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The fallout from Enron Corp.'s Dabhol power plant fiasco has led to extended power cutbacks in Bangalore and the surrounding state of Karnataka--considered India's Silicon Valley--hindering the recovery of India's [...]

NEW DELHI --Security concern after the Sept. 11 U.S. terror attacks has done wonders to the business of gadgets and systems which could deter and detect possible terrorists. One such […]

Russia has decided not to export its latest assault rifle, the Nikonov AN-94, because it is afraid the design will be copied illegally in developing countries. 'Everyone knows what happened [...]

NEW DELHI--India will lease two nuclear-powered submarines from Russia capable of firing nuclear-tipped missiles, Indian military officials said. Negotiations to decide the price and other terms of the lease commenced [...]

NEW DELHI--A former Indian dotcom is developing a software for the CIA to help it detect patterns from seemingly incoherent data which the agency hopes may enable it to be […]

NEW DELHI--India has sought help from the United States and Israel to upgrade New Delhi's counter-terrorism technology and develop equipment peculiar to the Indian environment. The head of the U.S. [...]

NEW DELHI--Two European subsidiaries of American defense firms are in a race to sell India some 400 towed and self-propelled howitzers worth an estimated $350 million. The companies are Sweden's [...]

NEW DELHI -- An Israeli company, SixEye Limited, has developed what it describes as a groundbreaking electronic ink which can be used on sheets of thin electronic 'paper' again and […]

NEW DELHI--Although the Pakistani government has frozen the assets of the terrorists accused of attacking the Indian parliament last month and barred their group from raising money, the organization is [...]

NEW DELHI--Despite the souring of other Western-backed energy projects in India, Framatome, the French nuclear power giant, is considering buying stakes in two nuclear power projects that have been offered [...]

NEW DELHI--Sophisticated data storage technologies which enable a company to recover within minutes from a 'bolt-from-the-blue' disaster like the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are being developed by Indian information technology […]

NEW DELHI--Enron Corp. has agreed to allow two Indian companies, Tata Power and BSES, to bid for its troubled Dabhol power plant at any price they feel is viable--even if [...]

NEW DELHI--Russia's state-owned arms-export company has begun selling what appears to be the world's first openly marketed radio-frequency weapons, a class of threat that can fry or disrupt just about […]

NEW DELHI--India and the United States have concluded a deal allowing U.S. companies to sell defense hardware to India and for Indian companies to tap the U.S. market for parts. [...]

NEW DELHI--An Indian university has produced what it calls 'the world's most advanced candidate for a human anthrax vaccine.' The candidate vaccine is claimed to be far less toxic and [...]

NEW DELHI--India launched its first-ever spy satellite on Oct. 23 joining recent U.S. and Russian satellites to watch over the volatile South Asian region. Going by a rather inconspicuous-sounding name, […]

NEW DELHI--An Indian company has developed a robotic arm for pick-and-place functions in precision industries like microelectronics. Its developer claims it can work twice as fast as current industrial robots, […]

NEW DELHI--As a reward for supporting Washington's war against terrorism, Pakistan is seeking an assortment of sophisticated U.S. weapons to help it achieve military parity with rival India, according to [...]

NEW DELHI--A mosque in Karachi, Pakistan, has emerged as a principal place where leading global terrorists cut their teeth. The imposing Binori Mosque there runs a 'madrasa,' or religious school. [...]

NEW DELHI--Companies in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Israel are blatantly copying components for Soviet-made military hardware and selling the replicas as spares for Soviet arms worldwide, according [...]

NEW DELHI--Enron has turned down an initial offer from privately held Indian power utility Tata Power to buy its stake in the $3.2 billion Dabhol Power Company, but officials close [...]

NEW DELHI--As the United States targets Afghanistan's Taliban regime in Afghanistan, an India-Pakistan conflict may be brewing in the background. Islamabad is trying to offset its support to the United [...]

NEW DELHI--British Airways is planning to start a software project to incorporate security features in its ticketing system that will throw up an alert when people on a suspect list […]

NEW DELHI--The Taliban government of Afghanistan may have stored chemical weapons in caves near Kandahar in the southern part of the country, according to a representative of the Northern Alliance, [...]

NEW DELHI--Terrorists and smugglers will find it extremely difficult to sneak in weapons and contra-band following the development of a new detection technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). […]

NEW DELHI--Osama bin Laden's troops have a training regimen as tough if not tougher than that of the U.S. Green Berets, the British Special Air Services and the Russian Spetznatz--and [...]

NEW DELHI --The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has constituted a special team called the Lunar Task Force (LTF) which will plan and execute its project to send an unmanned […]

NEW DELHI--AES Corp. last week lost management control over Central Electricity Supply Company, its joint venture in Orissa state, India, as its eight-month dispute with the state government hit the [...]

NEW DELHI--A Sun Microsystems-Compaq consortium has been short-listed to provide a $120 million, supercomputer-based network linking 11 bioinformatics centers of the Indian government's Department of Biotechnology (DBT). Consisting of a […]

NEW DELHI--The biggest names in Europe's energy sector--Siemens of Germany, Alsthom of France and ABB of Sweden--are among 12 European and Asian companies which have expressed interest in eight transmission [...]

NEW DELHI--Russia's cash-starved arms industry has found a friend in France. Paris is extending a $55 million credit to two French companies--Snecma Corp. and Thales Corp.--to provide engines and avionics [...]