Iraqi officials say a bomb left inside a restaurant north of Baghdad has killed at least seven civilians and wounded 25 others.

The rupee fell by 33 paise to Rs 57.84 per dollar in morning trade on the Interbank Foreign Exchange market on Monday, weighed down by dollar's gains against other currency.

Overseas investors have pulled out over Rs 17,000 crore (nearly USD 3 billion) from the Indian debt market in just a fortnight due to weakness in the rupee.

In spite of last day recovery on hopes of rate cut from Reserve Bank of India, both the key indices, S&P BSE benchmark S&P Sensex and Nifty ended in the red by over one percent for the second consecutive week on persistent selling pressure following fall in the rupee value to an all-time low.

A wave of car bombs in southern Iraq killed 20 people on Sunday as the country grapples with a spike in violence and prolonged political deadlock, sparking fears of all-out sectarian war.

With mixed signals on the economic front, stock market is likely to see volatility this week as investors track Reserve Bank's policy as well as US government's monetary easing steps, feel experts.

At least one person was killed and 77 injured in an explosion and fire at a petrochemical plant in Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal's home state of Louisiana in southern US.

Ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's wife Rekha on Saturday offloaded four lakh shares of the rating agency Crisil for over Rs 46 crore. According to information available with the stock exchanges, Rekha Jhunjhunwala sold four lakh shares, amounting to 0.56 percent stake, of Crisil through open market transactions.

Sushil Kumar, a resident of Delhi’s Sarojani Nagar, once served as a first class officer in the Union Ministry of Water Resource but it’s his unfavourable destiny which forced him to beg in the streets of the national capital.

Rebounding from two-month lows, the S&P BSE Sensex on Friday surged by nearly 351 points to end at 19,177.93, as slowing wholesale inflation and strengthening rupee rekindled hopes of rate cut by RBI next Monday.