Tensions rise between the US and Canada over tariffs, with Alaska urging both nations to cooperate to avoid economic strain. Alaska's $1.3 ...

Upon Columbus's return to Spain on March 15, 1493, he promptly composed a letter to inform King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella about his disc...

Chillies could have taken two routes to India, via the Portuguese through Goa, and via Zomia to northeastern India.

The Manila galleons were developed due to Spanish desire to cash in on the Asian spice trade.

The first Green Revolution was about agricultural production, cultivation and irrigation systems.

Noted flu virologist Kennedy Shortridge believes that all flu pandemics that can be traced have always begun in China’s Guangdong province,...

The gujiya has achieved a kind of perfection in Orchha.

You may be surprised to know that profusion of foreign veggies & fruits in local market is not a recent phenomenon.

The South African national, who investigators identified as Molefe Keditlwaetse Lizzie, had swallowed 990gm of the narcotic in capsules.

Preparation to list the company either in the London Stock Exchange or New York Stock Exchange has started and it will take at least 18 to ...

We have in our cuisine coriander, fenugreek, cumin from the Mediterranean, the perfumery and mewa from Iran, melons from Afghanistan, among...

Aditya Birla Group has sweetened an offer to acquire Perth-based Northern Iron, which recently signed a long-term supply agreement with Tat...

Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla has said the group will look at more than doubling its existing revenues by 2015.

AV Birla is likely to submit a binding offer for Whitehaven in early May after it sought a two week extension of the deadline set by the co...

The deal may be backed with funding organised by Standard Chartered and Deutsche Bank, the sources with direct knowledge of the deal said.

Coal India, the world’s largest producer of the commodity, has put in a bid to buy US-based Sydney complex, an arm of Massey Energy, for ab...

World's largest economy, the US, has seen the failure of as many as 19 banks -- exactly half the number of all publicly-listed banks in Ind...