Trump's foreign policy juggernaut has shelved the 'Deep State' and 'Axis of Evil'. But where is India?
Steel giant Arcelor has said it would be ready to receive a written proposal from Mittal Steel about an unspecified "industrial project" related to the steel industry, a media report said on Saturday.
Deutsche Bank plans to increase its presence in India by opening eight more branches in a couple of months and strengthen its retail portfolio.
Pakistan is negotiating the purchase of six to eight nuclear power reactors from China over the next decade in the most ambitious expansion yet of the country's nuclear energy capability, a leading London daily reported Tuesday.
Top Indian companies are ending the year 2005 with a flurry of overseas deals, capping a trend of the past year that saw mergers and acquisitions worth a record $10 billion.
US treasury secretary John Snow learned more than one month ago of the tentative plan and Chinese officials gave him details on the change and its timing before the announcement, The Financial Times and The Asian Wall Street Journal said.
The recent arrest of Abu Faraj al-Liby, al-Qaeda's alleged number three, had severed links between the terrorist outfit's leaders and its cadres, he said.
The reform process has released the entrepreneurial instincts in our country and many honest professionals have been able to set up their own enterprises.
A day after Rupert Murdoch made a plea to allow greater foreign direct investment in the media sector, London-based Financial Times on Thursday asked the government to permit publication of foreign newspapers from India.
Ahead of PM Modi's maiden visit to the UK, the British media today said "troubles at home" after the BJP's drubbing in the Bihar elections will overshadow his visit.
Greece may have made a mistake in taking on this summer's Athens Olympics, Public Works Minister George Souflias said.
'If we don't resolve it by then, maybe we never will,' the Pakistan president told the Financial Times.
The Internet got Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith first, as illegal copies of the movie were released a day before the movie's worldwide release.
Rise up for the right to offend. Let there be no holy cow, person, religion, ideology that cannot be criticised, ridiculed, parodied, lampooned. That's what differentiates you from the bigots who entered Charlie Hebdo, says Mango Indian.
Donald Trump is believed to be the first US President or President-elect to have spoken to a Taiwanese leader since 1979, when the US severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan after its recognition of the People's Republic of China, points out former RA&W officer Jayadeva Ranade.
US foreign policy had been 'aggressive in terms of going after challenges, issues,' and the president was 'going to keep moving in this direction,' he said.
'Would any other nuclear power allow its sensitive installations to be inspected?' he asked.
The BBC is all set to produce daily newscasts in Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi and Marathi (in addition to the existing Hindi, Tamil and Urdu), Jim Egan, CEO, BBC Global News, tells Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
The BBC has invited Time Warner, Walt Disney and Berteismann to discuss possible bids for BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial sales and publishing arm.
Manchester United ruled out holding new talks over a possible bid for the club by Malcolm Glazer, the Financial Times reported.
'It is clear that Britain is a country with a limited future,' says Rajeev Srinivasan.
The bribes were paid by several international companies, including Errostaal of Germany and India's Tata as part of Abacha's 'system of systematic corruption, according to the Swiss sentencing order, a copy of which FT claims to have obtained.
Lee Hsien Loong, the son of modern Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, will take over from Goh Chok Tong August 12.
This will give the opposition another opportunity to question his use of "seriously flawed" intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Countries with abundant resources are faring worse in terms of development than those with less.
India's $121 billion troubled debt pile, over $100 billion of which is on the books of state-owned banks, has come under close scrutiny from prosecutors, the media and politicians
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has said that reforms carried out in a democratic country like India are more deeply rooted and sustainable, and democracy cannot be blamed for impeding reforms.
'He could possibly stay on for a year or 18 months, especially if he is told that the ship of state is available at the helm,' a senior official told The Financial Times.
The United States may lift restrictions imposed on exports of high-technology items to India, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said in London on Thursday.
Relying on the private sector to undertake infrastructure investment may not be a realistic proposition.
The Asian community's representation will see a huge jump from 3.8% in 2000 to 8% in 2050, the Financial Times says quoting from the report.
'In contrast to the generally buoyant tone of the Economic Survey in January, he sounds uncharacteristically pessimistic, saying that forces in the world economy -- slowing global trade, protectionism, robots -- will limit India's manufacturing to levels well below what propelled East Asia's economies decades ago.'
Donald Trump and General H R McMaster: It is almost like the Chinese monarch Helü with Sun Tzu at his side.
Seeking to minimise the impact of the recent headline-grabbing moves, he said there had only been one instance of compulsory licensing.
Substantial gains can still be made with good policies and initiatives.
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