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New Delhi: The outgoing director general of World Trade Organisation (WTO) Pascal Lamy has urged India to be flexible in negotiations and not to be rigid in its position that trade facilitation should not be de-linked from other developmental aspects of the Doha Round.

New Delhi: Slovenia has suggested to work for increasing its bilateral trade with India to the level of $500 million in the next two years.

New Delhi: In a major scientific breakthrough global research team of ten countries, including India under the leadership of ICRISAT has successfully decoded genome sequence of 90 chickpea lines

New Delhi: The Indian External Affairs Minister, Salman Khurshid left for a four-day visit to Germany and Belgium for boosting India’s relations with the European Union.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Oommen Chandy Government is not all that keen on protecting eco-sensitive zones in the state despite its much-hyped ‘commitment’ to protect environment.

The actual amount of foreign funds reaching the country's NGOs every year remains a mystery. It is not known either to the government or the public. It may run into sever billions of dollars and a good part through illegal routes such as hawala. Thus, the union home ministry’s (MHA) latest report on foreign funding of India’s non-government organizations (NGOs) lacks credibility as also reliability in the face of the government’s own claim of knowledge of overseas funding of terrorism, fundamentalism and India’s economic instability.