Following on its previous, highly-sucessful roll-out of the Dominos Pizza brand in that country, India's Jubilant FoodWorks has opened a Dunkin' Donuts in New Delhi, the first store in what the company expects to be a hundred-location chain within five years. The operation is a joint venture between that company and Dunkin' Brands International in the United States.
EBay Incorporated (NASDAQ: EBAY) will open a new software development center in Bangalore, India which will employ as many as 1,000 engineers to support its eBay Marketplaces and PayPal products, the company announced Tuesday.
India Tuesday conveyed to the US that it has to look at the Western sanctions on Iran beyond the issue of energy, as it has critical stakes in the region.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned Pakistan that it must do a better job of fighting terrorists operating within its borders, according to the Press Trust of India.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade Tuesday are: FreightCar America, Zynga Inc, Micron Technology, Akorn, Patriot Coal Corp, Mako Surgical Corp, Fossil Inc, Electronic Arts, Wynn Resorts and United States Steel Corp.
Myanmar can post six percent economic growth next year if the right reform steps are taken by the government, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said.
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp has lowered its full-year forecast due to a slowdown in demand for IT outsourcing.
Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd., the Singaporean sovereign-investment vehicle and RRJ Capital, a private equity fund run by former Temasek executive Richard Ong, will jointly invest about $468 million in Houston's Cheniere Energy Incorporated (Nyseamex: LNG), as Singapore pursues its goal of becoming an Asian hub for liquid natural gas (LNG).
India has delayed for a year the implementation of controversial rules, first announced in mid-March, to combat tax-avoidance, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told lawmakers in New Delhi on Monday.
The U.S. is pushing India to cut its imports of Iranian oil. But even as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Kolkata on Sunday to discuss the issue along with U.S.-India economic ties, a larger Iranian delegation was simultaneously traveling through New Delhi.
A promising new birth control treatment -- for men, not women -- looks to be the future of contraception. It's safe, relatively uninvasive, 100 percent effective, and completely reversible. The procedure is called Reversible Inhibition of Sperm Under Guidance, or RISUG.
In an interim relief to the foreign investors, Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday said that the government would delay the implementation of the General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR) by one year.
Gold eased on Monday after elections results in France and Greece that reflected strong anti-austerity feeling raised concerns over the euro zone's ability to battle its debt crisis, knocking the euro to a three-month low against the dollar.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday pitched for the opening up of the Indian retail market for foreign direct investment (FDI) and asked the government to do more on Iran oil cuts.
Asian stock markets declined Monday after election results from Greece and France fueled concerns about Europe reviving the debt crisis.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Saturday asked Bangladesh to exploit its strategic geo-location and said that its location between India and China, the two aggressively developing economies, gave it tremendous opportunity for development.
The sharp decline in the Indian rupee coupled with strong demand for the dollar forced the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to intervene and announce measures to ease the pressure on of the rupee.
Labeled the Sopranos of the Afghanistan war, the Haqqanis have built themselves from what was once a rebel force bent on removing the Russians in the 1980s into a Mafia-like organization dealing in smuggling, extortion, and assassination.
Dechen Wangdu is an American-born activist of Tibetan descent. For her entire life, she has been devoted to the cause of Tibetan liberation from China. When she met Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, the two joined forces to fight against injustice together.
The Beastie Boys rapper is reported dead at 47, according to Richard Simmons' entertainment website and gossip site TMZ.
Indian Rupee dropped to four-months-low of 53.83 at midsession before closing at 53.41/42 against dollar on Thursday, despite Reserve Bank of India's's suspected interventions. Rupee has been continuing its steady fall and the analytics are expecting the Indian currency to touch an all time low of 55.00 per dollar within a short period.
An Indian High Court Thursday dismissed the notion that refusal to have sex without a condom will be considered as a basis for filing divorce.
