Having invested close to $15 billion in Indonesia, Indian firms have lined up further $15-16 billion investments.
Iowa's influential Indian American State Senator Swati A Dandekar, a Democrat, who represented the state's district 18, has resigned from the legislature to take up a major position as one of three directors of the powerful Iowa Utilities Board.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will retain DoPT, Atomic Energy as well as all important policy issues and portfolios not allocated.
Rituparna Chakraborty, co-founder and EVP, TeamLease Services explains which sectors will contribute to India's growth story.
India and Iran on Monday decided to jointly combat terror, radicalism and cyber crime as the two strategic partners signed 12 agreements including a "milestone" pact on developing the key Chabahar port for which India will provide $500 million.
Santosh Kaveri, a young inventor from Karnataka, is a sterling example of the 'Made In India' initiative. Find out why his dreams of being an innovator-enterpreneur shattered.
Hours after 21 ministers took the oath of office and became a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ministry, speculation began on which minister would be handed which portfolio. However, all speculation ended after the list was announced.
The Congress, which is in minority in Rajya Sabha, is expecting a major crisis during the next Parliament session as it proposes to get government bills passed.
Drones are being sold by e-retailers like Flipkart and Snapdeal for less than Rs 40,000 apiece.
From linking innovation with supply of inputs to providing contract farming, the private sector can help agriculture move to the next stage of development.
From linking innovation with supply of inputs to providing contract farming, the private sector can help agriculture move to the next stage of development.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday allocated portfolios to her newly sworn-in council of ministers, keeping to herself nine departments, including Home, Land and Land Reforms.
FICCI and Coca Cola India felicitated four Indian Olympians for their outstanding achievement as part of the launch of the 2008 edition of the Limca Book of Records.
Russia on Wednesday said it was keen to enhance bilateral trade with India to $10 billion by 2010 from the current $5 billion. "Russia-India trade turnover has increased by 40 per cent last year and amounted to $5 billion. We are very positive about increasing the turnover to $10 billion by 2010," Russian Federation's Ambassador Vyacheslav I Trubnikov said at a meeting organised by the All India Association of Industries (AIAI) in Mumbai.
This was announced by Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath at the conclusion of the 2nd meeting of India-Russia Forum on Trade and Investment, coinciding with the visit of Russian Prime Minister Victor A Zubkov in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Rediff.com takes a look at the revamped Cabinet of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh:
Hemlatha Annamalai and P Bala's Ampere Vehicles makes e-vehicles in Coimbatore.
'India does not wish to remain silent in improving its strategic space so that its leverage to counter China's expansionist designs is maintained, besides enabling it to play a responsible role from a position of strength for peace and stability in Asia,' points out Dr Rajaram Panda.
However, the biggest concern was the harmful effect that globalisation would have on local industries. Besides, about 60 per cent thinks it would adversely impact farmers and agriculturists.
The agreement on services, if ratified by all member countries, could prove to be a game changer for Indian professionals in education, healthcare & IT.
That Japan put high marquee value on the prime minister's visit is evident from the fact that Dr Singh has been invited to address a joint session of the Diet, Japanese Parliament.
'While economic ties are making incremental progress, it is in the security and strategic domains that the India-Japan synergy is more compelling,' says Dr Rajaram Panda.
The new outreach from a traditionally inward-focused DRDO is rooted in a realistic assessment that the international sanctions regimes have loosened; global arms majors are eager to provide technologies that can fill in gaps in the DRDO's own technology bank.
If you're planning on getting yourself a summer job, listen up! A programme by the US Department of State now gives college students the chance to land themselves a summer job in the United States!
For nearly seven years, Bhatia served in the first and second George W Bush Administrations, first in the department of commerce and then in the department of transportation, before finally enjoying a more than two-year stint as deputy US trade representative, the senior-most administration position ever served by an Indian American, before he resigned end October last year, to return to the private sector.
The Bureau of Indian Standards has decided to authorise non-governmental organisations of repute to lift samples of ISI marked products and get them tested in BIS laboratories at their own cost.
In a surprise development, S Jaipal Reddy was on Wednesday made the petroleum and natural gas minister in the reshuffle and expansion of the Cabinet, which saw the elevation of three ministers to the Cabinet rank and induction of three new faces.Praful Patel, Shriprakash Jaiswal and Salman Khursheed were promoted as Cabinet ministers while Congress leaders Beni Prasad Verma (Uttar Pradesh), Ashwani Kumar (Punjab) and K C Venugopal (Kerala) were the new inductions.
Besides meeting his counterpart, he will also attend the Aero-indian show and have sessions with the CII and FICCI.
Five inspiring women who travelled thousands of miles to Hyderabad recently to grow their business and skills share their tales of global entrepreneurship. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel listened in.
Patriotism amongst Indians is touching a high, according to an online survey conducted by The Nielsen Company, with 89 percent of the respondents wishing to be reborn as an Indian if they were given a choice.
Twenty-two ministers were sworn-in by President Pranab Mukherjee, his first swearing-in since becoming President, on Sunday morning. Seven were sworn in as Cabinet ministers, two as ministers of state with independent charge, and 13 as ministers of state
In the third reshuffle since coming to power, Prime Minister Modi raised the strength of his Council of Ministers from 73 to 76.
Ever seen as the perennial 'No 2' in the Congress, on whose ticket he became a Rajya Sabha member for the first time in 1969, Mukherjee may have missed becoming the prime minister on a couple of occasions, but still he was the man to whom the government looked to during times of crisis
United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday paid rich tribute to late Dalip Singh Saund -- the first Asian American United States Congressman -- and described him as a trailblazer for the entire Asian American and immigrant community.
In yet another trailblazing first, Iowa State Senator Swati Dandekar has been elected to serve in leadership for the nation's oldest organization addressing the needs of elected women at all levels of government. Dandekar, a Democrat, is the new president-elect of the National Order of Women Legislatorsthe membership arm of the National Foundation for Women Legislatorsand she will be formally installed at NFWL's next annual meeting.
Vat Vrikshya -- banyan tree in Sanskrit -- helps tribal women, with absolutely zero formal education, set up businesses.
Shivraj Patil will be the home minister, while Natwar Singh will be the next external affairs minister.
Significantly, the official spokesman of the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement posted on the ministry's website that the new guidelines adopted by the NSG to ban the sale of ENR technology to NPT non-signatories would not apply to India. This unambiguous statement was made just a few days before the Indo-US Strategic Dialogue
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