After Hours: Delhi
By POH SI TENG

The political and (perhaps) intellectual center of India, Delhi tries hard to set the standard—but even its boosters wouldn't call it the capital of partying. The better-established competition includes Goa (with all those beaches) and Mumbai (with all those financiers, plus Bollywood). While affluent Delhiites certainly know how to get down when they're out of town—they've been making the scene from New York to Amsterdam since forever—the action after hours back home ... Read More

Interview: Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO and managing director of Infosys Technologies
By John Boudreau

Kris Gopalakrishnan, one of the seven co-founders of Bangalore-based Infosys Technologies, took the helm of India's second-largest software exporter in June 2007 just as the global economic downturn was hitting.

The CEO steered the company through some of its toughest days last year, cutting employee bonuses and compensation packages but honoring promises of jobs for thousands of college students Infosys had recruited.

In July, the company reported a 2.4 percent first-quarter drop in profit but ... Read More

Pakistan Flood Sets Back Infrastructure by Years
Girls at a water pump in Sukkur, Pakistan. Floods have forced many Pakistanis from their homes and into roadside camps.

By CARLOTTA GALL

SUKKUR, Pakistan — Men waded waist deep all week wedging stones with their bare hands into an embankment to hold back Pakistan’s surging floodwaters. It was a rudimentary and ultimately vain effort to save their town. On Thursday, the waters breached the levee, a demoralizing show of how fragile Pakistan’s infrastructure remains, and how ... Read More

Atwal makes golf history with maiden PGA Tour victory
Arjun Atwal holds the Wyndham Championship aloft after becoming the first Indian player to win on the PGA Tour.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Arjun Atwal becomes first Indian-born player to win on the PGA Tour

• Atwal claimed the Wyndham Championship by one stroke from David Toms

• Indian lost his Tour card last month after slipping down the money list

• The 37-year-old is the first qualifier to win on the Tour for 24 years

(CNN) -- Arjun Atwal's narrow victory at ... Read More

The ‘impossible’ voyage of a Tamil ghost ship
The barely seaworthy Sun Sea eluded authorities for months, and baffled officials warn more are likely to come to Canada

Mark MacKinnon

Songkhla, Thailand : Whispers about a boat headed to Canada began long ago in Thailand’s small and closely knit Tamil community.

Among the regulars at the New Madras Café – a Tamil restaurant in the bustling commercial heart of Bangkok that serves roti, curry and lassis under photographs of the beaches of the Tamil ... Read More

Canada offers another $31-million in aid to flood-stricken Pakistan
Canada is offering an additional $31-million in aid to Pakistan to help it deal with the flood crisis.

House Leader John Baird made the announcement in Toronto during a ceremony honouring the 63rd anniversary of Pakistan's independence on Saturday.

The funding comes on top of $2-million announced last month.

The floods have killed about 1,500 people and left some 20 million homeless.

“The situation is still unfolding,” Mr. Baird said of the flooding that began more than three weeks ... Read More

Outsourcing to India Draws Western Lawyers
Christopher Wheeler, a former assistant attorney general for New York State, met with his staff at Pangea3, a legal outsourcing firm, in Noida, India.

By HEATHER TIMMONS

NOIDA, INDIA — As an assistant attorney general for New York State, Christopher Wheeler used to spend most of his time arguing in courtrooms in New York City.

Today, he works in a sprawling, unfinished planned suburb of New Delhi, where office buildings are sprouting from empty lots and dirt roads ... Read More

How to Fix US-India Ties
By Jeff Smith

The honeymoon between the US and India seems to be over. But there’s plenty that both sides can do to get things back on track.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the US-India partnership is losing momentum under President Barack Obama’s stewardship.

Fortifying the alliance was always bound to be a secondary priority for any administration faced with a recession, a flagging war effort in Afghanistan, political stalemate in Iraq, stalled Middle East peace efforts, ... Read More

India's Mobile Phone Hitmaker
Micromax is grabbing market share from Nokia by giving Indian consumers what they want: inexpensive, quality phones with long battery life

By Mehul Srivastava

On a hot summer afternoon in 2007, executives at a small Indian pay phone company called Micromax noticed a curious sight. In a village in the eastern part of the country, they watched people line up next to a man with a car battery strapped to the back of his bicycle and hand ... Read More