The US appears to be using the Indo-US nuclear deal as a vehicle to facilitate a formal entry for the US National Nuclear Security Administration, widely suspected to be involved in a variety of covert nuclear interventions, into India

The central bank has also left the Bank Rate and the Cash Reserve Ratio unchanged at 6 per cent and 5 per cent, respectively, in the annual policy announcement 2007 released on Tuesday.

The 77th Annual General Meeting of the BCCI is set to be a tame affair after reigning president and three of his confidantes were declared elected unopposed for a two-year term.

The official panel on value added tax decided on Thursday to ask the Centre to cut Central Sales Tax, imposed on inter-state movement in goods, to three per cent from the current four per cent from October.

A powerful House of Representatives committee has voted overwhelmingly to block Dubai Ports World from managing six US ports, moving closer to a showdown with the White House over the deal.

The BJP alleges that the U C Banerjee Committee Report, which described the train fire as an accident, was made public with an eye on the polls.

Chidambaram's Budget speech.

Profiles of ministers

It has been advanced in view of the impending elections in four states.

The rush for these visas before the limit runs out is apparent from the fact that while 3,302 such visas were available on November 29, 2005 only 1,364 visas remain on offer at present.

Government should focus on achieving 12 per cent growth in manufacturing if the GDP has to grow by 8-9 per cent or higher on a sustainable basis

Manmohan Singh has mooted a 'specific financing window' for the ambitious Rs 174,000 crore Bharat Nirman Programme aimed at giving a new deal to rural India.

Legislation with respect to outsourcing were introduced in nearly all the 50 US states as well as in the Congress and there is little to indicate that this legislative trend is going to stop, a new study has indicated.

A political floor fight is expected over the budget package that has provisions to make available thousands of green cards for new permanent immigrants.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted in favour of raising the H1B visa limit from 65,000 to 95,000.

If Pakistan does not cohere as a modern, more or less centrist state, if the army loses its grip, and if regional separatist and radical Islamists grow in influence, Pakistan could become a grave threat to the United States and its neighbours.

Saki Naka disaster could have been avoided

Private companies coming up with mega projects may have to bring in minimum 51 per cent equity in order to avail the proposed 'viability gap funding' scheme for which government has earmarked Rs 1,500 crore (Rs 15 billion) this fiscal.

'If a person is tortured in custody the flag of civilisation must fly at half mast,' says National Human Rights \nCommission Chairman Justice A S Anand.