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Interesting facts about the 1st Indian-American in the White House run

Bobby is a name so dear to us Indians that a boy -- remember the cute curly boy in Barsaat -- can be Bobby, a girl -- the dimpled Miss Braganza of the 1973 cult flick -- too can be Bobby. However,......

Even Indian PM faced corruption allegations: Khar

Even as corruption charges threatened to topple Pakistan's second premier in a row, the country's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar drew a parallel with India, saying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh......

IB's terror financing report indicts Pakistan

Terror financing and counterfeit currency have been a constant headache for Indian security agencies. Vicky Nanjappa looks at the latest developments in India's fight against this 'dirty money'.......

US against 'deal-breaker' changes to N-deal

The Bush Administration has pledged to favour and support a bipartisan legislation on the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal.At the same time, it asserted that was against any 'deal-breaker' amendments......

India, Pak make progress on Sir Creek

India and Pakistan Friday agreed to conduct a joint survey of the Sir Creek area as they wound up official-level talks in New Delhi. The survey will be conducted both in the creek and the sea soon......

Many MNCs use 'profit-shifting' strategy to evade tax

Many multinational companies operating in India and having links to tax havens use profit-shifting strategies to "evade" taxes, according to a research report by Christian Aid.The conclusions from......

FIPB roadblock for IKEA products

In what could spoil the single-brand retail party, the Foreign Investment Promotion Board is learnt to have struck off as many as 18 product categories out of the 30 proposed by ^25-billion Swedish......

Disaster leaves tourism reeling in Japan

Almost a fortnight after top officials of the Japanese Tourism Board came to Delhi to promote tourism, the natural disaster has played spoilsport for all such plans.With the high-intensity......

Birla group now a global leader in carbon black

After 15 months of negotiations, the Aditya Birla Group has finally agreed to buy out the US firm Columbian Chemicals Company (CCC) for $875 million from One Equity Partners, the merchant banking......

'10% inflation means the economy is overheating'

Gita Gopinath, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, says the monetary policy in India is not transparent and it would be nice to know very clearly from the central bank what steps it has......

Statistical highlights: India-Australia, third ODI

Saturday's third one-day international between India and Australiawasthe first day/night international hosted at the Ferozshah Kotlaground inDelhi. It was alsothe 100th between the two countries. -......

2006 a mixed bag for Indian sports

Below-par shows in most of the crowd-puller team games notwithstanding, a slew of heroic individual performances and fairy tale successes of the shooters made 2006 a year to cherish in Indian......

Paes-Damm rally into last eight

Twice Leander Paes lost his cool and slammed the racquet on the court. It showed how badly he wanted to win at his 'home event'.Paes and his new partner Martin Damm clawed back from the brink of......

Mithali lauds World Cup showing

The Indian women's cricket team, which finished runners-up in the World Cup in South Africa, received a rousing receptionfrom the media in Mumbai on Wednesday."We are really very proud of the team.......

Indian eves confident of good showing

The Indian women's cricket team sounded a confident lot on the eve of their departure for the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup in South Africa, starting on March 21.The team will be led by Mithali......

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