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MUMBAI, Dec 23 (Reuters) - "India's foreign exchange reserves stood at $302.100 billion as of Dec. 16, down from $306.775 billion in the previous week, the Reserve Bank of India said. Changes in foreign currency assets, expressed in dollar terms, include the effect of appreciation or...

By C Shivkumar, Bangalore: "The financial Stability Report released by the Reserve bank of India on Thursday has warned that India faced the risk of widening twin deficits – financial and current account deficits. The FSR attributed the widening of the deficits to the global developments...

From the Wall Street Journal-By NIKHIL GULATI "NEW DELHI -- The Indian unit of Toyota Motor Corp. will recall about 40,000 units of its Etios sedan and Liva hatchback cars made until Oct. 8 for possible cracks in their hose pipe and fuel pipe. It will inspect the cars made since their...

From NDTV: "New Delhi: Intense cold conditions prevailed in north India with 24 more people succumbing to the extreme weather, taking the nationwide number of deaths to 114. A surprise cold wave continued West Bengal. Eight people died in the state's Malda district. Purulia district...

From Yahoo news: "The number of people killed after a typhoon hit the southern Philippines has risen to over 650. Hundreds more are missing and an estimated 100,000 are homeless after torrential rain triggered by tropical storm Washi caused rivers to burst their banks while people slept in...

Its is an insult for the philippinos population that their corrupt Gorvernment is considering to purchase F 16 fighter jets amid the recent typhoon and flood which had killed thousand and leaving millions with no shelter and food. After the passage of the typhoon, there was no rescue teams and...

From Deccan Chronicle: "China has successfully launched a communicant satellite for Nigeria and is bracing up to set in orbit five commercial satellite next year for Venezuela, Bolivia, Belarus and Turkmenistan. China launched a communications satellite for Nigeria on Tuesday to replace a...

Mail Online By Chris Parsons: "Big day for a little lady: 2ft tall Jyoti dreams of Bollywood acting career after being crowned world's shortest woman. Jyoti Amge crowned world shortest woman at just 62cm tall She weighs only 12lbs - just 9lbs more than she did at birth. Celebrating your...

From the Economic Times: "MUMBAI: The Indian stock market today lost its trillion-dollar status, as a decline in the rupee and share valuations led to its size slipping below this mark to $994.97 billion. India had managed to hold onto the select league of the countries with a...

From Bloomberg: "The Indian economy painted a gloomy picture this year, with tumbling markets, falling rupee and slowing growth. Investors are worried, while the government is looking at ways to come out of an impending slowdown. Here's a look at what's wrong with the markets and economy...

Its better for the corrupt Philippinos Government to monitor pro independence insurgencies and Islamic radicals who are installing chaos in many parts of the country. At the request of the US war criminals, uncle sam, the Philippines is trying to launch a fight and competition with China while...

Asia Times Online By Sudha Ramachandran "BANGALORE - In at least two instances over the past fortnight, tribal communities in Maoist strongholds on the east coast of India have stood up to rebel diktats. Security officials are interpreting these acts of defiance as a turning point in...

From Bloomberg-By Kartikay Mehrotra "India’s power ministry endorsed a plan to almost triple import duty on generation equipment to help local manufacturers Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL) and Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (LT) compete for orders with Chinese rivals. A proposal for...

Its preferable to have housing bubble losing air and ghost cities than being homeless and deprived of toilets. Indians have been deprived of toilets and use to defaecate and pee on public streets, buildings, trains etc in front of disgusted but amused Western tourists. The myth of the Chinese...

By Channel NewsAsia's Damanjeet Kohli: "NEW DELHI: The deadly fire at a Kolkata hospital has cast the spotlight once again on the poor safety standards of the Indian city's hospitals and other buildings. Some reports have suggested that the smoke alarms in the hospital were deactivated by...

From SFGate and Bloomberg: "India's industrial production shrank in October for the first time in more than two years, sending the rupee and bond yields lower. Output at factories, utilities and mines fell 5.1 percent from a year earlier after a revised 2 percent gain in September, the...

From JakartaGlobe and AFP: "New Delhi, India. Indian activist Anna Hazare, whose anti-graft hunger strike in August attracted huge public support, held a one-day fast on Sunday demanding the government do more to tackle corruption. Hazare’s 12-day fast four months ago unleashed an...

From Rediff.com: "Tension gripped Lower Camp area on Tamil Nadu's border with Kerala on Saturday as over 4,000 villagers of the district took out a march protesting against alleged attacks on Tamils in Kumily in the neighbouring state in the wake of the escalation of the row over Mullaperiyar...

Great people for refusing to apologize for the mass killings of civilians; rape of Chinese and Korean women; Nanking massacre, theft and arson following invasion of China and human experimentation of the infamous Units 731 by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. Visit Wikipedia...

China's economy alone is larger than those of Brazil, Russia and India combined together. China's GDP per capita is four times greater than that of India. Indian rule on Jammu and Kashmir must cease as well as the massacre and killing of Kashmir civilians by Indian troops.