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The Italian government has paid compensation of $190,000 each to the families of two Indian fishermen allegedly shot dead by Italian marines in February, lawyers said on Tuesday.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has halted payments to a Greek ship owner which transported Iranian oil for an Indian shipping company, in line with Western sanctions aimed at hindering Iranian crude exports, shipping sources told Reuters. The European...

India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a government plea for a review of its judgement dismissing a $2.2-billion tax bill imposed on British mobile phone giant Vodafone.

India’s ruling Congress Party has suffered a political blow, faring poorly in a round of regional elections. The party won only one out of five states. The elections also dealt a severe blow to Congress Party’s Rahul Gandhi, the latest...

India and Italy today failed to resolve their differences over who should probe the killings of two Indian fishermen by Italian marines off the Kerala coast earlier this month. The two countries, however, pledged not to allow the incident to...

As the diplomatic row between India and Italy escalated over the fishermen firing incident, New Delhi maintained that since it was a legal matter now, the law of the land will have to take its own course.

Under-fire Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni got much-needed support from former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram who said the “hullabaloo” about his leadership is “ill-timed” as speculated replacement Virender...

The Indian organizers of the largest literary festival in Asia cancelled a televised speech by author Salman Rushdie just minutes before it was scheduled, due to the threat of violent protests. Rushdie was set to address the Jaipur Literature...

A day after beginning talks on the boundary question, India and China on Tuesday agreed to set up a working mechanism on border management to deal with important border affairs related to maintaining peace and tranquillity in the border. The...

The India-China boundary talks, which were called off at the last minute because of the Chinese objection to the Dalai Lama speaking at a Buddhist conference around the same dates, are set to resume next month. Beijing has indicated its willingness...