INDIA

Monty Panesar is in the first Sikh test cricketer ever to play for a national team outside of India.

Slow economic growth and deteriorating loan portfolios will continue to weigh on the banks, S&P said.

Office 365 University aims to reduce misuse and piracy in India, where 63 percent people were found to be using unlicensed software.

Six foreign companies were fined by China for fixing the price of milk powder -- a coveted commodity in the world's most populous nation.

President Richard Nxon and Yahya Khan both played influential roles in Asian geopolitics in the early 1970s.

Lawsuits buy big pharma more time in India, but it's the drug development divisions that will ultimately lose out.

Infosys rejected claims of discrimination after a job applicant in the U.S. filed a lawsuit alleging bias toward South Asians.

Agents belonging to Pakistan’s ISI have been targeting Indian officials to gather sensitive data using fake phone calls and spyware, India says.

With the rupee performing at its lowest in years and GDP at a nine-year low, India has appointed a former IMF chief economist to its Reserve Bank.

The German auto giant built a $771-million plant in march 2009. Since then it has averaged 189 cars a day.

The project, which was just inaugurated in July, is criticized for benefiting China at the expense of Myanmar.

Lacking the water that's needed to extract its own shale gas, India looks to import more liquid natural gas from the U.S.

The attack on the Indian military post is expected to further hamper efforts by Pakistan and India to initiate fresh peace talks.

In a bid to clear misconceptions over foreign drugmakers' patent setbacks, the Indian government says Roche is to blame for its patent rejection.

In February 1991, Indian troops allegedly raped at least two dozen (or as many as one-hundred) girls and women in the neighboring towns of Kunan and Poshpora in Jammu & Kashmir.

Reformist President Hassan Rouhani was sworn in on Sunday, amid concerns that Iran may pursue an alternative path to develop nuclear weapons.

There is some confusion over the motivation behind the brutal attack.

A warmer world is a more hot-blooded one, scientists say.

India revoked a patent on the breast cancer drug Tykerb, claiming it wasn't innovative enough to warrant protections.

The U.S. Secretary of State made a pseudo-promise that drone strikes in Pakistan may end "very, very soon."

Brar has apparently survived eight assassination attempts by Sikh militants since the calamitous days of 1984.