Eye on business, India to ease visa norms for China
October 16, 2013
NEW DELHI: While looking to reduce border tensions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will seek to prioritize investment and business by easing norms for business and tourist visas during his visit to China next week.
US Senate, House closing in on funding, debt deals
October 16, 2013
The White House soundly rejected a House plan to avoid default. In the Senate, Democrats and Republicans continued working on their own plan.
President Barack Obama calls a House debt limit bill too "partisan."
India home to a quarter of the world’s hungry: Global Hunger...
October 15, 2013
In a striking irony, the number of hungry people in the world was estimated at 842 million in 2011-13 by the Global Hunger Index (GHI) report released on Monday even as world cereal production was estimated at a near record level of 2,489 million metric tons a few days ago. About a quarter of the world's hungry, or 210 million, are in India alone.
US senators close in on deal as threat of default nears
October 15, 2013
WASHINGTON: US senators said they were closing in on a deal Monday that would reopen the government and push back a possible default for several months, though many hurdles remained as a Thursday deadline drew near.
Senate majority leader Harry Reid surrounded by reporters.
Would be mistake to consider India as merely a market: Modi
October 14, 2013
AHMEDABAD: BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Monday told an audience in the US that it would be a mistake to consider India as merely a market.
How a prepared India saved lives during monster storm
October 14, 2013
Cyclone Phailin, India's fiercest storm in 14 years, smashed into the coastline of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha states over the weekend
On world stage, India lets down its child brides
October 14, 2013
LONDON: India, the world's child marriage capital, has once again failed its under-age brides.
The country has refused to sign the first-ever global resolution on early and forced marriage of children led by the UN.
India, US to jointly target financial networks of LeT, JuD
October 14, 2013
WASHINGTON: India and the US on Sunday agreed to work together to target the financial network and fund raising activities of Pakistan-based terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the Haqqani network and individual terrorists associated with these organizations.
India’s policy on foreign banks soon: RBI chief
October 13, 2013
Washington — The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon come out with new rules for the entry of foreign banks that may even allow them to take over Indian banks, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has said.
"That is going to be a big opening because one could even contemplate taking over Indian banks, small Indian banks and so on," he said at an event of the Institute of International Finance here Saturday.
"We're coming out with details on that in the next couple of weeks."
North Korea warns of ‘all-out war’
October 13, 2013
Seoul – North Korea on Saturday issued a fresh warning of an "all-out war", urging the United States to stop military drills and what it described as "nuclear blackmail".
