China on Friday acknowledged for the first time that police had shot at and wounded four rioters in a Tibetan-inhabited area in southwestern Sichuan province, where protests broke out after anti-Beijing demonstrations in the restive Lhasa.
The main impediment for Lebanese banks remains their high direct exposure to the risks inherent in operating in the Republic of Lebanon, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services noted in a report titled "Lebanese Banks Plant Cedars Abroad While Resisting The
Egypt will become the main supplier of electricity to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, which now depends mainly on Israel for its power supplies, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram said on Friday. "Egypt has decided to implement a project aiming to increase
According to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the world wide web, it will be rather different to the cyberspace of today. He envisages an internet in which all information, applications and data are seamlessly linked and interwoven
As the official hunt began for the rogue traders who tried to bring down Britain's biggest mortgage lender, HBOS, The Daily Telegraph can reveal a whistleblower's account of how a multi-billion pound fund allegedly used illegal tactics to drive down
The agreements were signed for blocks in the Western Desert and in the offshore East Mediterranean. Under the agreement, the GSPC will have to drill 20 wells and invest some 470 million dollars in oil and gas exploration. The agreement
The big foray is being pushed through its entertainment and content production arm Reliance Entertainment Ltd, which is already intoproduction and distribution of films, FM radio, Internet and television content. Sources in the company said that the application for new
Councillor Andrew Carter, Leader of the Leeds City Council, inaugurated the branch on Thursday. ICICI, which opened its first bank in the UK in 2003, has branches currently in London, the Midlands and Manchester.
The English media, which accounts for only 15% of the total newspaper market and has at least seven times lesser readership than the Hindi media claims more than half the share of total advertising pie of the print space.
Indonesia has levied anti-dumping duties on hot rolled coils, manufactured by a number of global steel companies, including Essar and JSW of India, according to a report.
JD Power & Associates, the California-based global marketing information services firm, has presented the Founders' Award to Jagdish Khattar, former managing director of Maruti Suzuki India.
External affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to meet US President George W Bush on Monday and brief him on the progress in the negotiations with IAEA on Indo-US nuclear deal.
Stung by the criticism over Singur and Nandigram, beside other controversial administrative measures in party-ruled states, the CPI(M) has decided to come out with policy framework that will guide the party in power while dealing with critical issues like promoting
Taking cue from big brother CPI(M), the CPI has also decided not to invite the Singhalese Leftist party Janata Vimukti Perumana to its party Congress to begin at Hyderabad on Sunday.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said the nation will maintain price controls and boost the production of grain, oilseed and vegetables to counter 11-year high inflation.
Describing the situation in Tibet as a challenge to the "conscience of the world", speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi on Friday asked all freedom loving people to speak out against China's "oppression".
Intensifying its clampdown on Tibetan protesters, China on Friday launched a manhunt for 21 "suspects" who took part in the riots in Lhasa by releasing their photos even as it admitted that security personnel had opened fire at agitators, contradicting
India Inc may soon find it a lot cheaper to issue debt paper, as the government is set to reduce and rationalise stamp duty on various instruments. The finance ministry is initiating discussions with state finance ministers in order to
