South Asia needs to add between 1 million and 1.2 million additional jobs every month for the next 20 years to sustain growth and reduce poverty in the region, a World Bank report said on Thursday.

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Amid the raging controversy over the note on P. Chidambaram vis-a-vis 2G spectrum auction, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee would meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New York on Sunday to sort out

Two Indian Institute of Technology alumni have made it to Forbes' list of the 400 richest Americans topped for the 18th year in a row by Bill Gates with Warren Buffett second.

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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday warned of significant risks to the already weak U.S. economy and launched a new plan to lower long-term borrowing costs and bolster the battered housing market.

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Scientists claim they are a step closer to unravelling the genetic underpinnings of schizophrenia following the largest genome-wide association research of the disorder ever undertaken.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday said it was trimming its forecasts of economic growth for India, China and other Asian developing economies due partly to slower growth in the rest of

Citing the example of Indian villages getting their voices heard with new information technology tools, President Barack Obama has urged emerging and established democracies to make their governments

Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and commerce minister Anand Sharma are among the top leaders from India at a meeting of the US-India CEO forum here on Thursday to forge an action plan to enhance bilateral trade and investment.

Spurred by runaway success of drones in Afghanistan, US is setting up an array of secret killer unmanned spy plane bases in Africa, Middle East and Indian Ocean to chase al-Qaeda targets and confront

As pressure mounted on Islamabad to move against the Haqqani network, accused by US of carrying out a spate of attacks in Kabul, ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha rushed here to hold a quite meeting