A key aide to United States President Barack Obama has dismissed reports that the new US administration has kept the nuclear deal with India on the backburner. Bruce Riedel, a former Central......
Pulitzer-prize winning author and New York Times columnist Tom Friedman bobbed and weaved when buttonholed by rediff.com on why a self-confessed Indophile like him had crticised the US-India......
The amendments proposed in Congress to the Indo-US nuclear deal will not constitute a 'serious challenge' to the July 2005 agreement, a senior strategic expert has said. Robert Einhorn, aformer......
Pakistan has approximately 60 nuclear warheads in its arsenal, although the figure could be higher, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service. The CRS, which is the research arm......
A major priority on the agenda of United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, William J Burns --- who will be the first senior US official to visit India after the Lok Sabha polls......
On April 16 voters in the world's largest democracy started going to the polls, and in the coming weeks, more than 700 million Indian voters will be able to have their say on who should form their......
In his eight decades in the media business, Sir Run Run Shaw has built the Chinese-speaking world's most successful film and TV empire. He was co-founder of Shaw Brothers, the legendary movie......
Six Indian companies figure in the BusinessWeek list of Asia's 50 best firms. These are ONGC, Tata Steel, Reliance Industries, Tata Motors, Larsen & Toubro and Infosys Technologies.With the specter......
It wasn't hard for Wang Ninie to decide on a mobile phone. In early March the twenty-something Beijing entrepreneur saw a golden Nokia handset with a flower pattern etched into the trim, one of the......
Think Big Oil, and the likes of Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and BP usually spring to mind. Yet Asian companies such as PetroChina, India's Oil & Natural Gas, and PTT of Thailand may well break into the......