A $48-billion (Rs 3.26 lakh crore) penalty claimed by the US government from Volkswagen for cheating on diesel-car emissions is about 200 times as large as the $225 million (Rs 1,500 crore) insurance pool set up by Indian insurance companies to compensate US nuclear companies for mishaps in India....
Social media was in uproar on Friday amid claims that a video that first went viral showing JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and others shouting slogans seeking Kashmir's "azadi" may have been doctored with a superimposed audio clip....
The third terminal at the Cochin International Airport here will be opened next Friday by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, an official said. ...
With the profitability of Indian public sector banks (PSBs) severely dented as seen from recent third-quarter results, their credit profile will come under pressure unless they are adequately capitalised, Fitch Ratings said on Friday. ...
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to approach the Supreme Court against the recommendations submitted in the report by the Justice R.M. Lodha committee....
The Supreme Court on Friday transferred to the Delhi High Court JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar's petition seeking bail and security....
JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, who is accused of sedition, received multiple injuries in an assault by some lawyers at the Patiala House Court here early this week, shows his medical report released on Friday. ...
Australian scientists have moved a step closer to preventing the spread of Zika virus, after exposing mosquitoes to bacterium that could limit the ability of the virus to be transmitted to humans. The "super-infected" mosquitoes were exposed to two strains of Wolbachia, a bacterium which traditionally reduces the risk of dengue fever spreading t...
A Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the police in Pakistan's Punjab province on Friday registered a First-Information Report (FIR) against the alleged attackers of the Pathankot airbase in India, a media report said. The FIR, number 06/2016, was registered in the CTD police station Gujranwala town. Sources said the case was lodged a...
Hundreds of students forcibly stopped nearly half a dozen trains in Bihar on Friday demanding the immediate release of JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested in Delhi on charges of sedition. The slogan-shouting student demonstrators were allied to Left parties and had the backing of the ruling Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), officials said. ...
