23:07
Fugitive US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden told Poland in an asylum request that he risks the death penalty at home, after he disclosed Washington's alleged violations of the US constitution and global treaties. Holed up in the transit zone at a Moscow airport for 10 days since fleeing...
22:35
Over 3,500 people are still missing in the flash-floods and landslides in Uttarakhand, the National Disaster Management Authority said on Tuesday.Talking to reporters, NDMA Vice-Chairman Shashidhar Reddy said, according to official data, the count of missing people has reached only up to 3,500 to...
22:34
At least 14 people were killed in army shelling on a rebel village near the Syrian capital today, as violence raged in flashpoint areas of Damascus and in the central city of Homs, a watchdog said. The shelling comes a day after a powerful car bomb rocked the district of Kafr Sousa in...
22:31
South Africa's last apartheid president FW de Klerk was hospitalised today to receive a pacemaker, as his fellow Nobel peace laureate Nelson Mandela lies critically ill. De Klerk cut short a visit to Europe over the weekend because of Mandela's ailing health, only to fall ill himself. The...
22:25
Claiming that people' privacy will be at stake with the UPA government developing the Centralised Monitoring System (CMS), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today asked the Centre whether the move was to target the opposition.Quoting a media report, Banerjee alleged CMS would enable the...
22:24
A key bookie in IPL spot-fixing scandal, today retracted before a Delhi court from his confessional statement recorded by the police saying it was given under pressure. Jitendra Jain, alias Jeetu, filed an application before the court requesting it to take action against erring police...
22:22
Doctors Without Borders warned today that rising intellectual property rights are blocking the generic production of newer drugs to treat HIV and are keeping them out of reach for developing countries. The medical aid group said at an international AIDS meeting here that prices of older...
20:04
The CBI will file a charge sheet in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case and is likely to name only those policemen who were at the scene of crime besides seeking more time in a bid to probe the conspiracy angle behind the incident.While Special Director Intelligence Bureau Rajinder Kumar...
18:56
Suraj Pancholi, son of actors Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab left the Arthur Road jail today after the Bombay High Court granted bail yesterday. The court had observed that he cannot be held solely responsible for the impulsive act of suicide committed by actress Jiah Khan.No doubt that it...
18:47
The CBI has filed its chargesheet against all the 10 arrested accused in the cash-for-jobs scam, including former Railways Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew, Vijay Singla. The CBI has already prepared a draft chargesheet, which does not name Bansal as an accused, as the agency was not able...
18:10
The number of casualties in the Naxal attack in Jharkhand is now, five. Earlier reports had put the toll at eight.A Superintendent of Police along with his driver and three security guards was killed in a Maoist attack in Jharkhand's Pakur district today. Pakur SP Amarjit Balihar, a 2003...
18:01
Against the backdrop of objections by some MPs, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh today strongly defended the Rs 2,058 crore Jet-Etihad deal, saying those opposing it were long on politics and short on facts. It is such an important deal..., the first big deal in Civil Aviation Ministry. In...
17:59
The Prime Minister's Office has responded to reports about the government's concern on the Jet-Etihad deal. The PMO says the Prime Minister is neither washing his hands off the Bilateral Air Services Agreement nor is the PMO trying to do a U-turn on the issue. It said there was absolutely no...
17:48
It frightened me. I started going into a shell,' she says. Then one day she decided enough was enough. I was raped. I was brutally raped. But I am alive and I want to fight,' says Jordan. I need to fight as I am, not behind a mask, not behind a screen, not behind a blurred image.The Park Street...
17:46
The Gujarat government had carried out fake encounters only to raise Chief Minister Narendra Modi's profile so that he becomes a hero in the eyes of people who believe acts of terror are done by Muslims, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh alleged today. Responding to media queries after a general...
17:27
Seventeen days after the Uttarakhand disaster, the mammoth multi-agency rescue operations to evacuate all stranded pilgrims and tourists concluded today with a group of 150 people being taken to safety from Badrinath. In all, around 1.1 lakh people stranded by flash floods and landslides...
17:17
A California judge refused on Monday to block the teaching of yoga as part of a public school's physical fitness program, rejecting parents' claims that the classes were an unconstitutional promotion of Eastern religions. Read
17:08
A Pakistani terrorist group involved in the notorious Mumbai, India, terrorist attack in 2008 is becoming a new threat to the U.S. homeland. The name of the group? None other than the Lashkar-e-Taiba. Read
17:02
Update on the Ishrat Jahan case: The CBI will file a charge sheet tomorrow in special court in Ahmedabad in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, a status report in the Gujarat High Court on July 4.
17:00
ICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh today alleged that BJP would instigate communal riots in Congress-ruled states ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as the opposition party feels that it cannot win without communalising the polls. Addressing the general body meeting of the Karnataka Pradesh...
16:51
The Jharkhand police association reacting to the attack on its men says such attacks are aimed at demoralising the police.
16:50
Times Now reports that Pakur SP Amarjit Balihar, seriously injured in the Naxal attack on his motorcade, has succumbed to his injuries. Seven policemen have also been killed in the attack. The gun battle is still on. PTI, however, says the SP's driver is one among the seven killed.
16:31
India is not an open house' for asylum seekers because the country has a very careful and restrictive policy' on the issue, external affairs minister Salman Khurshid said on Tuesday. Khurshid was responding to a question on news reports that US National Security Agency (NSA)...
16:29
The SP, Amarjit Balihar, has been seriously injured in the gun battle. As of now, additional forces are being rushed in.
16:27
Indian expatriates, particularly those from Kerala heaved a big sigh of relief on Tuesday as the King of Saudi Arabia ordered extension of the Nitaqat (naturalisation) deadline by four months. The deadline for expatriates without valid work permits to leave the country, which was to expire on...
16:26
Just in: There's been a Naxal attack on a motorcade in Jharkhand. Seven policemen are feared dead in the ongoing gun battle, which occurred when the SP Amarjit Balihar's motorcade in Pakur in Dhumka district was attacked. Details awaited.
15:59
MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweets: Indian Embassy in Moscow did receive a request for asylum in a communication dated 30 June from Mr Edward Snowden. Following careful examination we have concluded that we see no reason to accede to the Snowden request.
15:53
India has turned down the Edward Snowden's asylum request. American whistleblower Edward Snowden, currently sheltered in the transit zone of Moscow airport, has sought asylum in 19 countries, including India. He withdrew his asylum request to Russia today. These asylum requests have been...
15:50
Wood worth lakhs of rupees, allegedly picked up by locals when it came flowing in the Ganga from flood-ravaged Uttarakhand, was today recovered by police in Ferozpur village.A team led by sub-divisional magistrate Arvind Tripathi yesterday raided Firozpur village and recovered wood worth lakhs of...
15:40
Narendra Modi to name campaign committee on July 4 after the BJP Parliamentary Board meeting.
15:34
The Supreme Court has refused to reschedule the West Bengal panchayat elections to be held in five phases from July 11.
15:16
Fugitive Edward Snowden has withdrawn his request for Russian political asylum, a presidential spokesman said Tuesday, apparently because he was unwilling to go along with President Vladimir Putin's requirement that he stop any activity damaging to the United States.He has abandoned this...
15:10
Here's a tongue-in-cheek, strictly imaginary look at what might happen to an asylum seeker at the Indian Embassy in Moscow. Read
15:03
NSA leaker Edward Snowden found an unlikely admirer: German lingerie company Blush Berlin. Read
15:01
What kind of future does the NSA leaker face if he gets asylum in Russia or another country? If the experience of past defectors -- alcoholism, suicide attempts, mental illness -- is any guide, it looks grim. Read
14:59
A new national law introduced in China this week requires the offspring of parents older than 60 to visit their parents frequently and make sure their financial and spiritual needs are met. Read
14:53
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has again sent an offer and a cheque for Rs. 3 crore, besides the Rs. 2 crore his state already donated for rain disaster relief. Read
14:52
A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's northwestern province of Aceh today, causing buildings to collapse and injuring at least 50 people. The quake hit inland at 0737 GMT at a depth of just 10 kilometres, 55 kilometres south of Bireun and 72 kilometres southeast of Reuleuet,...
14:44
The death of a husband means stigma, destitution and abuse for many of the world's poorest widows. Bim Adewunmi visits a pioneering project in Cameroon trying to turn around 500-year-old traditions. Read
14:38
The CRPF today handed over a cheque of more than Rs 18 crore to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde for relief of Uttarakhand flash flood victims. Personnel of the paramilitary force had contributed a day's earning totalling Rs 18,01,46,637 and the cheque was presented by their chief Pranay Sahay...
14:32
The BJP prepares to bet everything on Narendra Modi. Read
14:19
The Congress may forge an alliance with the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) if the Congress agrees to Hemant Soren as chief minister. Jharkhand has been under President's rule since the BJP broke away from the JMM. The final decision will be taken at the Congress Core Group meeting, reports CNN...
14:16
Why does the RSS resent cricket? Read
14:03
Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has sent asylum requests to 21 countries, according to a statement published by Wikileaks. But Russia said he later withdrew the application as the Kremlin had set conditions. Read
14:01
Former Telecom Minister A Raja opposes in Delhi court CBI's plea for placing on record CD of 62 conversations of Niira Radia pertaining to 2G case.
13:58
Democratic President Barack Obama and former President George W Bush are proving that it's a small world after all, with an extraordinary chance encounter a long way from home. Obama and his Republican predecessor plan to appear together briefly today, when by coincidence both will be in the...
13:45
Just in: A 6.1 quake strikes Sumatra in Indonesia. Details awaited.
13:35
Hours after Ed Husic became Australia's first ever Muslim minister, he was flooded with online racial abuse for taking oath of office on the Quran. 43-year-old Husic, was appointed as parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and parliamentary secretary for broadband yesterday.Husic,...
13:27
Rescue of pilgrims stranded in Badrinath came to an end today with about 150 of them being safely evacuated even as the administration struggled with the task of supplying relief to remote parts of Uttarakhand where food shortage has been reported in 170 villages. On the 17th day of the calamity,...
13:08
The Union cabinet has been summoned on Wednesday at 5 pm to approve the ordinance on the Food security Bill. But the agenda paper does not have other pet subjects of Sonia Gandhi like the land reforms bill.
13:06
A group of five men raped a Dutch journalist in Cairos central Tahrir Square as millions of protestors took to streets demanding the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi.The journalist is believed to have undergone surgery for horrific injuries sustained in the attack, as a volunteer vigilante...
12:59
In a scathing attack on the Obama administration, American whistle-blower Edward Snowden has alleged that he has been left as a stateless person by the US because of no fault of his. The 30-year-old former US spy agency contractor, who has been on the run since releasing secretive NSA documents,...
12:54
Chetan Bhagat has come to see the 'real' India but he clearly cannot get enough of the India he has left behind. Between shots, in the jeep, even between conversations with the locals, he twiddles briskly on his blackberry. Read
12:49
India's capital, Delhi, has seen many a great war. But the latest one is being fought in the most unlikely of places -- the residential colonies in the city. Roadside parking spots have become the battlefield as the number of cars in Delhi has surged over the years. Read
12:47
A bitter feud has erupted within Nelson Mandela's family over his final resting place. The ailing anti-apartheid hero's grandson is lamenting that the dispute has been taken to court. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Mandla Mandela said regrettably and reluctantly he was forced to go to...
12:26
A small batch of 1,785 devotees today left Jammu base camp for the Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas. A convoy of 70 vehicles carrying 1,785 devotees left from Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu at around 5.05 am towards Amarnath to pay obeisance at the holy cave shrine, police said...
12:13
At the very outset, let us make it clear that we are not fans of your regressive fiction. Therefore, we write to you not as crazy fans but as Indian Muslim youth, who felt utterly patronized, insulted and hurt after reading your article,'Letter from an Indian Muslim Youth'. You might have not...
12:09
As prime minister Manmohan Singh enters his final year in office, he is likely to be hoping to go down in history as the man who made India a miracle economy, growing at 8.5 per cent a year.However, after a series of scandals, critics say he stands to be remembered for...
12:01
Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has said that he is not in the race to become the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and has ruled out contesting the upcoming assembly polls there.I have no plans to contest the assembly elections from Madhya Pradesh and would remain as Member of Parliament....
11:54
A rail link in the Indus Plains in Ladakh, similar to the Kashmir Railway, will have spin-offs for environment conservation, military logistics, tourism and the local economy. Read
11:46
Malaysian low-cost airlines AirAsia is planning to add 10 Airbus planes each year to its India operations, in a move that is going to affect local rivals IndiGo and SpiceJet, who will have to look at new ways to beat the competition. According to the Wall Street Journal, India is one of the...
11:35
Ratan Tata and Air Asia chief Tony Fernandes meet Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh to brief him on new appointments and developments in Air Asia-India. AirAsia CEO, Tony Fernandes, today said that the low-cost airline is eyeing several bases including Chennai, Bangalore and Kochi.He said that...
11:19
Theories suggesting a political conspiracy in the Darbha Ghati massacre, where Naxals killed 29 people from a Congress cavalcade have not yet been ruled out by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) which is investigating the attack. The agency has even put...
11:03
Why do women make better primary school teachers?If that question stumped many candidates who wrote the University Grants Commission's National Eligibility Test on Sunday, one of the multiple-choice answers listed for the question has outraged many. Read
10:54
More on the Uttarakhand tragedy: Over a fortnight after the flash-floods, while many villages remain inaccessible by road, tragic stories are emerging from areas where dirt tracks have been opened up. About seven kilometres from Guptkashi, the six-odd hamlets that comprise the Deoli-Bramhagram...
10:53
The UGC's decision to close its centres for research on social integration is not in keeping with the Constitutional vision for nation-building. Read
10:51
The Kerala government has not learnt anything from the Attappady tragedy. Nutrition levels of women and children, most of them tribals, continue to remain dismal in the area. Read
10:50
That predators continue to enjoy impunity for crimes committed against women is now common knowledge. But less known is the fact that the worst perpetrators are often those most intimately known to women, or that the latter are vulnerable in consequence to life-long health-related risks. Read
10:43
The June 16 cloudburst has been hardest for eight-month-old Kanu. Inconsolable and starving without milk, Bhupinder Singh's youngest daughter had to wait 48 hours before her dad trekked 15km to fetch a tin of powdered milk. Read
10:37
Another furious spell of rains is expected to hit the hills of Uttarakhand later this week. According to a Met office warning, conditions very similar to the one that caused the June 16-17 deluge in the state are expected to develop from Thursday onwards. Read
10:14
Four guards and two civilians have been killed in a bomb attack on a NATO compound in Kabul. Militants blew up a suicide car bomb at the gate.
10:09
American whistleblower Edward Snowden, currently sheltered in the transit zone of Moscow airport, has sought asylum in 20 countries, including India. These asylum requests have been filed by Sarah Harrison, legal advisor of Wikileaks in the matter of Snowden, the whistleblower website...
09:14
Sujata Singh, India's ambassador to Germany, will be the next foreign secretary. Her name has been cleared by the Prime Minister's Office. She will succeed Ranjan Mathai.
09:07
PTI reports: A total of 1,350 people have been evacuated from Badrinath while over 3,500 remain untraced in flood-hit Uttarakhand even as a United Nations agency estimated that the number of missing could be over 11,000.However, the National Disaster Management Authority has put the number...
08:35
United States intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has accused President Barack Obama of denying him his right to asylum, in a statement, a first since flying to Russia on June 23, published by Wikileaks.On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would not permit any...
03:53
Defending its role in the rescue operations in the flood-ravaged Uttarakhand, ISRO today said the agency had played its role in the largest rescue operations in the country, saving thousands of lives. We did our role in the rescue operations by providing imagery and equipment, ISRO chairman...
02:37
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, whose government has mulled an asylum request from US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, said today the fugitive's bid for sanctuary in Russia could resolve the standoff. My opinion is that the request to the Russian government could definitely resolve Mr...
01:54
A Pakistani schoolgirl injured in the Taliban attack against Malala Yousafzai last year has been granted a British student visa after receiving death threats in her home country, it emerged today. Shazia Ramzan, 15, had a joyful reunion with her friend Malala when she flew into Birmingham...
01:53
President Barack Obama today courted African business leaders and announced new trade initiatives to open up East Africa's markets to American businesses, as he sought to counter the rise of Chinese economic influence in the growing continent. The US, he declared, wants to step up our game...
01:19
Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that relations with China would not be upset by allegations that it had facilitated the flight of Edward J. Snowden, the fugitive former national security contractor. Mr. Snowden's ability to avoid detention in Hong Kong and travel to Moscow,...
00:56
Lawyers for Nelson Mandela's relatives met today to try to resolve a bitter family feud over the eventual burial site of the critically ill anti-apartheid hero. Legal teams met all day in the southern city of Mthatha after 16 relatives last week asked a court to order the return of the...
00:55
Prince William's wife Catherine is not officially due to give birth for two weeks but the world's media began gathering today outside the London hospital where she will have the baby, determined not to miss the photograph of the year. Dozens of television camera operators and photographers...
00:43
US leaker Edward Snowden has applied for asylum in Russia and President Vladimir Putin said today he was welcome to stay as long as he stopped leaking US intelligence reports. Last night, Snowden applied for political asylum at the consulate office of the Sheremetyevo airport, where he had...
00:30
In a landmark late night journey into a new era of space application, India today successfully launched its first dedicated navigation satellite using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle which blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here. Precisely at 11.41 pm, India's workhorse PSLV...
00:28
Months after Superstorm Sandy swamped her little island, the Statue of Liberty will finally welcome visitors again. Sandy made landfall one day after the statue's 126th birthday. The storm flooded most of Liberty Island in New York Harbor. Lady Liberty herself was spared, but the surrounding...
00:28
Appearing to throw its enormous weight behind protesters demanding the ouster of President Mohamed Morsy, the Egyptian military told the country's leaders Monday that they have 48 hours to meet the demands of the people or it will step in to restore order after days of chaos.In a statement...
00:26
Exclusive! Why we will never know what happened in Kedarnath!PIX: 3 militants, policeman killed in gunfight in Kashmir'Govt should not have allowed pilgrims in Kedarnath, Badrinath'U'khand: Preparedness to tackle devastation was almost nilCBI terms Ishrat encounter fake, but spares Modi, Amit...
© 2026 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances
