Gold prices moved up marginally by 0.23 percent, to Rs 27,829 per 10 gm in futures trade as speculators created positions taking positive cues from the global market amid firm spot demand.

The rupee on Friday strengthened by 35 paise to 57.63 against the dollar in morning trade on the Interbank Foreign Exchange market on the back of banks and exporters selling the US currency amid strong local equities.

Snapping its three-session losing streak, the BSE benchmark Sensex on Friday rose by over 195 points to trade above the 19,000 level in morning trade on buying by funds and retailers, after Finance Minister P Chidambaram announced that more economic reforms are on the anvil.

Slipping into a traditional outfit? Keep your make-up light and natural, says make-up artist Neha Khanna.

In an apparent racist attack, an Indian restaurant owner was beaten up and verbally abused by a group of teenagers in Australia's Ballarat near Melbourne.

The insensitivity of the Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday came to the fore, as a senior police officer was caught on camera humiliating a 35-year-old Dalit woman, who had approached him for lodging a rape case, saying "who would rape an elderly woman who is a mother of four".

Nelson Mandela spent a fourth day in intensive care and continued to be in a "serious but stable" condition.

Shashank Shekhar Singh, ex-Cabinet Secretary of Uttar Pradesh during former CM Mayawati’s regime, passed away at Max Hospital in New Delhi on Wednesday night. Shashank, who was considered very close to Mayawati, was reportedly suffering from cancer.

It was a cloudy morning in the capital on Tuesday with the minimum temperature settling at 29.2 degrees Celsius - a notch above the season's average. The weather office has forecast rains later in the day.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would lay the foundation of next NDA government at the centre by performing better in Uttar Pradesh in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, said Amit Shah, as he on Wednesday took over as party's in-charge in the state.