December 10, 2012
Washington — Asia will have surpassed North America and Europe combined in terms of global power by 2030 with China, India and Brazil becoming especially important to the global economy, according to a new US intelligence assessment.
"The diffusion of power among countries will have a dramatic impact by 2030," says the fifth instalment in the US National Intelligence Council's series aimed at providing a framework for thinking about the future released here Monday.
December 10, 2012
Pakistani officials say that a US drone strike killed senior al-Qaida leader Abu Zaid al-Kuwaiti in Pakistan. Al-Kuwaiti was presented as a religious scholar for al-Qaeda.
December 10, 2012
Hyderabad: Paddy farmers in Andhra Pradesh are going to have a tough time in rabi season too. Lack of water in all the major reservoirs and severe shortage of power will make it difficult for the farmers to go for water-intensive paddy crop this time.
December 10, 2012
Sunny G believes Harbhajan and Yuvraj didn't deserve to be left out of the 4th Test squad
December 10, 2012
White House and Congress are trying to break an impasse over finding a way to stop a combination of automatic tax increases and spending cuts scheduled to kick in at the beginning of the year.
December 10, 2012
Washington — REVE Systems, a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) software solutions provider has been conferred the prestigious Red Herring's Top 100 Global Award for 2012 in Los Angeles, US.
The Red Herring announced Red Herring Global Top 100 awards to recognise leading technology companies from Europe, North America and Asia.
December 9, 2012
Tax implications for Indian Americans of receiving gifts from India. Understand of the tax impact for Indian Americans who make gifts to persons in India.
As an NRI, if you make gifts to people in India, the onus of paying tax in India would be on the recipients.
December 9, 2012
VALSAD: Rebutting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's charge that minorities were feeling "insecure" in BJP-ruled Gujarat, chief minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused him of playing vote-bank politics with the minority community.
December 9, 2012
I am a private equity investor and what I find when I look at my portfolio is that the most successful CEOs are dishonest. Whenever they have to make a tradeoff between doing the right thing and making money by choosing a dubious way, they go for the latter. Does Lakshmi favour the dubious?
December 9, 2012
BEIJING: China released a series of figures on Sunday showing continued strength in the world's second largest economy as it prepares for new leaders tasked with sustaining the country's dramatic growth.
There was a double-digit increase in production at factories, workshops and mines for the first time since March, the National Bureau of Statistics said, a strong sign the country is shaking off the effects of the global economic slowdown.
