Gunmen shot dead Pakistan's minority affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti in Islamabad on Wednesday, doctor Azmat ullah Qureshi, spokesman for the local Shifa hospital said.

Bengaluru: Ireland, riding on the shoulders of Kevin O'Brien’s fastest World Cup century, crushed England by three wickets on Wednesday.

Ireland have broken the record for the most runs batting seco

Colombo: Nuwan Kulasekara and comeback boy Lasith Malinga has blew open the Kenyan batting line up by taking off both their openers here at the R. Premadasa Stadium on Tuesday.

Kula, who was called i

Bengaluru: The BSE Sensex extended gains to 3 per cent on Tuesday, tracking firmer global markets and as a strong growth outlook for Asia's third-largest economy boosted sentiments.
The Sensex, at 2.5

External affairs minister S.M. Krishna has on Tuesday assured that the evacuation of Indians from violence-torn Libya was going on smoothly and over 3,500 people would have returned home by Wednesday.

Pune: A CBI team from New Delhi on Tuesday started search of former Commonwealth Games chief Suresh Kalmadi's bank lockers here, an official source said.

"We have opened two bank lockers as part of t

Hyderabad: India's Environment Ministry has ordered suspension of construction work of a power plant in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, which is facing farmers' protest.

Two protesters died y

New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who quit smoking pipe several years ago, has spared the tobacco industry - a prime source of raising revenue for the exchequer - by not raising excise dut

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Critical institutional reforms set pace for double-digit growth

Scaled up flow of resources infuses dynamism in rural economy

GDP estimated to have grown at 8.6% in 2010-11

Exports grown by 9.6%, i