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Policy consistency is critical for inves...

Policy consistency is critical for investors: PwC chairman

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) International chairman Dennis Nally is in India to release a report that suggests that the country has the potential to grow at 9% annually and become a $10-trillion economy by 2034 from under $2 trillion currently. He spoke to TOI about the steps that the government... read more »

Hawks circle over Iran talks extension

Hawks circle over Iran talks extension

WASHINGTON – Buoyed by the failure of the US and five other powers to reach a comprehensive agreement with Iran over its nuclear program after a week of intensive talks, pro-Israel and Republican hawks are calling for Washington to ramp up economic pressure on Tehran even while talks... read more »

Indian Railways team in China for Delhi-...

Indian Railways team in China for Delhi-Chennai bullet train

BEIJING: An Indian Railways team is in China to chalk out plans for conducting feasibility study to build the 1,754 km-long Delhi-Chennai high-speed train corridor, world’s second largest bullet train line. The high-level team of officials from Rail Vikas Nigam Limited led by Satish Agnihotri... read more »

World powers miss Iran nuclear deal dead...

World powers miss Iran nuclear deal deadline, extends it to July 1

Vienna: Iran and world powers missed a deadline to clinch a landmark nuclear deal and defuse a 12-year standoff but gave themselves seven more months to reach agreement. The failure followed an intensive five-day diplomatic push in the Austrian capital Vienna involving the foreign ministers of... read more »

Tamil Nadu increases milk procurement prices

Tamil Nadu introduces bill to provide legal protection to dhoti, violators to face one-yea...

CHENNAI: In what could provide a legal protection to the dhoti, the traditional attire in Tamil Nadu, chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday introduced a bill in the state assembly,... read more »

Congress facing coup from within: Arun Jaitley on Rahul’s attack

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s uncharacteristic display of aggression in Lok Sabha on Wednesday over no debate on rising communal violence in the country evoked a... read more »

Man arrested on suspicion of making bomb hoax after passenger plane lands at Manchester ai...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat after a passenger plane landed Tuesday with a military fighter escort at Britain’s Manchester Airport. There were 269... read more »

Afghan attack: Killed general was true hero, says US

The US military has paid tribute to Maj Gen Harold Greene, shot dead by an Afghan soldier in an insider attack on Tuesday, as a “true hero”. Gen Greene, the most senior US... read more »

U.S. Backs Sunni Plan to Fight Islamic State Jihadists in Iraq

BAGHDAD—The U.S. is holding talks with Sunni Muslim officials in Iraq who have requested help in organizing grass-roots fighting forces to counter an extremist militant group seizing territory... read more »