Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL) is in talks to acquire mining assets in Chile and Namibia, its chairman and MD, Mr Shakeel Ahmed, said on Thursday.

The CBI on Wednesday arrested S.N. Sharma, suspended chairman of the Railway Recruitment Board, Mumbai and another senior officer in connection with the alleged multi-crore railway recruitment scam. Sharma was arrested for his role in the job scam in which his son and seven others had earlier been apprehended. G. Sethi,

In a sudden development, Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde on Wednesday resigned from his post complaining that he did not have adequate powers to take to their logical conclusion cases pursued by his agency.

A Pakistani court has reportedly ordered a ban on nine leading websites, including Google and Hotmail, for allegedly posting blasphemous material though officials today said they had not received any

An Adelaide-based college with over 450 Indian students has been finally shut down after it failed audits of the government on standards of education it was offering.

Indian actress Freida Pinto is in talks to star opposite Spider Man star James Franco in the Rise of the Apes, the prequel to the Planet of the Apes.

Keen to regain power in Bihar after a five-year gap, the RJD is set to reach out to upper castes, with its chief Lalu Prasad Yadav saying his party is not against them and wanted to work for their upliftment along with OBCs, dalits and Muslims.

Piramal Healthcare, which recently sold its domestic formulations business to Abbott Labs for about Rs 18,000 crore, has announced a bonus payment of up to six months’ salary to its employees.

Indian economy is likely to clock double-digit growth by 2012 and is expected to grow over 8.5 per cent in the current fiscal, the finance minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, has said.

A three-member team of a child rights body has sought suspension of the principal of Kolkata’s La Martiniere school till the completion of a probe into the suicide of a student who committed suicide after being caned in school.