India's Deputy Election Commissioner Rengaraju Balakrishnan will form part of the 11-member Commonwealth Observer Group monitoring elections in Tanzania on October 30.
Boeing admitted on Wednesday that it would have to redesign parts of its troubled 787 Dreamliner, raising the prospect of a third delay to delivery of the new aircraft would be delayed for the third time in recent months. The company's comments came in response to a warning from Steven Udvar-Hazy, chairman of International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), the 787's biggest customer.
Airline now financially more stable but still in the doldrums as the operating environment remains tough.
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.
India needs to build its Grand Narrative, and its cultural power, which conquered all of ASEAN (then known as Indo-China), needs to be forcefully projected while simultaneously hard economic and military power are also emphasised, says Rajeev Srinivasan.
A list of all the foreign visits taken up by PM Narendra Modi this year and their outcomes.
The 'Football for Hope' match will feature more than 50 of the world's best known players including Real Madrid's Zinedine Zidane and David Beckham.
Ronaldinho and Andriy Shevchenko will lead two teams on Tuesday in a benefit match to raise funds for victims of the Asian tsunami.
Forbes.com editor Paul Maidment says other English-speaking countries are starting to erode India's cost advantage and the Philippines is becoming a serious competitor.\n
The External Affairs Ministry has set up control rooms in Delhi besides Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Maldives, Singapore and Malaysia to provide assistance to Indians in the tidal wave-hit areas.
Indian tourists are getting adventurous and travelling to lesser known destinations.
They're single, wealthy and part of the most exclusive club on earth.
Political leaders, industrialists and businessmen are increasingly looking to tap the resource-rich countries of the world's second largest continent even as two-way trade between India and Africa is poised to reach $70 billion by 2015 from $46 billion at present.
China continued its dream run, winning on all five days of the women's weightlifting event.\n\n
The medals were won by the men's and women's 4x100m freestyle relays teams at the afro Asian Games.
Scientists believe they have come across a new species, whose ancestors may well have lived alongside dinosaurs that became extinct over 65 million years ago.
Upbeat about the success of Focus Africa programme which led to a 36 per cent rise in exports to $24.52 billion in 2002-03, Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday sought more efforts to tap the region's potential.
How much money the Modi government has already spent and is going to spend on all those foreign trips, muses Sunita Iyer
The medals came in the bocce doubles, table tennis doubles and long jump.
Automobile manufacturer Ashok Leyland Ltd plans to cut 1,000 jobs during 2003-04, and to improve productivity through better processes and standardisation, R Seshasayee, the company managing director, said.
American swimmer Michael Phelps needed a little help from his friends on Monday to keep alive the dream of an unprecedented eight Olympic golds.
Soon, the greatest global show will be over. Life will not be the same, probably a bit boring with no octopus, no blundering referees, no Paraguayan starlet or horrible cacophony (though by the end of the competition we will be missing it!).
When Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna visits Pakistan on July 15, he would be taking the next step on the road to reducing the trust deficit between India and its terror-vexed neighbour.
Soaking in the sun in Seychelles or skiing in the Swiss Alps need not just remain in the realms of fantasy for the Indian middle class - travel loans are making their dreams come true.
Swimming pools are more spectacular than ever, and they not only have to look incredible; they have to have great views too.
A regional power struggle between India and China, however muted be it, will be more and more evident as China pushes the envelope to be a greater global player. India must prepare for it, says Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
All five gold medals India earned from athletics at the Afro-Asian Games were from field events.
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