India on Tuesday signed a $74 million loan agreement with the World Bank for the Uttarakhand Workforce Development Project.

Controversy-hit private lender ICICI Bank has replied to security market regulator SEBI's show cause notice on the issue related to allegations of impropriety levelled against its MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday jointly inaugurated the construction works of a cross-border oil pipeline and two rail projects, with the former describing the two countries as members of the same family.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday slammed a section of the media, especially news channels, for revealing the identity of the Rewari gang-rape victim and asked how such disclosures could be stopped.

Former chief minister Siddaramaiah said that though the BJP leaders have been making brazen attempts to destabilize the coalition government in the state, their day dream of forming their own government would not come true.

Senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut has been appointed the chief of its Parliamentary Party, a party official said here on Tuesday.

Himachal Pradesh suffered a cumulative loss of Rs 1,217.29 crore during the monsoon rains that also claimed 264 lives, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said here on Tuesday.

Upping the ante against the Narendra Modi government for its "collaboration" in letting Vijay Mallya flee the country, the Congress on Tuesday demanded a probe into why the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley did not act against the liquor baron.