Nine army troopers were killed in two avalanche tragedies in north Kashmir's Bandipora and Ganderbal districts.

Five men suspected to be behind two bank robberies in Chennai in the last one month were killed in a gun battle with the city police at Velachery in the wee hours of Thursday.

India, China, US, Russia, Brazil and another 21 nations have decided to retaliate against the EU decision to impose a carbon tax on flights landing in Eurozone.

Lenders are firm on not providing fresh assistance to Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines unless the company clears its dues to banks, a move which is expected to pile more pressure on the c ...

The Bombay HC directed city police to register an FIR against Cong leader Kripashankar Singh for 'criminal misconduct' under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Stocks are mounting in Maharashtras cooperative sugar factories, after traders halted lifting the commodity because of a continuous fall in its price. They fear prices may soon bottom out due to t ...

Salaried taxpayers with no other income could get a respite from filing tax returns. The income-tax (I-T) department is open to examining a proposal to exempt them from the annual chore.

The proverbial light gleamed at the end of the tunnel today for Lavasa Corporation. The ministry of environment & forests agreed to consider clearance to the companys hill-side project near Pune, ...

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is formulating a far-reaching immunity scheme to prompt the repatriation of unaccounted money parked overseas. The proposed scheme could be one of the majo ...

Tata Steel, which has announced a follow-on public offer (FPO) to raise up to Rs 3,500 crore, will not be drawing close to half the debt tied up for its 3-million tonne Jamshedpur plant expansion. ...

The political parties contesting in this phase are Bahujan Samaj Party, Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress, Nationalist Congress Party, Samajwadi Party and others.The number of EVMs being used in th ...

The Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India, in a letter to Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal, has contended that any decision contrary to the recommendations of Telecom Commission wo ...

Although the state education ministers gave "in-principle" approval to the CET at a meeting here on Wednesday, the uncertainty over all the states' participation even in the 2014 test continues, a ...

Top executives of private power companies including Anil Ambani from Reliance Power and Cyrus Mistry from Tata Power met Pulok Chatterji, the principal secretary of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, ...

The meeting, chaired by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, was discussing a uniform policy of surrender of Naxals and proposed Rs 5 lakh to anyone laying down a Light Machine Gun and Rs 3 lakh fo ...

Is Burma's business community ready for foreign investment?

In China, many Tibetans are today marking the start of their New Year, but the Tibetan government in exile, has called on Tibetans in the country to boycott any celebrations.

A Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka is sentenced to death - the first in 50 years to receive such a sentence in the country.

As Japan's tallest tower nears completion, the Tokyo Sky Tree is being promoted with a new perfume.

Indian call centres were used to swindle millions of dollars out of Americans in a debt collection fraud, say US federal officials.

A European Union envoy has after talks in Burma announced more aid for the country, holding out the prospect of a further easing of sanctions.

A South Korean couple is arrested over allegations they beat their three children to death to cure them of "demonic illness", police say.

Tropical Cyclone Heidi hits Western Australia, forcing residents to flee rising tidewaters and closing the world's largest iron-ore export ports.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari returns home from Dubai after receiving medical treatment, officials say.

The exiled abbot of a Tibetan monastery that has seen a wave of self-immolations this year says China's repressive policies are to blame.

SEVERE labour shortages, together with high material costs and rents, are forcing small and medium-sized enterprises to relocate or shut down in China's Guangdong province, once dubbed the 'the fa ...

(SINGAPORE) Three prominent US venture capitalists (VCs) are about to inject life into the start-up scene here with a network of mentors and investors from Silicon Valley through a US$10 million i ...

(SINGAPORE) Neptune Orient Lines' 'disappointing' set of full-year and final quarter losses led its new chief to declare a US$500 million cost-cutting programme at the shipping and logistics group.

(SINGAPORE) Smaller insurers and reinsurers here will need to have independent directors making up at least one-third of their boards, under new proposals to strengthen the corporate governance of ...

CHINESE Vice-President Xi Jinping was welcomed to the United States with historic honours for a second-in-command, reflecting the importance of a detente that may decide the course of the global e ...