Chidambaram, India News

New Delhi, May 23 : The Securities and Exchange Board of India celebrates its silver jubilee Friday amid calls that the capital market regulator needs to follow global standards and improve market intelligence, technology and talent pool to beef up the enforcement processes, protect investors and allow the launch of more investment products.

President Pranab Mukherjee administered the oath of office to Sharma at a glittering function held at the Darbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhawan.

New Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambaram today sought to assuage the stock market, after it declined by over 350 points, by asserting that there was no need for any "nervousness" and the participants should read the situation correctly rather than be influenced by external developments.

It is inconceivable for the Congress to get re-elected at the Centre in the 2014 general elections.

DOHA: India is soliciting cash-rich Qatar's active participation in infrastructure development projects as the South Asian nation hopes to invest an incredible $1 trillion in infrastructure over the next five years.

Mumbai, May 18 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend the silver jubilee celebrations of market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India here Friday, an official said here.

New Delhi: Ratings agency Standard & Poor's yesterday said its outlook on India remained negative and there was a one-in-three chance of a downgrade within the next 12 months.

New Delhi, May 15 : Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday left for five-day three nation tour of UK, France and Qatar.

Growing glitter: During Monday's Akshaya Trithiya festival, some jewellers opened shop at the crack of dawn to serve customers who had queued up for hours.

Global companies betting on India's potential as a consumer market are looking beyond the worst patch in a decade for Asia's third-largest economy and investing billions of dollars in the country.

Chennai, May 14: Two-time champions Chennai Super Kings had little difficulty getting past the struggling Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League here Tuesday.

Siddaramaiah's atheism may not have been noteworthy if the news of his election on Friday as the next chief minister of Karnataka had not been drowned out by footage on television channels of Pawan Kumar Bansal [ Bansal quit as the railways minister hours later.

CHENNAI: More than 18,000 Indians, including nearly 5,000 from Tamil Nadu , declared 'illegals' in Saudi Arabia, are set to return home as the three-month grace period given by the government there for implementation of the Nitaqat law is to end.

Austerity would reassure foreign investors that government would be able to execute fiscal prudence.

Gold imports by India, the world's largest consumer, are set to exceed 100 metric tons for a second month in May as jewelers rush to beat central bank curbs on overseas bullion purchases by banks, a refiner said.

New Delhi, May 7 : Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja met his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid in New Delhi on Tuesday and discussed ways to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries.

India may soon pass a new law to give millions more people cheap food, fulfilling an election promise of the ruling Congress party that could cost about $23 billion a year and take a third of annual grain production.

The 3G-enabled tablet is powered by Android Jelly Bean OS and runs on 1.6 GHz quad-core processor with 2 GB , Samsung Electronics said.

NEW DELHI: India's central bank cut its main interest rate by 25 basis points yesterday in the third such move this year, but said there was "little space" for further reductions to help the slowing economy.

MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India cut interest rates on Friday by a quarter point for the third time since January but said there is little room for further policy easing, disappointing investors and putting the onus on the government to revive a moribund economy.