Even as World Trade Organization director general Pascal Lamy has claimed that a successful Doha Round will lead to rich nations undertaking steeper tariff cuts than developing and poor nations, an analysis of the proposals shows the opposite may be true.
The eight former Indian Navy personnel were on October 26 given death sentence by Qatar's Court of First Instance.
India has been excluded from a high-profile meeting of the European Union, the US and Brazil on the Doha trade negotiations in London. The two-day senior officials' meeting began on Monday at an unknown destination in London to address the specific concerns among the three members. It was 'unusual' that such a meeting is taking place without the participation of India. The three members will talk about industrials and agriculture packages ahead of next month's Geneva meeting.
The incident remains a reminder of the inherent fragilities of all geopolitical relationships.
Reader Kuku Dubey sent us a picture of Anju George from Doha.
Images from the Olympics swimming action at the La Defense Arena, Paris, on Wednesday.
It is time to lay the Doha Round to rest and think afresh about trade negotiations.
Jamaica's 100 metres world champion Yohan Blake is the first high-profile athlete to sign up for the opening Diamond League event in Doha, organisers said on Monday.
The Indonesian Minister's comments assume significance as she is also a candidate for the position of Director General, World Trade Organisation.
This licence will further enhance the niche role Doha Bank is playing and facilitating the movement of trade between Qatar and India.
Union Trade Minister Anand Sharma said on Monday that the impasse has been broken over the World Trade Organisation's long-running Doha round of trade talks.
Roger Federer will make his return to the tennis circuit from a double knee surgery at an ATP 250 tournament in Qatar in March, having not played since last year's Australian Open.
Kerala's Joseph Abraham ran a career-best race and set a national record in men's 400 metres hurdles but failed to book a berth for the Doha Asian Games.
Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich overcame extreme heat and humidity to win the World Championship midnight marathon on Friday, in a gruelling test of survival that saw nearly a third of the 70 starters fail to reach the finish line.
Novak Djokovic suffered his first defeat of the new season in the Qatar Open semi-finals on Friday, losing in three sets to Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut.
Noting that Obama Administration is fundamentally committed to developmental premise of Doha Round, US Trade Representative Ron Kirk has said that advanced developing countries like China and India need to come in the same spirit as the United States for its success.
Murali Sreeshankar has been ruled out of Paris Olympics after sustaining a knee injury during training.
It is only through a trade-opening global pact that issues like distorting subsidies or generating market access can be addressed, the WTO chief emphasised.
The 21-year-old Anish shot 27 in the final to win the bronze.
Seeking to assuage pilot shortage concerns, Akasa Air's chief executive Vinay Dube on Friday said the carrier has sufficient pilots and flyers should not expect any flight cancellations. "We have plenty of pilots. We have given numbers like 700 in the past. "I don't think this is something from an Akasa perspective people need to worry about because we have got this plan in place where we have pilots not just for our current set of aircraft but we have got pilots for the foreseeable future in terms of growth," Dube told PTI at the sidelines of a CII event.
Since the Doha negotiations began in 2001, the world has changed dramatically, Deputy US Trade Representative Michael Punke stated before the US Senate Finance Committee.
WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy said his meetings with the US, China, India, and Brazil over the last fortnight revealed that the gaps in positions among members are too wide
Following a virtual meeting on June 16th, 2024, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) announced a change in leadership for the Senior Men's National Team.
It was always foolhardy to expect the US and the EU to want to genuinely open up at a time their economies are in deep trouble.
Pranati Nayak is only the third Indian woman to win a medal at the GymWorld Cup after Aruna Budda Reddy (2018) and Dipa (2018).
A Jet Airways Mumbai-Doha flight had a bomb scare on Monday night just a few minutes before the airplane's departure, officials said.
We live under the most liberal trade regime in history not because the WTO enforces it, but because important countries - rich and poor alike - find greater openness to be in their best interest.
Over the last 10 days, negotiators have burnt the midnight oil to study the revised draft modalities (parameters) issued by the chairs of the negotiating bodies for Doha agriculture and industrial products. After all, these parameters, which are essentially figures and textual language, will ultimately become commitments depending upon the final agreement among the 151 members of the WTO.
Reader Sarvendra Dubey sent us a picture of Sania Mirza from Doha, Qatar.
Jet Airways launched its flights to Muscat and Doha. The daily flight service will operate from Mumbai and Kerala.
Developing countries' coalition G-20 on Tuesday upped the stakes by circulating proposals to arrive at "balanced solutions" on some of the most difficult and unresolved issues of the Doha agriculture mandate.
Gloom over ministerial, courtesy US-China spar, conflict between cotton-producing African nations.
Naomi Osaka said ahead of the Qatar Open that the only way was up from here.
The country feels that the talks are necessary to revive the global economy.
Sift races ahead on road to Paris
The Director General of World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, today urged to speed up the negotiations on the Doha Round as the Trade Promotion Authority in United States is expiring in June.
India and the US on Wednesday expressed the hope for an early resumption of the Doha round of negotiations and agreed to make all efforts to achieve an ambitious, balanced, and pro-development outcome.
If the World Trade Organisation lost credibility, developing markets would take a hit.
Qatar rode on a controversial goal to emerge 2-1 winners against India.
Though it was not formally declared at the Doha trade negotiations committee meeting today, it is privately admitted that the 2010 deadline will not be achieved, several trade envoys and senior officials told Business Standard.
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