India
August 28, 2012
NEC Corp. said Aug. 28 that it is planning to cultivate chemical-free strawberries in India in an attempt to create jobs for the poor and spread the NEC brand.
August 27, 2012
NEW DELHI--The head of Suzuki Motor Corp. vowed that his company will continue doing business in India, despite a recent deadly riot at a plant of Suzuki Motor’s Indian unit...
August 25, 2012
NEW DELHI -- An Indian official says India, Iran and Afghanistan will hold talks on giving greater access to landlocked Afghanistan, a move that could also ease Iran's...
August 24, 2012
KOKRAJHAR, India--Escalating ethnic violence in northeastern India between minority Bodos and Muslims has left more than 80 people dead, forcing hundreds of thousands of...
August 24, 2012
Mitsui & Co. is to take a 30 percent stake in bathroom-fittings manufacturer Toto India Industries Pte., Mitsui said Aug. 23.
August 23, 2012
NEW DELHI -- India's Central Bureau of Investigation is probing possible corruption in the sale of coal concessions to private companies, it said on Aug, 22, as the affair...
August 20, 2012
DHANA, India--In a cramped and stifling room three meters by three meters in this village, three to four factory workers were forced to sleep side by side on the floor.
August 20, 2012
JFE Steel Corp. announced on Aug. 20 that it has signed an agreement with its strategic partner JSW Steel Ltd. to provide manufacturing technology for the production of...
August 16, 2012
NEW DELHI--Maruti Suzuki, India's largest car maker, said on Aug. 16 it would restart production at its Manesar factory on Aug. 21 after sacking 500 workers over a deadly riot...
August 14, 2012
Sumitomo Corp. and Mukand Ltd. agreed Aug. 14 to establish a joint venture for the processing of specialty steel long products in India.
August 13, 2012
NEW DELHI--An Indian guru known to millions from a television show on Hinduism and yoga was arrested at a protest against corruption near the parliament on Aug. 13, putting...
August 12, 2012
When shoppers buy something from Inheels, a fashion house based in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, they find a tiny letter attached to their purchases with a string.
August 10, 2012
Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. will establish a sales company in India to strengthen sales of replacement tires in the country, where the market is expected to keep growing,...
August 06, 2012
GUWAHATI, India -- Hundreds of thousands of people sheltering in squalid, overcrowded camps in India's northeast desperately need food, water and medicines after fleeing some...
August 04, 2012
NEW DELHI -- India plans to send a satellite via an unmanned spacecraft to orbit Mars next year, joining a small group of nations already exploring the red planet, a government ...
August 04, 2012
MUMBAI -- India needs a more cohesive energy policy and stringent grid management to avoid a recurrence of the power outages that hit hundreds of millions of people this week,...
July 31, 2012
NEW DELHI--Half of India's 1.2 billion people were without power on July 31 as the grids covering a dozen states broke down, the second major blackout in as many days and an...
July 30, 2012
NEW DELHI--A massive grid failure in Delhi and much of northern India left more than 300 million people without electricity on July 30 in one of the worst blackouts to hit the...
July 25, 2012
KOKRAJHAR, India--Indian security forces patrolled deserted streets on July 25 after days of ethnic riots in Assam state killed at least 36 people, forced tens of thousands to...
July 24, 2012
GUWAHATI, India--Police shot at a roving mob in India's northeastern state of Assam on July 24 as security forces struggled to contain ethnic fighting that has killed 22 people ...