Having given ample demonstration of his appetite for notching up big scores, India’s batting sensation Shikhar Dhawan Tuesday said he has become mentally strong, and that his shot selection has got better in the past one year.

The Sensex Tuesday zoomed by 727 points, biggest single-day gain in over four years, to end just a shade below 20,000-mark on heavy FII buying in bluechips on the back of positive factors like strong rupee, solid trade data and receding concerns about US military attack on Syria.

India’s exports rose for the second straight month in August, while the trade deficit narrowed as gold imports fell.

Embattled former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf Tuesday filed a petition before the anti terrorism court in Quetta seeking exemption from personal appearance in connection with the Bugti murder case.

In a major milestone, NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) new black-hole-hunter spacecraft — Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) — has detected its first 10 super massive black holes, lying at the hearts of distant galaxies between 0.3 and 11.4 billion light-years from Earth.

Curfew Tuesday remained in force in riot-hit areas of Muzaffarnagar with the Army patrolling troubled places as the death toll in the clashes in the district and adjoining towns rose to 38.

As the proposed Navi Mumbai airport still remains on paper even after 15 years due to land acquisition issues, engineering services major Netherlands Airport Consultants has suggested creating an isla

Maharashtra social justice department will hold a state-level literary meet here on de-addiction on October 2 and 3.

The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Neeri) here has developed a technology to destroy a variety of pollutants and aid in “clean up” of polluted water.

Anticipating that the Food Security Act may create a storage capacity shortfall for around 15 lakh tonne foodgrain, Nabard has kickstarted an ambitious project to build 10,000 warehouses at the pancha