GURGAON: Advocating deeper economic ties in the Indian Ocean region and emphasis on maritime security, India today pitched for more robust "cooperative regionalism" and said the geo-strategic importance of the area cannot be underestimated."As focus of global economic growth shifts to Asia, it will occupy even greater salience in our strategic perspective," External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said in...
CHENNAI: Seeking to distance itself from the controversy over business dealings of BJP President Nitin Gadkari, RSS today said the law should take its own course and it does not have a soft corner for anybody."And those who are found guilty should be punished according to the law", RSS Joint General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabele told reporters on the Gadkari...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Competition Commission of India (CCI) has received a complaint from actor-producer Ajay Devgn against Yash Raj Films for alleged abuse of dominant position ahead of the release of their films this month.The production house YRF, however, denied monopolizing exhibitors.Devgn had moved the CCI claiming that YRF was using its dominant position to ask exhibitors to dedicate more...
LAHORE: Relieved with revival of bilateral cricket ties with India but that has not stopped the PCB from sending a delegation across the border to "take stock" of the security arrangements for Pakistan team's tour next month.PCB chief Zaka Ashraf told reporters that the Board welcomed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announcement that it had...
NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Thursday claimed S Jaipal Reddy has paid the price for "defying the country's biggest corporate" by being shifted out of the Petroleum Ministry and said this exposed "the tentacles of big business in the appointment of Ministers"."With this reshuffle, the process of putting persons in key economic ministries who are...
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Thursday decided to withdraw controversial draft amendments to the Right to Information Act that had sought to restrict disclosure of file notings only to social and developmental issues.After this, all file notings can be made public except those explicitly exempted, such as the ones related to national security, privacy and protection of commercial...
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan government today set in motion process to impeach the country's first woman Chief Justice charging her with "improper conduct" and "over-stepping" limits in an escalating conflict between the Judiciary and the Executive."The impeachment motion with the required number of signatures of lawmakers was handed over to the Speaker of the Parliament," government spokesman and minister Keheliya...
DUBAI: The USD 1 billion replica of the Taj Mahal that the developers are planning to build in Dubai will be four times bigger than the original monument.The replica – Taj Arabia – will include one million sq ft of retail space besides a 300-room hotel.According to Link Global, the company behind the project, there are plans to build...
MELBOURNE: Underlining that India and China are to an extent destined by geography to be "rivals", West Bengal Governor and former National Security Advisor M K Narayanan today said Beijing's increasing assertiveness on its part while dealing with disputes is "most disconcerting".He also said Chinese activities in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and its "not-so-subtle wooing" of some of India's neighbors...