Current Account Deficit (CAD) touched a record high of 4.8 per cent of GDP in 2012-13 on rising gold and oil imports, though still better than market expectation, bringing relief to the government which is struggling to arrest the sliding rupee.

The rupee today recovered from its all-time lows by rising 32 paise to 60.40 against the dollar in early trade at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market on fresh selling of the US currency by exporters and banks.

The first cut-off list of Delhi University for its undergraduate courses has once again touched the 100 per cent-mark, with Ram Lal Anand College, a rank outsider, this time putting the ceiling at maximum for admission to its B.Tech (Computer Science) course.

The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) will soon start a certificate course to impart necessary skills among Urdu journalists.

Pakistan has formed a high-level panel to probe the high treason case against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for imposing emergency rule in 2007, the government said today.

Air rescue operations resumed today to pull out stranded people but they had to be halted for Badrinath as the weather turned bad, even as decaying bodies were being cremated swiftly in worst-hit Kedarnath Valley amid fears of an epidemic outbreak.

With the weather clearing a bit and the threat of an epidemic looming large, mass cremation of bodies of people killed by rain, floods and landslides in Uttarakhand finally began in Kedarnath on Wedne

Scientists have identified a new solar system with three potentially habitable Earth-like planets orbiting a nearby star, just 22 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.

Women sport 150 different hairstyles in their lifetime, trying out various cuts, colours and shapes, according to a new research. The study of 2,000 women found that about one in 20 likes to try something different with each trip to the hairdresser. Almost half are willing to be experimental.

Supermodel Kate Moss has gone nude again to promote hand bags. The 39-year-old beauty is fronting Versace's fall 2013 campaign. In the advertisements, Moss appears nude with three strategically placed Vanitas quilted leather handbags covering her modesty, reported E! Online.