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State-run Air India will push ahead with its purchase of 27 of Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner aircraft, India's Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on Tuesday, despite a heavy debt burden and a long-running dispute with the plane maker.

Royal Bank of Scotland is closing its equity capital market and corporate finance units in South Korea and cash equities businesses in Indonesia, Singapore and Korea, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

In Sweden, monetary transactions made with physical cash are down to three percent of the national economy... and the rest of the world may be closer to cashless than you think.

Manohar Aich, the 1952 Mr. Universe international bodybuilding champ, celebrated his 100th birthday with his children, grandchildren and great-great children in Kolkata, India on Sunday.

Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) downloaded $45 billion, to borrow a phrase from the Financial Times, to its shareholders Monday, lifting both its own stock and the already buoyant broader market.

India, now the world's largest arms importer, accounted for 10 percent of all weapons imported during the period, according to the Stockholm International Peace Institute.

On New Year's Eve 2004, after months of losing weight and suffering fevers, night sweats and shortness of breath, student Anna Watterson was taken into hospital coughing up blood.

Maoists told Indian TV that the Italians were seized after they took objectionable photographs of tribal peoples in the interior regions of Orissa.

Air India Ltd. will receive a 40 billion rupee ($800 million) cash infusion from the Indian government under the new federal budget beginning April 1.

Major car manufacturers will raise prices across the board in India following a budget announcement by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday, Indian newspaper The Hindu reported.

On New Year's Eve 2004, after months of losing weight and suffering fevers, night sweats and shortness of breath, student Anna Watterson was taken into hospital coughing up blood.

Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born British author of the controversial novel The Satanic Verses, has drawn an unfavorable comparison between Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and Libya's slain dictator Moammar Gadhafi, implying that Khan is a dictator in waiting.

The Internet economy of the G20 countries is predicted to reach $4.2 trillion in 2016, according to a report in the Boston Consulting Group's Connected World series.

Team India burned the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka Sunday as they once again marked a glorious win against Pakistan in the Asia Cup tri-series.

China has become less dependent on arms imports and, at the same time, has increased the volume of its arms exports, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

According to market figures released by research firm IDC, China is bound to overtake the U.S. in smartphone shipments by the end of 2012, becoming the leading market. IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker forecast that China’s smartphone market will climb from 18.2 percent in 2011 to 20.7 percent in 2012, while U.S.’ market would drop from 21.3 to 20.6 percent over the same timeframe.

Bollywood diva Kareena Kapoor has confirmed that she will marry her beau Saif Ali Khan by the end of the year.

A Pakistani judicial panel which arrived in India on Wednesday has been barred by a court from meeting and interviewing Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor among the attackers of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that killed 166 people.

Judea Pearl, father of American journalist Daniel Pearl who was abducted and beheaded by Taliban militants in Pakistan, has been honored with the prestigious 2011 A.M. Turing Award for artificial intelligence.

French oil giant Total's deal to buy a bigger stake in its $34 billion Ichthys liquefied natural gas project in Australia from partner Inpex Corp <1605.T> may be delayed and will only close before the year-end, its chief executive said.

The Indian police have linked the attack on the Israeli diplomat's wife in New Delhi last month to a failed bomb attack in Bangkok, allegedly by a group of Iranian men.