A roundup of news from Indian media regarding the possible BlackBerry ban.

India said Tuesday it was still undecided as to whether it would allow RIM to offer its BlackBerry corporate email services in the country beyond Aug 31.

India is among a growing number of nations scrutinizing BlackBerry services over concerns the devices may be used by terrorists or for other illegal activities because the device's encryption prevents intelligence agencies from monitoring mail traffic.

Stepping up its rivalry with Apple and Nokia, Google outlines plans to court developers and put its operating system on lower-priced phones in China and India.

The rise of Asian millionaires is being tracked by the industry that manages the fortunes of rich individuals, with banks shifting senior staff to Singapore and Hong Kong to chase new clients.

After the telecom services players, it's the handset manufacturers' turn to eye the growing Rs 50,000 crore handset market in India.

Popular social-networking site Facebook will open an office in India, joining a long list of international firms that have looked to tap a skilled workforce that provides support services at relatively cheap wages.

The total number of employees in India is projected to rise to 10,000 from about 6,000 currently, Cisco CEO John Chambers said at a conference in New Delhi today, without specifying a timeframe for the expansion.

The share of exports of the Big Five of 1999 fell to 34% in 2009. That loss of nine percentage points was matched by a similar gain for China, India and South Korea, with most of the gain going to China.

India has seen how the Gulf state of Abu Dhabi has, with a budget of US$10 billion, set about manouvering its way into a key place in the semiconductor industry with the creation of Globalfoundries.

Rich states meet emissions targets by paying poor countries to do the cutting, under Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism. However, rich countries account for most of the past emissions that now fill the air, but less than half the world's current emissions.

Called jugaad (pronounced "joo-gaardh"), India's improvisational style of invention focuses on being fast and cheap - attributes just right for these times.

The International Monetary Fund has warned Asian nations not to withdraw their stimulus spending too soon.

Consumer electronics maker Panasonic Corp., which already has a big chunk of Japan's home appliance market, is accelerating its push into Europe and India by considering local production in those regions to take advantage of lower costs.

India expects one trillion rupees (US$21 billion) of investments over a five-year period ending March 2012 for renewable-power generation, according to the chairman of Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency.

In addition to exclusive IT Brand Shops, the company is also setting up IT displays within the existing Samsung Digital Plazas. Samsung has around 300 Digital Plazas for its consumer electronics products in India at present. Samsung IT products are also available through large format retail stores like Croma, e-zone, etc. as well as in its Printer Demo Zones in Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore and Coimbatore.

The government of India has signed an agreement with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and will purchase 250,000 of the organization's XO laptops. The machines will be distributed to students throughout the country. India's decision to embrace OLPC is a bit unexpected in light of the country's past antagonism towards the project.

Indian mobile operators added a record 15.64 million customers in March, helped by the expansion of networks to smaller towns and rural areas, data from the telecoms regulator showed.

As promoted by Goldman Sachs in 2001, this approach focuses on Brazil, Russia, India and China. While their stock markets were as battered as those in North America and Europe in 2008, most of them may recover faster and offer sustained growth.

Satyam Computer Services began a bidding process Monday to sell a 51% stake in itself, and two potential buyers quickly confirmed that they would join the race for the scandal-tainted outsourcer.