In cities all over Europe, mayors were fretting about the coming religious festivities. No, not just Christmas lights. They wanted to ensure hygiene and order in the slaughter of sheep for the feast of Eid al-Adha on December 8th.

Banks are reportedly considering a proposal to keep the interest on sub-Rs 20 lakh home loans between 7% and 9%. Price decisions like this will upset purists. But let's consider some facts.

Increased emphasis on regionalism is a prominent feature of international economics since the mid 1990s. Currently there are more than 200 active Regional Trade Agreements in force and majority of these agreements are North-South RTAs or RTAs between developed and

The fate of the US auto industry and millions of jobs are on the line as major players work out details on Tuesday of a plan to extend emergency loans to the Big Three automakers in exchange for tougher oversight.

Speaking after inaugurating a three-day annual convention and conference of Indian Institute of Architects in Bangalore, Nilekani said the new method would help reduce corruption, and enable drawing up of digital database of cities. He stressed the need for energy-efficient

The Mumbai terror attacks may derail Reliance Industries' plans to start natural gas production from its eastern offshore D6 field from January 2009, as several ex-pats have refused to return to India citing safety reasons.

American auto industry's Big Three appear close to securing a bailout, with Wall Street Journal reporting that the White House and top Democrats have agreed in-principle for a $15 billion rescue plan -- less than half the amount sought by

With plummeting commodity market and share prices, mining behemoth Rio Tinto on Wednesday said it is trimming its global workforce by 14,000 employees as part of a slew of measures to reduce its debt of $10 billion by the end

India's first electric car, Reva,is set to roll into Israel soon as a leading firm of the country has been granted the franchise to import the battery-operated vehicle, a media report here said.

Yahoo! has about 2,000-strong workforce in India and it is likely that about 60 people would be impacted by the decision, the sources said, and added that 'a significant number of employees were affected due to poor performance and only

Much before its sack order to 1,900 employees turned into a publicity nightmare, Jet Airways had handed marching orders to 1,000 workers and even managed to keep it under wraps.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi had a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday. The meeting comes amid speculation in party circles that an expansion-cum-reshuffle of the Union Cabinet could be carried out soon.

Demand for steel and its prices have declined of late due to the global economic downturn. Globally, steel prices have almost halved from the peak of $1,200 per tonne earlier this year.

A key figure in the defence of human rights in Thailand for 25 years, Somchai Homlaor is the President of the Cross Cultural Foundation (CrCF), an NGO that organizes human rights education activities and training.

Lashkar is one of the largest powerful organisations in Pakistan. It receives a fair amount of international financial assistance, says Stewart Bell, a Canadian journalist who has visited the terrorist group's camps in Pakistan.

The so-called fiscal stimulus with which the government spokespersons have gone to town is actually a crazy quilt of disparate offerings devoid of any evidence of their having been woven together with any larger design or purpose.

Egypt's top Muslim cleric is under pressure to resign for shaking the hand of the Israeli President, Shimon Peres.

Indian police release names and photographs of the suspected militants killed during last month's Mumbai attacks.

How artists and writers cope in the police state of Syria

ArmInfo. Georgian-Armenian relations are characterized as sustainable and dynamically developing, Grigol Mgaloblishvili, Prime Minister of Georgia said at the 7th session of the Armenian-Georgian Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation in Tbilisi, Tuesday, ArmInfo correspondent reported. The Georgian premier hopes the