India
- India raises key rate to help fight inflation
India's central bank announced a surprise 25-basis point increase in its key policy rates – the first rise in nearly two years – in a bid to head off inflation that is poised to cross into double digits - Gulfsands rejects £400m offer by IOC
Gulfsands Petroleum, the Syria-focused oil explorer, says the unsolicited takeover approach from Indian Oil Corporation is 'wholly inadequate' - Rating agency gives India vote of confidence
India received a vote of confidence in its economy when Standard & Poor's removed a negative outlook on the country's sovereign credit rating, citing the prospect that the budget deficit will begin to fall - Asia's inflation genie leaps out of the bottle
As the rest of the world worries about economic growth, angry complaints from consumers have turned Asian policymakers' minds to a different problem: rapidly rising inflation - Chicago man admits Mumbai terror charges
A Chicago man pleaded guilty to charges that he helped plan the November 2008 attack on Mumbai that left 166 people dead and plotted to attack a Danish newspaper that published controversial cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammed - Oil groups urge Indian wealth fund
India is facing demands from the local state-owned oil industry to create its first sovereign wealth fund to compete with China in the race to secure global energy assets - Nomura appoints first foreigner to board
The group is to re-organise its non-retail operations and hand leadership of the global unit to a former top Lehman Brothers banker who had planned to leave the Japanese bank this month - Rant sparks legal threat against India's CNBC
Bloomberg UTV threatens to sue an anchorman at CNBC's local partner for Rs5bn for defamation in a row showing the cut-throat nature of the world's second-largest cable TV market - KKR in $200m Indian coffee shops deal
New York-based private equity firm is leading a consortium that will invest about $200m in Coffee Day Holdings, the Bangalore-based operator of India's largest coffee house chain, Café Coffee Day - India balks at curb on nuclear liability
Delhi's Congress party-led administration has backed away from tabling controversial legislation limiting the liability of foreign nuclear reactor suppliers in case of a nuclear accident
- Rating agency gives India vote of confidence
India received a vote of confidence in its economy when Standard & Poor's removed a negative outlook on the country's sovereign credit rating, citing the prospect that the budget deficit will begin to fall - India's government should try harder
India has now reached the point in its development when what is needed is persistent improvement across a wide front. This is not a sprint, but a marathon. The budget represents a small step in this race - Citi to quit India's biggest commodity exchange
Citigroup plans to sell its 5% stake in India's Multi Commodity Exchange group for about $40m to Ashmore, the emerging markets focused asset manager - India exports show healthy rise
Merchandise exports in December grew 9.3 per cent over last year, the second straight monthly rise, fuelled by strengthening trade ties with Asia and Africa - India suspends SocGen from trading
The French bank is threatened with expulsion from the Indian equities market for allegedly violating 'know your client' rules that compel companies to provide complete information on overseas customers - Time for Indian equities to woo middle class
Shares are still perceived as risky by the small proportion of the population that can afford them, writes John Authers - Asian stocks checked by rate concerns
The chill of tighter borrowing costs blew through sentiment in the region on Tuesday as the new year surge for equities was checked on worries over Chinese and Indian monetary policy - India exchanges join rush for faster trading
Brokers will enjoy faster share trading by locating their computer servers physically within metres of an exchange's system, shaving milliseconds off the execution time - Insight: Busting the myth of the Brics
Peter Tasker at Arcus Research on why many emerging markets are becoming mainstream - Two Indian exchanges set to join "co-location" race
National Stock Exchange says colo services "within weeks" after rival Bombay bourse unveils venture with Netmagic
