2 November 2013

UNITED NATION: India's crucial win in an election to the UN audit body is ample demonstration that it is time for the country to sit at the UN Security Council high table and the global community can no longer behave like "ostriches in sand", India's envoy to the UN has said.

2 November 2013

India and Vietnam on Friday signed an agreement that would pave way for transfer of sentenced prisoners languishing in jails in the two countries. As part of social rehabilitation of prisoners, the treaty, which was signed by Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Vietnam Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang, will help Indian prisoners imprisoned in Vietnam or vice-versa to be near their families for serving remaining part of their sentence.

31 October 2013

Syria has completed the “functional destruction” of all critical equipment that it had declared for manufacturing chemical weapons, raising hopes that it could well be on its way to complete chemical disarmament by the middle of next year.

2 November 2013

Piramal Enterprises Ltd. (formerly Piramal Healthcare Ltd.) has acquired over-the-counter (OTC) brand Caladryl in India from Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. for an unspecified amount.

29 October 2013

DUBAI: Aiming for the welfare and security of overseas Indian workers, the government has launched a special social security scheme at the consulate here.

30 October 2013

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave approval for declaring Bhubaneswar and Imphal airports as international.

29 October 2013

NEW DELHI: Railway Minister Malikarjun Kharge has said India's high-speed rail plans should be guided by what the existing infrastructure can support and not by availability of new technology that may be offered at low cost.

29 October 2013

Birla Sun Life Insurance (BSLI) has appointed Pankaj Razdan as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the company.

28 October 2013

Aimed at providing greater transparency, the Madras High Court comes out with new norms on conferring the designation of senior advocate.

26 October 2013

BEIJING: Chinese researchers announced on Saturday to have developed a vaccine for H7N9 bird flu virus, after the flu strain left over 130 people infected, of which 45 died.

25 October 2013

KOLKATA: Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and Statistics & Programme Implementation Mr Srikant Kumar Jena has sanctioned setting up of a plastic park in Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha. The plastic park is to be set up by a Special Purpose Vehicle called " Paradeep Plastic Park Limited".

25 October 2013

Mining would not be permitted within one kilometre of national parks and sanctuaries in Goa in the future, the environment ministry has decided in an order that could take the state one step closer to re-start iron ore excavation in a regulated fashion.

25 October 2013

A seven-month ban on fishing was on Thursday clamped from November 1 by the Odisha Government within 20 km from the river mouths of Dhamara, Devi and Rusikulya in Gamjam district for protecting nests of endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles.

24 October 2013

China’s biggest power companies have, for the first time, agreed to set up a permanent presence in India by opening power equipment service centres to address concerns of their increasingly large customer base, according to an agreement signed by the two governments here on Wednesday.

24 October 20130

SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo on Wednesday said that it is closing its Egypt office as part of an effort to restore the faded internet star to former glory.