Foreign direct investment into India increased 25% year-on-year to $2.32 billion in April, the highest level in the past six months. In September, 2012, foreign inflows were $4.67 billion, according to data from the DIPP.

England glamor club Manchester United arrived in Sydney Sunday for a match against an A-League All Stars team, made more important after a shock loss to Thailand's All Stars in their first match under new manager David Moyes.

Amjad Ali Rana had stayed at Javed Sheikh's residence in Mumbai impersonating as his friend 'Bunty', days before he was intercepted by Gujarat Police in Ahmedabad and allegedly shot dead in an encounter in which Ishrat was also killed.

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Manchester United manager David Moyes stressed that Wayne Rooney is "not for sale".

Jose Mourinho has warned that he is returning to Chelsea as a much better manager as he bids to win back the Premier League trophy and secure an elusive Champions League title with the London club.

India told the US on Friday it was ready to negotiate a Bilateral Investment Treaty, knocking down yet another irritant bedeviling business ties between the two countries. Yashwant Raj reports.

The international career of tainted umpire Asad Rauf appears to be over after the Pakistan Cricket Board refused to nominate his name for the ICC's international and elite panels of officials.

Fourteen people were killed and 16 injured today in a traffic accident outside Moscow involving a truck, a passenger bus and several other vehicles, officials said.

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A Delhi court today dismissed the bail plea of former railway minister PK Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla, suspended railway board member Mahesh Kumar and five others in the Rs. 10 crore cash-for-post railway bribery case.

The US threat to withdraw all forces from Afghanistan by the end of 2014—the so called 'zero option'—is most probably a pressure tactic in the increasingly difficult negotiations with President Hamid Karzai on the terms of future security cooperation between Washington and Kabul.

But 'bargaining chips' often turn into real negotiating positions when mutual trust between two sides begins to rapidly disappear. As the ground situation becomes murky in Afghanistan, the Taliban gains ground with the support of the Pakistan army, and the American public support for the war in Afghanistan evaporates, it is certainly possible that Washington and Kabul might part ways and not so amicably.It is no secret that Karzai and the US President Barack Obama have not been able to build much mutual trust since the latter took charge of the White House in January 2009.

BJP insisted that Modi's remarks had been misinterpreted with an aim of appeasing a particular community.

New Delhi: The Congress will not declare Rahul Gandhi as its Prime Ministerial candidate in the Lok Sabha elections, senior party leader Digvijay Singh hinted on Friday while dismissing suggestions that BJP's projection of Narendra Modi is a challenge to it. He also did not say whether Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could be a candidate for the top post once again if the party wins next year's elections. "We do not have a presidential form of government. Congress party does not declare PM or CM candidates before elections...Even in the Karnataka Assembly elections, we had not declared any CM candidate," Singh told in an interview. He was replying to questions why Congress was diffident about projecting Rahul Gandhi, why it should not project him and who is the PM candidate of Congress. Singh also gave indications that the Congress was not averse to doing business with the Left after the next elections and apprehended that the advent of Modi could lead to communal polarisation in the polls. Asked about BJP's elevation of Modi as its election campaign chief, just a step short of announcing him the prime ministerial candidate, Singh said, "We are not concerned. It is not an issue with us. BJP is free to take any decision. We are in the politics of ideology and not personality...Congress party does not believe in the politics of polarisation."

The rupee weakened today, tracking losses in most other Asian currencies, with traders awaiting the share market open for further direction.

19-year-old Ashton Agar became the first no.11 ever to score a fifty on Test debut and then added 112 runs before lunch with Phil Hughes to guide Australia out of troubled waters and also gave his team a lead over England.