18:32
And something you can chew on. Watch
18:30
Just in: The US has informed the Ministry of External Affairs that it has brought about a new security protocol where detained VIPs can call homeland security and also inform them ahead of their visit to the US. Khan was detained at a New York airport for over two hours by immigration officials...
18:24
Why Maneka Gandhi is frothing at the mouth. The Supreme Court today posted to September for final hearing on whether stray dogs can be exterminated by authorities if they caused nuisance topeople. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan told senior counsel Raj Panjwani...
18:21
517 votes -- it was all that separated 2008 Delhi blast accused Zia-ur-Rahman from a victory in the Delhi municipal elections, which his supporters claimed could have helped prove his innocence. Rahman (26), currently lodged in Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad and the only candidate in the April...
18:09
In Pati, an impoverished region in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, members of the Barela tribe often work as laborers for less than a dollar a day. Drought and logging have reduced what was once a lush forest to a mountainous desert, and many members of the community moved away to...
17:56
The real damage of Gungate lies in the shattering of the myth that the Middleton children are just regular middle class girls. Read the report on the Daily Beast.
17:42
Nancy Powell, the first female American ambassador- designate to India, will arrive in New Delhi later this week bearing a few words of Hindi, a much-used camera and ambitious plans for the countries' relationship, according to an introductory video released Tuesday by the Embassy. Meet her...
17:37
A day after non-Congress Chief Ministers and an ally attacked the Centre over NCTC, Home Minister P Chidambaram today lamented the mistrust harboured by some states and expressed confidence that the issue would be resolved in the May 5 meeting. Answering criticism that the Centre was making...
17:28
Rihanna shares topless holiday snaps. See
17:27
Reaching out to Myanmar which is taking strides towards democracy, the US today said it was planning a series of moves including lifting of sanctions inresponse to courageous steps taken by it and appreciated India for its advocacy of dialogue with regard to the country. Kurt Campbell,...
17:20
Things must be really bad when we have Lalu Prasad Yadav standing up for freedom of expression. People (drew) my cartoons, (but) I have never objected ' Something very bad has taken place in West Bengal,' Lalu-ji told the media as the Mamtoon affair refused to die down in...
17:11
Last week, a friend in the Army, reacting to my latest documentary on the endless-and thankless-war that Indian soldiers fight in Kashmir, paid a heartfelt compliment by calling me a 'soldier-journalist'. Read NDTV's Nitin Gokhale's blog
16:54
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today said RBI reducing lending rates along with government efforts to bring downfiscal deficit should boost economic growth this year. I think the lowering of the interest rate by the RBI combined with Finance Minister Pranab...
16:44
India's monsoon is likely to have average rainfall in 2012 despite fears the El Nino weather pattern may emerge in the second half of the season, the country's top weather official said, pointing to a third straight year without drought. The June-September monsoon, vital for agricultural...
16:39
Even if you don't like dogs, these pictures will draw out an awww: Bo Obama, the First Family's pet Portuguese water dog, celebrates three years in the White House. See
16:30
The Calcutta High Court today directed the distributors of Hate Story, a Hindi film to be released soon, not to display revealing posters promoting the film.Refusing to stay a West Bengal Government order directing the distributors not to display the posters showing actress Paoli Dam in sensuous...
16:26
Amul's take on the Mamata cartoon controversy
16:26
Nasdaq-listed travel services provider MakeMytrip today said it is looking to acquire companies within the travel segment to strengthen its product portfolio. The travel firm that picked stake in three companies last year said it is on the lookout for new teams and to...
16:09
Anders Behring Breivik today defended his massacre of 77 people, insisting he would do it again and calling the bomb-and-shooting rampage the most spectacular attack by a nationalist militant since World War II. Reading a prepared statement in court, the anti-Muslim extremist lashed out at...
16:04
Another election, another defeat for the Congress! This time in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). The only silver lining for the party ' it couldn't get worse. The grand old party, that's been in power in Delhi since 1998, would be hoping that Delhi-ites have merely given vent to their...
15:56
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra on Tuesday described the party's win in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls as a verdict against Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Speaking to mediapersons, Malhotra said: It is a verdict against Sheila Dikshit and due to...
15:54
Amid the dispute between India and China over exploration in South China sea, the US today said the laws of the seas should apply and issues should beaddressed through dialogue. We try not to get in to the business of bilateralinteractions and disputes but instead have a principled policy...
15:52
Watch: The sun has spewed out another magnificent solar flare, shown in a video released by Nasa. The spectacular display of magnetic plasma, shown in the video above, looks impressive, but Nasa says it's a moderate ejection that will pose no great threat to Earth.
15:39
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed a PIL which demanded that Army Chief General V K Singh should not get post-retirement rehabilitation in view of the recent controversies.Dismissing the PIL, division bench of Justices Ajit Singh and R S Jha said the issue did not come in the court's...
15:33
A faster and enhanced version of low-cost tablet PC, Aakash, would be launched next month, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said today. The second version of Aakash will be launched in May, Sibal told reporters on the sidelines of World IT forum 2012. The tablet will be produced...
15:27
Toxic gases hampered on Tuesday the search for 138 people buried by an avalanche at a high-altitude Pakistan Army camp, as teams from the United States and Norway arrived at the site to help operations. A huge wall of snow crashed into the remote Siachen Glacier base high in the mountains...
15:17
Vodafone issues notice to the Indian government under Bilateral Investment Protection Treaty over tax issue.
15:09
Just in: Vodafone serves notice against the the Indian government under the international investment treaty saying retrospective tax proposals are in effect a denial of justice. The company has called for an amendment of the retrospective clause in the budget.
15:05
This is a tough time of year for Chinese spinsters. Chinese New Year is just around the corner and every single girl knows what her parents want most for the holidays: a betrothal. Girls of a certain age (say, 30) do not dare go home at all without one; and even women in their 20s feel serious...
15:02
What is it about Alec Baldwin? Why does he capture our imagination? Because he is a mouthy, insouciant rascal with a great shtick. He's a cheeky rogue, a high-octane provocateur with a penchant for publicity, and a passion for getting his way and spilling his guts,...
14:56
In his article, A Sufi message from a Pakistani President' (April 9, 2012), Saeed Naqvi not only seemed to eulogise Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to India, especially his participation at the annual congregation at the mausoleum of the Sufi saint Khwaja Moinudin Chishti at Ajmer,...
14:54
Katrina Kaif on Prakash Jha, via Open: With all his knowledge and intellect, Prakash Jha is very knowledgeable and intellectual.
14:52
The state CID has written to Facebook to delete certain morphed images of CM Mamata Banerjee after a Trinamool Congress supporter lodged a complaint, citing specific posts and objectionable comments flooding social networking sites.Read more
14:43
The original cheque used to buy the Superman comic character from its original creators has been sold in an online auction for 160,000. Read the bbc report.
14:40
Making a case for raising prices of diesel, kerosene and LPG, the Reserve Bank today said hike in rates of petroleum products is necessary to arrest fiscalslippages. Overall from the perspective of vulnerabilities emerging from the fiscal and current account deficits, it is imperative...
14:27
Honorary Captain Bana Singh won the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest ranking gallantry award, for recapturing a Pakistani post on the Siachen Glacier. Living a retired life in a quiet village in Jammu and Kashmir, he makes you feel that his act of phenomenal courage was part of a soldier's day...
14:26
For some women a workout can have an enjoyable side-effect -- it gives them an orgasm. In fact, exercise orgasms might not be as rare as you'd think, a recent US study found. 'Coregasms' are most common during ab workouts, but anything from weight lifting to yoga can be orgasmic for some women....
14:24
Looking for a job? Google is looking to hire a new doodler, a graphic designer or an illustrator, to work on special designs that celebrate historic figures and events on its home page. The job demands a person with a 'sense of humor, love of all things historical and imaginative...
14:18
A CBI court today extended till April 27 the judicial custody of former Karnataka Minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy and his personal assistant Mehfuz Ali Khan, arrested in connection with an illegal mining case.
14:08
Causing more embarrassment toWest Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who is drawing flak over the arrest of a professor for circulating cartoons, singer-turned-Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman has composed a song, Hasi Niye Thako (Live with a smile), mocking the state...
14:03
Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah has been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences after he complained offever and pain. After investigations doctors diagnosed him of sufferingfrom viral pneumonia. Farooq Abdullah is J-K chief minister Omar...
13:57
Dr Partho Sarothi Ray, languishing in a Kolkata jail, is a molecular biologist by training but is passionate about political economy and has views which many may consider radical. The young scientist is a vocal critic of, what he calls, LPG policies - liberalisation, privatisation and...
13:55
The RBI decision to cut its key interest rate by half a percentage point to 8% was welcomed by Indian consumers who have put off purchases because of high rates over the past three years. Read the WSJ post.
13:44
Bharat Earth Movers Limited Chairman and Managing Director V Natarajan was questioned by the CBI on Tuesday in connection with the controversy over the deal to supply the all-terrain Tatra trucks to the Army. The CBI is investigating the BEML-Tatra deal following Army Chief General VK Singh''s...
13:42
An Asian policeman who was jailed after being framed by colleagues won 841,000 in compensation yesterday. Sultan Alam, 49, said his reputation had now been restored following an 18-year fight for justice that wrecked his career, two marriages and his health. Read more on the Daily Mail
13:39
The United States has said that it will continue to press Islamabad to squeeze the al-Qaeda linked Haqqani network, as Afghanistan blamed the Pakistan-based group for the latest brazen attacks in Kabul. Declaring there were indications of Haqqani involvement in the weekend attacks in the...
13:31
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi received some relief from the Delhi High court which has retrained his former driver and media houses from publishing the contents of a CD which allegedly contains content of him in compromising positions. The court has restrained media houses...
13:27
When in church, wear what the preacher tells you. So says the Synod Executive Committee, a decision-making body of the largest church in the north-eastern Indian state of Mizoram. All women attending places of worship should refrain from wearing see-through dresses, clothes that expose the...
13:13
What an election it was! Winning a tsunami of a mandate with 225 out of 294 seats in 2011, Mamata Banerjee was called the Indian Lech Walesa: the anti-communist hero' who defeated the mighty communists through democratic politics. Last year I had dubbed her a subaltern goddess, Kali of...
13:10
They've spent 23 hours of each day in the last 40 years in a 9ft-by-6ft cell. Now, as human rights groups intensify calls for their release, a documentary provides insight into an isolated life. Read the Guardian story.
13:02
In recent weeks, the civil-military cold war in India has thrown into the public domain alarming facts -- from corruption to lack of preparedness. In a three-part series, defense expert and Jane's Defence Weekly Special Correspondent Rahul Bedi minces no words in outlining the problems the...
12:59
Analysts are debating the cause of malaise at Infosys Ltd. following a run of poor financial results and another weak outlook for revenue growth from the Indian software exporter. Read the story on WSJ
12:56
In a huge relief to the Maharashtra government, the judicial commission of inquiry looking into the Adarsh housing scam has held that the land on which thecontroversial building stands belongs to the state and not the army. The two-member panel, which had submitted its interim report to...
12:49
A Pakistani court has taken up a petition seeking the registration of a case against film star Meera on charges of allegedly having an abortion. Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Ayub Khan admitted the petition filed by a man named Muhammad Islam and served a notice to police...
12:47
The Norwegian far-right activist who killed 77 people last year is due to address the court, reading from a prepared document he has written while in custody. The defence lawyer for Anders Behring Breivik said he understands survivors and victims' relatives are concerned that his client...
12:43
Korean-American physician Jim Yong Kim, who has been selected as new President of the World Bank, has said he will seek a new alignment of the body with a rapidly changing world.As President, I will seek a new alignment of the World Bank Group with a rapidly changing world, Kim said in a...
12:19
BJP leader Nitin Gadkari to address the media at 2 pm at the BJP office on the Delhi verdict.
12:17
The Adarsh panel report has been discussed by the Maharashtra Cabinet and is likely to be tabled in the legislature today.
12:14
Ruchir Joshi's open letter to Mamata Banerjee in the Telegraph, published a day after the Jadavpur university professor was arrested for the cartoon on the CM. Read
12:08
The BSE benchmark Sensex spurted by over 222 points in late morning trade today after the Reserve Bank cut short-term lending rate to support the economic growth.The 30-share index spurted by 222.33 points to trade at 17,373.28 soon after RBI announced cut in short-term lending rate, repo rate,...
12:06
Madam, perhaps it might be time for you to resign and go. Ruchir Joshi has gone and said what a lot of newspaper pundits were tiptoeing around. Mamata Banerjee has done what even her most diehard critic didn't dream she could do writes Joshi in The Telegraph. She has scrunched...
12:01
New pictures of Monroe are unveiled in book published to commemorate 50th anniversary of her death. See
11:54
This was the report on the Wall Street Journal yesterday. Economists, and industrialists are eagerly awaiting for the Reserve Bank of India to cut interest rates Tuesday when it unveils its annual monetary policy, but that's far from a done deal. More
11:49
The Pulitzer Prize board dropped its own bombshell yesterday: for the first time in 35 years, there would be no Pulitzer winner for fiction. Read the report on the NYT's India blogs.
11:46
Author JK Rowling is working on a new Harry Potter book -- an encyclopedia of the boy wizard's escapades. The 46-year-old writer made the announcement on her revamped pottermore.com site. All profits from the book will go to charity.More on the Sun
11:41
On Foreign Policy: The Arab Spring's Best Photos: The Pulitzer committee gives a nod to the best chroniclers of the revolutions. See
11:39
Meanwhile, the BJP is surging ahead in all the three municipal corporations of Delhi leaving the Congress behind as counting of votes progressed for the polls held two days ago. Of the 17 results declared by the State Election Commission so far, BJP has bagged 16 wards in all the three...
11:37
Details awaited on the judicial commission report on Adarsh. Firstpost.com on the rate cut: Former US President Harry Truman famously said that he yearned for the services of a one-handed economist' because all his economists were given to ambiguous on the one hand ... on the other hand...
11:33
Just in: Judicial commission report on Adarsh says there is no proof to show that the land belonged to defence. The Adarsh report will be tabled in the Maharashtra Assembly today.
11:31
That comes after the Reserve Bank of India in its annual monetary policy for 2012-13 slashed the policy rates by 50 basis points. The repo rate at which banks borrow money from the RBI now stands at 8% from 8.50% earlier. Similarly, the reverse repo rate at which RBI borrows money from banks...
11:29
Banking stocks have moved up -- SBI (2.6 percent), ICICI Bank (1.65 percent), Axis Bank (1.6 percent), Yes Bank (1.72 percent).
11:26
Dr Subbarao emphasises that the deviation of growth from its trend is modest, at the same time, upside risks to inflation persist. RBI pegs loan growth at 17 per cent in the current fiscal
11:22
Presenting the Annual Monetary Policy Statement for the Year 2012-13 today, Dr D Subbarao, Governor, Reserve Bank of India said:Domestically, the state of the economy is a matter of growing concern. Though inflation has moderated in recent months, it remains sticky and above the...
11:18
RBI governor D Subbarao says loan EMIs to fall, but says there is a need to increase fuel prices. RBI expects inflation to be at 6.5 per cent by March2013.
11:14
RBI governor Subbarao says there will be NO pre-payment charges on home loans, which are set to get cheaper. As we said earlier, it's the first rate cut in three years.
11:11
The RBI has just announced cuts in short term lending rate by 0.5 per cent to 8 per cent and projects a growth rate for current fiscal at 7.3 per cent. This is the first rate cut in three years. CRR remains unchanged at 4.75 percent, and yes, loans may get cheaper.
11:07
Rejecting the Deoband fatwa against polygamy, the radical Kashmiri women's separatist group Dukhtaran-e-Milat (DeM) has gone a step further saying a Muslim man should marry not only two but four wives. Islam permits a man to have four wives. There is no compromise on the tenets of Islam. The...
11:01
As Bengal quakes at the thought of an entire term with Mamata Banerjee, in central Chile there has been strong magnitude-6.5 earthquake today, prompting authorities to order a preventative evacuation of a stretch of coastline. There were no immediate reports of damage or deaths, but...
10:52
Here's a sampling... SonaliRanade @sonaliranade One is comic, the other commie :p RT @dhemansvinod: @sonaliranade then what is diff between CPM & Trimool Sachin Kalbag @SachinKalbag Thank you, Mamata di, for a daily dose of entertainment -- TMC members barred from...
10:47
Good morning. Another instance of Mamata Banerjee's state of mind. Soon after dumping former rail minister Dinesh Trivedi for hiking fares, calling rape incidents a plot against them and getting JU professor arrested for spoof on their party leader, the Trinamool Congress is now asking its...
10:39
Woman's plea to SC: Child marriage can't deny me job (The Times of India)Married at 14 and divorced 13 years later, Ratnarashi has challenged a rule that says people who marry as minors are debarred from appointment in the civil services. Read Delhi civic polls: BJP ahead in all 3...
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