India's decision to fall back on an Islamic and authoritarian government to protect and promote its interests is a sad commentary on its neighbourhood policy, says T P Sreenivasan.
The two countries want to broaden and deepen their economic and commercial ties as well as strengthen bilateral national security partnership.
The chief of Air Staff on Friday stressed the need for protecting India's space assets in the wake of China developing anti-Satellite (ASAT) weapons and pushed for building the country's military space capabilities.
According to the China experts in New Delhi the arrest of so-called 21 Indian diamond merchants on charges of smuggling under China's anti-smuggling laws in Shenzhen on January 8 needs to be handled carefully by the establishment and even the media.
According to him, there are enough laws but their implementation is important.
Aggregate domestic R&D spend in India has never exceeded 1 per cent of GDP, and over 80 per cent of Indian firms spend nothing on research.
Much hard work remains to be done if the country is to become a successful economy and a modern society.
For India to take its rightful place in the sun, we need scores of companies involved in formal, mainstream education.
Most informal enterprises in slums employ local residents, generating benefits for the local economy.
Sustaining 8-10 per cent growth will require lots of partnerships and some innovation says Lee Howell of the World Economic Forum.
He does not consider the back-to-back Twenty20 losses to India a major setback but Australia's stand-in cricket coach Michael Di Venuto concedes that his team has certainly been outplayed in all three departments of the game so far.
India needs to agressively counter China's imperial ambitions and its plans to encircle and break up the country.
Rajneesh Gupta presents a comprehensive statistical analysis of the two teams ahead of the T20I series this weekend.
Domestic mutual funds (MFs) and foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have been net buyers of stocks in August. Domestic fund houses have continued to invest in stocks, propelled by the success of various new fund offers (NFOs) and strong flows into equity funds. MFs had purchased stocks worth more than Rs 8,300 crore until August 23, according to the data provided on the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) website. Jimmy Patel, MD and CEO at Quantum AMC, says: "The surge in equity investments by MFs is because of two key reasons. One, equity NFOs are getting a strong response from investors, and fund houses need to deploy that money in the markets.
The government needs to create a sustainable bond market and cut the fiscal deficit.
In 2008-09 boosting consumption helped sustain growth. Now it's investment that needs a boost.
Indian policy makers would be well advised to disabuse themselves of the notion of a Sino-Indian convergence in managing Pakistan. China doesn't do sentimentality in foreign policy, India should follow suit, says Harsh V Pant
A selection of musings from around the cricket World Cup
India may cut its loan pipeline from the World Bank or pre-pay some of the amount as it is running the risk of exceeding the borrowing limit from the global lender in next three years.
Marketers need to build on the country's core values to strengthen Brand India's presence abroad.
Twenty years of economic reforms later, the Indian elephant has morphed into a tiger, averaging 8.5 per cent growth in the last decade. . .
The government may mobilise a whopping Rs 4 lakh crore, an amount which may help in wiping out the country's fiscal deficit, by bringing down its holding to 51 per cent in all the listed public sector firms, a report says.
Like China, Indian companies are adopting ruthless and corrupt practises while doing business in developing nations.
Asian Development Bank on Friday said India can sustain 8 per cent economic growth but asked government to improve infrastructure and carry forward reforms to attain a higher growth of 9-10 per cent.
PepsiCo is trying to dislodge Coca-Cola in drinks, though the gap is still large.
GX Technology case led to police cases against Sibal.
According to a study released by Kotak Wealth and Crisil Research, ultra high net worth households as those with a minimum net worth of Rs 25 crore or $5 million, as the benchmark for qualifying into the UHNI segment.
A data plan currently priced at Rs 100 should not cost more than Rs 34, if India has to make the Internet affordable for 80 per cent of its population.
Was it poor batting or bad bowling that cost India the match? India Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni presents the reasons for India's loss in the 1st Test in Auckland on Sunday.
When oil prices are very high, cutting down the subsidy results in sharp increase in oil prices.
The fundamental debate remains where you stand on the long-term growth question. That is what every investor must monitor and come to their own conclusions, suggests Akash Prakash.
Once criticised as inhibitory, India's strict regulatory norms have protected local banks from the global financial tsunami.
'Whoever owns the best chip industry will be the Saudi Arabia of the era of data,' predicts Rajeev Srinivasan.
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