INDIA

During the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) gala night held in Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi in India on Friday, Sebastian Vettel received the Formula One world champion's trophy.

The Indian government, on Friday, said it overestimated export-related figures by over $9 billion, due to software upgrades and punching errors, resulting in a margin of error of 5.52 per cent which prompted data revision for eight months.

As people continue to migrate away from rural areas and into cities, cities that are growing to devour the land around it, the numbers of people living in slums, shanty towns and informal settlements are skyrocketing.

A fire tore through a seven-story private hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata before dawn Friday, killing at least 84 people, most of them intensive care patients who were asleep and suffocated in the fumes.

A violent fire in a private hospital in Kolkata, India (formerly known as Calcutta) left 84 people dead on Friday.

Who knows the Coca-Cola 125-year-old secret formula? Not many.

The global economic slowdown is a concern but sports revenues worldwide should grow by about 3.7 percent to $145.3 billion by 2015, according to a research report released on Friday.

Hackers broke into the Congress party website and replaced Sonia Gandhi's profile page with sexual innuendo, apparently timing the attack with the party president's 65th birthday on Friday.

UPA government led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seems to be in trouble after failing to implement its retail reform.

India's tax department have frozen 11 bank accounts of Kingfisher Airlines (KING.NS) and 10 of Air India AIR.UL earlier this month as they have failed to pay their service tax dues.

Support grew on Thursday for an EU plan to agree a global climate change pact with binding targets by 2015, after poor nations vulnerable to climate change forged alliances with developed countries.

he op-ed came on the heels of a series of bombings in Mumbai that killed almost two dozen people in mid-July.

In an IDC report on 'Top 10 system software prediction for 2012', the potential success of Windows 8 was given a poor evaluation by the global market research company.

That translates into tens of thousands of kids “disappearing” from India every year.

The Chanel Pre-Fall 2012 show was a nod to Indian decadence melded with Parisian flair and dripping in gold.

The Ministry of Women & Child Development has revealed that dowry cases, as defined under the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, are increasing in India.

A Pakistani court on Thursday rejected a petition from a lawyer asking that authorities be directed to file charges of obscenity and sedition against actress Veena Malik.

The Karmapa is regarded as the third most important figure in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama.

While there are several reasons to celebrate 2011, the death of several prominent Indian celebrities, scholars and artists made it as tragic as it was a joyful year.

Gold prices, like global stocks and major currencies, hardly moved Thursday as investors waited to see if Europe would manage to stanch its debt crisis and avoid a recession, or worse.

Food inflation in the country has eased, sharply, to 6.60 percent from 8.00 percent in the previous week, in the year to Nov. 26, according to government data released on Thursday.