The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) benchmark sensex Friday slid for the third straight day by losing 56 points to a fresh two-week low 19,748.19 on selling in HUL and Tata Motors shares, amid nervousness in rate-sensitive sectors ahead of the RBI credit policy review next week.

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Friday decided to boycott next week’s presidential election to protest over advancing of the polling dates.

A class 10 student, who was allegedly raped by a youth on July 2, committed suicide at her relatives’ residence here following constant threats from the accused’s family to withdraw the case, police said Friday.

Social activist Anna Hazare Friday said that both Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi are “unacceptable” as prime minister as both are “not fit” to acquire the dignified post.

Shiv Sena Friday deprecated BJP MP Chandan Mitra’s demand for stripping Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen of Bharat Ratna over his comments on Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi but advised the seasoned economist “not to poke his nose” into politics.

Arun Nehru, a former Union minister and a powerful figure during the prime ministership of Rajiv Gandhi, passed away on Thursday night after prolonged illness. He was a columnist for this newspaper.

The duty of schoolteachers and principals is to teach students and not to supervise cooking of meals, the Allahabad high court observed on Wednesday, close on the heels of the Bihar midday meal tragedy.

Close on the heels of over a dozen incursions since the face off in Ladakh in April from across the Line of Actual Control (LAC), Chinese troops made a fresh attempt to violate the International Border at Chumar area in northeast of Leh on July 20 but were forced back by Indian troops.

Former Delhi chief minister Madan Lal Khurana, who suffered a brain haemorrhage nearly a week ago, is showing signs of gradual recovery and has been taken off ventilator, doctors treating him said on Thursday.

Scientists have successfully developed “artificial bones” from umbilical cord stem cells, paving way for repair of bones and replacement of lost cartilage in limbs.