12 Chinese killed in Afghanistan

Eleven Chinese construction workers were gunned down Thursday in a usually peaceful area of northeastern Afghanistan in one of the worst attacks against foreigners since the fall of the Taliban......

Amid LAC row, India's mega infra push in Arunachal

India is giving a major push to boosting connectivity and use of high-tech surveillance along the nearly 1,350-km Line of Actual Control in the Arunachal Pradesh sector to ensure quick mobilisation......

Modi-Xi throw Afghanistan a railway life line, but is it ready?

Beyond the barbed wire and watchtowers lies a story that casts more than a little doubt on whether this dream will ever be realised. Praveen Swami reports.  IMAGE: Equipment and machines......

Taliban shadow over Zardari's China visit

President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan is on an official visit to China. Thereafter, he will be attending the Asia Europe Summit, which is being hosted by China this year, before returning home. He......

Indian Oil, RIL, Tata Motors among world's 500 largest companies

Image: A worker fills a car with diesel at a fuel station in Jammu. Photograph: Mukesh Gupta/Reuters The world's 500 largest companies generated $31.2 trillion in revenues and $1.7 trillion in......

Tatas, Essar race with foreign cos for freight corridor

After years of planning, the 3,300-km Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) is finally on the horizon, with Indian and global construction companies vying for around Rs 12,000 crore (Rs 120 billion)......

Trade with China: Montek plays down security concerns

Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia today played down the security issues associated with the supply of equipment from Chinese telecom companies and invited Chinese......

Markets make handsome gains on RBI's stance, global cues

  Markets ended higher led by banks, amid firm global cues, after the RBI kept key policy rates unchanged amid inflation concerns but maintained an 'accomodative' monetary policy stance going......