U.S. business groups are urging U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to press India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee this week on proposed changes to India's tax law they fear could badly damag

Volkswagen's Audi division said it agreed to buy Italian motorcycle maker Ducati, adding a 12th brand to the German auto maker's portfolio of passenger cars, trucks and ultra-luxury vehicles.

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State-run Indian banks are likely to give in to a government directive and lower lending and deposit rates within the next few days after the RBI made a deeper than expected cut to its policy rate on

Fuel retailers have threatened to hike petrol prices by about 15 per cent if the government does not temporarily regulate prices and compensate them for losses on sales, further evidence the liberalis

The launch in India of a new BlackBerry by Research In Motion Ltd is not just a nod to its lower-end users who love it less for its security, push email and seamless roaming than for its simplicity an

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday a coordinated Taliban attack showed a “failure” by Afghan intelligence and especially by Nato, as heavy street fighting between insurgents and the security fo

About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking contaminated water at a high school in the country's north, officials said, blaming it on conservative radicals opposed to female e

Hong Kong may bar mainland Chinese mothers from giving birth in public hospitals next year to ease over-crowding in local maternity wards, the city's health chief said on Tuesday.

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An increase in small savings collections is likely to reduce pressure of government borrowing via dated securities and treasury bills in the current fiscal year, the economic affairs secretary told CN

South African President Jacob Zuma, who turned 70 last week, will marry for the sixth time next weekend when he takes his long-time fiancée, Bongi Ngema, as his fourth current wife, his spokesman said