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.

India's government is to propose watered down legislation later this month to open up the retail sector to foreign supermarkets, news reports said on Tuesday.

Car sales in India plunged 19 percent in August, their first fall in 10 months as slowing demand adds to the economic woes of Asia's third-largest economy, industry data showed Monday.

Indian IT outsourcing giant Infosys said Monday it had agreed to buy Zurich-based consulting firm Lodestone for US$350 million as part of its strategy to move into higher value services.