17:53
Here's another photograph of slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden that has emerged on the web. Though the veracity of the photograph is yet to be ascertained, many believe that this could be the real thing. Do you think so?
17:14
Just in: The Kerala government has announced Rs 5 crore compensation for Endosulfan victims.Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan has been spearheading the agitation for countrywide ban on the manufacture, supply and use of the insecticide.Endosulfan is an off-patent organochlorine insecticide...
16:24
An anonymous call threatening to kill Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Prime Minister A B Vajpayee have prompted security agencies to conduct searches in the National Capital Region to identify the caller.The call made from a mobile phone was received at the Delhi Police Control Room on...
16:21
Here's putting the record straight. Army chief General V K Singh has said that the Indian armed forces are 'competent' to carry out an operation similar to the one conducted by the United States in Pakistan against Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.I would like to say only this that if such a chance...
16:18
Even as Air India's domestic operations remained crippled today with the pilots continuing their strike for the eighth day, informal efforts are reportedly on to initiate talks with the agitators.The pilots, however, said they were yet to get any formal intimation about the talks, though Air...
16:16
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Osama Bin Laden biographer Steve Coll writes in the New Yorker: On where he was found: It stretches credulity to think that a mansion of that scale could have been built and occupied by bin Laden for six years without its coming to the attention of...
15:35
For Mohammed Qasim, it was a shock to hear that he lived barely three yards away from world's most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden. All along, he found his neighbours -- identified by him as the Khans -- to be polite and a cut above the rest.Read more here...
15:24
Just in: Suresh Kalmadi has been sent to Tihar Jail for 14 daysThe former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman and congress MP, was be produced in the Patiala House court in New Delhi on Wednesday.According to the CBI, Kalmadi was arrested for buying TSR (timing scoring and result)...
15:18
The special Central Bureau of Investigation court at Patiala House, Delhi, today handed out 14-day judicial custody to Sacked Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organizing Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi. His earlier, 8-day judicial custody ends today. The CBI arrested Kalmadi on April 25 for fraud and...
15:12
Just in: Suresh Kalmadi has been sent to Tihar Jail for 14 daysThe former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman and congress MP, was be produced in the Patiala House court in New Delhi on Wednesday.According to the CBI, Kalmadi was arrested for buying TSR (timing scoring and result)...
15:12
The man all of India loves to hate has been given 14 days judicial custody by the special CBI court today. More details in a bit.
15:09
Any remote chance that Andy Flower would replace Gary Kirsten as the India coach after an informal approach was removed last week when Duncan Fletcher was appointed to that job, having been tapped up midway through the World Cup. In truth, Flower did not need to be courted by India or any other...
15:07
Guess who's upset with US President Barack Obama's Operation Geronimo.As the US celebrated the killing of Osama bin Laden, many American Indians have objected to use of 'Geronimo', an Apache leader in the 19th century, as the codename for mission to capture or kill the Al Qaeda leader.As Bin...
14:51
The American commandos who attacked Osama bin Laden's compound were operating under rules of engagement that all but assured the Al Qaeda leader would be killed, US officials have acknowledged, backing away from an initial account that bin Laden was armed and used a woman as a shield, the Los...
14:39
Pakistani authorities on Wednesday arrested the contractor who allegedly built the million-dollar complex where the Al Qaeda's Osama bin Laden was shot dead during a raid by US special forces in Abbottabad. Gul Muhammad, who was also known as Gul Madah or Mithu Khan, was picked up from his...
14:35
Can Pakistan give up its involvement with, and encouragement of, terrorists? The question is exercising the world, but none more than the United States, especially after the killing of Osama bin Laden. And, the popular view is that India is central in Pakistan's scheme of things, even if we wish...
14:24
Pakistani authorities has arrested the contractor who allegedly built the million dollar complex where Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was shot dead during a raid by US special forces in Abbottabad.Gul Muhammad, who was also known as Gul Madah or Mithu Khan, was picked up from his residence near...
14:19
Pakistani authorities has arrested the contractor who allegedly built the million dollar complex where Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was shot dead during a raid by US special forces in Abbottabad.Gul Muhammad, who was also known as Gul Madah or Mithu Khan, was picked up from his residence near...
14:08
A Supreme Court bench has referred to Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia the bail plea of 2008 Bangalore blast accused Abdul Naseer Madani following differences between two judges on grant of bail to him.The bench of justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Misra said it was referring the matter...
13:52
A relative and panchayat leader of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu's Assembly constituency has identified his body, according to Union Minister for Development of North Eastern region B K Handique.He told media persons that the panchayat leader Thupten has identified the body of...
13:09
The president of the California-based Tri-Valley University, Susan Xiao-Ping Su, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on the allegations of visa fraud and money laundering that affected nearly 1,500 Indian students.Su, 41, was taken into custody on Monday morning at her Pleasanton,...
13:05
If sources are to be believed, the Centre plans to hike diesel prices by up to Rs 3 a litre soon after the assembly elections in five states are over next week, while an equivalent steep increase in petrol rates is also on card.An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by Finance Minister...
12:38
Once the dust settles over Osama's killing, Will the United States and Pakistan remain friends? At least signs from the White House seem to indicate the possibility of the friendship continuing. Quite obviously, given the endgame in Afghanistan and the impending draw down of US troops in July, as...
12:30
Just in: The Supreme Court has reserved its order on setting up a Special Investigation Team to probe cases relating to black money stashed away in foreign banks
12:13
Pakistan has described as disquieting CIA chief Leon Panetta's revelation that no intelligence about the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden was shared with Islamabad for fear that the operation would bejeopardised. Most of these things that have happened in terms of global anti-terror, Pakistan...
11:52
Here's the latest on Dorjee Khandu: Although an official confirmation about Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu is awaited, Home Minister P Chidambaram told newsmen in New Delhi that the 'information about Khandu was not encouraging. He said this after the wreckage of the...
11:39
It's been eight days since the Air India pilots struck work, thousands of passengers have been inconvenienced since then, the courts have been seized of the matter and issuing strictures against them, but the men who fly the magnificent machines simply refuse to retract. Eight days on, the...
11:26
A goods train rammed into the Koraput-Rourkela Inter City Express in Bolangir district, Orissa, early today, injuring at least 26 passengers. The goods train rolled into the parking bay where trains are held, where it rammed into the Inter City Express. No casualties have been reported. Nor has...
11:16
The body of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, whose Pawan Hans helicopter flight went missing on Saturday morning, has been found, sources said. The wreckage of the helicopter has been found in Lobthang. The chief minister was headed to Itanagar from Tawang when the copter lost...
11:12
He's not yet fully a man, so 17-year-old Justin Bieber shouldn't take it amiss. Recently, the teen pop sensation was on a Qantas flight from Sydney to Melbourne when he decided to walk around while the plane was still taxiing. Promptly, he was pulled up by an air-hostess who scolded Bieber for...
11:06
Sorry to keep reverting to news about Osama, but you can't but agree that it's the biggest news story of the year -- at least so far. So bear with us. Here's some interesting sidelight: US President Barack Obama's speech late Sunday night announcing world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin...
11:04
Rediff India Abroad's man in Washington, DC, the redoubtableAziz Haniffa, writes that Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta, immediately after he provided a classified briefing to the House leadership in the US Congress on the covert mission inside Pakistan that killed Al Qaeda's...
10:59
For all those fretting that there's been no focus on the search for the missing Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, thanks to Osama hogging on the newsprint and airtime and html links, here's some news: The Indian Air Force has pressed six helicopters to hunt for the missing CM. Two...
10:49
Hello good morning and welcome to another edition of Live! News As It Happens. He has been dead for a little more than 2 days, but terrorist Osama bin Laden's death has, far from making things better for the nation that hosted him, Pakistan, only made things difficult. For starters, the White...
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