The following are the highlights of the Reserve Bank of India's first bi-monthly policy review:...
Ten district secretaries and five legislators of actor-turned-politician A. Vijaykant's DMDK on Tuesday said their party must align with the DMK and end its alliance with the four-party People's Welfare Front. Addressing the media here, DMDK propaganda secretary V.C. Chandrakumar said: "The decision to align with the MNK (People's Welfare Front) was ta...
Negative global cues, along with profit booking and weak crude oil prices, plunged the Indian equity markets on Tuesday. In the process, both the key indices of the Indian equity markets provisionally closed the day's trade deep in the red. ...
The Taliban has anointed Mullah Omar’s elder son to a senior military position within the Afghan Taliban, the insurgent group has said, according to media reports on Tuesday. Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the elder son of the former Taliban chief, had previously refused to accept the leadership of the group’s chief Mullah Akh...

The BJP government has stabbed "Mother India" in the back by allowing Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) inside the country to probe the Pathankot attack, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday....
Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand, has entered the race to succeed Ban Ki-moon as the UN secretary general in a bid to become the first woman in the role of world's top diplomat. ...

In political circles as well as among many general voters of Kerala the result of last year's Aruvikkara assembly byelection has now become a point of discussion. O. Rajagopal, a front ranking leader of the BJP's Kerala unit, had finished third but the party increased its vote share to 23.96 percent from the paltry 6.6 percent it was able to garner...
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Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that those responsible for the murder of National Investigation Agency (NIA) officer Tanzil Ahmad must be brought to justice. ...

India's central bank on Tuesday cut its key lending rate by 25 basis points in line with overall expectations, comforted by the central government's fiscal prudence steps, a cut in interest rates on small savings rates and moderate inflation. ...