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Boucher to succeed Rocca at South Asia bureau

 After five long years as the Administration"s point person for the subcontinent, Christina Rocca, the Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs, may be deprived of the opportunity of......

NRI to head CIA's South Asia arm

 Sumit Ganguly, who currently holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilisations will soon be appointed the first National Intelligence Officer of the newly-formed South Asia......

India can speak...: US on Australian journalist's visa row

 The United States has refrained from commenting on allegations that India denied the visa renewal of an Australian journalist, saying New Delhi can speak about its visa policy. IMAGE: Australian......

Australian journalist 'forced' to leave India for her reportage

 An Australian journalist on Tuesday claimed that she was forced to leave India after the government refused to extend her work visa contending that her reportage had 'crossed a line'. Photograph:......

A first: Obama to appoint PIO as asst secretary for South Asia

 Nisha Desai Biswal is strongly tipped to succeed Robert Blake and will be the first Indian-origin nominee to the post, reports Aziz Haniffa  In what could be yet another historic......

Jyoti Thottam Time S Asia bureau chief

 India-born Jyoti Thottam, Time magazine's senior editor, has been re-designated as the magazine's South Asia bureau chief. Thottam will leave New York next month and relocate to New Delhi. Thottam,......

India powers South Asia growth: World Bank report

 Thanks to India, South Asia picked up the pace of regulatory reform over the past year to become the second-fastest reforming region in the world, on par with the speed of reform in the countries......

India leads South Asia in labour productivity: ILO

 India's labour productivity has had the fastest growth in South Asia between 1993 and 2003, according to the World Employment Report released by the International Labour Organisation on......

India's recovery to accelerate South Asia's GDP growth

 Although economic growth in South Asia fell to its slowest pace in a decade during 2012, a recent study by the UN projects that the growth will recover in 2013.The UN’s “World Economic......

Private banks' bottom line remains healthy in Q1, bad loans inch up

 Private banks’ net profit grew 26.3 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) to Rs 48,982 crore in the first quarter ended June 2024 (Q1FY25) owing to healthy growth in credit and other income.......

Daniel Pearl's life to be filmed

 Warner Bros has obtained the rights to make a film based on the life of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan last year.The studio paid in......

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