This week sees the unveiling of www.SoutheastAsia.org, the flagship website of the Southeast Asia: feel the warmth campaign to promote tourism to Southeast Asia. Smartly designed and user friendly, www.SoutheastAsia.org offers a unique resource and travel-planning experience that is tailor made for the modern, web savvy traveler.
The website, which is already live, is packed with cool fea
Pakistan's navy successfully test-fired a series of missiles and torpedoes Friday in what it called a message to "nefarious" forces — an apparent reference to longtime rival India. While the two nuclear-armed neighbors have taken slow steps toward restarting peace talks, they also have a history of using weapons tests as a form of diplomatic saber-rattling.
Just how fast can India grow? Ask Manal Farooq, who can't make gloves quickly enough. "We are facing a major problem," said Farooq, a senior executive at Marvel Gloves Industries, which produces 3 million pairs of gloves a month, most used in industrial production in India. "Despite importing gloves we are not able to meet demand."
India and Russia plan to sign agreements to set up joint ventures in the energy industry and discuss ways to boost cooperation in the nuclear power, space and defense sectors.
External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash says the agreements will be signed at the end of talks between prime ministers Vladimir Putin of Russia and Manmohan Singh of India.
China's soaring greenhouse gas emissions are significantly fueled by Western consumerism. That is the conclusion of a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Many of our leaders are awash with self-adulation, reflecting on their history-making approval of the women's reservation bill in the Rajya Sabha yesterday.
The Dalai Lama says Chinese authorities are using repression in Tibet in a deliberate attempt to annihilate Buddhism there. The Tibetan spiritual leader says Chinese officials are placing monks and nuns in prison-like conditions and are depriving them of the chance to study and practice in peace.
Police detained nearly two dozen Tibetan exiles Tuesday from outside the Chinese Embassy in the Indian capital, where they protested on the eve of the anniversary of the failed uprising that sent the Dalai Lama into exile in India. Chanting "Free Tibet," the protesters rushed toward the Chinese Embassy gate but were blocked by Indian police officers who put them in a van and drove to a nearby police station.
India has officially agreed to sign on the nonbinding Copenhagen climate accord. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told parliament the decision implies that India stands by the accord. India, along with Brazil, China, South Africa, the EU and the U.S., forged the compromise at the Danish summit in December.
India needs 400 airports and 3000 aircrafts in the next 10 years. And I need a Lamborghini Gallardo and $500 million in cash in the next five years. Make that three. I really can’t wait that long. Need is one thing and fulfilling it is another. The statement is made by the aviation minister Praful Patel. Not sure if it is a need or a hope. Either way fulfilling it is a tall order because, India is not China.
India's government introduced a bill to parliament that would reserve one-third of the legislature's seats for women, angering socialist lawmakers who tore up papers and tried to tear out microphones.
The protests stalled debate and voting on the proposal.
A stampede among tens of thousands of people seeking police jobs has killed one person and injured another 11 in India's financial and entertainment capital.
Police official Amitabh Gupta says thousands of people forced their way into the recruitment center on Monday to collect application forms for the Mumbai police jobs.
Gupta said some of them fell over each other as police tried to control
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