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

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,

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

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,

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 list of Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders being probed is growing with investigations now beginning against speaker of the state assembly K.G. Bopaiah over funds misuse.

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

Harvard University has cancelled Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy's summer courses over his controversial article in a Mumbai newspaper advocating destruction of hundreds of Indian mosques and di