Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh feels that rumours of him and actress Deepika Padukone being in a relationship are abuzz because they hang out together.

“No (there is nothing between us).. She is a very special person in my life and is a very close friend. She is one of the most wonderful people I have met. I have great amount of admiration and respect for her as an artist and as a professional. That’s it,” Ranveer Singh told PTI in an interview.

US President Barack Obama on Sunday made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to thank American troops and civilians for their service ahead of the final pullout of NATO troops from the war-torn country.

Obama’s arrival at the Bagaram air force base late Sunday night is his first trip to Afghanistan in two years and the fourth in total and is, according to a presidential aide, to thank American troops and civilians for their service.

Elated after pulling off a stunning win against Rajasthan Royals to make the IPL playoffs, Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma said even though his team had the self-belief to chase down the daunting target of 189, he never thought that it would be able to draw level in just under 15 overs.

The benchmark BSE Sensex regained the 25,000 mark by soaring 344 points in opening trade on Monday on increased buying by foreign funds and retail investors ahead of swearing-in of Narendra Modi as the 15th Prime Minister of India.

Rising for the third straight session, the 30-share Sensex shot up by 344.19 points, or 1.39 per cent, to trade at 25,037.54 with all the sectoral indices, led by power, PSUs, capital goods, auto, realty and banking sectors, trading in positive zone and rising up to 2.13 per cent.

Iran now wants to get back its euros owed by India through a new channel. It wants New Delhi to pay the money that Tehran owes to third countries for purchase of food, medicines and medical equipment.

With nuclear talks between Iran and P5+1 (the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany) going slow, Tehran has approached New Delhi for allowing third country exports of humanitarian goods for drawing down the $3.6 billion accumulated balance on account of India’s oil imports.

The Narendra Modi government, to be sworn in on Monday, is set to bring back the focus on information technology in government with an aim towards making the process of governance transparent and more accountable.

A senior BJP leader told The Indian Express that the new government will aim to make the system “more accountable in a very transparent manner”.

After witnessing decline for two consecutive years, FY14 saw some pick up in the first year premium collection in the life insurance space, thereby suggesting some growth coming back to the industry. While the industry is still some distance away from the premium collection figures it clocked in the year ended March 2011, since when the decline began, there is a lot the industry will need to do to reach out and to sustain its growth.

New Delhi and Islamabad, thanks to their newfound bonhomie following Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif accepting the invite to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as Indian prime minister, are looking to seal a deal soon in trade in electricity and hydrocarbon products.

It is a million-dollar question on who will be the next chief executive officer (CEO) of Infosys, as the country’s second-largest IT services exporter with a revenue of $8.2 billion intensely debates whether to pick somebody from within its ranks or bring in a rank outsider.

In its 33-year-old history, Infosys’s search for its next CEO is now breaking many new grounds. For the first time, it will be appointing a chief executive who does not belong to the founders’ group.

A 13-year-old girl from a remote village of Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh, became the youngest female climber to scale the Mount Everest. Malavath Purna, a student of Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Educational Society reached the top of the 8,848 mt (29,029 feet) mountain range along with class IX student of Khammam district, Sadhanapalli Anand Kumar, 16, on Sunday.

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