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Buffett, the billionaire CEO and chairman of Berkshire, has said he would support Ajit Jain if ever he decided to seek Buffett’s post.

The World Health Organization is concerned about avian influenza, noting the diversity of flu viruses currently circulating is unprecedented.

India unveiled Saturday a federal budget that promises universal social security to its impoverished millions and tax sops to big business.

India's leader did not mince his words as he tore the former ruling party down in his Lok Sabha speech.

India's economic survey, presented annually by the finance ministry, predicts that India will be one of the fastest growing economies this year.

An Indian male Muslim student was hospitalized after he was wrongly identified in a photograph with female Hindu classmates.

A quarter of the countries surveyed still report high levels of religious hate crimes despite declining levels of hostility.

Consumers waste staggering amounts of food each year, boosting greenhouse gas emissions and costing precious dollars, a new study found.

Startups driven by Asia's mobile phone boom are attracting investors like never before.

The Narendra Modi government unveiled a plan to "transform" a 162-year-old organization that has been struggling with its finances.

India has become the world's second largest beef exporter, but producers say religious opposition is growing.

Carriers and countries are quickly preparing for the launch of Samsung's latest flagship smartphone.

Rajendra Pachauri, who headed the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, resigned Tuesday over allegations in India.

The leader of a prominent Indian Hindu nationalist party accused the iconic Christian missionary of being motivated by a desire to convert the poor to Christianity.

The party had failed to secure a clear majority in the December elections in the Muslim-dominated state.

India on Tuesday said it would accept the recommendations of a panel that advocates increasing share of its states in the federal tax revenues.

Uber partners with another mobile app company to provide safety scores for different localities in New Delhi, India.

Another arrest was made in New Delhi as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged theft of government documents by energy companies.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India has secured the release of the Rev. Alexis Prem Kumar, a Jesuit priest held captive in Afghanistan since last June.

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A new study claims more than one-half of India's 1.2 billion people have their lives cut short because of "dangerously high" levels of air pollution.