Oil fell on Wednesday after jumping for awhile above $40 a barrel, the highest since March, then retreating as doubts emerged about the timing and scale of a potential extension to the pact between Op...

Retailers are miffed with lenders as many found banks not approving additional working capital loan despite a Reserve Bank of India mandate.A survey conducted by the Retailer’s Association of India ...

Kamta Prasad, headmaster of a government higher secondary school at Dhobghat in Jamui district of Bihar, was feeling relieved after an anxious week. Then he got the shock of his life.It was May 28, he...

The southwest monsoon has made an onset over Kerala, marking the commencement of the four-month long rainfall season, the India Meteorological Department said on Monday.'The southwest monsoon has made...

Equity benchmark Sensex rallied over 900 points in early trade on Monday, driven by gains in HDFC twins, ICICI Bank and Reliance Industries amid firm cues from global markets.After touching a high of ...

Mohammad Ismail and his colleagues had desperately wanted to come back their homes in Bengal. The group of migrant workers who had lost their jobs in the lockdown in Gujarat’s Surat had hoped their ...

Seven returned migrant workers have been forced to continue their quarantine from the veranda of their village ICDS centre after a squall destroyed their makeshift pandal on May 27.The seven, who had ...

The government has notified income tax return forms for 2019-20 and made it mandatory for entities to file ITR if deposits in a current account exceed Rs 1 crore or electricity bill in the fiscal is o...

Investors will be happy at the opening up of the economy from Monday but market mood would be volatile on account of the disappointing growth data and tensions between the US and China, analysts sai...

The higher education regulator has advised universities and colleges offering general-stream courses not to force students to pay their full fees during the lockdown, but has not announced any extra g...