The Forbes 30 Under 30 list is harder to get into than Stanford or Harvard University. Meet the desis who made the cut this year.
He has seen his country ravaged by five wars in eight years, yet the Mumbai tragedy left him shocked.
Olympian Deriba Merga and Aselefech Mergia of Ethiopia won the men's and women's crowns in the Delhi Half Marathon on Sunday. Merga set the course ablaze, clocking 59.15 minutes, to set a new meet record.
Pakistan former foreign secretary Salman Bashir is coming to Delhi as the next envoy, which is a prized posting. Wondering why he was appointed?
A government programme aimed at empowering people run by the north-east Indian state of Nagaland has won the coveted United Nations Award for Public Service from Asia and the Pacific region for 'fostering participation in policy making through innovative mechanism'.
A religious row has erupted among Christian leaders, with conservative priests moving to split the worldwide Anglican Communion over liberal attitude towards homosexuals.
Over the last four days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted the heads of over 50 African nations, some of whom have extremely unsavoury reputations. Meet the 10 most controversial leaders who visited Delhi this week.
Paul, who will soon lead a British Parliamentary delegation to India, said: "The CPA wants Commonwealth governments to respond to the needs of people -- to build communities, to address the challenges arising from the growth of urbanisation, to agree a global trade deal and to tackle the greatest threat to us all -- climate change." "There remains more work to be done in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Fiji, but the pressure is on," Paul said on Monday night.
Arvind Kejriwal's strategy to take the pollution bull by the horns needs to be applauded. And I am sure that all the imaginary problems and grievances will be addressed before the restrictions are actually implemented, says Sudhir Bisht.
The 19-year-old will be given the 'National Award for Citizen Diplomacy' at a ceremony in Washington on February 12.
Rwanda's Diudone Disi and Ethiopian Deriba Alemu won the men's and women's titles respectively at the new Delhi Half Marathon.
Speaking at a seminar in Kochi on 'Opportunities in Africa', ambassador of Rwanda to India Lt General Kayumba Nyamwasa said unfair portrayal of African nations in the international media kept investors away from the region. India was in a happy situation in the field of technology, affordable education and knowledge transfer. Africa was also on the move and had come to peace with itself, he said.
The episode came to light in July when certain human rights bodies alleged that UN peacekeepers stationed in Congo's North Kivu province near the Rwandan border were indulging in trafficking of gold.
Indian drug companies have cornered an overwhelming majority of drug approvals under the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
The list, posted on a website link launched by the US regulator, includes ABB, HSBC, Nokia, Unilever, Cadbury, Total and Siemens among others.
Pakistan is much higher at 48th position and Nepal shares the 63rd spot with Italy. But Sri Lanka, placed at 124th and Bhutan (131st) follow India, according to statistics released by the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Even as the domestic pharmaceutical industry is exploring new markets in Latin America and the Commonwealth of Independent States, exports to countries in Africa are declining.
The global epidemic continues to grow with 2.9 million deaths last year.
Stressing that tribunals established by the UN cannot prosecute all perpetrators of crime in a given situation, India has called on the global community to help strengthen the national justice systems.
Asian gold medallist Suranjoy Singh (52kg) and Amandeep Singh (49kg) advanced to the quarter-finals, while defending champion Akhil Kumar (56kg) booked a place in the last-16 stage in front of a rapturous home crowd at the Talkatora stadium on Thursday.
Singh was not really the Kinng when it came to competing with Slumdog Millionaire, the underdog saga shot entirely in Mumbai, which won the People's Choice Award at the end of the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) last weekend. Akshay Kumar's film was one of the 250 feature films from more than 60 countries, eligible for the award.
'Earlier India as part of the Third World fought for the rights of the Palestinians. But oddly the defeat of the Congress and the decline of the Nehruvian imagination has altered such perceptions. The new middle class expresses an open sympathy for Israel, contending that Jews like many Hindus has been misunderstood,' says Shiv Visvanathan.
Injuries to key players have dented their chances of winning a fifth African Nations Cup.
In an effort to allow 19 poor countries to promote growth and make progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the International Monetary Fund will grant 100 per cent debt relief to them amounting to $3.3 billion
Indian-origin International Criminal Court judge Navanethem Pillay has been named the United Nations' new human rights chief, despite some initial opposition from the United States. Pillay, 67, who is from South Africa, will succeed Louise Arbour of Canada who completed her term on June 30.
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The Fifth World Telecommunication Development Conference of International Telecommunication Union got underway in Hyderabad with a resolve to push the world community for faster rolling out of broadband connectivity to bridge the digital divide between the developed and developing countries and achieve the millennium development goals of the United Nations.
India's most wanted man Dawood Ibrahim has figured in the Forbes' first-ever list of the world's ten most wanted fugitives, which is topped by terror mastermind Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. The son of a policeman, Dawood reportedly oversees a criminal empire involved in all sorts of international activities, including drug trafficking, counterfeiting, weapons smuggling and murder, the magazine says. Dawood is also suspected to be behind the 1993 Mumbai blasts.
WTO's new director general Pascal Lamy, who assumes office on September 1, on Friday selected four deputies including an Indian, Harsha Vardhana Singh, presently secretary of telecom regulator TRAI.
Lionel Messi and Alexis Sanchez, club mates at Barcelona, sparkled as Argentina and Chile put behind them a weekend to forget with victories in the South American 2014 World Cup qualifiers on Tuesday.
Indian pharmaceutical giant Cipla will give AIDS medicines at half the normal prices to former US President Bill Clinton's Foundation
Suresh Kumar's nomination by United States President Barack Obama, to be assistant secretary of commerce and director general of the United States and Foreign Commerce Service, sailed through two key US Senate Committees last week.Now the full Senate has to vote on his nomination, and sources said he could be in place in his job at Commerce by late February or early March.
In this era of numerous invisible fences, globalism is the new villain and patriotism the new virtue.
An inspired performance from Douglas Costa helped Brazil to a 3-0 win over Peru on Tuesday and lifted them into third place in the South American qualifying group for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Thousands of people have lost their lives and thousands more displaced in the violence in South Sudan. The United Nations mission and humanitarian agencies are under strain to protect camps and to provide internally displaced persons with water, food and other emergency relief. What flared up as a political conflict in South Sudan is now assuming an ethnic character.
Nilanjana S Roy compiles a list of the most eagerly awaited books next year.
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