Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has predicted that foreign troops might stay in his country for up to 15 years.
Interest rates may harden a bit by the end of the current financial year, according to C Rangarajan, chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council.
Committee on Consumer Policy, a body established by ISO, is holding an international conference in New Delhi to study the feasibility of developing uniform standards. Inaugurating the event on Tuesday, consumer affairs secretary Yashwant Bhave said the deliberations have to find out whether inter-operability in consumer goods will work.
After raising India's heckles by issuing visas in a separate sheet of paper to several residents of Jammu and Kashmir, China issued a visa stamped on passport to former Jammu University vice chancellor Amitabh Mattoo, a domicile of the state, who visited the neighbouring country. Mattoo, who had applied for a visa in the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi to attend an international conference on nuclear disarmament in China in November, had been given a regular stamped visa.
Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA), a premiere communications management institute, will be presenting a historic international conference on Hinglish.
Pakistan is likely to walk out from the forthcoming summit on Afghanistan -- scheduled to be held in London on January 28 -- in protest against India being touted by the West to play a greater role in Afghanistan.
Congress leaders were in for a rude shock on Monday when the media sidelined their much-touted Jawaharlal Nehru birth anniversary event, and instead turned its full attention to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was addressing thousands of supporters in Sydney's Allphones Arena
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohammad ElBaradei hailed India as a "leading advocate" for nuclear disarmament and asked the world to listen to its "voice" on elimination of all nuclear weapons. "India called for the elimination of all nuclear weapons as far back as 1948. It is important that India's voice should continue to be heard.
Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman G Madhavan Nair is all set to become the first non-American to head the International Academy of Astronautics.
Pakistan on Friday rejected India's charge that Inter Services Intelligence was involved in the Mumbai terror attacks, alleging that it was a "manifestation of undisguised hostility" and "smear campaign" against Islamabad.
A technology has been developed in Maharashtra for using paddy straw as animal feed
Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon said in New Delhi that, "Both India and Russia are keen to expand nuclear cooperation. All the preparatory work has been done." He was inaugurating an international conference on "Changing Patterns of Indo-Russian Cooperation" organised by the Observer Research Foundation. He said that India and Russia already have an "excellent relationship" and India considers relations with Russia very important.
The Tata group, however, is not lying low. It is now planning to increase the supercomputer's processing power by at least five times, under a project titled Eka plus plus (Eka++). The Computational Research Laboratories--a subsidiary of the Tata group's holding company Tata Sons--has already started work on this front.
The International Conference on Performance Wear and Functional Textiles presented the Technical Textiles Accomplishment Award to Professor Seshadri Ramkumar of Texas Tech University.
Asserting that all democratic forces should unite to fight terrorism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the governments of the region have a moral duty to take firm and expeditious action against the menace."In our region, there is growing awareness that terrorism and extremism pose a threat to democracy and development. Governments and authorities in our region and elsewhere have a moral duty to act firmly and quickly," he said.
The prime minister will have a tight schedule in the Philippines as besides attending the 15th ASEAN-India summit and 12th East Asia summit on November 14, he will have a series of other engagements including bilateral meetings with several leaders.
A new study has linked the use of contraception to improving your sex life.
As it prepares to participate in two international conferences on Afghanistan, India on Wednesday cautioned against treating any section of Taliban as "good", in an apparent message to the United States, which has expressed readiness to hold talks with "moderate" militia.
As many as 20 companies have responded so far to the government's open tender inviting participants for the programme. Of these 20, some are CFL producers, while others are financiers who are buying CFLs in bulk and distributing them at their own risk. The distribution in other states will commence only after the programme gets registered at the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change, which may take up to three years.
PM to launch works on Zojila tunnel, other infrastructure projects.
The actor is rumoured to be dating late Benazir Bhutto's niece.
The US-based research agency Healthcare Practice, Frost & Sullivan, is hosting the three-day event, the second in the series. The first conference was a multi-city event held in all the metros.
A three-day international conference, held between June 27 and June 29, at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, discussed how the ancient Indian wisdom of the Vedas could shape and sustain future generations in the context of social, economic, environmental, and political upheavals worldwide.
There is a "real possibility" that the Beijing Olympic Games will be targeted by terrorists or that anti-China groups could attack athletes, Interpol's secretary general said on Friday. The international leg of the Olympic torch relay has been dogged by pro-Tibet and anti-China protests, following unrest in Tibet last month in which China says about 20 people died.
Authorities shut down schools and other educational institutions in north Kashmir as a precautionary measure for maintaining law and order.
The celebrated Pakistani rock band, Junoon is in Srinagar to perform live, to promote peace and harmony. The band will perform on Sunday afternoon at the Sheri Kashmir International Conference Centre on the shores of the Dal Lake.
According to NABARD, around 60% of India's population lacks access to financial institutions.
'The fact that Modi and Xi exuded confidence to accelerate the negotiations for a border settlement alone underscores that the Russia-India-China triangle has become very dynamic,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Union Petroleum Minister disclosed the decision on fuel prices will be taken on Jan 17, in the GoM meet.
Balavidyalaya in Chennai is probably India's only school for the deaf that trains the child and (one) parent for free.
ISRO officials said GSAT-4 is a technology demonstrator. Its communication payload comprises multi-beam Ka-band beam pipe and regenerative transponder and navigation payload.
After proving its mettle in areas like steel, automotive and IT services on the global arena, corporate behemoth Tata group has now developed the world's fourth fastest supercomputer that can do 117.9 trillion calculations per second. The supercomputer "EKA", which means number one in Sanskrit, was named Asia's fastest and the world's fourth fastest in the Top 500 Supercomputer list announced at an International Conference for High Performance Computing at Reno California.
British politicians must listen harder to the 'calm voice of moderation and reason,' of the majority of the country's Muslims, he said.
Ahead of next month's annual Indo-Russia summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev who said India is a "close and valued" partner for his country.
The fine balance struck between development and preservation of heritage in relocating the ancient Buddhist University of Nagarjuna at a new site in Andhra Pradesh came in for special praise by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi on Monday.
"Situation of weaponisation and associated dangers have not changed much from the cold war days," John Hallam, a veteran anti-nuclear weapon campaigner and Friends of Earth, Australia member said.
The report concentrates on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community in the country.
Experts drawn from different parts of the country and abroad were of the view that the current boost to the agri-business through entry of large business houses would eventually benefit the farmer in a big way.
Regulators have to essay a facilitating role while simultaneously ensuring that rules are simple, easy to understand and help in orderly conduct by corporates, the Securities and Exchange Board of India chairman M Damodaran said.
An Indian woman hailing from Punjab set herself ablaze after her parents allegedly forced her into a violent marriage, the victim's sister told an international conference in London. Jasvinder Sanghera of Derby said her sister Robina was driven to suicide after she was told that she could not leave her husband because her family would be ashamed. She told the EU Forced Marriages Conference in central London on Wednesday that she still held people accountable for her death.
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