The government on Tuesday decided to call fresh bids for selling its stake in Shipping Corporation of India, while taking Air-India and Indian Airlines off the divestment list.
In a breakthrough for the agriculture exports during the current visit of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, China has agreed to import mangoes from India, the world's largest producer, and a protocol has been signed for the purpose.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced on Wednesday that the government has decided to set up five more Indian Institutes of Technology
Scores of Indian American politicians, administration officials, media personalities and activists were among the 320 guests at the first state dinner of the Barack Obama presidency in honour of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Mrs Gurcharan Kaur
The Indian music industry has sought help from Prime Minister Vajpayee to eradicate the fast-growing remix culture, which it calls musical terrorism.
A special IAF plane carrying Vajpayee landed at the Amausi airport in Lucknow at 1850 IST.
The event is considered to be the first major challenge for the British after they had become the dominant power in the Indian sub-continent.
The government is talking to certain countries on the issue of extending dual citizenship to non-resident Indians and People of Indian Origin, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.\n\n
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Friday in his Independence Day speech announced that mobile telephony in the border state of Jammu and Kashmir will commence from next week.
Persons of Indian Origin in certain countries will be given dual citizenship and a legislation to facilitate it will be introduced in the Budget session of Parliament beginning next month.
His Pakistani counterpart Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali received him at the airport.
Like Nehru, Modi is loathe to touch the public sector. His policy towards Israel leans towards 'non-alignment'. You can find other similarities: frequent public speeches, personalised leadership, total control over foreign and strategic policies, even stylised dressing, says Shekhar Gupta.
The BJP will enter this election, as it does every election, as if it is fighting to prevent a 2004-style defeat. This is a party that wins big because it always behaves as if its back is to the wall, predicts Mihir S Sharma.
Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan, with strong roots in the RSS and BJP, has been elected as the 15th Vice President of India. His rich political and administrative experience will be valuable as the Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha.
'Mr Modi has the power and pre-eminence in the BJP-RSS to choose how long he wants to serve, and he is definitely going to want to contest in 2029.' 'He will only be 79, as old as Donald Trump now, and fitter,' observes Shekhar Gupta.
Senior analyst B Raman assesses Brajesh Mishra's role as India's first National Security Advisor, his part in the 1998 nuclear tests, the Kargil conflict and more.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha has criticised India's recent peace dialogue with Pakistan, saying terrorism and talks can't go together.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday announced an 'open skies' arrangement with the ten-member ASEAN to allow designated airlines from the regional grouping to run daily flights to India.\n\n\n\n
The visiting Pakistani business delegation on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to ease visa norms for the Pakistani businessmen so that trade between the two countries could flourish.
India should stop its 'chants of cross-border terrorism' and come to the negotiating table, the foreign office said.
US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said the US will like to see relations between India and Pakistan improve.
'Rajagopala Chidambaram's smile, simplicity and ability to put younger colleagues at ease always encouraged me to approach him for advice or guidance.'
'It was India's good fortune to have a Vajpayee lead the government at this crucial moment in history.' 'By taking the N-decision he saved future generations of Indians from being 'Kosovoed' or 'Iraqed',' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
'No, India and China were not about to go to all-out war over a few rocks of Galwan.' 'The full picture of what went on at the highest level between two heads of State will not be known for a very, very long time and rightly so,' points out Colonel Anil A Athale, former head of the history division, ministry of defence.
A retired Indian Army General has blamed India's "timid" response to the Pakistani military ingress in Kargil in 1999 for the series of terrorist strikes beginning with the attack on Parliament in 2001.
Closely following Air Sahara, premier private carrier Jet Airways said on Friday that it was already "operationally equipped" to commence international operations and connect Indian metros with Sri Lanka.\n\n\n\n
On the eve of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit to China, Confederation of Indian Industry has released a survey on Sino-Indian business relations, which reflect growing interest of Indian companies in the Chinese market.
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