Career diplomat Nalin Surie will replace Shiva Shankar Menon as India's ambassador in China.At present, he is an additional secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs.China has cleared the......
India's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Nirupama Rao was on Wednesday named as the next envoy to China. She will succeed Nalin Surie who is tipped to return to the headquarters as secretary. Rao, a......
As part of the massive shake-up in the Ministry of External Affairs following the appointment of Shiv Shankar Menon as foreign secretary-designate, India will have a new ambassador to China soon.......
A senior retired bureaucrat met Ranjan Mathai, then deputy high commissioner in London, and asked him casually where he was going to settle down after retirement. Mathai was frank. He didn't have a......
The body of India's most acclaimed painter Maqbool Fida Husain was on Friday laid to rest with full Muslim religious rites at Brookwood cemetery in Britain, honouring his last wishes. Husain was......
The protocol signed by India and Switzerland to amend their existing Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement so as to facilitate information sharing on black money stashed away in Swiss banks may come......
Britain is strongly committed to building a strategic relationship with India, which has transformed considerably over the last decade, Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and......
India has entered into a pact with the British Virgin Islands for exchange of information to check tax evasion and money laundering.This is the third Tax Information Exchange Agreement - as it is......
It may soon become a lot easier for Chinese companies to invest in India as the government is planning to waive the condition imposed on them of obtaining a lengthy security clearance from the home......
State Bank of India became the first Indian bank in China to get approval to start normal banking operations."We have received the licence from the China Banking Regulatory Commission to start......
Critically acclaimed Kannadadirector Girish Kasaravalli who has won many national and international laurels has added onemore feather to his cap. He has just received the South Asian Cinema......
A look at the week's hits and misses. Wazir did average business at the box office while the other release Chauranga was a flop. Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the latest box office......
Members of the Indian cricket team skipped a reception that was to be hosted by Indian High Commissioner Nalin Surie on July 18 to attend a fund raising event for the Sakshi Foundation, which is......
The Centre on Tuesday directed Suresh Kalmadi, convener of the Commonwealth Games, to relieve immediately T S Darbari and Dr Sanjay Mahindroo, senior officials holding high positions in the CWG......