Mileage norms in China soon

Contrasting sentiments marked the opening of the 19th World Mining Congress in New Delhi on November 1. President A P J Abdul Kalam warmly welcomed potential foreign investors as he inaugurated the five-day mega meet. But the event got a cold reception fr

The Sensex stock index has risen by 75 per cent since April this year. The rupee is at a three year high. Global investment analysts Goldman Sachs predict that India is the fastest growing of the

Promotes inequality between fishers and hampers sustainable development

The Centre announced a Rs 81-crore package for rural development, aimed at the economic uplift of the poor, in Jammu and Kashmir. "This will be over and above the Rs 183 crore allocated for the

Announcing a special package of Rs 81 crores under Rural Development Sector for J&K, the Union Minister for Rural Development, Kashi Ram Rana said that this would be over and above normal allocation

How negotiations on issues moved, or didn’t

What of the Doha round? What of the WTO itself?

US Mission in Iraq The fear of worsening economic crisis has the Americans agonising over the costs of a long-drawn engagement in Iraq. There is increasing pessimism about the us's "mission'

Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani has said that the uplift of rural poor must take place side by side with advance in technology to bring India in the category of developed nations. "We need to turn

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