India's first Test series victory in New Zealand in 41 years on Tuesday highlighted the hosts' battle with inconsistencies that have haunted their Test performances in recent years.
According to the latest Food Outlook, a biannual publication by the FAO focusing on developments affecting global food and feed markets, this year's food import bill for the Low Income Food Deficit Countries is forecast to reach $ 169 billion. Characterising this as a 'worrying development' the FAO noted that by the end of this year imports could cost four times as much as they did in 2000.
"We believe that growth expectations are still justified. However, the long product development cycles inherent to the export market and high capex requirement for expanding capacities has affected the performance of the sector in the recent past. We believe the performance is likely to improve significantly going forward," Edelweiss Securities' analyst Ashutosh Goel said in the company's research report.
Russia on Wednesday said it was keen to enhance bilateral trade with India to $10 billion by 2010 from the current $5 billion. "Russia-India trade turnover has increased by 40 per cent last year and amounted to $5 billion. We are very positive about increasing the turnover to $10 billion by 2010," Russian Federation's Ambassador Vyacheslav I Trubnikov said at a meeting organised by the All India Association of Industries (AIAI) in Mumbai.
Musharraf said the two 'important' countries in South Asia should work jointly for the cause of peace and stability in the region.
"These are unforeseen events and we do not see any further impact from other clients. We are in talks with both the seller and the purchaser, as the seller has mentioned our name in the list of critical services suppliers. The situation will be clear in a week," said P D Mundhra, executive director, eClerx Services.
Gandhi, who will be campaigning at a remote area in Tekamgarh in the region, is expected to inspect implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme among other things. The tour by Rahul is being looked at as an attempt by Congress at ascertaining Mayawati's claim to having delivered 'relief' to the region, sources said.
ONGC Videsh Ltd, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, announced that it has acquired 15 per cent in UK-listed Imperial Energy and formally launched a negotiated takeover bid for the company at $2.6 billion (equivalent to around Rs 11,500 crore), which the company's board has approved.
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The National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd has decided to actively trade in imported edible oils after failing to procure sufficient quantity of mustard seeds from the domestic market due to high price.
Vital scientific installations under terror threat: Patil
A collective fine on the village will be imposed to discourage people from taking the law into their own hands while dealing with criminal offenders.
India has emerged as the fastest growing nation in the global services trade and contrary to popular belief, the country's import growth in commercial services has outpaced exports in 2006, a WTO report said.
The policy is not likely to make a splash of an impact on the economy
The ratings reflected the growing strength of India's macro-economic stability, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said.
Former Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers believes lack of European football will be an advantage for the club in the Premier League and same will be the case for Chelsea.
India, the world's second-biggest wheat consumer, may import up to 5 million tonnes of wheat this year, said Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar a few days ago.
Indian IT professionals would gain from new German emigration laws that have vastly eased the entry of skilled personnel into the European country.
Belgium: Sonia pays tribute to WWI Indian soldiers
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All textile items, currently exempted from value added tax, will attract 4 per cent VAT from the next fiscal, the empowered committee said on Thursday.
Friends, relatives and some jail inmates have pleaded that Chatterjee's death sentence be changed to life imprisonment.
The reduction in customs duties on non-ferrous metals would keep a check on a rise in prices, as landed cost of these would effectively reduce
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has suggested reduction of customs duty on mobile phones to five per cent from 10 per cent
In a major leap in bilateral economic relations, India and Thailand on Friday finalised modalities for implementing the first phase of the Free Trade Agreement between the two countries from September this year under which they will start tariff redu
Betting in football will be at the top of the agenda at next month's meeting of FIFA's executive committee.
Rangoli Chandel is in the news again. This time, for spreading communal hate through her Twitter posts.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India respects the Supreme Court's verdict on sweeping reforms in the cricket body and it will work towards implementing the recommendations made by the Lodha panel, senior BCCI functionary and IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla said on Monday.
The men's singles champion will earn 630,000 pounds while the champion woman will get 600,000 pounds
The World Bank has approved a whopping $112.56 million development loan for Chhattisgarh, for improving the living standards of thousands of households in the rural areas of the state.\n\n\n\n
Raj Reddy, a researcher of Indian-origin has developed a PCtvt, a wireless network personal computer.
With stringent opposition from Shiv Sena, an NDA partner, a pending petition in Bombay high court and no proper directions from the Maharashtra and Union governments, the chances of implementation of conditional access system in the metropolis.
The bank can declare a withdrawal by you as illegal and deny any remedy in case a problem arises.
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