India on Saturday said a bitter row over the US arrest and strip-search of an Indian consulate official had triggered a “mini-crisis” in bilateral relations and much more must be done to repair ties. Indian foreign minister Salman Khurshid’s remarks…
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India’s car sales fell almost 10 percent year-on-year in 2013 in the first decline for 11 years, an industry body said Thursday, amid sluggish economic growth and higher fuel costs and interest rates. Annual domestic car sales, seen as a pointer to…
India’s growing importance to the English Premier League was emphasised when leading club Liverpool announced Monday their first marketing deal with an Indian company. The Reds have signed a three-year agreement with smart mobile firm XOLO which will…
Indian rescuers were racing on Sunday to try to save up to 20 people still feared trapped in the ruins of a partially-constructed building that collapsed “like a pack of cards”. Rescuers have so far pulled 13 bodies from the residential building that…
Enlarge Indian tech workers stroll through the Infosys compound in Bangalore. Indian outsourcing firms are the biggest recipients of the US government’s H1-B visas, initially intended for highly skilled workers, but increasingly used to hire lower-cost…
Almost 40 years after one of Bollywood’s most famous films broke box office records, “Sholay” (Embers) has been restored for release Friday in 3D to a new generation of moviegoers. The iconic Indian film, which stars Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Amjad…
India has cancelled a 556-million-euro ($753 million) contract with Anglo-Italian firm AgustaWestland to buy luxury helicopters for VIPs following a corruption scandal, the Press Trust of India reported Wednesday. The deal was scrapped after Defence…
India on Sunday marks 12 months since the death of a student savagely gang-raped on a Delhi bus — an episode that sparked nationwide protests — with candle-light vigils and prayers. The 23-year-old physiotherapy student died on December 29 last year…
India’s biggest Bitcoin trading platform said on its website Friday it had suspended operations after the central bank warned against the risks of using virtual money. BuySellBitCo.in closed its platform, citing an advisory by the Reserve Bank of India…
An Indian owner of a billboard dedicated to Nelson Mandela was red-faced on Thursday after the discovery that a photo of actor Morgan Freeman was used instead of one of the anti-apartheid hero. The billboard was erected on the side of a road in the…