Thiruvananthapuram | 3 hours ago
Create new avenues of growth, development: Shashi Tharoor
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 13 - Asia should take into account the changing world economic scenario and leverage its comparative advantage to create new avenues of growth and development, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said Saturday.'Our endeavour should be to leverage our comparative advantage to build alliances, develop partnerships, create new avenues of growth and developmen ... read more

New Delhi | 1 day ago
India assures support for Palestinian cause to Abbas
New Delhi, Feb 12 - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Friday ended his two-day unannounced visit to India with New Delhi pledging support to an independent Palestine state coexisting with Israel, and a $10 million support for development of the conflict-hit region.Abbas met Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Friday - a day after he had a dinner meeting with Prime Minister Manm ... read more

New Delhi | 1 day ago
India, Bahrain pledge to boost trade, energy ties
New Delhi, Feb 12 - India and Bahrain vowed to boost their $2 billion energy and trade ties at a meeting here Friday between External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and his Bahraini counterpart Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Bin Mohamed Al Khalifa.Bahrain Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid, who was on a three-day visit to India, discussed bilateral relations and issues of common concern with Krishna, external ... read more

New Delhi | 1 day ago
Tharoor meets Abbas, assures India's support to Palestine
New Delhi, Feb 12 - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Friday met Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor who reassured the visiting leader of New Delhi's support for peace and development in the Middle East.'- excellent meeting with President Abbas and - Maliki of Palestine,' Tharoor wrote on micro-blogging site Twitter, shortly after the meeting. Tharoor said he had a 'thorough d ... read more

New Delhi | 3 days ago
India, Bahrain talks Friday
New Delhi, Feb 10 - India and Bahrain are set to boost their economic and energy ties when External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna holds talks with his counterpart from Bahrain Friday.Bahrain's Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Bin Mohamed Al Khalifa will arrive in India on a three-day visit Wednesday night. Krishna will hold talks with the visiting dignitary at the Hyderabad House Friday af ... read more

New Delhi | 3 days ago
India, Bahrain talks Thursday
New Delhi, Feb 10 - India and Bahrain are set to boost their economic and energy ties when External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna holds talks with his counterpart from Bahrain Thursday.Bahrain's Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Bin Mohamed Al Khalifa will arrive in India on a two-day visit Wednesday night. The two sides will hold discussions on scaling up trade and investment and are expe ... read more

New Delhi | 5 days ago
India-Arab trade can double by 2014: Anand Sharma
New Delhi, Feb 8 - India will strive towards doubling its trade with the Arab region by 2014, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma said here Monday.'We will look towards doubling bilateral trade with the Arab world by 2014. We can do it,' Sharma said at the inaugural session of the two-day second India-Arab Investment projects conclave, organised by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry ... read more

New Delhi | 9 days ago
Vayalar Ravi hospitalised in Liberia after accident
New Delhi, Feb 4 - Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi, now on an African tour, has been hospitalized in Liberia after a 'small car accident'.According to a personal aide of the minister, Ravi was involved in a 'small car accident' about noon in Liberia. He has been hospitalized in the John F. Kennedy Medical Center in the Liberian capital, Monrovia. He has been declared out of danger ... read more

New Delhi | 9 days ago
Arab experts pitch for Islamic banking in India
New Delhi, Feb 4 - With the global financial crisis putting the spotlight on 'casino capitalism' of the West, leading scholars and experts from the Arab world Thursday pitched for interest-free Islamic banking in India, home to the world's third largest Muslim population.Tracing the genesis of the global meltdown to 'greed and unscrupulousness' of financiers and speculators in the West, Umar Chapr ... read more

New Delhi | 9 days ago
Tharoor heads for Oman Friday
New Delhi, Feb 4 - India and Oman are set to scale up economic and strategic ties when Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor goes on a three-day visit Friday to the Gulf country which is home to over half a million expatriate Indians.The focus of the visit will be on scaling up economic ties to a new level. An 11-member business delegation will be accompanying Tharoor on this visit ... read more