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MUMBAI, India -- India's rise has captured the world's imagination, as the economy grows at nearly 9 percent a year and a growing consumer class buys cellphones, cars and homes. [...]

MUMBAI, India -- The British oil giant BP said on Monday that it would pay $7.2 billion to buy into India's fast-growing oil and gas industry. It is BP's second [...]

PANTNAGAR, India -- The Nagla elementary school in this north Indian town looks like many other rundown government schools. Sweater-clad children sit on burlap sheets laid in rows on cold [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED BAMNOD, India -- The 50-year-old farmer knew from experience that his onion crop was doomed when torrential rains pounded his fields throughout September, a month when the Indian [...]

BANGALORE, India -- Nearly two years ago, President Obama rankled many people here when he said that American tax law unfairly benefited companies that created jobs in Bangalore and punished [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED A LIGHT rain started to fall as we drove up to the entrance of Bokor National Park in southern Cambodia. Up ahead lay the decaying remnants of a [...]

MUMBAI, India -- An Indian ministry on Monday approved a long-delayed, $12 billion steel mill and port proposed by Posco, a South Korean company. Foreign companies and governments had been [...]

MUMBAI, India -- Starbucks, the coffee chain based in Seattle, said on Thursday that it would work with Tata Coffee, an Indian company, to buy coffee beans from India and [...]

MUMBAI, India -- Stock markets in India and a handful of other, smaller Asian countries, which surged last year as foreign investors bet on their fast growth, are starting to [...]

NEW HIRE Elizabeth Warren, who is setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, announced her latest significant hire: Holly Petraeus, left, the wife of Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top [...]

MUMBAI, India -- The fortunes of private equity firms took a big hit during the financial crisis, but Henry R. Kravis, the buyout mogul, says he is not ready for [...]

MUMBAI, India -- Microcredit is losing its halo in many developing countries. Microcredit was once extolled by world leaders like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair as a powerful tool that [...]

SIRUSERI, India -- A massive futuristic office complex is rising from a patch of spare, arid land here near the southern Indian city of Chennai. Six butterfly-shaped buildings dock like [...]

MUMBAI, India -- India's financial capital was on high alert Friday after authorities said four terrorists had entered the country and were plotting attacks here during the holidays. Mumbai police [...]

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- A fire at a garment factory north of Dhaka, the capital, killed at least 20 people and injured dozens on Tuesday, in the latest blow to the [...]

MUMBAI, India -- When it was introduced in early 2009, the egg-shaped Tata Nano was billed as a modern-day people's car, an ultracheap vehicle that would bring greater mobility to [...]

MUMBAI, India -- Days ahead of the second anniversary of a deadly terrorist attack on this bustling city, a Jewish center that was the site of some of the most [...]

MADOOR, India -- India's rapidly growing private microcredit industry faces imminent collapse as almost all borrowers in one of India's largest states have stopped repaying their loans, egged on by [...]

NEW DELHI -- When the United States Federal Reserve announced last week that it would buy $600 billion in Treasury bonds to help bolster the economy, it quickly came under [...]

MUMBAI, India -- President Obama, fresh off a stinging electoral defeat for Democrats, opened a 10-day tour of Asia on Saturday with a courtship of corporate America, including private meetings [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED MUMBAI, India -- As President Obama pays his first visit to India this weekend, he may want to take his lead from Mary Kay. Or Harley-Davidson, Cinnabon or [...]

COIMBATORE, India -- As talk of currency battles rumble through the global economy, India has been a reluctant warrior. The reasons are evident here in Coimbatore, a southern city long [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED MUMBAI, India A DAY after the Indian government started a campaign to give identification numbers to all its 1.2 billion citizens, Ajay Banga, the newly minted chief executive [...]

MUMBAI -- First, there was the pro-free-market development model known as the Washington consensus. Then came the Beijing consensus, which is used to describe China's state-led, export-powered growth. Could it [...]

MUMBAI, India -- Two years ago, when the crisis on Wall Street reached its pinnacle, the high-flying Indian stock market fell with a thud as foreign investors took nearly $5 [...]

MUMBAI, India -- Two years ago, when the crisis on Wall Street reached its pinnacle, the high-flying Indian stock market fell with a thud as foreign investors took nearly $5 [...]

MUMBAI, India -- SKS Microfinance, which recently became the first Indian microlender to sell shares in the stock market, should be enjoying a honeymoon right now. The company and its [...]

MUMBAI, India -- Vinod Khosla, the billionaire venture capitalist and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, was already among the world's richest men when he invested a few years ago in SKS [...]

NEW DELHI -- In the United States, law enforcement and security agencies have raised privacy concerns with a new proposal for electronic eavesdropping powers to track terrorists and criminals and [...]

NEW DELHI -- In the last year, the Indian government surprised foreign telecommunications equipment suppliers like Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco Systems by temporarily blocking the import of new network gear. [...]

MUMBAI, India -- A court on Wednesday ruled against Vodafone, the cellphone company, in a tax case that could deal a significant blow to foreign investors who own or want [...]

MUMBAI, India -- In contrast to the slowing growth and continued high unemployment among many developed countries, India said Tuesday that its economy was accelerating. Sharp increases in manufacturing, mining [...]

MUMBAI, India -- In a sign that India and the maker of popular BlackBerry devices might be closer to settling a dispute over law enforcement's access to corporate e-mail, the [...]

PUNE, India -- Call it India's engineering paradox. Despite this nation's rise as a technology titan with some of the world's best engineering minds, India's full economic potential is stifled [...]

MUMBAI, India -- Indian officials and Research In Motion, the maker of popular BlackBerry devices, appear to be making progress toward resolving a battle over the government's ability to monitor [...]

MUMBAI, India -- The police in Bangladesh have arrested three garment industry labor leaders and 18 other people on charges that they organized and participated in violent protests last month. [...]

MUMBAI, India -- The first microfinance company to sell stock to the public in India got a strong endorsement from investors on Monday when its shares closed up 10.5 percent [...]

MUMBAI, India -- The Indian government said Thursday that it would block encrypted BlackBerry corporate e-mail and messenger services if wireless companies did not enable law enforcement authorities to monitor [...]

MUMBAI -- When terrorists stormed this city nearly two years ago, killing at least 163 people, they also dealt a blow to the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, an architectural landmark [...]

NEW DELHI -- The girls gathered in a school auditorium here on a recent Saturday were beaming with pride and nervous with anticipation. They would soon have a chance to [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED The 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai heightened concerns in India over the government's inability to eavesdrop on encrypted communications. In the United Arab Emirates, similar concerns escalated this [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED An Indian company with rich American backers is about to raise up to $350 million in a stock offering closely watched by philanthropists around the world, showing that [...]

The initial public offering of SKS Microfinace has been well chronicled by the news media in India, where the company's founder, Vikram Akula, an Indian-American, has become a celebrity. Time [...]

MUMBAI, India -- A government oversight board in Bangladesh nearly doubled minimum wages in the important garment industry on Wednesday, but the new benchmark is still well short of what [...]

GAZIPUR, Bangladesh -- The eight-lane highway leading from the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, narrows repeatedly as it approaches this town about 30 miles north, eventually depositing cars onto a muddy, potholed [...]

MUMBAI, India -- Protesters barricaded the United Nations offices in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on Tuesday, demanding that the international organization end an investigation into accusations of wartime [...]

MUMBAI, India -- The Indian government on Friday reduced popular fuel subsidies, a long-delayed change that will help policy makers reduce a big budget deficit but one that will also [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED MUMBAI, India -- S. K. Sahai's firm ships containers 2,400 nautical miles from Singapore to a port here in four or five days. But it typically takes more [...]

NEW DELHI -- As Mamata Banerjee presented the Indian Railways budget to Parliament this year, opposition politicians howled in protest whenever a new project she listed was in her home [...]

MUMBAI, India -- One of India's largest automakers, Mahindra & Mahindra, said Wednesday that it would acquire a controlling stake in Reva, an electric car maker in Bangalore, that has [...]