Rupee Friday jumped 77 paise to 65.24 and Sensex soared by 290 points to scale the 19,000-mark on continued hopes triggered by new RBI governor Raghuram Rajan’s steps to push in more reforms in the financial sector.

The US state department was under fire for spending $630,000 over two years to win millions of “likes” on its Facebook pages at a time of severe government austerity measures.

Over 66,000 devotees have paid obeisance at the Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas so far even as another batch of 2,176 pilgrims left here for their upward journey.

The number of people killed in cloudbursts and flash floods in Uttarakhand recently may cross 10,000 mark, state assembly speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal said today.

Mumbai, Aug. 29: Gold prices are all set to touch ` 19,500-20,000 per 10 grams by Diwali due to the rising investor interest, a top industry official said.

“We expect gold prices to cross `19,500-Rs

New York, Aug. 27: Scientists working with Nasa’s Kepler satellite reported on Thursday that they might have spotted a planet just 1.5 times the diametre of Earth around a Sun-like star 2,000 light-ye

New Delhi, Aug. 23: In a bid to placate the agitating MPs over hike in their salary, the government on Monday cleared a proposal to increase by another `10,000 in their monthly allowances, which they

London, July 25: The Raj nostalgia is selling strongly in Britain as medals awarded to a British hero for bravery during the 1857 First War for Indian Independence, was sold for £228,000.

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