23:57
The Indian fishermen aboard a ship targeted by the US Navy off Dubai coast today claimed that they received no warning before being fired upon and the American action was unprovoked. According to the survivors, there were no warnings given to them, Indian Ambassador to the UAE M K Lokesh told...
23:19
Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan today welcomed the decision to revive the bilateral cricket ties with India, saying the on-field contest between the two nations was good for the sport. I welcome India's decision to revive cricket with Pakistan. Anything which can bring both the countries to...
22:24
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today described Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as an honest person and said he understood economics.  Prime minister is an honest person. He understands economics, the Trinamool Congress chief told reporters while announcing her party's support for UPA...
21:39
Senior officials of India and Pakistan will meet in Islamabad on July 19 to discuss measures aimed at facilitating travel and trade across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.   The meeting of the India-Pakistan Working Group on Cross-LoC confidence building measures is being held in...
21:09
Congress President Sonia Gandhi called up Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and thanked her for supporting Pranab Mukherjee for President. Â Ending weeks of suspense for the Congress and her own party, Banerjee announced this evening that her party will reluctantly vote for Pranab....
20:46
The representatives of the Reliance Industries Limited and BP PMS Prasad and Sashi Mukundan met Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Jaipal Reddy on July 13 and represented for speedy clearances in four of the blocks being operated by their Companies. It was agreed at the meeting to...
20:28
The buzz in New Delhi after Mamata Banerjee announced her support for Pranab Mukherjee for President:   Banerjee called up Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, but he was napping. He returned her call after waking up and she then agreed to support Pranab.     Sonia Gandhi sent a long...
19:53
Shortly after Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee announced today that her party would vote for Pranab Mukherjee, the UPA candidate called her up to thank her for the decision. Yes, he rang me up and I requested him to visit West Bengal first after winning the election, Banerjee told PTI in...
19:08
Veteran socialist leader and former MP Mrinal Gore passed away today after a brief illness, family sources said.Gore, who was 84, had gone to Vasai in neighbouring Thane district at her daughter's house and died in a hospital there, sources said.Gore was elected to Parliament on a Janata Party...
18:47
Moments after Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee announced her party's support to UPA Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari -- UPA's vice presidential nominee, who is seeking a second term -- called the West Bengal chief minister seeking support.In a press conference...
18:14
Team India skipper MS Dhoni says the boys are all set for the Sri Lanka tour. The first ODI will be played on Saturday. Dhoni says that as professionals the team is supposed to be ready. We want to begin the season well. We know the conditions well and want to start well.We are looking to do...
18:02
Michael Johnson believes Oscar Pistorius has an 'unfair advantage'. Read
17:58
A gruesome new video which appears to show Muammar Gaddafi's dead body being abused by rebels has surfaced online.In the shocking clip, which was posted to YouTube on Monday, high-spirited demonstrators apparently use the Libyan dictator's corpse as a ventriloquist's doll.Read more on the Daily...
17:54
China is shelling out massive amounts of money and manpower to improve Pakistan's Karakoram Highway, the highest motorway in the world. The supposed gift to its neighbor is a perfect example of China's economic strategy of taking on short-term expenses for the sake of long-term benefits.Read...
17:44
In other news, a teenage Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire in southwest China today, the exiled Tibetan government said, the latest in a series of self-immolation protests against Chinese rule. The 18-year old monk, identified as Lobsang Lozin, set himself alight in Bharkham county in...
17:29
Mamata Banerjee changed her stand on the presidential election because the Congress and Pranab Mukheree, at different levels, worked hard to make her understand that the 'Vote for Pranab' is a win-win situation, reports Sheela Bhatt.Read
17:27
This is what Pranab Mukherjee had said in a statement in June when Mamata had decided not to support his candidature. No, I am not hurt. I don't have any bitterness, because every political party has its own approach to a particular problem. She is, frankly speaking, entitled to hold on to her...
17:11
Mamata: I hope Pranab Mukherjee becomes the President, he remains hale and hearty and does good for this nation and its people.Meanwhile, PA Sangma is getting ready to eat humble pie.Â
17:08
Pranab Mukherjee reacting to Mamata Banerjee's announcement says he welcomes her decision.
17:02
Mamata categorically states that the party is not supporting Pranab as an individual, but that it was a political decision. The normally staid run-up to the Presidential polls has been nothing short of a cliff-hanger. Mamata admits that she hasn't spoken to Pranab-da in the last eight months. She...
16:52
The TMC boss had said yesterday that the final decision on her party's stand on Presidential election would be taken three days before the polling date on July 19 -- yesterday. Mamata had asked all her party MPs, MLAs to be present in Kolkata for the Presidential election on July 19.Mamata...
16:44
Just in: In a complete U-turn (and that's putting it mildly) Mamata Banerjee now says she will support Pranab Mukherjee's candidature for the post of President of India. She says she has no option but to support him as she did not want to waste votes.Â
16:26
The National Commission for Women (NCW) team which visited Guwahati to probe the molestation of a 17-year-old girl has submitted its report today. Expressing deep concern over the shameful' act of molestation of a teenager in Guwahati openly, NCW Chairperson Mamta Sharma has said the report had...
16:15
In other news... Tamil Nadu chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up with the US and UAE the shooting and death of a Tamil Nadu fisherman by personnel onboard a US ship in Dubai seas and seek a detailed probe. In a letter to Singh, she said Indian embassy...
16:10
In the wake of the Guwahati groping horror, the first-person account of a journalist being groped and stripped naked at Tahrir Square during the people's revolution in Egypt last year. The story has been told before, but could with a repeat. Read
15:57
Over 100 students of Sri Ramakunjeshwara First Grade College in coastal Karnataka have boycotted classes for the past one week. The reason - the students are protesting a blanket ban imposed by the college management on hijab worn by Muslim girls. Read more
15:54
Alleging that Maharashtra Police did not promptly probe the Laila Khan case after the Bollywood starlet's sudden disappearance with her family, her father Nadir Shah Patel today moved the Bombay High Court seeking transfer of the case from crime branch to CBI. The city's crime branch had last...
15:49
Raunchy novel trilogy Fifty Shades Of Grey has perked up the sex lives of around 20million people worldwide.And author EL James' work has been such a literary sensation that publisher Total E-Bound have decided to give the classics a racy 50 Shades-style makeover. Read
15:42
For the voyeur in you. Watch
15:40
A hard little bean has helped score a rare victory for the littlest of the little guys in global trade, Gardiner Harris wrote in The New York Times from Lordi, India.An increase in guar prices is helping to transform this part of the state of Rajasthan in northwestern India, one of the world's...
15:37
Is India slowly replacing the United States in the dysfunctional relationship with Pakistan where it humours the spoilt child with rewards without demanding accountability for bad behaviour? On Firstpost.com
15:34
A story that finds resonance across India. Ever since she returned to Bangalore five weeks ago, Kavita Nehemiah, 26, has been on a frantic apartment hunt. Her days and weekends are consumed by it. She has enlisted the help of a horde of realtors, counting 22 of them on her cell phone contacts...
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This time it's the molestation of a girl by a mob in Guwahati. But it could have been Mangalore, whhttp://commentary.rediff.com/commentry/add?cat=newsere girls in a pub were assaulted in 2009, or Bengaluru, wherewomen were attacked on the streets for wearing Western clothes,' or Kolkata, or...
15:26
The other story from Delhi is that AICC media cell chief Janardhan Dwivedi is upset with TV channels for reporting that Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh as has been asked to step down as the person in-charge of Uttar Pradesh. This story was apparently fed by a Union Minister, who is in...
15:20
The buzz from New Delhi is that Bollywood's big three -- Aamir Khan, Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan may contest the Lok Sabha elections in 2014. This comes after Aamir met the prime minister yesterday, though the official word on that meeting is the issue of human scavenging, which the actor...
14:52
CNN IBN reports that a meeting between Union law and justice minister Salman Khurshid and anti-graft activist Anna Hazare had taken place in Nashik on June 23. A Shiv Sena MP had orchestrated the meeting. In fact, at the press conference today, Anna did not deny the meeting. Like we said, the...
14:46
The autopsy on the Indian fisherman killed by the US Navy will be conducted soon. External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has sought a report on the incident from Indian Ambassador to Dubai M K Lokesh apart from asking the government there to investigate the case, official sources said in New...
14:43
The foreign journalist discovers turmeric and waxes eloquent on how a bright-yellow spice best known as an ingredient in curry, is gaining scientific interest as a natural alternative to arthritis medications.Read the report on the Wall Street Journal.
14:35
In fact, TMC boss Mamata Banerjee had said yesterday that the final decision on her party's stand on Presidential election would be taken three days before the polling date on July 19 -- yesterday. But there has been no statement from the party as yet. Mamata had asked all her party MPs, MLAs to...
14:33
Just in: The Trinamool Congress has decided to abstain in voting from the Presidential and vice-presidential polls. The TMC, which is UPA's most problematic has not supported Pranab Mukherjee's candidature for the presidential polls.
14:28
The editorial on the Hindu on the Presidential elections. After having denied him the chance to be President in 2012, the United Progressive Alliance did the next best thing in offering Hamid Ansari another term as Vice-President. With the support of the Left parties, the Samajwadi Party and the...
14:24
Update on the prez/vice-prez elections...Krishna Bose, the former Trinamool MP whose name Mamata Banerjee had proposed for Vice-President, today said her party had forgotten her for eight years, echoing a charge the state Congress had posted on Facebook earlier in the day.There is no denying that...
14:19
Jon Lord, former band member of British hard-rock band Deep Purple and the co-writer of legendary songs like 'Smoke On The Water', has died. He was 71. The keyboard player died at the London Clinic on Monday after suffering a fatal pulmonary embolism. The musician was surrounded by his loving...
14:17
A fire breaks out at a 42-storey building in the Turkish city of Istanbul - people are feared to be trapped inside. Details awaited.
14:12
In response to a question on the incident involving a US Naval Vessel the Official Spokesperson said:The U.S. Government has officially confirmed that a U.S. Navy vessel fired shots at a fishing vessel near the port of Jebel Ali, Dubai at about 3.00 pm UAE local time on 16 July 2012. According to...
13:51
Indian sports enthusiasts should tune in to ESPN in order to catch their favourite atheletes live in action during the London OlympEics. vents like shooting, boxing, archery, tennis and wrestling where Indians have a chance of winning a medal would be aired live. Even, the country's second most...
13:42
The Indian envoy to the UAE says the three Indian fishermen injured in the attack by the US Navy are out danger, while the body of the fishermen who has been killed will be sent back to India. An Indian fisherman was killed and three others were wounded on Monday when a security team onboard a US...
13:29
Just in: Assam CM Tarun Gogoi admits that the picture of the minor who was molested at Guwahati was released by mistake, but the name was not her real name, he says.  Â
13:22
Record-setting Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams along with two other cosmonauts today successfully docked their Soyuz spacecraft with the International Space Station (ISS) for a four-month long stay during which they will conduct over 30 scientific missions. The 46-year-old NASA...
13:08
News Live editor Atanu Bhuyan has quit, as he promised, at 1 pm. Addressing a press conference, Bhuyan said the channel had done nothing wrong. Bhuyan quit for airing the telecast of the molestation of a teen outside a pub in Guwahati. A total of 11 people have been arrested in the case. He said...
13:01
In a setback to the prosecution of seven suspects charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a Pakistani court today ruled that all findings of a judicial commission that visited India were illegal and could not be made part of the evidence against the accused. Chaudhry...
12:53
Update on the Digvijaya Singh story. The Congress general secretary has been relieved as in-charge of UP till the Presidential polls are over. The polls are on Thursday, while counting is on Sunday.Â
12:50
Ironical story on Pakistan's International News on how the Pakistan military has charged the US-led ISAF and Afghan security forces for providing sanctuaries to anti-Pakistan Taliban and terrorists across the border in Afghanistan. Read
12:48
The editorial on the Washington Post today on how deeper relations between the US and Pakistan are not possible in the foreseeable future. Read
12:46
Headlines Today reports that Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh has been relieved of the charge of UP, but he denies it.
12:40
Our Delhi sources tell us that Congress chief Sonia Gandhi will meet Tamil Nadu Congress MPs of both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha at 5 pm today ahead of the Presidential election on Thursday. The next meeting is at 5.30 pm with MPs from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala. Sonia is also hosting...
12:33
Communist Party of India Marxist's senior leader Brinda Karat has blasted Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gagoi after the CM's office revealed the identity of the young girl who was molested on the streets of Guwahati last week. Read the report on Rediff.com by Onkar Singh
12:22
This is what happened at the joint presser with Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev a while ago.Hazare and Ramdev said they will support each other in the fight against corruption. Team Anna is launching an indefinite protest from July 25 in Jantar Mantar while Ramdev's protest starts from August 9 in...
12:10
Just in: A Pakistan anti-terror court conducting the trial of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks says the commission's report is illegal. Details awaited.
11:58
Just in: Former athlete Pinki Pramanik's ex-partner submitted tapes to the police yesterday of what she claimed were conversations between her and broker Avtar Singh to prove her allegation that she had brought rape charges against the Asian Games gold medallist at his instigation, reports the...
11:52
MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweets: Ambassador called Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai early this morning to convey regret for the loss of life in tragic incident.
11:44
The US embassy releases a statement on the killing of the Indian fishermen by the US Navy. The Embassy of the United States of America would like to convey its condolences to the families of the crew of a small motor vessel, which came under fire from the USNS Rappahannock on July 16, after the...
11:39
Teachers of a state-run high school at Tharkheda in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district have alleged that three students served them urine-laced water.Shakir Ali, the principal, alleged in a complaint to the police that two Class IX students and a Class VII mixed urine in their drinking water on...
11:33
The Park Street rape case happened after 2 am in Kolkata. The solution was obvious to the powers that be -- no drinks after 11:30 and turn off the music by midnight.After the Gurgaon rape case, the city bosses said women should not work after 8 pm. And malls should turn off the electricity if a...
11:27
In other news, record-setting Indian-American cosmonaut Sunita Williams along with two other astronauts today docked their Russian spacecraft at the International Space Station for a four-month stay. The NASA astronaut Williams (46), Russian Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Japan Aerospace...
11:25
Social activist Anna Hazare and yoga guru Baba Ramdev are holding a joint press conference to announce a resumption of their anti-graft movement from August 9.
11:21
The Assam police will soon question a journalist and a camera person of the Guwahati-based news channel that had video-graphed the molestation of the girl, reports Hindustan Times. This was conveyed to the Centre by Assam government which also promised a complete overhaul of Guwahati city police,...
11:16
Update on the firing on the killing of an Indian fishermen by the US navy. External Affairs minister SM Krishna has asked for details of the incident and has directed Indian officials in UAE to look in the matter with utmost urgency.Meanwhile, US has released a statement on the tragic incident...
11:01
In fact, Atanu Bhuyan tweeted that he would resign from News Live at 1 pm.
10:59
News Live, the Guwahati-based TV channel which had aired visuals of the minor being molested. The editor-in-chief of the channel Atanu Bhuyan is expected to quit this afternoon. The reporter was accused by Team Anna member and Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) general secretary Akhil...
10:52
Just in: The Editor-in-chief of News Live is set to resign this afternoon. This comes as a fallout of the Guwahati molestation case.Â
10:40
Yahoo Inc picked Google Inc's Marissa Mayer to become its new CEO, turning to an engineer with established Silicon Valley credentials to turn around the struggling former Internet powerhouse.Mayer, 37, edged out front-runner and acting Chief Executive Ross Levinsohn to become Yahoo's third CEO in...
10:37
The Maharashtra government seems ready to declare drought following scarce rainfall across the state so far.In a report that appeared in DNA daily on Tuesday, a top government source has been quoted as saying that there is no doubt that there will be drought this year.He said that the state...
10:33
US President Barack Obama will not concede industries of the 21st century to China, India or Europe, a top presidential aide has said as he defended the administration's loan guarantee programme. This President will not concede the industries of the 21st century to China, India, Europe and...
10:31
Beijing Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra was the first Indian shooter to enter the London Olympic Games Village along with the 10-member archery squad and a four-member weight lifting squad. The archers and the lifters enterered the Games Village first while Bindra joined them a little...
10:02
The rupee gained 43 paise to trade at 54.88 against the US dollar in early trade on Tuesday at the Interbank Foreign Exchange as the American currency weakened against euro and other currencies overseas. Dollar selling by exporters and banks, amid a higher opening in the domestic equity market...
10:00
Snapping its four-session losing streak, the BSE benchmark Sensex recovered by over 130 points in early trade on Tuesday on fresh buying by funds and retail investors amid a firming trend at Asian markets. The 30-share barometer, which has lost 515 points in the last four straight sessions, rose...
09:54
Humans as a species have a habit of measuring everything. Right from human emotions to happiness and influence, we have devised ways to measure anything. Sorry this isn’t about Klout or klouchebag but about ranking cricket captains across decades or eras and coming with a top 10 list. Can we do...
09:53
India's annual monsoon has claimed 109 lives since rains started in June and left at least 400,000 people homeless in Assam, in a tragedy experts say was made worse by corruption and poor management of the Brahmaputra River.Read the story here
09:43
It is a ticking timebomb hidden on the chaotic streets of New Delhi. Despite India’s booming economy, millions of people are still battling for access to clean water. The situation is so desperate that many people in this teeming neighbourhood are falling sick. Others have set up illegal taps in...
09:04
A nine-year-old boy was killed in a celebratory firing in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh, allegedly by the supporter of a newly elected civic body chairman.The police say the shooter has been arrested and a double barrel gun has been recovered from him. Six policemen have also been...
09:01
The Pakistan Cricket Board has swiftly welcomed the first proposed cricket series with India in five years, saying millions of fans would be delighted.The decision is great and we welcome it. It seems that millions of cricket fans have their wishes fulfilled, PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf told...
04:24
Russia today blocked a proposed UN Security Council statement on mass killings in the Syrian village of Treimsa, diplomats said amid worsening deadlock over international action on the conflict. Russian envoys opposed the statement saying it was not clear what had happened, council diplomats told...
03:38
Yahoo! named 37-year-old Marissa Mayer, a key Google team member, as its chief executive, making her among the most prominent women in technology and corporate America. The appointment effective Tuesday signals a renewed focus on product innovation to drive user experience and advertising...
03:29
Jon Lord, the former keyboard player with heavy rock band Deep Purple, has died aged 71.Lord co-founded Deep Purple in 1968 and co-wrote many of the group's songs including Smoke On The Water. He also played with bands including Whitesnake.He had been receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer...
03:27
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection, a milestone in the 30-year battle against the virus that causes AIDS.The agency approved Gilead Sciences' pill Truvada as a preventive measure for people who are at high risk of acquiring HIV,...
01:52
An Indian fisherman was killed and three others were wounded today when a security team onboard a US Navy ship fired at their small boat off Dubai, a United Arab Emirates official said. The services concerned are now investigating this incident, UAE's official news agency WAM quoted Foreign...
01:35
Pakistani authorities today postponed a polio immunisation campaign in parts of the restive tribal belt due to a ban imposed by the Taliban, leaving over 3,50,000 children vulnerable to the crippling disease.The government's efforts to eradicate polio suffered a setback last month when powerful...
00:48
A Briton standing trial for the killing of Indian student Anuj Bidve told a clinical psychologist that he selected the victim from the group of Indian students only because he had the biggest head. Kiaran Stapleton, 21, has admitted manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility, but...
00:12
Stephen R. Covey, author of 'The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People' as well as three other books that have all sold more than a million copies, has died. He was 79.In a statement sent to employees of a Utah consulting firm Covey co-founded, his family said the writer and motivational...
00:12
NCW sacks member for naming Guwahati molestation victimRahul to be inducted into Cong core group?I never think of arithmetic while taking decisions: JaswantThackeray reunion? Raj drives Uddhav home from hospitalMolestation case: Guwahati SSP transferredMadhumati murder case: HC upholds life...
