"The decision has nothing to do with warnings from the United States, Britain and Australia earlier this week that terrorists were planning to bomb the gathering."
'If every consumer in India and China, totaling up to almost 3 billion, want to live like people in San Francisco, Stockholm or Singapore, can they afford to? Can nature afford it?'
Tailored luxury experiences with the most minute of details charted out for discerning travellers is the way forward, says Nikita Puri.
US First Lady Michelle Obama has invited a prominent Indian-American doctor, who is playing a key role in fighting the dreaded Ebola disease in West Africa, for Wednesday's State of the Union Address.
Kalam begins his tour with a three-day visit to Singapore.
The number beats the previous record of 199 teams which entered for the 2002 World Cup finals.
"After friendly consultations between the Chinese and US sides, the handover work for the US underwater drone was smoothly completed in relevant waters in the South China Sea at midday on December 20," a brief Chinese ministry statement said without providing details.
India's vote comes a day after Trump warned countries against opposing the US position.
Mangoes from India are popular in the Middle East, the Far East, the United States and European countries.
Four other inmates have been ill since last week because of suspected malaria and the water supply is unfit for human consumption.
Indians working abroad sent a whopping $21.7 billion to their kin in 2004, making the country the highest recipient of remittances worldwide
Signing of the two pacts -- FTA in services and investments -- were scheduled during the India-ASEAN Economic Ministers meeting in Myanmar last week. But the meeting was postponed as Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was not able to attend the meet due to domestic compulsions.
China pulls ahead of the U.S. for some of the largest malls in the world.
India on Saturday extended $500 million (Rs 3,328 crore) Line of Credit to Vietnam for facilitating deeper defence cooperation with the south east Asian nation, as the two countries elevated their ties to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership to respond to emerging regional challenges.
India's Alok Kumar entered the quarter-finals of the men's eight-ball pool singles at the Asian Games.
Britain has passed a draft resolution asking countries to create laws that will prevent incitement of terror.
President Kalam has said that developing R&D facilities is the answer to brain drain.
Thailand defeated the Philippines 2-1 in Group B match of the Asian Hopman Cup tournament.
AirAsia's India plans may not be hit with the current crisis that the airline is going through
The current account balance is the single most important indicator to assess an economy's health.
Forbes.com editor Paul Maidment says other English-speaking countries are starting to erode India's cost advantage and the Philippines is becoming a serious competitor.\n
The 16-year-old Indian ace beat Sachiyo Imai of Japan to make the grade at the Philippines Open badminton championships.
PM Modi articulated five action points that would serve the common interest of promoting peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region.
India and China have so far held 19 rounds of talks to resolve the boundary dispute.
Journalists join pro-democracy rallies, King Gyanendra cracks down on dissent.
The Indian government had in January 2010 launched VoA scheme to attract more foreign tourists to India.
About 200 people were believed killed and 1,500 were left missing in central Philippines Friday when an entire village was buried in a landslide, the head of the Red Cross said.
Adopting an evasive approach, India on Friday abstained from a United Nations Human Rights Council vote to appoint, for a period of three years, an Independent Expert to help protect the rights of homosexuals and transgenders worldwide.
India, the uncrowned king of the business process outsourcing world, may be in for some rough ride with national and international studies pointing at competition from a range of countries including China
India will be led by newly-crowned world number one Sania Mirza as 11 nations will strive to get promotion to Asia/Oceania Group I when the Fed Cup tennis competition begins in Hyderabad.
Saina Nehwal beat Ai Goto to become the first Indian woman to reach the final in a four-star event in badminton
The rupee had ended 13 paise higher at 60.92 against the greenback in Wednesday's trade following sustained dollar selling by exporters.
The government's stated vision is that it wants to make India a manufacturing hub and that is where such a rush or confusing policies don't help, reports Shubhomoy Sikdar.
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