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The foreign cheerleaders were brought in to show India's cricket fans how to shake their pompoms -- but not everyone was impressed.
A man, incensed that a 6-year-old girl chose to walk through a path reserved for upper caste villagers, pushed her into burning embers, police in north India said Wednesday. She was seriously burned.
Two Indian wedding celebrations were marred by separate accidents that left 43 people feared dead, police said Thursday.
Officials say stray dogs in a village in eastern India "rescued" a baby girl abandoned under a mound of mud and leaves.
No doubt the Taj Mahal steals the breath away. But as a repeat visitor to India, I have often arrived at its gates too exhausted to have much breath left to steal.
A media report says at least 39 people died, most of them schoolchildren, when a bus plunged into a canal in western India.
A transport official says the first direct train between Bangladesh and India in more than four decades has resumed.
India dominated South Africa on Sunday to win the third test by eight wickets inside three days, squaring the series 1-1 and retaining their world No. 2 test ranking.
The acquisition of Britain's leading luxury car brands by an Indian company merely confirms the vitality a centuries-old Indian presence in British culture
By the year 2050, China will no longer be the most populous country in the world.
The foreign cheerleaders were brought in to show India's cricket fans how to shake their pompoms -- but not everyone was impressed.
A man, incensed that a 6-year-old girl chose to walk through a path reserved for upper caste villagers, pushed her into burning embers, police in north India said Wednesday. She was seriously burned.
Two Indian wedding celebrations were marred by separate accidents that left 43 people feared dead, police said Thursday.
Officials say stray dogs in a village in eastern India "rescued" a baby girl abandoned under a mound of mud and leaves.
No doubt the Taj Mahal steals the breath away. But as a repeat visitor to India, I have often arrived at its gates too exhausted to have much breath left to steal.
A media report says at least 39 people died, most of them schoolchildren, when a bus plunged into a canal in western India.
A transport official says the first direct train between Bangladesh and India in more than four decades has resumed.
India dominated South Africa on Sunday to win the third test by eight wickets inside three days, squaring the series 1-1 and retaining their world No. 2 test ranking.
The acquisition of Britain's leading luxury car brands by an Indian company merely confirms the vitality a centuries-old Indian presence in British culture
By the year 2050, China will no longer be the most populous country in the world.
When Rory Stear appeared on the Principal Voices roundtable last year, his company Freeplay Energy was best known for cranking out wind-up radios you could, well, crank up.
Dear FSB: We have a medium size cargo company in India with some blue chip clients, good turnover, and a net profit margin of 20% to 25%. To expand and meet our current clients' requirements, we have borrowed money from financial institutions at a 16% annual interest rate.
Authorities crack down on 100 Tibetans who planned to march to their homeland to protest Chinese rule
A citizen of India living legally in South Carolina pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to illegally export weapons to India, authorities said Thursday. It was one of two cases involving illegal arms in India.
Amid all the talk about China's recent transformation, it's sometimes easy to forget that Asia is home to another fast-emerging economic superpower -- India.
With the window closing on an agreement supplying nuclear technology, India's government may dump coalition partners that have obstructed the deal
As India modernizes its military, US contractors have high hopes for billions in sales on the subcontinent
True or False: China, India and other developing countries are exempt from the Kyoto Protocol
India collapsed to a 50-run defeat to Australia in the latest one-day international in Adelaide on Sunday after appearing set for their second successive win over the home side.
India's SSP Chowrasia claimed the biggest title of his career on Sunday after winning the Indian Masters by two strokes ahead of Ireland's Damien McGrane.
Australia thrashed Twenty20 world champions India before a massive 84,000 crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday.
Bandwidth providers said they expected India's Internet service to be back to about 80 percent of its usual speed by the end of Friday
Shocked but not surprised seems to sum up Indian reaction to a transplant ring harvesting kidneys from laborers
India's Harbhajan Singh has been cleared to play in the forthcoming triangular one-day series against Australia and Sri Lanka, after a charge of making racial comments was overturned at an International Cricket Council code of conduct appeal hearing.
Indian maestro Sachin Tendulkar made 150 for the 17th time in his outstanding Test career and captain Anil Kumble weighed in with 87 as India amassed an imposing 526 in the fourth Test against Australia in Adelaide.
A sharp slide in India's share markets suggested that India's investors have followed suit in the global sell-off sparked by fears of a U.S. recession. But India's growth rate will remain in rude health
India ended Australia's brave bid for a record 17th consecutive Test victory by claiming a 72-run win in the third match at the WACA in Perth and reducing the tourists' series deficit to 2-1.
India slipped from 198 for two to 297 for six by the close of the first day of the third Test against Australia in Perth.
At the epicenter of India's booming stock market, on Mumbai's Dalal Street, there's hardly any sign of frenzy. A few dozen people stand outside, laconically watching the electronic ticker. Several murmur into phones behind cupped hands, as vegetarian-snack vendors sell samosas and sub-brokers hand out company prospectuses.
Australia were accused of unsportsmanlike conduct after equaling their own world record of 16 consecutive Test triumphs with a dramatic 122-run victory over India on Sunday.
India have been set an imposing victory target of 499 as Australia continued their domination of the first Test in Melbourne on the third day.
Low-caste Hindus are converting to Christianity in an attempt to escape their spot at the bottom of India's social hierarchy, and sparking religious violence in the process
Even the most cheerless environmental activist would find it hard not to register the faintest trace of a smile seeing Christmas lights shimmering in the murk of a December evening. Any lingering sense of 'green guilt' over the environmental cost of a billion festive bulbs being switched on should quickly dissipate in the bursts of electric color festooning our streets and houses. But if that isn't enough to placate an ardent activist there is, thankfully, environmentally-friendly light at the end of the tunnel.
A passenger train collided with a bus loaded with college students and teachers in northern India Friday, killing at least 17 people and critically injuring many more, according to the Press Trust of India.
Sourav Ganguly and Yuvraj Singh hit magnificent centuries as India bounced back from a nightmare opening session to finish the first day of the third Test against Pakistan in Bangalore on 365 for five.
Vimlendu Jha is the founder and head of Swechha -- We For Change Foundation which is based in India's capital, New Delhi.
India is fast becoming known as a nation of outstanding entrepreneurs like IT tycoon N. R. Narayana Murthy. Now, according to new survey of Indian business schools, many others are keen to follow this example.
The harassment of new students, or "ragging," remains a stubborn problem on India's college campuses
New Delhi sees dangers in the current state of emergency, but its interest in stability makes it loath to criticize Musharraf
India's fast-growing airline industry is plagued by decaying infrastructure, frequent delays, and financial losses. Now add one more problem: a pilot shortage.
As international and Indian business leaders gather in India this week to laud robust growth in India's economy, there is widespread recognition that the gap between the nation's haves and have-nots remains a key risk to the Indian economic success story.
Tulsi Tanti made his fortune building windmills, not tilting at them. But executives at French nuclear energy giant Areva might be forgiven for conjuring images of Don Quixote when the 49-year-old Indian entrepreneur squared off against them this year for control of Germany's leading wind-turbine manufacturer.
Vimlendu Jha is the founder and head of Swechha -- We For Change Foundation which is based in India's capital, New Delhi.
The sleek, clean factory in the Delhi suburb of Noida seems more Taiwan than India. Engineers in white overalls and goggles watch over an automated production line that spits out four billion state-of-the-art DVDs and CDs a year. To get to the factory floor, you have to pass through three air-cleaning passages - a process that makes it clear you're no longer in crowded, dirty Delhi.
As chain stores move to capitalize on India's emerging middle class, opposition is growing from its legions of small shopkeepers and state governments
High stress and low status have soured many grads on the telephone work. Now India, the outsourcing capital, finds itself having to outsource
India's benchmark stock market has crossed 19,000 points for the first time following four record-breaking sessions.
While the center of the business education world remains the United States and, to a lesser extent, Europe, there is one area that every school is focusing on with ever-greater eagerness -- the emerging mega-economies of Asia.
India beat fierce rivals Pakistan by just five runs to win the inaugural ICC World Twenty20 competition in a thrilling final in Johannesburg.
Indian shoppers will spend $300 billion on food, clothing and other household items this year, but only a tiny portion of that, worth about $12 billion, will go through cash registers in an air-conditioned shopping center.
India triumphed by two wickets with two balls to spare to level the one-day international series against England 3-3 at The Oval on Wednesday.
India's economy grew 9.3 percent in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago, boosted by robust manufacturing and services growth, the government said Friday, suggesting the momentum seen in the past year was continuing.
Hyderabad is the latest technology center to be a target. But so far, India's grim security situation hasn't hindered its boom
India struck back to level their seven-match one-day series with England 1-1 after an imposing total of 329 for seven proved too much for the hosts in the second one-dayer at Bristol.
A row over a nuclear deal with the U.S. threatens to destabilize India's coalition government -- and set back the country's plans for economic liberalization
Mata Amritanandamayi is known as the "hugging guru." Some days, she will sit for up to 20 hours straight as tens of thousands of devotees line up to feel her embrace and hear her whisper motherly advice.
Former India captain Kapil Dev has been sacked as chairman of the national cricket academy for refusing to give up his involvement with an unapproved Twenty20 league being launched this year.
EngIand will need to score a Test record 500 to beat India in the third and final Test at The Oval after an intriguing fourth day's play.
The United Nations is warning of a massive "health crisis" in southern Asia, where 30 million people have been overwhelmed by the monsoonal rains and flash flooding sweeping across India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and India's Bharti Enterprises said on Monday they had signed an equal joint venture for Indian cash-and-carry and retail back-end operations.
In Gudda, a village with very little, residents are literally beaming. Just two years ago, villagers had never seen light after dark, unless it came from the moon. Then, solar light arrived and changed everything.
The United States and India announced Friday a landmark deal on nuclear cooperation for civil purposes that they said will benefit both countries and strengthen international non-proliferation efforts.
Far from the gleaming high-tech parks of Bangalore and Hyderabad, 25-year-old Mohammed Zayeed hunches over a raised concrete slab in the slums of New Delhi. With surgical precision he disassembles the backbone of India's booming IT industry for 12 hours a day: removing cream-colored plastic casings from old desktop computers, separating hard drives from circuitboards, and stripping PVC coating from copper wires. He tosses the detritus into towering piles destined for the next link in a long chain of recyclers.
Lawmakers voted Thursday in an election widely expected to give India its first female president, although the milestone has been marred by controversy and mudslinging
Interested in riding the Indian art boom? A half dozen art investment funds are betting on next-generation artists in their 30s and 40s, allowing fund managers to do the work for investors who want to get in on returns that have driven the Indian art market up 485 percent in the last decade and turned it into the fourth-most-buoyant art market in the world.
Analysis: India differentiates itself from China by allowing its currency to appreciate against the dollar
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Interested in riding the Indian art boom? A half-dozen art investment funds are betting on next-generation artists in their 30s and 40s, allowing fund managers to do the work for investors who want to get in on returns that have driven the contemporary Indian art market up 485% in the past decade.
Ostracized by society, thousands of India's widows flock to the holy city of Vrindavan waiting to die. They are found on side streets, hunched over with walking canes, their heads shaved and their pain etched by hundreds of deep wrinkles in their faces.
For years investors have piled into economies like China and India in search of outsize returns.
The future of World Trade Organization's Doha pact is under doubt, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said Thursday, as talks between the United States, European Union, India and Brazil broke down.
India and Pakistan split nearly 60 years ago. Now cement may bring them together - even as General Pervez Musharraf's grip on power is slipping.
India, which advocacy groups say may have as many as 65 million forced laborers, was spared the worst ranking on the State Department's new list of nations where humans are bought and sold.
Those left out of India's rapid economic boom are feuding over entitlements under the country's overburdened affirmative action system
Nandan M. Nilekani Infosys Nilekani has been the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Infosys, the Bangalore-based software company, since March 2002. He is a founder of the company and one of India's most successful entrepreneurs.
Eighteen thousand Bangladesh cricket fans were left disappointed when their team's third one-day international against India, in Chittagong, was abandoned without a ball being bowled after heavy overnight rain.
India's fast-growing biotech business has the potential to be one of the driving forces behind its enviable 8 percent GDP growth, and a government estimate sees the industry increasing 15-fold over the next eight years.
In anticipation of its 10th Fortune Global Forum in New Delhi in October 2007, Fortune magazine hosted "Fortune Celebrates India" in Manhattan, an exhibit showcasing images from India that appeared in the magazine.
India's young, cash-rich shoppers have already picked out a few of their favorite American brands.
For millions of people the focus on India as a technology and business processing hub has meant welcome employment -- but the growth in outsourcing in those industries has been mostly limited to big cities.
ONION PRICES are a sensitive political issue in India. The root is essential in the diet of Indians, rich and poor, and price rises can rock governments--the regional administration in New Delhi w...
India virtually crashed out of the World Cup in the first round after Sri Lanka handed them a comprehensive 69-run defeat in their final Group B match on Friday.
Bangladesh produced one of the biggest shocks in the World Cup with a five-wicket victory over India in a Group B game on Saturday.
From March 18-24 CNN International will combine live broadcasts from New Delhi with a "Town Hall" discussion before a studio audience and reports on the people and the issues shaping India today.
India and Pakistan have vowed to press ahead with a peace process despite a bomb attack that sparked a fire and killed more than five dozen people aboard a train connecting the two countries.
Explosions that killed at least 65 people on board an Indian passenger train bound for Pakistan were the work of subversives aimed at hurting the peace process between the two countries, India's home secretary said.
Yuvraj Singh struck 95 not out to steer India to a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the final one-dayer on Saturday to help clinch the four-match series 2-1.
Plug in the words "India" and "superpower" into an Internet search engine and it's happy to oblige - with 1.3 million hits. I confess that I did not check each one, but I suspect that almost all of these entries date from the last couple of years.
Rain forced the first one-day international between India and Sri Lanka to be called off on Thursday with the visitors having scored 102 for three off 18.2 overs after being put into bat.
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India has never rolled out the welcome mat for foreign companies. Red tape, restrictions on ownership and other barriers have made it difficult for banks, retail giants and media companies to gain ...
Leg-spinner Anil Kumble took four wickets to help bowl South Africa out for 373 on the third day of the third and final Test against India.
Four people have been arrested in India over the death of a British tourist who was apparently beaten, strangled and then hung from a tree.
Wasim Jaffer's third Test century anchored India on the first day of the third and final Test against South Africa on Tuesday.
A futuristic new jet hopes to be the biggest revolution in commercial aircraft design in fifty years. With a radical new shape, its designers believe it will use 25 percent less fuel that today's planes and be no louder than a car driving down your street.
An explosion ripped through a train in eastern India on Monday, killing five people and injuring dozens of others, according to news agencies.
If the world needed a wake-up call to India's growing economic might then last week's acquisition of the Anglo-Dutch steel firm Corus by Tata Steel ought to have done the job.
The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a tropical island sitting just off the southern tip of India. Its commercial capital is Colombo and administrative capital is Sri Jayawardenepura. Its main exports are clothing and textiles along with tea and rubber. The currency is the Sri Lankan rupee.
We're in the middle of a turn-around. We've eliminated 10% of our workforce, cut almost 30% of our management, and reduced 15 layers to eight. This brings us closer to the market. It also helps us ...
Business schools worldwide are, understandably, rushing to equip students with the skills needed to trade with China.
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