India

Nearly 90 per cent of the 2 lakh ATMs deployed across the country have been re-calibrated to dispense the new 500 and 2,000 rupee notes.

Consequently, from Thursday, petrol per litre will cost Rs 66.10 in Delhi, Rs 68.81 in Kolkata, Rs 72.46 in Mumbai and Rs 65.58 in Chennai.

Their design was to blow up rail tracks and trains here as we have recovered chained IEDs and liquid explosives", Additional Director General (ADG) BSF and Special DG (Western Command) Arun Kumar told PTI.

Bank officials are tight-lipped, though bank insiders say it was a clerical mistake.

Assistant jail superintendent Bhim Singh, head warden Jagmeet Singh and a sweet shop owner Tejinder Sharma have been arrested on the charges of abetment and criminal conspiracy.

Yoga guru Ramdev has landed in a controversy in Nepal after a media report claimed that Patanjali Ayurved group invested more than Rs 150 crore in the country without official approval

A fierce gunbattle is underway between terrorists and security forces in Nagrota area of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal in Delhi on Monday expressed support to the Centre’s demonetisation policy and said they are going to train their cadre in spreading awareness about 'a cashless economy'.

Mintoo was involved in recruiting youth to KLF and also arranging funds for the organisation.

Former chief economic adviser to the government Kaushik Basu has criticised the Centre’s demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes, saying it was badly implemented and likely to fail.

Nonchalance in response by authorities to the polluted lakes of Bengaluru is threatening to push the IT capital to the brink.

Life crippled in Left-ruled Tripura on Monday as a Left Front sponsored 12-hour shutdown observed in the northeastern state to protest against demonetisation of higher currency notes by the BJP led central government.

Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday took a swipe at the opposition parties over their 'Aakrosh Divas' protest, saying their anger was not over demonetisation, but over Centre's "blockade" of black money.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday defended the Centre’s demonetisation of Rs 500 and 1000 currency notes and said the move was welcomed by people across th

There were normal flight operations at the airport on Sunday, Director Airport Authority of India (AAI) said.

Dreaded Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) chief Harminder Singh Mintoo - who was freed from the high security Nabha Jail in Punjab by 10 armed men on Sunday morning – was the member of Babbar Khalsa International (BKI).