With the rupee dipping to an unprecedented low level, the government is ready to take step to curb volatility, Chief Economic Advisor to the Finance Ministry Raghuram Rajan said on Thursday.

Japan's nuclear watchdog has formally approved new safety requirements for atomic plants, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has urged that courts should be "a little more reluctant" in giving stay orders on recruitment or development process which affect delivery of services to the people.

A suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked a United Nations compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and witnesses said.

The meteorological department on Monday forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall in isolated parts of Gujarat's Saurashtra and Kutch regions in the next 24 hours even as several districts recorded heavy downpour since Sunday.

In the wake of the Cobrapost expose on violation of KYC norms by almost all banks, State Bank of India Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri has said his bank has been "put to a loss" by the non-compliance of guidelines by private sector peers.

Noida authority on Saturday bulldozed several unauthorized constructions in Haibatpur of Hindon flood zone area.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has issued orders to reduce the staff of his office by 30 percent and to cancel a project to beautify roads leading to his official residence.

Telecom regulator Trai on Monday announced reduction in the national mobile phone roaming charges, but said there will be no free national roaming as of now. The sectoral regulator has also come out with conditional free national roaming plans, a move that will bring down cellphone roaming charges.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday promised to change the face of his Parliamentary constituency Amethi and said it would be a model of development in the country.