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India's food inflation accelerated in the week ended Oct. 8, reflecting stubborn pricing pressures that have shown little signs of ebbing despite a dozen interest rate increases and continue to be the most serious challenge for the authorities.
Lacklustre festival season gold demand in India improved as consumers headed to jewelry shops on one of the most auspicious days in the Hindu calendar, but investment demand for coins and bars was still far below normal.
While the business climate in South Asian countries is improving, excessive regulations mean it is far from easy for local entrepreneurs to run their businesses here, according to a new report by the World Bank.
Reliance Industries plans to offer fourth-generation wireless broadband services across India by mid-2012, along with a range of tablet computers for different income groups, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
Indian shares ended lower Thursday, but rebounded from a nearly 2% intraday fall because of short-covering ahead of derivatives expiry due Tuesday.
Cairn India posted a decline in its quarterly net profit for the first time in the past eight quarters as it made a one-time provision for royalty payments on crude output from a key producing block in the north western state of Rajasthan.
Bajaj Auto missed market expectations with a 6% rise in quarterly profit, as a one-time notional foreign-exchange loss offset a robust operating performance.
Biocon, India's largest biotechnology company by revenue, has beaten analysts' expectations with just a 3.9% drop in second-quarter consolidated net profit as sales growth strengthened.
Bharti Enterprises, the parent of India's Bharti Airtel and Softbank said they have formally launched an equal joint venture to focus on mobile internet in India, the world's second largest mobile market.
India expects 6.5 trillion rupees ($132 billion) of investments in its telephone networks by 2017 as the South Asian nation plans to have provisions for 1.2 billion telecom users, a note by the Department of Telecommunications said.
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If there was anywhere in India where the Occupy Wall Street movement would catch on, it would have to be Kolkata, the capital of what has historically been one of India's most left-wing states. In pictures.
A child painted idols, Tibetans protest in New Delhi, a helicopter crash in Jharkhand and more.
A young band from Pakistan has packaged many of the country's social and political taboos into an explosive three-minute video that has gone viral on the Internet.
Amit Agarwal gives an insight to useful but lesser-known iOS apps to enhance your iPad.
Libyan fighters drove the last supporters of Moammar Gadhafi out of his hometown of Sirte in a few hours of fierce gun battles, then declared victory over the last major resistance two months after the fall of Tripoli.
Jack Dorsey, creator of Twitter, says that you can't make a call about the microblogging service's ability to compete in China -- where it is currently blocked -- until it is given a fair chance there.
The subsidized dirt-cheap tablet is the latest in a line of dangerous government gambles.
Barely two months ago, as the self-styled Gandhian Anna Hazare fasted publicly in Delhi's biggest square against corruption, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party couldn't stop smirking at the flailing fortunes of the ruling Congress party.
Does a bonus for Diwali help motivate employees or has it lost its relevance because employees take it for granted? HR executives debate.
Kenyan helicopters launched airstrikes inside neighboring Somalia against bases of Islamist militant group al Shabaab, as France announced that a 66-year-old French woman abducted by Somali militants last week in Kenya had died in captivity.
Under pressure to revive UBS's fortunes and help the firm recover from a rogue-trading scandal, the Swiss bank's interim chief is preparing to shrink its once high-flying investment-banking unit.
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Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra pleaded for the country's warring political factions to unite to combat a flood that now threatens to engulf parts of the capital.
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Deutsche Börse said net profit almost doubled in the third quarter, helped by higher revenue and a gain from buying out a minority stake in derivatives exchange Eurex.
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Asian stocks ended mostly higher, tracking day-earlier U.S. gains on euro-zone optimism ahead of a summit this weekend, but Apple-related plays lost ground after the company's earnings missed expectations; Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index gained 1.3%.
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The company is scaling back plans due to market volatility. It is now expected to seek a valuation of less $12.5 billion, down from roughly $20 billion.
Foreign executives misunderstand Beijing's succession process in surprising ways.
Food manufacturers are investigating whether packaged products like cheese or juice sell better when placed in the grocer's produce section—near colorful, fragrant fruits and vegetables.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Pakistan later Thursday, the latest in a long-line of attempts, so far unsuccessful, to get Pakistan to attack Taliban havens in North Waziristan.
Some audiophiles find the flat tones and fuzzy hiss of cassette tapes comforting. They see cassettes following their analog brethren, vinyl records, which are currently enjoying a renaissance.
As China's economic growth hovers close to double digits, India is having to admit its 9% GDP expansion goal is now pretty unrealistic.
To many Americans, Occupy Wall Street was a long time coming. On Wall Street, it seems to have been going on for a long time. There's a long thread of Wall Street demonstration that dates back to after the Revolutionary War and establishment of a national bank.
A new service called UltraViolet lets users buy a movie once and then watch it on any of their gadgets.
The self-immolations put exiled Tibetans in a difficult place: while they want to show their support for fellow Tibetans, there is little they can do. Many are also uneasy with the idea of humans setting themselves on fire.
Does the 0-4 score for the Congress party in the recent by-election for one Parliamentary and three state-assembly seats signal a decrease in the party's popularity and presage a depressing future at the upcoming state and national elections?
Occupy Dalal Street, anyone? Yawn. America's Occupy Wall Street movement which started a month ago has caught on in various parts of the world, but it is unlikely to catch fire in India.
Choking off corruption without solving the problems that created it in the first place could have serious unintended consequences that paradoxically may do more harm than good, especially for the poor - the people these causes are supposed to help.
Beth Watkins examines the roles of various villains in famous Bollywood movies and takes a look at how they get their comeuppance. Warning, this column contains some spoilers!
•The Wall Street Journal's South Asia bureau is spending this year on a series of related in-depth articles that examine what the 20 years since India adopted a series of economic reforms have brought the giant nation. Read these articles in a PDF format translated into Hindi.
A former South Korean comfort woman demands a Japanese apology in Seoul, Queen Elizabeth II visits Australia, a lawmaker breaks her 18-day hunger strike in Afghanistan and more.
In today's pictures, police evict squatters in England, a Tibetan monk goes on a hunger strike, Turkish people protest against a Kurdish attack, and more.