Increasing production will not bring down oil prices and indications are that prices will remain high, according to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.

Hong Kong and Chinese flags were raised together on Tuesday ahead of an annual street protest calling for democracy as the territory marked the 11th anniversary of its return to China. A few hundred local leaders and onlookers in red caps gathered for a...

On the back of robust growth in jewellery and watches business, Tata group’s Titan Industries is aiming to become a billion dollar company by the end of this fiscal year.

UN Deputy Secretary General Asha-Rose Migiro said this was the “moment of truth” for the African Union leaders.

Pakistani women in general have supported a suggestion put forward in a post-budget debate session in the Punjab Assembly that taxes should be imposed on beauty salons.

India and China saw bigger growth in the millionaire population last year than anywhere else, and wealth in the Asia-Pacific is expected to grow nearly 8 percent a year to 2012 despite a slowdown in the world at large, a survey showed.

In a bid to prevent incidents like rape and illicit sex in shops and other business premises, the Kota Bura municipal council in Malaysia has reportedly issued a circular directing the fairer sex, particularly Muslim women, not to sport bright-coloured...

Is globalisation killing Indian entrepreneur? This is a funny thought. The established wisdom is that globalisation has created the milieu for the emergence of Indian multinationals and that our companies are taking over foreign companies.

As uncertainty continues over the Indo-US nuclear deal in view of the political crisis in India over the agreement, the US on Monday said every passing day was making it harder to get it through.

It could be comic or tragic, depending on your sense of morality. In what I see as stunning news from the United States, 17 schoolgirls have entered into a ‘pregnancy pact.’ Staff at a secondary school health clinic in the city of...