23:41
The Mysteries of Asia three-part video series was originally produced for the Learning Channel. During this segment, historians and others examine temples built in India more than 1,000 years ago. They remain quite intriguing, though today's tourists rarely visit them. Records reveal that trained...
22:34
Gangster Abu Salem, who survived bid on his life in a Navi Mumbai jail last month, will move the European Union seeking execution of the order canceling his extradition to India issued by the Portuguese constitutional court. We will move the EU..The Portugal high court, supreme court and...
22:13
CNN IBN reports: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha has warned that Modi's controversial statements will shift focus from corruption. He said that the more Modi speaks the attention gets diverted from Congress's misgovernance. The Modi baiters have a clear game plan. The more he...
20:45
As the iconic 163-year-old telegram passed into history, the last message was sent to Rahul Gandhi. The telegram counter closed at 11:45 pm last night and the last message was booked at the counter of Central Telegraph Office Janpath by one Ashwani Mishra, who sent messages to Gandhi and Director...
19:58
A US team is in India to prepare for arrival of Vice President Joe Biden this month-end, his first official visit after assuming the position in 2009. A US advance team is in Delhi to prepare for Biden's visit, which will happen between July 20 to 30, the spokesperson in the External Affairs...
19:28
With an aim of accelerating infrastructure development, the PMO has convened a high-level meeting in New Delhi later this week to review progress and award of projects worth Rs 3 lakh crore, including two airports and Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor.The meeting on July 19 will be chaired by...
19:10
Television actress and former Film Censor Board member Shalu Menon, arrested in connection with the solar panel scam rocking the state, today approached the Kerala High Court for bail.Shalu was arrested early this month on a complaint by one Rafique Ali who claimed she had accompanied scam...
18:29
Reacting sharply to Narendra Modi's burqa of secularism jibe at Congress, Union Minister Shashi Tharoor today lashed out the one time RSS pracharak saying it was preferable to khaki shorts of fascists. Secularism burqa in my view is preferable to the khaki shorts of the Italian fascists of the...
18:13
Eleven days after he was found dead on a train track, a second autopsy report will aim to furnish more information on what may have killed 21-year-old Ilavarasan. His family says he was murdered for daring to fight for his love for a woman from a higher caste; the police alleges he committed...
18:01
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said the state government was preparing a list of victims of the devastation in Uttarakhand. The state government will invite declaration from families whose members are missing in Uttarakhand and Rs 2 lakh compensation - Rs 1 lakh from the state government...
17:50
India's new High Commissioner to Pakistan, TCA Raghavan, on Monday said that it would be his endeavour to take bilateral relations between the two countries forward during his posting. There is change in environment in Pakistan and certainly that is very important. The last few years have...
17:44
That marriages between blood relations might lead to health issues for the child has been suspected for several years. Now, a detailed analysis of the issue involving over 11,000 children, born out of consanguineous marriages, revealed congenital anomalies in 386 of them. Read
17:36
Stop! Tales of a village telegraphist. Read Ganesh Nadar's eulogy on Rediff.com
17:17
Just in: The monsoon session of Parliament to begin from August 5 and end on August 30. This is the last Monsoon Session of the UPA 2 government, which is likely to push through the Food Security Bill, the pet project of Congress president Sonia Gandhi. The decision on Telangana statehood may...
16:46
A two-kg bag of rice handed over to Sangeeta Shukla in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand's Rudrapur village is infested with tiny black insects.Would you accept rations of this quality? Shukla asks as a family member empties the sack of rice into a bucket. Read
16:41
Moderate to heavy rainfall today occurred at various places in Uttar Pradesh where major rivers continued to flow above the danger mark. TheGanga was flowing close to the danger level from Fatehgarh to Kanpur, while Sharda was flowing above the red mark at Paliakalan in Lakhimpur district.
16:36
Decrying the 'puppy' and 'burqa' remarks, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, in a veiled attack on Narendra Modi, said use of such language will not yield votes for the BJP, and instead will only pollute the environment. Modi had accused the Congress of hiding behind burqa (veil) of secularism to...
16:18
Two BSF jawans were arrested today for allegedly molesting a 23-year-old woman on board the New Delhi-Sealdah Rajdhani Express when the train was between Kanpur and Allahabad. A group of students was travelling from New Delhi to Sealdah in Kolkata when the two jawans -- Sandeep Kumar posted in...
16:05
From the day she burst onto television screens as a Big Brother contestant in 2002, Jade Goody's life resembled one long soap opera.From her struggles with fame and cheating boyfriends to race rows and eventually her death, most of her adult life was played out in the public spotlight. Read
15:57
About 100 students of various reputed schools from Delhi and Gurgaon were detained from a pub in a mall in Gurgaon for allegedly smoking hookah during a party.The students were released later and no action was taken against them, but the pub's manager was booked under section 188 of the IPC...
15:42
The tragicomedy of Mumbai's LAST telegram. Read
15:40
Hardly before the ink could dry out on the joint statement agreed to between Defence Minister A K Antony and his Chinese counterpart General Chang Wanquan pledging to maintain peace and tranquillity in the India-China border, media broke the news that the Chinese troops again transgressed the...
15:34
Greatest runner of all time -- Gebrselassie -- says democracy can't come overnight as he targets a new career in politics. But he hopes he can lift the pace of progress. Read
15:30
Musician Nitin Sawhney and producer David McEwan on their special relationship. Read
15:17
They behave like ants and can live for more than 30 years, but what's really captured the imagination of scientists is the fact that naked mole rats don't get cancer. Read (but no, they aren't cute)
15:00
BJP senior leader Yashwant Sinha clarified his remark on Narendra Modi that the more the Gujarat chief minister speaks, more the Congress would grain. Speaking to CNN IBN, Sinha clarified that the the Congress's attack on Modi would benefit the BJP, but will divert attention from the issue of...
14:50
Four senior executives of British multinational pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have been detained by Chinese police for alleged economic offences like bribery and tax evasion.The four were once dubbed the GSK China's quadriga, the report said which also alleged malpractices like...
14:47
In the wake of last year's horrific gang rape in India, Sohaila Abdulali revisited her own experience and feels lucky she can put it behind her. Read
14:37
If the George Zimmerman murder trial didn't polarize America enough, the verdict certainly did.While supporters of Zimmerman's acquittal kept largely quiet after the weekend decision, outraged protesters poured into the streets across the country Sunday and early Monday. Read
14:35
Edward Snowden, the fugitive intelligence leaker wanted by the United States, has still not applied for temporary asylum in Russia. Snowden made his first public statement in nearly three weeks last Friday as he met with a group of Russian rights activists and pro-Kremlin figures in the Moscow...
14:26
JK Rowling has spoken of the liberating experience of adopting a nom de plume after it was revealed that the Harry Potter creator was behind a critically acclaimed crime novel published under the name Robert Galbraith. Read
14:22
A penalty of Rs 3 crore each has been imposed on State Bank of India (SBI), Bank of India, Canara Bank, Bank of Baroda, Central Bank of India, Indian Overseas Bank and Federal Bank. United Bank of India, Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Punjab National Bank, Jammu & Kashmir Bank and Andhra Bank were...
14:15
Is Satish Verma a genius investigator or a conspiracy theorist? Read
14:09
Meanwhile, in New Delhi Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi had lunch with President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan. More on that later.
14:06
The RBI has penalised 22 banks for violating KYC norms. RBI has imposed fines ranging from Rs 50 lakh to Rs 3 crore, though it said that prima facie no evidence of money laundering was found. RBI has also sent cautionary letters to seven other banks following scrutiny. The RBI on Friday had...
13:57
US President Barack Obama called for calm reflection following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. The president, in a written statement, acknowledged an emotionally charged climate but concluded that we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken....
13:53
A war crimes court has found Islamist Ghulam Azam guilty of five charges relating to Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence with Pakistan. Ghulam Azam was sentenced to 90 years in jail for his involvement in mass killings and rape during the war. Read
13:42
The four surviving original copies of Magna Carta will be brought together in 2015 for the first time in history, the British Library has announced. Read
13:35
Legendary singer Manna Dey's younger daughter Sumita has accused her cousin of misappropriating close to Rs 30 lakh and some valuables from a joint account that Dey holds with his nephew.Family members of the accused have denied the allegation, while investigators have confirmed that Dey's...
13:29
The funeral of Dicky Rutnagur, the doyen of Indian cricket writers who died in London on June 20, aged 82, was held on Friday at Golders Green Crematorium. Amit Roy writes for the Telegraph. Read
13:18
Faced with plummeting rupee woes, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the economic situation, even as RBI Governor D Subbarao has been called to deliberate on the strategy to tackle the problem. Chidambaram is understood to have discussed the...
12:58
India's premier federal investigation agency, Central Bureau of Investigation has recently charged seven police officers in the western state of Gujarat for the killing of four individuals, including a 19-year-old woman named Ishrat Jahan. Read what the NYT says
12:56
The children begin arriving every year in mid-May, brought to an overburdened hospital here in one of India's most impoverished areas by their panic-stricken mothers. Seemingly healthy hours earlier, most have lapsed into a coma, punctuated by convulsions. The NYT on the mystery illness that...
12:43
As the debate triggered by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's puppy analogy raged across the country, Sruthi Gottipati, the reporter who interviewed him, sought to administer a reality check by asserting that the latter's remarks had been blown out of context by the media. Read more
12:20
BJP senior leader Yashwant Sinha warned his party that Narendra Modi's controversial statements will shift focus from corruption. He said that the more Modi speaks the attention gets diverted from Congress's misgovernance. The Modi baiters have a clear game plan. The more he speaks. The...
12:10
A young man was killed in Florida on February 26 because he was black and wore a hoodie. His killer was acquitted on July 13.Roopa Unnikrishnan's piece on how her faith in the justice system was shattered, forcing her to look at life through the prism of colour. Read
12:06
Update on the MiG-21 Bison crash. The fighter aircraft crashed while landing at Uttarlai Airbase in western Rajasthan, leaving the pilot dead. The aircraft was on a routine sortie when it crashed at 9.30 am at Uttarlai, Defence Spokesperson S D Goswami said. A court of inquiry has been...
11:45
The frequent crashes involving the the MiG 21 has given it the name 'flying coffin' or the 'widow maker'. But a man who has done 6316 sorties with the MiG-21, arguably the most by any air force pilot, says there isn't anything wrong with the aircraft.As the one-time warhorse aircraft of the...
11:39
Just in: IAF's MiG-21 Bison fighter aircraft crashes in Uttarlai in Rajasthan, pilot killed, says Air Force sources.
11:29
A month after the Uttarakhand crisis, the state government will declare the 5000 missing to be presumed dead and the compensation to be handed over to the family immediately. However, the government has said that the beneficiaries should sign an undertaking to return the compensation if the...
11:24
Manish Tiwari's Libertarian comment comes after Narendra Modi on Sunday hit back at the Congress, saying the party is adept at donning the veil of secularism and hiding in a bunker whenever it is faced with a crisis. Read
11:12
And the puppy wars continue. Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari tweets this morning: The Veil of Secularism is inclusive while wheels of communalism consider Libertarians as KUTTE KA Baccha - PUPPY to be crushed under their SUVs. IF KUTTE KA BACCHA- PUPPY comes under your car u hv 2options...
11:02
Anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela might get discharged from hospital soon to recuperate at home, a former president of South Africa said. Thabo Mbeki, who succeeded Mandela as South Africa'spresident, made the prediction on Saturday that Mandela's health was improving so he could get a...
10:56
Google on Monday marked the 407th birth anniversary of Rembrandt van Rijn's with a doodle. Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch painter who made major contributions to European art history. As always, the doodle is spectacular. See
10:55
Days after a consignment of fake Indian currency notes worth Rs 37 lakh coming from China was apprehended in Delhi, another consignment of comparable value from the same country has now been seized on the Indo-Nepal border. Read
10:47
It will be an unusual Monday morning in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's household. Among the bagful of mail he gets daily will be several telegrams urging him to 'end corruption, give us freedom'. Read
09:20
While the Ishrat Jahan case has once again brought into sharp focus the issue of fake encounter killings, government figures show another disturbing reality.A staggering 555 fake encounter cases have been reported from across India in the last four years -- most of them from Naxal-affected states...
09:14
Russian lawmakers are using the example of Edward Snowden -- who is seeking temporary asylum in the former Communist nation -- to impose tighter controls on internet giants operating there.Ironically, Snowden had left the US proclaiming he did not want to live under a state of surveillance.Read...
09:00
The long-pending anti-superstition bill would be tabled in the monsoon session of the Maharashtra Legislature, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has said. We will table the bill on anti-superstition after discussions with the representatives of the varkaris (devotees of...
08:58
Cadres of the banned Communist Party of India - Maoist snatched nomination papers filed for posts of sarpanchs and ward members in four villages in G Madugula mandal of the Visakhapatnam agency area on Saturday. According to the police, as election...
08:57
Senior police officer Parikshita Rathod, who was the first officer to investigate the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others, told the CBI that suspended IPS officer D G Vanzara had told her that there was no need for ballistic examination of their...
08:56
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has said her government is gearing up to roll out the food security scheme in the city on August 20. Families to be covered under the ambitious programme will be given a specific card for their proper identification and to ensure that food grains reach the...
08:50
Congress today hit back at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks -- that the ruling party wears the 'veil of secularism' each time it faces a crisis -- and said that this conduct is better than 'communalism'. The veil of secularism is much...
08:49
BJP leaders and those involved in pursuing the Bofors scam have said prime accused Ottavio Quattrochi's death should not result in closing the probe into where the kickbacks went and the truth should be unearthed. This was a big scam, a big scandal...
08:48
Just 15 minutes to midnight, the iconic telegram breathed its last in Delhi, with the last message sent to Rahul Gandhi. The telegram counter closed at 11.45 PM and the revenue collected was Rs 68,837 as the country bade adieu to the harbinger of...
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