An article by the journal's editor-in-chief Richard Horton appreciated the Modi government for recognising the 'perils of public discontent about health' after years of neglect.

A survey found that a fifth of 63 million small businesses faced a 20 per cent fall in profits since the GST rollout, and had to sack hundreds of thousands of workers.

Neeru Chadha is the first Indian woman to be elected judge on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

During the Budget presentation in February, then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had projected the fiscal deficit target at 3.3 per cent of GDP for the financial year 2018-19.

The government is now reportedly mulling an option of blocking popular apps, including Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.

Imran Khan's priority will be to get the economy back on track.

Historical precedents do not support the popular belief that governments turn profligate in poll years.

Jailed former PM Nawaz Sharif's PML-N won 43 seats and was leading in 18 constituencies while PPP led by former president Asif Ali Zardari won 18 seats and its candidates were leading in 22 seats according to the latest unofficial results.

 Facebook Inc's shares lost as much as a quarter of their value on Wednesday after executives said that profit margins would plummet for several years due to the costs of improving privacy safeguards and slowing usage in the biggest advertising markets.

Pakistan's National Assembly comprises a total of 342 members, of which 272 will be directly elected whereas the rest 60 seats reserved for women and 10 for religious minorities are selected later through proportional representation among parties.

Last week, the Sensex had hit an all-time high of 36,548.41, while the broader Nifty also reclaimed the 11,000-mark, touching a high of 11,078.30. This was the highest closing since January 31, when it had ended at 11,027.70.

The FRDI Bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha last August, had drawn protests from the Opposition, the bank unions and the public alike over its 'bail-in' clause, which was feared as harming the interest of depositors.

Citing a government official, the daily added that the Godrej Group has sought a change in the project's alignment to free up nearly 3.5 hectares belonging to its infrastructure arm, Godrej Constructions, from the proposal.

Four of 12 Thai schoolboys were rescued from a flooded cave on Sunday as divers launched a daring and dangerous mission to free the children and their soccer coach who have been trapped underground for more than two weeks.

Global credit rating agency, Moody's Investors International, has downgraded Pakistan's outlook to negative from stable citing factors like \"heightened external vulnerability risk\" and \"low reserves adequacy\".

The break-up of BJP-PDP alliance is likely to pave the way for Governor's rule in J&K.

Citing government officials, a Reuters report claims that the Japan-backed $17 billion project is likely to miss its December deadline to acquire land due to protests by fruit growers in Maharashtra.

One of India's oldest philanthropic organisations was raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for the first time in a century. It's a big deal because the organisation in question is Tata Trusts, which owns two-third of the stock holding of Tata Sons, the apex company of the Tata group of companies.