India is likely to avoid a drought in 2012 as monsoon rains needed to irrigate 60 per cent of the farmland in the major grains producer are likely to be average.

India is the world's second-biggest p

Apple Inc is likely to see its sales growth nearly double in greater China in 2012, but the pace will probably taper thereafter as competitors hit back with new products in the biggest global mobile p

eBay Inc is stepping up investment in India to boost its share of a market dominated by domestic players such as Flipkart and fend off encroachment from arch-rival Amazon.com.

The e-commerce company

Samsung Electronics posted a record $5.2 billion quarterly profit as it shifted over 20,000 Galaxy smartphones an hour in January-March, outselling Apple's iPhone in a duel for the lucrative high end

ICICI Bank, India's No. 2 lender, reported a better-than-expected 31.1 per cent rise in quarterly profit, bolstered by higher income from non-core operations and strong loan growth.

Net profit rose t

French President Nicolas Sarkozy swung further to the right on Thursday, proposing a new licence to shoot for police pursuing suspects, in an increasingly frantic quest to woo far-right National Front

An expected licencing income helped Biocon, India's top-listed biotechnology company, post better-than-expected quarterly profit and lift its shares more than 4 per cent, but it said the global busine

India is studying the potential of shale gas and is watching safety and technology developments in other countries closely, the deputy chairman of its planning commission said on Thursday.

"We are ex

A major upgrading of its refinery in Gujarat by Essar Oil should boost its margins by up to $5 a barrel, its chief executive said on Thursday, adding nearly three quarters of a billion dollars to its

William Shakespeare may well have worked with contemporary playwright Thomas Middleton when creating All’s Well That Ends Well, Oxford academics believe, adding to evidence that the Bard collaborated