Source: According to the India Hotel Review conducted by Knight Frank India, with the Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi in 2010, the Delhi NCR is expected to witness an inflow of around 0.8 million international tourists and

Adam, 32, left his wife and newborn daughter in northern Nigeria five years back to seek employment in Lebanon. He had a contract offering him $200 a month to work in a cell phone shop in Beirut's Hamra neighborhood. According

Five new players -- Videocon-promoted Datacom, Idea Cellular, realty major Unitech, Swan Telecom and Loop Telecom -- have been given start-up 4.4 MHz GSM spectrum in Tamil Nadu circle, official sources told. Airtel and Vodafone have been allocated additional spectrum

The judiciary on Tuesday interrogated three suspects on charges of spreading misleading information regarding an alleged mass grave in the Jbeil town of Halat and released them pending completion of the investigation. Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat also ordered the

Reform [in Islam] will never end," argued professor Nasr Abu Zayd. "There is a sort of unawareness of the process of rethinking ... It is not a choice, [without it] culture and tradition would die." A professor of Islamic Studies

Many Iraqis have come to believe that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is just as much a dictator as Saddam Hussein was. "Maliki is a dictator who must be removed by all means," 35-year-old Abdel-Riza Hussein, a Mehdi Army member

Several multi-billion dollar deals reached quietly with foreigners, including the sale of Jordan's only Red Sea port at Aqaba, have provoked MPs to demand explanations from the government over "hidden" privatization projects. "The problem is the lack of transparency. Such

Fallujah remains a crippled city more than three years after the November 2004 US-led assault. Unemployment and shortages of medical care and safe drinking water in the city 60 kilometers west of Baghdad remain a continuous problem. Freedom of movement

The report prepared by Moody's Economy.Com noted that setting aside unknown political and weather-related elements, slower demand coupled with rising supply response should result in lower prices across much of the commodities. In recent times, the Asian region has witnessed

Whereas the political stalemate and concerns about the security situation have weighed on the economic outlook, the government has intensified efforts successfully to increase the primary surplus as a result of increased revenues, tight expenditure measures and substantial budget reforms.

Top securities (non-repo) traded on WDM segment were, the 7.38 per cent government security maturing in 2015 traded for Rs 270.00 cr at a weighted yield of 8.05 per cent, the 5.87 per cent government security maturing in 2010 traded

China Gas Holdings Ltd Managing Director Liu Ming Hui said his company will form joint venture with GAIL to explore projects for selling CNG to automobiles and piped gas to households in Chinese cities and Coal Bed Methane projects in

The total quantity of shares transacted were 5,046.59 lakhs valued at Rs 12,472.59 cr. Total value of settlement for securities was Rs 3,010.21 cr and for funds Rs 647.09 cr. Shortages for the settlement were 0.21 per cent and percentage

The head of the Democratic Gathering, MP Walid Jumblatt, on Tuesday called for the reexamination of all the dossiers on events that occurred under the Lebanese- Syrian security regime. Jumblatt's call came in reply to a meeting held in the

People do not learn from history, but learn [in the stream of] history - through bitter trials, rather than from what is written and read concerning the past," former President Amin Gemayel said during a conference on Tuesday to mark

A donor conference for the reconstruction of the war-ravaged Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp will take place in mid-June, sources told The Daily Star on Tuesday.Estimates from last year pegged the total cost at more than $382 million for rebuilding

Syria is supplying Lebanon's Hizbullah militia with rockets in violation of Resolution 1701, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak charged on Tuesday. "Resolution 1701 is not being applied. The transfer of rockets from Syria to Lebanon is continuing and Hizbullah's military

Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri criticized Tuesday "attempts to portray the political crisis in Lebanon as one between Lebanon and Syria and not an inter-Lebanese crisis." Berri was referring to Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's efforts to hold an Arab foreign ministers'