The offer price of 949 rupees had valued LIC at $77 billion, but it opened Tuesday on Mumbai's exchange trading seven percent lower.

Television footage showed smoke billowing out of the windows of the building, with firefighters helping those trapped in the upper floors to escape as hundreds watched.

This year has been one of the worst in the recent times. We have seen a 10% increase in the number of birds that need rescuing.

Foreign investors have withdrawn a net 1.34 trillion rupees ($17.3 billion) from Indian equities so far this year, stock exchange data showed.

Pakistan’s water authorities express reservations over the Indian decision of the hydro-electric project over Chenab River.

India, which imports much of its military hardware from Russia, has long walked a diplomatic tightrope between the West and Moscow, and has called only for an immediate end to hostilities.

UK and India had agreed to work together in defence procurement to meet threats across land, sea and air, space and cyber, including partnering on new fighter jet technology, maritime technologies to detect and respond to threats in the oceans.

The petitioner to the court said the municipal authorities had not alerted the local shopkeepers before the razing operation.

Indian News Channel Zee News says PM Khan did "surprise" the opposition and the whole world.

Following the reports, shares of India's state-run refineries soared. Indian oil went up by 2.3 percent while Hindustan Petroleum climbed 2.4 percent.

Unlike fellow members of the Quad alliance Japan, Australia and the United States, India has abstained in three UN votes deploring Moscow's actions, calling only for a halt to the violence.

The Foreign Office Spokesperson in a statement said, Pakistan also reiterated its serious concern over the BJP leadership’s increasing tendency of dragging Pakistan into its domestic affairs.