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Piaggio’s iconic Vespa returns to India
MUMBAI, April 26, 2012 (AFP) – Italy’s iconic Vespa scooter, a rage with the Indian middle-class in its heyday, re-entered the country on Thursday after a 13-year hiatus as scooters come back in vogue. Auto-making giant Piaggio has brought to …
India protests to US over TV host’s Golden Temple joke
WASHINGTON, January 24, 2012 (AFP) - India's embassy in Washington has contacted US assistant secretary of state Robert Blake to protest a gag by late night TV host
A disappearing slice of England in an Indian forest
MCCLUSKIEGANJ, December 19, 2011 (AFP) - As India inched towards independence, hundreds of mixed-race Anglo-Indians feared for their future and retreated to a self-styled homeland in a thickly
Indian growth slows to 6.9%, lowest in two years
NEW DELHI, November 30, 2011 (AFP) - India's economic growth slumped to a two-year-low of 6.9 percent in the second quarter, data showed Wednesday, hit by a string
Opportunities and challenges lure expats to India
MUMBAI, November 22, 2011 (AFP) - A regular day at work ends for Lamon Rutten after a series of meetings with policymakers and bankers. Then, like millions of
Formula One: Indian debut race not sold-out
NEW DELHI, October 24, 2011 (AFP) - Tickets for India's inaugural Grand Prix have not sold out, prompting organizers to slash prices in an effort to fill the
India’s economy ‘is slowing sharply’: Moody’s
NEW DELHI, October 17, 2011 (AFP) - India's slowing economic growth is a "cause for worry", research group Moody's Analytics said Monday, highlighting the failure of aggressive interest
Western fast food, waistlines surge in India
NEW DELHI, October 9, 2011 (AFP) - Every lunchtime at a McDonald's on the corner of one of central New Delhi's biggest streets, queues of hungry young patrons,
India launches ‘world’s cheapest’ tablet computer
NEW DELHI, October 5, 2011 (AFP) - India on Wednesday launched its long-awaited "computer for the masses", unveiling a $46 tablet device designed to bring the information technology
F1 transforms Indian village: for better and worse
DANKAUR-SARLARPUR, July 29, 2011 - India's new Formula One circuit has made rupee millionaires out of hundreds of farmers who sold their land to make way for the

















