18:23
It's been confirmed now. Top Maoist leader Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji has been killed in a gunbattle by security forces in the Kushboni forest in the Junglemahal area of West Bengal. Local TV channels say a body with a AK-47 has been found in the forest. Three other Maoist leaders have also been...
18:13
Days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held talks with his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao, the state-run media here today said India was jealous of China's growing influence in Asia and charged it with instigatingsmall neighbours for a gang fight against this country. India jitters at the...
18:11
On the Weekly Standard: As a reader who has compulsively consumed the ever-expanding body of Beatles literature for 40 years, I have trouble picking out a favorite anecdote or most memorable quote.Is it John's If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one'? Or the note Paul sent John one day in...
18:06
Ratan Tata tweets: I look forward to my retirement while I am still active and pursue many interests that I enjoy but have not had time to undertake.
18:05
Published on November 21, the comprehensive report on torture in India spanning torture in police custody, custodial deaths by army, torture of women and children, UN reports and scrutiny...Read it if you can stomach it.
17:59
Shankkar Aiyar tweets: On this day in 1859 Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, by Charles Darwin, is published in England.
17:42
Read on rediff.com: Protests in Maha; NCP, CM appeal for calm.
17:37
Anna Hazare today tied himself in knots with his reaction to the attack onSharad Pawar first appearing to respond with contempt and later condemning it.He got slapped! Only one slap? he said to a group of journalists who broke out in laughter at his reaction. But later coming out of the...
17:35
Interestingly, one of the sections Harvinder Singh was charged with is: 309 of the IPC, which is attempt to commit suicide.
17:27
Rediff.com's Onkar Singh reports that Harvinder Singh, the man who assaulted Sharad Pawar has been arrested and booked under four sections of the IPC. He was quizzed by the IB and the Delhi police and his medical records are being probed.
17:09
Reports of incidents of stone-pelting in suburban Mumbai in Sion and Chembur as well.
17:07
Anna Hazare's reaction when Sharad Pawar was slapped. A TV journalist asked him: Sharad Pawar was slapped today in Delhi. Your reaction.Anna Hazare: Sharad Pawar slapped? Only once?
17:00
More condemnation for the attack on Sharad Pawar.Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan: Such incidents expose lapses in security of senior leaders and Ministers. It has come to light that the same person had attacked former Union Minister Sukhram a few days ago. The fact that such...
16:51
A slew of stories from basically, here, there and everywhere... How one Thai budget carrier keeps its flight attendants young and hot. A cnn.com read Acclaimed cartoonists, RK Laxman and Bal Thackeray, to meet in Pune. A DNA read A charismatic envoy's sudden downfall...
16:41
Fitch Ratings has downgraded Portugal's debt to junk status from BBB minus. Fitch is one of three key ratings agencies whose credit ratings help investors determine the default risk on issued debt. Fitch cut Portugal's long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings by three notches...
16:36
Here is the a twitpic of alleged riots in Baner, Pune. All that while the NCP appeals for calm.
16:34
Early reports say NCP workers have been shutting down shops, blocking roads in Mumbai in protest over the assault on Sharad Pawar.Ashish Shakya: At Lucky signal in Bandra. Traffucked due to NCP ***** ** blocking the road on account of having small *****. Sucheta Dalal: In...
16:12
The 'Indian Express' duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi will split again at the end of this season and would not compete together in the season-openingChennai Open early next year, official sources said here today.
16:07
Or is it just a way of calming passengers? Read the report on Slate.com
16:06
On Twitter: NCP hullabaloo underway in parts of Mulund and Worli too. Keep your eyes peeled folks. Pawar attacks now sparking off protests and raasta rokos in Solapur & Nashik as well.
15:58
Sushil Kumar, the only contestant to win the Rs 5 crore jackpot on Kaun Banega Crorepati, this season, has turned down an offer to appear in Bigg Boss 5.Rediff.com's MI Khan reports. I was approached by a top executive, involved in producing Bigg Boss and he offered me a place in the reality...
15:29
Here's the video of the attack on rediff.com
15:28
Guess who met the PM today? None other than Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited, Mukesh Ambani. Ambani's meeting comes in the backdrop of the oil ministry's likely decision to disallow some of the expenditure made on its flagging KG-D6 gas fields. It was not...
15:24
In response to Manu Joseph's piece for the New York Times, economist Ajit Ranade wants to know: Quarter of India's industrial output produced in Mumbai? Those factories must be invisible :)
15:22
Moving on from Mr Pawar, on the bbc.co.uk: An Indian chief minister has called for a boycott of the London 2012 Olympics if the sponsorship of the Dow Chemical company continues. Shivraj Singh Chauhan made the call in a letter to Sports Minister Ajay Maken. More
15:21
V Narayanaswamy, MoS, PMO says the attack on Sharad Pawar is to be condemned and anyone who takes the law in their own hands is to be punished. Supriya Sule, MP, NCP, and Sharad Pawar's daughter says: I condemn the act, but urge party memebers not to react to the incident, forgive and...
15:05
CBI today filed its second status report in the nurse Bhanwari Devi disappearance case, claiming it had made some significant developments in the case in which sacked Rajasthan Minister Mahipal Maderna is a key suspect.During the hearing on the habeas corpus petition filed by the husband of...
14:56
On our 12:36 pm post, we told you that Jimi Hendrix was voted greatest guitar player of all time. Here's a related story: Freddie Mercury died 20 years ago this day, but his star has only burned brighter in the two decades since, with Queen and their larger-than-life frontman as popular as...
14:49
Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt in Delhi, adds that soon after Sharad Pawar was slapped, the Prime Minister called him up and condemned the incident.
14:45
Back to news: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today briefed his council of ministers on the issue of revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act. Cabinet meeting (has taken place) just now.. Briefed my colleagues about my discussions in Delhi # (on) AFSPA, he tweeted. According...
14:42
And more tweets: Kiran Kumar S: Bangarappa would be anxious now. I too have twisted jaw likeSharad Pawar. Does Harvinder have a brother? :) Vasu Jain One slap can make Sharad Pawar trending.... a feat for him he would not have achieved...
14:39
And, yes, Sharad Pawar is trending on Twitter. Samplers... Shubhashish: Harwinder Singh slaps Sharad Pawar. The minister takes out Rajnigandha, puts it in his mouth and says, Ek se mera kya hoga? Shirish Kunder: SlapMan reveals he...
14:33
BJP leader Yashwant Sinha's warning rings true. On Tuesday, Sinha warned that high prices of food could even lead to violence, and he would not be surprised if this were to happen. Ravi Shankar Prasad, spokesperson BJP, says the party condemns the incident, but the UPA should take...
14:28
Sharad Pawar reacts to that assault saying it is not a security breach. He says he thought person who slapped him was a journalist.Harvinder Singh, the man who slapped him, says it is an answer to corrupt politicians, inflation. Former UP CM Mulayam Singh says he condemns the act and the attacker...
14:18
While Sharad Pawar nurses his cheek, the Lok Sabha has been adjourned till tomorrow after uproar by the Congress and TRS over the Telangana statehood issue.
14:12
The man who assaulted Pawar says the minister was responsible for price rise of essential commodities.
14:08
Harvinder Singh is apparently the same person who slapped former telecom minister Sukhram in court on November 19. 'Here's what the NDTV report says: Former Telecom Minister Sukhram was today slapped and kicked by a man inside the premises of a Delhi court just moments after he was sentenced...
14:02
Just in: In yet another instance of people's growing anger towards politicians, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar was today assaulted by a youth. As per the report on Zee News, the youth attacked the Nationalist Congress Party chief at the office of New Delhi Municipal Corporation in...
13:59
Richard Branson responded to Aditya Chakrabortty's opinion piece: Is Branson all he's cracked up to be? The billionaire Virgin boss is no radical, he's no entrepreneur, he's just a plain old-fashioned carpetbagger. Read
13:57
On the Guardian, Richard Branson responds to a story that claims Virgin's success depends on state help. Read
13:50
On that story, read this: 'It's not our Maddie': McCanns' hopes dashed after sighting in India.
13:47
McCanns deliver damning two-hour testimony where couple describe the ordeal they suffered at hands of media and make impassioned plea for press regulation. Read the story on the Guardian.
13:41
Facebook is steamrolling forward. It now boasts 800 million active users. The company is reportedly preparting for an initial public offering. It's laying plans to sell a Facebook phone, strengthening its presence on the mobile web. But Facebook's plans may be hampered by a new backlash...
13:35
Somewhere underneath the bizarre revelations and the controversy surrounding Michael Jackson's death, the human tragedy at the heart of this international news story has been all but lost. But that changes the instant you set eyes on some of the items set to go under the hammer next month as...
13:23
Efforts are on to convince West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to support the FDI in multi-brand retail which is comingup for consideration of the Union Cabinet this evening. Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma has spoken to Banerjee and if...
13:14
This is what Tata Steel MD JJ Irani says on Cyrus Mistry: He is very open, he is correct, he is not biased. He is also fair and objective in his decisions. The plus point is he keeps corporate interests first.Read more on CNN IBN
13:10
And some more info on Cyrus Mistry:He will be the first Tata Sons Chairman in 74 years with children (he has two sons who will be 14 and 16 next December) Neither Jeh, who took over in 1938, and Ratan, who took over in 1991, had children.
12:57
This is a story carried in the Outlook magazine in 2000: Interior designer Rohiqa Mistry and her builder husband, Cyrus, make the perfect foodie couple. In her words, I love to eat out and he loves to eat. For the Mumbai-based food-loving duo, a dull week means eating out once. By that standard,...
12:49
With the world crying out for leadership, America has a weak President obsessed by re-election. But my bet is Obama will scrape back in because he's opposed by buffoons and grotesques. The chilling alternative: one of the lunatics could win. Read more on the Daily Mail.
12:41
Since ProPublica released it's article titled, FBI Was Warned Years in Advance of Mumbai Attacker's Terror Ties, by Sebastian Rotella, written about Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley an accused terrorist, just two days ago, there has been a world-wide media frenzy. Read...
12:36
He topped a poll for Rolling Stone magazine which said he had 'exploded our idea of what rock music could be'. British guitarists took the next four places, with 'Slowhand' Eric Clapton the runner-up. Read the story on the Daily Mail.
12:34
On Rediff.com: 'By Anna's logic, you will have to flog half of Kerala'. Read
12:29
On Twitter: Tavleen Singh: The Supreme Court has reminded judges that they cannot behave like a lynch mob and deny people bail because the mob wants it. Yesterday, the SC granted bail to all five corporates accused in the 2G scam, even as Kanimozhi, Sharad Kumar and Karim...
12:24
Lakshmi Mittal, the NRI steel tycoon with a fortune estimated at 15.5 billion pounds, is the most powerful Asian in Britain, according to a new list of eminentAsians in the country. Mittal, 61, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world's leading integrated steel...
12:19
Food inflation fell sharply to single digit at 9.01 per cent for the week ended November 12, even as prices of most agricultural items, barring potatoes,onions and wheat, continued to rise, on an annual basis.
12:17
Another piece from the Dawn: While we may never know who indeed authored the ever so memorable memo, which has cost former ambassador Husain Haqqani his day job, we do know that President Asif Zardari has been a prolific writer who has contributed several op-ed pieces to fine publications,...
12:16
The Husain Haqqani memogate story refuses to die out. Read this opinion piece on the Dawn on how even as Pakistanis approve of the Gilani's decision to launch a thorough probe into the affair of the Mansoor Ijaz memorandum and to relieve Husain Haqqani of his post of ambassador, sharp...
12:13
In some virtual worlds, the thrill is gone. Zynga and other social game developers search for the next FarmVille-scale hit. Read the Businessweek story.
12:10
Both houses of Parliament adjourned for the second time today over price rise. Will reconvene at 2 pm.
12:09
Yesterday, the government named member of parliament and rights activist Shehrbano (Sherry) Rehman as ambassador to the US, a day after Husain Haqqani had been asked to resign over allegations that he had sought Washington's help against a possible military takeover. On the Dawn, an opinion piece...
12:04
In other news, George Michael has been taken to hospital with pneumonia. Michael was said to be receiving treatment in Vienna where he was due to perform as part of his Symphonica tour on Monday. The show was cancelled two hours before it was expected to start, says a Telegraph report.
12:02
Both houses of Parliament have resumed after an hour of adjournment, but uproar continues.
11:59
Just in: The Delhi high court will hear DMK MP Kanimozhi's bail application tomorrow.
11:55
Shobhaa De tweets: Ratan T's surprise nomination,a master stroke! Cyrus Mistry as successor sends out the strongest signal .Right man,not right surname wins.
11:53
Newsflash: British Home Secretary Theresa May has arrived in Islamabad on a three day visit to Pakistan.
11:52
Much has been said about Ratan Tata's successor Cyrus Mistry, but little about his father, Pallonji Mistry. Here are five things about the world's richest Irish person. Read
11:41
At 1 pm, the court will hear the Bhanwari Devi case.
11:40
Tension over the planned release of the Tamil version of an English film, Dam 999 from November 25, allegedly based on the 'Mullaperiyar dam issue' between Tamil Nadu and Kerala and portraying the dam as ''collapsing'', eased Wednesday evening with the Tamil Nadu Film Exhibitors Association...
11:35
This is from M K Bhadrakumar's blog In these times of pedestrian thinking, any flash of originality immediately catches the mind's eye. Amidst the recantation of India's China policy by Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai in his Wednesday's address at the National Defence College, I found a nugget of...
11:29
On Firstpost.com: Four things you need to know about Ratan Tata's successor, Cyrus Mistry. Read
11:24
The big story last evening was of course, Ratan Tata's successor being named. On the Telegraph, Calcutta on how Cyrus Mistry may not carry the Tata name, but he's made of the same mould. Read
11:21
China's navy will carry out exercises in the Pacific Ocean in the coming days, amid continuing tension over maritime disputes in the region, says a bbc report. The defence ministry said the drills were routine and were not targeting any specific country. China is locked in territorial rows with...
11:20
In world news:Unrest continues in Cairo as protesters step up their demand for Egypt's military rulers to resign. Street battles with riot police have been heaviest around the fortified interior ministry located on a side street off Tahrir Square. More on bbc.co.uk
11:15
As the third anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks approach, a report says that Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) is grappling with a severe manpower crunch with 283 posts of the total 732 lying vacant, two-and-a-half years after a panel set up to probe state police's response to the...
11:11
This is the official Parliament schedule for today. Lok Sabha1. Damodar Valley Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 20112. New Delhi Municipal Council (Amendment) bill, 20103. Discussion on inflation situationRajya Sabha1. Calling Attention on situation arising out of death of children in...
11:08
Approximately five minutes into the session, both houses have adjourned till noon after uproar by opposition benches over price rise.
11:04
Day 3 of Parliament's winter session begins with an uproar over price rise in both houses. The now familiar baith jaiye rings out at predictible intervals.
11:02
Astro enthusiasts in the country will miss an opportunity to watch the largest partial solar eclipse of the year as it will be visible only from the deepSouthern Hemisphere. A partial solar eclipse will take place tomorrow which will only be seen from southern South Africa, Antarctica,...
10:53
Good morning. The third day of the winter session of Parliament will begin shortly after two days of disruptions and adjournments.Ahead in the day, the Central Bureau of Investigation will finally submit its report to a Jodhpur High Court in the Bhanwari Devi case on Thursday. The court had given...
10:45
How Cyrus Mistry won the race to succeed Ratan Tata? (The Times of India)Ratan Tata is said to have favoured Cyrus Mistry who is credited with scaling up & diversifying Pallonji Group, one of Indias most valuable private enterprise. ReadPublic sentiments no basis to deny bail (The...
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