Eric Bellman

India is simultaneously battling the world’s worst infection surge and carrying out one of the most logistically complex vaccination campaigns. One shot’s arduous trip from a bioreactor tank to a village schoolteacher’s arm.

Family gatherings, political rallies fuel increase in infections as country tries to ratchet up its vaccination drive.

Bharat Biotech said its Covid-19 vaccine was 81% effective at protecting people in a large clinical trial, a report that could invigorate India’s inoculation drive and vaccine-diplomacy efforts.

Officials are investigating whether cyberattacks from China could have caused the power outage, an assertion that China rejects.

The country’s GDP expanded by 0.4%, but millions of small businesses and farmers are still struggling.

The world’s highest peak is about to get a new, unified official measurement from the nations it straddles; ‘rock height’ vs. ‘snow height.’

Remote learning during the pandemic has been painful, even for children with the best computers and broadband. Imagine trying to do it all on a cheap cellphone with a 2G connection.

India’s emerging middle-class consumers, until a few years ago the engine of the world’s fastest-growing big economy, were faltering even before the coronavirus arrived. The pandemic has all but knocked them out.

Alphabet’s Google is tightening its ties to India, one of the last great untapped digital markets, with a $10 billion fund to profit from the country’s digital evolution and prove it shouldn’t be shut out by protectionist policies.

New Delhi has banned Chinese apps after 20 Indian soldiers were killed in border clashes, signaling its willingness to roll back economic integration with Beijing. But further such steps would be at least as painful for India as China.

Faced with an influx of visitors, India’s picturesque village of Jibhi has shut down the local liquor store and tried to restrict loud music, smoking and barbecues. Some locals have kicked out misbehaving tourists.

India’s slowing economy faces a critical test this week when corporate executives and economists see whether its annual festival of lights blockbuster shopping spree reignites spending.

India may have failed at its attempt to land a probe on the moon: It has lost communication with the lunar lander minutes before it was supposed to reach the lunar surface.

India’s economic growth slowed to a six-year low last quarter as debt problems at banks choked business and consumer spending in Asia’s third largest economy.

Indian police found the body of the country’s missing coffee magnate, sparking an investigation by authorities and his company into whether he committed suicide.

The man behind India’s answer to Starbucks has disappeared, triggering a search, suspicions of suicide and a 20% plunge in the shares of his company, Coffee Day Enterprises.

India’s garbage business, from scrap pickers on the ground through layers of sorting middlemen to plastic pellet producers, is struggling with low prices after China restricted garbage imports.

India said it would increase state spending and allow more foreign investment in an effort to accelerate the growth of an economy that is increasingly important to the rest of the world.

India has wrapped up the largest election in the history of democracy and has once again chosen the popular nationalist Narendra Modi as prime minister. His sweeping victory gives him the opportunity to make the South Asian nation into a bigger player in the global economy and geopolitics of Asia, b…

The latest rosy economic growth figures give Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a potentially powerful weapon as he looks to get re-elected in the spring.