The US wants its trade with India to grow multi-fold, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal told lawmakers.
'The big power struggle in faraway Europe erupted at a most critical juncture when India has been increasingly sceptical about American policies and statesmanship,' argues Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Kamala succeeded as she identified herself with the larger minority groups rather than narrow ethnicity, prodded by her mother who did not want to return to India, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan, who has done multiple stints in India's embassy in Washington, DC.
'After Ambedkar, Dr Gail was the only writer who wrote critically on caste issues.'
'Pakistan was very mature in the way it dealt with the incident.' 'India too owned up to the accident.' 'The whole incident was resolved quite amicably.' 'Both countries should be proud of how they have handled this situation.'
When asked if it would be possible to achieve the Gaganyaan mission with the given time frame, Sivan said, "Yes, we are not doing this for the first time, and we are also not starting the mission from the scratch. We are already on the job," adding that several important procedures, like the crew module, crew escape systems, environment control and life support systems, had already been completed.
The volunteers are asked to keep an eye on posts which are against the sovereignty and integrity of India, against the defence of India, against the security of the state, against friendly relations with foreign states, content aimed at disturbing public order, disturbing communal harmony and child sex abuse material.
Dr Sanjaya Baru answered our readers' questions on the Union Budget on February 28.
Rahul Gandhi hailed the RBI Governor for steering the Indian economy in "difficult times"
Modi, the first Indian prime minister to attend the summit in two decades, would deliver the opening plenary address at the summit on Tuesday.
We require a very pivotal kind of leadership now from the central bank in order to work with the government
If India wants to satisfy the aspirations of its youth, it will have to revamp the higher education system without ifs and buts
Dr Bulbul Tiwari, a postdoctoral fellow in the humanities at Stanford University, has taken on the onerous task of creating an online, digital, audio-visual encyclopedia of the Mahabharata.
Indian software firms have been retraining their workforce in emerging technology areas, also helping them get certified
'If there is a background of some kind of mutual understanding on how the dialogue process might develop in a mutually satisfactory manner...' 'If this understanding impacts positively on the ground situation...' 'As of now this is a heroic assumption. But it does not have to remain such.'
Analyses cricketers' valuation based on their attributes.
While there is a shortage of testing kits, manpower and capacities, India does not have other scalable testing options.
Indian auto industry's dependence on China is high and it will continue to be so in the BS-VI era and as the country moves towards electric mobility. Domestic players lack both technological competence and the sheer pricing advantage that support Chinese imports.
Deans and professors from the best business schools are jostling for appointments with executives and companies to offer tailor-made programmes. At IIT-Kharagpur, XLRI Jamshedpur, and IIM Calcutta, around 200 executives take the executive education programmes every year, with course fee ranging between Rs 5,000 and Rs 35,000, while a few courses could cost up to a couple of lakhs.
MAG was constituted by Department of Electronics and IT in February 2014.
The annual event attracts a vast number of delegates from industry, academia and policy areas from beyond the 700-strong alumni network of India's top business schools -- the six Indian Institutes of Management.
Reminiscent of desi culture, a hotel staff was serving tea in normal glasses while standing next to a bicycle.
As a first step, the company has sponsored a Bloomberg news terminal at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.
Cloned journals have become more rampant in the post-pandemic world.
In the first of a new series featuring Indian bloggers, P Rajendran speaks to Gaurav Mishra, the maverick behind gauravonomics.com
Future, even present, wars -- at least those involving such tech giants as China -- include hi-tech battlefields, which a Pakistan-obsessed India has not sufficiently prioritised. Today's generals plan on how to disrupt an enemy city's power supplies, rail networks, airports, ports, and government departments, not just by bombing or torpedoing them; they also examine the option of tripping up the computer networks that run these, notes David Devadas.
'Notwithstanding the physical distance, the two countries historically had a convergence of approach and outlook to many international issues.' 'The relationship between the two countries cannot develop or flourish in a vacuum. There should be initiatives at various levels -- at the level of government, Parliament and the people.'
Nearly 45 per cent of this value is likely to be delivered by 3 sectors - consumer goods and retail, agriculture and banking and insurance, the Nasscom report said.
The policy proposes a single-window platform for facilitation of the Indian software product industry, to help fast-track legal and regulatory issues over import and export, as well as setting up and winding up enterprises.
Giving details of Rajan's 'course schedule' for 2016-17, Chicago Booth School said this course will explore the challenges of corporate finance and investment in a more integrated global economy.
The Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), US Department of Energy, is in talks with several Indian government departments for creating a bio-mass roadmap for India similar to the one being planned with China.
'For years American academia has used the concerns about Hindutva in India to almost completely trash the concept of Hinduism.' 'In the American debate, Wendy Doniger's point of views perpetuated Hinduphobia.' 'Americans were willing to change... Indian intellectuals let us down badly.'
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said India will be benefitted economically by having peace with his country as it will enable New Delhi to directly access the resource-rich Central Asia region through Pakistani territory.
With the theme, 'Creating Knowledge-Driven Eco System', Connect 2006 is all set unveil its sixth conference-cum-exhibition.
Responding to another question, Choubey said that the phase-I of clinical trials have revealed excellent safety of the two candidate vaccines indigenously developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with Indian Council of Medical Research and Cadila Healthcare Ltd, and now their immunogenicity testing is in progress. Their phase II clinical trials are ongoing.
The start-up mentors debated if they could drive the price further down, but feared an even lower price would raise doubts about its quality, as was the case with the Tata Nano, reports Amrita Singh.
The year ended with the launch of the PSLV's 50th mission.
The resurgence in confidence in Indian manufacturing was borne out by many examples of Indian companies going global.
