NEW DELHI – India must prepare to hike fuel prices in line with the upward trend in global commodity markets or risk a ballooning fiscal deficit, the country’s top economic adviser said Thursday. “If global prices are high [...]

NEW DELHI – India’s Supreme Court has halted a plan to re-introduce cheetahs to the country by shipping animals over from Africa after experts said the idea was “totally misconceived”. The environment ministry had cleared [...]

NEW DELHI  – India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the government to scrap subsidised travel for tens of thousands of Muslims on the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. “We hold that the policy is best done away with and [...]

NEW DELHI – India said Tuesday it shared the United States’ goal of preventing Iran from building a nuclear weapon, but insisted the Islamic republic remained an “important source of oil”. Visiting US Secretary of State [...]

NEW DELHI  – Output from Indian energy giant Reliance Industries’ main D6 gas fields off the country’s east coast is expected to fall to a record low, India’s oil minister said on Tuesday. “Gas output is projected [...]

NEW DELHI  – The Indian owners of relegated Premier League club Blackburn Rovers, chicken farm operators Venky’s, ducked the media on Tuesday amid a storm of criticism of their disastrous 18-month management. British press reports [...]

NEW DELHI  – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday wraps up a tour of Asia dominated by thorny disputes, as she sees signs of progress in working through problems with emerging powers China and India. Clinton’s week-long [...]

NEW DELHI – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday an Al-Qaeda plot to blow up a US-bound plane with an underwear bomb was proof of the “perverse and terrible” lengths militants are willing to go to. US officials [...]

NEW DELHI – India delayed controversial budget plans to crack down on tax evasion but did not back down in a separate tax battle with British mobile phone giant Vodafone that has stirred an investor outcry. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee [...]

NEW DELHI  – The controversial chief minister of India’s Gujarat state on Monday suffered a setback when an advisor to the Supreme Court said the politician can be prosecuted over deadly anti-Muslim riots. The Supreme Court-appointed [...]