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MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Asia has become increasingly integrated over the past decade, led by growing trade and tourism and, most recently, as the region faced down the global financial crisis and subsequent eurozone crisis, according to a new integration index published in the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) latest Asian Economic Integration Monitor.

New Delhi: India and Kazakhstan agreed to explore possibilities of creating direct trade and energy corridors between the two countries. Both the countries also agreed to enhance air connectivity with airlines from Kazakhstan and India soon having up to 14 flights a week to destinations in each of our countries.

New Delhi: After signing bilateral Social Security Agreement with India yesterday, Portugal said that it would soon sign an agreement for visa free travel for diplomatic and official passport holders.

New Delhi: After signing bilateral Social Security Agreement with India yesterday, Portugal said that it would soon sign an agreement for visa free travel for diplomatic and official passport holders.

WASHINGTON - Africa’s farmers and agribusinesses could create a trillion-dollar food market by 2030 if they can expand their access to more capital, electricity, better technology and irrigated land to grow high-value nutritious foods, and if African governments can work more closely with agribusinesses to feed the region’s fast-growing urban population, according to a new World Bank report launched today.

On a day this February when newspapers front-paged Afzal Guru’s family’s lament over being denied his remains for burial, the sports pages had a story on off-spinner Pervez Rasool, a cricketing sensation from Kashmir, who staked claim to a Test cap with a spell that tore through the Australian batting in Chennai recently.

Some events have the potential of changing political equations. They also reflect changes taking place in standards of public life. The outcome of the Moga by-election was among such events.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) toughened measures to battle fraud and corruption in 2012, as complaints reached a new annual high.

Allocation of funds is not the only criteria for a national Budget. Usually a good Budget is a major policy document of the Government prescribing a way forward for achieving desired objectives like economic growth or employment generation and earmarking suitable expenditure for the same. In resource mobilization care is taken not to burden the common man.

NEW DELHI: In his 2013-14 budget, Finance Minister P Chidambaram offered sops to the power sector which are only of immediate requirement. The long-term approach is still left to be done in the sector. The government’s vision about energy, it seems, is impeded by a slow growth rate of the economy, even as it also is troubled by the needs for more revenue generation.