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Shares of outsourcing firm Infosys rose after three former executives of the company suggested it spend part of its massive $5 billion in cash reserves on a share buyback to help boost valuations.
Opening up the insurance business to more foreign investment was one of the main deregulation measures unveiled in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first budget last month.
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Zuma PressTwo days after one of the worst ferry accidents in the country's history, only two bodies have been found and 137 remain missing and are feared drowned.
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Encouraged by India's strengthening economy and the pro-business agenda of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, foreign investors have begun to return to the India real-estate market after fleeing the country in the wake of the financial crisis.
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Bank of America Corp. and the Justice Department are close to a deal in which the bank will pay between $16 billion and $17 billion to resolve allegations of mortgage-related misconduct in the run-up to the financial crisis.
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Sprint replaced Chief Executive Dan Hesse with billionaire entrepreneur Marcelo Claure and said its focus is on building the business.
Apple and Samsung are calling a partial truce in their smartphone war. The two technology giants agreed to dismiss all patent disputes between them in courts outside the U.S., marking an easing of tensions.
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21st Century Fox has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Time Warner, saying the owner of HBO has "refused to engage with us."
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Standard Chartered confirmed fresh allegations of failures in its systems for combating money laundering as it reported a sharp fall in adjusted profit.
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Institutional Shareholder Services backed William Ackman's attempt to force a special meeting of Allergan shareholders, joining rival proxy adviser Glass Lewis.
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www.chachachaudhary.comFor more than four decades, illustrator Pran Sharma chronicled with humor the challenges of Indian life in a beloved comic book series about a wise old man named Chacha Chaudhary. Mr. Sharma died Tuesday night of complications from cancer.
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Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesA spokesman for India's state-run carrier Air India Ltd. denied a newspaper report that "scores" of rats were scurrying around one of its planes after a recent flight. He said only a single rodent was sighted aboard.
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While outlining his concerns about the Indian economy Tuesday, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan underlined the uncertainty about the ongoing monsoon. If the rains fail--goes the fear every year--then Inflation could take off.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree imposing limits or bans on a range of agricultural and food products, as well as raw materials, from countries that have imposed sanctions on Russia.
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No laptop beats the MacBook Air. But that would be a short laptop buying guide. Here are our picks of the top Windows PCs and Chromebooks, too.
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Supplies have been slow to reach smaller, rural communities like Yinping, illustrating the challenges rescuers face after an earthquake devastated the mountainous region in southwest China.
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China's top economic planning agency will punish Audi and Chrysler after an investigation found the two luxury car makers had pursued monopoly practices.
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President Obama says most economic metrics are better since he came into office. Here's a look at that claim.
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Junho Kim for The Wall Street JournalIndia's newest professional sport, kabaddi, rolled into Delhi this week.
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ReutersPalestinians return to their neighborhoods to survey the damage as Israeli soldiers pull out of the Gaza Strip.
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Greg Herman/Melbourne Sotheby's International RealtyThis Melbourne home, built in 1884 as Salvation Army Barracks, has been redesigned to include a fully equipped commercial kitchen and a 20,000-bottle-capacity wine room.
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Zuma PressA man burns paper money for the dead in Malaysia, onlookers gather near the river where a ferry capsized in Bangladesh, a boy takes cover during monsoon rain in the Philippines, and more.
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Associated PressA girl dances at Beijing's Summer Palace, a U.S. aid worker infected with Ebola arrives in Atlanta, a landslide strikes a Utah hillside community, and more.
The inside story of the deadliest day on Mount Everest, when a mass of ice hurtling down the mountain claimed 16 lives. The Journal visits a Sherpa village struck by the tragedy.
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Dynastic politics have surfaced as a major issue in Indian elections. Punjab, ruled by the Badal family, offers a view into how those ties can work.
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Robert Vadra, an in-law of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi of India's ruling Congress party, built a real-estate portfolio nearly from scratch in a few years.
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The Wall Street Journal and HarperCollins present an e-book that provides the most informative and in-depth reporting on crimes against women on the subcontinent and will aid in the national dialogue about how India can better treat its women.
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