New Delhi  - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was scheduled to arrive in India Sunday on a four-day state visit aimed at strengthening strategic and economic cooperation, Indian diplomatic officials said.

It would be Mubarak's first trip to India in 25 years. He was to be accompanied by a large delegation including five senior ministers and leading businessmen.

The Egyptian leader is scheduled to meet Indian President Pratibha Patil and hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a Ministry of External Affairs release said.

New Delhi/Washington  - India expressed hope that leaders at the G20 summit would agree on an economic stimulus package to arrest recessionary tendencies and restore normalcy in major economies, news reports said Saturday.

Actions should be taken to mitigate the effects of a global economic downturn, and protectionist policies should be avoided as a solution, India's Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia was quoted as saying in Washington by IANS and PTI news agencies.

New Delhi, Nov 15 : Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh has expressed grief at the demise of the veteran leader and former Minister Ajit Panja.

In his message, Dr Singh said, "I am deeply grieved to learn of the sad demise of Ajit Panja.

Kathmandu, Nov 15 : Nepal Prime Minister Prachanda returned home on Friday after wrapping up his three-day visit to India.

Addressing a press meet at Tribhuwan International Airport (TIA) here, Prachanda described his India visit as ''fruitful.''

He said that Indian leaders had expressed a desire to see Nepal''s peace and constitution writing process proceed in an "understanding" manner.

Prachanda was in New Delhi to attend the second summit of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC).

On the sidelines of the BIMSTEC summit, he met his Indian counterpart Dr. Manmohan Singh and requested him to release Maoist cadres, who are languishing in prisons in India.

Apple’s iPhone failed to woo Indian users, but why, what’s the main reason behind it, is it its high cost or anything else?

There are shedloads of people in the Indian market but no one is interested in buying the gadget (iPhone).

Analysts estimated that just 11,000 iPhones have been sold in the whole sub-continent since its launch in September 2008.

According to LiveMint.com even technology giant Apple didn’t consider that the phone would do well in India. It only allocated 50,000 Iphones to that market in the first place.