India is examining a request to double the import duty on aluminium to 10 percent, the country's trade minister said on Friday, after companies such as Vedanta Ltd warned of job cuts due to low world prices and rising supplies from overseas.The trade ministry…

India will impose an import duty of 10 percent on wheat effective until March 31 next year, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told parliament on Friday, reinstating tariffs after a gap of eight years following big purchases in recent months.Reuters reported last week that a…

Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane have consolidated well for India in the warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI at Colombo. The duo has taken India past 225. Rahane is closing in on his fifty.Earlier, skipper Virat Kohli fell cheaply and Shikhar Dhawan…

From her two-room concrete home nestled among the lush coconut plantations of southern India, housewife Kavita has seen the region's textile industry flourish for a decade, thanks to the labour of poor, lower caste women like herself.Promising a better life, "agents" have for years…

MUMBAI, Aug 6 (Reuters) - India's oilmeal exports in July plunged 86 percent from a year earlier to 18,410 tonnes as south Asian countries trimmed purchases of expensive Indian rapeseed meal and soymeal, a trade body said on Thursday.Exports of rapeseed meal fell 90…

Washington: Describing the Devyani Khobragade episode as a "painful period" in Indo-US ties, the US has said the incident has led to "important learnings" and there is a determination to avoid such instances.US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha…

Twenty-nine people were killed as two express trains derailed within minutes of each other on flooded tracks while crossing a railway bridge in Harda district of Madhya Pradesh in the dead of night and plunged into the swollen Machak river. There were conflicting versions on…

Jammu: A militant captured on Wednesday in Jammu and Kashmir after an ambush on a BSF convoy is a Pakistani, police sources said.The young militant, identified as Qasim Khan, is from the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist group and hails from Gujranwala in Pakistan, the sources…

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today urged the Muslim youth to follow the example of former President APJ Abdul Kalam and said those who attended the funeral of Yakub Memon were "sympathisers" and "followers" of a terrorist."The Muslim youth should follow the example of…

India is likely to bring in rules to make it compulsory for sugar mills to export millions of tonnes of surplus supplies to support local prices, sources said, in a move that could quell growing anger among farmers but add to a glut on global…