The fast-changing VAS industry in India is transforming itself. The content-providing companies are looking at innovation as a strategy to achieve higher growth & revenue.

The rupee, which reached an eight-year high after three quarters of gains, is "still very competitive", finance minister P Chidambaram said.

The government is planning to set up a statutory regulatory entity-Institute of Independent Valuers-to standardise techniques and procedures for valuation of companies when they are restructured or go through a merger or amalgamation.

Climate change that has taken place so far threatens to be permanent. Millions will be at risk of hunger and water stress if emission of greenhouse gases is not cut, according to Geneva-based Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Ratan Tata has warned petroleum minister Murli Deora that arbitrary treating of a BG proposal to develop three deepwater exploration blocks in the KG basin jointly with state-owned ONGC will hurt India's image among the global investor community.

We had to send teams to physically check each of the 1,200 PCs and compare them with the original spec sheet"

Latest PIB reports coming in suggest that India is all set to co-operate with two Central Asian nations - Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan - in the Energy, Oil & Gas sector.

A US marine unit broke international humanitarian law when troops killed 12 people in a shooting spree last month following a bomb attack in Afghanistan, an Afghan human rights group said at the weekend.

ABC Group, Lebanon's largest retail developer, is expanding into Jordan and Bahrain, an example of yet another Lebanese company seeking customers abroad with the local market either saturated or suffocated by the continuing political turmoil. ABC Group opened an outpost

This year the meeting will take place from Tuesday to Thursday in Lahore. The Cairn Group is composed of World Trade Organisation members pressing for further agricultural reform within the WTO.

In a major reshuffle in the Pakistan Army, President General Pervez Musharraf has changed the corps commanders of Peshawar, Quetta and Bahawalpur.