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With the Tatas reaffirming their commitment to the Singur small car project in West Bengal, prospects for the return of their plots to reluctant landlosers receded further.

he Congress party’s angry outburst against Goldman Sachs for linking its latest upward rating of India from ‘underweight’ to ‘marketweight’ in anticipation of a BJP’s Narendra Modi-led government in Delhi in 2014 as undesirable and unacceptable meddling in domestic politics by the US global investment banker challenges the very fundamental concept of ‘country rating’ by professional international economic and political intelligence gathering agencies and institutions.

New Delhi: Businessmen from Pakistan have made a strong plea for accordance of most favoured nation (MFN) status to India. The industry and business on both sides expressed the views that trade between the two countries should not be held as hostage to the political conflicts.

New Delhi: UK has hailed Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s decision not to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) at Colombo.

Globally, financial markets remain unsettled and currencies are volatile as 2003 runs out, mainly due to anticipation of a decision by US Federal Reserve by end- December to begin a gradual tapering of its unconventional monetary policy (UMP) or “quantitative easing”, while keeping intact its key policy rate at near zero for an extended period.

The UPA government is planning to introduce in Parliament the controversial Telengana bill bifurcating Andhra Pradesh on 9 December on the birthday of UPA chief Sonia Gandhi. On the directions of Gandhi, the Congress big wigs have drawn up a schedule. The GOM on Telengana would finalise the draft bill by 18 November; send it to the cabinet and then to the President by 21 November. The President may send it to the Andhra assembly. The State chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has been asked to convene the Assembly on 25 November to consider the bill.

New Delhi: Shortly after the call of the Russia-India-China (RIC) Trilateral for an alternative security architecture in Asia-Pacific region in response to the US plan seeking a re-balance in the region, the Indian Defence Minister AK Antony is slated to leave for Russia on Saturday to commission the Indian Naval Ship Vikramaditya at Sevmash Shipyard, Severodvinsk.

For all the talk about “a strategic partnership in South Asia region” between India and the US, they differ on the critical question: Which party should win the next general elections in Bangladesh?

BHOPAL: With the last date of withdrawal of nominations in Madhya Pradesh over, the stage is set for the keen contest between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Contrary to expectations, both the parties did not face any major revolt from the partymen over the denial of tickets or selection of party candidates for the Vidhan Sabha poll, the voting for which is scheduled for November 25.

Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal has announced that his government is coming up with an Act to debar criminals from contesting elections. There is a lot of confusion about the definition of a criminal, because a common man and an expert have different views about criminals.