Ranjan Mathai to be India's new foreign secretary

Ranjan Mathai, India's ambassador to France, will be the next Foreign Secretary, succeeding Nirupama Rao.Mathai, a 1974-batch IFS officer, will assume office from August one and will be there for a......

Ranjan Mathai takes over as new Indian envoy to UK

Ranjan Mathai, former foreign secretary of India, has taken over as the country's next high commissioner to the United Kingdom.  Mathai took the office on Monday. He succeeds Jaimini Bhagwati,......

Russia-China Gas Pact Poses New Challenges For India

India should simultaneously prioritise domestic exploration and production of more oil and gas in the country and ensure we retain diversified suppliers for imports, points out former foreign......

Ties with Pak: Mathai's key challenge

A senior retired bureaucrat met Ranjan Mathai, then deputy high commissioner in London, and asked him casually where he was going to settle down after retirement. Mathai was frank. He didn't have a......

India expects Germany to help for EU FTA

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold comprehensive talks, including on India-European Union FTA with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during his visit to Berlin from Wednesday with India hoping......

India walks the tightrope on US-Iran issue

The US has asserted its power in the ongoing oil crisis with Iran, persuading unlikely allies such as India, China, Japan and the European Union to either impose a total embargo on trading till......

What India must do to keep its economy BOOMING

India's Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai listed out some economic policies that emerging nations, particularly India, must adopt to keep them from driving off the growth path and also spoke about......

UK offers NRIs cheaper rates to send money

The British government has launched a project to educate and facilitate non-resident Indians to remit funds home at cheaper rates.The Deputy High Commissioner, Ranjan Mathai, launched a leaflet in......