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Import of Pakistani rice to quadruple this year
The Star
| KUALA LUMPUR: Import of Pakistani rice into Malaysia is expected to increase four-fold this year, said commercial counselor for Pakistan High Commission in Kuala Lumpur Wijiuallah Kundi. | In a statement Wednesday, he said Malaysian Padiberas Nasional Bhd (Bernas) and its group of companies have q...
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Air India to lose Rs 5,400 crore in 2009-10, says Patel
Indian Express
| State-owned National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL), or Air India, is expected to incur a loss of around Rs 5,400 crore during the year 2009-10, civil aviation minister Praful Patel said today. | The carrier had incurred a loss of Rs 2,226.16 crore and Rs 5,548 crore during 2007-08 and ...
India rubbishes charge of involvement in Lahore blast
Zeenews
New Delhi: Dismissing Pakistan's allegation that India was involved in the Lahore blast, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Wednesday said it was "most unthinkable" and a "falsehood" that was being spread. | Asserting that these incidents were ...
Incidence of CKD increasing in India alonwith Diabetes:Experts
Zeenews
Mumbai: With the increasing number of cases of diabetes both in India and Asia, the prevalence and incidence of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) are also on the rise, according to experts. | "Number of diabetes cases has been rising and almost 30 to 40 p...
Aid group attacked in northwest Pakistan; 6 dead
The Press Democrat
| All the victims of the assault on World Vision, a large Christian humanitarian group, were Pakistanis. | Extremists have killed other people working for foreign aid groups in Pakistan and issued statements saying such organizations were working aga...
Indian Railway recruitment/jobs/vacancies , (RRB), March 2010, apply online
The Examiner
| Indian Railway recruitment www.southasiafair.com If you like this ... National Thermal Power Corporation, NTPC careers, recruitment, jobs posted Syndicate Bank recruitment 2010, apply online Bank of India 2009 clerk recruitment results Tis Hazari c...
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Ford launches affordable made-for-India compact
Newsvine
| MUMBAI — Ford Motor Co. launched its first made-for-India compact car Tuesday, as the U.S. automaker continues its push into fast-growing Asian markets. | The four-door Fig...
In this Jan. 25, 2008 file photo employees of German car producer Daimler work on Mercedes C-class sedans on the production line in the plant in Sindelfingen near Stuttgart, Germany. Carmaker Daimler AG said Thursday, July 24, 2008 its second quarter profit slipped 25 percent, mainly on charges related to Daimler's interest in Chrysler LLC, and lowered its earnings outlook for the full year blaming a slowing global economy and higher production cos
AP / Thomas Kienzle, File
Germany's Daimler Sells Shares in India's Tata
The New York Times
| Filed at 4:47 a.m. ET | BERLIN (AP) -- German automaker Daimler AG says it has sold all of its shares in India's Tata Motors to various groups of investors through the capital ma...
The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Shri Anand Sharma addressing the Plenary Session of WTO Ministerial Conference, in Geneva on November 30, 2009.
PIB of India
India, US to sign pact for boosting trade
Deccan Herald
Washington, Mar 9 (PTI) | Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma and the US Trade Representative Ron Kirk would sign the India–US Trade Policy Forum Framework for cooperation ...
Gunmen storm US charity in Pakistan, kill 5 workers
Yahoo Daily News
| PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – Militants armed with guns and grenades stormed the offices of a US-based Christian charity in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five aid workers in an attack blamed on Islamist insurgents. | The gunmen besieged the Wor...
Bomb kills five; Gates, Ahmadinejad in Afghanistan
Yahoo Daily News
| KABUL (AFP) – A car bomb killed five people in Afghanistan Wednesday, as the Iranian president and the defence secretary of Iran's arch-foe, the United States, paid duelling visits to the war-torn country. | The attack killed Afghan secur...
Indian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur urged to include signs in Tamil
Newstrack India
| Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 10 (ANI): The Indian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur has been urged to include Tamil on its signage, as approximately 75 percent people using its facilities speak Tamil.  | The Star Online quoted Alternative Action Team pres...
China, India give qualified OK to climate pact
San Fransisco Chronicle
| (03-10) 04:00 PST Amsterdam- -- | China joined India on Tuesday in giving qualified approval to the Copenhagen climate accord calling for voluntary limits on greenhouse gas emissions. | The official messages to the U.N. climate change secretariat d...
South Asia Industrial
Su Wei, chief negotiator of China on climate change, makes a point during his press conference at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009.
(photo: AP / Heribert Proepper)
China and India Join Climate Accord
The New York Times
| WASHINGTON — China and India formally agreed to join the international climate change agreement reached last December in Copenhagen, the last two major economies to sign up. | The two countries, among the largest and fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, submitted letters to the United Nations agreeing to be incl...
South Asia Technology
Su Wei, chief negotiator of China on climate change, makes a point during his press conference at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009.
(photo: AP / Heribert Proepper)
China and India Join Climate Accord
The New York Times
| WASHINGTON — China and India formally agreed to join the international climate change agreement reached last December in Copenhagen, the last two major economies to sign up. | The two countries, among the largest and fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, submitted letters to the United Nations agreeing to be incl...



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