India could soon replace China as the world's leading textile manufacturer, with the latter shifting its focus on manufacturing activities, said the president of South India Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Palani G Periyasamy, on Friday. He also urged the domestic textile industry to focus on modernisation and keep itself updated on the latest trends to remain globally competitive.

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and prominent Silicon Valley investor Raj Ganguly has closed a $143 million fund Asia focus fund, with special emphasis on India and South East Asia.

India has signed an agreement with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) for a possible $100 million line of credit to facilitate exports to IDB’s member countries.

The MoU was inked between the IDB’s private sector arm, the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) and the Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM Bank), a specialized financial institution, wholly owned by the government of India to finance and facilitate foreign trade.

India's first three women fighter pilot trainees who will shatter the combat-exclusion policy. Avani Chaturvedi, Mohana Singh and Bhawana Kanth. They are on course to make history by becoming the first-ever Indian women fighter pilots in the not too distant future.  Currently undergoing Stage-II flying training on aging Kiran intermediate jet trainers at IAF's fighter training wing at Hakimpet, the three flight cadets are eager to jump into cockpits of menacing supersonic fighters like Sukhoi-30MKIs and Mirage-2000s and tear through the skies to break the sound barrier.