The 25th summit takes place at a time when confidence in the Indian growth story is intact. Every year as the winter starts cooling the Delhi air, it is time for the conference season to begin. Quite different from the snow clad Davos, which plays host to the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in the peak of winter, the Indian Capital .. more »

Job losses for August and September were revised to show 91,000 fewer jobs were lost than previously reported, taking some of the sting out of the report. While the revisions hinted at some improvement, economists had expected the jobless rate to rise to 9.9% from September's 9.8%. A wider gauge of labour-market slack that includes unemployed .. more »

A US military psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage at a key defence base has been moved to a San Antonio medical facility, the army's only 'level one' trauma centre, as investigators searched for the motive behind the horrific incident. 39-year-old Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an American citizen of Jordanian .. more »

Authorities said immediately after the shootings that they had killed the suspected shooter, but later in the evening they recanted and said that he was alive and in stable condition at a hospital, watched by a guard. "His death is not imminent," said Lt. Gen. Bob Cone at Fort Hood. He offered little explanation for the mistake, other .. more »

London: Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the US Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage at a military base in Texas, had been plotting the massacre for weeks, a British newspaper claimed today. According to the Daily Star, Maj Malik Hasan bought a Belgian-made FN 5.7 mm semi-automatic pistol at a gun shop less than 15 miles .. more »

    I suggest, Sir, that this failure to reflect the nuanced understanding of the problem in the operative strategy stems, to a large part, from the limitations of the government’s administrative arrangement. The security apparatus is one silo within the government, the developmental machinery, another. So even when a .. more »

WASHINGTON: The number of US workers filing new claims for jobless insurance fell more than expected last week to a 10-month low, government data showed on Thursday, pointing to a gradual improvement in the labor market. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 20,000 to a seasonally adjusted 512,000 in the week ended Oct 31, the .. more »

The US military faced fraught questions about the recruitment, safety and role of Muslims in the armed services after a shooting massacre blamed on a devout Muslim officer. About 3,500 service members in the 1.4 million-strong US armed forces call themselves Muslim, and the man suspected of slaying 13 people at a Texas army base on .. more »

US military psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan, responsible for a horrific shooting spree that left 13 dead, was in coma and transferred from a civilian to an army hospital for security reasons, officials said.   Hasan is said to be in critical but stable condition, attached to a ventilator, while many of his victims are still fighting for .. more »

The Commission might revise the growth target by this year-end and is likely to conduct a mid-term appraisal of the 11th Plan. "Our economy is going through difficult period and the world economy will take a year more to recover from the global recession. The measures taken by the Government during the past eight months are aimed at a .. more »

Mumbai: India may not achieve its growth target of9% during the 11th Five-Year Plan period as the economic slowdown and drought would likely take their toll, a senior Planning Commission member said. "We set a growth target of 9-10% for the 11th Plan. Though we began well in the first year (2007-08), the global meltdown impacted the growth .. more »

We set a growth target of 9-10 per cent for the 11th Plan. Though we began well in the first year (2007-08), the global meltdown impacted the growth rate in the second year and a drought this year will hamper it even more," Planning Commission Member, Arun Maira, told reporters here. The Commission might revise the growth target by this year-end .. more »

"We set a growth target of 9-10 per cent for the 11th Plan. Though we began well in the first year (2007-08), the global meltdown impacted the growth rate in the second year and a drought this year will hamper it even more," Planning Commission Member, Arun Maira, told reporters in Mumbai. The Commission might revise the growth target by .. more »

STel, a joint venture between the Siva group and Bahrain Telecom, has announced raising of Rs 2,000 crore for its telecom venture. The company has licences for six circles — Himachal Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir and Assam. The promoters have already brought in the equity capital of Rs 1,253 crore. The remaining Rs .. more »

"We are taking a break," Mittal told reporters on the sidelines of the India Economic Summit, where he was queried about whether he was looking for new international telecom companies to include in group portfolio. He also noted that the effect of the recent tariff competition in the domestic market would play out in the next two .. more »