INDIA

Several travel agencies in China are reporting that foreigners have been banned from traveling to the Tibet Autonomous Region, the Chinese name for Central Tibet.

Singh wants the Indian economy to be humming along at 9 percent annual growth again.

In 2009, the Economist Intelligence Unit devised an acronym for six emerging countries, CIVETS, which includes Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa. These countries were categorized as the six countries with the best chance of high, long-term growth.

anetta?s bluntness suggests that the façade of cordiality between Washington and Islamabad has all but evaporated

The outflow from India-focused funds reached an alarming rate in May amid concerns about the sharp fall of the Indian rupee against the dollar and sluggish policy reforms from the government, according to a report.

Asian markets rose Thursday amid hopes that the U.S. Fed would announce another round of monetary easing and European policy makers would take concrete measures to tackle the debt crisis looming over the euro zone.

India's Dalits, also known as Untouchables, endure widespread discrimination and violence despite laws promoting equality.

We need to deepen our defense and security co-operation, and this is why I have come to India, Panetta said.

Asian markets rose Wednesday amid positive economic data from the U.S. and the G7 finance ministers' decision to work closer together to tackle the euro zone economic crisis.

India's BSE Sensex rose Wednesday following positive cues from Asian markets and the rupee gaining.

Up until now, India?s military role in Afghanistan has been minimal.

Asia's newest long-haul budget carrier Scoot took off on its maiden flight from Singapore to Sydney Monday, using a novel approach to saving fuel: iPads.

Panetta's speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore this past weekend was meant to be about America's grand return to the Pacific. Instead, everyone's attention was on China.

India is expected play an active role in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of international forces in the region, said U.S. officials on arrival of the U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Spain said on Tuesday that credit markets were closing to the euro zone's fourth biggest economy as finance chiefs of the Group of Seven major economies were to hold emergency talks on the currency bloc's worsening debt crisis.

In an effort to revive the debt-ridden Air India, the government pumped in Rs. 1,200 crore ($215 million) as equity on Monday, to be put to use in paying employee salaries and vendor dues.

A 63-year-old prohibition law requiring every adult above the age of 25 to get a drinking permit exists in Maharashtra but it's never been taken seriously - until the rave party hogged media headlines. Individuals caught drinking without a permit could be fined 50,000 rupees or jailed for five years.

Asian markets rose Tuesday amid hopes that policy makers in Europe would take measures to stem the debt crisis and regain the economic growth momentum.

Tensions flared in northwestern Myanmar after 10 Muslims were beaten to death by a mob of Buddhist vigilantes Sunday in retaliation to the rape and murder of a girl allegedly by Muslim men.

India's BSE Sensex rose Tuesday, tracking positive cues from other Asian markets and following recovery staged by the rupee.

Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex and NSE's Nifty opened on a negative note and continued in the red in the morning session Monday, weighed down by a slump in the FMCG and consumer durable shares.