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NEW DELHI: The joint communique issued after the trilateral one day meeting of the foreign ministers of India, China and Russia at Wuhan (China) on November 15 underlines once again that there are lot of hurdles for India to cross before the membership of the United Nations Security Council as a permanent member becomes a reality. The deliberations at the Wuhan meeting has made it clear that there has been no softening of the Chinese stance on the SC membership issue even after the categorical statement of the US President Barack Obama during his recent visit to India. China wants reforms in UN and it will decide after assessing India's performance as a temporary member for two years.

Winston Churchill is credited with the remark that America can be expected to do the right thing - but only after it has tried all the other options. The same thing can be said about Andimuthu Raja's resignation from the telecom ministry. The prime minister should have sacked him long ago. But by waiting till the inevitable could not be postponed any further, he lent substance to the belief that he is not firm and decisive enough - in fact, too mild to hold the position that he does. The inordinate delay has also buttressed charges of the government's corruption, which was confirmed when Ratan Tata alleged that a minister had asked for a bribe of Rs 15 crore in the 1990s to let him enter the aviation sector.

President Barack Obama returned home on November 14 from a ten-day swing across Asia with limited gains for his economic mission of creating jobs at home through exports to the region's fast-growing markets. But he could not get the G-20 Summit in Seoul move quickly to lay down standards for trade and exchange rate policies for rebalancing global growth. That would have been a step toward easing US-China trade tensions However, undaunted by political setbacks at home, President Obama can be said to have solidified America's continuing presence in the most dynamic region of Asia, integral to its own further advance in the 21st century.

Coal India Limited (CIL), the largest coal mining company of the world, created a history in the Indian share market on October 18, 2010 by offering Initial Public Offers (IPO) worth Rs 15,000 crore with offer band of Rs 225 to Rs 245, so far the biggest share offer in the country. Howerver, the company, raised about Rs 15,200 crore for the government. It was oversubscribed by 15.14 times, thanks to the 484 Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) who submitted bids worth Rs 1.20 lakh crore for this mega IPO. The 25 major investors out of total participants of the public offering included big names among FIIs like Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Securities, Morgan Stanley, Citi Group, Goldman Sachs , CLSA, Credit Suisee and the Government of Singapore.

India, known for its rich heritage of biological diversity, has so far documented over 91,200 species of animals and 45,500 species of plants in its ten bio-geographic regions. Besides, it is recognized as one of the eight Vavilovian centres of origin and diversity of crop plants, having more than 300 wild ancestors and close relatives of cultivated plants, which are still evolving under natural conditions. India is also a vast repository of Traditional Knowledge (TK) associated with biological resources.

NEW DELHI: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) rulers appear unconcerned about whatever is of concern to workers, be it their sufferings due to wages, living and working conditions or job loss of migrants, or even if they died at construction sites of the Commonwealth Games (CWG).

NEW DELHI: A study of World Economic Forum on India on coming employment challenge in the country reveals that India will emerge as the world's largest labour market in 2035 with about 65 per cent of the population coming under the working age category. This creates an immense challenge in generating sufficient employment in the country.

He came, saw, listened, performed and conquered the Indian heart with an electrifying speech at Parliament. The speech had all the elements of a theatrical climax after two days of lackluster proceedings and speculations. He said what India wanted to listen. Initially, there was no euphoria about the visit of this American president.

LUCKNOW: Much significance is being attached to the observations of the National Commission of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe about the insensitivity of the Mayawati government towards the rise in atrocities on Dalits.