Reliance Industries has regained the top slot among Indian energy companies on the Platts global list
Output in the first half of the year was 101.59 million tonnes.
Ten Indian companies, including Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries and telecom major Bharti Airtel, are among the 500 top global companies for 2009
Retail giant Walmart has the world's largest number of employees.
As 2008 draws near, very few educated people can still be unaware of the rising economic and strategic power of Asia.
Indian Oil Corporation, the country's largest refiner, has lost out in the race for acquiring a stake in Indonesia's largest listed oil and gas producer Medco.
Chinese companies show their prowess among the world's top companies.
More than 1,500 shares listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen dived by the daily limit.
A 19-year-old Indian was killed as Nepal police opened fire on people demonstrating against the new Constitution near the Indo-Nepal border, hours after security forces baton-charged Madhesi protesters and evicted them from a key bridge in the area in a pre-dawn swoop.
The proposed China visit of Oli, who took over as prime minister in October, is in marked contrast to the usual practice the new prime ministers of Nepal follow. Most of the Nepalese premiers have visited India, ahead of China.
Both the countries have increased prices of gas recently.
The analysis is based on the free-float market capitalisation.