Eyewitnesses said a major air tragedy was averted at the Thiruvananthapuram international airport runway on Friday when one foreign airline took off just in time to avert a crash with another flight t

President Asif Ali Zardari, who suddenly left Pakistan for Dubai, had suffered a mild stroke that caused bleeding in brain and facial paralysis, a media report said on Friday.

More than 70 patients in Kolkata’s well known AMRI hospital were killed along with three staffers when a blaze started in the basement of the annexe building early on Friday and toxic fumes quickly spread to the other floors, trapping hundreds of people.

The presence of Mamata Banerjee and the media only triggered further chaos and resentment at the fire-ravaged AMRI hospital on Friday, as police even resorted to batons to disperse the crowds.

IT giant Infosys is shifting its priorities to increase its revenues from the domestic market, as also other developing economies like China, Malaysia and South Africa on the back of slowdown in the U

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said another global slowdown was now a possibility as international economies suffer from rising inflation and fuel cost.

A benchmark index for Indian equities on Friday fell sharply in early trade and was ruling close to 300 points lower within minutes of opening bell.

The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the BSE,

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs on Friday submitted a declaration to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari that they do not have illegal accounts abroad.

The number of people filing initial applications for unemployment benefits fell by 23,000 last week to 381,000, the US Labour Department said on Thursday.

The rolling four-week average of new claims,

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday expressed grief at the deaths of 73 people, mostly patients, in a fire in Kolkata’s AMRI hospital.