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India’s United Breweries drops Taittinger bid
India’s biggest distiller, the United Breweries Group, said on Monday it had dropped plans to buy French champagne group Taittinger as ”local groups” had stepped in with a new…
India see off England and wrap up series
Captain Rahul Dravid led from the front as India crushed England by four wickets on Thursday to take an unassailable 4-0 lead in the seven-match one-day series. Dravid fashioned…
‘For anyone it is tough to forget a disaster’
While India celebrates Republic Day on Thursday, for many in western Gujarat state the date will bring back terrifying memories of an earthquake that struck with savage force…
Clemenceau case may doom Indian shipbreaking
India’s struggling shipbreakers fear doom for their industry if tighter laws are introduced in the wake of the controversy over an asbestos-laden French aircraft carrier. A…
Indian biotech firms cash in on hope for tomorrow
Cashing in on a high birth rate and the enormous potential of stem-cell research, India’s biotechnology firms are coaxing more parents to bank blood from their newborn’s…
Cash-rich Indian technology workers home in on luxury
Manoj Namburu ran a technology consulting firm in the United States before he moved to India’s hi-tech capital three years ago to build luxury houses for wealthy software…
Quake survivors left out in the cold
Indian quake survivor Altaf Hussein’s patience has worn thin. Every day for the past 10 days he has queued for kerosene from government trucks, and every day he has gone back…
Hopes fade for finding flood survivors in India
Workers began a massive clean-up and rescuers searched for survivors under mountains of debris in western India after record monsoon rains claimed 920 lives, officials said on…
Call centres fuel growth of Indian IT industry
Headhunters in India’s Silicon Valley are jumping onto the IT-enabled services bandwagon by providing contract workers and software engineers to foreign firms for ”back-office”…