23:38
Senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, facing a visa fraud case, has been granted accreditation to the UN headquarters here and the process to get a separate State Department identity card which would give her full diplomatic immunity is underway.Khobragade has got the UN badge which...
23:18
A local court today sent self-styled godman Asaram Bapu's son Narayan Sai, facing rape charges, to police remand till January 1 in a bribery case.Sai, accused of hatching a conspiracy after his arrest to give bribes to weaken the rape case filed against him, was produced before Additional Session...
22:21
BBC reports: The inventor of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov, has died aged 94, Russian TV reports. He was admitted to hospital with internal bleeding in November. The automatic rifle he designed became one of the world's most familiar and widely used weapons.
22:09
NDTV reports: Top leaders of Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party say they are entering into an alliance with the Congress with their eyes open to the possibility that the government might not survive for long.Given the past track record of the Congress party, I don't expect that our...
20:56
Former Union Home Secretary V K Duggal appointed Governor of Manipur, the Rashtrapati Bhavan announced today.
20:45
People may soon be able to use SMS communication with government departments as a documentary proof while utilising citizen-services for making payments, registrations and various other schemes.The Centre today launched a platform with about 241 applications for the public after completing...
19:52
Drug trafficking, infiltration, smuggling of arms and fake Indian currency are among the main issues India will take up with Pakistan in Lahore at a high-level meeting between the border guarding forces of the two countries from December 24-28. Defence constructions, border incidents and...
19:43
Bharatiya Janata Party leaders on Monday indicated the party is looking at the Aam Aadmi Party-Congress alliance to form a government in Delhi with the Congress support as an attempt by the ruling party at the Centre to contain it in the national capital and adjoining areas in the Lok Sabha...
19:32
Close on the heels of Pakistan launching work on its largest atomic power project with Chinese help, Beijing today said close cooperation between the two sides on nuclear energy will continue as it was for peaceful purposes. Cooperation between China and Pakistan on nuclear energy is...
19:21
Kiran Bedi tells CNN-IBN: Arvind Kejriwal is taking a huge risk by joining hands with the Congress. If Kejriwal orders probe in the CWG scam he will face trouble from the Congress.
18:55
BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Aam Aadmi Party should fulfill their promise to take action against corruption and should have the courage to probe into the Commonwealth Games scam, with the support of Congress.I would like to wish him luck Also, I would like him to fulfill all his...
18:53
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) spokesperson Shazia Ilmi said today that they are going to be very tough on public servants who do not comply and Aam Chief Ministerial candidate Arvind Kejriwal will crack the whip. We will be very tough on the public servants who do not comply and Arvind is there to...
18:28
An ordinary man -- Saurabh Bharadwaj -- has become a legislator elected from one of South Delhi's most posh constituencies. He recalls the struggles in his journey from being a volunteer to a leader. Read
18:23
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal and Delhi's next chief minister today refused to accept security cover for himself by the New Delhi police. The letter addressed to the Kejriwal's secretary says since Arvind Kejriwal is going to take over as the Chief Minister of Delhi, he should...
17:50
Deracinating the evidence, in the language of the courts. Read
17:39
Behind the bars of a police lock-up inside the Delhi Police Special Cell headquarters at Lodhi Colony, a bearded young man sits on the floor, writing on sheets of white paper bundled together. A reflection on the 30 years of his life and how a close friend tipped off the intelligence...
17:31
The benchmark Sensex gave up most of today's gains and managed to close 21 points higher after a late bout of profit booking as heavyweights ITC and ONGC advanced while tech stocks Infosys and TCS declined. Stocks had traded firm for most part of the day on global cues and continued capital...
17:26
When he was a child, his father, Kshema, would throw him balls and instruct him on technique in the backyard of their beautiful hillside home in Kandy. Kumar would move on to badminton and tennis with great success, before eventually circling back to cricket, but in countless hours of...
17:19
No, this not a story out of the Onion. It's true. Humans in Iceland are standing up for the rights of elves -- and not because Father Christmas works them too hard. Elf advocates have joined forces with environmentalists to urge the Icelandic Road and Coastal Commission and local authorities to...
17:09
Well-known musician Ilayaraja was today admitted to a private hospital in Chennai after he complained of chest pain, sources close to the composer said. Raja (70), fondly addressed as 'maestro,' complained of uneasiness this morning, sources said, adding, he was said to be stable. He was...
16:49
As India celebrates Christmas on Wednesday, a fledgling Indian company is hoping to turn tastes toward turkey for the first time in the country. Read
16:47
Minutes after retired Justice AK Ganguly complained to the Chief Justice of India today saying he has not been addressed correctly by the apex court in the law intern case, Forward Bloc general secretary Debabrata Biswas said he should have resigned by now. We feel that Justice Ganguly should...
16:44
The AAP's electoral debut is stunning. It won 30 per cent of Delhi's vote within a year of its birth. It relegated the Congress to third place, eating away 15 per cent of its vote. The AAP also chipped away roughly three per cent of the BJP's vote, and reduced the BSP, which held great promise,...
16:33
A day before Ambassador Meera Shankar was to return home after completing her tenure in the US in the summer of 2011, her maid, without informing anyone, left her official residence on the outskirts of Washington never to return. The highly-secretive Indian Embassy in Washington hushed up the...
16:25
The Ahmedabad police arrested self-styled godman Asaram Bapu's wife and daughter and later released them as they procured anticipatory bail in connection with a rape case filed against him by a Surat-based woman. As a part of the procedure we arrested Asaram's wife Laxmi and daughter Bharti...
16:19
More on Justice Ganguly's letter to CJI P Sathasivam: In the letter, Ganguly says he was denied access to the affidavit containing allegations against him. I asked for a copy of hearing before the Supreme Court committee but denied on the ground of the confidentiality. In normal law a person...
16:00
Rajasthan CM Vasundara Raje Scindia is likely to be part of the BJP's 2014 poll committee headed by Narendra Modi. The 13-member poll campaign committee, which will meet on December 31, will be expanded to include more members, including Raje. The Central Campaign Committee will meet tomorrow to...
15:46
Parliament may convened for three days beginning January 13, say our sources in Delhi. The mystery of the winter session of Parliament closing sine die, two days ahead of it its scheduled end of session, has yet to be resolved. The UPA leadership has decided that a special session of Parliament...
15:22
Arun Jaitley's blog on the ministry of environment and forests: The method of functioning of the Ministry of Environment & Forests in the last one decade has continued to puzzle me. One had hoped that with a regime of de-licensing initiated in 1991,...
15:19
And Justice AK Ganguly is back grabbing headlines. Writing to CJI P Sathasivam, the retired Supreme Court judge says his side of the story has not been given a fair hearing. He also questioned how the law intern's affidavit to the Supreme Court panel was leaked to the media. Ganguly is accused of...
14:47
A three-year old child has died reportedly due to cold in a private riot relief camp in Muzaffarnagar, UP. The death took place on the same day when Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi visited government relief camps in Shamli in the district. Earlier, three children had also died due to...
14:47
This wedding invite has been doing the rounds on Twitter.
14:41
Notwithstanding the several privileges and immunities Indian diplomats and consular officers are entitled to, they have a corresponding duty under the 1961 Convention and the 1963 Convention to respect the laws and regulations of the host State. Read
14:39
Everyone had assumed that the latest monetary policy statement of the Reserve Bank of India would be entirely on predictable lines, and because of that it would be reduced to being a non-event. A mid-quarter review such as this one, as a rule, causes much less excitement than, say, a...
14:37
Digvijaya Singh tweets: Congratulate Arvind Kejriwal for being given an opportunity to serve the State of Delhi as CM. I am sure he would fulfil his promises.
14:34
Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade gets accreditation to India's permanent mission to UN. Accreditation to India's permanent mission to the UN will entitle Khobragade to a US State Department Identity card. This means she is exempted from making a personal appearance in court in the visa fraud...
14:27
Dale Steyn tweets: Tough test... Back my decision even if others don't! I'm no Tin Cup and come 2 Durbs ready 2 win a series! Congrats to our boys 4 that fightIn India's first innings Steyn ended with figures of 1 for 61 in 26 overs as India were bowled out for 280. The real shock for Steyn was...
14:20
They had invested hope in the village pradhan. He had said he'd protect them. Instead, what happened at his house during the morning of the riots will make you shudder. Outlook meets Muslim women at the camps, the faceless Nirbhayas of...
14:16
In the Khobragade case, India had two standards: one for what a middle-class woman needs and feels and another for what a working-class woman needs and feels. Read
13:56
Devyani Khobragade, deputy consul general at the Indian Consulate in New York, who was arrested two weeks ago on changes of allegedly submitting fraudulent documents in support of her maid and babysitter to the US State Department, will have to appear in court on January 13. There is no court...
13:53
Tehelka's founder Tarun Tejpal, who has been accused of sexual assault of a woman journalist, will spend the Christmas and New Year's eve in a prison cell. A magistrate, on Monday extended Tejpal's remand for 12 days up to January 4. Tejpal was arrested November 30 after a woman journalist...
13:50
US authorities will waive Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade's pre-trial appearance for today. Khobragade, posted as Deputy Consul General in New York, was arrested on December 12 over allegations that she paid her domestic help a small fraction of New York's minimum wage and lied about the...
13:32
Aam Aadmi Pary (AAP) leader Prashant Bhushan on Sunday said his party had no choice but to form a government in Delhi with the Congress's support. The Supreme Court advocate, however, termed the tie-up undemocratic. He said the BJP, despite wining the highest number of seats, will be left...
13:25
The anti-corruption movement is very important. The impression must not be created that it is a fractured movement, writes Ramaswamy R Iyer, in an open letter to Anna Hazare. Read more
13:22
In other news: S Jaishankar, the new Indian Ambassador to the US, will arrive in Washington tomorrow to take charge amid a raging diplomatic row over the arrest and strip-search of senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade on visa fraud charges.Jaishankar, who till recently was India's Ambassador to...
13:21
In other news: A 14-year-old girl in Malda, West Bengal, was allegedly raped by a farm labourer who shoved an iron rod down her throat and left her speech-impaired after luring her with the promise of warm clothes and a cycle.A doctor at Malda Medical College Hospital, where the schoolgirl is...
13:20
Former Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit when asked what advice she has for AAP, says, I am nobody to give advice to Arvind Kejriwal, but I wish him well. She says the ball of stability is in their (AAP's) court. They are ones who will have to fulfill the promises. Stability comes from them. How can we...
13:06
The deadline for American diplomats and consulate staff to submit their ID cards ends on Monday, a fallout of the arrest of senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade.
13:03
Arvind Kejriwal met the Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung for half an hour and said his party, AAP, would be forming the government in Delhi. The Lt Governor will send the letter to the President.In a departure from tradition, the oath-taking ceremony will be held at the Ram Lila Maidan.
12:57
Huge challenge ahead for AAP.The Aam Admi Party which is now forming the government in Delhi on December 26, had contested the polls on an anti-Congress, anti-BJP plank, anti-corruption platform.The decision to form the government with Congress support, even from the outside, exposes it to attack...
12:54
Here's what Digvijaya Singh from the Congress says on AAP's decision to finally form the government in Delhi. It is between AAP and the Delhi Congress. I congratulate him. I appreciate his courage. He needs to fulfill his promises. By entering politics, he has strengthened democracy.
12:47
Arvind Kejriwal has said that AAP refuses to be guided by ideologies and that they are entering politics to change the system: We are aam aadmis. If we find our solution in the left we are happy to borrow it from there. If we find our solution in the right, we are happy to borrow it from...
12:37
Asserting that there was no confusion over the Chief Ministerial candidate, Manish Sisodia said Arvind Kejriwal has been party's choice for the top post. There were rumours about who will be the chief minister. AAP had said earlier that the party would contest election with Arvind Kejriwal as CM...
12:24
Arvind Kejriwal meets Lt Governor Najeeb Jung to stake claim to form the government in Delhi. The AAP chief will take oath on December 26, and wants the swearing-in ceremony to be held at Jantar Mantar.Jantar Mantar, is the place where Arvind Kerjiwal's journey from a supporter and chief aide to...
12:15
The meeting with Lt Gov Najeeb Jung is scheduled for 12:30 pm.
12:13
Five AAP leaders including Arvind Kejriwal on their way to meet Lt Governor Najeeb Jung to form the government in Delhi. Kejriwal reaches Raj Bhavan to meet Lt Governor Najeeb Jung, to say that his party is ready to form the government. Five people packed into Kejriwal's Wagon R. Pic: The AAP...
11:49
Kanchan Gupta, who is a BJP sympathiser, tweets: Reminded of vitriolic abuse by khAAPis when I said before poll Kejriwal working in tandem with Congress, meets Sandeep Dikshit late night.
11:48
Arvind Kejriwal to take oath as Delhi CM on December 26.
11:40
BJP's Dr Harsh Vardhan says AAP has betrayed Delhi, since the vote was anti-Congress. AAP has compromised on its principles. Sheila Dikshit: We have supported AAP only for its programmes and policies for the public. The support is NOT unconditional and it is only an outside support.
11:34
Kejriwal also said that he would speak to Lt Governor Najeeb Jung whether the swearing-in ceremony can be held at Jantar Mantar. The meeting is slated for 12:30 pm today. Former Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit says the Congress wishes AAP good luck and hopes it can fulfill its promises to the people. She...
11:23
The Aam Aadmi Party press conference begins in Ghaziabad. Manish Sisodia and Arvind Kejriwal at the helm of things at the press conference. Sisodia says 74 per cent of the people who have voted on the referendum through text messages want AAP to form the government in Delhi. Nearly seven...
11:15
Anna Hazare on Arvind Kejriwal and AAP government formation: I have already wished him well. Cryptic and non-committal.
11:11
In other news: An online White House petition demanding the Obama Administration drop the visa fraud case against Devyani Khobragade has been launched here by a group of Indian-Americans who said the senior Indian diplomat's public humiliation hurts the sentiments of the community. Protesting the...
11:06
The meeting between AAP MLAs are over. Arvind Kejriwal is likely to address the press shortly.
10:53
As AAP is set to form the government in Delhi, the party has insisted that it will end VIP culture in Delhi. Kejriwal has decided to scrap what is seen as the most offensive symbol of that culture - red beacons or lal battis on vehicles. No AAP minister will ride in a lal batti car, or stay in...
10:41
The Political Affairs Committee meeting of the Aam Aadmi Party has begun in Delhi and a final announcement is expected in 11 am. We are going in for political affairs meeting now. At 11 am we will announce whether we will form government or not, said AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal. We will not ally...
10:04
The benchmark BSE Sensex rose by almost 105 points in early trade today on sustained buying by funds and retail investors amid a firming trend in other Asian markets. Extending its rising streak for the second straight session, the 30-share index was up by 104.82...
09:59
Anti-government demonstrators in Thailand have surrounded the stadium where candidates were due to register to stand in February's elections. They say political reform is needed before elections take place. On Sunday, tens of thousands took to the streets of Bangkok, calling on the...
08:37
NDTV: Former cricketer Salil Ankola's wife, Pariniti, has been found dead at her parents' house in Pune, according to reports. The police said that they have found a suicide note, which says she has grown tired of her life. The 46-year-old was staying with her parents at their Pune...
08:34
The US has deployed 46 additional military personnel in S Sudan and may take further military action to support the security of its citizens in the violence-wracked country, President Barack Obama has said. As I monitor the situation in South...
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