INDIA

With the U.S. market promising little growth in 2011, law firms are looking at emerging markets in Asia and South America for spurring their expansion.

India’s well-known cricketer Anil Kumble is now turning a sports entrepreneur and is floating his own start-up venture called Tenvic that will focus on providing for sports education and training in mainstream schools across the country.

Widely known for its raving parties around this time of year, Goa witnessed a decline in tourism over the last two years due to various factors such as the Mumbai terror attacks, global economic downturn, stringent visa regulations and heightened security issues of foreign tourists. Travel industry experts feel that hiking bus and airfares “irrationally” can also affect arrivals.

Inflation will be the biggest concern for the emerging markets in 2011 and an important economic gauge to watch in the new year.

Gurgaon police on Tuesday registered a first information report (FIR) against Indian-born global chief executive of Citigroup Vikram Pandit and ten others in the $80 million Citibank fraud case in the north Indian state of Haryana.

Air India, the largest airline of India that recorded an operational profit of about $4.9 million in November 2010, has been approved for a bailout with an infusion of $267 million by the Cabinet Committee for Economic Affairs (CCEA) of the country.

Moon takes a bite out of the Sun, as the colloquial saying goes, during the start of the year 2011. This year's first partial solar eclipse will be seen on Tuesday, in view from much of Europe, North Africa and central Asia.

India’s third biggest software services company Wipro Ltd is building the nation’s fastest supercomputer for space agency Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to help the agency crunch large volumes of data that is critical for designing complex launch vehicles.

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The nominations for the Golden Globe for 2010 have seen their share of controversies but also face heavy competition. While the nominees and winners at the Golden Globe can be considered an indication of things to come in the Oscars, the polls are fast favoring The Social Network and The King's Speech as contenders for the top slots at the Oscars. Another dark horse is The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale. Here are some of the top contenders we think will make it to the Aca...

Toyota Kirloskar Motors India has announced that bookings for the Fortuner will reopen on Jan 1 2011. The bookings were last reopened in July 2010 for a period of one month.

The U.S. real estate market is improving, at least for foreign investment dollars, according to the Association for Foreign Investment in Real Estate, or AFIRE.

Robert W. Baird & Co. CEO Paul Purcell speaks to IBTimes about his firm's performance during the financial crisis, navigating the financial services industry after the crisis, and the advantages of being a privately-held financial services firm.

South Africa is about to join the Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) grouping and will attend the first summit of the leading emerging economies in April this year, but doubts remain over the suitability of the African nation to be in the exclusive club of the fast-growing economies.

India’s trade body National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) has refuted public perception in the US that outsourcing jobs to India are contributing to job losses for US companies and that free trade agreements were responsible for America’s current economic woes.

TVS Motor Company has reported 42 percent growth in December sales, as compared to the same period last year. The company sold 171,790 units in December 2010 against 120,913 units in the same month of the previous year.

Toyota Kirloskar Motors on Monday said that it has registered a marginal growth of 5.47 percent in sales at 6,359 units in December.

General Motors India on Monday said its sales grew by 2.54 percent to 8,468 units in December, 2010, from 8,258 units in the same month of the previous year.

Hyundai Motor India Ltd on Thursday achieved a milestone by reaching the production of 600,000 units, the highest since inception in a calendar year.

Hyundai Motors India Ltd. (HMIL), the second largest car maker and the largest car exporter in the Indian market, sold a total of 47,228 units during this month as compared to 47,217 units during the same period year ago.

India’s exports in November grew 26.5 percent to $18.9 billion compared to the same period a year earlier, a government report said on Monday.