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New Delhi, Mar 12(ANI): Visiting women entrepreneurs from Pakistan on Friday called for strengthening of trade and commerce with India.
This was expressed by the delegation after they met the members of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry’’s Ladies Organisation (FLO) in the national capital.
The delegation from Pakistan under the banner of Women’’s [...]

Mumbai, Mar 12(ANI): Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has been named the Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
The appointment announced by UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner in Mumbai will enable Tendulkar to use his popularity to raise public awareness and harness support for environmental action in India and the world.
“It is the appointment [...]

New Delhi, Mar 12 (ANI): The Kishore Chandra Deo committee’s fourth report has observed that the root cause of the ills plaguing the National Aviation Company India (NACIL) was the ‘merger’ of Indian Airlines and Air India.
Deo in his report observed that the so-called merger is a kind of marriage between two incompatible individuals having [...]

New Delhi, Mar 12 (ANI): India-Germany science and technology cooperation touched all time high with a visiting German delegation proposing to set up the German House of Science and Innovation in India.
A German delegation led by Parliamentary State Secretary to Education and Research Minister Thomas Rachel is on a three-day visit to India, starting from [...]

New Delhi, Mar 12(ANI): India and Russia on Friday finalized several important and long pending defence cooperation projects during a day-long visit of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to New Delhi.
Addressing the joint press conference with his Russian counterpart, Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said: “We have signed the Inter-Governmental Agreement on [...]

New Delhi, Mar 12 (ANI): Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday met Congress President Sonia Gandhi as he began his New Delhi visit eyeing upon boosting strategic and defence ties with India.
Putin, who is on a 22-hour visit to India, is expected to sign over a dozen agreements with India, including an umbrella civil [...]

Vienna (Austria), Mar 12(ANI): India has expressed concern that more than 90 percent of the world’s opium production is taking place in its neighbourhood.
Taking part in the 53rd session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna, Secretary, Department of Revenue of the Finance Ministry Sunil Mitra claimed that the Indian enforcement agencies have [...]

New Delhi, Mar.12 (ANI): Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is here on a two-day visit, has expressed his concern over terrorism emanating from the AFPAK region and the danger it poses to India’’s security interests, but at the same time, has also hailed Pakistan’’s counter-terrorism efforts.
During a video interaction at the offices of the [...]

New Delhi, Mar 12 (ANI) Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said that Pakistan is a difficult neighbour.
Interacting with the audience at the “India Today Conclave 2010,” Chidambaram said: “Pakistan is a difficult neighbour” and added that Kashmir is the key problem between the two.
“It is no secret that the ISI gets its support [...]

New Delhi, Mar 12 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday defended the use of force against Naxalites, saying it was a legitimate right of the Government.
Addressing the India “Today Conclave 2010,” Chidambaram clarified that it is the legitimate right of the Government to reclaim territories where they have lost control to Naxalites.
He [...]

Chennai, Mar 12 (ANI): All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) chief Jayalalithaa on Friday voicing her support to the Women’’s Reservation Bill said all political parties should ”look beyond narrow divides”, thereby ensuring that the Bill is passed without further hiccups or delays.
“The passage is a small, but historic step in the tumultuous journey [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Mar 12(ANI): Tourism Malaysia Director-General Mirza Mohammed Taiyab has said they plan to draw 650,000 visitors from India this year.
Taiyab said that with budget carrier AirAsia making plans to fly to more major Indian cities later this year and the growing number of outbound travel in India, Malaysian tourism officials are optimistic about [...]

London, March 12 (ANI): Reports indicate that the Islands of the Maldives is poised to build a floating golf course and convention centre in what could be the first of a series of futuristic off-shore developments designed to counter the threat of global warming.
According to a report in The Independent, the country’s government has signed [...]

Shymkent (Kazakhstan), Mar. 12 (ANI): India’’s Ambassador to Kazakhstan, Ashok Sajjanhar, on Thursday, inaugurated an exhibition of Indian paintings called “Kalpana” comprising works of 14 of some of the most renowned Indian artistes at a glittering ceremony in Shymkent, the capital of South Kazakhstan.
The exhibition is being held at the newly constructed prestigious Art Gallery.
Aidar [...]

New York, Mar.12 (ANI): Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai might have described Pakistan and Afghanistan as ‘co-joined’ twins, but experts believe that there is underlying tension simmering between both nations.
Addressing a joint press conference with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday, Karzai underlined the importance of working together.
According to some analysts Karzai’s main mission of [...]

Mumbai, Mar 12(ANI): Rajasthan Royals and former Australian batsman Damien Martyn has rejected claims over security fears in India, and urged his fellow nationals not to be pressured into making a decision not to participate.
The build up to the third season of the Indian Premier League, starting today, has been dominated by the prospect of [...]

Immigration officials have detained more illegal workers near Mildura, in north-west Victoria, after swooping on properties yesterday.
Officers visited a caravan park and house at Irymple, detaining 14 people working in agriculture. They were found only five weeks after immigration officials detained 10 other illegal workers in the region.
Ten of those detained yesterday were unlawful non-citizens [...]

An Access Economics report is talking up the international competitiveness of Tasmania’s call centre industry.
The report found that the cost of running a call centre in regional Tasmania compares favourably with larger offshore rivals in countries where labour is cheaper.
Access Director, Ian Harper, says businesses looking at going offshore need to consider the hidden costs [...]

A 23-year-old man has made a brief appearance in the Melbourne Magistrates Court charged over the death of three-year-old Gurshan Singh.
Taxi driver Gursewak Dhillon, a housemate of Gurshan Singh’s parents, is charged with manslaughter by criminal negligence.
Police allege he placed the unconscious boy in the boot of his car then drove around for three hours [...]

Defending champions Spain proved there is life without Rafael Nadal when it swept aside Switzerland 4-1 overnight to set-up a mouthwatering Davis Cup quarter-final clash with France.
World number two Novak Djokovic won a five-set thriller to defeat America’s John Isner and hand Serbia a first ever place in the Davis Cup quarters.
Serbia will face bitter [...]