By Krishna N Das and Siddesh Mayenkar NEW DELHI/MUMBAI | Thu Apr 18, 2013 7:56pm IST NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Supreme Court has kept a ban on bauxite mining in hills in Odisha considered sacred by residents, [...]

Thu Apr 18, 2013 8:34pm IST REUTERS – Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak was taken back to prison from an army hospital on Thursday after appearing fitter at his aborted retrial on charges of complicity in [...]

NEW DELHI | Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:11pm IST NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A plan for a less chaotic land acquisition system for roads and industry in India won broad agreement from main political parties on Thursday. The [...]

By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO | Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:18pm IST SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc launched a stand-alone music-streaming app on Wednesday, opening another front in the micromessaging service’s [...]

By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON | Fri Apr 19, 2013 12:34am IST WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has already made “tremendous progress” in expanding weapons sales to India since 2008, and [...]

By Tim McLaughlin and Mark Felsenthal BOSTON | Fri Apr 19, 2013 1:35am IST BOSTON (Reuters) – “You will run again,” President Barack Obama told an interfaith service on Thursday for the victims [...]

NEW DELHI | Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:06am IST NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Supreme Court has allowed nine more iron ore mines to resume production in Karnataka, a small fraction of the total, but exports from the country’s [...]

Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:05pm IST (Reuters) – Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was transferred from a military hospital in Cairo to the city’s Torah prison early on Thursday, state news agency MENA said. The [...]

MUMBAI | Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:32pm IST MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Supreme Court has kept a ban on bauxite mining in hills in Odisha that are considered sacred by residents and has asked the state high court to investigate [...]

By Tom Miles GENEVA | Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:06am IST GENEVA (Reuters) – India hit back at U.S. accusations of trade restrictions in its solar industry on Wednesday, suggesting Washington was guilty of the banned [...]

LONDON | Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:50am IST LONDON (Reuters) – The cost of immunising children in developing countries with a five-in-one vaccine is set to fall after a deal by an Indian supplier to slash the price [...]

By Daniel Bases NEW YORK | Thu Apr 18, 2013 7:58am IST NEW YORK (Reuters) – Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said on Wednesday he expected India’s current account deficit for the 2012/13 fiscal year that [...]

Thu Apr 18, 2013 8:13am IST REUTERS – Hundreds of people were likely injured on Wednesday in an explosion at a fertilizer plant, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety told Reuters. The spokesman, D.L. [...]

MUMBAI | Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:06am IST MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian gold futures edged lower on Wednesday on losses in the global markets and a stronger rupee, triggering bargain buying among physical traders. [...]

By Tim McLaughlin and Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON | Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:17am IST BOSTON (Reuters) – Investigators believe they have identified a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing from security video and [...]

NEW YORK | Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:15pm IST NEW YORK (Reuters) – Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said on Wednesday he expected India’s current account deficit for the 2012-13 fiscal year that ended in March [...]

By Nita Bhalla Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:37pm IST NEW DELHI, April 17 (TrustLaw) – The United Nations is sending its special envoy to India to investigate the rising cases of violence against women, four months after the [...]

Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:19pm IST REUTERS – The cricket careers of former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and pace bowler Mohammad Asif appeared over after they lost their appeals against spot-fixing bans at the Court of Arbitration [...]

WASHINGTON | Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:13pm IST WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A letter addressed to President Barack Obama containing a suspicious substance was received at a White House mail screening facility on Tuesday, [...]

BEIJING | Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:32pm IST BEIJING (Reuters) – One of the last things the Chinese graduate student did before she was killed in the attack on the Boston Marathon was to upload a photo that reflected [...]

LONDON | Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:33pm IST LONDON (Reuters) – About two dozen opponents of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher turned their backs on her funeral procession and some others booed as her [...]

By Ratnajyoti Dutta and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI | Wed Apr 17, 2013 4:47pm IST NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has roped in almost all the world’s major weather forecasters in its effort to accurately forecast [...]

MUMBAI | Wed Apr 17, 2013 4:54pm IST MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian gold futures edged lower on Wednesday, near their lowest level in more than 19 months, on losses in the global markets and a stronger rupee, triggering [...]

NEW DELHI | Wed Apr 17, 2013 4:56pm IST NEW DELHI (Reuters) – At least 16 people were injured after a blast near the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Bangalore on Wednesday, police said. “Eight [...]

BANGALORE | Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:40am IST BANGALORE (Reuters) – HCL Technologies Ltd(HCLT.NS), India’s fourth-biggest software services provider, beat analysts’ estimates with a 73 percent rise in [...]

By Prashant Mehra MUMBAI | Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:22am IST MUMBAI (Reuters) – Reliance Industries Ltd (RELI.NS) posted a 32 percent rise in quarterly profit on Tuesday, as higher margins at its core oil refining [...]

By Scott Malone and Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON | Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:28pm IST BOSTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama called the Boston Marathon bombings an “act of terror” on Tuesday and investigators [...]

ANKARA | Tue Apr 16, 2013 5:13pm IST ANKARA (Reuters) – An Iranian government official said on Tuesday he expected hundreds of deaths from a major earthquake that struck Iran near the border with Pakistan. “It [...]

MUMBAI | Tue Apr 16, 2013 5:44pm IST MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s boxing pin-up boy Vijender Singh, who had been accused of taking heroin, has been cleared in an out-of-competition drug test, the sports [...]

By Scott Malone BOSTON | Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:17pm IST BOSTON (Reuters) – A large area of downtown Boston remained cordoned off by police on Tuesday as authorities pursued an investigation into the two bombs [...]