February 7, 2013
Agartala — Manik Sarkar, who has been the Tripura chief minister for 15 years and is leading the CPI-M in upcoming elections, is perhaps India's poorest chief minister.
Tripura CM Manik for PM Race in 2014
February 7, 2013
Washington — The US government has decided to initiate dispute settlement consultations at the World Trade Organization (WTO), challenging India's discrimination against US solar equipment, said Trade Representative Ron Kirk in a statement.
Kirk Wednesday claimed India's national solar program required solar energy producers to use Indian-manufactured solar cells and modules, which in fact put foreign solar products at a disadvantaged position, reported Xinhua.
February 7, 2013
India is concerned about Pakistan's decision to transfer management of a strategically located deep-sea port to China. Beijing funded the Pakistani project, financed a port in Sri Lanka and has been approached to help build a similar facility in Bangladesh.
February 6, 2013
Indian and Chinese tourists to Australia have tripled in the past decade. Indian visits went from 45,000 to 160,000.
February 6, 2013
India’s Defense minister claimed India was “passing through difficult days” as he opened the country’s massive air show. Western suppliers who are attending the air show are hoping for lucrative deals, while the Chinese delegation are making an appearance for the first time.
February 6, 2013
MUMBAI: The credit card industry in the country has been hit by a series of frauds over the past couple of months, a scam which could potentially impact a large number of credit card users in days to come.
February 6, 2013
While refusing to draw parallel between Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachhan and cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, former cricketer turned BJP MP from Amritsar parliamentary constituency Navjot Singh Sidhu observed that Bachchan was not the best in the world and there were several like him but no one in the world was like Sachin Tendulkar.
February 6, 2013
WASHINGTON: It does not matter if it is Republican President George Bush or Democratic President Barack Obama in the White House; Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's daughter Amrit Singh's canvassing for human rights and campaign against secret rendition and torture cuts across party lines — and across countries.
February 6, 2013
Reported abuses in microfinancing industry in India has led to a decline in the number of the world's poor people who benefited from small loans. Microfinance seeks to reduce poverty by offering small loans to low-income but entrepreneurial people, especially women, usually shunned by traditional banks.
February 5, 2013
Kolkata — West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday alleged that the Congress-led central government was talking about the food security bill to hoodwink people before next year's general elections.
The chief minister flayed the Congress-led central government for repeatedly raising diesel, petrol and fertilizer prices and ridiculed union ministers for claiming that the state government was only implementing central government schemes.
