Lord Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, will visit India next month as part of a drive to attract brightest students from the country to help university compete with the better-funded US Ivy League colleges.
Steel giant Arcelor has said it would be ready to receive a written proposal from Mittal Steel about an unspecified "industrial project" related to the steel industry, a media report said on Saturday.
An aggressive Pyongyang is likely to force Seoul and Tokyo to build nuclear deterrents and thus thwart Beijing's ambitions.
If you get stuck with business-as-usual, you get left behind.
Deutsche Bank plans to increase its presence in India by opening eight more branches in a couple of months and strengthen its retail portfolio.
Pakistan is negotiating the purchase of six to eight nuclear power reactors from China over the next decade in the most ambitious expansion yet of the country's nuclear energy capability, a leading London daily reported Tuesday.
Here are some interesting points Vijay Mallya mentioned in the FT interview.
John Elliott, the author of Implosion: India's Tryst with Reality, on his Riding the Elephant blog, says the sacking of Cyrus Mistry as chairman of Tata and Sons was in line with Ratan Tata's personal style of dealing with executives
Top Indian companies are ending the year 2005 with a flurry of overseas deals, capping a trend of the past year that saw mergers and acquisitions worth a record $10 billion.
A Financial Times report says that Tokyo, Sydney or Singapore could be the probable targets.
US treasury secretary John Snow learned more than one month ago of the tentative plan and Chinese officials gave him details on the change and its timing before the announcement, The Financial Times and The Asian Wall Street Journal said.
Trump's foreign policy juggernaut has shelved the 'Deep State' and 'Axis of Evil'. But where is India?
The recent arrest of Abu Faraj al-Liby, al-Qaeda's alleged number three, had severed links between the terrorist outfit's leaders and its cadres, he said.
The reform process has released the entrepreneurial instincts in our country and many honest professionals have been able to set up their own enterprises.
There is a case for analysing the fiscal deficit, separately for expenditure and investment.
Recognising that "political compulsions sometimes overwhelm," he hoped the leadership of the main opposition party will recognise "what are the imperatives of the situation."
Greece may have made a mistake in taking on this summer's Athens Olympics, Public Works Minister George Souflias said.
'If we don't resolve it by then, maybe we never will,' the Pakistan president told the Financial Times.
The Internet got Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith first, as illegal copies of the movie were released a day before the movie's worldwide release.
Ahead of PM Modi's maiden visit to the UK, the British media today said "troubles at home" after the BJP's drubbing in the Bihar elections will overshadow his visit.
The National Association of Manufacturers is launching digital and print advertisements in New York and Washington, in major publications like POLITICO, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Roll Call and The Hill.
Citigroup has said that Asia is likely to boost the profits of the group's consumer business.
Rise up for the right to offend. Let there be no holy cow, person, religion, ideology that cannot be criticised, ridiculed, parodied, lampooned. That's what differentiates you from the bigots who entered Charlie Hebdo, says Mango Indian.
Financial Times journalists have been asked if they would consider early retirement or voluntary redundancy, in a sign that the loss-making newspaper is preparing deeper cost cutting measures.
US foreign policy had been 'aggressive in terms of going after challenges, issues,' and the president was 'going to keep moving in this direction,' he said.
'Would any other nuclear power allow its sensitive installations to be inspected?' he asked.
The BBC has invited Time Warner, Walt Disney and Berteismann to discuss possible bids for BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial sales and publishing arm.
Manchester United ruled out holding new talks over a possible bid for the club by Malcolm Glazer, the Financial Times reported.
Donald Trump is believed to be the first US President or President-elect to have spoken to a Taiwanese leader since 1979, when the US severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan after its recognition of the People's Republic of China, points out former RA&W officer Jayadeva Ranade.
Brexit will likely put brakes on the UK's growth prospects.
Sustaining anything in the region of 7% growth should be good enough in a troubled and risk-laden world, says T N Ninan.
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