Delhi, Nov.10 (ANI): The Indian economy has been able to fare well in spite of the adverse impact of the global economic crisis, due to the strength of its domestic ...

New Delhi, Nov. 10 (ANI): Climate change is a global problem and its solution should come through collaboration between developed and developing countries, according to Shyam Saran, Prime Minister of India's Special ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) The joint venture between heavy vehicle manufacturers Volvo and Eicher Motors will begin production of buses in the second half of 2010. "Production will start in the second ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) The head of Renault-Nissan Tuesday said the venture to manufacture a low-cost car with India's Bajaj Auto was on track and the new car would be out ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The government will act only as a facilitator for foreign direct investments (FDI) in print media and make amendments in the existing laws to ensure this, ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The government is not going to give up its opposition to for-profit educational institutions as any collapse of such entities would impact students. "If profit means giving dividend ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Infosys BPO Ltd, the business processing outsourcing (BPO) subsidiary of software major Infosys Technologies, is looking at fresh acquisitions and hiring people. Speaking to reporters here Monday, Infosys ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Indian subsidiary of Microsoft(NASDAQ:MSFT) is getting a good early and healthy response to Windows 7, which is its recently launched operating system, its chairman ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) International oil prices may not stabilise due to a hyperactive derivatives market, which was indulging in speculation to make profits rather than hedging against risk, said the ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The telecom sector will witness a consolidation of tariffs in the next one to two years as the business models of many new operators were not ...

New Delhi, Nov.9 (ANI): Massive reforms are required across the spectrum in India's Education sector, declared Human Resource Development MInister Kapil Sibal, at the plenary session on "Creating World-Class Education in India", ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The free trade agreement that India and Gulf countries hope to sign will give Indian firms greater access to the $1-trillion market in the Middle East, apart ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Back office service provider Genpact Monday said the companies that kept hiring during the economic slowdown were viewed as "strong" firms and would benefit from this perception ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Bills to introduce reforms in the education sector, including setting up an independent accrediting body, will be introduced in the next two sessions of parliament, Human Resource ...

New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said the measures taken by his government helped India brave the financial crisis better than most countries, but it may "wind ...

Islamabad, Nov 8 (IANS) The detonating security situation in Pakistan has seen its world tourism ranking dropping from 111 last year to 113 in 2009, a new report says. According to a ...

New Delhi, Nov 8(ANI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday expressed concern over the rising terror activities in Pakistan and Afghanistan and appealed to the world community to take note of ...

New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Planning Commission Deputy Chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia Sunday said he expected vegetable prices to ease by January. "At the end of a bad monsoon, the big pressure is ...

New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Bahrain can be the conduit for channelling the synergies of India and the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the head of Bahrain's Economic Development Board said here ...