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And a host of stories on the fortieth anniversary of India's historic war with Pakistan that lasted just 13 days, marking the nation's greatest military triumph.We salute the heroes of the 1971 War in this special section. Read
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Here's something you can read on your way home. Hip-Hop Tehran-Style.On Longform.org.
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Jemima Khan on Twitter:Keep hearing I'm meant to have given Imran s. For clarity's sake, I never gave him a penny nor did he ask/ want me to. In other words - he ended with all the disadvantages of marrying someone with money (smears, innuendo, envy) with none of the advantages. Imran took no...
18:05
Aamna Taseer: 100 days since my son Shahbaz Taseer was kidnapped!!! Shahbaz's father is slain governor of the Punjab province in Pakistan, Salman Taseer.
18:02
Just in: The Lokpal panel has sought one more week to sumbit its report to Parliament. It was submit the report on December 7.
18:00
A day after Australia's ruling Labor reversed it policy of not selling uranium to India, China today gave a guarded response to the move, saying all countries are entitled to peaceful use of nuclear energy. China always believes countries are entitled to peaceful use of nuclear energy and at the...
17:33
The United States and other nations vowed Monday to keep supporting Afghanistan's fragile economy after most foreign forces leave the country, as an international conference got underway in Bonn despite the crippling absence of key regional player Pakistan.The latest from the conference at Bonn...
17:28
Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif on his five favourite Indian novels. On the bbc.co.uk. Do they make it to your list? Read
17:23
The six suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives, arrested for their alleged roles in various terror attacks across India, were today remanded in policecustody for 10 days by a Delhi court.
17:20
Advocates of gold are not lunatics, hacks, eccentrics or crackpots, writes ex-RBI Dy Governor. Read
17:18
Paul Pilar, on why comparing Mahmood Ahmadinejad with Adolf Hitler is a stupid thing. Read the National Interest.
17:12
One hundred and forty-three. That's the number in GQ's Sexiest Women of 2011. Get your eye on the candy.
17:04
The Home Ministry has given its approval to London-listed miner Vedanta Resources' buying majority stake in Cairn India for USD 8.7 billion. The Home Ministry, while giving the security no-objection certificate, highlighted eight areas of concern, including 64 legal proceedings against Vedanta...
16:59
Also on FDI: Who's afraid of Walmart? On the Wall Street Journal. Read
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Everything you wanted to know about Foreign Direct Investment, but didn't quite know what to Google. Read the paper by Anusha Chari and A Madhav Raghavan. Chari is from the University of North Carolina, while Raghavan is from the Indian Statistical Institute. All the guff...
16:52
JDey murder case update: Police custody of journalist Jigna Vora and Chhota Rajan aide Paulson Joseph has been extended to December 9. Vora and Joseph, who were arrested in connection with the murder of Mid Day journalist J Dey, were sent to police custody till December 5. Their custody has now...
16:46
Would his condition have come to light if he had been picked for the Australia tour? And why does the BCCI manage player injuries so poorly? Read the report on espncricinfo.com.
16:44
India emerges as chief opponent of a new global-warming treaty.The Independent, UK, says the country baulks at UN climate conference, concerned about cooling its red-hot economy. Read
16:38
As global talks kick-off in Bonn to chart the future course for Afghanistan, India today said it would fully support an Afghan-led and owned peace process.External Affairs Minister S M Krishna arrived in Bonn for the conference attended by Foreign Ministers of 64 nations and senior officials from...
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Meanwhile, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Monday reiterated that he would reveal the next steps on the foreign direct investment issue only on the floor the Lok Sabha when Parliament resumes its winter session on December 7. News reports said that Mukherjee has spoken with Leader of...
16:33
FDI update: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj today demanded that the UPA government convene an all-party meeting over the issue of FDI in retail before making any statement on it in the Parliament.Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee called me this morning on phone over smooth...
16:28
The US today said it will vacate the Shamsi airbase in Balochistan, believed to be used by CIA-operated drones, by December 11 deadline set by Pakistanfollowing the NATO strike that killed 24 of its soldiers. American Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter said that the US was doing its best...
16:25
Shobhaa De tweets: Congratulations Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao!Proud parents to baby boy.Watch out Bollywood heroes, here's competition! Khan Jr. genetically blessed. Read the story on rediff.com: Aamir, Kiran blessed with baby boy
16:20
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has won the right to have his case against extradition to Sweden heard by the UK Supreme Court. He lost a High Court battle last month to halt his removal for questioning over alleged sex offences and made the application to the UK's highest court. Judges ruled...
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Just in: The UK High Court has said that Julian Assange can appeal to the Supreme Court against extradition to Sweden.
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Forty years ago, in a historic war that lasted just 13 days, India defeated Pakistan, marking the nation's greatest military triumph.Rediff.com salutes the heroes of the 1971 War in this special section. Read
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In a bid to overcome problems posed by difficult Hindi words, Government has asked section officers to use their 'Hinglish' replacements for easy understanding and better promotion of the language. The order issued by the Rajbhasha unit of Ministry of Home Affairs was recently re-circulated...
16:06
A senior US official today urged South Korea and other allies to expand sanctions on imports from Iran for its suspected nuclear weapons programme, calling the Islamic country 'a pariah state'. Robert Einhorn, the US State Department's special adviser for non-proliferation and arms control,...
16:01
Activists from environmental group Greenpeace managed to sneak into a French nuclear power plant today in what they said was a bid to highlight the dangers of atomic energy. In a statement, Greenpeace said some members had entered the nuclear site at Nogent-sur-Seine, 95 kilometres...
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The Rajasthan High Court today stayed the permission of a lower court to conduct a voice-test on Sohan Lal Bishnoi to verify the authenticity of some audio clips related to missing nurse Bhanwari Devi. The clips have voices of Sohan Lal and Shahbuddin, both currenly under judicial custody,...
15:30
In Brtain, according to The Sunday Times: Postmen have been warned that they could face bribery charges if they accept traditional Christmas tips from customers. Bosses at Royal Mail have told staff to decline gifts worth more than 30 during the festive season in case they fall foul of the...
15:29
She was estranged from him for nearly a decade following years of bitter fighting. Now Angelina Jolie has revealed that the only way she can have a relationship with her father is if they do not talk about their past. Read the story on the Daily Mail.
15:27
A young woman sits cross-legged on the ground laughing playfully as she is fed a lychee. Another plays cards in pair of baggy pink pyjamas. The moving images could show any group of young women as they go about their daily lives in prison. Read it on the Daily Mail
15:22
Ramesh Srivats: Waiting for Pritam to do his version of Kolaveri. Which will sound exactly like the original one.
15:19
Team Anna today invited leaders of all parties to Jantar Mantar on December 11, when Anna Hazare plans to sit on a day-long fast, to put their views on Lokpal Bill, a deviation from its stand on previous occasions when it did not allow politicians to share its platform.December 11th, Jantar...
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Here's an update: Police say speeding was identified as a possible cause of what is believed to be one of the world's most expensive ever road accidents when up to 2.6 million-worth of supercars ended up in a crumpled heap on a motorway in Japan.Watch the video on the Telegraph, UK.
15:08
Porn star and Bigg Boss contestant, (not necessarily in that order) Sunny Leone, finds mention in the Guardian. Karen's her real name. Read
15:04
Barclays is set to axe over 1,000 jobs in India -- nearly 10 per cent of its workforce -- as part of a sweeping review of its operations in Asia's third-largest economy, The Times, London, has learnt. The move by Barclays, which employs 11,000 people in India -- its biggest workforce outside...
14:59
Harvinder Singh, who had slapped Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, was today ordered by a Delhi court to stay at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences till December 12 for additional tests to ascertain his mental health.
14:57
Super cars ranging from Ferrari to Lamborghini ended up in a crumbled heap, in Japan's worst-ever traffic pile up in which SUVs worth up to USD 4 million turned to trash. Involved in the crash over 400 metres east-bound side of the Chucks Expressway were eight Ferraris, a Lamborghini, two...
14:54
Anna Hazare's team deconstructs how corruption in Group C employees should be checked. It says there is an intense public debate on whether all government employees should be brought within the purview of the Lokpal. In this, three models are being discussed the governments model, the NCPRIs...
14:44
MDMK chief Vaiko today complained to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that the Kerala government was creating panic and fear psychosis among the people on the Mullaperiyar Dam issue while contending that the 116-year-old structure was safe. As the confrontation between the neighbouring states...
14:41
WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange returns to court today in an effort to take his appeal against extradition to Sweden over sex assault allegations to the United Kingdom's Supreme Court. He is expected to argue that his case raises a question of general public importance, and therefore should be...
14:36
Her many fans have always had difficulty with the known portraits of Jane Austen. Read
14:33
Socrates made the ball dance. The Brazilian was football's king of cool in the Eighties, the epitome of lean, straight-backed elegance. Read the story on the Telegraph, UK. Socrates died on Sunday.
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Her many fans have always had difficulty with the known portraits of Jane Austen. Read the story on the Telegraph, UK.
14:23
The Supreme Court-appointed committee on Mullaperiyar Dam dispute met today during which lawyers representing Tamil Nadu and Kerala maderepresentations on their stands and asked the panel to hear them before submitting its report. The committee headed by former Chief Justice of India A S...
14:11
Luxury accessory maker Hermes is branching out to offer luxury saris in India. Here's all that you wanted to know about Hermes. Read
14:09
How, exactly, do you go about writing a prize-winning book about cancer? Siddhartha Mukherjee, who has just won the Guardian First Book award for The Emperor of All Maladies, explain. Read
14:06
Apple's virtual assistant Siri was accused of being pro-life after a blogger discovered it wouldn't direct her to abortion services. Read the report on the Daily Beast.
14:03
Chantelle Taylor yesterday became the first British female soldier to reveal she has killed an enemy in combat. She told of the moment she was ambushed by a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan -- and chose to shoot him dead rather than be killed herself. Read the story on the Sun.co.uk.
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The National Human Rights Commission today deferred till March hearing on the Mullaperiyar Dam issue, saying it will wait till the Supreme Court-appointed empowered committee submits its report. The decision was taken at a meeting of the full commission of the NHRC on the dam issue, a senior...
13:40
Shah Rukh Khan: Just saw a male Sarpanch slap and rough up a woman teacher on tv...disgusting & should be punished for sure... Here's what happened: In a shocking incident, a Shiromani Akali Dal Sarpanch Balwinder Singh of Gidderbaha in Punjab slapped and manhandled a woman teacher...
13:36
A sequel to Bollywood hit film Krrish, will not only see Hrithik Roshan playing the role on screen, but also as the associate director of the movie. The actor had started off his career in Bollywood by assisting his father Rakesh Roshan with films like Koyla and Karan Arjun. And it would be...
13:21
Vidya Balan redefines the Hindi film heroine this week with The Dirty Picture, in which she plays the frankly sexual, cheerfully sleazy 1980s starlet Silk. Read Anupama Chopra's inverview with the Vidya Balan on NYT blogs.
13:18
You read it first here, and now details are in.The Congress has issued a three-line whip to its members in the Lok Sabha asking them to be present during proceedings on December 7 and 8. Parliament sources said this has been done not for any particular issue but keeping in view the...
13:07
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee tells opposition leaders that FDI in retail is being put on hold. Pranab tells BJP senior leader and leader of the opposition in the LS, Sushma Swaraj, that FDI will be on hold till there is a consensus on the issue. In turn, the BJP has promised not to disrupt...
12:59
The Queen is facing a freeze to her income until 2015 as part of austerity measures imposed in a shake up of the royal finances, it has emerged. Breaks your heart, but read the story on Telegraph.com.
12:45
Actor Aamir Khan and his wife Kiran Rao have been blessed with a baby boy.The baby was born through IVF to a surrogate mother on December 1 at a private clinic in Mumbai, says a Hindustan Times report. Due to medical complications, we were advised to go for IVF-Surrogacy. We are absolutely...
12:40
In other news: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is holding talks with the state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation to jointly develop a new type of nuclear reactor. Gates has been talking with CNNC since 2009 about developing a travelling-wave reactor, reports the South China Morning...
12:36
And another important development:The Sports Ministry today has asked the Indian Olympic Association to immediately raise the Dow Chemicals' Olympics sponsorship issue with the International Olympics Committee, says a Zee News report.In a letter addressed to the IOA, the ministry said, Strong...
12:32
And on that Barkha Dutt tweets: So sources say Pranab offers the FDI holdback to BJP leader @SushmaSwaraj this morning. Logjam in parliament likely to be broken.
12:31
Just in: The Union Cabinet is to meet on Wednesday, 6 pm, to discuss issues relating to urban development and external affairs. Sources also say that the cabinet will take a final decision on FDI in retail then, but it is not on the agenda.
12:26
India plans to fly 20,000 to 30,000 Afghan troops to training bases in India over the next three years and is expanding its presence in Afghanistan as US troops leave. The US is reportedly eager for more countries to take on part of the US$12 billion training bill for the Afghan security forces,...
12:16
Reverse trend: America's recent grads, now sought after in India.On the New York Times, India blogs. Read
12:14
And on the other side of the spectrum: Kiran Bedi tweets: Are rigidity & firmness not 2 sides of d same coin? Does It not depend on which side one looks at. Is Anna being rigid or firm? Anna knows.
12:13
Amitabh Bachchan tweets: Dhanush! Of 'why this Kolaveri di' fame and star in his own right, visits the house to meet up. Simplicity in his demeanor!
12:11
On the Pakistani paper, Friday Times: Under what circumstances do NATO forces enter Pakistan? Read
12:08
On Firstpost.com: Pakistan shows how to lose friends and alienate people. Read
12:07
Iranian media reported on Sunday that their country's military had shot down a US reconnaissance drone in eastern Iran, but a US official said there was no indication the aircraft had been shot down. Read more on Reuters.
12:01
However, the US has already played down the boycott by Pakistan. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who arrived in Bonn for the international talks today aimed at charting a course for Afghanistan after Nato combat troops withdraw, will meet with President Hamid Karzai and other Afghan...
11:56
Even as that BBC report announced Pak would boycott the Bonn conference, a report on the Pakistani paper Dawn, says diplomatic circles in Washington are expecting a low level participation from Pakistan in the conference on Afghanistan.Sources claimed that Pakistan might attend the talks on a...
11:54
A major international conference on Afghanistan's future is due to open in the German city of Bonn today. It comes 10 years after a similar gathering held in the city, weeks after the Taliban fell from power. Organisers want to bolster long-term international engagement with Afghanistan and...
11:51
In world news: Indonesia closed a domestic airport in eastern part of the country today after a volcano spewed ash 2,000 metres into the air, an official said.Mount Gamalama, which forms the entire island of Ternate in North Maluku province, erupted late yesterday and forced an airport in Ternate...
11:35
Meanwhile, Union MoS for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Shukla has said that the government will not dilute the anti-corruption Lokpal Bill. We are waiting for the Parliament's Standing Committee to draft the Bill. It is a commitment of the government that the Prime Minister has also assured....
11:29
More on Beant Singh in a bit, but first this.Our sources tell us that all Congress MPs have been issued a three-line whip to be present in Parliament on Wednesday and Thursday. As we said earlier, there is no session of Parliament today or tomorrow. Pranab Mukherjee will chair a Congress...
11:18
The CBI has approached the Supreme Court seeking death sentence for former Punjab CM Beant Singh's killer Jagtar Singh Hawara.It may be recollected that the Punjab and Haryana high court in October last year, had commuted the death sentence of Hawara, the mastermind in the Beant Singh...
11:14
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley has said that differences within the United Progressive Alliance are responsible for nil business being transacted in the Parliament. The main reason behind the logjam in the functioning of the Parliament is due to the divide within the UPA and the Congress...
11:10
In Jharkhand, Maoists blew up a railway track in Dhanbad rail division, disrupting train services in the state as the two-day nationwide bandh called by the banned CPI (Maoist) entered the second day today.The Maoists exploded IEDs on the tracks between Nishitpur and Matari railway stations late...
11:08
In courts today:Custody of journalist Jigna Vora ends today. She has been accused of conspiracy in the murder of senior crime reporter J Dey. She will appear before the court today.
11:06
In New Delhi, Parliament will now convene on Wednesday, which means our MPs have a four-day weekend. And that, after ensuring both houses were adjourned every day ever since Parliament convened for the winter session on December 21.
11:04
India woke up on Sunday morning with Dev Anand's death. In some he touched everyone's life -- his films, his music, his zest for life, his spirit. In the rediff.com office in Mumbai, a colleague's ringtone -- Main zindagi ka saath nibhatha chala gaya -- isn't just a nice tune; it's become a...
10:54
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has termed as regrettable Pakistan's decision to boycott the Bonn conference on Afghanistan and said that its participationwas required as the country has a role to play in its war-torn neighbour's peace and stability. Ban is in the German city for the international...
10:50
Show spine while dealing with China: Omar Abdullah (The Times of India)Expressing concern over China's involvement in J&K, chief minister Omar Abdullah has said India should show some spine while dealing with that country. Read Global crisis, graft made Prime Minister to push for retail...
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