India's services sector growth rose to a two-month high of 58.5 in January, on faster expansion in new business intake and output, prompting service providers to hire additional staff, a monthly survey said on Wednesday.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio "welcomed" the trade deal reached between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and discussed "formalising" bilateral cooperation on critical minerals exploration and mining during their meeting in Washington DC on Tuesday.

Three sisters, the youngest just 12, allegedly addicted to an online Korean game that involved a series of tasks, died after jumping off the balcony of their ninth-floor home in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.

Three Indian nationals have been arrested by Canadian police on an anti-extortion patrol and charged after bullets were fired at a home.

US Central Command says a US Navy fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone that was approaching the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea US.

 Former Tamil Nadu BJP Chief K. Annamalai has announced his decision to step-down as the party’s election-incharge, days after his appointment. The announcement came as a surprise to his own party men, reported The Week.

Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, lodging his strong protest over being disallowed to speak in the House on a matter of national security and terming it a "blot on our democracy".

The BJP and its ally JD(S) on Tuesday launched an overnight agitation in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly demanding state Excise Minister R B Timmapur’s resignation over allegations of corruption in his department.