Mumbai: Benchmark BSE Sensex advanced by 195 points in early session on Monday on continuous buying by domestic institutional investors amid strong global leads.

The NSE Nifty also went past the 10,300-mark.

The 30-share Sensex was trading higher by 194.68 points, or 0.58 per cent, at 33,444.98, with rea

Rahul Gandhi has been elected as the Congress president unopposed, announced Congress MP Mulapally Ramachandran on Monday.

“Eighty-nine nomination proposals were received. All were valid. Since there was only one candidate, I hereby declare Rahul Gandhi elected as the President of Indian National Congress,” Ramachandran sai

Beijing: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said India and China’s strategic interests outweigh “partial frictions” and handling of the Dokalam standoff through diplomatic means reflects the importance of bilateral ties.

Ahead of his visit to India to attend the Russia-India- China (RIC) foreig

New Delhi: Alleging humiliation, senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan on Monday wrote to Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra that henceforth he will not practice in the court, days after the CJI took exception to the conduct of some senior lawyers.

Chief Justice Misra had last week voiced strong objection to the conduct o

New Delhi: An 18-year-old boy allegedly committed suicide, a day after his sister was molested by a few men, in Delhi’s Samaypur Badli area, police said late on Sunday.

According to the police, on December 7 they got an information of Deepak’s body being found hanging at his house. No suicide note was

London: The ISIS may have lost significant ground but it has not been yet defeated, British Prime Minister Theresa May has said, as she warned Iraq that the terror group still poses a threat including from across the border.

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi yesterday declared that the country’s wa

Hyderabad: A student from Hyderabad was shot at by an unidentified person in Chicago in the United States, his family members said today.

The family said Mohammed Akbar, doing his masters in computer sciences, was injured when a bullet hit his right cheek on December 6.

According to his brother Mohammed

Bhubaneshwar: World champions Australia defeated Olympic champions Argentina 2-1 in a hard-fought summit clash to defend the Hockey World League (HWL) Final crown at the Kalinga Stadium here today.

It was a fitting end to the eight-nation tournament which witnessed a keen battle between world’s best two team

Palanpur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday alleged Pakistan was interfering in Gujarat Assembly polls, and sought an explanation from the Congress over its top partymen who are said to have recently met leaders from the neighbouring country

Addressing a poll rally here, the prime minister also raised questio

Chennai: Making agriculture more viable was the challenge before the nation and politicising suicides of farmers would not help address the issue, Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu said today.

Presenting the ‘Yerarignar’ Award (Icon of farm research) to eminent agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan here,