Extending losses for the third straight day, gold and silver prices fell further Friday on sustained selling by stockists following sluggish demand coupled with a lower global trend.

The rupee Friday recovered all of its early losses and edged up two paise to end at 63.48 against the dollar as exporters sold the US currency.

Narendra Modi, a staunch proponent of Hinduvta, was on Friday anointed BJP’s prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, ending months of suspense over his elevation amid stiff opposition by party patriarch L.K. Advani.

Petrol prices were Friday hiked by Rs 1.63 per litre, the seventh increase since June, on rising oil rates and falling rupee.

A secretive Syrian military unit has been moving stocks of chemical weapons to as many as 50 sites to make it harder for the US to track them, a media report said on Friday.

The Supreme Court Friday issued notice to the Centre and Uttarakhand government on a PIL seeking fair distribution of aid and compensation to people affected in natural disaster in the state.

With calm prevailing in riot-hit areas of Muzaffarnagar, the administration today eased curfew for 12 hours in the district.

Actress Demi Moore is reportedly dating restaurant mogul Peter Morton for a few months now after being introduced by Morton’s son Harry.

Five Delhi University students have been arrested for allegedly torching a Delhi police van on the North Campus.
According to the police, the incident happened late Wednesday night in Delhi University’s North Campus after it tried to take a student to hospital after his condition deteriorated due to prolonged hunger strike.

The entire coal block allocation process was “non-transparent, unfair and tainted” leading to windfall gains running into lakhs of crores of rupees to a few private firms and the allotments be cancelled, an NGO on Thursday told the Supreme Court.