Raymond Ronamai

India's moderating growth will help to ease inflationary pressure in the country, deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India Subir Gokarn said on Saturday.

A gold ATM machine selling jewellery and 31,000-rupee gold coins, but for more than just window-shopping, it faces stiff competition from traditional jewellery shops.

Apple's iPhone edged past major news events, celebrities and pop stars as the top searched term on the Web in 2011, according to Yahoo.

India's policy of targeting sex workers to control the spread of AIDS by providing contraceptives, treatment for sexually transmitted infections and raising awareness through their peers is expected to avert three million infections.

Gold purchases in India, the world's largest bullion consumer, slowed down as the festival season ended, and business was lackluster elsewhere in Asia as concerns of global growth weighed on sentiment.

The biggest legal battle for the technology industry is playing out in a federal court in Silicon Valley, where Apple is trying to stop Samsung from selling Galaxy phones and tablets in the United States. It is a veil of secrecy where court papers are sealed.

Tens of thousands of small shopkeepers went on strike across India on Thursday to protest a government decision to allow foreign retail giants like Wal-Mart Stores Inc to enter the country's $450 billion retail market.

Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.T) and BMW AG (BMWG.DE) said on Thursday that they would work together on a broad range of advanced environment-friendly car technologies, including the joint development of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.

Maruti Suzuki, India's top car maker, said sales in November fell 18.5 percent, as the troubled carmaker recovered, partially, from a 53 percent fall in October.

India gold futures eased a tad from a 2-week high, weighed by a stronger Indian rupee, but the losses were not enough to attract physical players seeking to stock up for the wedding season.

India's manufacturing sector expansion slowed in November as factory output grew at its slowest pace in nearly three years although export demand should provide some cheer for factories.

State-run oil firms will cut petrol prices by Rs. 0.78 (1.5 cents) a litre, or approximately 1.2 percent, from Thursday, Indian Oil Corp. (IOC) said. This will be the second cut this month, reflecting global prices and potentially easing near double-digit inflation.

India's Food Price Index rose 8 percent, which is its slowest pace in nearly 4 months, and the Fuel Price Index climbed 15.53 percent in the year (calculated till Nov. 19), government data released on Thursday showed.

The BSE Sensex Thursday gained 2.70 percent on hopes for a surge in foreign fund inflows after the world's six major central banks moved to tame a liquidity crunch for European banks.2

India's economic growth in the current fiscal year ending March 2012 is expected to be around 7.5 percent, as the growth in fourth quarter will be better than the 6.9 percent growth

Australia's foreign minister on Wednesday backed the formation of a security pact with India and the United States, a tie-up that could fuel China's worries of being fenced in by wary neighbors.

India gold futures rose by more than half a percent on Wednesday to hit their highest level in two weeks on firm global leads fanned by a weaker rupee at home.

India's Gross domestic product growth fell to 6.9 percent in the second quarter of the financial year. The GDP growth figure is the weakest pace in more than two years.

A patient 72 from Rohit Sharma helped India to a tense one-wicket victory over the West Indies in a low-scoring One Day International at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Tuesday.

An Australian court reversed a ban on the sale of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's (005930.KS) Galaxy tablet computers in the country, handing it a rare victory against rival Apple Inc (AAPL.O) in the firms' intensifying global patent war.

Facebook, the world's largest Internet social network, is preparing for an initial public stock offering next year, according to a source familiar with the matter.

In a recently released report, Citigroup has negatively revised its earlier growth estimates for India, for the Fiscal Year 2011-12, amid a slowing global economy and domestic headwinds.

Assamese writer Indira Goswami, who played a key role in peace talks with separatist group ULFA, died Tuesday morning after prolonged illness, local media reported. She was 69.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh failed to break an impasse with opposition parties and his own political allies demanding a rollback of a reform allowing foreign supermarket giants to enter the country's $450 billion market.

Simone Bora is contemplating the unthinkable - an Indian wedding without lavish amounts of gold - after record high prices and a sinking rupee dimmed her hopes of sparkling at the party.

The state refiners could cut petrol prices by an approximate price of Re. 1 per litre (or 1.5 percent), as softening Singapore spot gasoline prices have offset the impact of a declining rupee, an industry source said on Monday.

Indian investors of gold, the world's biggest consumers of bullion, remained on the sidelines even though traders offered discounts of up to $5 per ounce.

The government gave its first signs of backtracking over a move to allow foreign supermarket giants to enter Asia's third-largest economy on Monday.

Pakistan and the United States may be a little too dependent on each other to allow the death of two dozen Pakistani soldiers, in airstrikes by NATO forces on Saturday, to cause a definitive rupture.