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Will the steep low in Pakistan-US relations impact India’s –particularly of Jammu and Kashmir’s security environment? Will it also have its fallout on India-Pakistan peace process? The questions call for perceiving the possible scenarios that may emerge on the two fronts.

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) has planned to strengthened its airfields in Kargil and Nyoma in Ladhak with a view to protect the country’s borders with Pakistan and China.

NEW DELHI: China’s recent muscle flexing in the maritime waters of the North Pacific will be the subject of discussion at the East Asia Summit scheduled to be held at Bali in the middle of November this year. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will be attending the Summit just after returning from the SAARC summit at Maldives.

New Delhi: Indian business community has become upbeat with the promises of better trade relations between India and Pakistan.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is helping the Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) to improve the quality and coverage of its rural health services.

The ignorance of the politicians about technology development and application is proverbial. The attitude of the administrative bureaucracy on which the politicians in power in India depend for policy-making is malicious towards technocracy. Research & Development (R&D) has, therefore, been retarded and distorted. India has indeed gone through many ups and downs in R&D in its development perspective after gaining political independence. But position on R&D has gravely worsened in the era of market-oriented economic growth policy.

KOLKATA: In some ways the CPI(M) in West Bengal has not learnt any lesson from its recent electoral debacle and its consequent loss of power from an apparently invincible position.

Traditionally different cultures and people with unity in diversity is our one of the most prominent features. Among the diversified population a significant portion is comprised of the tribal people. The tribal culture of India and their traditions and practices pervade almost all of the aspects of Indian culture and civilization which is also very much varied and diversified.

New York: The political transitions over the past year in various Middle Eastern and North African countries are examples of the power of non-violent methods to achieve peaceful change, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today as the United Nations marked the International Day of Non-Violence.

New York: The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) today voiced its concern at the millions of people who have been affected by the floods ravaging many countries in Asia, and urged governments to increase their investment in disaster risk reduction.