| Operators braced for India licence fallout |
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Vodafone jumps on chance to win market share from rivals following the decision by India’s supreme court to revoke 122 licences with newspaper ads
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| Boost for top manufacturing nations |
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Purchasing manager surveys show many economies are recovering but outlook for southern eurozone remains bleak
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| Interactive: PMI tracker |
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Follow the changes in Markit’s Purchasing Managers’ Indexes, and the ISM Purchasing Managers Index and Non-Manufacturers Survey Index since 2007
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| India boost for Dassault as jet is frontrunner |
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French manufacturer enters exclusive talks as its Rafale beats the Eurofighter Typhoon to be the preferred bidder for $20bn fighter deal
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| Brussels to boost Pakistan with trade concessions |
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India and Bangladesh are among countries that have dropped opposition to a plan from the World Trade Organisation designed to help exporters
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| Europe’s carmakers hit out at India trade deal |
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Industry leaders say the proposed agreement would grant Indian-built cars duty-free access to the EU but leave export tariffs intact
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| India’s central bank warns on ‘fiscal slippage’ |
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Governor tells Congress-party led government of ‘urgent need for decisive fiscal consolidation’
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| Ikea shelves Indian retail market move |
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Swedish homewares group accelerates its expansion in other Brics countries despite New Delhi’s move to open its market to foreign retailers
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| India struggles to develop taste for wine |
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The rising middle class hold the key for greater demand for quality wines but price remains an obstacle to developing the industry
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| India to launch $35bn of public investments |
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Emergency stimulus to reverse decline in the economic growth rate is in response to widespread criticism of policy paralysis in New Delhi
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| Indian inflation falls to two-year low |
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India’s stubbornly high inflation rate has dipped to its lowest level since 2009, raising hopes of early interest rate cuts
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| Caution over easing Asian inflation |
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Price pressures in China, India and elsewhere are slowing but the region’s governments face new challenges in trying to stimulate growth
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| Singh signals sharp slowdown for economy |
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India’s prime minister has cut his forecast for economic growth to 7 per cent this year
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| Big is beautiful at Indian auto show |
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At the Delhi Auto Expo the ultra-cheap small car such as the Tata Nano is making way for the family transporter that can double as a van
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| Tata chief calls on India to encourage growth |
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Ratan Tata, the patriarch of Indian business, urges his countrymen not to tolerate a retreat from near double-digit economic growth rates
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| India woos foreign capital to regain lost sheen |
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The Widening of the country’s investor base has been received as a welcome emergency measure but few analysts expect to see immediate results
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| Indian stock market: halfhearted reform |
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Inviting new capital flows into stocks – potentially flighty, if they materialise at all – is a poor substitute for foreign direct investment
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| Factory data offer glimmer of hope |
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PMIs remain in contraction across leading economies, but the US and some eurozone and Asian countries showed signs of resilience
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| Indian carmakers’ mixed fortunes |
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Benchmark indices in India and South Korea enjoy a bright start to 2012, but weak manufacturing data hits the Taiwanese Taiex
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| ‘Bollygarchs’ bemoan India’s rough patch |
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The group are practised optimists. But few of them could claim that ‘India Inc’ had endured anything other than a bruising twelve months
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