October 27, 2012
Washington — Thirteen Indian companies figure among Newsweek's annual rankings of the world's greenest companies, with information technology giants Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services taking the second and 11th spots.
The US news magazine's fourth annual Green Rankings noted that while companies around the planet in emerging and developing economies are going green, the US is falling behind globally.
October 27, 2012
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was expected to revamp his cabinet on Sunday to try to revive the flagging image of his beleaguered government ahead of a general election due in early 2014.
October 27, 2012
Ferrari pushes ahead with the contentious decision to use an Italian navy flag at the Indian Grand Prix, claiming the move is not political. The display was assumed to show solidarity with two Italian sailors who are being held in the country after the shooting deaths of Indian fisherman.
October 27, 2012
Washington — Calling the potential of India-US bilateral relationship as limitless, a top US official has suggested that as two of the world's leading democracies and most influential powers, they can help build a new international order.
Indo and US forge Strategic Partnership
October 27, 2012
New Delhi — Amid the festering Eurozone recession, Spain, a trillion dollar-plus economy hit by the downturn, Friday sought increased trade and investment with India and sought to give a strategic cast to bilateral ties by signing five pacts, including a key defence one.
October 26, 2012
Chennai — Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Friday assured people that the power situation in the state would improve from November on and the state would be free of power crises after 2013.
She blamed the earlier DMK government in the state and the Congress government at the centre for the present acute power crisis in Tamil Nadu.
October 26, 2012
Indian anti-corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal has entered politics and accused some of India’s most powerful figures of corruption; however, it’s unclear what he has to offer beyond pointing fingers.
October 26, 2012
"Miss Lovely" opened New York's South Asian International Film Festival Wednesday. Director and co-writer Ashim Ahluwalia says the film portrays the real Bollywood: a grittiness that foreign audiences barely know.
October 26, 2012
Violence between the Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities in western Mynmar has left 25 men and 31 women dead. Nearly 2,000 homes have been destroyed since Sunday.
October 26, 2012
Washington, — N.R. Narayana Murthy, co-founder of IT giant Infosys who has used his business success to "give back" to his native India, has been named recipient of the prestigious 2012 Hoover Medal.
Narayana Murthy - Infosys
