
New Delhi: Come April 1 and cheques and bank drafts will be valid only for three months, a development that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) thinks will help mitigate frauds related to such instruments. The RBI has directed that with effect from April 1, 2012, banks should not make payments against cheques, drafts, pay orders or banker's cheques if they are presented after the period of three months from...

05:05 PM, Mar 23, 2012

India and the US are set to work on changes in the draft waiver. ...

07:03 PM, Aug 23, 2008

Mulford says the deal is in the interest of the nuclear non proliferation system. ...

09:23 AM, Jul 10, 2008

The safeguards were sent to the Board on a day when Left withdrew support. ...

09:04 AM, Jul 10, 2008

Reports say N Korea may agree to freeze one of its key N facilities and give international inspectors limited access. ...

06:36 PM, Feb 04, 2007

The US said it had detected a 5.8 quake off the coast off northern Japan, triggering fears of another N-test. ...

07:24 AM, Oct 11, 2006

Foreign policy experts say developments in Korean Peninsula might end up complicating India's nuke relations with US ...

12:35 PM, Oct 10, 2006

A N Korean official says Pyongyang is willing to abandon its atomic program if the US takes corresponding measures. ...

11:43 AM, Oct 10, 2006

North Korea announced on Monday that it had carried out a nuclear test, upstaging Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's diplomatic meetings in Beijing. ...

03:49 PM, Oct 09, 2006

North Koreans are brainwashed about Kim Jong II early in their lives and dissent is not permitted in North Korea. ...

03:22 PM, Oct 09, 2006

India and the world deplored the nuclear tests conducted by North Korea saying it jeopardised peace. ...

12:50 PM, Oct 09, 2006

Officials from Washington to Seoul are raising the spectre of an Asian nuclear arms race. ...

09:40 AM, Oct 09, 2006

'We cannot confirm,' said a US official late on Sunday night who asked not to be identified. ...

08:52 AM, Oct 09, 2006

North Korea said on Monday that it has performed its first-ever nuclear weapons test, which was successful. ...

08:35 AM, Oct 09, 2006