ERIKA KINETZ

Associated Press Writer
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Mumbai still vulnerable 1 year after terror attack

The walls that the rockets blew out have not been repaired, and the plaster is a dense scattershot of bullet holes. Dozens of holes, blasted by grenades, pockmark the linoleum floors.

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Reliance Industries profit down 6.4 pct

Indian oil, gas and petrochemicals giant Reliance Industries Ltd. said Thursday its profit fell 6.4 percent in the second quarter on smaller refining margins.

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Nissan unveils new platform of cheap, light cars

It has become a vexing, billion-dollar question for the world's automakers: How do you build small, cheap cars profitably?

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India's natural gas tied up in $17B family feud

An ashen Anil Ambani, one of the world's richest men, stood before a clutter of television cameras, close to tears.

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India's richest man caps his salary at $3.3M

India's richest man announced he will voluntarily cap his compensation at 150 million rupees ($3.3 million) this year, saying he will get by on about a third of his take-home pay from the previous year.

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Indian vehicle sales rise 17 percent in September

India's auto sales rose 17.1 percent in September from a year earlier to 212,975 vehicles, as holiday buying, easier credit and rising consumer confidence fueled growth in India's auto sector.

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Hollywood's calling A.R. Rahman

Hollywood is finally getting to know A.R. Rahman, the short, humble and deeply religious man who took two Oscars home to southern India for his work on "Slumdog Millionaire."

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India's economic growth accelerates to 6.1 percent

India's economy picked up pace in the latest quarter as government spending helped to overcome the worst of the global downturn but drought threatens to stall the recovery.

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FBI expert testifies at Mumbai terror attack trial

The gunmen who laid siege to the Indian city of Mumbai carried GPS devices and a satellite phone that shows they traveled from Pakistan to India, an FBI expert testified Wednesday at the trial of the lone surviving suspect.

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ID'ing the masses may solve Indian identity crisis

It's a problem of mind-boggling complexity: How do you identify 1.2 billion people without documents, who sometimes rely just on word of mouth to establish who they are?

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India's Infosys says quarterly profit up 1.6 pct

Indian outsourcing bellwether Infosys Technologies Ltd. reported a slight rise in quarterly profit and warned of a steep drop in revenue as its global clients struggle to cope with the economic slowdown.

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'Slumdog' child star moves into new home

"Slumdog Millionaire" child star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail and his mother moved into their new home Tuesday, leaving behind a corrugated metal slum shanty for four solid walls, doors that lock and an indoor toilet.

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Indian outsourcer Mahindra Satyam gets new CEO

Mahindra Satyam, a rebranded Indian outsourcing company nearly brought down in a $1 billion fraud, said Tuesday that C.P. Gurnani, an executive from its new controlling shareholder, has been appointed chief executive.

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Special effects outsourcing grows in India

Outsourcing to India, long dominated by software engineering and back-office work, is expanding in new terrain: special effects for movies.

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'Slumdog' child star gets new home

The makers of the hit movie "Slumdog Millionaire" have bought a new home for one of the two child stars discovered in Mumbai's slums.

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Bollywood ends boycott over multiplex fee dispute

Bollywood producers and Indian multiplex officials said Friday they resolved their dispute over revenue sharing, ending a nine-week boycott on new film releases in the movie-mad country.

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Indian textile workers slide back into poverty

The trouble began far away from the leaky concrete house and stand of banana trees that Sakunthala Radhakrishnan calls home.

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Shanty of 'Slumdog' star spared in new demolition

City authorities demolished the homes around the recently rebuilt shack of "Slumdog Millionaire" child star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail but left his standing Saturday.

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India's Bharti Airtel renews merger talks with MTN

India's Bharti Airtel Ltd. and South Africa's MTN Group Ltd. have renewed merger talks, possibly opening the way for the creation of an emerging markets mobile phone giant with $20 billion in combined revenues, the companies said in statements Monday.

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Official: 'Slumdog' kids to get government homes

The government will give the two impoverished child stars of the hit movie "Slumdog Millionaire" new homes, the state's top official said Friday, creating the possibility that the homeless children will soon own not one but two new apartments.

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Candidates from Mumbai's elite fail to inspire

Meera Sanyal, a senior banker, was supposed to be the new face of Indian politics.

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India stocks vault 17 percent on election euphoria

India's stock market surged an unprecedented 17 percent, forcing trade to close for the day, after the Congress Party's definitive victory in national elections set the scene for long-delayed economic reforms.

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Bollywood boycott dulls Indian screens

The dispute between Bollywood producers and Indian multiplexes over revenue sharing hardened this week, with no end in sight to the monthlong boycott of new releases.

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No happily ever after yet for 'Slumdog' kid stars

Rubina Ali's house is flooded with sewer water, and her feet itch. She's discovered a world of creepy-crawlies in the opaque gray water: scorpions, rats and slithery creatures with lots of legs.

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Police: No evidence against dad of 'Slumdog' star

Indian police said Wednesday they have so far found no evidence that the father of a child star in the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" tried to sell the 9-year-old girl to an undercover reporter.

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