India Thursday proposed to more than double SAARC sticker business visa to 500, with a view to enhance economic engagements among the South Asian countries. Addressing the inaugural session of the fifth SAARC Business Leaders Conference here, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said India supports any proposal of easing regional visa regulations. “There should […]
Pakistan Thursday said barriers to bilateral trade with India have to be removed. Pakistan’s Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan said other impediments to boosting India-Pakistan trade such as non-tariff barriers, lack of adequate connectivity and transportation, issues of standards, customs harmonisation, communication, visa facilitation, payment mechanisms and dispute resolution need to be addressed. Addressing an […]
Al Qaeda militants killed 12 soldiers in attacks on a police station and two military posts in Yemen’s southeastern province of al-Bayda Thursday, a government official said. “Two military posts and a police centre were attacked by a group of Al Qaeda gunmen who threw explosives into the sites manned by army soldiers and opened […]
At least 30 people were killed and 25 others wounded in the latest wave of violent attacks across Iraq, police said Thursday. An Iraqi police patrol Thursday found the bodies of 14 people who had been shot dead in an orchard in Mshahada, a Sunni Arab village near Tarmiyah, some 30 km north of Baghdad, […]
World energy demand is forecast to increase by 41 percent between 2012 and 2035, with growth averaging 1.5 percent each year, said a new energy outlook report issued by the British oil giant BP. However, the energy demand growth will slow down in the future, from 2.2 percent each year between 2005 and 2015, to […]
A leading casino operator in Goa has said the government’s proposed ban on local people from entering casinos is “discriminatory” and would hit the state’s hospitality industry. In a representation to Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar sent Thursday, Shrinivas Nayak, director of Casino Pride, which operates a string of casinos in the state, also said […]
With the American Embassy School in New Delhi under the scanner for alleged violation of India’s tax and visa laws, the US sought to sidetrack the issue by suggesting that it was not run by the embassy. Asked to comment on a New York Times report Thursday that female spouses of couples intending to teach […]
Reclusive Bengali screen goddess Suchitra Sen, who had bewitched generations of filmbuffs with her grace and beauty, died at a Kolkata nursing home Friday following a massive cardiac arrest, attending doctor Subir Mondal said. The 82-year old actress, under treatment at the Belle Vue Clnic for the last 26 days following serious respiratory problems, breathed […]
NSW Treasurer Mike Baird today said he was encouraged by the drop in the NSW unemployment rate, which is the second lowest in nation. The latest ABS Labour Force figures released today show the NSW unemployment rate fell to 5.8 per cent from 5.9 per cent in the previous month. “The NSW Government is encouraged […]
This Australia Day’s program, on Sunday 26 January, promises to be one of the best ever, with more than 14 hours of entertainment on and around Sydney Harbour, Minister for Tourism and Major Events, George Souris, said today. Speaking at launch of the Australia Day Council of NSW’s Australia Day program for 2014, Mr Souris […]