By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai:(IANS) Hoping to grow the number of Indian tourists by 15 percent this year Sweden is planning promotional activities in India with a sizeable budget, said a senior official. "Our main goal for 2015 is to learn about and assess the...
New Delhi:(IANS) A new "centre of excellence" that will promote applied research in the field of forestry, fiber sustainability and in forestry management will soon come up in Bhopal, officials said on Tuesday. A joint initiative of the Indian Institute of Forest...
Shanghai:(IANS) The New Development Bank (NDB) of BRICS launched business in Shanghai on Tuesday. The BRICS countries include the world's major emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei,...
Washington:(IANS) China is expected to become the world's third largest nuclear generating nation around 2017, pushed by its national target against climate change, said US energy information administration (EIA). To fight against climate change, Chinese government...
JEDDAH: The Foreign Ministry of Saudi Arabia has issued 5,808,675 Umrah visas until the month of Ramadan this Hijri year through 110 embassies of the Kingdom across the world. Meanwhile, a Jeddah airport official said that things were moving smoothy and that all...
By Mayank Chhaya Chicago:(IANS) Even though the US is making clear that the trade embargo on Iran would stay for some more time, senior administration officials in Washington are making sure to let it be known that necessary "adjustment" will be made in the sanctions...
New Delhi: (IANS) India's commerce ministry said on Monday that its department of industrial policy and planning (DIPP) has taken several steps for greater efficiency in processing of intellectual property rights applications to improve the IPR regime towards...
By Amit Kapoor The acronym BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) is attributed to economist Jim O'Neill of the Goldman Sachs, who initially coined the term and hypothesized their rise at the turn of the century. Today, BRICS together account for 30...
Hyderabad: Hyderabad has achieved Information Technology exports of Rs.66,276 crore during 2014-15, a growth of 15.7 percent over the previous year and nearly three percent higher than the national growth rate, a minister said on Tuesday. Telangana's Information...
By Dr Aslam Abdullah, Every second some 30,000 men and women visit a porn website. 70 percent of them are males between the ages of 18 and 34. Women account for 25 percent. These visitors account for 35 percent internet downloads and they generate some 2.5 billion sex...