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India and Russia have finalised the broad contours of an ambitious government-to-government agreement for long-term import of crude oil by India from Russia's Far East region.The pact is likely to be inked during Russian President Vladimir…

Terming India as an "economic and social" global power, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on February 15 said the country's priority is to have joint expertise in various areas of the economy.A forum, organised by industry…

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper on February 15 cast China as a rising threat to world order — saying the world's most populous nation steals Western know-how, intimidates smaller neighbours and seeks an “advantage by any means and at any…

The Indian Embassy in Japan on Saturday said it is making efforts to disembark all the Indians on board the cruise ship moored off the Japanese coast after the end of the quarantine period as authorities confirmed that 218 people, including…

President Donald Trump's $1.5 billion proposal to prop up the country's nuclear fuel industry has emboldened at least one company to take steps toward boosting operations at dormant uranium mines around the West, including outside Grand Canyon…

India urgently needs more ambitious structural and financial sector reform measures and a medium-term fiscal consolidation strategy due to the rising debt levels while ensuring a more accommodative fiscal stance in the budget, the IMF has…

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday backed moves by the OECD group of free-market economies to reform the way online giants are taxed worldwide, even if that means companies like his own paying more to national governments.…

Forty health care workers were infected with the novel coronavirus by patients at a single Wuhan hospital in January, a new study has found, underscoring the risks to those at the frontlines of the growing epidemic.One patient who was…

Canadian health authorities confirmed the country's first case of a deadly coronavirus that originated in China and said the patient's wife had also tested positive. The woman's case is still listed as "presumptive," pending final confirmation…

The Finance Ministry has declined to share Swiss bank accounts details of Indians saying it is covered under "confidentiality provisions" of a tax treaty signed between India and Switzerland.In reply to an RTI query, the ministry also…