18:30
On a day that has seen a major victory for the anti-graft crusaders, the Bellary brothers were sent to a 14-day judicial custody on charges of illegal mining.The other top stories...I have no commercial links with Reddys: SushmaGovt: No Teesta agreement without Mamata Guj Congress delegation to...
18:23
On the eve of the PM's historic visit to Bangladesh, Rediff.com's Sanchari Bhattacharya, part of the press entourage accompanying Dr Singh, reports that the Centre's embarrassment was evident at the media briefing today, organised by the external affairs ministry. Persistent media...
18:16
Reddy update: Vicky Nanjappa reports: The CBI special court will now hear the Reddys' bail plea on September 7. Reddy will stay at the infamous Chanchalgudda prison which houses the accused in the Mecca Masjid, Lumbini Park and Gokul Chats blasts case.
18:12
Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's historic visit to Bangladesh tomorrow, he said:Transit visas: there need not be any fears in Bangladesh over the issue of offering transit facilities to India for getting easy access to the country's landlocked northeast. Singh however said India...
17:53
Here's the latest on the judicial custody of the Reddy brothers. Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa reports: In a major set back to former Karnataka tourism mininster and mining baron, the CBI special court in Hyderabad remanded him to 14 days in judicial custody. This is the time the CBI will get for...
17:40
OK, here it is. The CBI special court has remanded Bellary mining barons Janardhan Reddy and Srinavasa Reddy to a 14-day judicial custody. The CBI has also rejected his bail plea. Details in a bit.
17:20
This is what Sushma Swaraj has responded to. Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh today said an inquiry should be done on the links of BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Venkaiah Naidu's association with the Reddy brothers. Singh accused Sushma Swaraj and Venkaiah Naidu of having...
17:13
Meanwhile, the Reddys have reached the CBI special court where a 15-day custody is being sought for a 15-day custody.Earlier in the day, this is what BJP MP Sushma Swaraj said on the Reddy brothers: I welcome Digvijay Singh's demand that my association with Reddy brothers should be probed, only...
17:04
CPI MP Dasgupta added, Her decision is against our political and federal tradition. If she is does not agree with the Centre's policy... it can be sorted out here only.
17:01
Meanwhile, the Left has slammed Mamata's decision not to accompany the PM on his historic visit to Bangladesh. CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta said this was not the way to protest. Dasgupta added, This does not give the right message to the people of India and to Bangladesh and if there is issue,...
16:55
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today refused to comment on opting out of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's two-day visit to Bangladeshfrom tomorrow. I have nothing to say, an official told reporters on behalf of the chief minister. She said last night that she was not going to...
16:51
The US Embassy in New Delhi had cautioned its government against any activism in Kashmir saying even a hint of it can prove counter-productive in view of India's hypersensitivity to third party involvement on the issue, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable. The then US Ambassador to...
16:23
Just in: Reddys leave CBI office and will be produced in the CBI court any time now. The CBI is seeking a 15-day police custody for the Reddys.
16:20
Just in: Telecom subscribers registered with National Customer Preference Registry to get relief from pesky calls, SMSes from September 27: Trai.
16:17
Bangladesh is disappointed over the last-minute decision by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to drop out of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's upcoming visit to the country. We will be disappointed if she does not come as she is a great friend of Bangladesh and she has a great following in...
16:14
9/11 anniversary: On the Guardian, rubble and debris from the twin towers -- amounting to hundreds of thousands of tonnes -- have found new purposes. Read
15:45
Foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai adds Teesta water sharing agreement to be finalised only after consultation with Mamata Banerjee's government and Bangladesh. He says the agreement must be acceptable by both.
15:43
Read Manini Chatterjee's take on why Mamata refused to be part of the PM's delegation to Bangladesh -- in the Telegraph.
15:35
Ahead of PM Manmohan Singh's historic two-day Bangladesh trip tomorrow, Rediff.com's Sanchari Bhattacharya who will be accompanying the PM, says Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai evades questions on the Teesta waters treaty being scrapped. Says only deals acceptable to state governments and...
15:28
In the two weeks that surrounded his fast, the viewership of news channels skyrocketed: Around 2.5 million more people a week turned to news channels during the Hazare agitation than in earlier weeks. The figures were measured for the weeks starting Aug. 14 and Aug. 21. Read more on India...
15:22
On AFP, the story of how Uttar Pradesh's chief minister Mayawati, who styles herself as saviour of the country's untouchables sent her private jet to pick up a pair of sandals, according to leaked US diplomatic cables. US embassy cables from 2007 to 2009 released by the WikiLeaks website in...
15:17
For all Rafael Nadal fans, the video of the US Open press conference where he collapased. Watch
15:14
They stand in the shadows, watching their wards work their way to the top -- living and dying with them every step of the way. They teach them the ways of the world. They harness the genius and mould it into champion stuff. They are the coaches, the mentors who find the diamonds in the rough and...
15:11
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is godfather to one of Rupert Murdoch's daughters, according to the mogul's wife Wendi. Murdoch who has become a political untouchable after the News of the World scandal, is said to be such friendly terms that the former British PM attended the...
15:07
Maharashtra government has decided to persuade social activist Anna Hazare to continue with the 'Z' category security cover offered to him after he appearedreluctant to the idea.I will speak to him (Hazare). I will try to ensure that he does not say no to the security (provided to him), said Home...
14:42
The ruling AIADMK today charged DMK chief M Karunanidhi with having encroached on some land behind his Gopalpuram residence and said legal action would be taken in this regard and in similar cases detected by the government .
14:37
Former Karnataka Lokayukta N Santosh Hegde today favoured handing over the probe into illegal mining in the state to the CBI, maintaining that the Obalapuram Mining Company owned by former minister G Janardhana Reddy indulged in such activity. The former Supreme Court Judge said the CBI move...
14:30
Also from the Guardian, September 11: Schoolchildren remember George Bush's reaction 10 years on. Pupils who were reading a story to the president defend his response to the World Trade Centre attacks. Read
14:28
9/11 specials in the Guardian.What was it like for immigrant Muslims and Arab-Americans in the wake of 9/11? Ten years on, three people tell their stories. Read
14:26
An anticorruption campaign has given voice to a growing middle class tired of public indignities. Gurcharan Das on the Anna Hazare movement. Read
14:17
In the Daily Mail, damning claims have emerged that Britain helped send a terror suspect into the bloody hands of Colonel Gaddafi. Read
14:13
Wiki has leaked that the moderate Hurriyat Conference leaders were privately in favour of hanging Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru if he was guilty but felt that he did not get adequate representation during parts of his trial, leaked US diplomatic cables have claimed.
14:10
Ahead of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, V V Ganeshhananthan on the politics of grief in Granta. Read
14:05
The decision of the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, to pull out of the prime minister's tour of Bangladesh is too significant a development to be dismissed and overlooked as just another tantrum by the mercurial, unpredictable and temperamental TMC leader. Read more in...
14:01
Heads up for Lokpal news.The government has sought the advice of the Law Ministry on making public the audio recordings of proceedings of the joint drafting comittee on the Lokpal Bill constituted after Anna Hazare's fast in April. The Committee comprising five members of team Anna and five...
13:58
Janardhan Reddy will be produced before the CBI court at 4 pm.
13:57
Vicky Nanjappa writes that Janardhan Reddy and the CBI team have now reached the CBI court in Hyderabad and has been taken to the CBI office where formalities are being carried out. They will be at the CBI premises before being produced before the court later today. CBI DGP Lakshmi Narayan...
13:39
This is what has been unearthed from mining baron and former Karnataka Minister Janardhana Reddy and Managing Director of Obalapuram Mining Company B V Srinivas Reddy residences today. The CBI searches at their premises allegedly led to the recovery of over 30 kg of gold and more than Rs 4.5...
13:35
Update on what's happening with the Reddy brothers.Vicky Nanjappa writes that after taking Janardhana Reddy into custody following a spate of raids early this morning, the CBI is now raiding the official residence of B Sriramulu who is a close aide of the Reddy brothers. Sriramulu's name figures...
13:28
As the pressure on Arsenal's talismanic manager grows, even his supporters fear his famed singleness of purpose has turned into intransigence.In the Guardian, read: Arsne Wenger: The blinkered visionary
13:04
In a new book about the global war on terror, Amitava Kumar shows how criminal guilt has been sacrificed to the political need to haul in suspects. The result? Through crude character assassination, guilt is essentially fabricated after the arrest. Read the excerpt in the Guernica magazine.
13:01
Vicky Nanjappa writes that Janardhan Reddy, who was arrested this morning in a mining scam, has been brought to Hyderabad by a CBI team. He will be produced before the CBI court. Earlier, the CBI planned on producing him at 11.30 am, but there were delays since he had to travel from Bellary....
12:57
After three years of bloodshed and destruction by Taliban militants in Swat Valley, the Pakistan Army, understanding that more than force was needed to defeat extremists, held a conference on de-radicalisation. In the conference, held this past July, experts, politicians and military...
12:50
According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, England had planned to use a secret delivery to flummox Indian batsmen in the ongoing ODI series but the idea was dropped as the team management thought it would be banned for being against the spirit of the game.England's bowlers have been preparing...
12:48
Friends With Benefits hottie Justin Timberlake in an interview with the Guardian, says he can count his friends on one hand. Read
12:43
Is China planning a surprise missile attack? Read Gordon G Chang's view in the World Affairs Journal.
12:41
Negotiations over the surrender of one of Muammar Gaddafi's remaining strongholds have collapsed, and Libyan rebels were waiting for orders tolaunch their final attack on the besieged town of Bani Walid, a spokesman said.Rebel negotiator Abdullah Kanshil said yesterday the talks had broken down...
12:40
Siddhartha Deb in Guernica, writes on change in India and why more than three-quarters of the country are living on less than fifty cents a day. A snapshot of inequity, in four scenes. Read
12:23
Later today, the trial of Hosni Mubarak will resume today during which eyewitnesses will give testimony to determine who gave orders to kill protesters who were demanding ouster of the former Egyptian president.Mubarak will appear in the court along with his two sons Gamal and Alaa, former...
12:21
In the backdrop of a BJP delegation meeting President Pratibha Patil over the appointment of Lokayukta in Gujarat, Congress leaders from the state have decided to present their stand on the issue before her next week, state Congress president said. A delegation of Gujarat Congress MLAs, MPs and...
12:14
An Indonesian man blamed for Southeast Asia's deadliest suicide bombing could escape with just a few years behind bars, says the Associated Press. The tough anti-terrorism law passed after the double nightclub blasts in Bali cannot be used retroactively against Umar Patek, leaving prosecutors...
12:10
Irom Chanu Sharmila, the world's longest hunger-striker and a living legend in Manipur, has told The Telegraph she has fallen in love but her supporters are against her marrying the man. Read
12:07
Read: Siddhartha Deb's comprehensive opinion piece in the Boston Review on why India is growing, but Indians are still starving.
12:01
Both the Houses of Parliament were adjourned today following uproar by SP and BJP members on incidents of firing on lawyers by state revenue officials inUttar Pradesh and the appointment of Lokayukta in Gujarat.
11:59
The picturesque Dudhsagar waterfall, situated on the Goa-Karnataka border and 60 km from here, is one of the few locations in India selected for a train sequence to be shot for the 23rd James Bond movie. Sources stated that recce of the spot, located in the thick jungles on the state border, has...
11:55
Appearing for Pillai, senior advocate C Aryama Sundaram, submitted before the bench that the petitioner is seeking more compensation for charitable purposes and not for personal use. He submitted that 16 years have lapsed since the death of Pillai's husband in custody and a...
11:54
Huge relief for Justice Soumitra Sen, since it saves him the ignominy of becoming the first judge to be impeached by Parliament. In other news, the Delhi High Court today sought response from the Centre as well as the city government on a plea of Nina Pillai, the widow of Singapore-based...
11:50
Read: Attorney General G E Vahanvati on Friday recommended that impeachment motion to remove Justice Soumitra Sen as the judge of the Calcutta High Court must go on in the Lok Sabha despite his resignation.
11:47
Read: Justice Sen resigns ahead of LS impeachment motion
11:44
Just in: It's been decided. The Lok Sabha will not proceed with the impeachment of Justice Soumitra Sen. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar held consultations with the representatives of government and political parties to take a decision on whether to go ahead with impeachment of Justice...
11:38
As the CBI arrests Janardhana Reddy in the mining scam, read Paranjoy Guha Thakurta's piece in the BBC on why mining in India is a source of corruption.
11:29
While on the Lokpal, according to C V Madhukar, a senior member of PRS Legislative Research, an independent Delhi-based think-tank, 'the debate on the Lokpal Bill reflected how Parliament functions about 80 percent of the time.' Rajni Bakshi on how we can engage better with Parliament, only on...
11:25
Contesting an Income Tax notice to him over money he owes the government, Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal has claimed he did not breach any bond norms. However, in a June 2007 letter, he had admitted to having violated the pledge he had signed before proceeding on a two-year study leave from his...
11:21
Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange will not be prosecuted despite breaking Australian law and identifying an ASIO officer, according to the Attorney General's office. The 40-year-old journalist is at the centre of a political and media storm following his release of more than 251,000 US diplomatic...
11:18
Parliament adjourns till noon after uproar over various issues, including Gujarat Lokayukta appointment.
11:17
Book review: In her new book, Farhat Taj demolishes some of the basic assumptions about terrorism in KP and FATA and challenges several authors on their earlier findings. Read: Khaled Ahmed on Taj's Taliban and anti-Taliban in the Friday Times.
11:10
On Friday, Shane Warne claimed that the secret to his good looks was that he was in love and not beautyn products. But new squeeze, Elizabeth Hurley has another story to share. She says Warne actually resorts to women's beauty products to keep his skin look young and peachy. Many believed that...
11:07
In other news, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has terminal cancer and is not likely to live beyond 2013, leaked US diplomatic cables have claimed. The latest Wikileaks documents claimed that Mugabe, 87, was diagnosed with prostate cancer and warned by doctors in 2008 that he had only...
11:05
The BJP today said it hoped that former Karnataka minister Janardhana Reddy, who has been arrested in connection with the mining scam, will come out clean but maintained the whole issue was related to his private business and not to the party. Reddy brothers are holding the point that they have...
11:00
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar is holding consultations with the representatives of government and political parties to take a decision on whether to go ahead with impeachment of Justice Soumitra Sen in the Lok Sabha. I have to consult because there have been new developments. I will be talking...
10:58
Rahul's back in Delhi. The Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, who had gone to the US to escort Sonia back to India, returned to New Delhi. Rahul had gone to the US a couple of days ago amid clear indications from the party that the Congress president was recovering well post surgery and...
10:52
The CBI has sought the help of the police to open the door, reports Vicky. The Reddys, meanwhile, have decided to make a political statement out of this. Although Jagan Mohan Reddy has stayed away from this controversy, the Reddys have dragged his name into the picture. They now say that this is...
10:47
Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa says that the CBI raids continue in Bangalore and Bellary against the Reddy brothers. The much hyped chopper in which Janardhan Reddy used to travel has been confiscated by the CBI. In addition to this they have also secured several records relating to the Obalapuram...
10:41
Illegal mining case: CBI arrests Janardhana Reddy (The Times of India)Srinivasa Reddy, the MD of Obulapuram Mining Corporation, which is owned by ex-Karnataka minister Janardhana Reddy, has also been arrested. Read Mamata Banerjee refuses to go to Dhaka with PM (The Times of India)The Bengal...
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