The Supreme Court on Tuesday condemned lynching incidents taking place in the country. The court also said that horrendous acts of mob violence cannot be tolerated and lynching cannot be allowed to become a new social norm. Calling it an onus of the states, the court advised that in...

Inflation at the wholesale level reached to 5.77% in June, the highest since December 2013, according to official data released on Monday. The real jolt to inflation came from the increase in the price of crude oil in the international market. Rising inflation has affirmed RBI's forecast...

The high-level '2+2 dialogue' between India and the United States, that was postponed last month, will take place in the first week of September, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was quoted by news agency ANI as saying. "The agenda will be to develop and strengthen strategic defence...

Leading Swedish home furnishings retailer IKEA has postponed the launch of its first India store in Hyderabad to August 9. The company said that it moved the opening date from July 19 to August 9 as it needed more time to live up to its expected quality commitments towards customers...

Just ahead of the most awaited lunar eclipse on July 27, India on Friday witnessed a partial solar eclipse. Apart from India, the partial eclipse was visible in parts of Southern Australia, including Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart, also in Stewart Island on the far south of New Zealand....