New Delhi, July 22: India's Bharti Airtel, which acquired the African telecom assets of Kuwait's Zain recently, has committed itself to bringing affordable phone services to Tanzania and becoming a pr

Mumbai, July 22: A benchmark index for Indian equities closed at its highest level since February 2008 Thursday helped by a late surge in buying.

The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay S

An Indian student, recuperating in a hospital here with fractures in his jaw after being brutally beaten up by six men, is unable to eat and talk properly, his friend said on Thursday.

Bharat Thapar,

London, July 22: British Petroleum (BP) was caught up in yet another controversy after bloggers noticed an image of its US oil spill command centre was digitally modified to make the staff look engage

New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr John Key, has been threatened with grievous bodily harm in a series of faxed letters, two of which read: "It's killing time."

Mark Feary, a 53-year-old farmer from Nort

Raipur, July 22: The Chhattisgarh government has imposed entertainment tax ranging from Rs.10 to Rs.20 per Direct-to-Home (DTH) connection, effective retrospectively from the month of June.

The comme

Visitors were evacuated from the Statue of Liberty here on Wednesday after a fire scare.

Officials said an elevator motor inside the statue's pedestal overheated and started smoking about 1:30 pm lo

New Delhi, July 22: India Thursday gave its nod for a follow-on public issue of the state-run Power Grid Corp constituting 20 percent of its paid-up capital. Of this, 10 percent will be for government

A team of US geologists has found structurally bound hydroxyl groups in a mineral in a lunar rock returned to earth by the Apollo programme.

Geologists at the California Institute of Technology (Calt