Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell to a five-year-low on Wednesday as the US dollar strengthened. ...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) late Wednesday expressed concerns over India's fresh move to implement the controversial river linking project and urged the government to take strong action against it....
Facing strong resistance from the Congress and other opposition parties over the controversial land acquisition bill, the Narendra Modi government has decided not to go for another re-promulgation of the ordinance and instead write to the states to formulate their own laws, sources said on Wednesday....
The Greek parliament on Thursday passed a legislation on a second batch of reforms in line with an international bailout for the country's sluggish economy....
Kochi-based non-banking financial company (NBFC) Muthoot Finance Limited announced on Wednesday that it recorded a net profit of Rs.183.15 crore in the first quarter (April to June) of 2015....
Delhi's Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung and the AAP government were locked in another spat on Wednesday, with Jung rejecting the city government's appointment of Swati Maliwal as the new chief of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW)....

The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that after a mercy petition by a death row convict is rejected by the President, it cannot be moved afresh before the governor of a state unless there were entirely new grounds. ...
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday denied he referred to RJD chief Lalu Prasad as a "snake", and maintained that the reference, in fact, was to former ally Bharatiya Janata Party....
Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad on Wednesday said the people of the country wanted to know when a son of pig raisers would become India's prime minister. ...

The Gujarat government on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court seeking cancellation of interim bail to social activists Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand....