Expressing concern over "increasing protectionist tendencies in the developed world", Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday warned that growing populist backlash against globalisation and free trade can have an adverse impact on the global economy....
The Indian equity markets on Thursday plunged as investors were spooked ahead of the release of inflation macro-data and upcoming key quarterly results. ...
Two Congress MPs on Thursday said the last-minute change of agenda for the coming meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence, including the September 29 surgical strikes across the Line of Control, is "highly unacceptable"...
An unconventional singer - with a raspy, almost nasal voice instead of honeyed tones - burst into public consciousness in the early 1960s with a brace of self-written, hard-hitting songs expressing the growing social unrest and questioning tradition and injustice. "How many years can some people exist/Before they're allowed to be free?" he as...
Tamil Nadu Finance Minister O. Panneerselvam has taken charge of the portfolios earlier handled by Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, officials said on Thursday. ...
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said India and Russia were both interested in deepening "constructive multilateral cooperation" to help rebuild war-torn Afghanistan where decisive action was needed to defeat terrorism. ...
Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-serving monarch, died on Thursday here at the age of 88, according to the Royal Household Bureau. ...
Caught in a bind over the appointment of the kin of senior CPI-M leaders to top government posts, the Pinarayi Vijayan government on Thursday decided to frame new laws to prevent recurrence of nepotism. ...
US singer Bob Dylan, who became an informal historian of America's troubles, on Thursday won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. ...
The Pakistan Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned for an indefinite period the hearing of a Pakistani Christian woman on death row for blasphemy after a judge refused to hear the case. ...
