18:14
Interesting reads you can curl up with over the weekend. Autistic and Seeking a Place in an Adult World The Girl from Trails End A Sister's Eulogy for Steve Jobs
18:11
Mystery shrouds the death of Riju Basak, a Std XI student of La Martiniere school, whose body was recovered from Rabindra Sarovar lake in south Kolkata today. The boy, a resident of Bowbazar area, had been missingfor last two days, the police said. The body was sent for...
18:08
India's sacred spaces are tapestries of culture and how shrines can serve as unique 'binding' social institutions, bringing people of different faiths together not out of toleration but respect. The why and how on the Guardian.
18:03
In other news, officials in the Tibet Autonomous Region have been ordered to recognize the grave situation in maintaining stability and to ready themselves for a war against secessionist sabotage, months before a major plenary session of the Communist Party of China.Read
17:55
And of course, here's Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray giving us a headline.Equating the Congress party to the Mughals, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray today heaped scorn on Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, calling him inept and one who lacked self-respect.In a strong-worded editorial in party...
17:51
Mithun Chakraborty hopes that the film 'Nobelchor' (Nobel thief) centering around the theft of Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel Medallion from Santiniketen in2004 might revive expectations of getting it back. The film seeks to give the message about the value of Tagore's Nobel to the Bengali and...
17:37
Chronology of the 2003 twin blasts at Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar: August 25, 2003 Blasts at Zaveri Bazaar and Gateway of India in south Mumbai in which 52 killed and 100 injured. August 31, 2003 Three accused Ashrat Ansari (32), Hanif Sayed (46) and his wife Fehmida Sayed (43)...
17:28
Another story that's coming in just now: The Enforcement Directorate has issued a notice to Google for foreign exchange violations -- for alleged irregularities in fund transfer.
17:26
The three are LeT operatives, Ashrat Ansari (32), Hanif Sayed Anees (46) and his wife Fehmida Sayed (43) who were convicted in 2009 and were awarded the death sentence had approached the Bombay High Court for reprieve. The HC today upheld the sentence.
17:22
Just in: The Bombay High Court upholds the death sentence for three convicts in the 2003 Mumbai blasts case. A division bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and P D Kode had on November 12 last year reserved its judgement in the case. Ashrat Ansari (32), Hanif Sayed Anees (46) and his wife...
17:06
On Twitter: Smita Prakash: GoI: Indian HC spoke with former pres Nasheed twice y'day, asked if he or colleagues needed any assistance. Nasheed said he did not. GoI: India can provide assistance if need be in i.e. supplies, evac from Maldives but no mobilization is on. Contingency plan...
17:01
TV channels still going on relentlessly about the Army chief's age row case, which he lost today. And it's still on Breaking News, two-hours on. Scroll down for all that's happened.
17:00
Read: The mystery monk making billions with 5-hour energy. On Forbes.com
16:48
If you're in Bangalore from February 18 onwards, try and catch this.A collection of unpublished doodles of legendary cartoonist R K Laxman that reveals a more personal aspect of the creative genius would be put up onpublic display here for the first time. Laxman known as the 'Shakespeare of...
16:43
The international jury of the 55th annual World Press Photo Contest announced Friday that it had selected a picture by Samuel Aranda as the World Press Photo of the Year 2011.Jurors said the photo of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen...
16:42
Update on the Karnataka porn scandal.Facing opposition flak for not summarily disqualifying three former disgraced ministers over the porn row, Karnataka Assembly Speaker K G Bopaiah todaysaid a showcause notice was issued to the trio to ensure principles of natural justice and...
16:39
On Firstpost.com: After court defeat, Gen Singh should consider resigning early.Read
16:34
The judicial commission formed by the Supreme Court to probe the memogate scandal will record Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz's statement through video link on February 22, reports the Dawn, Pakistan. The who, what, why on Mansoor Ijaz.
16:22
Just in: The Defence Ministry says it welcomes the Supreme Court's decision on the Army Chief's age. We are happy that the issue has been finally resolved and controversy put to rest, says the Defence Ministry.
16:15
Top-heavy Rachel Aldana was once crowned the owner of Britain's largest natural boobs -- they are STILL growing...Read/See the story on the Sun, UK.
16:06
The Tamil Nadu Chief minister Jayalalithaa has taken a decisive step toward breaking the impasse over the commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant built by Russian companies.Read
16:00
Sanjay Dutt is in the news for two reasons today, and for the right ones...First, JLo is set to perform at Sanjay Dutt's Martial Arts event in Mumbaiand The actor is planning tohaving his life's story penned down.
15:53
Read: Historian and author Ramachandra Guha writes: India, whose creation as a republic is the most recklessly ambitious experiment in history, has flourished. But old strains put the future in peril.On Prospect Magazine.
15:50
Dramatic last moments of Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed as he resigned. Watch the YouTube video.
15:49
Cute story on the Daily Mail: 'Please look after my hamster, I can't afford her anymore' See
15:44
Grists for the gossip mill... 1. Parminder Nagra, who first found fame starring in Bend It Like Beckham, is ending her marriage. The former ER doc has filed for divorce from her photographer husband James Stenson, seeking an end to their three-year union. The reason: Irreconcilable...
15:20
Moving on to other news... From the Daily Mail: Did Spain's King Don Juan Carlos have an affair with Diana? So claims a new book Read
15:16
And another update on the Army chief age row: Gen Singh tells the Supreme Court that he would resign within 48 hours if the government is willingto decide my date of birth as May 10, 1951.
15:12
Emerging from the court, the Army Chief's counsel Puneet Bali said it was victory of both sides as the matter has been resolved amicably. Our petition was not for extension of service (of Gen Singh) but a matter of honour and integrity of the General, he said, adding we are satisfied that...
15:08
Gen Singh has to give an undertaking to the Supreme Court that he will abide by the court's order and withdraw his petition.
14:53
So in a nutshell, here it is:Supreme Court declares the petition of Gen VK Singh as disposed off as withdrawn. Army Chief withdraws his petition from Supreme Court on his age row. SC tells Gen Singh that 1950 will be taken as his date of birth for purposes of service. Army...
14:49
The SC also said that the quashing of the plea or the verdict that 1950 be taken as the General's date of birth for service purposes does not in any way reflect on his integrity or his ability to lead the army. The AG specifically said that the court has never questioned his bonafides.
14:41
The attorney general had said, just before the lunch break, that even though there is a case between the Union of India and VK Singh, the government did not at any point doubt his bonafide and wanted him to continue as the army chief.
14:39
Right now:Army Chief VK Singh withdraws his petition. He tells the court that he does not wish to press the matter further.The Supreme Court dismissed Army Chief's plea that 1951 be taken as his date of birth. The SC order came after a statement from the attorney general
14:34
The Supreme Court order on the age row is being dictated right now.
14:30
Just in: Four BSF soldiers, including a commandant, killed in a blast by Naxals in Odisha's Malkingiri district.
14:28
In other news: The Bombay High Court is likely to pronounce today its verdict on confirmation of death sentence to three people, including a woman, convicted in the 2003Mumbai twin bomb blasts case. A division bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and P D Kode had on November 12 last year...
14:20
Statement by the Prime Minister at the Joint Media Interaction at 12th India-EU Summit
14:17
As this happens, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sent a senior MEA official to the Maldives as special envoy to assess the situation. Read: The op-ed piece by ousted Maldives prez Mohamed Nasheed in the New York Times, written on Wednesday, the day of the coup.
14:14
The Supreme Court says that the final call is that of the government.
14:13
More on the case:The Supreme Court tells Gen VK Singh that having given his commitment andassurance of abiding by the government decision, he cannot resile. The apex court today said, We want to ensure that Gen Singh continues to work asArmy Chief as he has been doing.Attorney General GE...
14:09
On January 25, we published this report by Seema Mustafa, which in retrospect is telling indeed. Does General V K Singh know what he's up against? Read
13:58
In other words, in the Union of India vs Army Chief VK Singh, the government emerges the winner. As expected. This means the General will retire on May 31. If 1951 had been considered as his DoB, he would have got a 10-month extension.
13:53
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declines to comment on the age controversy of the Army Chief, saying that the matter is before the court.In brief, here's what the Supreme Court said: No prejudice was done to Gen Singh. Government has full faith in him. Gen Singh has to abide by his...
13:49
The Supreme Court also told the army chief that the most relevant document for the date of birth is the UPSC record, which says 1950. The apex court also told Gen Singh that the government was not prejudiced against him.Attorney General GE Vahanvaty said that Even though we are resisting a PIL...
13:45
Just in: The Supreme Court tells Army Chief VK Singh to withdraw his plea or face contempt of court. The SC says the 1950 date of birth in the UPSC records is to be used for service issues as it is not 'grossly erroneous'. The SC also said it was not in favour of entertaining Gen Singh's...
13:36
US Marine Corps in the news for the wrong reasons... once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS a special unit that murdered millions of Jews, gypsies and others. The...
13:26
Fallout of the Maldives uprising: The Island President, the film about Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed and his quest to lobby for reforms that will ease global warming, has taken on a new context for Samuel Goldwyn Films after Nasheed was forced yesterday to resign at gunpoint. Read it on...
13:17
Light reads: 'The Artist's Jean Dujardin on his doubts about the black-and-white silent film and the joy of taking risks. Read it on Deadline.com
13:05
The hearing in the Union of India vs VK Singh, which went beyond an hour today, is over for the day. In the packed court room, the judges put some tough questions to the Army Chief asking why he did not get his date of birth corrected with the UPSC which had recorded it as May 10, 1950....
12:57
Mimi Alford, the former White House intern who recently wrote a book claiming she had an affair with President John F. Kennedy, detailed the 18-month affair in an interview with Meredith Vierra on Rock Center Wednesday. Alford, 69, told Vierra that she didn't feel...
12:41
Update on the SC hearing in the Army Chief vs Union of India.The SC questions why Gen VK Singh did not get his date of birth corrected with the UPSC which had recorded it as May 10, 1950. The Apex Court says all documents at threshold when Gen Singh joined IMA, NDA recorded his date of birth as...
12:35
Why Batla House is trending on Twitter...Just a day after the Election Commission censured him for promising nine per cent sub quota to backward minorities, union minister Salman Khurshid seems to have triggered yet another controversy. Speaking to journalists in Azamgarh which goes to polls...
12:30
Another important case being heard in Pakistan. The Supreme Court today dismissed Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's appeal against indictment summons. An eight-member bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry was hearing the case today. The Supreme Court earlier this...
12:26
On the Wall Street Journal: If reports are confirmed that a Special Investigation Team has cleared Narendra Modi' -- and the court reviewing the report follows suit -- can Gujarat's chief minister finally move beyond the accusations that he didn't do enough to stop Hindu mobs from killing Muslims...
12:23
Four months after his death, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, continues to make news. The FBI has released a decades-old file it kept on , questioning his moral character by disclosing details on his reported drug use and ability to distort reality. The file was prepared on the Apple founder as...
12:20
On the New York Times' India blogs: Katherine Boo, the author whose just-published Behind the Beautiful Forevers' about a Mumbai slum is being called one of the best books on India in a generation. Read
12:11
Interesting reads on the the UP elections... From the Wall Street Journal: The importance of being Robert VadraOn rediff.com: First Look: Priyanka's kids on UP poll sceneOn Firspost.com: Why Priyanka's charisma may not work for Congress in UP
12:00
Hearing on Gen V K Singh's petition continues in the apex court. Solicitor General Rohinton Nariman cites three letters of Gen Singh to say that he has been unequivocally given his personal rights. The AG says that Government's July 21 and 22 order turning down Gen Singh's plea on age row...
11:58
While that hearing is still on, our Delhi correspondent tells us that DMK MP and former Telecom Minister Andimuthu Raja is moving the Supreme Court next week for a review of the February 2 judgment on the 2G scam to expunge references to him. Raja, who is a lawyer, is busy in Tihar Jail...
11:48
On the Telegraph, Calcutta, read: Army defies age revision order
11:47
The Supreme Court has questioned why the government had taken advice from the attorney general for the second time and had given the government the option to withdraw the order. The army chief has sought a stay on the government's rejection of his statutory complaint and consequential reliefs'....
11:40
Just in: The government has withdrawn the December 30 order rejecting Army Chief VK Singh's plea for changing his date of birth to 1951. The bench of justice RM Lodha and justice HL Gokhale had on February 3 set a one week deadline for the Centre to withdraw its December 30, 2011 rejecting...
11:37
Our Delhi correspondent says that firebrand Andhra leader Renuka Chaudhary has sent a personal note to Sonia Gandhi asking to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh in the upcoming elections to be held in April.Just so that she can rule on the octave. I fight the BJP and...
11:27
Union minister and senior Congress leader Sriprakash Jaiswal said yesterday that the next CM of Uttar Pradesh will be remote-controlled by Rahul Gandhi. Whoever becomes the CM (if Congress comes to power), the remote will be in Rahulji's hands,' the coal minister said in New Delhi, a day...
11:24
On the bbc.co.uk: Tata Steel, the largest producer in India, unexpectedly reported a loss for the last three months of 2011, hit by weak demand. The company saw a net loss of 6.03bn rupees in the third quarter. Read
11:19
Just in: Industrial production grows by a meagre 1.8 per cent in December, 2011, in comparison to the level in the corresponding month of 2010.
11:17
Saturday night treat, it seems is Dharma Productions' Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu. Rediff.com's Sukanya Verma gives it the thumbs up saying neither is it an epic nor is it weighed down by an overload of pop culture references. Read
11:12
More on the interceptor missile test-fired today. As part of its plan to deploy a two-layer ballistic missile defence system, Indiatoday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile from the Integrated Test Range off Odisha coast.A surface-to-surface target...
11:06
Undergoing chemotherapy for a malignant lung tumour, Yuvraj Singh has gone bald and the Indian cricketer has posted his latest picture showing the after-effects of the treatment on social networking site Twitter.Finally the hair has gone ! But #livstrong #yuvstrong, Yuvraj posted alongside a link...
10:57
Just in: India's indigenously developed interceptor missile test-fired from test range off Odisha coast. Details awaited.
10:49
Student stabs teacher to death in Chennai school (The Hindu)Sources in the school said, when the teacher was waiting in an empty classroom for the fourth period of the day to begin, the boy allegedly walked in and is believed to have slashed her throat and stabbed her in the stomach....
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