Pharmaceuticals major Ranbaxy Laboratories plans to leverage the cost advantage of Chinese raw materials by making China its major active pharmaceutical ingredient sourcing hub.
Playing her second match in three hot and humid hours, the Wimbledon champion overpowered the hard-hitting Tamarine Tanasugarn in 75 minutes to set up a meeting in the final eight with unseeded Frenchwoman Camille Pin.
Venus Williams suffered a shock 4-6, 7-6, 6-4 defeat by France's Virginie Razzano in the Japan Open final.
Venus Williams survived a scare before beating Danish teenager Caroline Wozniacki while Virginie Razzano got the better of Italian Flavia Pennetta in the semi-finals of the Japan Open.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is also likely to be in Beijing in November or December, the State-owned China Daily said a day after India's Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon held talks with senior Chinese officials on a range of issues
Guangzhou in China will play host to the 16th Asian Games 2010, where cricket will make its debut.
Star cueist Pankaj Advani provided the first gold medal for India in the 16th Asian Games by clinching the title in billards singles while the shooters accounted for a silver and bronze on the second day of competitions in Guangzhou on Sunday.
Researchers at the University of Sheffield and Aston Business School have found that investment in Research and Development (R&D) is rapidly shifting from North America and Europe to Asia.
With China expected to overtake the US as India's largest trading partner, Bambawale acknowledged that the "basic rationale for the new Consulate is the burgeoning trade."
Credit card company MasterCard surveyed 900 people and interviewed 300 families in the key Chinese cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou whose annual income is above $16,000.
The national highways selected for upgrade include -- Gurgaon-Jaipur, Surat-Dahisar, Chilkaluripet-Vijaywada and Panipat-Jalandhar. These four stretches together measure about 838 km.
The Indian women's 4x400m relay team, which won the gold in Amman, is expected to win something even this time with the last edition runners Mandeep Kaur, Manjeet Kaur, Sini Jose and K Chitra Soman in the squad for the 18th Asian Athletics Championships, which begins in Guangzhou, China on Tuesday.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Chris Eagles, and Patrice Evra score a goal apiece for the Premier League champions.
In view of increasing tourist exchange between China and India, Air China on Friday said it will start operating daily flights between Beijing and New Delhi starting October 31.
Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-sung will miss the first half of next season following knee surgery, media reported on Monday
'The head of the Organising Committee and of the Delhi administration were both blue-eyed individuals of the ruling Congress party. For the Congress, they can do no wrong.'
Maharaj Kishan Kaushik is back as coach of India's men's hockey team, ten years after the guiding it to the gold medal at the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games. His selection was finalised at a meeting of the ad hoc committee, set up by the Indian Olympic Association in Delhi, on Tuesday and formally announced on Wednesday. He will be in charge of the team till the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games in China.
In an exclusive interview to Bikash Mohapatra, Jose Brasa reveals the improvement in the Indian hockey team, its chances in the upcoming CWG and his future as a coach.
Infrastructure developer GMR Infrastructure said on Wednesday it has tied up with Plaza Premium Lounge of Hong Kong for maintaining and managing lounges at the New Hyderabad International Airport.
After Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra and Ashok Leyland are expected to set up automobile plants in West Bengal in reponse to an initiative launched by the state government under Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.
Dnata, the ground handling, ticketing and reservation arm of Emirates Group, will submit proposals for strategic partnership with the Airports Authority of India to offer ground handling solutions for its airports.
The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has added cricket to the 2010 Asian Games schedule after the organisation voted to include the sport at a general assembly in Kuwait earlier this week.
To expand operations in the South America region, IT major Satyam Computer Services has opened a multi-lingual development centre, named 'Satyam Latam Center' in Sao Paulo.
With the India versus China comparison gaining currency, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said New Delhi does not view Beijing as a rival but as a partner for making the 'Asian Century' a reality.
India and China are understood to have discussed the latest row over Sikkim on Thursday, during talks between their Foreign Ministers, dominated by the festering boundary issue, with the two sides agreeing to use existing mechanisms whenever necessary to maintain peace and tranquility along the border.External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is on a four-day official visit to China, met his counterpart Yang Jiechi and discussed issues of mutual concern.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrived in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Wednesday, kick-starting his four-day visit to China, during which the boundary row and irritants surrounding it are expected to dominate his talks with the leadership in Beijing.
The first two wheeler factory in West Bengal was inaugurated by Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee at Kamdebpur near Singur in Hooghly district
A third Chinese airline company, China Southern, will launch direct flights to India this year to tap the increasing traffic potential arising out of booming bilateral trade.
"I will be running as a sportsman," said Ravi Shastri, cricketer and former manager of the Indian team, while talking to rediff.com about his low-key participation in the Olympic torch relay ceremony in Muscat, Oman on April 14. He refused to speak on the controversial issue of the Chinese crackdown in Tibet and the protests that have marred the Olympic torch relay in London, Paris and San Francisco.
"The message of the Friendship Year has been that our millennium friendship needs to be actively harnessed for realising the full potential of our bilateral relations."
India finished with 10 gold, 18 silver and 26 bronze medals.
Domestic airlines are keen to bring China into their network as the latter is set to become the country's top trade partner in the coming years.
China has granted the "national software export base" status to its five more cities, entitling them to special treatment and financial support from the government, as part of its efforts to compete with India.
Entrusted the task of reviving Indian hockey, Jose Brasa, the newly-appointed coach of the men's hockey team, on Tuesday said his immediate target is the gold medal at next year's Guangzhou Asian Games. 'My realistic goal is the gold in Asiad, because it will ensure India's place in 2012 London Olympics. Moreover, I love the colour yellow very much,' the Spanish coach said.
Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong was convicted of spying for archrival Taiwan.
The Indian community in Guangzhou has widely welcomed the country's decision to open a Consulate-General in the booming southern Chinese city, which they say will further boost bilateral trade and facilitate easier travel for businessmen between the
India and China signed on Tuesday 13 agreements, including one for encouraging two-way investment flows and another for streamlining iron ore exports, as part of efforts to take bilateral ties to a higher orbit.
Tata Motors goes about giving shape to its Rs 1 lakh car project, Kolkata-based Global Automobiles announced on Friday that it too has plans, albeit for a car that costs even less than Rs 1,00,000.