India's industrial production has risen at its fastest pace in more than a decade, providing further evidence of the country's strong economic recovery.

Some of India's biggest companies have been releasing their earnings reports. Many beat estimates and experts are confident that the economy will continue to grow strongly. At the same time rising inflation, high food prices and the threat of hikes in interest rates are causing concern.

This year's World Economic Forum may not have been quite the event the organisers had hoped for.

PepsiCo's boss has told the BBC that big business must do more to prove it does not just care about the bottom line. Indra Nooyi told Tanya Beckett that executives from across the corporate world have a duty to win back the public's trust following the economic crisis.

India's airline industry has been growing fast, but it has been a rocky road.

China has returned to double digit growth and is poised to overtake Japan to become Asia's biggest economy. Economic data for the fourth quarter of 2009 shows an expansion of 10.7 %, for the full year growth reached 8.7%.

India recently announced a change in visa rules, as part of a larger security sweep. The changes affect tourists, as well as thousands of foreigners working in India. For many Indian companies with foreign nationals, the new rules have made their businesses more complicated.

Indian telecommunications firm Bharti Airtel says it has agreed to buy about 70% of Warid Telecom, the fourth largest mobile company in Bangladesh.

Indian firms are losing productivity because office staff spend too long on social networking sites, a survey says.

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