If gas were more expensive in China and India, would it be cheaper in the United States?
Union leaders say millions of truck drivers have gone on strike across India to protest rising fuel prices and road tolls, in a move that could paralyze much of the Indian economy.
Divers spent Monday searching for 36 members of an anti-insurgency unit who went missing after Maoist rebels fired on and sank their boat in eastern India, state media said.
Delhi's first gay pride parade attracted more than 500 marchers. The movement, in a city of 14 million, may be small, but it was a long time in coming
One out of every three families living below the poverty level in India paid a bribe last year for basic public services, like admitting a family member into a hospital, according to a new report.
Annual monsoon rains swept across India about two weeks early, causing floods that have killed at least 23 people, officials said Monday.
Leading energy-consuming nations urged oil producers Saturday to boost their output to counter soaring prices threatening the world economy, while they pledged to develop clean energy technologies and improve efficiency.
Members of an Indian ethnic community burned effigies, squatted on railroad tracks and blocked highways Thursday in an attempt to bring part of the country to a halt in a protest over caste classification.
At least 35 people have been killed in three days of riots over class discrimination in the west Indian state of Rajasthan.
Analysis: Indians are outraged over President Bush's comment about the cause of soaring food prices, but politicians and pundits should stop pointing fingers
If gas were more expensive in China and India, would it be cheaper in the United States?
Union leaders say millions of truck drivers have gone on strike across India to protest rising fuel prices and road tolls, in a move that could paralyze much of the Indian economy.
Divers spent Monday searching for 36 members of an anti-insurgency unit who went missing after Maoist rebels fired on and sank their boat in eastern India, state media said.
Delhi's first gay pride parade attracted more than 500 marchers. The movement, in a city of 14 million, may be small, but it was a long time in coming
One out of every three families living below the poverty level in India paid a bribe last year for basic public services, like admitting a family member into a hospital, according to a new report.
Annual monsoon rains swept across India about two weeks early, causing floods that have killed at least 23 people, officials said Monday.
Leading energy-consuming nations urged oil producers Saturday to boost their output to counter soaring prices threatening the world economy, while they pledged to develop clean energy technologies and improve efficiency.
Members of an Indian ethnic community burned effigies, squatted on railroad tracks and blocked highways Thursday in an attempt to bring part of the country to a halt in a protest over caste classification.
At least 35 people have been killed in three days of riots over class discrimination in the west Indian state of Rajasthan.
Analysis: Indians are outraged over President Bush's comment about the cause of soaring food prices, but politicians and pundits should stop pointing fingers
A series of deadly blasts in a Jaipur market once again expose the country's vulnerability to terror attacks
India is on high alert after a series of near-simultaneous explosions killed at least 60 people and wounded 150 others in a top tourist spot, government and local officials told CNN-IBN.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
Vimlendu Jha is the founder and head of Swechha -- We For Change Foundation which is based in India's capital, New Delhi.
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.
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
Hyderabad is the latest technology center to be a target. But so far, India's grim security situation hasn't hindered its boom
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.
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
What's the most sought-after degree in Silicon Valley? Here's a hint: It isn't from Stanford
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
1. Venezuela President Hugo Chávez will use a strong victory at the polls to tighten his grip on power, amend the constitution to remove a two-term limit, and further marginalize the opposition, re...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
If Vinod Agarwal has his way, Hyderabad, a city known for its pearls and Old World charm, will soon become the capital of India's semiconductor industry.
High crude prices may be fattening profits at oil companies around the world, but in India state-controlled refiners and retailers are losing money hand over fist. In the fiscal year that ended in ...
IDEA NO. 6 Services that once required face time can be profitably handled online.
India said on Sunday it would provide evidence it says links Pakistan's spy agency to deadly bomb blasts in Mumbai in July, news services reported.
Fortune interviews Andrea Jung, CEO of Avon Products Inc.:
Fortune interviews Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairman & Managing Director, Biocon Limited:
After it failed to convince India, Brazil and some other trade partners to give more market access to American products, the United States is thinking about revoking trade benefits to some of these countries.
U.S. officials have issued urgent terror alerts to U.S. citizens in India and those planning to travel to Pakistan.
India joins the global boom
The increasingly refined tastes of India's burgeoning middle class means the wine market there is set to grow tenfold.
India's mobile content market is booming, but lacks an advertising network to help monetize all of those pageviews.
Treasury prices rose Tuesday as investors focused on bombings in Mumbai, India.
When Farallon Capital Management, a U.S. hedge fund, and its joint-venture partner, Indiabulls, snapped up an 11-acre property in central Mumbai in March 2005 for $54.5 million an acre, the purchas...
A bus traveling in northern India Saturday plunged down a 650-foot (200m) ravine, killing at least 13 people and injuring eight others, police said.
Forget the stock market, or putting money into gold and property. The way to get ahead in India over the past decade has been to invest in contemporary art. Work by the country's top 51 artists, wh...
A top negotiator for the Tamil Tiger rebel group has issued "regret" for the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
(Time.com) You may not be aware of it, living in the United States, but your world is increasingly being shaped by India.
Ben Bernanke isn't just scaring U.S. investors anymore. He's scaring investors around the world.
"As medical science advances - and implants become more common... will your government intervene?"
When pressed to explain exactly what they do to earn all those rich commissions and fees, financial advisers have traditionally had a pretty good answer:
Though the leading stock-market indexes are on firmer footing than they were, the real action has been in emerging markets funds, portfolios hitched to soaring commodity prices, and the stocks of small, risky companies.
Overlooked in the daily rush of news about China's and India's stunning economic growth is a mammoth-scale economic problem - which neither country can any longer avoid. It's this: Most of their pe...
The Pakistani Ranger lifts his legs at almost impossible angles and goose-steps aggressively towards the border with India.
"Will science eventually build robots indistinguishable from human beings?"
People with fat wallets who don't withdraw regular or significant amounts of money from their bank accounts may now attract the attention of India's taxman, according to local news reports.
India will be able to buy more sophisticated fighter aircraft and other high-tech arms from the United States as part of a closer defense relationship between the two nations, the United States Department of Defense has said.
U.S. President George W. Bush is playing down the prospect of signing a key nuclear pact with India during his four-day visit to the world's second-most populous nation.
India is moving up the outsourcing food chain. Formerly content to focus on coding and customer support, the country is about to get into semiconductor manufacturing, once the domain of technically...
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