Florida Department of Agriculture has decided to educating its 40,000 farmers and a number of food processing companies in the state on India's booming retail and agri sectors.
The Planning Commission has suggested an investment of up to $30 billion from the burgeoning foreign exchange reserves of over $100 billion in the country.
Following Hyderabad-based GMR Infrastructure's successful bid for the new Istanbul airport and DS Construction's acquisition of energy company Globeleq's US assets, many mid-size infrastructure companies are planning to venture overseas.
15-acre complex to come up in Gurgaon in tie-up with US mega-realtor
'India is independent, but we've thrown her to the lions -- bribe-loving, paan-chewing lions who sing Hakuna Matata,' says Sanaya Dalal.
Short-lived products create a spiral of wasteful consumerism that raises a whole new set of problems.
'We know many things are going to happen.' 'People should be preparing for sea level rise, for increased cyclonic activity, for drought.' 'One reason I wrote the book is to alert people to the dangers that they face.' 'For example, Mumbai faces enormous threat.'
The Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL) in Hyderabad, which develops India's strategic (long-range, nuclear-tipped) missiles, has dramatically increased the options for its forthcoming Agni-5 missile by making it highly road-mobile, or easily transportable by road.
Singer Falu caps tour with a stint in the Big Apple.
The film was dead on arrival at 78 locations in America and Canada, as well as 40 locations in the United Kingdom.
United States President Barack Obama on Thursday reiterated that the US will remain a steadfast partner for Pakistan as Islamabad moves towards peace and prosperity.The President told the Friends of Democratic Pakistan in New York, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, that he would like to congratulate President Asif Ali Zardari and the member states and organisations constituting the body, for the important work that has been done over the last 12 months.
Before he boarded the Amtrak train at New York's Penn station, the home minister learnt what novel security measures the New York Police Department, Coast Guard and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were taking to deal with possible terrorist attacks. In the wake of the terror attacks on Mumbai in November last year, the NYPD had incorporated changes to deal with similar attacks from the sea and on soft targets.
Bahrain's Ruth Jebet blew away the competition to win the women's 3,000 metres steeplechase gold on Sunday, but narrowly missed out on the world record. Jebet ran a bold race, bursting into the lead after a few laps and setting a blistering pace to win in 8 minutes, 59.75 seconds, just shy of the 8:58.81 world record set by Russia's Gulnara Galkina at the 2008 Beijing Games.
The target of $500 billion in bilateral trade by 2020 is doable, feels Anand Sharma.
Get Ahead reader Sarbani Sengupta tells us what she thinks of dessert chain Mad Over Donuts.
As mangoes from Indian orchards are ready for shipment to the US, Harley Davidson will soon cruise on Indian roads with the government relaxing emission norms for the American luxury bike.
Contrary to what Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told the media, Sheela Bhatt discovers that the decision to execute the Pakistani terrorist was a carefully calibrated move taken by the nation's top governmental and political leadership.
The world will welcome the lofty ideas that have figured in Obama's Arab Spring speech, but the credibility deficit will remain till the US conduct on the ground matches the President's golden vocabulary, says TP Sreenivasan.
In Rio, over 10,000 athletes will compete for the biggest prize in sport -- an Olympic gold medal.
Satyarup Siddhanta has just one mountain to go before he completes the Seven Summits, the tallest mountains in each of the seven continents.
Security experts say that after publicly condemning Pakistan for its role in the bin Laden debacle, threatening it with sanctions and cutting off crucial aid, the US would quietly re-calibrate its security ties with Islamabad over the next few weeks as it could ill-afford to alienate it. Rahul Bedi reports
United States President Barack Obama made a forceful case for presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia, offering a portrait of a tenacious public servant uniquely prepared to continue his work and while painting Donald Trump as a candidate of cynicism and fear unfit for the office.
The credit of breaking the news that Al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden's mansion in Abbottabad was being raided can be probably be given to Twitter. IT consultant Sohaib Athar who live tweeted the operation (without knowing it was the world's most wanted man) he was blogging about is an internet star today. Interestingly, there were others who also wrote about the operation and a reconstruction of all the tweets brings to the fore the loopholes in America's bin Laden story.
'We cannot be the country that created the Kamasutra and then we show flowers kiss and a child is born.'
Christian Bale proves with his newest film Terminator: Salvation that he is no Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Often when I meet a new Indian friend, who is not aware of my background, he exclaims: "So many years in India! but why, why? I can't understand! My dream is to go to the States or Europe and you are living in 'this' country!" Claude Arpi, who was born a Frenchman, looks back on his 40 years in India.
The 24-year-old was eliminated from American Idol.
"India's foreign policy would need to actively promote the building of a qualitatively different relationship with the major powers in the decade thus contributing positively to our political, economic and security objectives," Mukherjee said.
A resurgent Taliban in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley on Monday vowed to enforce Islamic laws across the country while ruling out the possibility of laying down arms, following the implementation of Sharia in the region.The Sharia or Islamic law regime approved recently by President Asif Ali Zardari will not be confined to Malakand division, which includes Swat, and the Taliban wants the system to be enforced in other parts of Pakistan, Taliban spokesman said.
'As America prepares its exit strategy, the fear in Iraq is of a genocidal conflict between the Sunni minority and the Shias in which an entire society implodes,' warns The Independent.
The sleepy fishing hamlet of Hanumanthaikuppam near Puducherry came alive on Tuesday when former US president and Nobel Laureate Jimmy Carter made a brief visit to a site where houses are being built for tsunami victims.\n\n
Modi's arrival has changed the optics of the visit. There is a different demonstration of the confidence level in the Indian leadership, but not much has changed beyond that, reports Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com.
Zardari was confident that Sharif would not dare to come on the roads himself. The Pakistan government repeatedly informed Sharif about the threat of 'suicide bombers', but Sharif was undeterred.
Making it easier to do business is a key element of our strategy, says Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar.
Obama is likely to sign the bill into law, as early as early next week. The momentous occasion for Obama came late Friday night when the Senate passed the American Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act by 60 to 38 votes, hours after the House of Representatives approved the similar version of the $ 787 billion stimulus package by 246 to 183 votes.
In his opening remarks at the prime-time event, President Barack Obama candidly spoke about the crisis confronting the US economy and promised radical changes in dealing with energy, education and health care sectors to create immediate jobs and stop the downward spiral. "At this particular moment, with the private sector so weakened by this recession, the federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy back to life," he said.
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