Tata group chairman Ratan Tata has been honoured with the Swiss Ambassador's award for 'exceptional leadership' and his contribution to strengthening bilateral ties between India and Switzerland.

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India's largest home lender Housing Development Finance Corp (HDFC) on Monday reported a 20.2 per cent rise in net profit for the quarter ended Sep 30 at Rs.970.7 crore.

Income from operations rose 4

People's anger against corruption had led to the Congress loss in the Hisar Lok Sabha byelection in Haryana, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Monday.

Senior Congress leader and Union minister M. Veerappa Moily on Monday termed the Hisar Lok Sabha bypoll result as a "defeat" for Anna Hazare, saying if corruption had been the issue the result would have been different.

Amid international economic uncertainty, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said he expects India's GDP to grow by 8.5-9 percent in the medium to long-term period.

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Stepping up pressure on India to scrap oil deals with Vietnam, China has indicated that these agreements in South China Sea could potentially strain bilateral ties.

Liu Weimin, a spokesman for China'

Rubbishing allegations of corruption against Anna Hazare, activist Medha Patkar on Monday said that he was an honest person and ready for an enquiry.

"A number of such allegations will come up unless

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday left for Pretoria to attend the 5th India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Summit that is expected to deliberate on a host of issues such as global security, economy,

Yet another shutdown in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh affected normal life on Monday even as train services were set to be restored after a two-day 'rail blockade' to demand a separate Telangana state.

An Indian woman who came from Oman and married her lover was rescued on Sunday from a house in Ghaziabad where her in-laws had locked her up and disappeared.