Hopes of a rate cut and expectations of importing cheaper oil from Iran after it signed a nuclear deal with the world powers cheered the Indian equity markets on Wednesday, with the 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) gaining more than 255 points during the late-afternoon trade session. ...
Apart from nine chief ministers from Congress-ruled states, West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee, Odisha's Naveen Patnaik, Tamilnadu's J.Jayalalithaa were among the non-NDA chief ministers who skipped the NITI Aayog meet here on Wednesday. ...
Unless proper action is taken the Greek debt-to-GDP ratio could soar to 200 percent in the next two years, the IMF had warned European leaders ahead of last Sunday's negotiations with the embattled nation. ...
Yakub Memon, convicted for his role in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, will be hanged on July 30, official sources said here early Wednesday....
The UN Security Council is preparing to ratify the nuclear accord reached between major world powers and Iran by approving a resolution that is expected to be voted on very soon. ...
Senior Congress leaders met at party president Sonia Gandhi's residence here on Tuesday to discuss the party's strategy for the monsoon session of parliament beginning next Monday. ...
In a move to facilitate taxpayers through e-enabled services, the finance ministry on Tuesday said the income tax return for assessment year 2015-16 can now be verified electronically....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet chief ministers of the eight northeastern states on Wednesday evening in Delhi, triggering speculation that he may not attend the Iftar hosted by President Pranab Mukherjee....
Attacking the Narendra Modi regime's refusal to decriminalize defamation, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the government's stand was "strange"....
India, which has drastically reduced its oil imports from Iran under US pressure, stands to gain from the historic accord reached between Tehran and six world powers to limit its nuclear programme in return for lifting sanctions....
