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Qatar to invest $5 billion in India ON BOARD PRIME MINISTER’S SPECIAL AIRCRAFT: Fresh from inking a pact on a joint investment fund with Oman, India has also secured an understanding from Qatar for investing $5 billion in energy-related sectors. The discussions with the top leadership...

Obama talks to PM, says Indo-US ties 'very important' NEW DELHI: US President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday telephoned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and said the US-India strategic relationship is a "very important partnership" and the administration wants to work together with India on all...

Qatar to invest $5 billion in India ON BOARD PRIME MINISTER’S SPECIAL AIRCRAFT: Fresh from inking a pact on a joint investment fund with Oman, India has also secured an understanding from Qatar for investing $5 billion in energy-related sectors. The discussions with the top leadership...

India, Oman ink investment agreement India and Oman have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up an Indo-Oman Joint Investment Fund (IOJIF) with an equity contribution of US$ 100 million to fund the multi-sectoral projects. The MoU for the Fund was signed by State Bank of India...

India, Oman planning ‘mighty strategic’ tie-up MUSCAT: India and Oman will work to turn their current bilateral relationship into a “mighty strategic partnership”, according to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. “The political leadership of Oman and India are...

Serve as bridge of friendship between India, Qatar, PM tells expatriates DOHA: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called upon the vast Indian community in Qatar to continue to act as a bridge of friendship between this Gulf nation and India. "India and Qatar have several...

China warns on emissions control China has admitted that controlling greenhouse emissions is a "difficult task" and warned that there is little prospect of an early improvement. In its first policy paper on climate change, Beijing acknowledges for the first time that its greenhouse gas...

UN: crisis must not stop climate change action Tue Oct 14 WARSAW, Poland – Environment ministers agreed Tuesday that the world financial crisis must not halt efforts to combat global warming, the top United Nations climate official said. Officials from the U.S., China, Canada...

Fiscal woes could delay climate change efforts The financial crisis and a deepening economic downturn are threatening to delay efforts to deal with another pressing global crisis: climate change. Hopes for action had been running high since both Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack...

US Counterterror Chief Says Europe Under Higher Terrorism Threat The top U.S. counterterrorism official says homegrown Islamic militants put Europe, and particularly Britain, under a greater threat of terrorist attack than the United States. But he tells VOA Correspondent Gary Thomas that...

Will China bail out the West? With nearly $2 trillion (£1.2 trillion) worth of foreign currency reserves, China is being touted by some as the potential saviour of the Western banking system. In order to bail out ailing financial firms, Western governments need money - and China seems a...

Al-Qaida Has Funds Despite Economic Woes Analysts Say al-Qaida Awash in Funds Despite Global Financial Crisis Al-Qaida, which gets its money from the drug trade in Afghanistan and sympathizers in the oil-rich Gulf states, is likely to escape the effects of the global financial crisis...

Change comes to America Barack Obama, the Democratic senator of the state of Illinios, will be the next president of the United States of America. The US president-elect appeared on stage for his victory speech in Chicago saying "change has come to America". Republican Senator John McCain...

Even if Pakistan will have to pay back a part of this loan and of deferred oil facility, it’s clear that Saudi Arabia alone has solved the problem almost “completely”. this $4bn is even more than the immediate dept liabilities and on the other hand Pakistan will get relief of...

will Pakistan have to return this $4bn? any info? Is there any interest charged on the deferred payments for oil?

it’ not even in the interest of IMF to let the Pakistani economy collapsed because of any default. they just want to make sure that the money they are going to lent pakistan will have a suitable “return path” with at least a “not bad” interest rate. I think...

I would like to ask one question, if Kashmir may come on a solution which would be at least satisfactory to both Indians and Pakistanis, which is mainly a problem between India and Pakistan, then ……………… and then, if Mr Zardari says, India is not a threat to...

Pakistan has to understand that no government of the world is going to feed any other country. there is no king rule in any part of the world, whether its saudi arabia or china, that the king will get impressed with you and will give you a few billions dollars as a gift. all the countries, even...

Manmohan to Bush: people of India love you The Hindu : Front Page : Manmohan to Bush: people of India love you When history is written, it will be recorded that Bush played a historic role in bringing our democracies closer: PM “The credit for ending India’s nuclear apartheid...

U.S.-India nuclear deal gets boost in Congress U.S.-India nuclear deal gets boost in Congress | Top News | Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The odds of the U.S.-India civil nuclear cooperation agreement being approved by the U.S. Congress improved on Thursday when a key lawmaker embraced a bill...