Gold's rally will extend beyond $2,000 an ounce in the next year, but won't match the torrid record-breaking climb of the last 12 months, according to gold investors and analysts attending the London Bullion Market Association's (LBMA) annual conference.
An outbreak of avian influenza (bird flu) has been confirmed in West Bengal, India as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh races to coordinate preventative measures.
Google+, the social network that was invite-only for some time, has announced it is now an open platform for anyone and everyone to join.
A new outbreak of the H5 strain of avian influenza (bird flu) has surfaced in West Bengal, India.
Six thousand troops have been deployed to the India-Nepal border, where a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Sunday night. The current death toll has risen to 90 people, about 50 from the Indian state of Sikkim, along with others in Nepal and Tibet.
The so-called Apple iPhone 5 release saga is getting twisted every other day with new rounds of rumors. With the most highly anticipated product launch nearing day by day, the rumor mills seem to get intensified even more.
The new BCCI president N. Srinivasan on Monday ruled out any formal inquiry into the team's abysmal performance on their tour of England.
The proposed food security bill will likely cost an annual 1 trillion rupees ($20.7 billion), the Financial Express quoted the food minister as saying, as the government looks to scale up production and storage of subsidised grain to feed more of the country's poor.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is considering filing a case or multiple cases against Reliance Industries over its operations of its gas block in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin, the Mint reported on Tuesday.
Three successive earthquakes hit Guatemala on Monday, shaking buildings as far as 30 miles away and inciting landslides and public panic. At least one person was reportedly killed.
None of India's 20 nuclear power plants were disturbed by the earthquake, officials said Monday. The nuclear facility closest to the quake's epicenter is the Narora Power Station, some 800 miles to the west. The quake hit Sunday night, and the death toll has reached 74 people.
Due to low demand, the world's largest sperm bank, Cyros International, claims that it can no longer accept donations from redheads.
There have been a number of high-profile earthquakes in the last month, including ones in India, Japan, Cuba, Indonesia and the United States. Here are the ten worst quakes over the past 100 years.
The death toll has risen to 53 people in Sikkim, India, where a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Sunday night. About ten of the deaths occurred in Nepal, primarily in the capital of Katmandu, where a series of building collapses trapped people under debris.
India and China drove the second-quarter's robust demand for gold, the World Gold Council said in its analysis of industry trends during the three-month period.
Canadian gold miner Agnico-Eagle Mines said it will buy Mexico-focused junior peer Grayd Resource Corp for about C$275 million($279.6 million) in cash and stock to focus on early stage gold projects.
A low-intensity blast at a hospital in the tourist city of Agra injured at least three people on Saturday, a local police official said.
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit a remote Himalayan region in northern India on Sunday evening, killing at least four people and five in neighbouring Nepal as well as damaging buildings and blocking roads, officials said
A team of scientists from Delhi University, Bombay Natural History, Zoological Survey of India, and Brussels' Vrije University discovered frog species that belong to the night frog group and rediscovered three frog species which were thought to be extinct.
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more on Sunday. The quake struck at 6:10 p.m. local time near the India-Nepal border, centered about 40 miles from the city of Gangtok, in Sikkim state.
The Indian government has reported that at least eight people died in India and Nepal, and at least three people died when a building in Kathmandu collapsed. The quake also created a number of mudslides on the outskirts of Gangtok, India, killing at least one man who was trapped inside his car.
A team of scientists in India has discovered 12 new frog species and three others which were considered to have been extinct.
