New Delhi, Aug 6 : Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha MP, Rahul Gandhi will today teach his party spokespersons the finer points of energy security and the basics of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
In the run up to this year’s state polls and General Elections (in March 2009), the Congress is planning to propagate the benefits of the Nuke deal to the people by educating the party functionaries.
New Delhi / Bangkok, Aug. 5 : Global achievement of health-related Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), depends largely on India’s success and on China accelerating progress even further, according to a new UNICEF report which examines the latest trends in child and maternal health.
Almost six companies had shown interest in the revitalization process of Indian defence and aerospace industry. India is planning to restructure overall infrastructure of defence sector with the help of foreign companies. Major US companies such as giants Lockheed Martin and Boeing and European consortium EADS has also shown their keenness in the USD 2-3 billion project.
Six leading military jets manufacturing firms forwarded their proposals to the defence department of India. India also wants to buy 126 Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA). French fighter maker D'assault, Russian MiG-Mapo Corporation and the Swedish company SAAB is also interested to secure this high volume project.
Rajgarh (Madhya Pradesh), Aug 5 : Fresh World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks to negotiate a global trade agreement would begin after a new government assumes office in the United States, a senior United Nations (UN) official said.
Special Adviser to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Jeffery D Sachs, said: "Most countries were not ready for a bargain as a regime change is expected in the US."
Talking to reporters in Rajgarh, Madhya Pradesh, after a conference organised by the Gita Mittal Foundation, Sachs blamed the lack of serious efforts by the member countries for the failure of the recent WTO talks.
Dhaka, Aug 5 : Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday concluded his five-day Bangladesh visit during which he interacted with officials of the of the Grameen Bank run by the Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Younus and acquired an understanding of their micro-credit projects.
Rahul was seen off at Dhaka’s Zia International Airport by Grameen Bank Chief Younus and Indian High Commission officials, besides those of Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), one of the world''s largest NGOs.
New Delhi, Aug 5: The Government of Jammu and Kashmir has ordered a magisterial probe into the police firing in Samba District in which two people were killed and 18 were injured on Monday.
The firing took place during a protest march on the Amarnath land transfer row.
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, will convene an all-party meeting on the Amarnath land transfer row on Wednesday in the wake of violent protests in Jammu over the revocation of forestland allotted to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) showing no signs of abating.
Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha MP, Rahul Gandhi will today teach his party spokespersons the finer points of energy security and the basics of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
New Delhi / Bangkok, Aug. 5 : Global achievement of health-related Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), depends largely on India’s success and on China accelerating progress even further, according to a new UNICEF report which examines the latest trends in child and maternal health.
Rajgarh (Madhya Pradesh), Aug 5 : Fresh World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks to negotiate a global trade agreement would begin after a new government assumes office in the United States, a senior United Nations (UN) official said.
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday concluded his five-day Bangladesh visit during which he interacted with officials of the of the Grameen Bank run by the Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Younus and acquired an understanding of their micro-credit projects.
