India is one of the world's fastest growing and biggest mobile phone markets. And Friday sees the start of the much-delayed auction in which the government is going to sell-off the latest set of third-generation phone licences.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will push India to open its markets in his first visit to India since assuming office.
Reuters - General Motors and its Chinese partner SAIC Motor are to make small cars and commercial vehicles in India, taking a successful 12-year Chinese partnership into one of the world's fastest growing auto markets.
AP - A landslide triggered by torrential seasonal rains swept through a hilly region in southern India, killing at least 42 people, an official said Tuesday.
Time.com - The scientific breakthrough boosts India's ambitious plans for future space missions and will help the country compete in the commercial satellite launching business
Time.com - The American retailer from Arkansas opens a joint venture in the sacred Sikh city of Amritsar, a first step into what it hopes will be a lucrative adventure
The Christian Science Monitor - This week's sit-down between the prime ministers of Pakistan and India may not have removed mountains of suspicion and hostility between these two rivals, but their meeting may have leveled a few foothills.
Indian authorities Tuesday filed a police complaint against Continental Airlines for frisking a former president of the country as he was to travel to New York in April.
