President Hamid Karzai held talks with Qatari leaders on Sunday, official media reported, on a visit the Kabul government has said would seek to explore the possibility of talks with Taliban insurgents on ending Afghanistan's war. ...
06:30 AM, Apr 01, 2013
The World Bank has welcomed the move by the BRICS countries to set up a development bank and vowed to work closely with the new lender. Finance ministers from the BRICS members (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) agreed on Tuesday to establish the bank to fund infrastructure in the five emerging economies, Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei said in South Africa. ...
02:00 PM, Mar 27, 2013
The government of India is committed to the development of inter-country rail linkages and in furtherance of this policy supports the development of Trans-Asian Railway Network, Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said in New Delhi on Monday. This network would provide a major land corridor for transport of people and goods across the frontiers of the member countries, Bansal said while speaking at the 7th meeting of Railways of South...
04:16 AM, Mar 19, 2013
The World Bank has asked the developing countries like India and Brazil to safeguard their economic growth, given that the world economy remains fragile and growth in high-income countries is weak four years after the onset of the global financial crisis. Developing countries need to focus on raising the growth potential of their economies, while strengthening buffers to deal with risks from the euro area and fiscal policy in the...
11:37 AM, Jan 16, 2013
The Indian economy suffered $1.6 billion in illicit financial outflows in 2010, capping-off a decade in which it experienced black money losses of $123 billion, according to a new report. India is ranked as the decade's 8th largest victim of illicit capital flight behind China, Mexico, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the Philippines, and Nigeria, respectively in the report by Global Financial Integrity, a Washington-based research and advocacy organization. ...
10:27 AM, Dec 18, 2012
The Committee to Protect Journalists said in a report Tuesday that a record-number 232 journalists are imprisoned worldwide and that Turkey has the highest number with 49 journalists behind bars. The total is 53 more than the tally last year and is the highest number since the New York-based organization began conducting worldwide surveys in 1990. ...
09:39 PM, Dec 11, 2012
New Delhi: India is attempting to liberalise visa procedures by adding nine countries to the the list of 11 nations whose citizens are entitled to the document on arrival, former southern star Chiranjeevi, who has been given independent charge of tourism as a minister of state, said on Friday. "We are trying to liberalize visa procedures by adding nine more countries to the existing 11 nations, visitors from which are...
10:25 AM, Nov 10, 2012
A video clip said to be 'anti-Islamic' has been facing protests against the US in the Arab world. US ambassador to Libya died in an attack. The protests have raised many big questions. ...
03:16 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Tehran: Iranian state television on Sunday broadcast purported confessions by more than a dozen suspects in connection with the killing of five nuclear scientists since 2010. The broadcast showed some of the suspects re-enacting the assassinations in different districts of the capital Tehran. The 14 suspects shown on TV included eight men and six women. The TV showed pictures from a military garrison it said was a training camp outside...
03:23 PM, Aug 06, 2012
Lower energy costs are always good news for growing economies. And international oil and coal prices have come down significantly in the past few months. The price of a barrel of Brent crude, to which two-thirds of the world's oil varieties are benchmarked, has tumbled from about $120 to under $100, falling almost as quickly as it did in late 2008. The reason is simple"since March, the world has been...
12:46 PM, Jun 30, 2012
New Delhi: Friday is the last day of the Earth Summit at Rio and 191 member nations of the United Nations are expected to endorse the final draft proposal that lays down new mechanisms for eventual funding and technology transfer for sustainable development. On Thursday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh criticised the industrialised world for not doing enough to fund efforts to cut carbon emissions. Manmohan also made a strong plea...
07:27 AM, Jun 22, 2012
European leaders rejected the pressure to deliver quick new measures to fight their debt crisis, even as the G20 said the focus should be on growth more than austerity. ...
08:06 AM, Jun 20, 2012
Los Cabos: In a big success for India, the G20 countries on Wednesday agreed to give priority to investment in infrastructure in developing countries as a way to stimulate global growth which has been stunted due to the faltering world economy and the Eurozone crisis. "We will intensify our efforts to create a more conducive environment for development, including supporting infrastructure investment," said a 14-page declaration released at the end...
07:08 AM, Jun 20, 2012
Switzerland: The IOC will provide live coverage of the London Olympics to 64 countries in Asia and Africa on YouTube. The International Olympic Committee says it will live stream 2,200 hours of coverage on its YouTube channel. The free coverage will include live sports events and highlights and can be accessed online or on smartphones and devices. The coverage is aimed at countries where digital broadcast rights have not been...
09:48 AM, Jun 07, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Centre for Development Studies here has started the ground work for the seventh round of the comprehensive study on international and internal emigration from the state, says the study head. S. Irudayarajan, chief of the migration unit of the autonomous research institute, told IANS that the next round of the study would be based on the 2011 Census. "Our previous studies were based on the 2001 Census. This...
02:14 PM, May 25, 2012
Washington: After their two-day meeting in Camp David, leaders of the G8 countries have agreed that growth and jobs must be their "top priority" and noted a stable, growing European economy is in everybody's best interests, the host US President Barack Obama has said. "As all the leaders here today agreed, growth and jobs must be our top priority. A stable, growing European economy is in everybody's best interests -...
08:50 AM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: Illiteracy is costing Indian economy more than $ 53 billion a year, a report has estimated. According to the report titled 'Economic and Social Cost of Illiteracy' by World Literacy Foundation, illiteracy costs India an estimated $ 53.56 billion. The losses to China are pegged higher at $ 135.60 billion. Russia at $ 28.48 billion and Brazil at $ 27.41 are placed at the third and fourth places...
10:17 PM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: The day Arab countries welcome spring is also celebrated as Mother's Day in western Asia and Egypt. To commemorate the Arab Mother's Day, Google has put up a Mother's Day doodle on its home pages in Arab countries including Egypt, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Libya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The doodle that Google has posted for the Arab Mother's Day on March 21 is...
09:23 AM, Mar 21, 2012
London: UK Prime Minister David Cameron government is putting in place tighter border controls that include checking details of all passengers travelling to Britain from India and other non-EU countries from April. Detailing the new system called 'e-Borders', Immigration Minister Damian Green said there will be clear rules into the correct level of checks for every type of passenger and all types of goods that cross the UK border. The...
03:23 PM, Mar 15, 2012
London: Stroke is one of the main cause of death among people over the age of 65 in developing countries like India and China, according to new research. The study surveyed 12,373 people aged 65 and over between 2003 and 2005 in a total of 10 urban and rural sites in India, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Peru, Mexico and China, documenting over 2,000 deaths over a three to five...
08:11 AM, Mar 01, 2012
