(NEW DELHI) Indian economic growth may accelerate to as much as 7.75 per cent this year amid signs of a 'bottoming out' in the US and harvests benefiting from monsoon rains, the Finance Ministry said yesterday before next week's Budget.

(NEW DELHI) India's exports declined for an eighth straight month in May as recessions in the US and Europe dampened demand for the nation's products.

(NEW DELHI) India will not sign up to targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions but will instead focus on fighting poverty and boosting economic growth, the environment minister said on Tuesday.