France's Christine Lagarde was named Tuesday as the first-ever female chief of the IMF, faced with an immediate crisis as violent Greek protests rocked the stability of the eurozone.

The French finan

Finance chiefs from the United States and India pledged on Tuesday to deepen efforts to open up India's financial, retail, manufacturing and infrastructure sectors to competition but offered no specif

Observing that India and the US are at the threshold of unlocking the great potential of their bilateral economic relationship, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday urged New Delhi to acc

As defence minister, he inked a game-changing defence pact with the US, as foreign minister, he signed the historic India-US civil nuclear deal and now as finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee is all set to put India and the US on the path of a “strategic economic” relationship.

An Ohio charter schoolteacher was arrested on the grounds of spraying deputies with her breast milk after getting drunk at a wedding.

The Delaware County Sheriff''s Office said that Stephanie Robinet

The United States formally offered its backing on Tuesday for French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde to take over the top job at the International Monetary Fund, ensuring a win for her over Mexico'

Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba runs a series of well-oiled courses for budding terrorists, ranging from religious indoctrination to military and intelligence training, which are aimed at boosting mi

A 95-year-old cancer-stricken woman was forced to undergo 45 minutes of intrusive pat-down at a US airport, triggering an outrage on the treatment meted out to her.

India's growth rate is poised to overtake China's within two to three years, despite a near-term slowdown, the finance ministry's chief economic adviser Kaushik Basu said on Monday.

Basu told a confe

US astron-omers, including one of Indian-origin, have said that the information gathered from studying the universe is showing promise in yielding new cancer treatments.