Saudi, India to boost defence tie-upSaudi Arabia and India plan to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a defence alliance during the visit of Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense, to New Delhi next month, a report said. More… |
Saudi-India to hold trade talksSaudi Arabia and India are set to discuss trade and economic issues at a meeting of top ministers in the kingdom, said a report. The Minister of Commerce and Industry Tawfiq Al-Rabiah and the Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram More… |
India budget calls for tough choices; spending upIndia must make tough spending choices, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Thursday, even as he unveiled a bigger-than-expected outlay for the coming fiscal year in one of the most highly anticipated Indian budgets of recent years. More… |
Chidambaram, India's new home ministerFinance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram will leave his job to become India's new home minister after the resignation of Shivraj Patil in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, the government said on Sunday. Widely criticised after a series of ea More… |
Power shift talk premature says IndiaThe World Economic Forum’s 23rd India Economic Summit, held in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), opened in New Delhi yesterday, amid warnings by business and political leaders of a backlash against globalisation as emerg More… |