What do ratings, outlook downgrades mean?
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's on Wednesday cut its outlook on India to ‘negative’ from ‘stable’. What does it mean?
Outlook indicates potential direction of ratings in short to medium term, typica
Sri Lanka to have blood pressure meters in public places
Sri Lanka will install meters in Colombo's public places to measure blood pressure of people, in a country where at least 350 die every day due to heart attacks, hypertension and respiratory diseases.
Naked body of woman found in Delhi hospital premises
A naked body of an unidentified woman was recovered near the doctors' hostel inside Lok Nayak Hospital in the capital, police said on Wednesday.
The body has extreme burn injuries and was recovered a
Mumbai dabbawallas hike rates again
The soaring inflation has pinched hard Mumbai's famous tribe of dabbawallas, who ferry lunch boxes to and fro in the city daily.
From June 1, they plan to hike their monthly delivery charges by Rs.5
Sudden rains wash out RCB-CSK tie in Bangalore
Intermittent rains even two hours after the game was to begin forced the organisers to call off the Indian Premier League match between hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings late o
Darren Bravo may not play in IPL this season
Left-handed West Indies strokemaker Darren Bravo may not play in the current edition of the lucrative Indian Premier League even after the current Australia series ends in the Caribbean.
The 23-year-
Indian rocket being fuelled for Risat-1 launch
With 5.47 a.m. on Thursday set for the blast-off of the Indian rocket carrying a remote sensing/earth observation satellite - Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) - into space, the Indian space agency is
Now, an entire village for dwarves in Assam
Almost 70 dwarves, ranging from one-and-a-half feet to three feet in height, across Assam will soon have a place to live in with dignity and comfort, with a theatre actor setting up a village with hou
Two Pakistanis killed four women, sliced their bodies
A rickshaw driver in Pakistan's Karachi city and his aide have been arrested for killing four women and a six-year-old child and then slicing their bodies into pieces, police said on Tuesday, unravell
18,500 bottles of fake vodka destroyed in China
More than 18,500 bottles of counterfeit vodka were destroyed on Monday after customs officers seized the goods before they entered China's northern city of Tianjin.
Shi Guowang, an official with the