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New Delhi: Former Chief of the Air Staff S. Krishnaswamy on Friday stressed on the need to plug holes in the Outer Space Treaty of the United Nations to prevent space from being used to attack targets.

New Delhi: India and the UK today revamped the Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO) at its seventh meeting here on Wednesday.

An enlightened consumer is an empowered consumer. An aware consumer not only protects himself from exploitation but induces efficiency, transparency and accountability in the entire manufacturing and services sector.

New Delhi: A first ever case of human infection with Crimea Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) virus has been reported from Ahmedabad. Tests conducted at National Institute of Virology (ICMR, Pune) have confirmed the presence of CCHF virus in blood as well as urine samples of the patient.

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee held a meeting with Finance Ministers of different States and Union Territories to get their inputs for General Budget 2011-12, here today. This was the seventh such meeting in the series of pre-Budget consultations held by Finance Minister with the stakeholders of different sectors. He held his first meeting on 7th January with the stakeholders of agriculture sector followed by meetings with captains of Indian industry on 11th January, with representatives of different trade unions on 12th January, 2011, with different NGOs on 14th January, 2010, with noted economists on 17th January, 2011 and with banking and financial institutions yesterday i.e., 18th January, 2011.

New Delhi: Kapil Sibal, the Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology emphasized urgent need for finalization of broadband plan including strategy for roll out of optical fibre. The Minister said this while holding consultations with key stakeholders on policy issues related to telecom in a round table conference on the issue here today. The National Broadband Plan including the Optical Fibre Network, as a national resource would be equitably available to all the concerned stakeholders for providing broadband services in non-discriminatory manner, he added.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB), with assistance from the Government of Japan, is launching a first ever remittance investment project to provide safe, affordable remittance services to thousands of Bangladeshi migrant workers and their families.

New Delhi: The Confederation of India Industry (CII) is concerned about the current situation the country is facing with regard to “Rising Food Prices” again in a short time span of one year. The brunt of the same is being felt across India and across all sections of society. In fact the food inflation stood at a higher peak of 19.9% over the same period last year when the failure of monsoon affected prices of cereals and pulses. However its recurrence now even in a good Monsoon year shows the prevalence of a deeper structural problem in the way we are managing our Food security.

BHOPAL: A spate of suicides by farmers in Madhya Pradesh is proving to be a major embarrassment for the BJP government, busy shouting from the rooftops that the state is marching towards a “Golden tomorrow”.

India’s growth story has now been overshadowed by the spate of globally-noticed scandals, out of which a considerably weakened UPA-II Government is trying to emerge and claim some legitimacy for governance which it had nearly forfeited. But there are continuing political uncertainties and economic challenges, internal and external, to ensuring macro-economic stability. A Cabinet reshuffle, long delayed, appeared to be in the making at the time of writing and it remained to be seen whether it would turn out to be another window-dressing or a real shake-up which could be promising of better governance from now on and help wipe out at least a part of past sins of omission and commission.