A man was allegedly beaten up with an iron rod when he tried to stop a youth from harassing his daughter, the police said on Monday.

An Indonesian allegedly trying to smuggle narcotics worth about `17 crores out of India was arrested at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport here, officials said on Monday.

Legendary spinner Shane Warne has launched a scathing attack on Cricket Australia bosses, terming them “muppets” and criticised their rotation policy as “absolute rubbish”.

Assuring India’s commitment to pursue economic reforms, finance minister P. Chidambaram has said government will cut fiscal and current account deficits to help economy return to the 8 per cent growth path.

The Shiv Sena today voiced its support for leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj as the NDA’s prime ministerial candidate, a day after senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha backed Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi for it.

President Barack Obama has met country’s law enforcement officials to discuss over the gun control measures that have been widely demanded after a series of deadly shooting incidents in the US in recent past.

Shedding its 9-month long hawkish monetary policy stance, the Reserve Bank today slashed its key interest rates by 0.25 per cent and released Rs 18,000 crore additional liquidity into the system to perk up growth through reduced cost of borrowing.

The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea to shift the trial in Delhi gangrape-cum-murder case to a place outside the national capital.

With the Jaipur Literature Festival 2013 coming to an end on Monday, directors of the event Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple appealed to the people to defend the freedom of speech and expression while vowing to keep the festival going.

Grammy-award winner Norah Jones, the daughter of late sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, will perform Everybody Needs a Best Friend from Ted at the Oscar awards in February.