The new supermarket was slated as the shape of retail to come in globalizing India. Now shutters covered its windows, staff meandered outside and customers picked final bargains before its closure.
Climate change and biofuels pose fresh challenges in the fight against poverty, which requires more than ever cooperation among scientists, the new head of an international body for agricultural research said.
Brazil wants to see an open race to head the International Monetary Fund, Finance Minister Guido Mantega was quoted on Friday by Russia's RIA-Novosti news agency as saying.
India's biggest communist party said on Thursday it did not want to pull the government down over a nuclear deal with the United States, but added that this depended on the pact not being pursued.
Nokia, the world's top cellphone maker, said on Thursday India overtook the United States in the second quarter to become its second-biggest market by sales after China.
Japanese car maker Toyota Motor Corp is looking to launch a small car within two years, and the first production facility may be in India, its chairman said on Wednesday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on Wednesday for a broader Asia partnership of democracies that would include India, the United States and Australia but leave out the region's superpower, China.
Indian communists sought to forge a consensus on Wednesday over whether to end support to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's coalition government over a controversial nuclear deal with the United States.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government is struggling to weather a crisis as communist allies threaten to end support over a nuclear energy deal with the United States.
India is committed to developing its nuclear energy capability and other sources of power as its oil bill will impose an unbearable burden as growth continues, the prime minister said on Monday.
Plants that can be grown for fuel are often touted as a vast, clean energy source -- except by those who say precious food is being diverted into gas tanks, and that biofuel crops are using up dwindling land and water.
Asian companies will have a tough time raising funds and face weaker export demand if the global credit squeeze persists and a deteriorating U.S. housing market crimps consumer spending.
The United States cannot renegotiate a historic nuclear energy deal with India which has drawn strong criticism from politicians in New Delhi, the main U.S. negotiator said in remarks published on Friday.
Conductor Zubin Mehta hopes to have an Arab-Israeli in his Israel Philharmonic within 10 years, but he's in no hurry to program Wagner again in Israel.
Oil dropped $2 on Thursday as credit and economic fears pounded global financial markets and as a storm threat to U.S. Gulf refineries and rigs receded.
A new rock band is soothing Kashmir which has been blighted by years of violence and a ban on entertainment by separatist Muslim guerrillas.
The region is still a safer bet than struggling U.S. and European markets despite an expected dip in investment due to higher borrowing costs from the U.S. subprime crises.
While India is doing away with some symbols of British rule, such as the names of some cities and towns, other things, such as language and the university system remain firmly entrenched.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh marked the 60th anniversary of independence from British rule by urging the country to work harder to free itself from the shackles of poverty, ignorance and disease.
Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. is in talks to buy a Ford Motor Co. financing unit in India as a way to secure an additional license to beef up what it can offer clients in that expanding market.
The powerful head of India's ruling Congress party stood firm behind a controversial nuclear deal with the United States on Tuesday as fresh efforts were launched to convince communist allies who have rejected it.
India's Jindal Stainless Ltd. is at a preliminary stage of a $60 million investment for construction of a steel mill in Russia's north-western Leningrad region.
