ATF for domestic carriers has become 11.22 per cent cheaper since October and is expected to see more price cuts in the next three months.
PM Modi seems to be gradually ending India's strategic ambiguity
India can become one of the world's automotive export hubs of the 21st century.
Sensex seems to be under pressure on weak cues.
The summit at Sentosa -- the first between the two countries -- is a turnaround of relations between the US president, 71, and the North Korean leader, 34, after a long-running exchange of threats and insults.
The company is to act as an ISP across rural areas for local entrepreneurs.
IIP for November 2015 and CPI for December 2015 will be announced today.
It is in Prime Minister Narendra Modi Modi, officials in Washington believe, US President Barack Obama has found an Indian leader who is willing to walk the talk to realise the common goals of the two countries. Lalit K Jha reports
The $100 billion Tata group conglomerate is a major beneficiary of the decision to open up aviation in India.
'Clearly, from the Indian viewpoint, the US retrenchment from Asia cannot be happening as good news.' 'The abandonment of the US' pivot to Asia exposes the US-Indian partnership to be a mere transactional relationship,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar
Market breadth on the BSE ended firm as 1,908 shares advanced and 1,156 shares declined
The 30-share Sensex ended higher by 177.46 points at 28,885.21 and the Nifty gained 63.90 points at 8,778.30.
'... For the India-US relationship to continue its positive trajectory, it will require India to adapt to a different approach.' Nisha Desai Biswal -- who as the Obama administration's point person for South Asia was in the inner circle of all the Obama-Modi Summits -- tells Rediff.com's Monali Sarkar why she is hopeful that India and the US are on an irreversible forward course.
US companies are 'positively looking' at India.
Powerful senators write to US Defense Secretary Hagel to support a robust defence relationship with India to achieve shared goals and form an unwavering bond between the world's two largest democracies. Aziz Haniffa in Washington, DC
The new equation between 'Namo' and 'Barack' may well 'convert a good start into lasting progress.'
The RBI governor-designate may be economical with spoken words, but is known for his sharp and critical writings
Until 2014, Discovery's channels were distributed as part of a joint venture with Multi Screen Media.
The US needs to find global support, especially from Russia and China, to make North Korea back down, says Claude Smadja.
The Kolkata-based firm already has a presence in 22 states with over 2,000 branches and 5.9 million borrowers.
Hong Kong is the world's freest economy according to the Index of Economic Freedom 2015.
Text of PM Narendra Modi's press statement after delegation level talks with US President Obama at the Hyderabad House in Delhi.
''There is the perennial worry in the Indian mind regarding the US 'hyphenating' India and Pakistan. Frankly, this is a completely nonsensical hypothesis. The US has always 'hyphenated' India and Pakistan and it couldn't have been otherwise,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Ex-South American soccer chief in FIFA scandal under house arrest.
Above normal monsoon forecast and strength in Asian equities lifted sentiments.
Qatar Airways might infuse $200 million in debt and equity in SpiceJet.
'Both Japan and China face a common challenge: How to deal with Trump.' 'The trade war with the US seems to have facilitated/hastened Abe's China visit, the first by a Japanese prime minister since 2011,' points out Dr Rajaram Panda.
In the broader markets, BSE Midcap index slipped 0.3% whereas the BSE Smallcap index inched up by 0.2%
Considering Modi's style of practicing diplomacy, it is likely that a clear message would be conveyed to China that it is high time Beijing stops using its good relations with Pakistan as a pressure tactic against India. This is imperative not only for strengthening India-China relations at the bilateral level but also for maintaining stability at the regional level, says Sana Hashmi.
Outlining seven principles of engagement for closer cooperation between India and China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said the two countries should show sensitivity to each other's interests and sovereignty and move quickly to resolve the boundary issue.
With Beijing having had a profound rethink on India's admission as a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the tectonic plates of the geopolitics of a massive swathe of the planet stretching from the Asia-Pacific to West Asia are dramatically shifting. That grating noise in the Central Asian steppes will be heard far and wide -- as far as North America, says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The 30-share Sensex ended higher by 31 points at 26,591 and the 50-share Nifty gained 10 points at 8,061.
Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com listens to four Indian and American national security advisers recalling the hard work that went into negotiating the nuclear deal.
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ITC, Infosys, Wipro and HDFC Bank among the major losers.
When Obama signs the NDAA 2017 into law this week, the US-India partnership will be enshrined in US legislation, binding every succeeding administration, whatever its inclinations, to treat India as a 'major defence partner,' says Ajai Shukla.
With Donald Trump the appeal has to be to his business instincts in which his personal interests seem to play a significant role, says former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal.
President Xi Jinping's visit may put relations between India and China on a new trajectory
The 30-share Sensex lost 12 points to end at 29,559 and the 50-share Nifty climbed 4 points to close at 8,914.
Stating that India is new bright spot of hope and opportunity for the world, the prime minister said India among other things is igniting the engines of its manufacturing sector and making its farms more productive and more resilient.
Thailand's importance to India's Act East policy is too significant to be overlooked.
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