18:12
Ratan Tata will retire by the end of next calendar year as he will turn 75 in December 2012. A five member panel appointed by the conglomerate to identify the successor has finalised the name.
18:09
Finally, a name has been announced. Cyrus Pallonji Mistry will succeed Ratan Tata at the helm of Tata Sons. He's been appointed Deputy Chairman and will work with Tata for one year before taking over, says a NDTV report. Mistry was a director of Tata Sons and Tata Elxsi (India) and is the...
18:06
Just in: Shapoorji Pallonji Group MD Cyrus P Mistry to succeed Ratan Tata as Tata Sons Chairman in 2012. Details awaited.
18:05
I first met Husain Haqqani in 2007 when I served on the Pakistan Desk at the Department of State. Read Sharmila N Chaudhary's piece on Foreign Policy magazine.
17:53
Afghanistan deserves to chart its future without cross-border meddling. Read the op-ed piece on the New York Times.
17:49
On the Daily Beast: An FBI mole speaks for the first time about life in the seedy world of right-wing terror. Read
17:46
As great sporting 'Blimey!' moments go, the shattering of the long-jump world record in 1968 still stands at the pinnacle. On the Guardian
17:42
Here's who's at the Goa film fest. SHAH RUKH KHAN: At the Goa film festival...wearing a suit in goa...kinda takes away the spirit of the place...feel like a sore thumb... Madhuri Dixit-Nene: Treating myself and family to Goan curry. Delicious!! Goa rocks!...
17:39
On the Guardian, prize-winning reports on youth groups raise awareness about illegal marriages... Read
17:30
Stunning Catherine Zeta Jones looks to have made quite an impression on her old man's old man as she hugs dad-in-law Kirk Douglas at a charity gala. See the pic on the sun.co.uk
17:25
Yoga guru Ramdev today threatened to launch a nationwide agitation against UPA, starting from five poll-bound states, if it did not take decisive steps tobring the Jan Lokpal Bill and repatriate black money stashed abroad in the winter session of Parliament.In a letter shot off to Prime Minister...
17:12
On Firstpost.com: Irresponsible political class tells India to go to hell. Read
17:03
Team Anna member Kiran Bedi today tweeted what was stopping the ruling Congress from declaring its resolve to create an effective Lokpal through a special session of Parliament or an ordinance in case Parliament by any chance is stalled. Bedi's latest tweet is not in sync with Anna Hazare's...
16:59
The Governor of Karnataka, H R Bharadwaj sprung a surprise today when he said that he would immediately sign the papers if the government proposed the name of Justice Santhosh Hegde for the post of Lokayukta. Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa says that speaking at a function today at Bangalore, the...
16:30
Difficult to believe, but the company synonymous with travel and package holidays -- Thomas Cook -- is fighting for life after warning it needs more cash to survive. Read the report on the sun.co.uk
16:23
Behind bars for more than two decades in the US and France, former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega may soon be headed home likely to another prison cell. A Paris appeals court rules today whether to grant an extradition request from Panama so the elderly ex-military strongman can...
16:20
The Pakistani Taliban have declared a cease-fire in South Waziristan, one of the seven semi-autonomous tribal areas in northwest Pakistan, three Taliban commanders told CNN Tuesday. Read
16:18
Two persons were injured today when some militants made an abortive bid to target an army convoy by hurling a grenade in Pattan area of north Kashmir'sBaramulla district, officials said.
16:05
On bbc.co.uk: For India's founders, political freedom was their great prize. Yet decades on, what that freedom has delivered measures up poorly for many. Read
15:59
Husain Haqqani tweets: Congratulations, best wishes and prayers for Sherry Rehman for her new assignment. Pakistan Zindabad. Rehman replaced Haqqani as Pakistan's envoy to the US after he was forced to quit over the memogate scandal.
15:57
A reporter who was asked by China's ambassador in New Delhi a few weeks ago to shut up about cartographic aggression on India by commercial entities in Beijing can now have the proverbial last laugh. Read the report on the Telegraph, Calcutta.
15:55
The Indian government intends to issue one-year multiple entry visas to businessmen under a proposed pact that is part of measures to boost trade withPakistan, High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal said today.
15:49
Prices of essentials commodities in Manipur continued to soar as the economic blockade on the state's two vital national highways entered the 94th daytoday. As supplies have dwindled due to the blockade, prices of all essential items have skyrocketed, market reports said. Petrol was...
15:40
See the slideshow: Vintage photographs of airplane travel and celebrities. On the Daily Beast.
15:38
Also on the Daily Beast: The US loses a key friend in the war on terror as a political controversy in Pakistan forces its diplomat to Washington to resign. Husain Haqqani's departure is a new blow to U.S.-Pakistan relations. Read(The story was posted before Sherry Rehman became the new envoy)
15:27
Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai on security dimensions of India's foreign policy. Read
15:22
Just in: 2G accused Kanimozhi, A Raja, Sharad Kumar and Karim Morani move the SC for an early bail hearing. This comes after the Supreme Court granted bail today to five corporates in the case. See our 10:51 am report.
15:17
The rumor mill on Tuesday focused on the social-networking company's attempts to create a phone -- but would a device by Facebook even be worth buying? Read the Daily Beast story.
15:13
In other news: Investments into India's power sector are slowing despite a chronic electricity shortage that threatens GDP growth, executives told the Reuters India Investment Summit, due to coal shortages, land hassles and an inability by distribution companies to raise tariffs. Read the...
15:11
More on Ms Rehman on the Pakistani newspaper Jang in 2009. Read
14:55
Sherry Rehman on the Blasphemy law. Read
14:54
Maharashtra Government has proposed stringent punishments under the Indian Penal Code in cases related to crime against women and the proposalto this effect is expected to be tabled in the cabinet soon.The state government had set up an expert committee, headed by justice Chandrashekhar...
14:45
Amitabh Bachchan tweets: Just heard #Kolaveri after much talk on it ... its so original and catchy ..congrats Dhanush and Aishwarya(Rajni's daughter) .. love Watch the video on rediff.com
14:36
On Twitter: Good move! Spotted in parliament actor emraan hashmi. He is promoting his film 'dirty picture'.
14:33
Just in: The Delhi High Court stays the shifting of the 2G trial to Tihar jail. Yesterday, Special Judge O P Saini hearing the 2G case trial said that the hearing will be shifted to Tihar Jail. All 2G case accused, including former Telecom Minister A Raja and DMK MP Kanimozhi have opposed the...
14:26
Ramesh Srivats tweets (And no it's not on the trending Sherry Rehman): Anna Hazare walks into a bar. And everyone runs out.
14:22
Incidentally, Sherry Rehman is trending on Twitter.
14:20
Read: Sherry Rehman's piece in the latest Newsweek: Just because it's not being broadcast doesn't mean all is well in Pakistan's flood-hit areas.
14:16
For a sense of Sherry Rehman, check out the report her institute put out on AfPak in August this year. On the Wall Street Journal
14:14
On Twitter: So Sherry Rehman will report to Hina Khar. Hmmm.
14:08
Also on Firstpost.com: The rupee's sharp slide in recent months -- by as much as 16 percent against the US dollar since July -- has given rise to a lot of anxiety about how long the depreciation will continue, and the effect it will have on inflation. Read
14:07
On Firstpost.com: David Coleman Headley is the subject of a Frontline documentary A Perfect Terrorist by ProPublica reporter Sebastian Rotella. The new documentary identifies cases in which relatives or associates warned the FBI prior to the Mumbai attacks that Headley was...
14:04
On the Wall Street Journal: What Pak PM Asif Ali Zardari called Sherry Rehman in 2009. Read
13:57
Another profile of the new Pakistan envoy and PPP politician Sherry Rehman on the Dawn. Read
13:55
A Hindu right-wing organisation in Goa has taken objection to a film section at the International Film Festival of India, which pays tributes to the painter, MF Husain. Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, which had sued the painter for his controversial paintings on Hindu Gods and Goddesses, has urged...
13:47
Details of the Sherry Rehman story on the International News. Moving quickly to fill the vacant ambassador post in Washington left by the resignation of Husain Haqqani, Pakistan unexpectedly appointed a former information minister and outspoken human rights campaigner as its new...
13:42
Details of the train derailment at Pulwama in Kashmir. Rediff.com's Mukhtar Ahmad files this report from Srinagar.In a first train mishap in the Kashmir Valley, at least 20 passengers were injured when the Qazigund to Srinagar train derailed at Sadhora village in south Kashmir's Anantnag...
13:33
Just in: Former minister Sherry Rehman has been named as the new Pakistan ambassador to the US after Husain Haqqani resigned yesterday. For an insight into Rehman, read the Guardian piece: Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's defiant prisoner of intolerance, vows to stay put
13:10
Detals of Rahul Gandhi's speech on the second day of his rally in UP: Targeting UP Chief Minister Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, Rahul Gandhi today said they have forgotten the people after becoming big leaders and they don't feel for them. They (Mayawati and...
13:05
Conflicting accounts emerged today of a possible nascent peace process between Pakistani authorities and the Taliban, with a militant spokesmanconfirming preliminary peace talks while denying the announcement of a ceasefire. Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan led...
13:03
Just in: Train derails in Pulwama district of Kashmir. Several injured, says police.
13:02
Another read: Most caffeine addicts would tell you that coffee sharpens the mind. It turns out that in rodents, a single dose of caffeine does indeed strengthen brain cell connections in an underappreciated part of the brain, scientists report online November 20 in Nature Neuroscience. See
12:49
Remember that brief but colorful marriage to Billy Bob Thornton? The matching vials of their blood? Today, after six children and a loving, stable relationship withBrad Pitt, Angelina Jolie has come a long way from her days as a Hollywood wild child. On People magazine.
12:34
Libya's National Transitional Council has named a new cabinet in which no Islamists have been included. According to The Independent, the cabinet appears to have been chosen with an impetus on regional representation rather than experience. All of Libya is represented, Prime Minister Abdurrahim...
12:32
On Forbes.com: How Israeli spies were betrayed by their cell phones. Read
12:19
Just in: India and the United Arab Emirates sign agreements on security cooperation and transfer of sentenced persons.
12:18
In the Rajya Sabha, BJP members were on their feet demanding a discussion on black money. They also wanted suspension of Question Hour to discuss price rise. CPI-M members trooped into the Well, ignoring appeals of the Chair, demanding a discussion on price rise under a rule which entails...
12:17
Amid uproar, the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned, first, till noon within minutes after they met for the day. And finally till tomorrow, just now.Trouble broke out in the Lok Sabha soon after it mourned the death of the seven passengers in Doon Express train accident, with even...
12:12
Read on rediff.com: Will Pranab-Gadkari luncheon help save winter session?
12:05
And Rajya Sabha is adjourned for the day as well.
12:04
Parliament sessions resume after adjournment. Up ahead, if Parliment is not adjourned again, is the price rise debate. OK, LS has just been adjourned over Opposition protests on Telangana and price rise.
12:01
The International Criminal Court has said that Libya can put Muammar Gaddafis son and one-time heir apparent Saif al-Islam on trial at home, provided that international standards are met. ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo also stressed that the Hague courts judges must be involved in the...
11:58
Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir and Ambassador to the European Union Jalil Abbas Jilani are among possible contenders to replace HusainHaqqani, who resigned yesterday as the country's envoy to the US because of the Memogate controversy. Even before Prime Minister Yousuf Raza...
11:52
Speech so far is much the same of what he said yesterday. He says the Centre is giving all possible help to UP but the funds are not reaching the needy. The CBI will probe the misuse of funds. He says BSP leaders pocketing MNREGA funds.
11:48
Today is Day 2 of Rahul Gandhi's UP yatra. The Congress general secretary is holding a rally at Bahraich.
11:43
More on the Egypt turmoil. Egypt's military-led government yesterday denied using violence against protesters and said the resignation of the country's Cabinet has been accepted, although members will remain until a new government is formed. Read on cnn.com.
11:40
On Twitter: Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya ought to appeal to Amitabh Bachchan for more privacy. Rather than the media. Here's why: See the press conference by Amitabh and Abhishek yesterday.
11:38
FYI: The bail plea of Kanimozhi and A Raja is due to come up for hearing before the Delhi High Court on December 1.
11:33
Custom officials in the Pakistani city of Karachi have released 52 falcons that they say were unlawfully transported into the country. Officials say the falcons were brought from Qatar by a member of its royal family without proper documentation. They say another 22 birds have been handed back to...
11:30
More countries deployed anti-personnel mines last year than in any year since 2004, an international survey of landmines has found. The Landmine Monitor report says use of the weapons increased despite record areas of land being cleared of them. Read the bbc report.
11:28
In world news: Thousands of Egyptians have continued to occupy Cairo's Tahrir Square despite an offer from the military for a speedier handover to civilian rule. After four days of violent clashes, Field Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi said presidential elections would be held by July 2012. On...
11:21
R Rajagopalan: At 2 pm today the Supreme Court to take up a stay of CBI probe of TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu.
11:16
R Rajagopalan tweets: Governor of Uttar Pradesh BL Joshi is scheduled to meet Union Ministers over the division of the state.
11:11
Parliament has been adjourned till noon. The BJP moved the adjournment motion in Lok Sabha and demanded suspension of the Question Hour in Rajya Sabha on the blackmoney issue. BJP to continue boycott of Home Minister P Chidambaram in Parliament, says Gopinath Munde.
11:05
A Raja's lawyer says that other accused should also get bail.
10:59
The second day of the winter session of Parliament should begin any minute now. Here's the schedule:Lok Sabha1. Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Amendment Bill, 20112. Damodar Valley Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2011 3. Discussion on inflation situationRajya Sabha1. The...
10:55
The five men have got bail after seven months in Tihar jail. They were charged with criminal conspiracy and cheating. Remember, this is the first bail granted by the court in the 2G case. Whether there will be similar relief for Kanimozhi and A Raja soon, has to be seen.
10:51
The five who were granted bail by the Supreme Court are: Unitech's Sanjay Chandra,Swan Telecom's Vinod Goenka Reliance ADAG executives Gautam Doshi, Hari Nair and Surendra Pipara.This is the first verdict on bail petitions by the apex court after the trial court framed...
10:45
This is the first time that anyone has got bail in the 2G case.
10:38
The order on the bail plea of of five corporate honchos, who are in jail for over seven months for their alleged involvement in 2G spectrum allocation scam, has been delivered by the Supreme Court today. The bench, which also includes justice GS Singhvi, had reserved its verdict November One on...
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