The Pakistan prime minister will be on a visit to India in his capacity as the SAARC chairman.
With an unexpected new turn in Kashmir, an ominous Afghanistan, a reliably unpredictable Trump, and an unfathomable reversal with RCEP, Modi may have to reinvent his character, suggests Ambassador B S Prakash.
The civil aviation ministry is soon going to move the Union Cabinet on the proposal to allow private domestic carriers, now operating to SAARC countries, to fly to ASEAN nations.
Hutch on Thursday announced reduction in ISD and STD call rates across all plans, both postpaid and prepaid.
Because of the treaty, no big dams or power projects can be built by India on Jhelum, Indus or Chenab.
Veteran Pakistani diplomat and current Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani is expected to be appointed the country's ambassador to the US ahead of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's visit to Washington this month.
Bajaj International has inked a pact with UK based Thinking Applications, for their web based customer relationship management product OfficeSpark.
'The government expects demand for electronic products to reach $400 billion by 2023-24. This would be a huge foreign exchange outflow, which may further widen our trade deficit with other nations. Hence, the government plans to push local electronics manufacturing to cut down on their import bill.'
This will be Singh's first meeting with the Pakistan President.
Amid rising coronavirus cases in India, the government has asked people not to panic, saying no community transmission of the virus has been observed and there has only been a few cases of local transmission so far and that it is "not a health emergency" in India at present.
The proposed South Asia Free Trade Agreement, which will come into effect according to the timetable set out at the SAARC summit in Islamabad, will greatly benefit the region, diplomats from the member countries said in Washington.
Bankers see upward pressure on interest rates after the Reserve Bank raised two key short-term rates in the busy season credit policy of October.
Two senior judges killed in blast in Bangladesh
Bharat Sanchar Nigam on Tuesday announced a major reduction in the international long distance call rates for Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Africa, Gulf and SAARC countries to Rs 12 per minute from the existing Rs 18 a minute.
Now calling the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada will cost Indian users only Rs 0.89 per minute, down from the current Rs 1.39 per minute.
Though he missed Ahmedabad's Rathyatra this time, yet Prime Minister Narendra Modi's fans took out a huge tableau of him and made his presence felt in the procession of Lord Jagannath's chariot.
Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar will visit Pakistan on March 15 and 16 to attend the SAARC Energy Ministers' meeting and hold talks with Pakistan on the India-Iran trans-national gas pipeline.
The civil aviation ministry would 'shortly' come out with a comprehensive policy framework for sharing of unused bilateral air-traffic rights between the public sector and private carriers, for operating to these international destinations.
Vajpayee, however, said he was willing to discuss economic ties with Pakistan to his visit to Islamabad.
The issue gains importance in view of the recent attempt on the life of President Gen Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad.
The Pakistan president accused India of being an 'intransigent and arrogant' power.
Black flags were also shown to the former MP as she came out of the airport.
"It is a good news and talks between two countries should start," Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan told Voice of America radio.
In the first political contact between India and Pakistan after Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's April peace initiative, the prime minister shook hands with Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid on Tuesday.
"If Nawaz Sharif does accept the invitation, let's hope Narendra Modi will serve him chicken biryani!" Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday said in an apparent jibe at the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime minister-designate.
