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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday sought to allay fears over predictions of deficient monsoon saying conclusions on that basis either on inflation or some kind of distress situation are "far-fetched".

At least 13 bodies were recovered on Thursday in Pakistan's Balochistan province after 20 people were washed away in a flash flood caused by torrential rains.

The Odisha government on Thursday decided to implement an automatic mechanism to fix the bus fare with rise and fall of fuel price besides effecting a hike in bus fares by four to eight paise per km with immediate effect.

Deepika Padukone picked something really opulent as she attended the success bash of Piku organized by a leading Kolkata daily.

Sandberg's husband, SurveyMonkey Chief Executive Dave Goldberg, died on May 1 after falling off a treadmill during a vacation in Mexico.

Policemen deployed on duty at former CM's residence told reporters that they have been instructed to guard the fruits and prevent anybody picking even the fruits that fall on the ground on its own.

In 1990 neonatal tetanus accounted for almost 80,000 deaths. India was finally declared free of maternal and neonatal tetanus on May 15, 2015.

South Africa confirmed it had given $10 million meant to help pay for the 2010 World Cup to a soccer official indicted last week in the United States.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in India declined by 40% year-on-year to $2.11 billion in March 2015, the lowest in the last four months of 2014-15 fiscal. Previously, in November 2014 the FDI was the lowest at $ 1.53 billion.

"We owe it to the millions of fans in Europe and beyond, who love sport and who deserve so much better," Tibor Navracsics, the European commissioner said.

A day after announcing his decision to resign, Sepp Blatter was back at work at FIFA headquarters on Wednesday.

Railways is celebrating Modi government's completion of one year in office with a fortnight-long programmes from May 26 to June 9.

Actress Nargis Fakhri attended the 'Spy' premiere in New York wearing a cape-sleeve gown by Samuel Dougal.

Smriti Irani on Wednesday slammed him for ignoring farmers in his Amethi constituency charing the Congress leader with failing to address their grievances.

The government is in the process of extending India's National Knowledge Network to SAARC countries in order to enhance cooperation in the field of education, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Amazon will ship smaller items like makeup, mobile phone accessories, and earplugs for free without the minimum order requirement.