India inched closer to getting a non-permanent seat on the 15-member UNSC with its sole competitor from Asia, Kazakhstan, backing out of the crucial race.
US Open champion Martin Kaymer sank an eight-foot birdie putt at the first extra hole to beat Bubba Watson in the four-man PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda on Wednesday.
Cameroon and Nigeria reached the World Cup finals on Saturday but the last available African berth for the 2010 finals was left hanging by a dramatic last-gasp goal in Cairo.
Talisman Didier Drogba came off the bench to secure Ivory Coast a place in the World Cup finals with a 1-1 draw against Malawi on Saturday.
World's longest-serving ruler, Gabon President Omar Bongo Ondimba, who was being treated for an illness in a Spanish clinic, has died aged 73, a French government source said on Monday.
It also had other suitors like French company Vivendi, Egyptian company Etisalat and even MTN.
The state-run Oil India Ltd has raised a war chest $1.5 to 2 billion and is eying acquisition of small to medium sized oil producing companies overseas.
The ongoing financial crisis, poverty reduction, reforms including expansion of the Security Council, uneven progress in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and Darfur conflict are likely to dominate the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly that begins on Tuesday. More than 170 heads of state and governments, foreign ministers and senior diplomats will participate in the discussion lasting about two weeks.
India was elected last year and its term ends in 2010, but it would be eligible for re-election. Most members, including Pakistan and Bahrain, were elected despite opposition from the human rights groups who said that their record had been dismal.
IOC-OIL have decided to hold 25% stake in RIL's East Timor oil and gas block.
The country's second-largest government-owned oil and gas exploration company Oil India has qualified as a non-operator in the latest round of oil blocks auction in Libya.
The Common Fund for Commodities is an inter-governmental financial institution established within the framework of the United Nations. The fund's specific mandate is to support developing countries that are commodity dependent.
Oil India, the government-owned upstream company, has lined up over $2 billion in the next five years to extend its oil and gas assets overseas
Oil India Ltd, the country's second largest exploration and production company, is likely to offer 10 per cent of its share to the public in October this year, a few months later than planned.
The two decades of our "spectacular economic progress" has side-stepped vast swath of our underprivileged that oscillates between twenty per cent and one-fifth of our population!
Angola and Kenya were eliminated from the 2010 World Cup finals after failing to make the cut in the African qualifiers.
Flying high on the government's initiative for Oil India Ltd's global foray into exploration and production activities, the company will invest around $150 million in the coming fiscal
India have been drawn in along with Japan, Oman and Singapore in the Asian qualifying group for the 2006 World Cup football finals.\n\n
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