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One of India's largest stateowned banks, Bank of Baroda, on Tuesday reversed course and said it would not charge for basic banking services following a public outcry.

China's top financial regulators told Ant Group Co Ltd's founder Jack Ma and two top executives that the company's lucrative online lending business faces tighter government scrutiny, sources told Reuters, days before its recordsetting listing.

Actor Madhuri Dixit on Tuesday marked the 31st anniversary of her 1989 critically-acclaimed feature "Parinda", saying the film lived up to its tagline of being the "most powerful film ever made". Directed byby Vidhu Vinod Chopra, the crime-drama also fe...

Gold prices edged down on Tuesday, as cautious investors awaited the outcome of the U.S. presidential election with President Donald Trump closely trailing Democrat Joe Biden in national opinion polls.

Franklin Templeton MF had closed six debt mutual fund schemes on April 23, citing redemption pressures and lack of liquidity in the bond market.

Saudi Arabian state oil group Aramco on Tuesday reported a 44.6% drop in thirdquarter net profit, in line with analysts' estimates, dented by lower crude oil prices and volumes sold as the coronavirus crisis choked demand.

The second of the three phases of Bihar Assembly polls is being held on Tuesday in which over 2.85 crore voters are eligible to decide the fate of nearly 1,500 candidates.

Social media companies Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc on Monday outlined plans for placing warning labels on posts from U.S. election candidates and campaigns that claim victory in advance of official results.

The second of the three phases of Bihar Assembly elections is being held on Tuesday in which over 2.85 crore voters are eligible to decide the fate of nearly 1,500 candidates.

Bets against the U.S. dollar were expected to linger or even increase in the immediate aftermath of the Nov. 3 presidential election, despite jitters in the runup along with surging coronavirus cases, a Reuters poll showed.

The world's top asset manager BlackRock downgraded European equities to neutral on Monday on a surge in COVID cases and renewed restrictions, though raised exposure to emerging stocks on a rising probability of a Democratic sweep in the U.S. vote.

The U.S. Treasury is projecting that it will need to borrow $617 billion in the final three months of 2020 as the government boosts the sale of Treasury securities to cover record budget deficits.

President Donald Trump's supporters have seized on a photo circulating on Twitter since late Sunday that shows Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden not wearing a mask while he talks to a campaign staffer on a plane.

Voting will be held from 7 AM to 6 PM, except in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Nagaland where the timings are different, and the number of people allowed in a polling booth has been restricted. Voters who are Covid-19 positive will be allowed to vote separa...

Unilever's crossborder merger between its Dutch and British corporate entities has been approved by the United Kingdom's High Court, the company said on Monday, marking the effective point of no return for the group's plan to become a single Londonbased e...

Gunmen stormed Kabul University, killing students in their classrooms and firing on others as they fled on Monday, in the second attack on an educational institution in the city in just over a week, officials and witnesses said.