India's central bank looks set to tighten monetary policy further after raising interest rates for the first time in nearly two years as it bids to check spiralling inflation, economists say. In a move that surprised experts, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) hiked short-term rates from record lows late Friday to battle near double-digit annual inflation amid fast-strengthening ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian investigators will get access to the Chicago man who pleaded guilty to helping plan the 2008 Mumbai attacks, but he will not be extradited to India on current charges, a U.S. official said on Saturday. New Delhi wants to interrogate David Headley, who admitted this week in a U.S. court to scouting targets for ...

Girija Prasad Koirala, the former prime minister who brokered Nepal's peace agreement and led a protest movement against his country's autocratic king, died Saturday aged 85. Koirala, who had been suffering from respiratory disease for many years, died surrounded by family members at his daughter's home in Kathmandu, aide Gokarna Poudel told AFP. Thousands of people gathered ...

Indian investigators will be able to question a Chicago man who pleaded guilty to scouting targets for the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, a senior U.S. official said Saturday. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake said investigators probing the 2008 Mumbai ...