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Many of India’s 170 million Dalits still live as outcasts. Some of these so-called “untouchables,” however, have turned to entrepreneurship as a way out of poverty and social isolation. Portrait of a nation caught between ancient traditions and bustling i
Indian real estate mogul D.S. Kulkarni has built a state-of-the-art digital graphics campus from scratch in Pune, India. The educational impetus is provided by a French computer graphics university – a relationship light years indeed from old English colo
The new darling of the marathon scene is an Indian man named Fauja Singh, who can run 42 km in eight and a half hours. With that time he finished 3,850th in the recent Toronto marathon, which would be rather unremarkable — if it weren’t for the
Russia’s leadership position in Indian markets appears to be at risk after several high-profile military bids were rejected, and a joint nuclear power plant delayed by local protesters.
Could this 60-year-old Hindu nationalist become India’s next Prime Minister? Though boosted by his own charisma and the economic success of Gujarat, the region he leads, Modi is also still hounded by decade-old accusations that he sanctioned deadly attack
More than two years after the Pakistani jihadist attacks in Mumbai, India wants to push ahead with peace talks with Islamabad to resolve longstanding disputes over Kashmir. But new questions continue to arise over links between terror outfits and the Paki
This week’s Africa-India Forum Summit in Ethiopia shows how hungry India is for Africa’s energy resources and minerals. Twenty years after China began to arrive on the continent, this reportage shows how large Indian companies are eager
With the price of western medicine proving too costly for large swathes of India’s population, traditional medicine is being billed as the new financial and medical cure-all.
After praise from Obama, the reality of the “Indian miracle” shows a country still submerged in widespread poverty and underdevelopment “India is not simply emerging, India has already emerged.” When he uttered these words before the Indian Parliament last November, U.S. President Barack Obama generated a wave of euphoria. The next day, The Times of […]
After Li & Fung buys Cerruti, deep-pocketed Asian investors eye other European luxury brands China World shopping center, Beijing (Achim Hepp) By Dominique Chapuis The Chinese are hungry for the jewels of the European luxury and fashion industry. Just as China has become the primary growth market for top luxury goods stalwarts like Louis Vuitton, […]