Orient Cement Ltd, a part of C.K. Birla Group, on Monday signed an MoU with Telangana government to expand the capacity of its plant in the state with an investment of Rs 2,000 crore.

Favourable demand conditions accelerated the growth of India's service sector in July, key economic data showed on Friday.

State-run firm Hindustan Copper (HCL) will off-load 13,87,82,700 equity shares or up to 15 per cent of its paid up equity capital in the country's stock markets to raise funds for its expansion projects.

It has been a decade since the biggest financial crisis in living memory swept the globe. In the run-up to the crisis, the debt levels of the developed economies saw a rapid expansion. Between 2000 and 2009, credit for the entire global economy grew at 7.5 per cent annually.

Astronomers have captured the first detailed images of the surface and atmosphere of a star outside the solar system, a report said.

US Permanent Representative Nikki Haley has said she is open to ideas on adding permanent members to the UN Security Council but did not made a categorical endorsement of India's bid for one of the permanent seats.