The hands of a symbolic doomsday clock fell back one minute Tuesday to five minutes to midnight, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group that monitors global threats such as climate change, nuclear proliferation and human-caused disasters.
Islamic leaders in India are trying to prevent author Salman Rushdie from entering the country for a literature festival.
Gold rose towards $1,640 an ounce on Tuesday and other precious metals rallied, with a rebound in the euro versus the dollar making dollar-priced assets more attractive to holders of other currencies, and after bullion breached a key chart level.
India's central bank has allowed four more banks to import precious metals, a move that would boost competition and help reduce premiums in the world's biggest importer of bullion.
U.S. authorities are investigating allegations that an Indian government spy unit hacked into emails of an official U.S. commission that monitors economic and security relations between the United States and China, including cyber-security issues.
A recent evidence of police involvement in illegal “human safaris” being carried out by local tour operators in Jarawa reserve, habitat of the primitive tribe, on India’s south Andaman island has caused much uproar among tribal rights groups.
Bajaj Auto, which is India's second largest two wheeler manufacturers, has unveiled its low cost car named RE60.
U.S. authorities are investigating allegations that an Indian spy unit hacked into e-mails of a U.S. commission that monitors economic and security relations between the United States and China, including cyber-security issues.
The art of contortion creates nearly impossible feats with the human body where toes wiggle next to ears and backs become like bendy straws, but contortionists say that their extreme acts takes practice and some flexibility, not a freak physique.
It has been a rough couple of weeks for singer Katy Perry whose husband Russell Brand announce last month that he has filed for divorce. Perry spoke out through Twitter over the weekend that she is not alone, especially not when she has 13.6 million fans following her.
Gold recovered from lows on Monday, lifted by gains in the euro versus the dollar after French and German leaders said there had been progress on the region's fiscal integration, but its rise was capped by caution after the metal's hefty losses last month.
One man is dead and another had a part of his scalp swiped off by a leopard that wandered into an eastern India city on Saturday. The men were reportedly among five people attacked by the wild leopard that went on a three-hour rampage in the city of Guwahati before authorities were able to tranquilize it.
India gold traders stocked up on Monday afternoon, continuing to benefit from a 7 percent fall in prices from the beginning of December, while silver retraced from its 1-week low to be flat.
The birth of a Royal baby would likely soar above either Beyonce and Aishwarya in terms of media coverage and public interest.
Housing Development Finance Corp, India's largest mortgage lender, expects the RBI to cut the cash reserve ratio, rather than interest rates, at its monetary policy review on January 24, Chief Executive Keki Mistry said.
The split goes all the way back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in the year 632 and it had to do with succession.
The global electronics market will exceed $1 trillion for the first time, with continued gains for smartphones, tablets and Internet and LED TVs, the Consumer Electronics Association said in its 2012 forecast.
Beyonce’s Baby Girl ‘Ivy Blue Carter’ is a Million Dollar Baby: Her Diamond-Encrusted Pram is Reportedly Ready
Aishwarya has herself reportedly said the baby’s name will be “not long” and “sweet.”
The knives will come out at back-to-back debates this weekend as Republican presidential hopefuls frantically jockey for position days before New Hampshire's key primary.
U.S. President Barack Obama kicked off an effort to encourage businesses to keep jobs at home instead of outsourcing them overseas, as he rolled out a new election-year theme on Saturday aimed at courting middle-class voters.
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd expects to sell Mahindra Reva electric cars in India by November, a top official said.
