Topic: India
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's government shelved for now a crucial nuclear energy bill after opposition protests on Monday, a move likely to delay the entry of U.S. firms into India's $150 billion nuclear market. The decision is the latest in a series of setbacks for the Congress party-led coalition which, despite its parliamentary majority, has sometimes also ...
Social networking site Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users. The office, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, will have advertising and developer support teams, the company said Monday. It will supplement Facebook's ...
India's homegrown interceptor defence shield developed to detect and destroy incoming ballistic missiles failed during a test on Monday, military officials said. The test was abandoned when the radars following the target, a nuclear-capable missile, lost track of it after it blasted off from a site 200 kilometres (120 miles) from Bhubaneswar in eastern India. "The 'hostile' missile went ...
