India plans to double the size of its diplomatic corps within five years, reflecting the country's aspirations to play a leading role in global affairs.

As part of Ford Motor Company's crack research and development team, he helped the US car maker launch its popular hybrid car Excape.

We have written to all the companies in which we have nominee-directors, asking them not to give Esops," said LIC managing director D K Mehrotra. He said there were more than 100 companies in which LIC had nominee-directors.

But contrary to conventional wisdom, the share of hedge funds in total PN investments in the Indian stock markets could be as little as 8-9 per cent.

In a communiqué to the Bombay Stock Exchange, the Rs 700-crore company said the Registrar of Companies, Maharashtra, approved the name change.

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Lebanon's three major cement producers have launched direct deliveries of cement to builders in an attempt to counteract spiraling retail prices driven up by smuggling to Syria. The last producer to commence direct deliveries, Cimenterie Nationale (CN), has taken the

A total number of 14,165 posts of officers and 20,432 posts of Personnel Below Officer Rank (PBORs) are presently vacant in the Armed Forces.

The Board of Approvals for special economic zones has deferred its decision on the Navi Mumbai SEZ.

Facing resistance from people who are likely to get displaced by its mega steel project near Paradip, South Korean steel major Posco is looking at "other options".

GAIL (India) Ltd is in talks with US energy major Exxon for importing 5 million tons of liquefied natural gas at Dabhol, company chairman U D Choubey said on Wednesday.

When AME Info was confronted by both an Elvis Presley lookalike and a giant walking, talking Statue of Liberty at Qatar Airways' stand at the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai last week, it was a fair bet to assume the

SAN JOSE, Calif., - May 9, 2007 - Cisco® today announced, with the support of salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), the availability of the Cisco Unified CallConnector for salesforce.com. The fully integrated Cisco Unified Communications and Salesforce customer relationship management (CRM) solution is

Clearing speculations on its entry into India, the world's biggest coffee chain Starbucks Coffee International said on Wednesday it will open its first store in India by the end of this year.

Tokyo, Japan, May 8, 2007 - (JCN Newswire) - GS Yuasa Corporation (TSE: 6674), Mitsubishi Corporation (TSE: 8058), and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (TSE: 7211) have begun collaboration on establishing a joint venture company to manufacture large capacity and high performance

Tokyo, Japan, May 8, 2007 - (JCN Newswire) - Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; TSE: 4004) has reported results for the first quarter of 2007 (January 1 - March 31). The Company recorded an 11.5% increase in net sales over the

Tokyo, Japan, May 8, 2007 - (JCN Newswire) - Asahi Kasei Corporation (TSE: 3407; ADR: AHKSY) has announced consolidated results for the full year ending March 31, 2007. Consolidated net sales grew by JPY 125.2 billion from a year ago

Tokyo, Japan, May 8, 2007 - (JCN Newswire) - CyberAgent, Inc. (TSE: 4751), a Tokyo-based leader in Internet media markets, has reported consolidated results for the first half ended March 31, 2007, with net sales rising 38.0% on the first

The Board of Approvals on Wednesday gave final clearance to 15 Special Economic Zones but deferred a decision on the Navi Mumbai zone promoted by Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani and Anand Jain.