China, widely criticised for its censorship of the media, this week blocked access to 'The New York Times', the newspaper said.

An overwhelming majority of Pakistanis believe the country is moving in the wrong direction and nearly 60% would rather prefer PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif as President.

Interpol Secretary General Ronald K Noble met Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and promised all help to secure details of the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks.

The infamous rivalry between the two superstars of Bollywood- Aamir and Shah Rukh- is once again hogging the limelight with the former revealing that King Khan is 'scared' to work with him. The Khans were supposed to work together for

Digvijay Singh charged that L K Advani had 'laid the foundation stone of terrorism' in the country by taking out Rath Yatras.

The confusion prevailing in the Congress party over the Antulay controversy was underlined by surprise support for the beleaguered Minority Affairs Minister from one of the party general secretaries Digvijay Singh.

After initial reluctance, Goa Govt decided to ban the beach parties on the Goa's coastline during Christmas and New year in view of heightened terror threat perception.

President-elect Barack Obama is set to wrap up his Cabinet choices by naming U.S. Representative Hilda Solis of California as his pick for labor secretary and former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk as trade representative, according to Democratic officials and people

The Haryana government has decided to bring 5,000 acre under organic farming in the state.

GMR Group plans to buy 100-150 million tonne capacity coal mine in Indonesia to feed 1,500 mw power generation capacity for 20 years.

Samajwadi party leader and Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh, steel tycoon Lakhmi Mittal and eminent businessman Tusli Tanti are among those who paid $1 to 5 million to the Clinton foundation, according to a list of donors released on Friday.

There is widespread dissatisfaction with Growth National Product as a country's overarching goal. It has major conceptual flaws.

The last decade has witnessed a dramatic increase in employment within the organised and semi-organised sectors in India. Most of this employment-generation is happening in people-intensive sectors.

Releasing the first ever survey of corporate India's environment consciousness, RK Pachauri, chair of the Nobel prize winner Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change, said on Friday, "If we want to succeed economically, we have to move towards low carbon

Describing militant groups operating in Pakistan as a "threat" to the world, the US has asked Islamabad to cooperate with India in probing the Mumbai attack and try to get to the bottom of the terror network to dismantle them

Borrowing from international markets could now be opened for the real estate companies, the only industrial sector that has so far not been allowed to tap the route.

As steel companies worldwide witness a slump in demand from user industries like automobile and construction amid the economic crisis, the World Steel Association has noted that global steel output fell by 19% to 89 million tonne in November against

With the third largest Japanese drug maker Daiichi Sankyo completing the acquisition of Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, the two companies in question on Friday jointly announced the reconstitution of Ranbaxy's board of directors.

The rupee retreated from a one and half month high on Friday as the euro's fall against the dollar raised expectations of a stronger US currency, but hopes of capital inflows checked losses, traders said.

In an effort to prevent land disputes among farmers and to benefit them through welfare schemes, the Uttar Pradesh government has roped in the services of Remote Sensing...