The United Nations has selected Bollywood actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as the international goodwill ambassador for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Asian markets remained in a tight range Tuesday as investors continued to maintain a cautious mode to find where the global economy is heading following the announcement of the stimulus measures announced this month by the policymakers around the world.
It's getting ever easier to access the Internet, the UN finds, and that growth could greatly help developing countries.
The head of the U.N.'s Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization spoke to reporters about preventing another Cuban Missile Crisis.
At least 33 people have been killed and over a million people displaced in landslides and floods caused by the incessant rains in India’s north-eastern states of Sikkim and Assam.
Global rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Monday cut the economic growth forecast for the Asia Pacific countries, including China and India, citing the slowdown in China, euro zone troubles and a slower-than-expected recovery in the U.S.
Most of the Asian markets fell Monday as investor confidence was weighed down by the revival of concerns over the debt crisis affecting the euro zone and the economic slowdown faced by China.
Most Asian stock markets ended on a negative note last week as the weak fiscal reports from the major economies and the China-Japan tensions weighed on the sentiment.
Most of the Asian markets fell in the week as investor confidence was weighed down by the intensifying tensions between China and Japan, raising concerns of economic slowdown and undermining the stimulus measures announced by the Bank of Japan.
Wal-Mart says it's ready to open an Indian store as nation's leader defends allowing foreign direction investment in the nation's retail sector.
India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh delivered the following speech on Friday on the economic reforms that were unveiled last week.
YouTube's "Innocence of Muslims" stayed up after a California judge refused a ban, but 19 Pakistanis were killed in demonstrations.
Violent protesters in Peshawar, Pakistan, torched two movie theaters over anti-Muslim film "Innocence of Muslims."
The U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart is expected to launch its first store in India within 12 to 18 months following an economic reforms drive by the Indian government last week that allowed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the multi-brand retail sector.
Most of the Asian markets rose Friday amid investor hopes that the stimulus measures announced this month by policymakers around the world will be able to bolster the global economic growth.
Small business owners in India are striking over fears that the entry of global retail outlets would force them out of business.
A nationwide strike called by the opposition parties to protest against the foreign direct investment in retail and the fuel price hike partially affected the normal life in India Thursday.
Asian markets fell Thursday as investor confidence was weighed down by the report that Japan's trade deficit increased in August, raising more concerns about the faltering global economy.
For the first time ever, there are now more millionaires in Asia than in North America.
The high abortion rate of female fetuses has led to a dramatic gender imbalance in India -- over the 50-year period from 1961 to 2011, the number of girls born per 1,000 boys plunged from 976 to 914, according to the census.
The Congress leaders claimed that the party and government had made several attempts to contact Banerjee but she had not responded to the messages so far. “We have tried to speak to her. The Prime Minister tried to speak. We left a message, but we have not heard anything,” Finance Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters in Delhi.
