New Zealand's test spinning ranks are into their third year of the time classification known as PV (Post-Vettori) and off-spinner Mark Craig and leg-spinner Ish Sodhi are showing signs of promise.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking to turn India into a global manufacturing hub by curbing red tape.

Heather Ramsay takes a ride on a luxury riverboat along the Ganges and experiences many faces of India along the way.

Fireworks lit up Auckland skies last night as the city celebrated Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.

A judge says an Australian couple rejected their biological child born to an Indian surrogate mother because of the baby's gender, but they took home its twin sibling.

Diamonds are so hard to find that explorers have pretty much given up trying.

Your Business editor Caitlin Sykes talks with Kchitij Tiwari of Sales Concepts.

Your Business editor Caitlin Sykes talks with Nats Subramanian of TakeMe2India.

When Nanda Majhi boarded an airliner bound for Auckland, he was amazed to find a small television above his meal tray.

The 13th Jember Fashion Carnival 2014 theme is Triangle, Dynamic in Harmony and consists of ten parades which include Mahabharata, Tambora, Phoenix, Pine Forest, Apache, Borobudur, Flying Kite, Wild Deers, Stalagmite, and Chemistry.

India is confronting the prospect of hanging two sisters convicted of abducting and murdering young children – the first time it would have used the death sentence against women.

More than six decades after it achieved independence, India may be on the verge of a single goods and services tax, after India's PM warmed to the idea.

Samsung, the global leader in mobile-phone sales, is being outflanked in the key markets of China and India by newcomers, Xiaomi and Micromax, catering to domestic tastes.

Mumbai's towering billboards are a physical hurdle preventing Air India from reaching its potential on what should be one of its most lucrative routes.

A fight over a comma in a 65-page document helped spark the collapse of the biggest trade deal in the World Trade Organization's 19-year history.

The Indian Government is hiring men to pose as menacing langur monkeys to scare off the hundreds of macaques terrorising MPs and staff around its buildings.

In just four years, Xiaomi has evolved from startup to outselling Apple in China by offering inexpensive devices packed with high-end features.

India's highest court has sparked bitter controversy after it said laws set up to protect women from demands for dowry payments were being misused by "disgruntled wives" to get back at their husbands.

India's ambition to skip a generation of electricity technology starting with solar panels on telecommunications towers is being hampered by dust and urban sprawl.

India has declared itself the world's leader in cheap space exploration after its prime minister claimed that its Mars mission will cost less than the Oscar-winning science fiction film Gravity.

Graham Reid considers the lifelines of India.

Pragmatism and fairness have been touted as key drivers behind New Zealand Cricket's decision to vote for Indian industrialist Narayanaswami Srinivasan to become chairman of the International Cricket Council.

A fake passport and visa ring busted in India could have helped illegal aliens sneak into New Zealand, authorities believe.

India will offload about a quarter of its rice stockpiles and ease restrictions on selling fruit and veggies as a weak monsoon threatens crop output.

The poorest Kiwi children are now no better off than some children in the slums of India, a leading author says.

Coal dominated world energy markets last year by supplying the biggest share of demand since 1970, making it the fastest growing fossil fuel, according to an annual review by BP.

Graham Reid visits a photogenic spot that isn't quite as famous as it looks.