Ahead of the annual monetary policy review of the RBI, chief economic advisor Raghuram Rajan today said there is a scope for interest rate cut as the core inflation has come down and there is a need to push growth.

The death toll in the collapse of an eight-storey commercial building in the Bangladeshi capital today rose to 290, as rescuers looked for last survivors under tonnes of debris at suburban Savar.

Setting off a political bombshell, CBI director Ranjit Sinha today submitted before the Supreme Court that the agency’s status report on coal allocation scam was “shared” with law minister Ashwani Kumar “as desired by him” and that senior officials of PMO and coal ministry had also seen it.

The government today sought to end the current impasse in Parliament by reaching out to the BJP for its support to get the Finance Bill and Rail Budget passed but the main Opposition was adamant that the controversial JPC report on 2G scam should not be adopted.

The Bombay high court on Thursday issued notices to the Maharashtra government, National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on a petition filed by an accused in the Se

The Delhi high court on Thursday sought the Centre’s response on a plea questioning how children below the age of 18 years are allowed to open an account on social networking sites, including Facebook

Argo star Ben Affleck is to be given an honorary degree by Brown University.

Mumbai Indians’ Rohit Sharma, who stood in as skipper in their win over Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL, has lauded Ricky Ponting’s decision to step down from captaincy in the interest of the side.

After completing four days of gains, gold prices spurted here by Rs 400 today to regain the psychological level of Rs 28,000 per ten grams on sustained seasonal buying amid a firming global trend.

The US has asked China to safeguard the rights of its Uighur minority in Xinjiang province and carry out a transparent probe into the latest incident of violence in which 21 people died.