West Bengal has planned to train six lakh youth in the current fiscal under "Utkarsh Bangla", an umbrella scheme for all skill development in the state, a minister said on Friday. ...
India will be at the centre of the "sunshine" countries of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) promoted jointly by it and France, Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu said on Friday. ...
Sri Lanka's Department of Emigration and Immigration on Friday said the shortage of new passports, which has presently put thousands on the waiting list, will end within two months....
Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Friday called for turning the "potential asset" of the country's vast young population into an "actual asset", otherwise it would be a "missed opportunity"....
Data of money deposited by Indians in Swiss banks will be available to the government under an agreement signed with Switzerland for automatic exchange of information, Interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday....
Sri Lanka's economy is expected to grow 4.3 per cent in the medium term, but it will only be possible if the government remains committed to its reform agenda, the World Bank said in a report released on Friday. ...
Services on the Yellow Line of Delhi Metro were disrupted on Friday morning as a peacock appeared on the tracks at Model Town station....
The key Indian equity indices traded higher on Friday afternoon due to value buying by investors after the indices slumped in the previous two trading sessions....
Australia has won a major trade dispute over its pioneering plain packaging for cigarettes, in a decision handed down by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the government announced on Friday. ...
China-based technology company Lenovo is confident of registering triple-digit...
