Both countries keen to put positive spin on Chinese president's first meeting with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi

New Delhi: Within a day after coming back to India from his highly successful US visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi welded the broom and launched the biggest ever cleanliness and sanitation drive called 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' in the country on Thursday. To launch 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' mission which aims at creating a 'Clean India' in the next five ...Read More

These are numbers being bandied about by the Modi government. Are they real? Where will the money come from? Nitin Gadkari, the union minister for Rural Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation on Wednesday announced a grant of Rs20 lakh for each village in the country every year until 2 October 2019. Considering there are about 2.65 lakh gram panchayats in the country (...Read More

New Delhi, Oct. 8 (ANI): With shelling and firing by Pakistani troops continuing to claim civilian lives in Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that everything will be fine soon. "Everything will be fine soon," Prime Minister Modi told the media at Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha's 'At Home' programme on the occasion of the 82nd...Read More

LONDON (Reuters) - Emerging markets have provided investors with the best and worst returns of 2014, with league tables of mutual fund performance showing India-themed vehicles dominating the top and Russia conspicuous at the bottom. Mutual funds specialising in Indian stocks account for 25 of the top 30 performers out of more than 3,400 funds available for sale in the UK for...Read More

MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India is not considering further opening up the external commercial borrowing (ECB) route, Deputy Governor H.R. Khan told reporters on the sidelines of a conference on Wednesday. Last month, the central bank had allowed foreign lenders to issue rupee-denominated loans to Indian companies overseas.

Despite the collapse of the 25-year alliance with local powerhouse Shiv Sena, the BJP looks set to emerge the single-biggest party in the Maharashtra assembly elections.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investment funds will come under increased focus from global financial regulators, the head of a worldwide push to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis said on Sunday. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, who is also head of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) group of regulators, said assets managed by investment funds were now equivalent to almos...Read More

Bhubaneswar, Oct.14 (ANI): Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that nearly one lakh houses have been damaged in the state due to Hudhud, along with roads and culverts. Meanwhile, the death toll in Andhra Pradesh has risen to 21.

Shimla, Oct 13 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh is going to roll out the red carpet for entrepreneurs to woo investment in industry, tourism and hydropower,. The industries department will hold summits in New Delhi, Ahmadabad, Mumbai and Bangalore in the first phase during Nov 3-7, Rajinder Singh, the director of industries, told IANS. In the second phas...Read More