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The rupee closed at an all-time low of 68.80 level, down 256 paise - the biggest one day fall ever - from the close on Tuesday.

Two insurgents of the Bru National Army (BNA) were arrested from Naisinghpara Reang Refugee camp in Kanchanpur sub-division of North Tripura district, police said on Wednesday.

Punjab would get one of the 20 Regional Cancer Centres to be established across the country, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said in Amritsar on Wednesday.

Ruling out any alliance with Trinamool Congress in the 2014 general elections, Congress on Wednesday asked its workers to build mass contacts and enlist their support.

Lack of eye contact is said to be a considerable obstacle to the feel of a 'real' conversation, researchers said.

Ahead of the re-enactment of Martin Luther King Jr's historic march inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, America's first black president Barack Obama has said that the civil rights leader would have been "amazed in many ways" about the progress in the country.

The other highlight of the Ladakh film festival is a retrospect on veteran writer-filmmaker Gulzar.

Gautam Budh Nagar District Magistrate Ravikant Singh, who had given a clean chit to suspended UP IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, has been transferred.

A coordinated wave of bombings tore through Shiite Muslim areas in and around the Iraqi capital early on Wednesday, killing at least 58 and wounding many more, officials said.

President Hamid Karzai has condemned the killing of 12 Afghan civilians including five aid workers in two separate attacks as he concluded talks in Pakistan aimed at fostering peace.

The rape of the girls in the age group of 4 to 13 for over three years has triggered massive protests in the region.

Haasan has reportedly been approached for the role which was originally offered to Tamannah in 'Aagadu'.

Rajasthan state BJP president Vasundhara Raje's style of work has drawn criticism from her colleagues, forcing the RSS to intervene to try sort out growing differences within the party.

Hampered by a back injury, Janowicz served underhand in the third set of his 4-6, 4-6, 2-6 exit in the first round.

Barack Obama was 2 years old and growing up in Hawaii when Martin Luther King Jr, the American civil rights leader, delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

The International Boxing Federation has decided to extend the Indian federation's suspension to its boxers and coaches.