The letter came hours after the Union Cabinet expressed grave concern over the situation in Orissa with PM Manmohan Singh directing Patil to present an appraisal report.

Pakistani Law Minister Farooq Naek will meet Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh to review his case following the Indian Govt's appeal for clemency for him.

The High Court asked Delhi police to allow Zia-ur-Rehman and Saqib Nissar to meet their relatives and advocates in the evening.

Industrialist and renowned chartered accountant R S Lodha (66) died of heart attack in London.

Tatas pulled out of West Bengal for its Rs 1 lakh car Nano project, blaming it on continuing agitation by the Opposition parties.

A fierce gunbattle between Army and militants has ended after a week, killing 14 people, the army said.

After the nuclear deal, Pranab Mukherjee has said that, 'India has the right to test, others have the right to react.'

Anil Ambani's $1.5 billion joint venture with celebrated film maker Steven Spielberg to set up a film studio in Hollywood will be operational in January next year.

Promoter holding in Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries has come down by over six per cent, while foreign institutional investors and mutual funds have also decreased their holding in the firm in the second quarter this fiscal.

High inflation of 12.14 per cent, recorded last week, has prompted analysts to say that price rise will remain at double digits by the end of this calendar year due to base effect.

The Minister-president (chief minister) of the German state of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff said on Friday that Volkswagen is setting up its big car manufacturing factory in Pune.

America will have to shell out $4.4 trillion if it needs clean energy, according to a plan drawn by Google Inc that calls for a big push in wind, solar and geothermal power to replace fossil fuels.

In what could bring cheers to the university teachers, the UGC-Pay Review Committee on Friday recommended a whopping over 70 per cent pay hike with additional allowances and new positions to academics.

The CPI-M has called a dawn-to-dusk bandh on Saturday against the Tata Motor's decision to pull out the Nano project from West Bengal.

Amid the tempestuous scenario in global financial markets, Swiss banking giant UBS on Friday announced repositioning of its investment bank and will slash up to 2,000 jobs.

This was how a despondent Ratan Tata, who once said he will not pull out of Singur even at gun-point, on Friday summed up his group's "painful" decision to exit the Rs 1-lakh Nano car project from West Bengal.

Sourav Ganguly cannot seek a finer redemption than to excel against Greg Chappell's newly ordained protégés.

Directors Rajat Nagpal and Devashish Makhija present Rahim Murge Pe Mat Ro. This spirited one-minute film has caught the attention of writers, film critics early into the festival. The film delivers a first person account of Rahim le Cock, a

The question is no longer if there will be a recession, but how severe it will be.