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To bolster the rupee, the RBI offered to swap these funds for a minimum of three years at a fixed rate of 3.5%, leading to inflows of $ 34 billion, and helping stabilise the currency.

Why the revival of exports matters as much as rains for Indian farmers.

Top sources in the AIADMK said Jayalalithaa has decided to address five rallies on Friday for two reasons - opinion polls showing her in a weaker spot and the heat.

While leaders like Subhash Ware and Mayank Gandhi chose to resign late last year citing similar reasons, Aazmi waited, possibly hoping for an olive branch from the party counting on his minority status.

According to data released by the central government last month, Buddhism is the fastest growing religion among the Scheduled Castes (SCs) in the country.

Indian Express explains what the order of the Arbitral Tribunal on the Italian marines case means for each of the two countries, and what lies ahead.

Politically cornered on several fronts, the grand old party's cup of woes is full. Desperate to alter the narrative, the party is now engaged in a counter offensive but the question is has it worked?

Tawang is a town perched at 3,000 metres above sea level in Arunachal Pradesh in the Eastern Himalayas, right on the China border.

‘Please leave the chamber. Rule 255 has been invoked against you,’ Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari told Trinamool MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy on Monday. What is this Rule?

A former Permanent Representative to UNESCO says India has always had a principled line on the Kohinoor’s return, and the matter has been in the domain of the MEA, not the Culture Ministry.

Indian Express explains the BJP’s political gamble to douse the fires of the Patidar agitation in Gujarat— and the larger form and philosophy of reservations in India.

Ever since the arrest of former MCI president Ketan Desai on charges of corruption, the image of MCI as an opaque and corrupt organisation has stuck in public perception.

A patch of virgin land first detected by satellites 7 years ago has now been officially proposed to be part of Mumbai. SANDEEP ASHAR explains what popped out of the sea and when, and what

Over 4,500 hectares have been affected in Himachal Pradesh, some 40% more than the 3,185 hectares in Uttarakhand.

In Ballia district, from where the scheme was launched, BJP has only one MLA while SP holds five seats.

The sea trials of the first Scorpene, which mark a movement on the development cycle of the submarine, needs to be followed by an accelerated implementation of the plan already in place.

As Tamil Nadu gears for the 2016 Assembly elections, the voters in the state are playing their cards close to their chest.

Just as in the late 1990s, Indian lenders have been forced to recast loans to the some of same promoter firms that had dragged them down then too!

It is the clearest sign, perhaps, of the pressure on household incomes today.

There has been uproar in Parliament over the alleged reference to Bhagat Singh as a ‘terrorist’ in a well known book, the sale and distribution of whose Hindi version has been stopped by Delhi University.

He will take it to Jharkhand and UP in May and follow up with Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan.

How a building meant to be six-storey high morphed into a 31-storey tower.

The court's directives to the Centre and state governments to initiate proceedings against politicians and bureaucrats has once again brought the issue of corruption to the centre stage in the state.

The ordinance on the EBC quota will be issued on May 1, Gujarat’s foundation day, to be applicable for an annual income cap of Rs 6 lakh -- Rs 50,000 per month --for 'upper-caste' people

In the run up to his concert and while he sang, Shiv Sena volunteers protested with slogans such as “Ghulam Ali, waapis jao” and “Ghulam Ali, murdabaad”.