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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday dismissed canard about shortage of salt in the country as "concocted rumours" and stressed adequate quantity is available in every state.

"We are preparing for bloodless war, by strengthening cyber security measures," Prasad said at the Economic Editors' Conference.

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury today alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the announcement of demonetising Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes without any plan or preparation and claimed that the move will "put brakes" on the economy and "hurt"...

Alibaba Group, the e-commerce giant behind the 24-hour Singles' Day shopping blitz, has raked up a record USD 17. 6 billion in the Singles Day online sales, creating a new record in global retail sales for any single day.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said country's economy will collapse in the coming days if the decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes was not withdrawn.

Twitter users have flooded the micro-blogging website with calls to "assassinate" the President-elect Donald Trump and the US authorities were probing the threat, media reported on Saturday.

According to the police, Jothi, who had given birth to a baby girl three days ago, had handed the infant over to the woman who was standing near her bed.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday voiced confidence that Donald Trump will not seek to undo the Paris climate deal despite his campaign pledge to cancel the landmark agreement on combating global warming.

Romeo Fernandes struck in the injury time as a 10-man FC Goa rallied to beat NorthEast United 2-1 in a thrilling Indian Super League football match at Nehru Stadium.

The turn of events in the Supreme Court which witnessed a contempt notice being issued to its former judge Markandey Katju for his comments on a blog about apex court judges, on Friday prompted experts, barring an activist lawyer, to say that he "invited"...

Largest lender State Bank of India on Friday said it has collected around Rs 38,677 crore in deposits, while its branches exchanged Rs 1,666 crore since Thursday after the government scrapped Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes on Tuesday.

The story that News18 can vouch for begins from a sprawling farmhouse in the tony Chattarpur in New Delhi and ends at the Okulipuram slum in Bengaluru.

A similar pattern was seen in some cooperative banks that are associated or directly controlled by politicians, he said.

Bollywood actor Sonu Sood, who features in Xuanzang -- China's official pick for the 89th Academy Awards -- says over-the-top films are made in China.

The money market futures FFZ6 FFF7 are pricing in about 75 percent chance of a rate hike.

Asha Bamba, 69, is a cancer patient and needs spinal surgery. She travelled with daughter Poonam all the way from Karnal in Haryana to Noida's Fortis Hospital for the surgery. But despite reaching the hospital at 10 am, Asha's surgery did not begin even a...