India's trade with the European Union has the potential to reach a whopping 572 billion dollars by 2015 once the FTA with the 27-nation bloc is implemented, Ficci says.

India is continuing to suffer from sluggish Internet service, although the situation has improved somewhat since damage to undersea cables in the Mediterranean caused widespread net disruptions. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi that the disruption has hit countries from Egypt to Bangladesh.

Indian officials are shrugging off fears that a potential slowdown in the United States will put the brakes on the country's runaway economic growth. But as Anjana Pasricha reports, businessmen and investors are not so sure that India will remain unscathed if there is a downturn in Western economies.

Internet services have been disrupted throughout India on Thursday following a major international cable breakdown in the Mediterranean Sea.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the launch of a Work Area Recovery Center in Navi Mumbai, India. This center offers a solution to help clients minimize the effects of workplace disruptions to the productivity of their workforce.

India's biggest engineering company Larsen&Toubro Ltd. reported a better-than-expected fiscal third- quarter profit after winning more orders in the Middle East.

By Anastasia Tomazhenkova: India's health minister Anbumani Ramadoss resumed the debates about smoking, he called on the country's biggest movie stars to stop smoking on screen.

Japanese Auto major Toyota Motor Corp President Katsuaki Watanabe called on PM Manmohan Singh, even as the company continues to hold close to the chest cards regarding plans of its second manufacturing unit in India.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has made a visit to India's famed Taj Mahal, but without his model-singer girlfriend, Carla Bruni.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he hopes an international consensus is near to allow countries like France to sell India peacetime nuclear technology. Mr. Sarkozy's comments came during a visit to New Delhi meant to strengthen military and political cooperation between his country and India. Anjana Pasricha reports from the Indian capital.

Vrindavan, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, is called the "City of Widows." Upper-caste Hindu widows who are disowned by their families go there to live. Young and old spend their remaining years singing hymns in temples in exchange for food, and a small daily stipend of coins. As Madhur Singh reports from Vrindavan, despite efforts by the government and aid organizations, most of the women subsist in abysmal conditions.

South and Southeast Asian countries are grappling with new outbreaks of bird flu as winter weather sweeps across the region. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the latest outbreaks are still confined primarily to poultry, but one new human death has been reported in Vietnam.