Fisherman A. Sekar, killed on Monday in the firing by US naval ship off the Dubai coast, was planning to return home and get married.

Bollywood’s first superstar Rajesh Khanna passed away Wednesday following a prolonged illness, a family friend said. He was 69. “He is no more,” Vijay Zaveri, a close friend, told IANS.

The government is close to taking a decision on capping the number of subsidised LPG cylinders to 'economically not weaker' sections to bring down the subsidies by up to Rs 10,000 crore annually, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas R.P.N. Singh said on Wednesday.

The rupee gained 43 paise to trade at 54.88 against the US dollar in early trade on Tuesday at the Interbank Foreign Exchange as the American currency weakened against euro and other currencies overseas.

Ahead of their proposed protests in Delhi, Anna Hazare and yoga guru Ramdev on Tuesday launched an attack on the UPA government accusing it of not showing enough resolve in tackling corruption and bringing back blackmoney stashed away abroad. Hazare and Ramdev said they will support each other in the fight.

Alleging that Maharashtra Police did not promptly probe the Laila Khan case after the Bollywood starlet's sudden disappearance with her family, her father Nadir Shah Patel on Tuesday moved the Bombay High Court seeking transfer of the case from crime branch to CBI.

The Trinamool Congress will vote for UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee in the July 19 presidential poll, party chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced Tuesday.

In volatile trade, Indian shares fell for the fourth day in a row on Monday with Sensex losing 110.39 points to end at 17,103.31 - its lowest closing since June 28 - as weak monsoon and surging food prices dashed hopes of a rate cut by Reserve Bank later this month.

Reserve Bank Governor D. Subbarao said the inflation numbers on both the wholesale and retail front are way above the central bank's comfort level.

With no solution in sight to the tussle for portfolios, Karnataka chief minister Jagadish Shettar rushed to New Delhi on Saturday to seek the help of senior Central leaders of the party on allotment o