The commodities-linked Australian dollar on Thursday slumped below parity with the greenback for only the third time since October due to disappointment at the US Fed’s new plan to support its economy.

A powerful typhoon smashed into disaster-ravaged Japan on Wednesday, having already killed at least four people, less than a month after a vicious storm left 100 dead.

Thirty-five tourists, including two from Norway, were on Wednesday airlifted by the Army from Lachung village, one of the worst-hit quake areas in Sikkim.

Left Wing Extremism (LWE) is a greater challenge to the country than terrorism in terms of number of lives lost in violence, home minister P. Chidambaram said here on Wednesday.

The NIA on Wednesday brought all the three accused — arrested in connection with sending an email claiming responsibility for the high court blast — to Delhi where they are likely to be extensively questioned.

Indicating that he may not be in the race for becoming the party’s prime ministerial candidate in the next elections, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani on Wednesday said the Sangh Parivar, his party and fellow workers had given him "much more" than what the top post holds.

It’s an unseemly war of words caught in a tangle of denials and accusations. And at the centre are Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah and Opposition leader Mehbooba Mufti, who says she never praised Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday urged Israel to recognise a Palestinian state and not 'lose an opportunity for peace,' ahead of a formal request for Palestinian UN membership this week.

The death toll in the powerful earthquake rose to 40 with 19 people being killed in Sikkim, five in West Bengal, two in Bihar, seven each in Nepal and Tibet even as rescue and relief operations were on Monday stepped up in the affected areas.

Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, will be among the top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders to be present on the third and final day of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s fast here on Monday.