The Centre dispatched 1000 personnel of paramilitary forces to the violence-hit Kandhamal district in Orissa in the wake of fresh communal clashes there.

Defence Minister A K Antony said there were no differences between the government and the armed forces over the 6th Central Pay Commission report.

Defending the timing of Nanavati Commission report, Narendra Modi has claimed findings were not intended for electoral gains.

At least two persons were killed and 40 injured in a string of five blasts set off in Agartala by suspected terrorists.

Faced with stiff resistance from the Union Home Ministry for his efforts to do away with Section 377 of IPC which penalises gay sex, Ramadoss said he and other 'like-minded' colleagues planned to meet PM Manmohan Singh and seek a

Scripting another comeback to national squad, Ganguly has been included in 15-member squad for first two Tests against Australia.

Muslims in this town of Maharashtra will celebrate Eid by wearing old clothes and also tie black badges in protest.

S & P's Sam Stovall sizes up the Sept. 29 stock market sell-off and offers some insights for nervous investors.

The BSE IT index soared 4% (123 points) to 3,218, and the Bankex rallied over 3% (209 points) to 6,688. The Realty index, however, shed 2.3% (82 points) at 3,427. The market breadth was positive - out of 2,672 stocks

Along with proposed tax cuts for businesses, the modified bailout plan includes raising the federal deposit insurance levels to $250,000 from the current $100,000.

In the third quarter of 2008, VC-backed companies generated just $4.57 billion, in liquidity through merger and acquisition deals and initial public offerings, representing a fall of 66 per cent from the year-ago period, according to the database of Dow

Think stocks are volatile? The dislocations in the credit markets are even more serious, and they pose a greater threat to the economy.

There are demands from market participants that the currency trading norms should be relaxed. RBI and Sebi are working together to relax the norms," Sebi Chairman, C B Bhave said. Further relaxation in currency trading norms is expected to enable

Even mid-size and smaller IT companies are going slow on recruitments due to the uncertainty in business from the US, which is the single-largest market for these companies, says L Venkataesan, a placement consultant based in Tiruchy. JJ College of

The Reserve Bank of India is unlikely to ease the requirement for banks to keep cash with the central bank through a cut in CRR rate in its mid-term monetary review on October 24 even though the banking system is

From makers of steel to specialty packaging, world-class Indian companies with sophisticated management are acquiring or merging with US companies.

Seeking to play down the controversy generated by the refusal by Defence services chiefs to implement the Pay Commission scales, Defence Minister A K Antony on Wednesday asked the media not to 'read too much' into the issue.

Elitist critics dismissed him as a workhorse compared to singing thoroughbred Mohammed Rafi. For all that, Mahendra Kapoor -- who passed away on September 27 -- stayed the course, with a hoi-polloi following of his own, through 50 years. As

A time may come when human rights activists, liberals, intellectual elite, eminent persons, secularists and other lumpen elements may argue that it is okay for the State to fund the activities of such violent groups who according to them mean

The muddle in the US only proves that industrial nations do not necessarily have the monopoly of wisdom.