washingtonpost.com - Asia/Pacific:
NEW DELHI -- As countries around the world prepare to flex their negotiating muscles at next month's climate-change summit in Copenhagen, India has begun to question the Western model of computing global warming statistics.
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India Times:
The medium to long term projection for Indian mkts is very encouraging. Investors with similar time horizon should look at equity investments. (Read More)
timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
It's hard to remember the gloom and doom in India nine months ago. The Sensex had crashed along with real estate and commodities. (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Call them 'twitchers' at your peril: how birdwatching has taken off in Britain. By Kate KellawayBirdwatching – when it is non-birdwatchers you are talking to – produces an almost uniform reaction: amused condescension, as if the sheer harmlessness of the activity were dangerous or put it beyond the pale as a subject. It's t (Read More)
India Times:
The total GDP of India, China and the US in 2050 will be over 70% more than that of the other G20 countries combined, the reputed American think-tank, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says. (Read More)
The Economic Times:
UK: India is falling behind China in its attempts to increase the use of English, risking squandering a key economic advantage, a new report says. (Read More)
The Economic Times:
Residential property prices in north India inching up With revival of the economy, residential prices have started to look up in all markets except for cities in the south.Home loan process | Know your Home Loan. (Read More)
The Economic Times:
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said India is looking forward to building on the strategic dialogue with the US and seeking greater cooperation in areas such as trade and investment, services, energy, science and technology and defence. (Read More)
The Economic Times:
The Obama administration has described India and China as "very important" global players and said it is engaged in intensive dialogue with the two countries, amid New Delhi's unease over the reference to Indo-Pak ties in a Sino-US joint statement. (Read More)
Reuters:
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell is in talks to buy 10 percent of India's Essar Oil as part of a deal where it would sell three European refineries to the Indian firm, the Economic Times reported on Saturday, citing people with knowledge of the plans.
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India Times:
India will be the third largest economy in the world after China and US by 2050, a US-based think tank has said. World's top 20 countries to live | 10 challenges for India. (Read More)
Reuters:
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell is in talks to buy 10 percent of India's Essar Oil as part of a deal where it would sell three European refineries to the Indian firm, the Economic Times reported on Saturday, citing people with knowledge of the plans.
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The Guardian:
Commodities soared and emerging markets took off, but the average small investor missed out, says Patrick CollinsonIt invests in goldmines – and it became a goldmine. Every £1,000 invested in BlackRock Gold & General at the beginning of the decade was worth £7,846 10 years later, closely followed by another gold-invested fu (Read More)
The Guardian:
Gold was a lousy investment in the 90s … how times change. The humble savings account, meanwhile, more than held its ownGoldIt has been one of the best investments of the past decade, and this week it was hitting new highs. But 10 years ago nobody wanted to know. Gold was trading at just $281.50 (£171.93) an ounce in Januar (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Unless they end in promises, and a treaty within months, Ed Miliband believes the Copenhagen talks will be a disaster. But can the British energy secretary, in Denmark for a frantic round of pre-summit diplomacy, win the argument?It's breakfast time in the biggest of Copenhagen's Scandic hotels. Over the obligatory croissan (Read More)