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New Delhi: India's bordermen are no longer limited in their duty to guard country's borders. They have taken up the onus of maintaining peace and security and disaster management in foreign land.

New Delhi: India and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement on labour cooperation for domestic service workers' recruitment.

New Delhi: The Maldives Government is in no mood to restore the $511million project for the development of Male International Airport to the Indian investor, the GMR group, even though it is eager for an out-of-the-court settlement of the issue.

The top brass of the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is almost split asunder between two factions. One is led by the UCPN(Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, aka Prachanda and the other with Baburam Bhattarai, who put in his papers as the vice-chairman in June last. The schism was brewing for several months before the disastrous performance of the party in the election to the Constituent Assembly, held in November this year. But it came to a head somewhat prematurely for the party’s disastrous performance in the election to the Constituent Assembly in 2013. It won just 26 seats in direct election (first-past-the-post – FPTP) out of 240 directly elected members of CA.

What does the crystal ball say about the year 2014? It looks to be unpredictable and one of political shocks and economic shifts. Broadly speaking, the past few months have seen many political and macro economic developments, which will be unveiled further in the current year.

New Delhi: India for the first time would be entering into a labour-related agreement with Saudi Arabia for safety and security of Indians working in the Arab Kingdom.

New Delhi: India is slated to sign pacts with the Maldives for protection of Indian business and people in that country and sign bilateral agreement on consular and visa issues.

New Delhi: India has finally taken the decision to cancel the controversial Rs 3,546 crore deal for 12 VVIP helicopters inked with the Anglo-Italian firm AgustaWestland in February 2010, sources in the Defence Ministry said here on Wednesday.

After forming its government in Delhi, AAP is eying on the next Lok Sabha elections. It will be wrong to suggest that AAP would repeat its performance in the next Lok Sabha poll, because it is not organizationally prepared to fight that. Delhi was the epicenter of the movement against corruption and it was the best place to start with for Aam Aadmi Party, which emerged out of that movement. It was a good strategy for Arvind Kejriwal not to fight Assembly elections outside Delhi, which were held in last November and December months. Now it has scored impressive victory in Delhi and has even formed its government by getting the opportunistic support of the Congress, which wants to see AAP discredited by not performing well while running the government.

In the 2014 run-up to the Lok Sabha Election, the ruling UPA coalition headed by the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is left clueless as to how to get back to the slender majority it managed in 2009 to capture popular vote of the people, more so the aam aadmi. After the travesty of its own but unpatented slogan by a new political party in the name of aam aadmi in the Delhi Assembly elections, the century-old party Congress is desperately looking for strategies to erase the sullenness and sulking of the poor people across the nation, for whom the rise in food inflation to 20 per cent in 2013 is a rankling sore that put paid to all their hope of having even half a square meal a day.