Continuing with the reversal of accomodation begun in June, the RBI on Wednesday again hiked its key lending rate by 25 basis points to bring the repo to 6.50 per cent citing upside risks to inflation.

A day after British arms dealer Christian Michel was granted bail in Dubai, the AgustaWestland intermediary accused Indian investigators of offering him a deal that if he named UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi he stood a good chance of securing a clean chit in the alleged Rs 3,600-crore scam.

Revenue collection under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) crossed the Rs 95,000 crore mark in July for the second month in a row and stood at Rs 96,483 crore, the government said on Wednesday.

DMK leader M.K. Stalin on Wednesday said he was shocked to learn about the reported death of 21 party cadres in shock and grief following the hospitalization of party leader M. Karunanidhi.

Efforts are on to rescue a three-year-old girl who fell into a 110-feet deep borewell on Tuesday afternoon in Bihar's Munger district. Sanno, who came to visit her grandfather Umesh Nandan's home in Murgiachak area, was playing outside the house where the borewell was being dug. A disaster response team is carrying out the operation to rescue the girl by digging a parallel hole, say reports.

A man was electrocuted after his mobile phone that he was speaking on while it was connected to a charger got burnt due to suspected high voltage at Vagupalli under Kanigiri mandal in Prakasham district.

K. Anvar Sadath, vice chairman and executive director of Kerala Infrastructure and Technology For Education (KITE), has become the first Indian to receive The International Contributions Award.

Over 100 Maratha activists staged a noisy 'jail-bharo' agitation at Azad Maidan here on Wednesday, marking the intensified phase of their ongoing fortnight-long campaign for job quotas for the community.