WASHANGTON (Reuters) - US airlines have opposed the US government's subsidies to debt-laden Indian state carrier Air India for its purchase of Boeing aircraft, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The Air Transport Association (ATA), an industry body, has written to the chairman of the US ...

India at an estimated cost of $13 billion plans to raise a new mountain strike corps and four mountain divisions. The proposal to raise these troops was forwarded by India Army in the back drop of alleged Chinese build-up along its border with India. Reportedly it has been cleared by Indian ...

Indias skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni іѕ game fοr a brain-mapping test аftеr a top affair school ѕаіd іt wanted tο examine hοw thе World Cup-winning captain manages tο stay сοοl under pressure. Thе Indian ...

Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram feels that the ongoing series against England is India's worst performance in Test cricket ever since he quit the game in 2003. England thrashed a below-par India by an innings and 242 runs in the third Test at Edgbaston Saturday to not only take an unassailable ...

Eleven weeks after the annihilation of an entire company of the Central Reserve Police Force in a Maoist ambush in April 2010 near the village of Tarmetla the largest single loss India has ever suffered in a counter-insurgency campaign Union Home Minister P Chidambaram had fighting words for the ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - The Indian media on Tuesday lambasted their cricket team for their poor performance in England, saying Mahendra Singh Dhonis men should never have been ranked the top Test side. India dont deserve to be number one Test side in the world, screamed a front-page banner headline in ...

Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani, has said that the arrest of Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai by FBI in the United States was an act of 'conspiracy of India "that will not deter Kashmir freedom movement". The arrest was undertaken without any evidence. This conspiracy of India is aimed ...

BRIDGETOWN (AFP) - Ishant Sharma grabbed two quick wickets before lunch to give India the upper hand and leave West Indies reeling on 82 for five in the second Test on Wednesday. The beanpole fast bowler exploited a bouncy Kensington Oval pitch and overcast conditions, removing night watchman ...

The US has proposed that adherence to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) need not be a "pre-requisite" for India's membership to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), but a suggestion, or a "factor to be considered". If this finds broader acceptance within the NSG, India's entry could become ...

MUMBAI (AFP) Indias annual inflation accelerated a faster-than-forecast 9.06 per cent in May, official data showed on Tuesday, and increasing pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates further. The rise in the wholesale price indexthe governments preferred measure of the cost of ...

Ending Indias domination of the ICC and dismissing the nonsense idea of having a window for the IPL would top Tony Greigs agenda if the former England captain is given charge of crickets world governing body. Number one, we have got to try and get the ICC right. We have a situation at the moment ...

Japans nuclear disaster has fuelled fear and uncertainty among the worlds producers of nuclear power. For India, an energy-starved country, much is at stake. That fear factor has two main causes. Although nuclear power ranks as a clean source of energy, it is accompanied by the terrible shadow of ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) Indias dreams of attaining double-digit economic growth within the next few years are fading, undermined by high inflation, slow progress on reforms and an uncertain global outlook. The ruling Congress party has long wanted to make history as the administration which ushered in ...

Kazakhstan has announced that it will supply 2100 tonnes of uranium to India's nuclear plants by 2014. Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbaev made the announcement after talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Astana in Kazakhstan, PTI reported. Singh said that India intended to ...

India will take over China in terms of population by 2025, an analysis of the provisional Census, 2011 data suggests. With more than 1.2 billion people, India contains about 17.5 per cent (every sixth person in the world is an Indian) of humanity. China is the only country with a larger population, ...

After taking India to the World Cup glory and many other winning moments in the past, Gary Kirsten on Tuesday officially called it quits as the coach of the World Champion side. Terming the three-year stint with India as a tremendous experience, Kirsten, said he felt honoured the way he was ...

Noting that India and China share a complex relationship, Indian foreign secretary Nirupama Rao underlined that Beijing needed to be more "sensitive" towards India's concerns in its dealings with Pakistan. During her talk at The New School in New York, Rao said that India was not against Pakistan's ...

JASWANT SINGH The Indian Prime Minister, recently, while returning from a G-20 meet expressed his concerns about the future of Indias parliamentary democracy. I share these apprehensions, for different reasons, though. Doubtless, his dire pronouncement is born of this unhappy ending of our ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) - The US may have emerged as a key partner in counter-terror efforts post-26/11, but it has a very dim view of the capabilities of Indian security forces, reports The Times of India. It also felt till just a couple of years ago that India was reluctant to have an effective ...

The United States may have emerged as a key partner in counter-terror efforts post-26/11, but it has a very dim view of the capabilities of Indian security forces. It also felt till just a couple of years ago that India was reluctant to have an effective anti-terror partnership because of ...

The experimental launch of a new intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) Agni II Prime, has failed on Friday after the missile deviated from the trajectory and nosedived into the sea. The new missile with a range of more than 3,000 kms deviated soon after its lift-off at 10.05 am from the ...

NEW YORK - Indian journalists have been accused of wrongdoings in recordings released as part of an investigation into an audacious multi-billion swindle, according to a leading American newspaper. Accusations against journalists range from having inappropriate conversations with a corporate ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - One of Indias biggest corruption scandals in the Congress-led governments six years in power has damaged the partys image, strained ties with a crucial coalition ally and disrupted the passing of reform bills. While the scandal over the granting of 2G licences that prompted ...

The Obama Administration has publicly acknowledged the significant role played by India in the signing of the historic transit trade agreement between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which took more than four decades of painful negotiations between Kabul and Islamabad. Special U.S. Representative for ...

NEW YORK (Agencies) Testing nuclear weapon has not enhanced Indias national security, Indias veteran diplomat and Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar has said, noting that Pakistan also acquired the atomic bomb within three weeks after the Pokhran II, Zee News reported on Sunday. We had a strong ...

Describing Pakistan and China as "two major irritants" for India's security, Army chief Gen V K Singh Friday said the armed forces should ensure the country has a "substantial" conventional war capability to fight in a nuclear scenario. "We have two major irritants. One, there is a problem of ...

UNITED NATIONS Foreign Ministers of Islamic countries Friday deplored the indiscriminate use of force by Indian security forces against unarmed civilians in Indian Occupied Kashmir, and backed their UN-mandated right to self-determination. At the same time, they fervently called on the ...

BALASORE (Online) Indias indigenously developed nuclear-capable Prithvi-II ballistic missile failed to take off during a user trial from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur off the Orissa coast on Friday apparently due to a technical problem, defence sources said. Though the ITR authorities ...

COLOMBO (AFP) Star batsman Sachin Tendulkar hit 203 and debutant Suresh Raina made 120 as India bettered Sri Lankas run-spree in the high-scoring second cricket Test on Thursday. India, kept on the field for the first two days during Sri Lankas massive 642-4 declared, responded by piling up 669-9 ...

MUMBAI (AFP) - Indias industrial output grew a better than expected 17.6 percent year on year in April, data showed Friday, adding pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates again to tame inflation. Indias growth in recent months has been led by manufacturing and services as consumer ...