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New Delhi : The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce it verdict Monday on petitions which seeks quashing of coal blocks allocated during the previous UPA regime.

A bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha has examined the allegations about alleged irregularities in the allocation of around 194 coal blocks without following proper guidelines.

The coal blocks were alloted in Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh to private companies and parties bewteen 2004 to March 2011.

London : Oscar-winning British filmmaker Richard Attenborough, renowned for his critically-acclaimed biopic on Mahatma Gandhi, has died. He was 90.

The actor`s son, Michael Attenborough told the BBC that his father died at lunchtime yesterday. He had been in poor health for some time.

Lord Attenborough won an Academy Award for best director for `Gandhi`, one of many highlights of a distinguished career that spanned six decades, on both sides of the camera.

Jangipur : Amid repeated ceasefire violations by Pakistan, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said there has been a series of "provocations" by Pakistani Army and the country's armed forces are "responding adequately".

"I have said yesterday and repeating it today that there has been a series of provocations from the Pakistani Army in the last few fays," he told reporters on the sidelines of inauguration of Murshidabad campus of Management Development Institute (MDI).

New Delhi - Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services sector declined about 22 percent year-on-year to USD 738 million during April-June period of the ongoing fiscal.

The services sector, which includes banking, insurance, outsourcing, R&D, courier and technology testing, had received FDI worth USD 945 million during April-June 2013, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion data showed.

New Delhi - Overseas investors have pumped in about Rs 13,000 crore in the Indian debt market so far this month, endorsing the country's growth potential and political stability.

This takes the total investment in the debt market to around Rs 99,000 crore so far this year.

Foreign investors were gross buyers of debt securities worth Rs 31,639 crore till August 22, and sellers to the tune of Rs 18,649 crore - a net inflow of Rs 12,990 crore (USD 2.14 billion), as per latest data.

New Delhi - Country's largest insurer Life Insurance Corporation plans to pump in about Rs 50,000 crore in the equity market, taking its total investment including in bonds to Rs 3 lakh crore during the current fiscal.

"We plan to invest about Rs 50,000 crore in the equity market, while Rs 2.50 lakh crore in bonds," LIC Chairman S K Roy said.

He said LIC picked up stocks worth Rs 51,000 crore last fiscal and investments were made across sectors.

As for the bond market, he said investment in this area was Rs 2.40 lakh crore in the last financial year.