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EU and India to establish free trade by 2010

EU officials said they would push hard for a bilateral free trade agreement with India at the one-day summit in New Delhi but Indian ministers were more cautious

Gold extends record high on India purchase

Gold prices surged to an all-time high after India’s central bank bought 200 tonnes of the precious metal, swapping dollars for bullion as the country’s finance minister warned the economies of the US and Europe had ‘collapsed’

India flexes its foreign reserve muscles

India’s purchase of 200 tonnes of gold from the International Monetary Fund displayed the economic strength of the world’s two fastest growing large economies, New Delhi said

New Delhi puts hallmark on return to gold

For the past 20 years central banks have been in the grip of anti-gold ­sentiment. Today the picture looks decidedly different: sales in Europe have slowed to a crawl and Asian banks have started swapping their dollars for gold

IMF sells 200 tonnes of gold to India central bank

The International Monetary Fund will use the $6.7bn from the sale to shore up its long-term finances and subsidise loans to poor countries

India starts to tighten monetary policy

India’s central bank takes the first steps to unwind its ultra-loose monetary policy adopted to ward off the ravages of the global financial crisis

Short View: A decoupled world

Asian economies are already at the point where overheating is the main danger, while US consumers, for all the money thrown at them, are still not feeling any better, writes John Authers

James Lamont: Is the new altruism a means to an end?

The mood is different in India’s government. Mrs Gandhi led the way by flying economy class from New Delhi to Mumbai, writes James Lamont

Global Insight: Urban India remains a work in progress

New Delhi, designed as an administrative centre by Edwin Lutyens, is again a building site a century on in preparation for next year’s Commonwealth Games

Asian countries seek to rein in property prices

Singapore and South Korea have tightened rules governing loans to the property sector and India may soon follow suit. China and Hong Kong have also warned banks to avoid imprudent lending to homebuyers

India to launch energy-efficiency trading

India secures $4.3bn World Bank loan

Seabed minerals drive India’s naval strategy

Regulation sours sugar output

India ‘could halve emissions by 2030’

‘Politics of water’ leaves Punjab in deep trouble

Indian farmers sell wives to survive

Business upbeat as Indian GDP grows 6.1%

India raids food hoarders as prices soar

India’s tax code overhaul plan criticised