Tourism minister Kumari Selja said terror threats would not deter tourist arrivals ahead of the Delhi Commonwealth Games this October.
Pointing out that threats from terrorism were now a global phenomenon, Ms Selja said the government and tourism industry were gearing up to welcome sports tourists both from overseas and within India.

Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is exploring the possibilities of setting up joint ventures with Tata Steel and Arcelor-Mittal to manufacture steel.
Last year, SAIL had signed a MoU with Posco of Korea to set up a proposed joint venture

The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Board (MHADB) had received a lot of flak for the software it has used in last year’s lottery draw.

India has sought to keep its trade and energy ties with Iran on an even keel by proposing to host the next joint-commission meeting here within a few weeks.
External affairs minister S.M. Krishna on Monday conveyed New Delhi’s interest in resuming talks with Mr Manouchehr Mottaki, the Bengaluru-educated foreign minister of Iran, when they met in Tehran on the margins of the G-15 summit.

The Sensex and the Nifty swung wildly to the mixed newsflows as the Euro dipped to its lowest (1.23) to the dollar in four years.
The depreciation of the euro is not a cyclical or benign depreciation, said Mr Rugved Dhumale associate vice-president, Macklai Financial and Commercial Services Ltd.

A young girl from Kalyan took her life on Sunday evening at her residence fearing poor performance in the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exams.

After facing flak for sitting over the mercy petition file of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru for over four years, the Delhi government on Monday decided to clear the file “shortly” while officials maintained that “the file is on the move”.

A crisis in the Eurozone is likely to hit India’s export sector as the bloc is one of the top trading partners.
“More than 20 per cent of India’s exports are to Europe,” says Mr Gopal Agrawal, deputy CIO, Mirae Assets. So which sectors would take a beating?

Officials of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Monday arrested a member of the state high-rise committee for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 1 crore from a builder.

Despite the recent expression of bonhomie in relations with China, the government clearly is taking no chances. The government is considering raising of battalions of “Arunachal Scouts” and “Sikkim Scouts” by the Indian Army in the border states of Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim respectively to boost defence preparedness near the