Man held for raping 17-yr-old
Koppal: The Alavandi police on Thursday arrested a person for raping a 17-year-old girl at Belur village in the taluk. The arrested is Devendrappa Telagade, a constructi

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday admitted the current economic condition in the country was 'difficult' but rejected any comparison with the situation of 1990 when India had faced an extern

Greek political party leaders emerged late Sunday from emergency cabinet talks with no breakthrough in sight, raising the prospect of new elections that could scupper reforms and force the country out

Japan said on Saturday it will forgive about 300 billion yen ($3.7 billion) of Myanmar's debt and resume development aid as a way to support the country's democratic and economic reforms.

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Driven to desperation in the face of rising poverty and falling cotton prices, three more debt-ridden farmers in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region have ended their lives, an activist said on Friday.

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Greece's parliament late on Tuesday approved fresh budget cuts linked to a new eurozone bailout after a scalding credit downgrade soured efforts to cancel nearly a third of its huge debt.

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India's external debt climbed 6.6 percent to $326.6 billion by September end from $306 billion at the beginning of the current financial year on account of a sharp increase in commercial borrowings, e

A US Congress "supercommittee" announced on Monday it had failed to reach a deal to rein in galloping deficits, done in by angry partisan battles over the best way to revive the sluggish economy.

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A congressional 'super committee' is expected to formally announce on Monday that its three-month-long effort to forge a $1.2 trillion deficit reduction plan has failed, aides told Reuters.

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The rupee skidded beyond 51 against the dollar to its lowest in 32 months on Friday, and was set for its third weekly fall, weighed down by rising oil import payments and slowing exports and foreign i