In the face of a public outcry in India over rising oil prices due to Iran oil sanctions, the US said it was trying to help New Delhi find alternative sources of supply.

"We are working with countrie

In the steepest ever hike, petrol price was increased today by Rs 7.50 a litre with effect from midnight tonight.

State-owned oil firms said they will raise petrol price by Rs 6.28 per litre excludin

BJP on Wednesday flayed the steep hike of Rs 7.5 per litre in petrol price terming it as 'unreasonable' which will make the life of the common man 'miserable'.

"This whole petrol price hike is clearl

Opposition CPI-M led Left Democratic Front in Kerala on Wednesday gave a call for dawn-to-dusk hartal in the state on Thursday to protest the steepest ever increase in petrol price.

"This (the price

Rising temperatures are going to hit India hard and by the end of the century the mean temperature rise is expected to be between 3.5 and 4.3 degrees Celsius.

This is bound to have a deleterious effe

Passengers of the Shatabdi Express from Mysore to Chennai spent almost two hours on May Day fighting for their ‘rights’ when they found the caterer supplying just one biscuit on an ‘unclean’ tray inst

Global food prices again rose in the first quarter on the back of higher oil prices, putting millions of people at risk of not having enough to eat, the World Bank said on Wednesday.

The eight per ce

Apart from sipping the cool, salty-sweet juice directly from the coconut on a hot day, Chennaiites seem to have developed a taste for a few delicacies that use ilaneer and the slurpy-good coconut fles

Having travelled the globe and tasted the food of different lands, Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday could not hide his preference for Indian cuisine describing it as the ‘most sophisticated’ any

Food diversity has changed and the traditional foods that were rich in nutrients are missing from the diet, adding to ageing problems, say local academicians and botanists.

“Earlier greens with rich