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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is a frighteningly yawning gap between the United Democratic Front (UDF) leaders’ loud protestations of respect for judiciary and their deeds at the ground level. That is the unmistakable conclusion which emerges from L’affaire PC George.

NEW DELHI: Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) is bidding for equity in the consortium that will be set up by the four participating countries Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan and India (TAPI) to construct the gas pipeline for transporting gas to the three countries from Turkmenistan. India is serious in going ahead with the early completion of the TAPI project and it will recommend the case of GAIL as one of the contractors at the next meeting of the participating countries.

LUCKNOW: The battle for wooing Muslim voters who constitute 18 per cent of the total electorate in Uttar Pradesh, has started in right earnest following Chief Minister Mayawati sending a letter to the Prime Minister seeking reservations for the Muslims in the government jobs and in educational institutions.

New Delhi: The Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh has written a letter to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas assuring him of India's 'full support' for his country's bid for membership of the United Nations.

New Delhi: The former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe today called for closer naval relations between his country and India.

Did India snatch defeat from the jaws of victory during its Prime Minister’s first visit to Bangladesh in 12 long years? Did Manmohan Singh squander a historic chance to make a decisive break with the mutual suspicion and avoidable tension that mark India-Bangladesh relations?

Against an overhanging threat of another recession in developed world facing multiple crises of debt, deficit, jobs and financial instability, the International Monetary Fund warned on September 20 that the global economy was in a “dangerous new phase”, which called for decisive actions by policy-makers in Europe and USA, to avert a post-Lehman collapse of 2008.

It is the season of dramatic gestures. There was Sushma Swaraj’s jig at Rajghat and Kiran Bedi’s skit at the Ramlila grounds followed by Advani’s announcement about a sixth rath yatra and Narendra Modi’s first hunger strike and that, too, for the sake of “social harmony” (!) – another first for the Hindu hridaysamrat. For all the nobility of purpose, however, the genuineness of the last two events is in doubt.

New Delhi: India is slated to have the honour of chairing the G-24 after a gap of about three decades, when after the conclusion of the 86th meeting of the G-24 Finance Ministers in Washington in September 22, this year the presidency of this body will be formally handed over to the Indian Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee by the outgoing chair and the South African Finance Minister, Pravin J Gordhan.

United Nations Organization has declared 2011, as the ‘International Year of Chemistry”. It is to honour the completion of 100 years of awarding the Nobel prize in chemistry to Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) who discovered a new radio-active element called polonium. She was often ill due to her excessive exposure to radioactive rays and died at the age of 61 due to Leukemia. The year is to remember great scientists who sacrificed their lives for the service of the mankind through science.