The media is celebrating Norman Borlaug as a great hunger-fighter, whose intervention with the 'Green Revolution' is supposed to have eradicated hunger in India. Obviously, the real starvation is of the mind, says Sadanand Menon.
The Indian School of Business has launched a global executive management programme in association with leading global business schools.
The Indian cueist went down to Warren Kiamco of Philippines in the semi-finals of the San Miguel Asian 9-ball Pool tour.
Asian Development Bank will, for the first time, tap the Indian debt market in March to raise a little over Rs 4,500 crore (Rs 45 billion) through rupee bonds, which would be used for assisting private companies engaged in core sector.
Expanding its India operations, leading United Kingdom-based global software product company, Misys on Friday announced the opening of its third development centre in Bangalore for its risk management systems business.
The Asian Development Bank will invest $75 million in Petronet LNG Ltd for taking 5.2 per cent equity stake even as ExxonMobil-promoted RasGas of Qatar desired to pick 10 per cent stake in India's first liquefied natural gas importer.
R Karthik Shekhar took the lead to float the Union for Information and Technology Enabled Services in September 2005.
Dr P K Menon, Chief Scientist and CEO, Optimal Synthesis Inc, who worked with Dr A P J Abdul Kalam early on in his career, recalls what it was like working for his first boss.
The Army said possible residues of a tetanus virus-carrying chemical was found in a raid on a Jaamat hideout.
Painting a rosy picture, the Asian Development Bank on Tuesday forecast that the Indian economy would grow by 6 % in 2003 and 6.3% in 2004, and said fiscal deficit of the Centre and states would start falling after the elections next year.
The world's third largest oil firm Royal Dutch/Shell has offered state-run gas firm Gail (India) Ltd a 15 per cent stake in an offshore medium sized gas field in Egypt.
The Asian Games 400m gold medalist said she is recovering well from the toe injury she suffered recently.
The Indian women's 4x400 relay team was also among the medals, winning a bronze at the Asian Athletics championships.
India are placed 11th in the medal tally atthe Asian Athletics championships, with two silver and an equal number of bronze medals.
Harsh Mankad, Sunil Kumar Sipaeya, Megha Vakharia, Isha Lakhani and Ankita Bhambri are the members of the team for the Asian Tennis Championship.\n\n
They were adjudged best male and female athlete respectively in the Senior National Inter-state athletics championships.
With a total assistance of $122.21 million, India stood second to China in cornering loans from Asian Development Bank in the first quarter of this calendar year.
The Wimbledon girls doubles champion said Bob Brett, who has coached former Wimbledon champions Boris Becker and Goran Ivanisevic, has been approached to train her.
The plan for laying a pipeline for the transportation of gas from the Central Asian countries is not dependent on an approval from India, a senior Pakistani official has said.
Gas Authority of India Ltd is eyeing a stake in the oil and gas exploration blocks in Argentina and Mozambique. Gail is talking to Shell for picking up stake in two city gas distribution companies in Egypt.
Gas Authority of India Ltd said on Thursday that it is eyeing exploration blocks in Argentina and Mozambique and planning city gas projects in several countries to expand its international operations.
It was the solitary goal medal won by India in the Asian athletics Grand Prix.
The Asian Games discuss throw bronze medallist will lead a 17-member Indian team in the 2nd leg of the Asian Athetics GP in Colombo.
The Asian Development Bank on Monday projected that Indian economy was poised to grow by 6 per cent this year, marginally better than South Asia's growth of 5.7 per cent.
Life costs less in India, but wages among world's lowest, says a UBS global survey.
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan signed a joint letter formally inviting India to join a 1,600-km natural gas pipeline project, the Asian Development Bank said on Wednesday.
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