India, Japan to finalise nuclear deal soon

India and Japan are close to finalising a civil nuclear cooperation agreement, former Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama said in New Delhi on Monday. "India and Japan have come to a stage of......

Eye firmly on Asia, Japanese PM comes calling

Days after India and China bonded extraordinarily to thwart attempts to impose a binding climate accord on developing countries in Copenhagen, Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has hurriedly......

Manmohan Singh hosts Japanese PM in private dinner

Setting the tone for their substantive talks on Tuesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Japanese counterpart Yukio Hatoyama on Monday night had an overview of bilateral relations and......

Obama on four-nation trip to Asia in November

US President Barack Obama will embark on his maiden trip to Asia mid-November when he will travel to China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that Japan will......

India, Japan for easier visa norms

India and Japanasked each other on Tuesday to liberalise visa regimes to help promote cooperation in trade and investment and people-to-people contact. After his talks with Japanese counterpart......

Japanese PM to meet Tata, Ambani

Visiting Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama will meet top Indian industrialists in Mumbai on Monday to discuss the state of the global economy, the impact of the financial meltdown and ways to......

No hasty stimulus exit, says FM

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjeeon Wednesdayruled out an immediate withdrawal of the stimulus packages, but cautioned that too much delay in the exit would widen the fiscal deficit. Recalling his......

Japan PM promises to link rupee with yen

In yet another move to increase the flow of Japanese investment into India, visiting Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama today assured India's leading industrialists and bankers to look into the......