Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:42 PM EST
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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Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:13 PM EDT
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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Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:54 AM EDT
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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Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:59 AM EDT
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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Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:29 AM EDT
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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Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:09 AM EDT
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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Fri Oct 9, 2009 6:05 AM EDT
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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Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:54 AM EDT
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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Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:50 AM EDT
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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Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:05 AM EDT
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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Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:41 AM EDT
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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Sun Jul 5, 2009 9:06 AM EDT
"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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Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:55 AM EDT
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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Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:41 AM EDT
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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Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:44 AM EDT
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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Fri Jun 5, 2009 6:07 AM EDT
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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Sat May 30, 2009 10:40 AM EDT
The trouble began far away from the leaky concrete house and stand of banana trees that Sakunthala Radhakrishnan calls home.
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Fri May 29, 2009 8:36 PM EDT
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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Mon May 25, 2009 9:33 AM EDT
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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Sat May 23, 2009 6:15 AM EDT
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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Wed May 20, 2009 10:18 AM EDT
Meera Sanyal, a senior banker, was supposed to be the new face of Indian politics.
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Sun May 17, 2009 8:45 PM EDT
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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Thu May 7, 2009 8:39 PM EDT
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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Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:04 PM EDT
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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Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:35 AM EDT
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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