India and China are emerging as significant sources of foreign direct investment in Africa even as the overall percentage of FDI from Asian countries targeted towards the continent remains low, the United Nations has said.
Iran blamed America for the cancellation saying they had delayed the issuance of visas to the crew of the special plane that would have carried Ahmedinejad to New York for the meeting.
The John F Kennedy Airport will receive the plane from Frankfurt, Germany, with Lufthansa's frequent flyers, reporters and news crews on board in the test flight to the United States before it starts commercial operations.
India is among the few countries in the world where the employers are optimistic of making new recruitments during this financial year's second quarter while the United States plans to tone down its hiring activity, a survey shows.
Recently, Justice Choudhury has taken up several human rights cases including initiating proceedings in cases involving enforced disappearances, the watchdog noted.
India-born novelist Kiran Desai's bestseller novel The Inheritance of Loss has bagged yet another literary honour -- the National Book Critics Circle fiction award.
L N Mittal, Mukesh and Anil Ambani, and Azim Premji are among the 8 Indians who figure in the Forbes magazine's list of 100 richest people in the world.
Microsoft unveiled its latest set of innovations this week, which included a game to teach 4-year-old children computer programming
A persistent gap in status, job security, wages and education between women and men is contributing to the "feminisation of working poverty"
North Korea will place all the plutonium it has produced under IAEA safeguards.
Pakistan is much higher at 48th position and Nepal shares the 63rd spot with Italy. But Sri Lanka, placed at 124th and Bhutan (131st) follow India, according to statistics released by the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
The New York Times Company, which owns the Boston Globe, had recently announced the elimination of more than 120 jobs at the Boston Globe. Of these, 55 jobs in advertising finance will be outsourced to India.
The report also said that without greater transparency and spot checks, the International Atomic Energy Agency cannot affirm that Tehran's nuclear programme is solely for peaceful purposes to produce energy and not weapons.
Desai's book, which has won rave reviews, has already been awarded the 2006 Man Brooker Prize. The Nepalese movement for an independent state is the tumultuous backdrop for 36-year-old Desai's richly textured book.
Foreign investment opportunities in the fast expanding health sector in India are vast and profitable with a payback period of five to six years, an Indian delegation said in New York.
According to a new Harris poll, Senator Clinton is the clear front runner for the presidency as among all adults
A carbon tax may be a better approach in lowering greenhouse gas emissions than the caps and tradable permits legislation being considered by many American lawmakers, according to a new study.
The dilemma over acquiring of farmland for special economic zones without hurting the interests of the farmers came up for discussion at the India-US Forum of Parliamentarians organised by Asia Society in New York.
As he was no longer employed by the United Nations and Kohli had pleading guilty to selling him apartments at discounted price, she said that the bail could not be backed by them.
Tata Consultancy Services topped the list of top 10 best performing IT service providers worldwide rated by Global Services, a specialised publication for IT businesses.
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