"US doubts over India jet fighter partner" from Financial Times

"The US government has expressed doubt about the suitability of corporate partnership with an Indian state aerospace company as Boeing and Lockheed Martin bid to supply New Delhi with 126 strike fighters."

"Cairn India in New Delhi talks" from Financial Times

"India's oil secretary said on Sunday that the government was hopeful of finding a "positive solution" to Cairn Energy's plans to sell a controlling stake in its Indian unit to Vedanta Resources. Cairn India said the meeting between the petroleum ministry and executives involved in the proposed sale of a Rajasthan oilfield by Cairn Energy, the UK oil and gas group, was "constructive," adding that it hoped to complete the deal by April 15. There were doubts about whether the $9.6bn deal would go ahead after New Delhi said it wanted to impose new conditions before allowing Vedanta, the London-listed resources group, to take control of Cairn India."

"Improving traffic scenario priority for Delhi Police in 2011" from Sify

"Tackling street crime and improving traffic scenario in the capital are among the top priorities for Delhi Police this year which include checking of motorcycles and impounding of trucks parked on roads obstructing vehicular movement."

"Sugar Falls as India Demand May Wane; Cocoa Drops; Coffee Rises" from Bloomberg

"Sugar prices in New York fell for the third time this week on concern that India, the world's largest user, will tax imports, reducing demand. Cocoa dropped, and coffee climbed.

India will consider imposing a duty on sugar imports after assessing the domestic production in the third week of December, Farm Minister Sharad Pawar told reporters in New Delhi. Before today, prices jumped 23 percent this quarter as adverse weather damaged global crops."

"Rescuers hammered slabs of concrete and dug with their hands yesterday to pull survivors and bodies from a five-storey apartment building that collapased into a mountain of rubble in a poor New Delhi neighbourhood." from South China Morning Post