London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a target of US ire for releasing secret cables, returned to a London jail on Tuesday pending an appeal over a decision to free him on 200,000 pound ($317,400)

Canberra: Dozens of asylum seekers are feared dead after heavy waves smashed their timber boat onto rocks on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean on Wednesday, sinking the boat and throwing 70 to 80 p

New Delhi: India's state-run oil retailers will raise petrol prices starting on Wednesday by the most in six months and New Delhi also plans to lift diesel prices, possibly stoking inflation and addin

Tokyo: Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday it has received 12,000 orders for its Etios sedan in India since it began taking orders on December 1, putting it well on track to meet the car's annual sale

New Delhi: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao begins a three-day visit to India on Wednesday, trying to boost trade and soothe tensions between the two fastest-growing major economies in the world.

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Reuters: India has seen China as a military threat since its defeat in a 1962 war, but with both emerging as uneven economic powers, New Delhi now fears Beijing will use its massive clout to block its

New Delhi: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Wednesday there was enough space in the world for both China and India to grow and that the world's fastest-growing major economies were not competitors,

Mumbai: The owner of Hero Group is set to buy Honda Motor's 26 per cent stake in joint venture Hero Honda for about $1 billion or half the current market value, the Economic Times reported on Tuesday.

Mumbai: Bajaj Auto, India's second largest two-wheeler maker, will raise prices across its range of motorcycles by up to 1,000 rupees starting January 2011, the company said on Tuesday.

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Dec. 13: Rio Tinto India is in talks with an Indian company to develop iron ore mines, a senior company official said, underscoring continued foreign interest in Indian mining despite social oppositio