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New Delhi: India has expressed the hope that the two-way trade between India and the Arab countries may strengthen fast to double to US$ 230 billion by 2014 from the current level of US$ 114 billion.

Haryana politics has entered a transitory phase. What will be its future direction? An answer depends, by and large, on two factors. One, the state of the political parties and the form their alignments take. Two, how does the Congress government handles the political and governance challenges.

Enough signals are there at home and from abroad that India would start unwinding its fiscal stimulus, though cautiously, with the Union Budget for 2010-11 that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will present to Parliament on February 26. Whatever the concessions which may stand extended for a while for sectors like labour-intensive exports, the Budget is expected to begin roll-back of a major part of the fiscal stimulus related to cuts in Union excise and Service taxes.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is supporting the construction and operation of a coal-fired integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant in the People's Republic of China (PRC), the first such plant in a developing nation.

New Delhi: India today said that if in the negotiation process the developing countries are brought into the ambit of making legally binding global agreement for emission cuts, it would ask for a formula for equity in carbon space

New York: While there has been progress in reducing the incidence of female genital mutilation or cutting in several countries, there are still three million girls who continue to be at risk each year, United Nations officials warned today, calling for redoubled efforts to end this harmful practice.

Nalanda: The Union Tourism and Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister Kumari Selja has said that it is an accepted fact that Religious Tourism has proven resilience to the pressures of Global Recession.

New Delhi: A conference of Chief Ministers to discuss the issues relating to prices of essential commodities was convened by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution here today. The conference was attended by the Prime Minister, Finance Minister, Minister for Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, members of the Cabinet Committee on Prices, Chief Ministers/Food Ministers from several states as well as senior officers from the Government of India and State Governments.

New Delhi: The Minister of Railway Mamta Banerjee has called upon the representatives of industry and trade to work in close partnership with Railways for the development of Railway infrastructure to meet growing aspirations of people and increasing needs of this important sector of transportation.

New York: The great weight of science still supports the findings in a landmark 2007 report from a United Nations-backed panel of experts that global warming is man-made, the head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said today following recent attacks from climate change sceptics over a mistake in the assessment.