It is thought that the RBI has been accumulating dollars to fight odds.
Pakistan's largest city and business hub was paralysed on Friday on a strike call given by Imran Khan's party as part of its countrywide protests against the Nawaz Sharif government for allegedly rigging last year's polls.
'I will pick Bollywood stars to play Indian superheroes.'
The Kabuliwalas of Kolkata, traditional moneylenders, have seen their numbers shrink.
'India's relationship with China has been and will continue to be complex, delicate and sensitive,' says Rup Narayan Das.
'While the poor have little say in shaping India's intellectual or public discourse, they do have a significant role in deciding political outcomes,' points out Roshan Kishore.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads the list of retweets with his election winning post on Twitter being shared by over 70,515 people on the microblogging site.
Trade estimates pegged the Hindi version collection at Rs 210 million -- a commendable performance for a dubbed film.
The Honda CB Trigger offers good performance while being quite frugal and dynamically potent writes Faisal Ali Khan of MotorBeam.com.
At Rs 7.5 lakh, the Ducati Monster 795 offers some serious eye candy with performance to match, writes Faisal Ali Khan of MotorBeam.com.
Karan Johar gets candid during a DVD launch of his movie, My Name is Khan.
The car offers high amount of thrill with ample dose of style, luxury and vocal blast.
The Hyosung GV650 Aquila Pro isn't cheap but is the most affordable big cruiser in the market today, feels Faisal Ali Khan.
During floods in Kolkata, the roads were strewn with stalled Santros, engines filled up with water.
Maruti will showcase its first concept electric vehicle, the e-SURVIVOR; M&M it's six new EVs, including two futuristic concepts
The sluggish market situation notwithstanding, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday clarified to ministry officials he wouldn't accept any slippage in the government's Budget divestment target of Rs 30,000 crore (Rs 300 billion) for this financial year.
The prayer, Sarvejana Sukhinobhavantu, or let the whole universe of living beings be well, helps. So do profound and relevant Ancient Wise Words and aphorisms: Vasudaiva Kutumbakam, or the whole world is one big family, interconnected, interdependent. And a sense of humour, jokes, pranks, writing, conversations. And, last but definitely not least, the rippling waves of inner realisation on the background mind-track -- about the insignificance of ego, the importance of humility, the wasted opportunities in life, the wrong moves, the strokes of luck, the past 'sins', the what-ifs.
Airlift may turn out to be Akshay Kumar's best-performing film, surpassing Rowdy Rathore
'My middle class upbringing has shaped me up like that.' 'I am not saying actors are bad -- they are lovely people -- but I don't know which world they come from.' 'They come with their baggage, this aura...'
Amid escalating protest against the lynching of a rape accused by a mob in Nagaland's Dimapur, Internet and text messaging services have been blocked across the state till Monday evening.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
The car feels as if it's always on edge.
Station is a crime thriller about three psychotic assassins sent to carry out a job at a deserted railway station.
'Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan now act in only about one film each year, and made money through advertisements and television.' 'This meant that many people, even if they had the money to spend on a movie and wanted to go, often had nothing available for them to watch.'
The Department of Disinvestment proposes to begin the stake sale process in September.
'It was fun trying to regulate ourselves and keep it in the family zone and yet, be tongue-in-cheek.'
'There is never a safe choice in the movie business.' 'Everything is chance.'
At Rs 53,900, the Hero Splendor Pro Classic is the cheapest cafe racer motorcycle in the world, says Faisal Ali Khan of MotorBeam. The other locally manufactured cafe racer styled motorcycle is the Royal Enfield Continental GT.
The growth of a credible, objective news media business in India requires political will and a belief in free speech.
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire.
Complan and Horlicks, which claim to make kids taller in India, do not make any such claims in the UK
China's state media on Tuesday defended Pakistan's nuclear record, saying it was A Q Khan who was responsible for atomic proliferation which was not backed by the government and argued that any exemption to India for Nuclear Suppliers Group entry should also be given to Pakistan.
Firms are offering employees flexi hours; demand for air purifiers, masks have skyrocketed.
Netflix and Prime have decided that rather than only buying the rights to Bollywood blockbusters to expand their reach in India, producing original content would be a better idea.
'There is hope that in the next 48 to 72 hours there will be some kind of movement forward to de-escalate and not heighten the tension.'
'Maybe we failed but at least we tried something new,' Sidharth Malhotra reasons.
More lucrative routinely prescribed drugs are at higher risk of failing quality standards
We present our alphabet of 2020, pulling in everything you'll remember about this year we'd rather forget.
Vikram Kothari finds himself stands accused of a bank loan default to the tune of thousands of crores.
#BoycottSnapchat became top trending topic after its CEO was accused of calling India 'poor'
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