How Obama can strengthen ties with India

After the Congress secured an unexpected victory at the recently held Lok Sabha polls, United States President Barack Obama issued a statement, saying he looks forward to "continuing to work with......

India to raise transit issue for SAARC summit

India is expected to raise transit and transhipment issue for transporting and trafficking men and materials between North-Eastern Regionand rest of the country via Bangladesh when Prime Minister......

Beware! China, Pakistan's Bangladesh Games

Bangladesh is in turmoil, which is not good news for India, which shares a porous 4,000 km border with it. There is a danger of fundamentalism growing there, and India has to move in to reset its......

SAARC has many things to offer, says US

On the eve of the 15th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation to be held in Colombo August 2-3, the US has said it does not believe SAARC is ineffectual and irrelevant and......

India mulls concessions for Asean free trade pact

India is considering making concessions on the five-year "standstill" period for duty cuts on crude and refined palm oil, pepper and black tea imports in its proposed free trade agreement with the......

India to go slow on trade agreements

India has decided to go slow on preferential and free trade agreements following protests from domestic industry. The finance ministry has also raised the issue of revenue loss due to such trade......

Indo-Myanmar trade: India adds 22 new items

India has added 22 commodities such as agricultural tools, bicycle, coal and garments in the list of items for border trade with Myanmar to boost the two-way commerce between the......

India signs free trade pact with ASEAN

Ending months of uncertainty, India and the 10-nation Association of South East Asian Nations signed on Thursday a crucial trade pact that will break duty barriers in the 1.7 billion consumer......