PM to seek nuclear deal, investments during Japan visit

On the eve of his visit to Tokyo, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that he hopes to strengthen strategic and global partnership with Japan and reach an early agreement with regard to civil......

'63 years on, nobody thinks UN is perfect'

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated the need to improve the efficiency and the credibility of the organization for which the member States and the secretariat......

India and Japan: Limits of convergence

Waning domestic political support inhibited the scope for any dramatic breakthrough in India-Japanese relations during Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to India last week. He came to India in the......

Winds of change may bring India, China closer

China will 'vigorously' implement a bilateral agreement to upgrade Sino-India relations to strategic levels, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has said while hinting that Beijing is open to......

Ladakh stand-off: Railways cancels Chinese contract

Govt has already approached World Bank seeking termination of contract. The progress of the project was just 20 per cent though the contract was awarded in 2016. Amid the India-China faceoff......

Bullet trains? Be prepared to pay steep fare

High tariff and large passenger volumes are required to justify investment in high-speed train projects as these are highly capital intensive in nature, the Economic Survey (ES) has said. Railways......

Railways to get first dedicated corridor for freight train

The 190-km railway line will be between Dadri in Uttar Pradesh and Phulera in Rajasthan, which fall under the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor After 165 years of its birth, Indian Railways is......

3 in race to bag civil work contract of bullet train

L&T, Ircon International and Tata Projects have showed interest in a tender issued by the National High Speed Rail Corporation, implementing agency for the project.The tender is for construction of......