The two-day visit of external affairs minister Salman Khurshid to Saudi Arabia from Saturday has been cancelled after his counterpart there was hospitalised following a severe backache.

Amid talk of possible changes in Congress in the run up to Lok Sabha polls next year, Rahul Gandhi today said there was “tremendous talent” which needed to be aligned.

Bharti Airtel has been directed by a consumer forum here to pay Rs 10,000 as compensation to a mobile phone subscriber for disconnecting services without any notice.

Gold prices tumbled by 1.06 per cent to Rs 29,263 per ten grams in futures trade today amid heavy selling by speculators, driven by a steep fall in prices in global markets.

In fresh trouble for the head of crisis-ridden Kingfisher Airlines, Vijay Mallya, the special court for economic offences here has issued summons to him on an income-tax department criminal case for not remitting to government the tax deducted at source from salaries of its employees.

CBI has arrested Gujarat police officer G.L. Singhal in connection with the alleged fake encounter of 19 year-old student Ishrat Jahan by a team of Ahmedabad crime branch officers in 2004.

Amidst continuing stand-off between the government and the former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed, who remained holed up in the Indian mission here for the eighth day, a high-level team of the In

Our taste for alcohol may be an ancient craving!

Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace is being remade for TV 40 years after the BBC’s last adaptation of the epic love story.

Finance minister P. Chidambaram today said the Union Cabinet will take a final call on settlement of the Rs 11,200-crore Vodafone tax case after seeking opinion of the attorney general.