Mukesh Ambani is back in telecom, and with a bang. Buying up Infotel Broadband, which bid the most in the broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum auctions and secured 20 MHz of spectrum in every single one of India’s 22 telecom circle, RIL now...

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) two-day national executive meeting began here Saturday with a speech by party president Nitin Gadkari.

PC Alexander, the principal secretary to Rajiv Gandhi, has hinted that the prime minister might have taken the decision to release the former chairman of Union Carbide Corp Warren Anderson in consultation with Arjun Singh, the then Madhya Pradesh Chief...

A swell in temporary government hiring for the census drove almost all the job market’s gains last month — a huge disappointment to Wall Street and a sign that private employers aren’t yet confident enough in the recovery to start adding...

It began when an electrical transformer exploded, setting on fire shops and housing, including a five-storey residential block, where a wedding party was being held on the roof.

Goa Tourism Minister Mickky Pacheco, accused by his wife of bigamy and embroiled in a controversy over the death of his third companion, resigned on Saturday, an official said here.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao that he supports South Korea’s protest to the United Nations over the alleged sinking of a naval ship by a North Korean torpedo in March, officials said on Monday. Mr....

The Indian economy grew by 8.6 percent during the quarter ended March 31, lifting the annual gross domestic product (GDP) for 2009-10 to 7.4 percent, official data released Monday showed. And Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said he expected the...

The investigations into the firing at the campus of Art of Living of Sri Sri Ravishankar on Sunday evening shows that it was not an attack, said Karnataka Police Chief Ajai Kumar Singh.

A new study finds a major shift in the nicotine habits of the BPO sector with many employees turning to smoking as an “effective” way to relieve stress, monotony, or boredom the outsourcing job entails.