India
May 25, 2013
The Japanese government has decided to restart talks with India to reach a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement. The move is aimed at paving the way for exports of Japanese...
May 22, 2013
NEW DELHI--India's oil imports from Iran fell 34.2 percent in April from March, data from trade sources showed on May 22, bolstering the country's case for the renewal of a...
May 22, 2013
Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery Inc. said on May 22 that it will acquire all the shares in India's leading supplier of continuous casting machines, Concast (India) Ltd....
May 20, 2013
Japan and India are set to resume official negotiations on a nuclear energy agreement, which were suspended after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011, sources said.
May 20, 2013
NEW DELHI--India and China will study new ways to ease tensions along their ill-defined border, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on May 20 in his first foreign trip since taking ...
May 20, 2013
KABUL, Afghanistan--Afghan President Hamid Karzai will seek increased military aid from India during a three-day visit starting May 20 and will discuss recent cross-border...
May 20, 2013
NEW DELHI--Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier visited India on May 19 on his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to ...
May 13, 2013
BEIJING--New Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will visit India and Pakistan on his first foreign trip since assuming office, on a week-long overseas foray that will also take in...
May 13, 2013
LAHORE, Pakistan--Nawaz Sharif, who is poised for victory after Pakistan's May 11 election, said he had spoken at length with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of rival India and...
May 08, 2013
BEIJING--While the recent troop standoff in a remote Himalayan desert spotlights a long-running border dispute between China and India, the two emerging giants are engaged in a ...
May 07, 2013
Cram school operators struggling with a shrinking domestic market are pitching Japanese-style teaching methods to other Asian countries, where higher birthrates and growing...
May 07, 2013
The Obama administration's strategic shift to Asia is a smart policy, but its China blind spot could be its undoing, writes defense and security journalist Trefor Moss in The...
May 06, 2013
NEW DELHI--Their classroom is a flattened patch of dirt and rocks under the elevated rail tracks. Their blackboards are rectangles painted on a chipped concrete wall. Their...
May 03, 2013
JAMMU, India--A Pakistani prisoner was badly beaten in an Indian jail on May 3 in apparent revenge for a fatal attack on an Indian jailed for spying in Pakistan whose death has ...
May 02, 2013
NEW DELHI--The platoon of Chinese soldiers slipped across the boundary into India in the middle of the night, according to Indian officials. They were ferried across the...
April 24, 2013
In an effort to grow its instrument cluster business in India, Denso Corp. has acquired a majority of shares in a maker of instrument clusters for passenger vehicles, the...
April 23, 2013
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko will visit India, probably around the fall, to belatedly celebrate last year's 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
April 23, 2013
NEW DELHI--A child disappears. Police are called. Nothing happens.
April 22, 2013
NEW DELHI--Indian police arrested a second man on April 22 in connection with the rape and torture of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi and parliament was adjourned twice amid...
April 18, 2013
NEW DELHI--Honda Motor Co. is set to release its most affordable commuter motorcycle in India, priced at 43,150 rupees (78,000 yen, or $795), in May.