23:27
Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor has sent an apology through his lawyer to a court in Udaipur apologising for smoking in a public place, but claimed it was part of the shoot of a film.The actor was summoned by the court to appear on Thursday in connection with a case against him for allegedly...
22:47
Ten people, including two children, were killed and over 20 others injured when a bomb went off at a market in the restive Bajaur tribal region of northwest Pakistan today, officials said. The blast occurred at Pusht Bazar in Salarzai area of Bajaur Agency. A majority of the victims died...
20:53
The country's new President Pranab Mukherjee will now be on social networking site Facebook. The move to take the plunge into cyberspace came a day after Mukherjee was sworn-in as the 13th President of the country.According to official sources today, the President's Facebook account will...
20:52
'Psycho' Stapleton, a Briton who shot dead Indian student Anuj Bidve in an unprovoked attack last year was today held guilty of murder after a trial in the Manchester Crown Court. Kiaran Stapleton, 21, who once called himself 'Psycho' Stapleton in a court hearing, had earlier admitted...
20:39
Union Agriculture Minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar today called on Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray at the Lilavati Hospital here. Pawar who arrived from Delhi this evening drove straight to the hospital and enquired about the 86-year-old Shiv Sena leader. Pawar had earlier met...
20:02
The LeT operative Sayed Ansari alias Abu Jundal has revealed that he had used four email addresses and 10 international SIM cards while he was hiding in Saudi Arabia, where he was also given a task of recruiting young men into the terror outfit, police said. Jundal said that he managed to...
18:42
Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, who was admitted to Lilavati Hospital in suburban Bandra two days ago, was 'fine', the doctor treating him said here.He is fine, but will be kept in the hospital for another two-three days, said chest physician Dr Jalil Parkar. He refused to specify the exact...
18:40
Any time double money! A faulty ATM in the United Kingdom started dispensing double the amount requested as people squabbled with each other to avail the sudden windfall.Police were called to calm crowds that had gathered after the cash machine at the Nacton Road Lloyds TSB in Ipswich started...
18:32
Amarjyoti Kalita, prime accused in the molestation of a girl on July 9 outside a pub in Guwahati, was remanded to five days police custody today. Kalita, who was arrested on July 23 in Varanasi and brought here yesterday on a transit remand, was today produced amidst tight security before the...
18:29
With the situation remaining grave in strife-torn Kokrajhar district in Assam, around 2,000 people from the state have migrated to neighbouring Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal. Jalpaiguri SP Sugato Sen said the refugees have migrated to Alipurduar, Alipurduar junction, Kumargram and Barovisha...
18:15
Poor show at Team Anna's fast at Jantar Mantar...@thekiranbedi In support of Arvind, Manish and Gopal on indefinite fast, there are 410 others fasting around the country, which includes 32 women. Thank uUnlike the August 2011 fast, where the number of people fasting across the country were in...
18:10
The mass violence at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant in Haryana July 18, 2012 was shocking. What started as a petty tiff over tea time between a supervisor and a worker Jiya Lal, during which supervisor also allegedly used caste based slur, snowballed into one of the goriest incidents of recent...
17:45
The wife of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai and a family aide have been charged with the murder of a British businessman, the government said Thursday, pushing ahead a case at the center of a messy political scandal that exposed divisions in China's leadership. Read moreOn Rediff.com: The Bo...
17:39
Excerpt from Gujarat CM Narendra Modi's interview with Shahid Siddiqui, editor of the Urdu-language weekly newspaper Nai Duniya...Q Senior Congress leaders including Rajiv Gandhi apologized after 1984 [communal riots]. And [Jagdish] Tytler was made to quit politics. You haven't regretted...
17:29
Thirteen months since the murder of Mid Day journalist J Dey, the Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Council, Vinod Tawade today demanded a CBI probe in the case.If the government is sincere enough and wants the truth to be revealed, they should hand over the J Dey murder case...
17:18
Update on the Laila Khan murder case. The Bombay High Court today said it cannot transfer investigations into each and every case to the CBI unless there is any formidable ground which shows inefficiency on the part of the police. A division bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and A R Joshi was...
16:57
Huge embarrassment for the organisers of the London Olympics. Organisers yesterday refused to name the person responsible but said they had offered to resign over the gaffe. The North Korea's women's team walked off the pitch for an hour when they were mistakenly introduced at Hampden Park using...
16:54
Wife of scandal-hit Chinese politician Bo Xilai will be prosecuted for murder, state news agency Xinhua says. Details awaited.
16:44
Congress General Secretary and Assam In-charge Digivijaya Singh in an interview to CNN-IBNs Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai talks about the ethnic clash in Assam and the measures taken by the state government to bring the situation under control in the affected districts of Kokrajhar, Dhubari...
16:22
In Delhi, Team Anna is on an indefinite fast. But the big question now is whether the anti-corruption movement has lost its steam. Unlike in the past, crowds that had thronged the protest venue were missing now. The organisers issued appeals to mothers, wives and daughters to flock to the protest...
16:13
Sassy, self-deprecating and sharp as a knife, actress/writer/performer Meera Syal is perfectly cast as Beatrice in a new show, Much Ado About Nothing. Read the Telegraph report.
16:07
A Balinese teenager caught in the act of intercourse with a cow passed out on Friday when he was forced to marry the animal in a ceremony witnessed by hundreds of curious onlookers.As the Jakarta Globe reported earlier in the day, Ngurah Alit, 18, an unemployed youth from the seaside village of...
15:43
It's not just Oprah who has taken India to America. We have another brand ambassador. A home-grown one this time around ' in the curvaceous form of Sherlyn Chopra.Sherlyn who, you ask? For those of you who have not been googling her incessantly over the last few days, Sherlyn aka Mona Chopra...
15:38
The 32.7 mile relay of the Olympic flame has legendary personalities from all over the world and all walks of life, including Lawrence Dallaglio, Lewis Moody, Jim Anderson, Phil Packer, Darren Fitzpatrick and Tom Davis.Incidentally, the Olympic torch weighs around 1.5 kilos.
15:33
Dressed in white tracks the actor is part of the relay team carrying the torch, a day before the Games are set to begin. Bachchan carried the torch for 300 m before handing it over to the next runner. Yesterday, Bachchan, 69, tweeted that he would be carrying the torch in London at...
15:27
Amitabh Bachchan carries the Olympic torch in the Southwark district of London. Earlier, Bachchan said it was a proud moment for him and India.
15:21
The bail plea of French national Pascal Mazurier has rejected by a court in Bangalore. Mazurier, deputy Head of Chancery in the Consulate of France, was arrested on 19 June on a complaint by his wife Suja Jones Mazurier, a native of Kerala, alleging that he had raped their four-year-old daughter....
15:03
The Navnirman Sena has also distributed visuals of the act. The white marble statue installed in the Bhimrao Ambedkar Samajik Parivartan Sthal was damaged this afternoon.A big hammer was apparently used to vandalise the face and head of the statue. Heavy police force has been deployed at the...
14:57
Former UP chief minister Mayawati's statue has been beheaded in Lucknow. The attack was allegedly carried out by activists from Navnirman Sena. UP CM Akhilesh Yadav has condemned the act and orders the statue to be reconstructed.
14:41
Assam CM Tarun Gogoi, who visited Kokrajhar to review the situation in the riot-affected areas said the state was NOT burning and that the situation would be brought under control in two to three days. This statement comes even as the Army mobilised around 1,000 personnel for deployment in four...
14:31
Just in: Ten Congress MPs write to Sonia Gandhi suggesting Rahul Gandhi's appointment as Leader of Lok Sabha; say it is the 'need of the hour'.The chorus for Rahul playing a greater role in Congress party has grown louder after Digvijaya Singh demanded that he be given decisive...
14:21
Activist Ai Weiwei withdrew from the Beijing 2008 Olympics opening ceremony and was declared a threat to the police state. Here he explains why he hopes the London Games will be different. Read
14:16
Is Pranab Mukherjee, the activist president that we have been waiting for? A president who will speak his mind, be the conscience-keeper of the majority of the country and the devil's advocate that we will need every now and then.Read
14:12
Scattered violence continued for the sixth day today in riot-torn lower Assam districts where one person was killed in police firing while four persons were injured in an attack by a group of persons in Baksa district. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi arrived in Kokrajhar to review the situation...
14:01
An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on drought will meet on Tuesday to review the monsoon situation, as 22 per cent deficit rains so far have affected sowing of Kharif crops, particularly coarse cereals. I have planned EGoM on drought on coming Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar,...
13:53
The background of the unrest in Assam: Ever since the clashes between Bodos and migrant Muslim groups in 2008, Kokrajhar, the seat of administration of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), has held an uneasy peace. Read
13:42
Leander Paes has done it all for Indian tennis in a career spanning more than two decades. He won an Olympic medal, won countless Grand Slam trophies and guided the national team to some unbelievable wins at the Davis Cup level. But he was literally left to fend for himself and was caught...
13:22
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will visit ethnic violence-hit Assam''s Kokrajhar District on Saturday to take stock of the volatile situation. Meanwhile, the situation in Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri district has improved to some extent and there have been no reports of...
12:56
Anna Hazare, who is taking part in an anti-corruption protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, has wished Pranab Mukherjee on becoming India's 13th President. He has become the first citizen of India, I congratulate him, Hazare said. He is an important man of the nation. I wish him luck, he added. Team...
12:42
UP's power couple - Dimple and Akhilesh Yadav - might have steered clear of political controversies during their visit to the Capital on Tuesday but they more than made up for it by showcasing their sparkling chemistry. Their performance was quite unlike that of straight-jacketed political...
12:35
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi arrives in Kokrajhar even as one more person was killed in police firing during clashes between minority immigrants and Bodos in lower Assam's Dhubri district even as fresh violence in Baksa district left four persons seriously injured on Thursday.Indefinite...
12:32
In the latest trickle of information from notoriously opaque North Korea, the country's supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, was confirmed by state media to be married -- and to a woman named Ri Sol Ju.Read the report on cnn.com.
12:24
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has congratulated Pranab Mukherjee on becoming India's 13th President, calling him a strong partner of the American people.I want to congratulate President Mukherjee on his swearing-in as the 13th President of India. President Mukherjee has been a strong...
12:21
NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul's portrait will be featured to represent India at a major public art project showcasing Britain's cultural diversity coinciding with the 2012 London Olympics. Under the project, The World in London, the Photographers' Gallery commissioned 204 photographic...
11:55
Pratibha Devisingh Patil has given her farewell gift to the nation -- her last speech as Rashtrapati. On the assumption that the nation was largely busy with other things (Sherlyn Chopra's press conference about her Playboy debut, for example) Firstpost.com bring you a handy guide to Patil's...
11:47
Maruti Suzuki India yesterday said that it has run out of stock of its two best selling models - Swift and DZire - which are produced at the Manesar plant, where it has declared lockout following violence last week Read moreAlso read: Economics Journal: Roadside barbers Vs. Maruti workers
11:41
Alan Cumming, a Scottish actor, recently starred in an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth in New York in which he played all the major parts. With reports that Manmohan Singh is now doing the job of the agriculture minister in addition to being the finance minister and Prime Minister, we...
11:34
Just in: Senior UP Cabinet minister Azam Khan says he has NOT offered to resign form the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet berth. Reports had said that he had offered to quit after he was removed as the minister in-charge of Meerut district. He says the reports were false and he had no wish to weaken...
11:32
James Holmes, who has been accused of killing at least 12 people during the screening of latest Batman film 'The Dark Knight Rises,' at a movie theater in Colorado, the US, wanted to know how the film ended. Did you see the movie? How does it end?' the Batman obsessed killer asked the...
11:25
On Day 2 of the Team Anna fast against the UPA government on the issue of corruption -- there were few people at the venue. The response to the fast on the first day yesterday was also modest with police estimating that 2,500-3,000 people attended during peak hours. The Team's earlier protests...
11:16
Noted Indian poet and writer Jeet Thayil is among 12 authors long-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction worth 50,000 pounds and an assured spurt in the sales of the prize-winning book. Kerala-born Thayil, 53, is the only Indian writer in this year's long-list that includes known...
11:10
Hang me if I am guilty (Main gunehgaar hoon toh mujhe phaansi par latkaa do). This is what chief minister Narendra Modihas said in his first ever interview to a leading Urdu weekly. The cover-page interview was conducted by Shahid Siddiqui, a former Rajya Sabha MP from odd quarters - the...
11:07
A five-day old newborn died in Jalandhar's Civil Hospital when the doctors removed her from the incubator because her parents could not pay Rs 200 in advance that the hospital asked for, media reports said today. Reports said that the baby was born on July 20 and had to be kept in an...
11:05
The Army continued to stage flag march in the violence affected areas of lower Assam on Wednesday following a clash between Bodos and Muslims which has claimed 40 lives.An indefinite curfew has also been imposed in two districts of Assam's north-west. On the sixth day of the ethnic violence, the...
10:53
Senior UP Cabinet minister Azam Khan offered to resign form the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet berth after he was removed as the minister in-charge of Meerut district.Irked over taking away of the charge of Meerut district, the SP leader relinquished the charge of Ghaziabad and Muzaffarnagar districts,...
10:44
The Anna Hazare show is back in town. But this time, with not much of a bang. After the breathless, second-by-second coverage of every word or move the anticorruption activist and his aides made last August, this time around the response has so far been lukewarm.Hazare and his...
10:15
Australia has issued a travel advisory asking its citizens to reconsider their travel plans to India's northeastern states of Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura. Issuing a new advisory yesterday, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said, We advise you to reconsider your...
09:57
An Indian Forest Service officer has been arrested in the United States for allegedly assaulting a hotel maid sexually, reports NDTV. Surender Mahapatra was arrested in Pennsylvania yesterday. He was part of a batch of 34 officers who had gone to the US for a training workshop at Syracuse...
09:44
Germany's highest court has declared that the country's reformed electoral law introduced by Chancellor Angela Merkel was unconstitutional and ordered for it to be overhauled before the next general election next year. The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe yesterday ruled that the...
09:33
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is expected to visit relief camps in Kokrajhar today. The state continues to remain tense after five days of ethnic violence. The army continues with flag march in affected areas.
08:45
There have been fresh clashes and cases of arson in Assam and six more people died in the ethnic violence taking the toll of those killed due to the strife to 41. Shoot-at-sight orders are in place in four districts. The exodus of people from villages affected by the clashes continues; they are...
03:00
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has congratulated Pranab Mukherjee on being sworn in as the 13th President of India saying he has been a strong partner to the United States and its people.I want to congratulate President Mukherjee on his swearing-in as the 13th President of India. President...
02:57
Britain scrambled a Royal Air Force Typhoon jet on Thursday after a commercial airliner entered restricted airspace put in place for the London Olympics, the Ministry of Defence said.The RAF jet was launched after air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane.But contact was soon...
02:57
Six people died when a helicopter crashed into an area often referred to as France's answer to the Grand Canyon, according to officials.Francis Mene, a defence official, said the helicopter crashed while carrying out a test flight in the Verdon Gorge in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in southeastern...
02:56
The United States has wished North Korea's first couple well after the secretive nation announced that new leader Kim Jong Un is married.The news was buried in a state TV news report that the mystery woman seen beside the 20-something leader in recent weeks is his wife, comrade Ri Sol...
02:56
A US judge has said that the US Army psychiatrist and Muslim charged in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage will be forcibly shaved if he doesn't remove his beard on his own.Maj Nidal Hasan appeared in court sporting a beard, which violates Army regulations. Hasan says his beard is an...
02:55
Jeet Thayil on 2012 Man Booker long-listCongress-NCP stand-off endsArmy mobilises 1,000 troopers for violence hit AssamPetrol, diesel prices rise in 7 states, drop in 11I have never understood what amnesty means: Kapil DevNever planned to attend Games opening: Kalmadi
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