Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Zhang Yan We share plenty of common concerns and stances on a variety of important issues concerning world peace and development, says Zhang Yan, China
Ramaswamy R. Iyer There is in Nepal a deep ambivalence about India, which many in India tend to misinterpret as anti-Indianism. India-Nepal relations have been badly mismanaged on both sides. The time has come to make a break with the past and explore new beginnings. In his article in the …
Rituparna Bhuyan / New Delhi July 31, 2008, 0:19 IST Indian farmers and food security activists are relieved over the inconclusive mini-ministerial meeting at Geneva, which had been convened to finalise the Doha Round of world trade talks. "We are very happy. Indian farmers have always wanted agriculture to be …
D Ravi Kanth / Geneva July 30, 2008, 0:18 IST The battle to conclude negotiations for Doha in agriculture and market-opening for industrial products broke down due to unbridgeable differences between India and the United States over the trigger and remedy for using the Special Safeguards Mechanism (SSM) by developing …
D Ravi Kanth / Geneva July 29, 2008, 0:26 IST The United States yesterday applied strong pressure tactics at the mini-ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by blaming India and China
B. Muralidhar Reddy Member nations to sign accord for launch of SDF Heads of state likely to hold bilateral meetings To sign pact for Afghanistan's entry into SAFTA COLOMBO: The process for the SAARC Summit, scheduled here on August 2 and 3 was set in motion on Sunday with the …
Business Standard / New Delhi July 24, 2008, 0:04 IST Intense negotiations seem to be on the cards in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) "mini-ministerial" meeting on the Doha Round of trade talks, now under way in Geneva, but the chances of hammering out a deal appear slim. The informal …
P.S. Suryanarayana SINGAPORE: The East Asia Summit (EAS), a "leaders-driven forum' with India, as also China and Japan in its fold, "is studying the feasibility of a free trade area among its 16 countries.' This was indicated by an official spokesman for the Summit after the Foreign Ministers of the …
DOHA MINISTERIAL: DAY 2 D Ravi Kanth / Geneva July 23, 2008, 0:29 IST As the negotiating chips are slowly unveiled in the make-or-mar Doha trade negotiations, the United States announced today that it will reduce its overall trade-distorting domestic support (OTDS) to $15 billion as compared to a range …
(GENEVA) - The European Union offered Monday to make deeper tariff cuts on agricultural imports in order to spur progress in deadlocked trade talks, but the move was quickly dimissed by Brazil as "propaganda." "We're in a position to raise our average tariff cuts from 54 percent to 60 percent," …
CHENNAI: India should reject the WTO draft agreements on Agriculture and Non-Agriculture Market Access as the provisions are detrimental to the country's interests, the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) said on Monday. K.G. Kannabiran, president, PUCL, noted in a press release that the draft allowed farm subsidies in the …
TRADING THOUGHTS D Ravi Kanth / Geneva July 22, 2008, 3:16 IST As the Doha trade negotiations enter a make-or-break phase, it is not a pleasant thought to evoke memories of Goebbels of the Nazi period, credited with having perfected the art of repeating a lie several times until it …
DOHA MINISTERIAL: DAY 1 D Ravi Kanth / Geneva July 22, 2008, 0:11 IST Trade ministers from over 30 countries began their crucial World Trade Organization (WTO) trade talks here today to hammer out modalities(parameters) in the Doha Development Agenda. Instead of hard negotiations to find convergence on the final …
D Ravi Kanth / Geneva July 21, 2008, 0:24 IST Amid uncertainty over the mini-ministerial meeting starting today, the two powerful trade chiefs of the United States and the European Union sought India's assistance to break the deadlock over sectoral tariff elimination and the anti-concentration provision in return for supporting …
D Ravi Kanth / Geneva July 19, 2008, 0:59 IST In rather blunt and uncompromising terms, India has made it known to key industrialised countries at the World Trade Organization (WTO) that New Delhi must secure enhanced flexibilities to address the special products and special safeguard mechanism and commensurate responses …
B. Muralidhar Reddy COLOMBO: India and Sri Lanka on Wednesday finalised the long-pending draft Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) that would boost not only trade but also open up services and investment sectors. The contours of CEPA were concluded during the two-day talks between the Indian team led by Commerce …
K. Venugopal Reviewing Progress: U.S. President George W. Bush with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the G8 summit in the resort of Toyako on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Wednesday. The two leaders discussed many issues, including the nuclear deal. Mr. Bush said "it was a …
