Tear up the maps: India's cities shed colonial names.
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Bombay to Mumbai is familiar enough, but Bangalore to Bangaluru? A trend gains speed.
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By car, it's just a few hours from Bangalore, the buzzing hub of India's technology boom, to some of Asia's densest forests. They are mountainous places at the other end of Indian life: few people, fewer roads and foliage thick enough to swallow a newcomer in minutes.
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More on the disappearing-public-companies phenomenon.
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A crisis decades in the making has reduced middle-class people in New Delhi, IndiaÂs richest city, to foraging for water.
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NEW DELHI -- At least for a while, the World Wide Web wasn't so worldwide.
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India lost two wickets on the third day of the second Test against South Africa at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata today. South Africa bounced back from a miserable day on the field yesterday to remove the dangerous
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Bans on foreign, Kurdish and even some ancient Persian names for newborns have been around since the Islamic Revolution but are now letting up slightly
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SIMIJI, Mali  - A row of shiny new streetlights looks out of place in this sand swept village of conical thatched roofs and mud-brick huts.
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In India, builders who raze slums and use part of the land to build houses for the former residents are then allowed to build lucrative towers on the rest of the land.
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High stress and low status have soured many grads on the telephone work. Now India, the outsourcing capital, finds itself having to outsource
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DAVID HARDAKER: In Soviet times, it was a long-held tradition to immortalise leaders by renaming streets and major cities after them.
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History smells if it doesn't exactly stink. In recent days, as the family is away in Pakistan, I have been amassing old books.
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NEW DELHI The tiny white cab speeds through the mind-numbing maze of buses, cars, rickshaws, motorcycles, street entertainers and beggars. Once inside a neighborhood, it zips past cows, children playing cricket and women lining up for water.
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Travel: Delhi is boomtown, but the choice of hotels is still limited to palaces or pits â unless you know where to look. Amelia Gentleman leads the way
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The Indian cricket teamâs victory over Pakistan on Monday in a new lean, swift version of the elegant old game came to signify something far larger than itself.
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The new supermarket was slated as  the shape of retail to come in globalizing India. Now shutters  covered its windows, staff meandered outside and customers  picked final bargains before its closure.
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XIAMEN, China  - Dirty, polluted, and congested -- China's large cities have an unenviable poor reputation.