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Chennai, June 17 : The Institute of Actuaries of India has decided to expel R. Kannan, a former member of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority, for financial misconduct, said a member.

Men lying down on the ground mimicking dead bodies at a protest on Dec. 29, 2012, as they mourned the death of a 23-year-old woman who was gang raped in Delhi on Dec. 16. Last December, a young woman we call "Nirbhaya" was so brutally assaulted and raped by six men on a bus that she died from her injuries two weeks later.

Kindle Fire HD sales will go global at the end of this month, as Amazon brings sales of their critically-acclaimed tablet and E-Reader to India on June 27th.

Chennai, June 17: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Monday charged the Ministry of External Affairs of maintaining an "apathetic silence" on the issue of Indian fishermen being attacked by the Sri Lankan navy.

By buying up billions of dollars worth of foreign gold, they are sending Indian cash overseas, disrupting the balance money entering and leaving the country, and thus driving down the value of the rupee.

An Indian man looks at the water splash from the tyres of a bus, as he walks with his bicycle through a water-logged road during a prolonged spell of pre-monsoon rain in Amritsar, India, 15 June 2013.

Heavy monsoon rains today wreaked havoc in the hill states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh and flooded parts of Haryana where the water level in the Yamuna rose alarmingly, leaving 22 people dead and l000 stranded.

Indian children play with an inflated tube on a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains in Mumbai, India, Sunday, June 16, 2013.

An Indian fruit-seller covers his cart with a plastic sheet during a heavy downpour in New Delhi on June 17, 2013.

Shimla, June 17: Five members of a family, including three children, were buried early Monday when boulders fell on their house in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district, police said.

Indians hold placards in memory of those killed in a Maoist rebel attack in the central Indian state of Chattisgarh in the insurgents deadliest strike for three years, during a vigil in Mumbai on May 27, 2013.

Chandigarh, June 16: Rescue operations were on late Sunday to save 52 villagers marooned on an island in the flooded Yamuna river, state government officials said here.

India is taking steps to boost exports to Iran as New Delhi tries to fix a trade imbalance with the sanctions-hit country.

Vijay Zol is the only member from this squad who was part of the Under-19 World Cup team that triumphed last year © AFP New Delhi: Jun 15, 2013 Maharashtra's Vijay Zol has been named captain of the Indian junior team that will compete in a tri-series to be played in Australia in June-July.

New Delhi: The Indian economy is in a crisis with growth slowing down, fiscal and current account deficits running high amid persistent inflation, says a study by an economic think tank.

Patna/New Delhi: The rift in Bihar's ruling alliance sharpened yesterday with the BJP telling Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to quit and order fresh polls if he decided to break the partnership, while the JD-U continued to attack Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and said the split was a "mere formality".

A 19-year-old girl has been burnt to death and her mother beaten after pleading with village elders to be allowed to marry a boy from the same village and same caste, Indian police have confirmed.

VIENNA: Britain has stepped up efforts to let India join an influential global body controlling nuclear exports, a move that would boost New Delhi's standing as an atomic power but which has faced resistance from China and other countries.

Parts of northern India received heavy showers Friday as the southwest monsoon advanced further into central and northern India, the India Meteorological Department said.

Prince William will become Britain's first king to have proven Indian roots after saliva samples revealed direct lineage to the Commonwealth's most populous nation, The Times has reported.