19:02
Ok, here's some bad news for all you head-bangers out there. MTV India tweeted a little while ago that the Metallica gig scheduled to be held in Gurgaon today evening stands cancelled due to a technical snag. It's now been pushed to 4 pm tomorrow at Leisure Valley.
18:02
Ferrari's Felipe Massa set the pace with the quickest practice drive while India'sNarain Karthikeyan had a nightmarish outing in the practice sessions of the Indian Grand Prix, which made its debut at the newly-built Buddh International Circuit here today.Massa emerged as the quickest in the...
18:01
BJP today took potshots both at the UPA government at the Centre and the BSP government in Uttar Pradesh for alleged corruption in use of MNREGA funds saying the pot was calling the kettle black.In Mayawati's regime, it is mayhem as far as the administration is concerned and it's a bigger mayhem...
18:01
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will get to know on Wednesday whether he will be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct in thatcountry, the court hearing the case here said today. Lawyers for Assange, 40, have insisted that his extradition to Sweden would be unfair...
18:00
Quick takes... In the wake of demands for clemency to the three Rajiv Gandhi assassins and Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, BJP leader L K Advani today said courtdecisions should not be meddled with on political grounds. Whether it is Rajiv Gandhi killers or the attackers of Indian...
17:26
The man who has slipped off the news pages -- Anders Behring Breivik -- admitted to killing 77 Norwegians during a bombing and shooting massacre in July. Investigators say he is almost overly eager to talk. Still, after 100 hours of questioning, they have seen no signs of remorse and have little...
17:22
From Saddam's risque oil paintings to Teodorin's King of Pop trove, the quirky collections of the world's most notorious leaders. Read on FP.
17:17
Also on FP, the United Nations is celebrating a planet with seven billion people. But some projections now warn that the global population may actually start shrinking. Read
17:15
On Foreign Policy magazine: Revealed: Never-seen before pictures of the Muammar Gaddafi from secret archives. See
17:11
From the neolithic revolution to the first rubber condom, here is the story of how human beings came to dominate earth, and reach 7 billion in number. Read
17:06
Scientists who announced that sub-atomic particles might be able to travel faster than light are to rerun their experiment in a different way. This will address criticisms and allow the physicists to shore up their analysis as much as possible before submitting it for publication. Read it on...
16:59
The BJP today hit out at Digvijaya Singh for favouring bail to undertrials, terming it as an attempt to derail justice, and said the statement had beenmade because of cases and allegations faced by Congress leaders, including ministers.There is an attempt to derail justice. I would not like to...
16:51
The Pentagon has notified the US Congress on the possibility of sale of six more C-130J super Hercules transport planes to India worth USD 1.2 billion that will equip the country with a credible special operations airlift capability to deter aggression in the region. The six aircraft is in...
16:41
Amitabh Bachchan's tweets for the day: A relief ... just finished acknowledging all the greetings for birthday and Diwali .. should be on their respective journeys !! It troubles me when I am unable to acknowledge wishes .. it is an arduous task, but one that I try to achieve. Thank...
16:38
A chunk from the Saddam Hussein statue famously toppled in central Baghdad in 2003 has failed to meet its reserve of £250,000 at a Derby auction. The 2ft (0.6m) wide bronze buttock was being sold by a former SAS soldier who brought it back to the UK. Read
16:32
Female members of the Royal Family are to be given equality with men in the rules of succession to the throne, meaning if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first child is a girl, she can become Queen even if subsequent children are sons. Read the story on the Telegraph, UK.
16:26
On cnn.com: Leon Panetta's New Year's Eve toast will be one that has been 10 years in the making. The Pentagon is confirming that a California restauranteur friend of Panetta's will open a bottle of wine with an estimated value of $10,000-$15,000, and the secretary of defense will be...
16:17
On the Daily Mail: The belief that life begins at 40 has just been challenged by a new study that showed Britons feel most content with their life at the age of 38 and generally enjoy a more comfortable existence during their 30s. Read
16:14
With the passing of Steve Jobs earlier this month, the tech industry lost one of its most revered icons. So where will the industry turn for inspiration now that Jobs is gone? New Apple CEO Tim Cook will keep the business cranking along, but he's unlikely to inspire the same kind of devotion as...
16:10
On cnn.com: Lesbians in South Africa say they are threatened and victimized by men who believe they can cure them by raping them. Read
16:04
On Open magazine: This bird from Down Under has started making a special appearance on Indian restaurant menus. Read
16:01
On the Daily Mail: Miracle as passenger plane crashes on busy city street and bursts into flames 900m from airport... and no-one is killed. Read
15:41
Jailed former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today moved the Karnataka High Court seeking anticipatory bail in three of the five cases against himrelating to alleged irregularities in denotifying lands.
15:40
Mr Prime Minister...either you're lying to me or your people are lying to you, is what the then US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Pakistani premier Yousuf Raza Gilani as he tried to wash off his hands from the Mumbai terror attacks. Gilani, in a long speech told her that terrorists...
15:37
Just in: Union Minister Jairam Ramesh rejects Mayawati's charge of politics; says there are deliberate instances of embezzlement of MNREGA funds in UP. Here's what Jairam wrote to Mayawati. On Rediff.comAnd what Mayawati wrote to the PM
15:29
Citing the case of former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta in the US, Congress leader Digvijay Singh today made a strong pitch for the bail of all accused who have been chargesheeted in the 2G and CWG scams. Singh's assertion came in the backdrop of former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP...
15:11
Goa's ever-active Internet discussion groups have been buzzing in recent days with complaints about a new Jet Airways policybanning passengers from carrying meat, fish and poultry products on both domestic and international flights even in their checked-in luggage. Read Naresh...
15:06
And the other F1 story: Sauber chief Monisha Kaltenborn reckons it's only time before Indian brands back F1. Read the story on rediff.com And another profile of Kaltenborn on GQ, India. Read
15:01
Speed, prancing horses, Gaga and, er, Metallica. It's something many of us have dreamed of for decades ' a dream that began with the first live F1 telecasts in India and one of the fiercest rivalries the sport had ever seen, Senna vs. Prost. Around the same time, a young Herr Schumacher was...
14:56
Read: The Independent, UK, story on Sachin Tendulkar's coach, Ramakant Achrekar
14:53
On Twitter: Sachin Tendulkar: One of the happiest moments of my life today. My coach Achrekar sir came to my new house and blessed it with his presence.
14:47
Software giant Microsoft has topped a list of the world's best multinational companies to work for, where all the top-ten positions have been bagged by American firms. Internet giant Google has been ranked at the fourth place in the list of compiled by human resources...
14:44
The story on the man who has slipped off the news pages: Ghulam Nabi Fai. Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai came to the US on Saudi money with hopes of helping people in the disputed Indian territory of Kashmir. But he found himself spending millions on behalf of Pakistan's notorious Inter-Services...
14:38
Also on the Dawn: During a press conference hosted by the US State Department in Lahore, a participant explained that America was like an insatiable mother-in-law who was never satisfied with the work of her child's spouse. Read the blog.
14:36
If courage had a face, it would be Begum Nusrat Bhutto's. Truly. Hollow posthumous titles and the din of tribute showered on the lady only reveal the hypocrisy of those indulging in such acts for she was the farthest thing from such false declarations, says the Dawn. More
14:30
Tough talking by the then External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, following the 26/11 attacks, rattled Pakistan so much that it pressed the panic button and called everyone from Chinese to the Americans saying that India has decided to go to war. Read
14:26
The indictment (on 26 October) of India-born former McKinsey chief Rajat Gupta by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for insider trading-related charges comes close on the heels of the sentencing, for 11 years in prison, of Raj Rajaratnam, founder of Galleon Technology, once a...
14:24
Twenty-and-odd years ago, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, capitalists declared a premature victory over communism. Today, as protests against a failing capitalist model in the west go mainstream, the question is whether the world is going to head in the opposite direction: validate all the...
14:20
Hitting back at the Centre, UP Chief Minister Mayawati today wrote a letter to the Prime Minister stating that irregularities cited by Union Minister Jairam Ramesh in implementation of MNREGA in the state are politically motivated.She accused Ramesh of having a pre-conceived agenda and arriving...
14:16
Lewis Hamilton fell foul of the Formula One stewards once again when he was handed a three-place penalty on the starting grid for the inaugural Indian Grand Prix after ignoring yellow warning flags in first practice, reports Reuters. The McLaren driver had set the fastest lap, in the final...
14:09
A woman who had her face and hands ripped off in a horrifying attack by a pet chimpanzee has spoken publicly for the first time since she had a face transplant. Charla Nash, a 55-year-old single mother from Stamford, Connecticut, nearly died after the mauling two years ago....
14:04
In Perth, Australia, Britain's Queen Elizabeth opened a Commonwealth summit, amid tight security. The 54-nation organisation - which represents some 2bn people around the globe - will discuss economic growth, climate change and human rights. There will also be a debate on reforms to the British...
14:00
On Twitter: BBM msg of that day: Ra-One was shown on a plane. People still walked out. LOL.
13:51
Pakistan today test fired nuclear-capable Hatf-7 cruise missile with a range of 700 km that can hit targets in India. The test of the indigenously developed multi-tube cruise missile system was successful, said a statement issuedby the military. The Hatf-7 or Babur missile has stealth...
13:46
And on an entirely different note: Ra.One might be a flawed dream, but hats off to SRK for trying, says Sanchari Bhattacharya. Read the review on rediff.com.. Also read: Abhishek Mande's review on rediff.com: SRK's most expensive mid-life crisis.
13:40
Angela Merkel trivia: The German chancellor was wearing an amber necklace at the EU negotiations to bring her good luck. German media noted that the 11th hour deal was secured while she was wearing her favourite piece of jewellery, which, said Bild newspaper, she always wears to the big...
13:39
While on the British monarchy: The heir to the British throne says he is related to Vlad the Impaler, the cruel 15th-Century Romanian warlord who helped inspire Bram Stoker's 1897 vampire novel Dracula. Read it on the huffingtonpost.
13:35
Also on the Daily Mail: Furious Greeks lampoon German 'overlords' as Nazis with picture of Merkel dressed as an SS guard. The backlash has been provoked by Germany's role in driving through painful measures to stop Greece's debt crisis from spiralling out of control. Read
13:28
On the Daily Mail: PM David Cameron will strike a deal today to reform the monarchy, which will let the eldest child of Prince William and his wife Kate inherit the throne -- even if it's a girl. The British Prime Minister will put an end to more than 300 years of history by thrashing out an...
13:25
On Twitter: Images of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button's tyres. Incidentally, Hamilton won the test drive today. See
13:23
Here's the letter from Dr Kumar Vishwas to Anna Hazare requesting hm to dissolve the core committe See our 13:05 post.
13:18
With Admiral Oscar Stanley Dawson's death in Bangalore on Sunday, the flag has been lowered on the last of the World War II veterans who burnished the office of the Chief of Naval Staff. Read the obit on the Indian Express.
13:17
Time Warner is going the Disney route when it comes to Harry Potter. Time Warner will be pulling all eight movies off the shelves at the end of the year, putting them away so it can undoubtedly later on issue some newfangled special edition' or DVD with never before seen'...
13:15
Newsflash: Pakistan tests nuclear-capable Hatf-7 cruise missile. Details awaited
13:05
Even as Team Anna member Raju Parulekar announced that the Core Committee would be expanded to include new members, another aide, Dr Kumar Vishwas reacted to the announcement saying the Core Committee has to be suspended and reconstituted with new members. He says that real issues are out of...
13:00
And another F1 story.Even as McLaren's Lewis Hamilton edges out Red Bull's champion Sebastian Vettel to set the fastest time for McLaren as India makes its Formula 1 debut, his former flame Nicole Scherzinger wears show-stopping dress for dinner with new flame... just five days after split. On...
12:53
More F1 news: Force India co-owner Vijay Mallya has defended his decision of not having an Indian driver in his Formula One team. For all those who pass judgments on why I have not put an Indian driver into the cockpit all I can say is that it is my business. I think I am proud of the fact that...
12:51
A stray dog spoiled India's grand entry into the world of Formula One when it halted the first practice session at the newly-constructed Buddh International Circuit for five minutes here today. The dog ran around on the track before being chased away by officials in a safety car, making for...
12:49
Health news: Aspirin every day can cut cancer risk by 60%: British scientists find first proof of preventative effect. Read more on the Daily Mail.
12:31
Just in: Raju Parulekar, a spokesperson for Anna Hazare says the core committee will be expanded. Anna will also have two additional committees -- a driving and steering committee. The steering committee will take decisions and members will change. Also read our 10:55 am and 11:13 posts.
12:25
On the New York Times: Europe is drowning and needs a lifeline. A series of marathon meetings this week yielded a new set of proposals, but what they depend on is cash ' and lots of it, perhaps trillions of dollars ' to save Greece and the European banking system and to prevent financial...
12:20
Heads up: Air India pilots threaten to go on strike over low salaries, poor promotions. Pilots from erstwhile Air India claim they are being discriminated against. The pilots' union also claims salaries have been delayed by four months. Details awaited.
12:13
And another read from Foreign Policy magazine: A tour of contentious burials from Gaddafi to Hitler. Read
12:11
Foreign Policy magazine on how the uprising turned young Libyan men from hopeless layabouts into marriageable heroes. Read
12:09
Stories from the Foreign Policy magazine. As Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel team up to conquer the eurozone crisis, we imagine what it's like on the inside of Europe's most enviable friendship. Great read Remember the Bush-Merkel massage? Watch
12:02
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton edged out Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel to go fastest as India made its Formula 1 debut. Hamilton went half a second faster on his last lap at the Buddh International Circuit outside the capital, Delhi. McLaren's Jenson Button lost time on his final run behind Hispania's...
11:59
Part 1 of 6 of the BBC documentary, Secret Pakistan, on YouTube.Watch
11:57
F1 weekend in New Delhi. Former Formula One world champions Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button have praised the Indian Grand Prix circuit. Hamilton, on his fifth tour to India, was excited about the driving on the new racing circuit, which he had only tested on a simulator.We drove through on the...
11:51
Also on Reuters: A tale of new cities: India's push to industrialise. Read
11:50
The definitive profile of the man behind the Incredible India campaign: Amitabh Kant. Working from his New Delhi office, tucked away on the third floor of a government-run luxury hotel, he heads what may be the country's most ambitious ever infrastructure project: building 24 cities from...
11:43
Also read LK Advani's comments on the Kudankulam project at Madurai yesterday. On the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, Advani said, There has to be caution. The first and foremost consideration has to be safety and security of people. The entire world including countries which...
11:40
On the Fukushima disaster, read: The IAEA has to change. On rediff.com.
11:38
Kudankulam N-plant update: The ongoing wave of protests over the construction of Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu could affect India's ambitious nuclear energy generation and could backfire to deprive the South Asian giant of its critical advantage over China, warns a top Russian...
11:35
Charlie Sheen can officially say he's winning. Cable network FX has bought the rights to air the former Two and a Half Men star's new series, a TV version of the 2003 Adam Sandler/Jack Nicholson film, Anger Management. Sheen will play the Nicholson role in the show, an infuriating...
11:30
And more from that Bill Gates lecture here
11:27
Bill Gates made a rare appearance at the University of Washington this afternoon, talking about how qualitative and measurable advances in technology are coming together for major advances in some of the area he cares most about these days, including education and efforts to help the poor people...
11:21
From the Guardian, UK: The Bolshoi theatre in Moscow reopens after six-year overhaul -- Medvedev and Putin to preside at gala opening after work to restore pre-Soviet opulence. Read
11:13
Meanwhile, Rajinder Singh, who quit Team Anna due to differences over its political approach, has alleged that Anna Hazare deviated from his objective by supporting a corrupt candidate in Hisar bypoll and that his team is full of arrogant people. Singh also attacked Kiran Bedi and Arvind...
11:11
In other stories: Recent claims that the Taj Mahal is in danger of collapsing sparked panic among historians and archeologists worldwide. Following the reports, a twin bench of Supreme Court justices DK Jain and AR Dave issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh government, the...
11:06
The senior BJP leader began his anti-corruption rath yatra from the late Gandhian Jayaprakash Narayan's birthplace Sitabdiara in Saran district of Bihar on his birth anniversary October 11. The yatra, which is likely to cover around 6,000 km, will go through Bihar, Uttar Pradesh,...
11:05
Update: A live, five-foot pipe bomb, found on the route of Advani's yatra at Madurai has been removed. Advani is to proceed on the same route to Virudhnagar near Madurai, but will now take a minor detour. This is the 18th day of his yatra.
10:59
From the Independent, UK: Coldplay have shaken their fans and their record label by becoming the latest big act to refuse to make tracks from their new album available for streaming on Spotify. Read: The revolt that is rocking the music industry
10:55
Key figures of Anna Hazare's team will meet in Ghaziabad tomorrow sans the Gandhian, who is on a vow of silence, to discuss the crisis facing the team afterthey were enmeshed in a series of controversies. Besides Hazare, prominent member Justice Santosh Hegde is also not attending the Core...
10:52
Ra.One has ceased to trend on Twitter. But here's a tweet from Pritish Nandy: A 100 wild horses cannot drag me back to watching Ra1 again. But, yes, I enjoyed my first watch. Glad I made it. Ra1 has no script. It drags on and on. But it has Kareena back to looking devastatingly sexy. And SRK...
10:48
Just in: The Rajiv Gandhi assassination case has been adjourned till November 29.
10:47
In other stories...Research In Motion Ltd (RIM) has set up a facility in Mumbai to help the Indian government carry out lawful surveillance of its BlackBerry services, according to people familiar with the matter, but the move hasn't fully satisfied India's appetite for access to...
10:42
Details awaited on the bomb scare for LK Advani.Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified today that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's comment that he would fight with Pakistan in a future war against the United States was misreported and taken out of context. If...
10:35
Just in: Explosives have been found on LK Advani's rath yatra route outside Madurai under a bridge at Almapatti village. Police have begun investigations, but so far no leads have been found nor have any suspects been deteained. Details awaited.
10:30
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a congressional panel on Thursday that any Afghan-led peace process would have to include the Quetta Shura and its leader Mulla Omar, reports Dawn.Her statement before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs also emphasised several other key points...
10:24
The family of deceased Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi will file a war crimes complaint against NATO with the International Criminal Court, a lawyer representing the family said Thursday. Members of the family believe NATO's actions led to Gaddafi's death last week. Read more on cnn.com
10:22
Update on the Turkey quake. A 13-year-old boy has been pulled alive from the rubble in south-eastern Turkey, 108 hours after an earthquake devastated his town. The injured boy was rescued from a collapsed building in Ercis. Just hours earlier a man was freed from a flattened apartment block and...
10:18
India's opener Gautam Gambhir is all set for a new innings, but this time off the field, reports India Today. Gambhir is set to marry Natasha Jain today at a farmhouse in Gurgaon in what is expected to be a simple, low key affair. More of that as it happens.
10:14
Good morning. First up, is this report on The Hindu. Even as Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's proposal to roll back the Armed Forces Special Powers Act has sparked off a war of words within Jammu and Kashmir's ruling coalition, an investigation by The Hindu has thrown up new evidence that...
10:06
Food inflation surges again, hits 6-month high of 11.4% (The Times of India)Food inflation quickened in mid-October as prices of vegetables soared, sustaining the pressure on overall inflation and the Reserve Bank of India. Read Omar decision is a blunder: J&K Congress (Hindustan...
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