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Many foreign companies see entry into India's booming market as one way of riding out the global financial storm, but doing business there is not for the faint-hearted.
For some foreign businessmen, India stands for “I'll Never Do It Again.”
Radio and web article for BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent
Can you run a hospital like running a business?
Dr Devi Shetty certainly thinks so. He is in charge of the world's largest heart hospital, in Bangalore, India, which uses production-line techniques to treat 6,000 patients every year.
Radio report for BBC Radio 4's Today Programme
A huge crowd met the veteran Indian anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare when he was released from jail in July 2011.
The protests he inspired made the government look out of touch and ineffective.
Reporting live from the scene for BBC TV
The key to healthy living, according to Baba Ramdev, is knowing how to breathe. It is a simple message that has won the yoga guru from a poor north Indian background fame, fortune, an extraordinary self-confidence, his very own Scottish island, and a platform for some strong and controversial opinions.
Web article for BBC News Online
The drug problem in the Punjab, one of India's wealthiest states, is getting worse.
Local researchers say 70% of the region's young men are addicted to narcotics or alcohol.
America issues a new warning over militancy in Pakistan, as the Taliban's advance moves closer to Islamabad.
Afghanistan facing another bloody new year, with militants threatening a new wave of suicide attacks
BBC Radio 4: From Our Own Correspondent
Aid agencies in Bangladesh are warning that thousands of unregistered Burmese refugees are facing starvation because of government moves to drive them out of the country.
Omar Ali is Bangladesh's unlikely new music star - he's a white-bearded rickshaw puller from an impoverished village a day's drive from the capital, Dhaka. But his voice is golden and millions of viewers voted for him to win a television "Pop Idol"-style talent show, which has just reached its climax.
Web article for BBC News online
The sewers of Dhaka, Bangladesh's overcrowded and polluted capital city, are as unpleasant as you could imagine. But they are also an incredible source of income for a small group of men who do not mind getting their hands dirty. They earn their living by finding tiny specks of gold that are accidentally brushed into the open sewers that run alongside the narrow streets of Dhaka's historic gold bazaar. With the price of gold hitting $1,000 an ounce for the first time earlier this year, these specks are worth more than ever before. Web article for BBC News Online