World economy
Deadline missed, Iran, world powers to continue talks later
19 Jul 2014
Iran and six world powers announced early on Saturday that they had agreed to extend their deadline to arrive at a comprehensive nuclear accord to curb Iran's nuclear programme in exchange for ending sanctions against it.
Sanctions on Russia would boomerang, Putin warns US
17 Jul 2014
Russia's foreign ministry dismissed the sanctions as "bullying" and signalled that it was ready to fight back
Australia wants G20 to do more for growth
17 Jul 2014
India, Brazil to expand and diversify bilateral trade and investment
17 Jul 2014
The sixth BRICS summit hosted by Brazil produced two important agreements - the New Development Bank and the BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement
India, China, Cuba want WTO agreements to ensure food security
17 Jul 2014
India, China and Cuba have joined hands at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to demand inclusion of subsidies for food procurement and food-aid programmes in the list of permissible incentive
India to name first BRICS Bank president
16 Jul 2014
India will name the first president of the Shanghai-based BRICS grouping's bank, to be called New Development Bank, which will have an initial subscribed capital of $50 billion, to be shared equally among founding members
Israel weighs Egypt-sponsored Gaza truce as Hamas rains rockets
16 Jul 2014
The conflict over the past week was prompted by last month’ s murder of three Jewish seminary students in the occupied West Bank over the revenge killing of a Palestinian youth in Jerusalem
Modi meets Chinese president Xi Jinping in Fortaleza
15 Jul 2014
The two leaders said that India and China had enormous opportunities to serve as catalytic agents of Asian and global prosperity
PM to press hard for equal shares in proposed BRICS bank
15 Jul 2014
While India does not want any nation to dominate the bank, to prevent the kind of distortio nin the World Bank or IMF, China wants aa larger stake in the bank, as it is by far the leading economy of the BRICS bloc
Politics not economics caused income inequality in the US?
14 Jul 2014
A study suggests that the politically-induced decline in the strength of worker unions may have played a pivotal role than previously understood,for the growing income inequality in the United States
Kurdish forces seize 2 north Iraq oilfields
12 Jul 2014
An oil ministry spokesman in Baghdad described the takeover as dangerous and irresponsible and called for the Kurdish forces to withdraw immediately
Economics determines Somalian support for piracy: Oxford - Kings study
11 Jul 2014
Somali communities protect pirates only as a last resort or when there is no alternative source of income, a new study has found
The perils of Bitcoin as currency
09 Jul 2014
The similarities between bitcoin and the gold standard go beyond the metaphor of ''mining,'' which describes how new bitcoins are dug up with computing power, argues Rahul Singh, ISPS Director's Fellow in Domestic Policy
The perils of Bitcoin as currency
09 Jul 2014
The similarities between bitcoin and the gold standard go beyond the metaphor of ''mining,'' which describes how new bitcoins are dug up with computing power, argues Rahul Singh, ISPS Director's Fellow in Domestic Policy