India launches sharia stock index for Muslims
MUMBAI, December 27, 2010 (AFP) - India's Bombay Stock Exchange launched a share index of sharia-compliant companies on Monday in an attempt to open …
MUMBAI, December 27, 2010 (AFP) - India's Bombay Stock Exchange launched a share index of sharia-compliant companies on Monday in an attempt to open …
NEW DELHI, December 26, 2010 (AFP) - The theme of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to India was "friends not rivals," but a border dispute remains a source …
NEW DELHI, December 26, 2010 (AFP) - India's launch of the world's cheapest car, the Nano, was expected to create a vast new market segment in the nation of …
MUMBAI, December 26, 2010 (AFP) - With its religious retreats for meditation and yoga, India has long been sought out by Western visitors eager to escape the …
NEW DELHI, December 24, 2010 (AFP) - Food and politics have always been closely intertwined in the developing countries of South Asia, but when national taste …
NEW DELHI, December 22, 2010 (AFP) - The Indian government, facing mounting public anger over soaring onion costs, on Wednesday scrapped tax on imports of the …
MORABANDAR, December 22, 2010 (AFP) - The Elephanta Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site off the coast of India's financial capital Mumbai, draw hundreds of …
NEW DELHI, December 20, 2010 (AFP) - India suspended exports of onions, a key food staple, on Monday after prices of the vegetable soared, adding to the …
HATIBANDHA, December 19, 2010 (AFP) - Every year, Bangladesh's garment sector produces billions of dollars worth of high-street clothes for major western …
ISLAMABAD, December 18, 2010 (AFP) - China and Pakistan are set to conclude another 10 billion dollars' worth of deals on Saturday, the latest signings on a …
NEW DELHI, December 12, 2010 (AFP) - India's seven-billion-dollar microfinance industry could be thrown into crisis by a bill that seeks to regulate lending to …
NEW DELHI, December 10, 2010 (AFP) - An Indian court ordered state-run Air India on Friday to rehire an airline hostess that the carrier had sacked nearly a …
DHAKA, December 9, 2010 (AFP) - Bangladesh has announced a sweeping deregulation scheme for its power sector in a bid to ease the country's crippling …
MONTREAL, December 9, 2010 (AFP) - India's SpiceJet has ordered 15 Bombardier Q400 NextGen regional aircraft valued at 446 million US dollars, the Canadian …
DHAKA, December 8, 2010 (AFP) - Riot police took to the streets of the Bangladeshi capital on Wednesday to control thousands of angry investors protesting over …
NEW DELHI, December 9, 2010 (AFP) - The Indian government won headlines around the world when it unveiled a prototype 35-dollar tablet computer in July, but …
NEW DELHI, December 7, 2010 (AFP) - India will attend Friday's Nobel peace prize ceremony in Oslo for jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, the country's …
NEW DELHI, December 7, 2010 (AFP) - India's hunger for new technology is as sharp in its countless small villages as in its shiny office towers or shopping …
DHAKA, December 6, 2010 (AFP) - A Bangladeshi-flagged vessel hijacked by pirates in the Arabian Sea off the coast of India was heading towards the Somali coast …
NEW DELHI, December 5, 2010 (AFP) - An explosion of working-age people in India could serve as an engine of economic growth -- or bring social turmoil, experts …