Chinese handsets storm India

Diwali spells fortune for brisk sales of smartphones and memory cards made by China-based firms

Doves in Delhi had an awful week during Diwali, India's biggest festival that lasted five days in mid-November.

The nerve-cracking sounds of firecrackers, sometimes as loud as hand grenades, sent them seeking cover all night long in the city's mingled narrow alleys that date back to the pre-colonial age.