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Wary of foreign retailers, traders go on strike
Tens of thousands of small shopkeepers went on strike across India on Thursday to protest a government decision to allow foreign retail giants like Wal-Mart Stores Inc to enter the country's $450 bill
Rupee logs biggest 1-day gain in more than 2-1/2 yrs
The rupee surged 1.4 per cent on Thursday and posted its largest single-session rise since May 2009, powered by hopes of dollar inflows, a day after the world's six major central banks announced co-or
Maruti sales down 18.5 per cent as India demand slows
Maruti Suzuki, India's top car maker, said sales in November fell 18.5 per cent, as the troubled carmaker partially recovered from a 53 per cent fall registered in October.
Domestic sales were down 1
’79 rerun: UK mission stormed
Iranian protesters briefly took six British embassy staff hostage on Tuesday when they stormed two diplomatic compounds in Tehran, smashing windows, hurling petrol bombs and burning the British flag in a protest against sanctions imposed by Britain.
Samsung wins appeal on Galaxy tab ban in Australia
An Australian court on Wednesday reversed a ban on the sale of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Galaxy tablet computers in the country, handing it a rare victory against rival Apple Inc in the firms' inte
PM defies calls for rollback of FDI in retail sector
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh rejected calls to reverse major retail market reforms, saying the entry of foreign supermarket giants would help modernise the $450 billion sector and fight stubbornly hi
Pressure mounts on Syria's Assad at home and abroad
Pressure is mounting on President Bashar al-Assad with growing foreign condemnation of his repression of the Syrian uprising and attacks by armed rebels that his forces appear unable to stamp out.
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BCCI under investigation
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is under investigation for violating the country's foreign exchange laws, Sports Minister Ajay Maken said on Tuesday.
The government was looking into
Nato attack was blatant aggression: Pakistan Army
A senior Pakistani Army official has said a Nato cross-border air attack that killed 24 soldiers was a deliberate, blatant act of aggression, hardening Pakistan's stance on an incident which could hurt efforts to stabilise Afghanistan.
India’s growth at 6.9% slowest in two years
India's economy grew at its weakest pace in more than two years in the quarter that ended in September, revealing the heavy toll that stubbornly high inflation, rising interest rates and crisis-hit global capital markets are having on Asia's third-biggest economy.
