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With general elections approaching in Bangladesh, both the ruling Awami League (AL) and the major opposition party the BNP, need to redefine their perceptions about India, their biggest regional neighbour.

Can there be a secular front or a third front without the Congress? Certainly not. Similarly, coming together of anti-Congress forces is irrelevant if it excludes the BJP. Therefore, efforts last week of forming anti-Congress and anti-BJP front to fight communalism appeared to be a futile exercise. Now that the idea of third front proved to be a non-starter, the secular voters may like the leaders of 14 non-BJP, non-Congress parties, to challenge Narendra Modi, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate. They can also fight the threat posed by fascism, communalism and terrorism.

New Delhi: India has declared Cyprus as a Notified Jurisdictional Area under Section 94 (a) of the Income-Tax Act in notification issued on recently. Now all parties to transaction with a person in Cyprus shall be treated as Associated Enterprises and the transaction shall be treated as an International Transaction resulting in application of Transfer-Pricing Regulations including maintenance of documentations.

The Indian pharmaceutical market (IPM) is currently valued at Rs. 72,069 crore as against Rs. 65,654 crore in 2012. Though the market value has seen an increase, the sector overall has experienced a slowdown with its growth going down to 9.8% from 16.6% in 2012. This slowdown can be attributed to the new drug pricing policy and the regulatory interventions over the last year, according to the CII–PwC report, ‘India Pharma Inc; Changing Landscape of Indian Pharma Industry’.

NEW DELHI: Despite improvement in the political relations between India and Iran following the installation of a new Iranian President, the delicate issue of finding out a foolproof mechanism for crude oil payment by India to Iran, still remains elusive.

New Delhi: India and Vietnam has signed a bilateral treaty for transfer of sentenced prisoners of both countries languishing in each other’s jails.

It seems India is not on the same page with its regional neighbours when it comes to setting up the proposed Bangladesh-China-Myanmar-India (BMIC) economic corridor.

When a stock market suddenly flares up without any good economic reason, it may be time not to rejoice but to seriously worry. Over US$3 billion in hot foreign funds had entered the Indian stock market in just about 30 days of trading, i.e., or on an average $100 million a day till the week ended October 26. Thanks to the massive infusion of funds during this period by foreign financial institutions (FIIs), which effectively control the country’s stock market, the premier Bombay stock exchange’s (BSE) 30-share sensitive index (Sensex) ballooned over 2,000 points to play hide-and-seek around the psychologically important 21,000-mark after a gap of three long years.

When the world is gearing up ensure gender safety and security and empowerment of women, it is shocking to learn that everyday 20,000 girls below the age of 18 give birth in developing countries. There are over 600 million girls in the world today, more than 500 million of them in developing countries.

Domestic compulsions seem to be playing a big role in the neighbourhood foreign policy of both India and Sri Lanka. The CHOGM meeting to be hosted by Sri Lanka from 15 to 17 November has become a test case with a question mark about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh participating in it. Prince Charles will represent Queen Elizabeth II as the head of the Commonwealth at the Colombo meet.