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New York: A United Nations report released today has for the first time established a Connectedness Index that measures countries’ knowledge networks and links their level of connectedness with economic development indicators.

Freedom of the press and the media in Africa is essential for the economic future of Africa.

On November 2, 2011, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) met to discuss vulnerabilities and policy challenges facing low-income countries in a highly uncertain global environment.

New Delhi: The issue of removal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from parts of Jammu and Kashmir still remained unresolved even after the state Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah met the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, top Cabinet Ministers, senior officials and the Army Chief.

The Union Government in Department of Information Technology has embarked on introduction of Cloud computing (shared platform), the latest IT marvel, in National e-Governance regimen for quick implementation and roll out of citizen centric e-Governance services, notwithstanding the fact that National e-Governance Division in the IT Department is not aware of the suitability of applicability of cloud computing for e-Governance.

New Delhi: Expectations have peaked to high levels about normalizations of trade relations between India and Pakistan as the commerce secretaries of the two countries began their sixth round of two-day talks here on Monday.

New Delhi: India has made a significant contribution to vaccine development. Its market size is now valued at $ 900 million.

New Delhi: The US has apologised to the former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam for subjecting him to frisking at New York's JFK Airport, an incident that had provoked sharp reactions from the people of India forcing the Government to seek clarification.

BHOPAL: While the Congress has initiated a number of steps to expose, what it calls the ‘misdeeds’ of the BJP-led MP government, a major scandal, involving bigwigs of the government, has hit the headlines in a section of the media.

NEW DELHI: India is taking a big interest in linking South Asia to Central Asia and this has assumed importance to India both for political and economic reasons. The latest summit of SAARC members at Addu in Maldives on November 11 and 12 underlined the supreme need for regional economic cooperation between the South Asian countries and the focus was on better connectivity and transit routes.