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The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned till January 13, 2016 the hearing on the plea of two Italian marines questioning the NIA probe into the killing of two Indian fishermen as it was told that the worldwide tribunal for the law of the sea has asked both India and Italy to put...

Mumbai: In its biggest intra-day crash this year, stock market benchmark Sensex plunged by 1,006 points while Nifty fell below 8,000 level in early trade today due to heavy selling by funds amid global sell-off as worries about China’s economy deepen.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has summoned spot-fixing hit duo Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif to attend an anti-corruption lecture. The ICC also banned the three players; Amir for five years, Asif for seven years with two years suspended and Salman for 10 years with five years...

In a statement, the State Department said, “We are disappointed the talks will not happen this weekend and encourage India and Pakistan to resume formal dialogue soon”.

The minister said the meetings plan had been agreed by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif when they met in the Russian city of Ufa last month.

Prime Ministers of Pakistan and India had agreed in Russian town of Ufa that all outstanding issues between the two countries will be discussed at talks between two National Security Advisers.

After going through several now-on, now-off moments, the NSA talks between India and Pakistan were finally called off on Saturday, with both sides sticking to their positions.

Pakistan’s argument that it had been agreed at the meeting at Ufa between the prime ministers of both countries that modalities for discussing Kashmir and other outstanding problems would be on the agenda for talks between the NSAs were dismissed by Swaraj.

With this, Bandhan became the first micro finance company in the country to start operations as a full-fledged commercial bank.

Rupee decreased to below the Rs 66 level against the dollar for the first time in nearly two years in opening trade today.

Following last-minute scuttling of talks between the national security advisers of Pakistan and India, proposed meetings between senior military officials of the two countries are now unlikely senior Pakistani officials said. The Pakistan government cancelled the planned meeting...

Pakistan’s national security adviser insisted yesterday that he was ready to travel to New Delhi for talks with his Indian counterpart despite a row between the arch-rivals over his planned meeting with Kashmiri separatist leaders.

Ending the suspense, Pakistan tonight called off the India-Pakistan NSA-level talks, hours after India made it clear that discussions on Kashmir and a meeting with separatists will not be acceptable.

“These are issues for the two to resolve together, and that’s what we continue to encourage is a resumption of dialogue between the leaders of both India and Pakistan”, he said.

Noting that “extraneous” issues are being used to throw spanner in the process of talks, he said that the exercise is being exploited by those who influence border issues in Pakistan against India.