23:11
Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan, who is accompanying Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to narrate the Kumbh Mela success story at Harvard University, was detained briefly for questioning at the Boston Airport, sources tell PTI.
22:11
The May 5 assembly elections in Karnataka would have 35,58,862 first time voters (18-22 age category), including 5,34,548 in Bangalore, eligible to cast their ballot in the state, where there would be 52,034 polling stations, an official said. ...
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Hindustan Times: Rhode Islands medical examiner on Thursday said the body found in a river on Tuesday is that of Sunil Tripathi, a Brown University student missing for more than a month.Health Department spokeswoman Dara Chadwick said the body was identified through a forensic dental exam....
21:04
The Supreme Court today decided to watch the controversial Punjabi film Sadda Haq which allegedly glorifies the era of extremism and its abettors before taking a call on the ban imposed by governments of Delhi, Punjab and the Union Territory of Chandigarh....
20:02
Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, who is lodged in Arthur Road jail for his alleged role in the 26/11 Mumbai attack case, is in a serious condition, his lawyer Ejaz Naqvi said. Naqvi told rediff.com that the superintendent of the jail, Patrikar, informed him about Jundal's...
19:34
In further trouble for the chit fund scam-hit Saradha group of Kolkata, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case to probe the allegations of financial irregularities by numerous depositors against it. The ED has registered a regular case under the provisions of...
19:10
Debjani Mukherjee, one of the directors of chitfund Saradha group who was arrested along with its chairman in Kashmir, played an important role in the decision making process of the company, Bidhanagar city police which is investigating its ponzi scheme, today claimed. As per the initial...
18:47
Holding that prima facie a news channel had telecast defamatory allegations against actor Salman Khan, the Bombay High Court today restrained it from telecasting such items. Justice S J Kathawalla was hearing a suit filed by Salman seeking a written apology from ABP News channel for telecasting a...
18:45
Rahul Gandhi's travel programme in Karnataka on April 26. The state goes to the polls on May 5. Friday, April 26, 11:30 hrs: Public meeting at the district municipal high school Ground, Haveri, District Haveri13:45 hrs: Public meeting at the Mahatma Gandhi Stadium, Tumkur, District Tumkur15:45...
18:16
The West Bengal Congress MP from Malda, AHK Chowdhury, in the net over the West Bengal chit fund scam, on Thursday defended himself saying that he met Saradha group promoter Sudipta Sen only six months after the second letter he had written to the PM defending Saradha Realty.In my previous...
17:50
A 25-year-old Indian-origin teacher in Singapore has been sentenced to one year in jail for having sex with an underage girl student. Aravind S Menon had earlier pleaded guilty to three counts of consensual sexual intercourse with the 14-year-old girl between May and July 2009, reported the...
17:43
The Delhi High Court today sought the Centre's response on a plea questioning how children below the age of 18 years are allowed to open an account on social networking sites including Facebook, even though Indian laws do not permit it. The court also asked two US-based entities- Facebook Inc and...
17:32
Now, Delhi can be known as more than just the rape capital of India. New Delhi and its satellite cities are becoming hothouses for startups by some measures, encroaching on a title long-held by Bangalore. Read
17:28
Nalini Chidambaram was engaged as a senior lawyer to appear before on behalf of Manoranjana Sinh, a former journalist and wife of a former union minister Matang Sinh, in a petition filed by her before the Company Law Board against her husband and M/s Positive TV Ltd. They said Manoranjana...
17:07
On the backfoot over the chit fund scam in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress today raised questions over the role of a senior Chennai-based lawyer who is married to a Congress union minister. Sudipta Sen, Chairman of the scandal-ridden Saradha Group, who was arrested two days ago, has said in...
16:45
The BSE benchmark Sensex today surged 227.49 points to close at over six-week high of 19,407 on last minute buying in auto, healthcare, oil & gas, metal and banking stocks triggered by monthly expiry in derivatives segment and rate cut hopes amid firming Asian trend. Rising for the fourth...
16:18
Female police officers in Afghanistan often suffer harassment from colleagues amid lack of dedicated facilities, says Human Rights Watch. Read
16:09
Chief of Army Staff, General Bikram Singh, today briefed Defence Minister A.K. Antony on the Chinese incursion in Ladakh and the situation along the border. General Singh returned from Jammu and Kashmir last evening after reviewing the situation there with Northern Army Commander Lt. Gen. K.T....
16:04
Saradha's Sudipta Sen: India's stupidest businessman. Read
15:58
Samajwadi Party, which extends crucial outside support to UPA, today said it would oppose the JPC draft report if former Telecom Minister A Raja is not allowed to personally depose before it, but ruled out siding with BJP in demanding removal of P C Chacko as chairman of the committee. In perhaps...
15:50
The Calcutta High Court today directed the West Bengal government to file an affidavit on the steps it has taken against the Saradha Group and also directed the company not make any financial transaction till further orders. Taking up a PIL seeking a CBI investigation into the alleged multicrore...
15:35
Survivors from a building that collapsed in Bangladesh killing at least 187 mainly women workers described hearing a deafening crack before the complex housing factories supplying Western clothes retailers crashed down in a matter of seconds. Read
15:32
Opposition and DMK members of the JPC on 2G today demanded the ouster of chairperson P C Chacko for being highly partisan and asked Speaker Meira Kumar to replace him with a new chief.The 15 Joint Parliamentary Committee members belonging to BJP, JD(U), AIADMK, DMK, Left parties, TMC, and BJD met...
15:31
The Saradha group, which is under fire for allegedly defrauding investors, has more than 100 firms registered with the RoC (Registrar of Companies) for businesses across sectors including real estate, automobile, education and entertainment. Most of these companies are registered with the...
15:21
An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India on the rising incidence of rapes in the country. Read
15:15
A Kolkata court today sent Sudipta Sen, the millionaire whose chit fund went bust last week, leaving thousands of small investors across Bengal bankrupt, to 14-day police custody. When he was brought to court, protesters, some of them weeping, chanted slogans in anger. Groups of Congress...
15:12
The Ukrainian group Femen restarted the international debate about Muslim veils when it declared Topless Jihad Day' on April 4, staging protests against the hijab and in support of an activist in Tunisia. A group of Muslim women then organized a counterprotest called Muslimah Pride Day,'...
15:06
The mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects is set to travel to the U.S. today with her ex-husband, nearly a week after one of their reign of terror came to an end. Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, who now lives in Dagestan, Russia, said in an emotional telephone interview that she believes her...
14:57
Six decades after DNA's shapely curves were first revealed, no aspect of biology is now above modification, remix or redesign. Read
14:50
In international news: Despite fears that he was heavily armed, multiple federal law-enforcement officials say that the younger of the two Boston bombing suspects, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was not armed when police fired at him in a boat where he was hiding. According to The Washington Post, the...
14:18
Voicing concern over the alarming increase in rape cases in the national capital, the Delhi High Court today asked the Centre and the city police to find out the root cause of such incidents. It is surprising as to what is happening in Delhi. Find out the root cause of such incidents, a bench...
14:05
Our sources in Delhi tell us that DMK MP TR Baalu and at least six MPs went up to BJP senior leader Yashwant Sinha to discuss the 2G strategy. Sinha gave the DMK MPs some tips. In all probability, the DMK leaders might bring a draft letter to Central Hall which will be corrected by Sinha. Of...
13:40
Army chief Gen Bikram Singh briefs Defence Minister A K Antony on Chinese incursion in Ladakh.
13:35
A Delhi court remands Manoj Sah, the main accused in the rape of a minor in east Delhi, to five-day police custody.
13:35
Pushpender Kumar, a junior inspector in the Delhi Police, considers most of his colleagues unfit for duty. A lot of them are overweight,' says Kumar, a well-built officer. Others are frustrated by the daily cases of crime -- from murder to rape -- that they battle every day, says Kumar. Some...
13:27
This is a true story, though it sounds suspiciously like a fable. A tiny tobacco pouch tied to the hand of an elderly man saved the lives of nearly 800 people in a remote Chinese village when a powerful earthquake struck Sichuan province last week, killing about 200 people. The incident took...
13:14
Noting that rising cases of brutal assault of women and child rape has shaken the conscience of the nation, President Pranab Mukherjee today said society should introspect at its repeated failure to ensure safety and security of the fairer sex. He said the country must identify the cause behind...
12:59
The Prime Minister has cleared the name of Anil Goswami as the next Union home secretary and when appointed he will be the first officer from the Jammu and Kashmir cadre to be selected for the post. Goswami may be asked to join as officer on special duty (OSD) as early as next week,...
12:42
A major fire broke at Axis bank, located near Lakshmi mills, Coimbatore. The fire has been doused and the situation is under control. However, 4 people are reported dead -- all women employees of the bank. There were reportedly no fire exits.
12:29
Protestors outside the Bidhan Nagar court in Kolkata say the Rs 500 crore relief announced by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday, is too little. Sudipta Sen and Debjani Ghosh will be interrogated shortly.
12:23
There's been an explosion in a junkyard near the Taj Mahal, Agra, killing two people. Details awaited.
12:18
Saradha chit fund group boss Sudipta Sena and the three others who were produced before a court in Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, were jeered by onlookers. On April 23, a woman committed suicide after losing her savings in the chit fund scam in West Bengal, and another woman has attempted to end her...
11:54
The Supreme Court has pulled up the Delhi police over a female protestor being slapped over the rape of a five-year-old girl. The cop, Assistant Commissioner of Police Bani Singh Ahlawat, has been suspended. The SC has asked the Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar to file an affidavit over why...
11:44
And even as we tell you that, Sudipta Sen and three others have been produced at a Kolkata court.
11:43
The Chairman of the Saradha Group Sudipta Sen, will be produced before a Kolkata court today in the wake of the chit fund fiasco. Sen, who is one of the three accused has accused two Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs of ''extortion'' and ''blackmail'' and blamed them for his downfall. Sen, in a...
11:41
The JPC meet on 2G scheduled to be held today has been postponed. The Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee looking into the 2G scam, P.C.Chacko said Thursday that the JPC was scheduled for 3pm, to decide on whether to adopt the 2G scam report.I am getting the support of everybody from...
11:25
The Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till noon after the BJP and SP created an uproar on various issues. The Lok Sabha has been adjourned for the day after obituary reference to sitting TMC MP Ambika Banerjee. Right now, the Congress Core Group is meeting to resolve the deadlock in Parliament over...
11:20
A polity too frozen in scandals, agitations, elections, promises and having factories to churn out new slogans and charming lines to woo voters suddenly can't be woken up to a People's Liberation Army platoon, pitching tents on a land that poses direct threat to our position. What should we do? Read
11:13
The Line of Actual Control is crossed many times each year as if to underline the fact that India and China do not agree fully on its contours, but the latest incursion by Chinese troops in Ladakh has cast a shadow on the new warmth in ties between New Delhi and the new leadership in Beijing...
11:11
In other news: Even though the current standoff with the Chinese troops in Ladakh may eventually blow over, the signal is clear that India's decision to strengthen infrastructure and deployment near the China-India border -- though delayed -- has irked Beijing. Read
11:10
The cartoon on the Hindu on the chit fund scam.
11:02
Excerpts from the letter written allegedly by Sudipta Sen's to the CBI on April 6, four days before he was reported missing. I, (Mr) Sudipta Sen, son of Late Nripendra Narayan Sen aged about 53 years do hereby solemnly declare, affirm, state and say as mentioned below and this may be treated as...
10:58
The Telegraph, Kolkata: Kashmir police sources said the three looked calm and composed during their 24-hour stay at the police lines.They were not like prisoners. Sudipta and Arvind weren't nervous at all but Debjani appeared a little worried. The three took a stroll on the lawns of the compound...
10:48
Saradha Group chief Sudipta Sen and his two aides were brought to Calcutta tonight on a four-day transit remand granted by a court in Kashmir where they were arrested yesterday.The court in Ganderbal, near the Sonamarg resort town from where they were picked up, granted the transit remand for...
10:41
You may not have heard ofShankaraditya Sen, an ambitious naxalite, who later turned into a land shark. Known as Shankar in his neighbourhood at the height of the naxal movement in the 1970s, he had disappeared over a decade back, only to resurface with a new identity ' Sudipta Sen. Read
10:38
Call it a diversionary tactic to confuse investigators or the desperate bid of a drowning man clutching at straws, Saradha Group CMDSudipta Sen wrote an explosive tell-all letter to the CBI naming top national and state-level politicians on April 5, five days before his cross-country run. Read
10:34
The Corporate Affairs Ministry is likely to order a probe into Saradha group companies amid growing controversy over the Kolkata-based entity allegedly duping thousands of investors. Corporate Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot along with senior Ministry officials would today hold a meeting to look...
09:52
The United States has said that it supports peaceful and bilateral resolution of the boundary dispute between India and China. The United States supports India and China working together to settle their boundary disputes bilaterally and peacefully,...
09:50
The US does not have answers to all the questions related to the Boston terrorist attack, and the complete and comprehensive investigation in this regard is going to take some time, the White House has said. As President Barack Obama said on Friday night,...
09:49
A study about the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage in India will be presented at an annual symposium on South Asia hosted by the Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The two-day long symposium in the University's South Asia Institute will focus on...
09:48
The Joint Parliamentary Committee that is probing the 2G scam will meet today.During the meeting, the BJP is expected to strongly oppose the content of the leaked draft of the JPC's report.The leaked report had given a clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P...
02:08
The Guardian: The U.S. is calling for China to release the wife of imprisoned Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo from house arrest. Liu Xia made rare appearance Tuesday, leaving the Beijing apartment where she has been held for 2 1/2 years to attend her brother's trial. She shouted to onlookers: I'm...
02:07
A teenager from the suburbs of the US city of Chicago has been arraigned on terrorism charges in connection with an FBI sting operation that has raised new questions about whether US investigators are engaging in entrapment. Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, 18, made a brief court appearance Tuesday in...
02:05
The Syrian Electronic Army -- a group of pro-Syrian regime hackers that has aggressively targeted major news organizations and activists -- may operate in cyberspace, but its attacks can have real-life impact. The power of misinformation was amply demonstrated when the group hacked the...
02:04
CNN: Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has asked center-left politician Enrico Letta to form a new government, the president's spokesman said Wednesday, raising hopes of an end to the country's political impasse. Speaking after their meeting, Letta told reporters he would consult with...
01:26
Agencies: Two days of violence in Iraq have killed 125 people, 99 of them in clashes and attacks involving security forces, protesters and their supporters, officials said today. At least 268 people have been wounded, 194 of them in...
00:36
BBC: Thousands of mourners have held a memorial for a university police officer killed during the hunt for the Boston marathon bombing suspects. US Vice-President Joe Biden spoke at the service in memory of 26-year-old Sean Collier at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. About 4,000...
00:32
Former MP from Andhra Pradesh D K Adikesavulu Naidu, who served as Chairman of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, passed away tonight in Bengaluru. Adikesavulu (72) underwent a bypass surgery in a corporate hospital in Bengaluru a couple of days...
00:30
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