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Security has been tightened all across the city on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the 26/11 terror attack, police said today.The lone caught 26/11 terrorist, Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, was executed at Yerawada prison in Pune on November 21.The security has also been tightened after the Pakistan...
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AP reports: Israel's eight-day bombardment of the Gaza Strip has caused more than $1.2 billion in direct and indirect damages, a spokesman for the Hamas government said today.The total cost of damages caused by the Israeli aggression is $1.245 billion, Taher al-Nunu told reporters in Gaza City....
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Union Minister Kamal Nath has emerged as the crucial player for the success of FDI in retail voting issue in Parliament. Our correspondent from New Delhi takes a look at his Monday appointments. According to a source, eight senior personal assistants have been working overtime to assist the...
20:37
The buzz heard in the BJP headquartes that the RSS has set up a panel of three names-- Ram Naik, Shanta Kumar and Ravi Shankar Prasad in the event of party president Nitin Gadkari not getting second termOne of these three would make it to the post, said a highly-placed source, and added,This will...
20:34
According to media reports, the BJP has initiated proceedings to expel senior party leader Ram Jethmalani from the party.Jethmalani has in the last few days openly taken on the party, including on the appointment of the new CBI chief, as also demanding the resignation of Nitin Gadkari as the BJP...
20:03
BJP Assam unit President Sarbananda Sonowal today accused Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi of failing to take steps against the perpetrators of 'secret killings'. The ruling Congress has criticised the erstwhile Asom Gano Parishad (AGP) government under Prafulla Kumar Mahanta down the years for...
19:57
Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood today called for nationwide demonstrations in support of Islamist President Muhammed Mursi, who has assumed sweeping powers in confrontation with the judiciary, as the deeply-polarised country braced for more clashes.The day started with clashes in the morning...
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Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley today said that since so many leaders have campaigned in Gujarat, it indicates that the entire BJP is behind Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi.Many BJP leaders are going to address rallies. This is a indication that the entire party is standing...
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A belligerent BJP MP Ram Jethmalani, who attacked the party for its criticism on the appointment of the new CBI director, today challenged the party leadership to take action against him for his stand on the issue.If there is any action taken against me, I will welcome it but I don't think anyone...
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Ahead of a crucial all party meeting tomorrow in Delhi, the Centre today failed to get a firm assurance from its key ally DMK on FDI in multi-brand retail.This emerged clear after a 90-minute meeting Congress emissary Ghulam Nabi Azad had with DMK chief M Karunanidhi in a bid to take the southern...
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Keeping the controversy alive, former CAG official R P Singh today said that the Public Accounts Committee did suggest one of the methodologies to the CAG to calculate the losses due to 2G spectrum allocation which were pegged at Rs 1.76 lakh crore in the final report.Dismissing reports that he...
17:09
After supporting Ram Jethmalani and Yashwant Sinha's demand of resignation by Nitin Gadkari as the Bharatiya Janata Party chief, party leader Shatrughan Sinha on Sunday sided with Jethmalani again on appointment of Ranjit Sinha as new Central Bureau of Investigation director, saying there was no...
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The Left parties today accused the UPA government of 'flagrantly backing out' from its assurance that a decision on FDI in retail would be taken only after arriving at a consensus with political parties.They termed as 'unilateral and dictatorial' the government's move of opening the multi-brand...
16:43
Senior Indian Police Service officer Alok Joshi will be the new chief of the Research and Analysis Wing and Syed Asif Ibrahim will be the next Director of Intelligence Bureau, the first Muslim to head it with four officers senior to him having been shifted out.The Appointments Committee...
15:43
A slight intensity earthquake shook parts of western Tripura today. The quake, which struck at 11:32 am, was measured 4.2 on the Richter Scale, the India Meteorological Department said.The epicentre of the quake was located at 23.7 degrees north on the latitude and 91.5 degrees east on the...
15:13
The Indian Air Force will soon be phasing out the old Avro aircraft and have sought a request for proposal, a senior IAF official said today.The Avro aircraft will be replaced with modern ones. A request for proposal as been sought by the authorities, Air Marshal Jagdish Chandra, Air Officer...
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Siddharth Bhatia writes for the Asian Age: In less than two weeks or so from now, Mumbai will be observing a grisly anniversary, the 20th anniversary of the worst riots to hit the city in living memory.For several weeks Bombay, as it was then known, had burnt as rampaging mobs went on a wild...
14:44
The editor of an Irish daily that carried topless pictures of a sunbathing Kate Middleton has resigned in the wake of the controversy that had outraged the British royal family. Michael O'Kane, the editor of the Irish Daily Star had been suspended from his position in September while the...
14:32
IBNLive reports: According to Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh, Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party will have to first win the Assembly elections for it to be taken seriously by the grand old party of India. Digvijaya, when asked whether the AAP would have any effect on the Congress,...
13:54
The government of Jammu and Kashmir have imposed a ban Muharram processions on Sunday and restrictions in parts of Srinagar and tightened security arrangements in other Shia-dominated areas of the valley.Section 144 that prohibits assembly of more than four persons is in force in Srinagar, and...
13:49
Tension prevailed in Gollapalem village in Garividi mandal of Vizianagaram district following a clash between Telugu Desam and Congress workers in which 15 members from both sides were injured this morning.A small altercation at a tea shop allegedly set off the clash in the village, police...
13:27
The condition of former Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral, who is admitted to the Medicity Medanta Hospital here with a lung infection, is 'stable but critical'.Gujral, 92, who was admitted to the hospital on November 19, is still on the ventilator. He was on dialysis for over a year now and had...
12:38
MPs of Trinamool Congress, once a UPA ally, are expected to be seated in the Opposition benches in the Lok Sabha from tomorrow.In fact, a lot of changes in the seating arrangements are on the cards with the inclusion of 17 MPs into the government a month back and removal of a few ministers. TMC...
12:19
A murder accused was shot at Bilaspur district court in Chhattisgarh, police said today. Kamal Dhuri, an accused in Dhuripara double murder case, was seriously injured in the attack yesterday while one of the assailants was arrested soon afterwards, the police said.The assailants were identified...
12:13
Former CAG official R P Singh, who has stirred a controversy, has rejected the allegations that the Congress has put him up to defend the government on the audit report on 2G spectrum allocation which had estimated the presumptive loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore.I don't think it has any substance, he...
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Faced with a deadlock in Parliament over FDI in retail, Government has convened an all-party meeting in New Delhi tomorrow as the Left and the Right have remained adamant on discussion under a rule that entails voting. Convened by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath, the meeting comes...
11:03
NDTV reports: A day after the Delhi Police claimed that liquor baron Ponty Chadha's aide Sukhdev Singh Namdhari admitted to shooting at Mr Chadha's brother Hardeep, they have today recovered a gun that was used in the shootout from Mr Namdhari's farmhouse in Bazpur, Uttarakhand.A shootout at a...
11:01
Clearing a misconception on life term imprisonment, the Supreme Court in a significant ruling, has held that life imprisonment implies a jail term for convict's entire life.The apex court also said that its Constitution bench's landmark judgement of 1980 on criterion for imposing death penalty...
10:46
Over 100 people were killed overnight after a fire engulfed a multi-storey garment factory on the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, officials said today.The fire broke out in the ground-floor warehouse of Tazreen Fashion factory,30 km north of Dhaka, last evening, trapping hundreds of...
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The Telegraph says: The prime minister and the UPA's chairperson may have been unaware of Ajmal Kasab's imminent hanging to death last Wednesday, if the Union home minister is to be believed. But Sushil Kumar Shinde's self-touted 'police background' did not come in the way of the 'world's...
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South Korean pop sensation Psy's Gangnam Style has become YouTube's most-watched video of all time, registering more than 803 million views to overtake Baby by Canadian heartthrob Justin Bieber. The 34-year-old rapper has rocketed to fame since his Gangnam Style video -- in which he performs...
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Gaza's ruling Hamas will not stop arming itself, the No 2 in the Palestinian group has said, signaling tough challenges ahead for indirect negotiations between Israel and the Islamist militants on a new border deal for Gaza.The talks are being brokered by Egypt, which also helped forge a...
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Kejriwal sets off with Swaraj in heart, Aam Aadmi in mindModi set to sweep Gujarat; No Congress revival: PollI was made to sign on 2G audit report: R P SinghAsif Ibrahim to be new Intelligence Bureau chiefFormer PM I K Gujral on ventilator Ponty case: Namdhari shot Hardeep, say police
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