Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare has decided to file a defamation suit against the office of the charity commissioner of Pune for wrongly sending notices to his Ahmednagar-based trust.

Indian Navy and coast guard have thwarted an attack by Somalian pirates on a foreign merchant vessel with Chinese crew members in the Arabian Sea, a senior official said on Friday.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday fixed the reference rate for the US dollar at Rs 44.78 per dollar and the euro at Rs 65.27 per euro, as against Rs 44.57 per dollar and Rs 66.23 per euro on Thursday.

The Enforcement Directorate has suspended an officer for allegedly conducting a shoddy probe into the Hasan Ali Khan case in 2007.

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Friday demanded the sacking of the city's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Raj Purohit for making derogatory references to a college girl who captured on camera a vendor urinating in a serving vessel last month.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday fixed the reference rate for the US dollar at Rs 44.57 per dollar and the euro at Rs 66.23 per euro, as against Rs 44.59 per dollar and Rs 66.04 per euro on Wednesday.

A benchmark index for Indian equities markets closed 284 points lower on Thursday and broader market indices too slipped into the red, pulled down by realty and power stocks.

Social activist Anna Hazare, whose fast for a stronger anti-corruption Lok Pal Bill last month made global headlines, has spurned the1 crores 2011 Rabindranath Tagore Peace Prize announced by the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM).

A benchmark index for Indian equities markets was still trading lower around on Wednesday noon, having nose-dived in early trade as banking stocks managed to pare some of their intra-day losses.

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday exhorted India to "learn" how to deal with terrorism from the US which killed Osama bin Laden without bothering about the reactions of its allies.