India's cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines cancelled several flights on Monday due to staff unrest, it said, fueling more doubts about the private carrier's future and sending its shares plunging.

India's manufacturing growth held steady in September from the previous month, pointing to the sector stabilizing after expansion slowed recently, a private business index suggested Monday.

Despite coming under fierce attack from opposition parties and a section of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) over his government's recent tough reforms decisions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today made it clear that the government would continue with the reforms process.

India's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki, has given workers at a plant where rioters went on a deadly rampage in July a record pay hike of 75 percent, a spokesman said Wednesday.

A consortium of state-run Indian oil companies has bid US$5 billion for a stake in six Canadian oil sands assets owned by U.S. energy giant ConocoPhillips, the Press Trust of India reports.

Indian fishermen and anti-nuclear activists on Saturday mounted a sea protest against an atomic power plant following violent demonstrations earlier this month, police said.

India's trade unions on Monday called a nationwide strike against the opening of the retail sector to foreign supermarkets as the government pledged to push ahead with more economic reforms.

Global cosmetic firms are turning to emerging markets in the hunt for sales, but they face a challenge tailoring their beauty products to suit new customers in India, China and elsewhere.

India's industrial output inched up by a meagre 0.1 percent in July from a year earlier, data showed on Wednesday, piling new pressure on policymakers to spur Asia's third-largest economy.

As their economy slows and the government is hammered by corruption scandals, Indians are increasingly dejected about their country's future, according to a survey released Monday by the Pew Research Center.