The apex bank's efforts to arrest the sliding rupee value, coupled with massive outflows of foreign funds from equity and bond markets depletes India's foreign exchange reserves (Forex) kitty by $1.43 billion, experts said on Saturday....
At least 126 hostages were freed and three attackers killed on Saturday as security operations at the Splendid Hotel in Burkina Faso's capital ended, a senior official said....
Almost 30 years after late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi visited Dharavi, once ranked as Asia's biggest slum, his son and Congress vice president took out a padayatra (walk) in the same areas here on Saturday....
A court hearing the now infamous 'bar scam' case here on Saturday asked the vigilance probe team to hand over all the case documents to it....
Describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent conversation with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif as a "welcome sign" the US says it wants the two countries to continue to have a dialogue to fight terrorism. "We want them to continue to have a dialogue and to continue to look for ways to cooperate against a common threat," US State Department...
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh for what he termed as their "rigid thinking" which hampers creativity and start-ups in the country. Interacting with B-school students of the prestigious Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) here, Gandhi said the BJP...
With a fresh outbreak of bird flu being reported in Tripura, the mass culling of more than 8,000 chicken and ducks began on Saturday in the western part of the state, officials said here. "We have started culling of chickens, ducks and other poultry birds today (Saturday) at the government-run animal farm at Gandhigram in western Tripura. We...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said the new "Start-Up India" scheme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to promote and nurse entrepreneurship will ensure minimum interference from the government with attractive tax incentives. "Start-Up India will change conventions. Government will merely be a facilitator for start-ups," the fi...
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday left for Palestine and Israel to review bilateral relations, it was announced here. ...
Nine people were arrested after a brawl over misbehaviour with a Muslim couple travelling on the Kushinagar Express on suspicion that they were carrying cow meat, police said on Friday....
