Karat slams Buddha for CPI-M's poll debacle

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, once the poster boy of development for the Communist Party of India-Marxist, has come under fire in the party's latest 'rectification' campaign.......

PM goes to Japan, it is 'thank you' time again

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will reach Japan later in the day today, accompanied by a heavyweight business delegation that includes Reliances Industries' CMD Mukesh Ambani, ICICI's K V Kamath and......

Firing along Indo-Bangla border kills kid

In a major flare-up along the Indo-Bangladesh border, a school student was killed on Tuesday and five persons, including three Bangladeshis, were injured as personnel from the Border Security Force......

'India will be a world power'

United States Ambassador David Campbell Mulford came to India in early 2004, a time when India-US relations were undergoing a dramatic shift, and saw Indian democracy in action in the general......

India, Japan target $25-bn trade by '14

India and Japan have set a target of achieving $25 billion worth of bilateral trade by 2014 from the present $10.3 billion even as both countries have signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic......

'India needs a Swadeshi development model'

L K Advani, Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerialcandidate and leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, addressed the 81st annual general meeting of the Federation of the Indian Chambers of......

Divestment door open, Govt tells US firms

The government on Tuesday said that it had not abandoned divestment and assured overseas investors that there were many opportunities for them to participate in the privatisation process."It would......