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MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Companies operating in developing Asia lost out on nearly $425 billion in trade finance in 2011 alone, according to a new survey by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

New Delhi: India and Kuwait agreed to speed up the process for promoting joint venture projects in various areas of oil and gas sector including those in the upstream and downstream activities.

Proximity of elections triggers political stirrings. With 2014 Lok Sabha and Haryana Assembly elections barely 13 and 18 months away, Haryana politics has started showing signs of turmoil. A closer look at the state of the mainstream political parties indicates that they have been hit by the phenomenon.

Even people accusing Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mamata Banerjee of over ambitious, aggressive tendencies, will admit that she is a fast learner.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Senior justices, Attorney Generals, prosecutors, wildlife and environment police, customs officers and government enforcement experts are gathering for a three-day symposium in Bangkok to identify actions to combat wildlife crime in Asia.

New Delhi: India an Mauritius are likely to sign a number of agreements in the areas of health and medicine, tourism, safety and security of senior citizens and disabilities and on overall cooperation between the two countries on the three-day visit of the Indian President Pranab Mukherjee to Port Louis beginning from Monday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Narendra Modi brand has few takers in Kerala’s political market. Secular politics is too strongly embedded in the Keralite’s psyche to be affected by the so-called ‘Modi magic’. Therefore, Modi starts off with a big handicap in the ‘race with Rahul Gandhi’ for the prime ministerial post due next year.

Having earned kudos for his balancing act, Finance Minister Mr Chidambaram is up against the challenge of getting some early positives by way of investor response, and desperately needs a reduction in interest rates to help secure the targeted 6.5 per cent growth in fiscal 2014.

Rahul Gandhi does not generally come to the Central Hall of Parliament. He also rarely passes through the grand round hall, which has come to be known as the hotbed of politics and also centre of gossip. It was a rare day last week when recently anointed Congress Vice-President came to the Central Hall and occupied a front bench.

With general elections in Bangladesh not far away, the timing of the Shahbag square secularist agitation in Bangladesh, regarded by some as the South Asian equivalent of Cairo’s Tahrir Square, has intrigued observers.