Bush lied 260 times about Iraq war: Report

United States President George Bush and his top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the threat posed by Iraq in the two years following the 9/11 terror attack,......

Indo-Pak row on Baglihar Dam to end soon

The World Bank on Thursday announced that Professor Raymond Lafitte, the Neutral Expert appointed to address 'the difference' between India and Pakistan over the construction of the Baglihar Dam on......

Pakistan may put up Munir Akram to thwart Tharoor

In an effort to stall the candidature of Shashi Tharoor, India's nominee for the post of United Nations Secretary General, Pakistan is likely to field Ambassador Munir Akram, currently its......

WB prez impressed by AP NGOs

The new President of the World Bank Paul Wolfowitz, who was deputy secretary of defense in the first term of President George W Bush, just can't stop talking about how impressed he was over the......

Corruption in India like Africa: WB official

Bribery in the World Bank's lending methods is as rampant as ever, says a former Bank official who has written a book on this corruption. Steve Berkman contends that Indian IT majors Satyam and......

In defence of Satyam

The recent troubles of Satyam Computer have caused the chatterati to come out of the woodwork and cluck-cluck away disapprovingly. People have gone into paroxysms of outrage and moral indignation......

What's the new World Bank chief like?

Robert B Zoellick will succeed Paul Wolfowitz as the 11th president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or the World Bank, for a five-year term from July 1, 2007. He is US......

Robert Zoellick to be new World Bank president

The executive directors of the World Bank unanimously selected Robert B Zoellick to succeed Paul Wolfowitz, effective July 1, 2007, as the 11th President of the Bank for a five-year term. Paul......