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Economic Times. India sugar mills have committed to supplying one billion liters (264 million gallons US) of ethanol to oil marketing companies for blending with gasoline during the next sugar year, starting in October. “In order to achieve the mandatory...

Global CO2 emissions decreased 1.3% in 2009, the first decrease recorded this decade, according to an addendum to an earlier study outlining a method for updating global fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. However,...

The economy is powering on, but the Congress-led coalition is squandering an opportunity to improve India THE weightlifting auditorium has a leaky roof. The athletes’ village has no kitchen. Stagnant monsoon water, abuzz with dengue-carrying mosquitoes, collects at most of the stadiums being hurriedly built for the Delhi Commonwealth games, which are due to begin on October 3rd. The security...

Melbourne, Sep 2 (IANS) Teenage rookie fast bowler Josh Hazlewood has been included in the 15-man squad Cricket Australia (CA) announced Thursday for the two-Test series in India. National selection panel (NSP) chairman Andrew Hilditch, announcing the squad, said that Phillip Hughes makes a return from a dislocated shoulder and wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has been [...]

Indian apparel exporters have warned that rising cotton and yarn prices will "cripple" the industry unless new controls are imposed on the export of raw cotton.

Kathmandu, Sep 2 (IANS) The Bhagvad Gita – containing Lord Krishna’s teachings and regarded as the essence of the Hindu religion and philosophy – is one of the most influential books in the world, but not much is known about its sequel, the Anugita. Janmashtami, Lord Krishna’s birthday, is perhaps the perfect occasion to remember [...]

NEW DELHI, Sep 2 (IANS) Sceptics wrote it off as an organisational disaster and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had to make a personal intervention, but the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games that will bring together 71 countries and participating teams to the Indian capital is on its way to being the ‘best ever’, promise the organisers. [...]

Washington, Sep 2 (IANS) India would be paying 3.8 percent as an administrative fee for all military hardware and systems acquired from the United States under its Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme. This fee is actually the same for every country for all FMS deals, effective from August 2006, and is charged to facilitate discussions [...]

Weir Group is set to double business in India after swallowing a fast-growing valves business based in the subcontinent for an eight-figure sum.

Indian cities are getting bigger and there is a growing need for more housing, business space and public facilities.

Johannesburg, Sep 2 (IANS) India and South Africa are trying to strengthen trade links, constituting sector-specific task forces to jointly explore business opportunities and putting on the fast track mutually beneficial trade agreements. A business delegation, led by Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and comprising top executives from India Inc like Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata, [...]

NEW DELHI, Sep 2 (IANS) After successful stints at Istanbul and England, the Indian rugby team will leave Thursday night for the Shanghai Sevens tournament scheduled Sep 4-5 in Shanghai. The two-day tournament features the top 12 teams of Asia featuring Japan, Malaysia, Korea and Sri Lanka among other Rugby powerhouses. The Indian team has [...]

The Foreign Office said it would oppose any proposal to single out Britons of Pakistani origin. Well, it's no longer just a proposal I recently drew attention to India's new "David Headley visa rule" , which discriminates against British citizens of Pakistani origin on the sole ground of their "race, ... descent, or national or ethnic origin", contrary to the international convention...

Islamabad, Sep 2 (IANS) Pakistan must not let ‘sworn enemy’ India join the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan gas pipeline project to prevent it benefiting and acquiring more means to ‘oppress the Kashmiri people as well as plot against Pakistan’, an editorial in a Pakistani newspaper said Thursday. Noting that after a long hiatus, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan had revived [...]

NEW DELHI, Sep 2 (IANS) There has been a significant improvement in maternal and child health indicators in the country with rise in institutional delivery and increase in immunisation, a Unicef survey released Thursday said. The Coverage Evaluation Survey 2009 (CES-2009), a nationwide survey commissioned by United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), was conducted November 2009-January [...]

ndia’s economy is expected to grow 8.2% this fiscal year, and accelerate to 9% next year, powered by rising local demand, a robust rebound in manufacturing activity and investment in infrastructure. India’s economy is expected to grow 8.2% this fiscal year, and accelerate to 9% next year, powered by rising local demand, a robust rebound in manufacturing activity and investment in infrastructure. Policy...

How likely is China’s launch of a limited war against India? This is the question that has animated South Asia watchers over the last two days ever since reports about the Chinese denial of a visa to a top-ranking three-star Indian army general, whose operational command includes the state of Jammu and Kashmir, became public. Notwithstanding the very animated media and cyber responses that have spewed...

Red Cross aid workers have faced angry crowds in Pakistan when distributing food and other supplies to flood victims, a disturbing trend that could jeopardise operations, a senior official said on Thursday. An ICRC relief convoy was forced to halt handouts of supplies and retreat hastily in Punjab province this week, according to Jacques de Maio, head of South Asia operations for the International...