"India and Nigeria share many commonalities. Our historical experiences and common developmental challenges have brought us close together. We share common hopes and aspirations."
Nigeria has not seen an official visit by any Indian prime minister since 1962, when the country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had visited Lagos. It is quite surprising that despite growing trade links, the two nations have had few top-level bilateral exchanges in the past 45 years.
India is significant to Microsoft from both a market perspective as well as from a talent perspective, says Microsoft head honcho.
MSR India and MSIDC see collaborations in the fields of software engineering, multilingual systems, mobile networks and applications
An interview with Indrani Sarkar, one of the scientists who engineered an enzyme which attacks the DNA of the HIV virus and cuts it out of the infected cell.
Call this Ahmedabad's reply to Mumbai or Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's repartee to his Maharashtrian counterpart Vilasrao Deshmukh's promise of a global financial hub.
The same political aide to chief minister's office who had spoken to rediff.com about Bhattacharjee's intent to step down on Monday said over telephone a day after, "I have never seen Buddhababu so perturbed as he was yesterday."
The thinking heads of Bengal have taken to the streets demanding the chief minister's resignation. They have dubbed Bhattacharjee 'the Narendra Modi of Bengal.'
West Bengal, the chief minister said, has come a long way as far as industrial growth is concerned and now the responsibility lies on the people to take it to the next level.
The opposition is predicting that the rally will be a failure.
The body of district police intelligence officer Sadhu Chatterjee was found on Saturday from the Haldi riverbed at Narghat, near Nandigram, four days after he was killed in a mob attack.
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya had earlier decided to hold a meeting in Singur on February 15.
On Wednesday, a police party, including DIB's Sadhu Chatterjee, went to the area for routine enquiry. But soon they were surrounded by a large mob, which assaulted them.
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has adopted a 'wait and watch' policy in his bid to solve the Singur impasse with opposition Trinamool Congress rejecting his offer of talks on land acquisition on Thursday.
Tata Motors on Thursday clarified that it has no intention to back out of the Singur deal where it plans to set up a plant to manufacture the Rs100,000 car.
Though Ratan Tata claimed to be 'happy with the progress of work at the proposed car unit in Singur', things were far from peaceful in and around Singur.
From a subsistence agrarian economy to a sound industrial economy is the slogan of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, while he advocates for Tata Motors small car project against all odds.
According to insiders, police 'have left no stone unturned in dissuading Mamata from conducting the Wednesday meeting.
Reforms are like cricket scores, once they are scored, you just cannot erase them from the scoreboard," Finance Minister P Chidambaram said.
In New Delhi to attend the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, Pitroda wears a disgruntled look whenever you talk about India's growth and the much-discussed 'progress' it has made.
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