India can sustain rapid growth for 20 years: finance minister
NEW DELHI, Dec 2, 2007 (AFP) - India's economy can keep up its scorching growth for the next two decades as long as investment stays strong, the finance …
NEW DELHI, Dec 2, 2007 (AFP) - India's economy can keep up its scorching growth for the next two decades as long as investment stays strong, the finance …
KANDY, Sri Lanka, Dec 1, 2007 (AFP) - Matthew Hoggard grabbed four wickets in a hostile opening spell to give England a brilliant start in the first cricket …
KANDY, Sri Lanka, Dec 1, 2007 (AFP) - England's pace-spin duo of Matthew Hoggard and Monty Panesar combined to dismiss Sri Lanka for just 188 on the opening …
CHICAGO, Dec 1, 2007 (AFP) - Dozens of teens dressed in uniforms provided by the US Marines stand at attention in the gym of a Chicago public high school as a …
Nov 30, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is getting 360 million dollars in concessionary aid from Iran to build a multipurpose irrigation project that will …
WASHINGTON, Nov 29, 2007 (AFP) - The Federal Reserve sees a high degree of uncertainty in the US economic outlook and is worried that strains in financial …
KANDY, Sri Lanka, Nov 30, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lanka will not be sidetracked by the record feats of Chaminda Vaas and Muttiah Muralitharan when the first Test …
BEIJING, Nov 30, 2007 (AFP) - Chinese police are to stop arresting women who carry condoms, traditionally seen as evidence of prostitution, in an effort to …
Nov 29, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is trying to make use of grazing lands freed from the grip of Tamil Tiger rebels in the island's east to increase domestic …
TOKYO, Nov 29, 2007 (AFP) - Japan, which has taken the lead in developing a generation of high-tech if quirky robots, is now getting down to reality by looking …
Nov 29, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's large tea plantations have slammed state interference in wages that saw unions effectively egged onto breaking a legal …
KANDY, Sri Lanka, Nov 29, 2007 (AFP) - England's cricket test series in Sri Lanka will go ahead despite two deadly bomb attacks blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels …
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 28, 2007 (AFP) - Malaysia is considering allowing schools to cane unruly girls to curb an upsurge in discipline problems including gang …
KANDY, Sri Lanka, Nov 28, 2007 (AFP) - Muttiah Muralitharan returns to his home town to become Test cricket's most successful bowler, a feat Australia denied …
Nov 27, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is supporting efforts by other major tea growing countries to form a forum exclusively for tea producing nations, Ranjith …
NEW YORK, Nov 26, 2007 (AFP) - Wall Street saw a sea of red Wednesday in a heavy selloff as investors voiced fears that the housing slump and credit crunch …
LONDON, Nov 26, 2007 (AFP) - European share prices closed lower Monday, while Wall Street slipped back as investors looked past sharp gains in Asia and …
CHICAGO, Nov 27, 2007 (AFP) - The wife of American adventurer Steve Fossett has asked a court to declare him legally dead, nearly three months after his small …
KAMPALA, Nov 25, 2007 (AFP) - Commonwealth leaders called on Pakistan on Sunday to remain engaged with the group as they wrapped up a summit here that saw the …