Over the last 15 years, the Indian economy has opened up to private and foreign capital. The benefits are shown in growth rates that now top 8%. This makes India of strategic importance to Chevron.

I am training very hard and am pretty satisfied with my performance at the national camp. I am confident of doing well at the Commonwealth Games.

Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency.

If we don't buy a billion iPads, three-hundred million people will die of starvation. That's how the economy works.

In the near-term, there are economic concerns but overall we see continued improvements in the global economy.

The president is mindful of the fact that the fundamentals in this economy are strong and that's what matters most,