British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in India on Monday with what he called Britain’s biggest ever overseas business delegation for a three-day visit clouded by a corruption scandal.

The BSE benchmark Sensex today rebounded from the calendar year’s lowest levels to close 33 points up at 19,501.08 on the back of buying in HDFC, L&T, HUL and SBI shares.

Refined palmolein prices rose at the oils and oilseeds market here today on good demand from stockists and retailers on the back of higher Malaysian advices.

Oil minister M. Veerappa Moily today ruled out a roll back in the Rs 1.50 a litre hike in petrol and 45 paisa per litre increase in diesel rates saying only a small raise has been passed on to consumers.

Besides preparing the four the four associates of Veerappan physically and mentally fit to face the gallows, the prison authorities even got a final medical test on the four done late on Saturday nigh

Making clear her prime ministerial aspirations, BSP supremo Mayawati today asked party workers to ensure a big victory for the BSP in the next general elections and warned them against becoming a “saleable commodity”.

Actress Bipasha Basu is all praise for his co-star Nawazuddin Siddiqui, with whom she will be seen in upcoming supernatural thriller Aatma.

Axed from the Test team after a prolonged form slump, India ‘A’ skipper Gautam Gambhir will have a point to prove when he leads out the side in a three-day warm-up cricket match against the Australians starting here tomorrow.

The mercy pleas of sandalwood smuggler Veerapan’s four associates, sentenced to death in a 1993 landmine blast case, have been rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee, a human rights activist said here today.

Tamil Nadu today said the Central Bill on Food Security was replete with “confusion and inaccuracy” and that the state should be exempted from the implementation of the proposed measure.