The Left parties Thursday condemned the petrol price hike as "a savage attack" on people and announced an India-wide protest day May 31.

A benchmark index of Indian equities markets was trading 222.60 points higher around 12.30 p.m. Thursday on a healthy buying spree in bank, oil and gas and metals stocks.

Work in most government offices across Jammu and Kashmir was crippled by the employees' three-day strike that started here Thursday, an official said.

Srinagar: The unprecedented steep hike in petrol price Thursday seems to have hit people in Kashmir hard, the angry protestors saying it would cripple markets, services and other sectors in the

A statewide shutdown was called by the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here Thursday to protest the huge hike in petrol prices.

Mumbai: Bracing for a long-drawn tussle with its striking pilots, beleaguered Air India has announced a truncated interim schedule for June, dropping several international destinations from its

Standard Chartered Bank forecasts India's GDP growth slowed to 6 percent in the Jan-March quarter, down from previous estimates of 6.5-7 percent. The data is due on May 31. Weak industrial output

With petrol prices hiked again today and fears remaining about price volatility of the deregulated fuel, auto manufacturers in the country are expecting a jump in demand for diesel-driven passenger

The Congress-led central government Wednesday came under fierce attack from the opposition and its own constituents over the sharpest petrol price hike ever of over Rs.7 a litre.

India Wednesday hiked petrol prices by an unprecedented over Rs.7 a litre, triggering protests from the opposition and even government allies. But the industry hailed it.