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President Pratibha Patil unveiled a bronze bust of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, describing him as a goodwill ambassador of modern India.A Memorandum of Understanding was also signed between the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and the...
17:22
A 36-year-old suspected woman Maoist, wanted by the Chhattisgarh police, was on Tuesday arrested from a south Delhi locality, where she was allegedly hiding, said police sources. Soni Sori, a primary school teacher and an aunt of Lingaram Kodopi, who was recently arrested for allegedly acting as...
17:18
The Union home ministry has asked the Gujarat government to ensure adequate security to jailed IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt and his family.The Centre will conduct an independent assessment of the threat perception to Bhatt and his family, said sources.
17:17
Pakistan Muslim League chief Nawaz Sharif has said his prediction -- that President Asif Ali Zardari is a threat to the country's democracy -- has come true.President Zardari is proving to be a threat to democracy, as I predicted a few years back, The Express Tribune quoted Sharif as saying....
16:32
Three American scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for 2011 for their research in the field of expansion of universe and the explosion of stars.Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess have managed to prove with their work that the universe was expanding at an accelerating...
16:23
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has accepted Pakistan's invitation to visit the country, according to Commerce Minister Amin Fahim.Fahim extended the invitation during a meeting with Dr Singh in New Delhi on Monday at the end of his visit to India, said a statement issued by Pakistan's commerce...
16:22
Recommending action against yet another member of the Mayawati government, the Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta has sought the removal of Secondary Education Minister Rangnath Misra, following a probe into charges of accumulating disproportionate assets against him.Lokayukta Justice N K Mehrotra, in his...
16:09
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday chose to take a Metro and a taxi to reach Rohini in north Delhi to address a Youth Congress rally.The Congress leader, who is one of the most highly protected people in the country, boarded a Metro train at Race Course Road station near his official...
16:03
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has called off his visit to South Africa to receive an international award named after Mahatma Gandhi, saying its government finds it inconvenient to issue a visa to him and his entourage.The Dalai Lama, 76, was slated to leave for the African nation on...
15:53
In a joint statement issued by the interlocutors and Maoists in West Bengal, the rebels have promised to restrain the use of arms for one month if there is no joint operation in the area. The government will have to decide whether they will suspend joint operations for a month and create a...
15:50
Suspended Gujarat IPS official Sanjiv Bhatt has declared that he will rather go to jail than compromise with the Narendra Modi-led state government. During a hearing on his application for bail, Bhatt told a court in Ahmedabad, There can be no compromise with the Modi govt. This is a...
15:12
Rediff.com's N Ganesh adds: The sessions court in Mumbai will pronounce the sentence for actor Fardeen Khan, found guilty of buying and consuming drugs, on November 2.
14:42
Rediff.com's Toral Varia adds: The sessions court in Mumbai has dropped charges of possessing cocaine against actor Fardeen Khan. But the actor has been charged with buying one gram of cocaine. Khan was also charged under Section 21A for drug consumption. Khan was arrested...
14:26
Soon, top Afghan police officials may arrive in New Delhi to receive training from their Indian counterparts. India has offered to impart anti-terror training to the Afghan police force to help them deal with terror strikes. The offer comes in the wake of Afghanistan President...
14:12
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, who arrived in India for a two-day visit on Tuesday morning, are likely to address a joint press conference at 7.25 pm today.During Karzai's visit, the two countries are expected to ink a strategic pact to streamline various...
13:59
India and Russia are set to hold crucial negotiations for speeding up the deliveries of key weapons systems, including the transfer of Nerpa class nuclear submarine on lease and finalising the agenda for the bilateral summit scheduled for December-end. Defence Minister A K Antony, who arrived in...
13:46
American scientist Bruce Beutler, French biologist Jules Hoffmann and Canadian scientist Ralph M. Steinman will share this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work in the field of the body's immune system. Their work has opened up new possibilities and avenues in the treatment of...
13:45
The dipping prices of electronic goods -- from mobile phones to latest gadgets -- are good news for most of us. But it is bad news for those involved in one of the most lucrative businesses in China -- counterfeiting. Affordable smart phones and i-phones have spelt doom for...
13:04
The Congress has downplayed activist Anna Hazares threat to campaign against the party if the Jan Lokpal Bill is not passed by Parliament.Reacting to Hazare's plan to campaign against Congress for the forthcoming assembly elections, Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid said he was not going to...
12:54
The Jammu and Kashmir assembly has been adjourned sine die on Tuesday amidst strong protests by the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party, demanding a discussion on the death of a National Conference worker, allegedly in police custody last week.PDP MLAs had moved a fresh adjournment motion notice...
12:50
The Indian government has moved Portugal's Supreme Court to challenge the recent order by its high court revoking the extradition of underworld don Abu Salem. The Portugal court had ordered the revocation of the extradition treaty after accusing Indian probe agencies of violating the conditions...
12:29
In a shocking incident, a group of lawyers attacked an anti-terrorism court in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi, whose judge had convicted and sentenced to death the assassin of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer.The lawyers ransacked the courtroom and broke its windowpanes to protest the...
12:24
In a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, president of Telangana Rashtra Samiti K Chandrasekhar Rao has requested him to expedite the Telangana statehood issue as early as possible.Rao said that a memorandum has been given to the PM and he has been requested to intervene in the...
12:17
United States President Barack Obama has admitted that he is the underdog in the 2012 presidential elections.Absolutely, Obama said in interviews to ABC News and Yahoo.com when asked whether he is an underdog for the re-election.I don't mind. I am used to being an underdog. I think that at the...
12:12
Criticising Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia for the Rs 32 per capita per day urban poverty line definition, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Murli Manmohan Joshi has claimed that the government was trying to save its honour'. The Planning Commission is...
11:22
Twelve people were killed and six others injured in an apparent sectarian attack on a bus carrying Shia Muslims in southwestern Pakistan. Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Shia Muslims near Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. The attackers forced the passengers to stand in a...
11:19
A 26-year-old man, Rezwan Ferdaus, who is accused of planning to attack the Pentagon and Washington through flying explosive-packed remote-controlled model planes, has pleaded not guilty before a United States court. The US district court in Massachusetts has charged him of trying to destroy a...
11:16
With eight more deaths reported in the past two days, the cumulative death toll due to encephalitis in eastern Uttar Pradesh has risen to 376 this year.According to available data, as many as 44 patients have succumbed to various kinds of encephalitis in the region in the past 10 days.
11:14
Officials of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption on Tuesday carried out searches at the residences of former DMK minister M R K Panneerselvam and his relatives in Cuddalore, Chidambaram and Chennai. The searches at the residences of Pannerselvam and his relatives come a few days...
10:58
During his two-day visit to India starting on Tuesday, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai will hold comprehensive talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, after which the two countries are expected to ink a strategic pact to streamline various assistance programmes.During the visit, which comes...
10:53
Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore adds from Ralegan Siddhi: Justifying his decision to virtually campaign against the Congress, Hazare said the party was responsible for the Jan Lokpal Bill not being passed. Terming the 2G spectrum scam as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's agnipariksha, the activist...
10:46
Refuting allegations about working for the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Hazare said, Those who say that I support the BJP and the RSS should seek help in a mental asylum.Hazare strongly criticised Narendra Modi over the arrest of IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who had spoken up against...
10:45
Rediff.coms Prasanna D Zore adds from Ralegan Siddhi: Activist Anna Hazare informed media personnel that Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari had sent him a letter of support about the Lok Sabha by-polls in Hissar.Pointing out that he has not received a letter of support from the Congress...
10:35
Setting yet another deadline for the Centre, Hazare warned that if the Congress doesn't pass the Jan Lokpal Bill in the winter session of the Parliament, he will go ahead with his plans in UP. The Gandhian activist will hold a fast in Lucknow three days before the state elections and appeal to...
10:30
Good Morning, Activist Anna Hazare and the Jan Lokpal Bill are back in the news In a move that is bound to add to the woes of the Congress, Hazare on Tuesday announced his decision to begin a national tour after the festival of Dusshera. I will appeal to voters in poll-bound Hisar in Haryana not...
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