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This is what India's central bank has been trying to do for a while and with very limited success.

ZTE said it had been told by carriers that certain companies including itself had not qualified in India's security tests.

The Nano, an iconic attempt to produce a reasonably priced car for India's mass market, is a good example.

One of India's most talented young writers exposes the dark side of prosperity in a powerful second novel.

As a measure of India's priorities, consider that the world's second-most-populous country has no more diplomats than tiny New Zealand.

Most of India's crucial rain is brought by the summer monsoon, which falls, with luck, in just a few weeks between June and September.

And Russia is trying to maintain the dominant position it held since the Soviet era as the lead foreign supplier to India's military.

After a week on the Maharajas' Express, India's new luxury train, the 7. 57 from Stoneleigh to Clapham Junction was a bit of a comedown.

For all that, India's African activity may one day prove to be at least as rewarding as China's.

Apart from that, you know, I would certainly put him among the best of India's captains, yes.

The former head of one of India's largest foreign investors shakes his head and says it was naive about putting shareholders' cash there.

The MP, who serves in India's upper house, later denied his televised remarks and said they had been misinterpreted by his opponents.

Indeed, it is possible to detect a belief among some that it is now India's "right" to match China's growth rate of 10%.

ONE of the startling features of India's economic progress is how much opposition it stirs at home.

The comparison is not wholly unfair, since Rahul's disciples talk of him as India's saviour.

Wu said the UN Security Council reforms and India's attempts for a permanent membership would not be discussed at the summit.

Much of the party is still nostalgic for the Nehruvian socialism that for so long impeded India's growth.

There has been a hive of activity over the last few days in the remote village of Tembhli in India's western state of Maharashtra.

Even importing frozen fries was complicated by the fact that such an exotic item did not appear on India's schedule of tariffs and quotas.

There was no accord on sharing river water, nor on an overland transit route through Bangladesh to India's landlocked north-eastern states.

It is often said that Pakistan's decision to build the bomb was motivated by India's explosion of its own device in 1974.

India's current rulers, the mahouts to an elephantine state, seem at least to understand this.

India's tea trade has not changed much since the British started cultivating it there nearly two centuries ago. But changes are brewing.

In the words of one Nepalese political analyst, India's ambassador to Kathmandu was like the "second king" in terms of his local power.

India's government is less willing than some of its intellectuals to see China's actions as a strategic squeeze.

Moreover, he accuses China of trying to bring into question India's sovereignty over the state at the international level.

Sounds like a call to India's politicians for a ramp-up in defense preparations.

India's GDP is just a third of China's, but its growth rate of more than 6% a year lifted average incomes over $1, 000 for the first time.

Messy, frustrating, and more often than not agonizingly slow, India's democracy would seem to be chaotic at the surface.

It has grown at nearly 10 per cent a year for 30 years, and its economy is now four times the size of India's.

A good showing, BJP strategists say, would do much to lure allies in India's south and east, where the BJP itself has no chance.

An unspoken rule has it that India's political class passes difficult reforms only when the economy slows down enough to give it a fright.

He might have heeded his own advice and spent more time on India's biggest headache next door.

Given India's relatively low emissions per head, he said there was "no case" for the "pressure" on India.

But it's less symptomatic of India's ambition to unleash cutting-edge innovation, he says, as much as its desire to tap into a new market.

Now consistent impressive performance in the economic filed in the last decade has seen India's graph going up in the international arena.

Perhaps, but one notable guest will not be there to see it: to India's fury the Queen, the head of the Commonwealth, has decided not to go.

Of India's three listed airlines, a budget carrier, Spicejet, was the only one to turn a profit in the most recent quarter.

Despite India's two decades of rapid growth, Uttar Pradesh's GDP per head is close to that of Kenya.

Less than a year ago India's property market was smouldering with excitement fuelled by unprecedented economic growth.

India's case was that of a 23-year-old who arrived in Hyderabad from New York.

Though theoretically a democracy, India's governance has resembled something of a feudal system in practice.

The dispute over the border is so long-running that India's reaction was no stronger than official outrage and unofficial weariness.

India's technology firms seem to be maturing, with a combination of fierce competition and rising wage costs putting pressure on profits.

Therefore, he said, the moves by India's central bank to try to lift the nation's market can't be looked at in isolation.

The teachers all work from home, which means that the company is better able to avoid India's high-wage employment hotspots .

India's growth rate is close to China's; but signs of overheating suggest that this pace cannot be sustained.

It is all part of a program to help India's rural poor by teaching them to make and install low-cost solar panels.

Coal India's prospectus said the issue should be resolved in a few months through "mutual consultation" .

This helped to release India's telecoms industry from state control and opened it up to private firms, paving the way for a technology boom.

Kevin Rushby, reviewing the book for the Guardian, called it "a witty parable of India's changing society" .

INDIA'S prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, is something of a poet as well as a devout Hindu.

The winning bid is expected to shape India's air power for the next three decades and serve as the bedrock of a strategic partnership.

Indeed, the book gives a strong sense of the confidence of the technocratic elite in India's performance and prospects.

When it peaked at the beginning of this year, using MSCI data, India's multiple was almost double that of the All Country-World index.

Multiple security threats in India's neighbourhood must be on the front burner of any new administration as soon as it is formed.

Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla said the 'modest increase' in policy rates Tuesday is unlikely to derail India's firming economic growth.

India's literacy rate is rising, thanks in part to a surge in cheap private schools for the poor, but it is still far behind China's.

First, India's colonial heritage has left it with an ambivalent attitude to English, along with a desire to preserve local languages.

But one aspect of India's experience after trade liberalisation did not conform to what the researchers had expected.

By the time Dhirubhai died, Reliance was one of India's biggest companies.

First, it would be a mistake to confuse China and India's resistance to binding targets with an absence of action to address global warming.

But rights activists have at least injected urgency into India's efforts to improve the lives of the poor.

He said that roughly half of India's future excess population growth was expected to come from its six poorest states.

For decades, India's sprawling and inefficient bureaucracy has spent billions of dollars to try to drag the poor out of poverty.

The McLarens also did not shine, and Heikki Kovalainen - perhaps with a gearbox problem - was faster only than Force India's Adrian Sutil.

The train sequence is likely to be filmed near Ahmedabad, in India's state of Gujarat, in January.

India's willingness to open its economy in reality is in lamentable contrast to its inability to commit itself at the WTO.

Some of this divergence is inevitable: even to the casual observer, India's economy has always been rather different from America's.

American business, judged by attendance at the Indo-US Business Council at least, has also emerged as a lobbying force on India's behalf.

As India's politicians gear up for a general election, competitive populism is the only game in town.

India's foreign policy has not been monolithic. It has danced to the ebb and flow of domestic political and economic events.

Democracy is not, as some argue, an obstacle to India's progress, but a necessary condition for its existence as a state.

The federal government, which has been rocked by a series of corruption scandals, is trying to kick-start India's stalled reforms process.

The last speaker of an ancient language in India's Andaman Islands has died at the age of about 85, a leading linguist has told the BBC.

This would hurt India's textiles industry, which uses cotton as a raw material, is not in the best financial health and is a huge employer.

In fact, India's business community tends to be family--centered, both at home and abroad.

The money is to be used to expand small irrigation projects to the other half of India's twenty-eight states.

He warned India would not allow Chinese scientists "to climb all over India's glaciers" but wanted a collaborative research programme.

They were motivated by a popular sympathy among Americans of that era for India's nonviolent struggle for independence.

DCB has continued to grow, though it remains one of India's smaller private-sector banks.

What India and the United States are doing today has direct benefits to our people, and assist India's efforts to develop, " he said. "

Mr Mishra reckons foreign debts that must be repaid within a year now equal 48% of India's reserves.

Combined with a scrap-metal business, the store is just enough to lift its owners into the ranks of India's fabled middle class.

ONGC is one of Asia's leading oil and gas conglomerates and India's most valuable company in terms of market capitalization.

To put it more bluntly: the US must learn to receive India's "smart power" as much as it is willing to bestow its own onto India.

But its choice of customers, including India's prostitutes, still marks it out as a public concern.

Reforms that have transformed India's economic prospects were well-entrenched, he said.

Communist conservatives maintain that "democracy is hindering India's development, " he said.

Particular attention, he said, was needed to secure higher productivity in India's eastern states, Bihar and Jharkhand.

But if keeping up with the Wangs is India's economic motive force, the rivalry seems to be largely one-sided.

On Monday, India's Bharti Airtel Ltd. selected Huawei as one of its suppliers for a third-generation wireless network.

A hyphen has reappeared over India's western border, just as the scale of the economic setback hitting India is becoming apparent.

When political genius encounters India's sectarian profusion, it seems to breed a wayward spirituality.

India's home minister said he hoped to make the police responsible for internal security, but gave no timetable.

"India's edge is no secret and future returns will not match the stellar gains of the last three years, " Siegel states.

But Mr Kloppers said he was confident that China and India's growth, and therefore high commodities prices, would continue.

INDIA'S place in the world will also be under discussion when Tim Geitner, America's Treasury secretary, visits Delhi on Tuesday 6th April.

But fancy 3G services are a world away from India's boom today, which is all about basic services and incredibly low prices.

India's soft state encourages the conglomerate form of doing business, whether owned by a bloodline or not.

A spokesman for India's foreign ministry confirmed the offer, which had earlier been made directly to the mosque's chief cleric.

People don't ask me that rhetorical question any more because India's economic growth is quite high now.

India's economic history can be broadly divided into three eras, beginning with the pre-colonial period lasting up to the 17th century.

Overall, I expect India's growth rate to be lower but more stable, and that stability might be worth a lot.

Jaipal Reddy, India's minister for urban development, said the event would go smoothly despite the problems.

And despite Mr Bush's munificent gesture, American firms may also miss out on the coming boom in India's civil-nuclear industry.

India's government calculates the import duty on soy oil not on the actual landed cost of the oil, but on a state-set base price.

India's trade with its neighbors is less than 3% of its total trade. High intraregional trade and foreign-investment barriers are to blame.

In each of these respects, Bangladesh does better than India, despite having only half of India's per capita income.

India's appeal to business rests on the potential size of its market: over 1 billion consumers, spending about $600 billion a year.

Mukesh Ambani, the richest man in India, set up a joint venture with an American hedge fund to enter India's financial-services industry.

And some fear China's visits could quickly turn into a permanent naval presence, limiting India's elbow room in its own backyard.

Nehru and Friedman, at odds over central planning, agreed on at least one point. Both viewed India's development as a long haul.

As you know, India's GDP growth in the last fiscal year is around 8. 3% to 8. 5%.

His ultimate boss, however, India's home minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, was more circumspect.

Hazare wants a lokpal to be able to expose and prosecute the prime minister himself, as well as members of India's judiciary.

As India's economy grows, so will its capability to be one of the U. S.

A woman dumps rubble into a crusher at a mine in India's Jharkhand state.

Mumbai is one of India's filthiest cities. Piles of garbage litter main roads and people can be seen spitting while walking on public roads.

It also comes at a time when India's booming economic growth has begun to slow amid the global financial crisis.

The high cost of the reserves is likely to slow down India's plans, but I doubt it will affect China's plans significantly.

In the last eventuality , the prime minister is likely to be Mayawati, the present chief minister of India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh.

No one expects a nation to act for the common good, but it seems doubtful that India's ban is even in its own narrow interests.

The Bank delegation was also told of India's huge physical infrastructure needs.

Ms Khatum is one of an increasing number of brides imported into Haryana, one of India's richest states.

The state of Orissa, which accounts for a fifth of India's ore exports, also said recently it was considering a similar ban.

Some economists say India's growth rate could surpass that of China in the near future as Beijing cools its export sectors.

INCCA is one of a series of measures by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to strengthen India's scientific base.

India's most senior security officials say that Pakistan is still, in essence, a state run by its army.

But he spoke out forcefully against the terror attacks and said his administration would support India's efforts to catch those responsible.

While that will help expand the economy , lifting India's millions of barely surviving poor into a consuming class won't happen overnight.

India's central bank has raised interest rates six times since January in an attempt to tame double-digit inflation.

India's uneasy relations with China, which prompt it to invest wastefully in nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, do not help either.

China is glad to see the rapid development of India's economy and the constant expansion of its international influence.

India's high inflation and chunky current-account deficit, financed by capital flows, mark it out from most of Asia.

So, we have to see India's problems in the perspective of the larger world problems.

In a recent study of India's public services, the activist and author Samuel Paul concluded that "the quality of governance is appalling. "

Dress-making is exactly the kind of labour-intensive manufacturing that might give India's poor their first step towards prosperity.

"As two large neighbours in Asia, there is bound to be an element of competition, " said Anand Sharma, India's commerce minister.

As N. K. Singh, a member of India's parliament, says: "It is not just a matter of hey presto. "

Ramming home the point on December 13th, India's foreign secretary, Nirupama Rao, chided China's ambassador at a public meeting in Delhi.

For brides-to-be shopping during India's wedding season, which runs from November to the end of January, the high prices are a headache.

Perhaps the convoluted nature of India's democratic policymaking is one reason why the economy doesn't grow as quickly as China's.

A change, he said, was in India's "own self-interest" given its vulnerability to global warming.

Despite India's vacillations over the fortifying of its borders, the situation is not similar to what prevailed in 1962.

The money is to be used to expand small irrigation projects to the other half of India's 28 states.

India's monthlong nationwide election is often called the world's largest exercise in democracy.

For overseas companies looking for growth outside sluggish domestic markets, India's retail business is one of the most attractive.

Arvind Virmani, India's representative to the IMF, seemed to have given up hope of a challenge to Ms. Lagarde from emerging markets.

Tensions between India and China flare on occasion, especially along India's far north-eastern border, along the state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Pakistan had supported Afghanistan's Taliban regime, Afghanistan is considered to be wanted as a hedge against India's strategic depth.

He said that Dell's service proliferates the whole world, in Chinese, Brazilian, Russian and India's growth is rapid.

Workers at India's top car maker Maruti Suzuki have called off a 14-day strike which had seriously affected production, media reports say.

The hope must be that Mr Kamath, who built ICICI, India's largest private bank, will be able to knock heads together.

But India's pledges would be part of a "domestically driven action plan" rather than a promise to the world community.

And, the prime minister reminded listeners, India's record of speaking out against apartheid in South Africa was an honourable one.

Even though K. R. Narayanan was an Untouchable in his country, he managed to rise to the highest ranks in India's government.

His Italian-born widow, Sonia, took years of cajoling before becoming the force behind Congress and India's most powerful person.

India's defense ministry says the Agni-three missile was launched Thursday from Wheeler Island, off the eastern Indian state of Orissa.

Now that foreigners are again flocking to India's stockmarket (see chart), capital inflows are once more playing on the RBI's mind.

That flexibility may favour India's position in the long-term competition between the two countries.

India's foreign ministry said that it was still "looking forward" to the border talks and was seeking alternative dates.

India's Suzlon Energy is one of the world's five biggest makers of wind turbines; 15 years ago it was a modest Gujarati textiles firm.

By 2025, China and India have the world's largest populations, with India's rate of population growth about twice that of China's.

Indians in the capital much prefer to talk of the economic boom, of India's flourishing trade and its growing international heft.

Some drifted west to India's Andaman islands. Others washed up in Indonesia's Aceh province.

It has not given India's mobile operators enough space on the radio spectrum to carry calls crisply and reliably.

Survivors of the tragedy and activists fear that such an appeal is again likely to get entangled in India's slow moving judicial system.

India's rejection of Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions "is unambiguous, " he said.

Myth No. 2: China and India's engagement with Africa is all about natural resources.

One example of India's "checks and balances" at work was the suspension of its talks on a U. S. nuclear power deal.

According to India's Business Standard newspaper, each worker's image will then captured by an Ethernet camera and stored in a database.

However, Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, yesterday reiterated concern that elements of the bill would be unacceptable to New Delhi.

India's government resolved to send paramilitary troops to break the blockade of Manipur, a state in the remote north-east.

India's leaders are at least a bit embarrassed.

Learning from India's decades-long experience combating Islamist violence in the region will strengthen U. S. efforts to do so as well.

This ancient city has turned itself in recent years into a manufacturing dynamo emblematic of India's economic rebirth.

India's vibrant private sector may be one of the chief benefits of its democracy.

Meanwhile, the world's business people and investors queue up to lavish money on India's talented engineers and computer scientists.

But India's tigerish economy, which has grown by 9% a year on average over the past three years, is itself under threat.

The minister distributed copies of his remarks to reporters in a gesture aimed at underlining India's tough stance.

The over-grazing of India's spectrum is already beginning to show in dropped calls and patchy reception.

"It follows that India's citation output has the potential to increase dramatically over the next decade, " the report concludes.

'India's infrastructure modernization offers significant opportunities as well.

Hence, India's history is of relative political disunity while China's is one of strong empires.

Even in the Silicon Valley, India's Bangalore region, or any of the other world centers of innovation, not everyone is an innovator.

The long-delayed proposed plant of POSCO in India's eastern state of Orissa has been stalled by protests and green probes.

Sacred Heart Hospital in Paris is a white, with a Byzantine-style cathedral, and its style is the East, like India's Taj Mahal.

the single biggest reason , however , was an intensive re - examination of india ' s epidemic.

Pakistan is ready to India's nuclear attack. ?

Although the global slowdown put the brakes on India's economy, it weathered the financial crisis better than Western countries.

In India's case, this appears to be principally due to a good harvest that has boosted supplies.

Businesspeople have always loved to carp about India's problems even as they have rushed to take advantage of its terrific growth rates.

Analysts described the giveaway as the biggest in India's banking history, and said it signalled an early election.

Money for buying India's precious spices, Spanish and Portuguese coins mingled with Venetian, Florentine, and Moorish in the ship's coffers.

But even if it is true, the promise of fast growth tomorrow does not do India's impoverished masses much good today.

Most India's coffee exports are restricted by an export quota fixed under the rules of the International Coffee Agreement .

Its economy is practically as big as India's even with a population less than one-twentieth the size.

More. . . Nonetheless, the controversy over the games highlights the gulf between India's lofty ambitions and its often messy reality.

Kamal Nath, India's commerce and industry minister, said: "There cannot be any discrimination against outward investment from India. "

The centre of India's imports of oil and gas, its economy is growing by 11% a year, above the national average.

LIKE a lumbering elephant embarking on an epic trek, India's general election got under way this week (see article).

The deal thus gives India's exporters a little of what they want, reducing their incentive to fight for a Doha round.

Water levels began to recede in India's flood-devastated state of Bihar.

At current growth rates India's banks will catch up in a decade.

HE WAS, said Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, in a typically South Asian phrase, "one of Nepal's tallest leaders" .

India appears to have concluded that better relations with China will act as a constraint on China's support for Pakistan, India's old foe.

But their sudden demand for cash was more than India's banks could comfortably handle.

Judging by the complaints of some of India's mobile operators, its airwaves are just as overcrowded.

Mr. Brown reiterated Britain's support for India's bid for a permanent seat on the U. N. Security Council.

For all that, India's relations with the countries that ring it are abysmal.

If Kashmiris thought the army and India's politicians were concerned about their plight, they might be less resentful.

Her opening gambit in a key electoral contest to determine India's leadership in 2014 coincides with a parliament in shambles.

You can taste the wind and rain of India's stormy season in each cup through its earthiness .

Over the past three years, India's economy has grown at a magnificent average of 9% a year.

Viewed from Delhi, India's capital, caste-based parties like the BSP are more or less deplorable.

Many Pakistanis, resentful of the fact that India's efforts to destabilize their country draw little comment abroad, were delighted.

India's investment in the United States more than doubled in 2005, providing jobs for thousands of American workers.

India's government is facing elections next year, and Pakistan's civilian regime must be mindful of its country's powerful Army.

Today the firm they co-founded, Flipkart, is one of India's hottest internet businesses, selling everything from books to phones.

But as China's economic power has grown, so has India's trade with its northern neighbor which is now India's biggest trade partner.

India's huge budgetary deficit has much to do with "helping the poor" .

During her recovery, the inspired teacher felt a call to leave the school and to live among India's poor.

Before I knew you in to India and is not quite understanding, I learn geography, so just know India's tropical monsoon climate.

India's exports as a share of GDP are much smaller than China's, so one might expect it to be holding up better.

This would be India's biggest fiscal deficit in at least a decade, translating into gross borrowing of Rs4. 5trn.

Bumping up and down Pune's older potholed highways proves that the car's suspension can take on India's decrepit infrastructure.

The map below presents country equivalents for India's states and territories in terms of GDP, GDP per person (in PPP terms) and population.

However, India's luxury sector still makes up a tiny slice of the global market and trails behind the other Asian economic giant, China.

As late as last week, Mr Gopinath was waiting on India's Home Ministry to approve checks on some of his foreign pilots.

South Korea's income per person overtook Brazil's in the 1980s; it may not be so long before China's and India's do the same.

In May this year, in a village in India's Uttar Pradesh state, a foundation stone was laid for a temple dedicated to Goddess English.

India's economic feats catalysed former US president Bush's decision to break existing nuclear rules and forge a nuclear deal with India.

Even China and India's similarity in population size turns out to be superficial.

India's $31bn wedding industry is growing at 25 per cent a year, according to a report in the Indian magazine The Week.

Prior to 2005 India's patent laws did not protect newly discovered compounds, only the process of making them.

India's oilseeds plantings are also off to a good start, with winter plantings rising 2% from a year earlier.

Q: President Obama said during his visit to India that the US would support India's bid for a permanent seat at the UN Security Council.

In return, Jayant Dasgupta, India's representative at the WTO, said there could be only incremental changes from its position.

Our interactive map presents country equivalents for India's states and territories in terms of GDP, GDP per head and population.

The reasons for India's frugality are not all that creditable.

India's health and consumer affairs ministries are now working on a set of mandatory health standards for both local and imported toys.

News of the proposals, expected to be finalised tomorrow, initially sent India's stock market plunging.

India's edge is due to the different stimulus programs adopted by the two countries to support growth during the downturn.

The consulting firm Booz & Co predicted India's auto market will outgrow its US counterpart over the next 25 years, Reuters reported.

The United States and India's economic relationship is strained as well.

The data reflect that India's workforce is only half as productive as China's in all three sectors (agriculture, industry, and services).

India's state of Kerala drafts a new organic farming policy, calling for all of the state's farmland to be 100% organic in five years.

The Tata scheme will have to be tailored to India's fragmented retail market, says Vikas Choudhury of Aimia.

India's national security adviser was sufficiently affronted to warn the new president last February against "barking up the wrong tree" .