- Monday, December 23, 2024
INDIA is among the world's most protectionist countries but the US is trying to negotiate a limited trade deal with the South Asian nation to resolve their differences, US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said on Thursday (3). The US and India have been locked in trade disputes for months…
LORD Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon is on a visit to India to further strengthen relation between the two countries. During his visit to New Delhi, Lord Ahmad will promote the UK’s role to work with India on major global challenges such as climate change and gender equality. He is also…
INDIAN equities continued to reel under selling pressure for a fourth straight session on Thursday as GST shortfall, financial sector woes and renewed concerns over global trade presented a cocktail of worries for investors. Market participants also maintained a cautious stance awaiting the Reserve Bank's monetary policy outcome due on…
A DELHI COURT on Thursday (3) extended till October 17 the judicial custody of P Chidambaram giving no respite to the former finance minister who has been in CBI's custody and in jail for six weeks in the INX Media corruption case even as he moved the Supreme Court for…
FLOODING at one of Coal India Ltd's largest open-pit mines will halt production there for at least a month, a senior company official said on Wednesday (2), in a setback for a country trying to reduce its dependence on coal imports. The flooding at the Dipka mine, which produces more…
FROM Kathmandu to Colombo, it's a kitchen nightmare: Onion prices have gone crazy. That's because India, the world's biggest seller of the Asian diet staple, has banned exports after extended Monsoon downpours delayed harvests and supplies shrivelled. And dedicated buyers across the region, like Nepalese housewife Seema Pokharel, are flummoxed.…
INDIA and the US will launch a new initiative for clean energy to fuel economic growth in the strategically-important Indo-Pacific region where China has been trying to expand its sphere of influence, the US State Department has said. The US has been pushing for a broader role by India in…
ONCE India triggers development in Jammu and Kashmir, all of Pakistan's plan for the last 70 years against the state would come to a naught, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told a top US think tank here. The minister also pointed out to the Washington audience that the current…
FACING arrest for alleged links with Hizbul Mujahideen terror outfit, a senior Jammu Kashmir Congress leader's brother Mohammad Shafi Saroori on Wednesday refuted the charges and claimed the case against him was "politically motivated". In a statement, Shafi Saroori, brother of the party's state vice president and former minister Ghulam…
IN a major setback for Pakistan, the UK High Court on Wednesday (2) ruled in favour of India in a decades-old legal dispute with Islamabad over funds belonging to the Nizam of Hyderabad at the time of Partition in 1947 and deposited in a London bank account. The Nizam's descendants,…
