India might love its soft power, but Indians favour getting tough with the world. A majority (62 per cent) Indians believe using overwhelmingmilitary force is the best way to defeat terrorism+ , while a similar number of Indians (63%) want to increase defense spending.
Human rightsactivist Khurram Parvez was detained on Thursday night for allegedly inciting violence among youth in Kashmir, a day after he was prevented by immigration officials in New Delhi from boarding a plane to Geneva to attend a United Nationshuman rights conference.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday marginally pared India's growth estimate, saying it expects it to grow 7.4% in the current financial year (2016-17) as it also trimmed global growth projections due to Brexit.
Highlighting India as the world's fastest growing major economy despite an unsupportive global environment, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday that good monsoon, GST passage and higher spending will accelerate the upward curve in the coming years.
Keen on investments from Japan to boost economic growth, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday met key ministers in the Japanese administration and wooed pension funds to partner in India's infrastructure development.
India, the world's third largest steel producer, was among the top 10 importers of the alloy last year, according to the latest data by the global industry body World Steel Association (WSA).
Officials from the World Bank Group would be coming to India in June 2016 for the purpose of data collection for its - Doing Business 2017 annual report which is scheduled to come out in October later this year.
In a setback to Apple's plans to open stores in the country, the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has red-flagged a panel's recommendation to relax the mandatory local sourcing norm for the Cupertino-based company to sell its products through the single-brand retail window.
Formalizing a new position that seeks to block India's quest for membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, China has said NSG is linked to the NPT, indicating India could be eligible for NSG membership only if it signed the NPT. Speaking to journalists in Delhi, a senior Chinese diplomat denied it was a "bilateral issue".
Tax experts say the feet-high stack of returns that Donald Trump is posed with for photos could provide significant insights about the presumptive GOP nominee — new details on his income and wealth, how much he gives to charity, the health of his businesses and, overall, how Trump plays the tax game. Here's some information that may be embedded in Trump's tax returns. (AP)
The RBI governor has said that the world was facing a problem of productivity slowdown due to government inability to put firms "out of their misery" and also due to protection provided to oligopolistic firms.
India maintained a studied silence on political developments in Nepal on Monday, even as New Delhi conveyed its "displeasure" to Kathmandu over being dragged into what it believes is "externalising" a domestic debate. Regardless of how things pan out, the latest in a series of events have damaged PM Narendra Modi's big Nepal initiative of 2014.
In an exclusive interview to TOI, former Pakistan envoy to the US Husain Haqqani weighs in on the neighbours' fractured ties and the vexed Kashmir question Consistent engagement or sustained isolation are the only two options between India and Pakistan, says Husain Haqqani, former Pakistan envoy to the US and Sri Lanka."These on-again-off-again talks do not yield results, nor do threats that are not carried out. That's our history," adds Haqqani, a leading South Asia expert and academic as well as a key aide to former Pakistan president Asif Zardari.
Afghanistan plans to take Pakistan to the UN security council over its continuing support to the Taliban, which Kabul says is destabilizing their country. Hekmat Khalil Karzai, deputy foreign minister told TOI in an exclusive chat, that after the deadly Taliban attack in Kabul last week, the Ghani government is exploring the UNSC option.
A court has jailed two Hindu teachers in southern Bangladesh for making derogatory comments about Islam, invoking a rare law from the colonial era that makes insulting any religion a crime.
Around 45,000 people have been affected across four districts of Assam in the first wave of floods, the state disaster management authority said.
Pakistan is "cooperating closely" with India on the investigations in Pathankot terror attack, Pakistan's foreign affairs advisor Sartaj Aziz said on Tuesday.
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