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New Delhi - World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick said India's strong crisis management and the sustained global demand from this $1.2 trillion economy is playing an important role in helping the world recover from the global economic crisis.

There is nothing shocking or unusual about the latest revelation by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) regarding the existence of some 22,000 ghost workers on its pay roll. It may be the same story with the country's most large municipalities although few have taken the trouble to find them out, leave alone punishing the perpetrators of the malpractice.

LUCKNOW: Lakhs of sugarcane farmers have become victims of the confrontation between Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) president Mahendra Singh Tikait and RLD president Ajit Singh on the one hand and between the Mayawati government and the UPA government at the Centre, on the other.

New Delhi: Ahead of the Copenhagen summit on climate change, India has announced that it would reduce carbon emission intensity by 20-25 per cent by 2020 on the 2005 levels through a series of policy measures, including mandatory fuel efficiency standards on all vehicles.

VIENNA - Finance Ministers from eight countries in South, East and Central Europe met in Vienna in support of a unique regional action plan that will increase stability in their country economies and help support their accession to, or alignment with, the European Union.

New Delhi: Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday said that India will not accept any legally binding emission cuts at the Copenhagen summit.

The October 27, 2009 hold up of New Delhi bound Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express for over seven hours by naxals in the midst of a jungle in Midnapur district of West Bengal and subsequent derailment of another train near Jamshedpur in Jharkhand in the third week of November 2009 by the same naxal groups, which resulted in the killing of three passengers and injury to several others apart from damages to the railway assets, have brought on the fore the culpability of the State governments and laxity of Indian Railways in not maintaining law and order on the Railways.

New Delhi: Government on Thursday said it was reviewing processes and procedures at all nuclear power stations following the 'deliberate' contamination of drinking water at the Kaiga Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in which 92 employees suffered radiation.