Hectic buying of dollars by importers, particularly oil companies, took the rupee to yet another record low of 53.23/24 against the US currency — a drop of 39/40 paise.

Fifty-five Pakistani prisoners, who had been lodged in Tihar Jail since 2007 for illegally staying in India, have been released and are set for deportation.
The prisoners, including 19 women, were arrested in April 2007 when they burnt their passports and visas at Jantar Mantar as they refused to go back to their

Amid inconclusive discussion and subsidy concerns raised by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, the Union Cabinet on Tuesday deferred a decision on the National Food Security Bill. It, however, approved other major legislation — the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill 2010, the Public Interest

Reiterating that it was the government’s duty to provide shelter to the homeless who could not be left in the open in biting cold conditions, the Delhi high court on Tuesday asked the city government to ensure that all temporary night shelters run by it are functional.

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee with BJP leaders L.K.

A senior scientist working with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has written to the Delhi police’s crime branch that a Dehradun-based former employee, who was dismissed on charges of misconduct, has been publishing classified information related to the

The AP high court on Tuesday stayed the preliminary enquiries it had previously ordered by the CBI, Enforcement Directorate, the state government and the state police against former chief minister and Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu and others.

The Delhi high court will on February 1, 2012 hear the appeals of Vikas and Vishal Yadav, serving life term in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, challenging their conviction and sentencing by the trial court .

On completion of three years in office, Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has a list of ambitious schemes launched by the Congress government in the state. Though Mr Gehlot expressed confidence that the Congress would repeat

A 22-year-old woman, who works at a discotheque in Gurgaon, was allegedly abducted and raped by a cab driver at a farmhouse in south Delhi’s Mehrauli area in the early hours on Tuesday. The accused driver threw the victim out of his cab on spotting a police post and sped away.