Vikas Bajaj The New York Times

• India feels pressure as growth rate is worse than predicted

  India's growth rate fell to its slowest pace in almost a decade last year, according to government estimates published Thursday, putting further pressure on a fractured coalition government in New Delhi that has been widely criticized for its management of the economy.

• Reading 'The Satanic Verses' in India: Is it Illegal?

  Did Amitava Kumar, Hari Kunzru and other authors who read passages from Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses," which is banned in India, Friday evening at the Jaipur Literature Festival violate Indian law?

• Why NRIs are also NVIs (Non-Voting Indians)

  On Sunday, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reminded his country's 10 million non-resident citizens that they can vote in elections under a law passed in 2010. But it's far from clear whether many overseas Indians will bother to exercise their franchise as five Indian states get ready to go to the polls starting later this month.

• Bajaj RE60: Target audience of rickshaw drivers offer their review

  India has a new ultra cheap small car. Well, sort of. The company that introduced it on Tuesday, Bajaj Auto, best known for making motorcycles and motorized three-wheeled rickshaws, does not even call its newest product, the RE60, a car.

• In solar power, India begins living up to its own ambitions

  Solar power is a clean energy source. But in this arid part of north-west India it can also be a dusty one.

• Foreign media on Lokpal Debate and Anna's fast

  India's Parliament on Tuesday began a contentious debate over a bill to create an independent anti-corruption agency, while the activist Anna Hazare sought to rally public support for his own anti-corruption demands by beginning a three-day hunger strike in Mumbai.

• FDI in retail: Another reform-by-stealth failure

  If the Indian government decides to undo or indefinitely delay its decision to let foreign retailers into the country, as government sources now quietly predict, proponents of modernization will probably blame the opposition political parties and allies of the government like the Trinamool Congress party, as well as small retailers and wholesale tr...

• For India, outsourcing does the job at home too

  Every three months, India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, meets with a special panel assigned the ambitious task of figuring out how to produce 500 million skilled workers over the next two decades.

• Philippines overtakes India as hub of call centers

  Americans calling the customer service lines of their airlines, phone companies and banks are now more likely to speak to Mark in Manila than Bharat in Bangalore. Over the last several years, a quiet revolution has been reshaping the call center business: the rise of the Philippines, a former United States colony that has a large population of youn...

• Is vastu keeping Mukesh Ambani away from Antilia?

  When India's richest man completed his extravagant 27-story new house here last year, it incited a public debate along the lines of "What's he trying to prove?"

• Teller-ATM hybrid takes banking to rural India

  Time was, banks employed armies of human tellers. Later, they replaced many of them with automated teller machines. Now, India is using a hybrid of the two - the human ATM - to expand banking to its vast rural population.

• Billionaires' rise aids India, and the favour is returned

  India's new billionaires attest to the private sector's growth in areas once controlled by the state such as telecommunications, ports, airports, banks and infrastructure.

• Kerala Chief Minister's webcammed office draws rave reviews

  Little brother is watching you. That is the premise for the webcam that a top government official here has installed in his office, as an anticorruption experiment. Goings-on in his chamber are viewable to the public, 24/7.

• Infosys deals with expanding scrutiny over US visas

  A giant Indian outsourcing company with thousands of employees in the United States is facing an expanding federal investigation prompted by claims from an American whistle-blower that it misused short-term visitors' visas to bring in low-cost workers from India.Accusations that the company, Infosys Technologies, repeatedly violated the terms of bu...

• Can Mamata and Mitra do magic in Bengal?

  Amit Mitra was recently telling visitors why he had just left his cushy job as corporate India's top lobbyist to brave the tumultuous politics of his home state, West Bengal, by becoming its finance minister. A colleague barged into his office. It was the public works minister, reminding Mr. Mitra that his department needed $32 million to cover bil...