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A dozen years ago, many believed that India's Tata Group — the country's oldest and largest conglomerate — was a bloated behemoth that would eventually go under.
Vodafone's Indian joint venture is transferring all of its information technology-related work to IBM Corp. under a 5-year contract that will reduce costs and improve services, the company said Monday.
An investment group from the United Arab Emirates said Monday it has set up a joint venture in India that will invest $5 billion over the next five years to develop residential and commercial properties.
India's trade minister insisted Tuesday that activists were hyping accusations of child labor in the country, taking a defensive stand following a report that Gap Inc. had sold clothes made by children in a New Delhi sweatshop.
After struggling for years to gain a foothold in India, General Motors Corp. is tasting some success lately. In the past six months, the U.S. automaker sold nearly 2 1/2 times the number of cars it sold in India in the same period last year, even as overall demand for new cars was hit by a sharp rise in interest rates.
India's governing coalition chose a woman as its presidential candidate Thursday, setting the stage for her to become the country's first female president.
India's Infosys Technologies Ltd. said quarterly net profit jumped 70.4 percent from a year ago on sustained momentum in outsourcing and predicted on Friday that revenue would grow as much as 30 percent this year.
The United States downplayed prospects for an immediate breakthrough in stalled global trade negotiations as top officials from six member nations of the World Trade Organization headed Thursday for talks in India.
One would go missing every few weeks — a boy on his way to buy juice, a teenage girl coming home from a day of housecleaning, a young woman working as a maid.
Indian telecommunications company Bharti Airtel has signed a tie-up deal with Wal-Mart to open a chain of retail stores across the country, Sunil B. Mittal, Bharti Airtel's chief executive officer, said Monday.
Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday agreed to provide Internet search services to Indian mobile phone users as Chief Executive Steve Ballmer met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the company's expansion in the country.
Even as Indian call centers have thrived in the past decade, helping U.S. companies cut costs and creating hundreds of thousands of jobs here, they have faced a seemingly insurmountable problem: Most Indian employees speak heavily accented English.
A daylong strike by local political groups shut down India's technology hub, Bangalore, forcing many outsourcing companies to shift work elsewhere in the country and abroad.
India deployed tens of thousands of police to patrol major cities and posted sharpshooters on rooftops Tuesday as the country marked 59 years of independence under a terror alert.
A southern Indian state on Wednesday banned the sale and production of Coke, Pepsi, Sprite and other soft drinks made by the Indian subsidiaries of Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc., an official said.
Even as the Indian stock market tumbled, the government said Wednesday that the economy grew a surprising 9.3 percent in the January-March quarter from a year ago, highlighting the vitality that has lured international investors to the country.
Computer maker Dell Inc. said Monday it planned to add 5,000 jobs in India over the next two years, bringing its work force in the country to 15,000.
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