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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.

President Barack Obama's visit to India, both inspirational and eventful, has set the stage for Indo-American relations to enter a new era of Global Strategic Partnership for promoting a “just and sustainable international order”, advancing technology and innovation for economic and socially inclusive growth, and for working together for peace and security and for, ultimately, a nuclear-free world.

The US President Barack Obama came, he saw but did he conquer? It cannot be called path breaking as that of his predecessor Bush or captivating as that of Clinton but on the whole he did leave behind an impact. It was high in atmospherics and rhetoric. Although his visit began on a sombre note by paying homage to the victims of 26/11, the whole country was bewildered by the charm of the man who made history. Obama's nuanced support for India's candidature for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council was the high point.

United States 1st President of Afro-American origin Barack Obama's India visit underpinned a lot of hopes for strengthening relationships between India United States further. Did the visit achieve the expectations of the overtly optimists and bely the hopes of the hopeless pesimists, the traditional US bashers in indian polity.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party's performance in the recently-held local bodies' elections in Kerala has not been as impressive as has been cracked up to be.

New Delhi: India is likely to insist for an extensive discussion on the development agenda which is being introduced for the first time in the G-20 Summit. This G-20 Summit in Seoul in South Korea will be the first one in Asia and being hosted for the first time by any country outside the G-8 group. The two-day Summit begins from November 11.