Despite the mayhem in Afghanistan and the crucial presidential elections there last week, the real focus of the US and Britain in the region remains on Pakistan, which at this moment has an unprecedented opportunity to turn the tide against the Taliban and al Qaeda... more
His hair is greyer, and his thick, black, Peter Sellers-style bureaucrat’s glasses a fraction slimmer. But otherwise, India’s new finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, could have stepped through a time warp from the last time he delivered a national budget 25 years ago in the last days of Indira Gandhi ... more
For Marten Pieters, Vodafone's new India boss, the election battle that really mattered was still raging as the winning Congress Party and its coalition ally DMK squabbled over who would get the telecoms ministry ... more
Legal: Several investors in Satyam Computer, the outsourcing giant that announced this week that it had concealed $1 billion in losses, are considering suing PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, the auditor of the company's doctored accounts... more
Cheaper petrol, mortgages and cars for Indians is the last thing the architects of last month's terrorist invasion of Mumbai would have had in mind... more
India is well used to terrorist outrages but in their scale and in the international attention they have garnered, the Mumbai attacks represent a dramatic escalation... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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