Islamabad/Nee Delhi: India’s objections to the 3,000 km-long Pakistan-China Economic Corridor (PCEC) notwithstanding, Islamabad was firmly committed to the $46 billion project and would not permit any attempt to sabotage it, a key advisor to the prime minister said. Sartaj Aziz, foreign affairs and national security advisor to prime minister Nawaz Sharif said yesterday that […]
India and South Korea today inked seven agreements, including on Avoidance of Double Taxation and shipping, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with South Korean President Park Geun-hye here
By Amit Dasgupta The last quarter of 2001 saw two dramatic events that had a transformational impact on the global community: First, the terrorist attacks on the US in September, followed by the launch of the Doha Development Round through the WTO’s 4th Ministerial Conference in Qatar in November. A couple of months prior to […]
Shanghai: India is ready to do business and is constantly improving the ease of doing business, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today at the India-China Business Forum here that saw 21 business agreements worth $22 billion being signed. In his address to the India-China Business Forum, Modi said that India offers historic opportunity for Chinese […]
India and China on Friday inked 24 agreements after talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Premier Li Keqiang here
Prime minister Narendra Modi today said greater cooperation between India and China at the state and provincial level would help translate the vision of enhancing bilateral cooperation into reality besides promoting greater people-to-people contacts
Prime minister Narendra Modi today began his official visit to China from the historic city of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province, going round the Terracotta Warriors Museum and the ancient Da Xingshan Buddhist temple where he offered prayers
Washington: Enheduanna, the name suggested by Gagan Toor of India, is one of the winners of a contest to name five new craters on the planet Mercury. Toor chose the name after Enheduanna, a princess of the Sumerian city of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Kuwait), the first known poet and author, according […]
India today successfully test-fired an advanced version of the BrahMos land-attack cruise missile from the Car Nicobar Islands, the second such exercise since yesterday
Benign oil prices, likely monetary policy easing by the Reserve Bank and lower inflation will help the Indian economy to grow in the range of 8.1- 8.5 percent in the current fiscal, the parliament was told yesterday
A confident India outfit pulled off a 2-0 win over Japan in the second match of the four Test series here yesterday
Indian hockey team defender Birendra Lakra said that their upcoming bilateral Test series against Japan is a good opportunity of getting the playing XI right
Anger over poor governmental relief ignited protests in Nepal today as the death toll from the horrific temblor crossed 5,000, with thousands battling for life
A third flight of the Indian Air Force landed here today evening with 266 people onboard from Kathmandu, taking to 1,342 the total number of Indian nationals evacuated from quake-hit Nepal since the first plane landed late on Saturday night
President Pranab Mukherjee today condoled the deaths due to the earthquake in India and spoke with the governors of the affected states to inquire about the relief operations being undertaken
Over 700 people were killed and many more injured when a massive earthquake -- lasting about 20 seconds -- and several strong aftershocks caused widespread devastation in Nepal. India too was affected
The Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu was indefinitely shut today after a massive earthquake rocked Nepal just before noon, resulting in the cancellation of all the eight subsequent return flights from India bound for the capital city
The Indian women's hockey team were once again drubbed by the US, losing 0-3 in the 5-8 position classification match of the Hawke's Bay Cup here today
The bullish projections for the Indian economy continue. A week after it revised its outlook on India to positive from stable, global ratings major Moody's pegged the country's growth at 7.5 percent for 2015, while the Economist Intelligence Unit said a 7.1 percent expansion will be sustained over the next four years
India's merchandise exports in March at $23.95 billion took a major hit and were down 21 percent from the same month of last year, official data showed today