Cadbury is looking to build on its dominant position in India's chocolate market by turning the country into a regional centre for cocoa production.
India's housing shortage is fuelled by the immigration of millions of villagers to the cities.
Economists and stock market pundits in India's financial capital could hardly believe Saturday's election result, which seemed tailor-made for investors.
India's largest automotive group said it had received 203,000 pre-paid orders worth Rs25bn ($507m) for the Nano, the world's cheapest car, which it put on sale for a 16-day booking period which ended on April 25.
Acting stars in the world's most prolific movie-making industry have seen their fees plunge by up to 80 per cent from the peaks they reached last year, leading producers say.
An alleged attempt to sabotage the helicopter of India's second richest man, Anil Ambani, is developing into a full-blown murder mystery after the mechanic who discovered the plot was suddenly killed this week.
India's pay-television industry, a magnet for foreign investors for the past two years, is facing a shake-out amid intense competition during the economic crisis.
Early on Monday morning, the chairman of the government-appointed board of Satyam Computer Services, Kiran Karnik, hurried into the Taj President Hotel in south Mumbai to begin one of India's strangest corporate sell-offs.
India - long considered a digital laggard for its low internet penetration - is set for explosive growth in web usage in the coming year, according to a senior Google executive in the country.
India's largest companies are making inroads into one of the country's most ancient businesses - the purchase of gold by the nation's hundreds of millions of women for weddings, festivals and savings.
Chinese companies are building $7bn of power plant equipment for customers in India, in a business that is underpinning growing trade between Asia's second and third largest economies.
While most companies in developing countries that export to the west are worried about protectionism, the stakes are high for India's outsourcing industry.
India's scandal-hit Satyam Computer Services is to invite formal bids from potential suitors this week, pushing ahead with a possible sale - even though it could be months before its accounts are restated.
Some of India's largest groups, including the Tata family controlled companies, the Ambani family controlled Reliance and Vijay Mallya's UB Group, have pledged large stakes in their listed companies as collateral to lenders, new disclosure requirements reveal
A year ago MG Road, the bustling main thoroughfare of Mumbai's historic business district of Fort, was full of shoppers haggling with street vendors over everything from replica Prada sunglasses to underwear.
Clifford Chance, the world's largest law firm, announced an alliance with leading Indian counterpart AZB on Wednesday as global legal practices try to gain access to the country's burgeoning cross-border market
B. Ramalinga Raju: his admission of manipulating Satyam's books for 'several years' has undermined faith in Indian corporate governance
India's embattled Satyam Computer Services could become the country's first large outsourcing company to merge or be taken over amid increasing doubts over whether its founding family still controls the company.
Over the weekend, the Bombay high court quietly published a 160-page court order detailing its decision to dismiss a petition by Vodafone of the UK against the Indian tax department.
Jaguar and Land Rover, the UK based carmakers, are to set up dealership networks in India soon as they seek to use ties with Tata Motors, their new owner, to find new markets.
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