Phoenix launches Zuri brand of hotels in India
Phoenix Group Global, a promoter of luxury resorts, has announced the launch of its own brand of Zuri luxurious hotels and resorts in India.
Malaysia to adopt nuclear route to augment energy sources
Malaysia is to go in for nuclear energy as an alternative source of power generation by 2020 and a paper identifying sites for installing nuclear plants would be submitte...
World leaders for larger grouping to tackle economic crisis
World leaders have called for a new global financial architecture to tackle the current financial crisis, the most serious since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Ukraine government delays elections to handle finance crisis
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has announced a one-week delay in early elections, citing a need to give the present government to deal with a financial crisis.
PM leaves for Japan, China on Tuesday
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves on a two-nation tour Tuesday that will take him first to Japan on a bilateral visit and then China to attend the seventh Asia-Europe ...
Himachal Pradesh starts voluntary tax to combat climate change
Himachal Pradesh will impose a voluntary 'green tax' on vehicle users in an initiative that its chief minister says is India's first to generate a fund for combating clim...
Books on markets meltdown in high demand
Books which predicted market turmoil caused by subprime mortgages and Wall Street greed, is among the most favoured by readers.
Skilled Indians can bring Britain out of recession: Keith Vaz
Britain needs more - not fewer - skilled immigrants from India to help it tide over coming hard times, the chairman of a key parliamentary group said Sunday.
New York woos Indian tourists, opens office in Mumbai
In a big push to attract more Indian tourists, New York City's marketing agency has opened an office in Mumbai and is launching a promotion campaign featuring New Yorkers...
It is Indian independence day once again in Dubai
Even as winds of gloom swept across the world's financial markets, a group of Indians in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) celebrated India's independence day here at a golf...