What do ratings, outlook downgrades mean?
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's on Wednesday cut its outlook on India to ‘negative’ from ‘stable’. What does it mean?
Outlook indicates potential direction of ratings in short to medium term, typica
Mumbai dabbawallas hike rates again
The soaring inflation has pinched hard Mumbai's famous tribe of dabbawallas, who ferry lunch boxes to and fro in the city daily.
From June 1, they plan to hike their monthly delivery charges by Rs.5
Naked body of woman found in Delhi hospital premises
A naked body of an unidentified woman was recovered near the doctors' hostel inside Lok Nayak Hospital in the capital, police said on Wednesday.
The body has extreme burn injuries and was recovered a
Darren Bravo may not play in IPL this season
Left-handed West Indies strokemaker Darren Bravo may not play in the current edition of the lucrative Indian Premier League even after the current Australia series ends in the Caribbean.
The 23-year-
Sudden rains wash out RCB-CSK tie in Bangalore
Intermittent rains even two hours after the game was to begin forced the organisers to call off the Indian Premier League match between hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings late o
Indian rocket being fuelled for Risat-1 launch
With 5.47 a.m. on Thursday set for the blast-off of the Indian rocket carrying a remote sensing/earth observation satellite - Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) - into space, the Indian space agency is
Indian boy of five languishes in Bangladesh jail
A five-year-old Indian boy and his grandparents are lodged in a Bangladesh jail for a year since the process for their confirmation as Indian nationals has taken up a lot of time, a media report said
30 million Indian school children have no access to toilets
Nearly 30 million school children in the country still have no access to toilets, even as schools have made significant progress in providing the facility in recent years, a study by UNICEF's Water, S
India, Pakistan to liberalise visa regime, says Krishna
India and Pakistan are likely to sign a 'liberalised visa agreement' when home secretaries of the two countries meet in Islamabad next month, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said on Wednesday.
Jamia Millia Islamia to confer honorary degree to UN chief
Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) will confer an honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
"The University will hold a special convocation on Friday at 11 a.m. to confe