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BA eyes Indian connection
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British Airways chief Willie Walsh flew to Mumbai for his second trip to India in four weeks as his airline faces mounting competition in one of the world's fastest growing aviation markets
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Concern on India system of paid news
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Regulator urged to clamp down on the media practice of providing advertising and news coverage to publicly listed companies, which could be used to influence share prices
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Outsourcers warn US producing too few engineers
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US universities are producing too few engineers to meet industry demand, Indian outsourcing companies say, leaving such businesses little choice but to hire foreign skilled workers to fill jobs in America
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India to reopen Bhopal gas prosecution
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India's Supreme Court is reopening the Bhopal gas disaster case, after a public outcry at the lenient sentences recently given to the former top management at the blighted Union Carbide pesticide plant
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Social networking comes of age
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For Indian outsourcing companies, the growing demand among employees and consumers for social networking-like functions represents a new frontier
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Search for a workable solution
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Indian companies are trying to tackle the nation's skills shortages by 'adopting' state-run vocational training centres
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iEnergizer set to break trend with Aim float
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Indian call centre operator and supplier of back office outsourcing systems, to raise funds in September for an acquisition
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Vedanta safety award is withdrawn
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Vedanta Resources has been stripped of an international safety award withdrawn on concerns it failed to declare the deaths of 41 workers at an Indian plant
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Mining mogul with a mountain to climb
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Anil Agrawal recently hit a major obstacle when New Delhi rejected plans by London-listed Vedanta to source bauxite for its Lanjigarh aluminium refinery in Orissa state from a nearby mountain deemed sacred to an indigenous tribe
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RIM refuses to back down in India
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Research in Motion and India are set for an impasse after the company said New Delhi's demand for access to BlackBerry e-mails was technically impossible
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India business wary over nuclear law
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India's lower house of parliament approve a draft liability law that the national nuclear power company and industry groups fear will jeopardise the benefits of New Delhi's deal with the US
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Indian builder creates new WEF HQ
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Extension more than doubles size of the Geneva offices of WEF and was built by a Swiss company acquired this year by Hindustan Construction Company
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New Delhi eyes reform of banks' savings rates
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The Reserve Bank of India is a shake-up of the country's commercial banking industry by deregulating interest rates on the nation's savings accounts
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Adani to invest $1.6bn in Indonesia
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The Indian conglomerate has signed a preliminary agreement in Indonesia to build a railway line and coal terminal in remote southern Sumatra
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India backs down on foreign pilots bar
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End-of-July deadline for removing 400 overseas pilots extended as airlines increase capacity amid intensifying competition and robust demand for air travel
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