23:19
Five security personnel, including three state policemen, were today killed when armed Naxals attacked them during construction of a culvert in Aurangabad district of Bihar, a senior police offical said.State Director General of Police Abhayanand told PTI that the three policemen belonged to...
22:25
BBC reports: A senior Pakistani Taliban leader has said he was shocked by his group's near-fatal attack on schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai last October. In a letter to Malala, Adnan Rasheed stops short of apologising but says he wished the attack had never happened. He also claims the...
22:08
Boosting army's war fighting capabilities along the Line of Actual Control, the government today given a go ahead to the creation of a corps including deployment of 50,000 additional troops along the China border at a cost of around Rs 65,000 crore. The cabinet committee on...
21:39
The opposition Rashtriya Janata-Dal hit out at the Bihar government on Wednesday for accusing it of hatching a 'conspiracy' in the mid-day meal tragedy that claimed the lives of 22 children, alleging that by politicising the issue the Janata Dal-United government was trying to divert the...
21:01
NDTV reports: The Supreme Court today made it clear that the CBI should not share any information with the government on its investigation into alleged irregularities in how coal mining licenses were issued to private companies, a scandal dubbed coal-gate. The court also took on...
20:10
Attacking the Congress-led UPA government for liberalising FDI limits in various sectors, particularly telecom, defence and insurance, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today alleged that it was selling out the country and claimed that it would go soon....
18:52
Just in: An full emergency was declared at Mumbai airport for Air India flight from Sharjah to Kochi, which has developed hydraulic failure. Around a 135 passengers were on board the flight. The emergency has since been lifted and the flight landed safely.
18:45
And another mid-day meal horror? Unconfirmed reports say one child has died while 22 others were injured after consuming a mid-day meal in Gaya, Bihar.
18:33
The value of Narendra Modi was contested this week after it was reported that party officials would collect five rupees from each participant at a rally where the divisive politician is slated to speak. Some might say it's a bargain, others that you couldn't pay them enough to attend a speech by...
17:59
Bihar's education minister PK Sahi tells the media that the opposition was trying to pay play politics over the issue. Don't blame us. I personally went there and moved the critical students to a better hospital in Patna. The principal of the school, Meena Kumari has been suspended. Her husband...
17:57
Channel 4 News has a copy of a letter sent to Malala Yousufzai from a senior Taliban commander berating her smear campaign against them - but expressing some remorse about the attack. Read
17:26
PK Sahi, education minister, Bihar addressing the press on the mid-day meal tragedy in Chhapra, where 22 children died after consuming pesticide laced food. Sahi says the government responded immediately. He said three children were critical, but are likely to recover. He said the cook had...
17:14
There have been many cases of Indian children falling sick after eating meals distributed through the government's free school meal program, but none as extreme as Tuesday's deadly poisoning in Bihar. Read
17:05
Ravi Subramanian's move from Rupa Publications to Penguin India may not be about the money but you cannot be blamed for thinking it is. The publishing giant has offered the author Rs 1.25 crore for a two-book deal making it the highest advance given by them to any Indian writer. Read...
17:00
Murmurs at 11 Ashok Road, the BJP headquarters in Delhi is that party president Rajnath Singh is in great demand in the US. He has a personal trip coming up this month, but the party has planned another visit in October. Rajnath Singh has left drafts of his speeches which have been approved by...
16:45
Unlike the Chhapra incident where organophosphorus used in pesticides had contaminated the mustard oil used to prepare the potato-soyabean meal, causing death of 22 students, the severity of food poisoning in the Madhubani incident is low. CNN IBN reports that a lizard was found in the meal. The...
16:23
Toll in Chhapra now 22. Nitishji has still not visited Hospital in Patna to meet children & relatives or taken step to fix responsibility, tweets BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain.
16:22
At least 15 children have been admitted to hospital when they fell ill after eating their mid-day meal in a school in the Madhubani district of Bihar. Early reports say that a lizard was found in the food served to the children. Two students are said to be in a critical condition. This appalling...
16:03
Nagpur remains firmly in the headlines with top BJP leaders air-dashing to the RSS headquarters there. Out of the eight contentious issues which the RSS is apprehensive about placing before Narendra Modi, six have been sorted out. But the most important remains that septuagenerians and...
15:55
Who is that one person, or may be two people, who can tell senior BJP leader LK Advani where to get off? The top brass of the BJP and the RSS have been struggling to tell Advani that it would be difficult for him to contest from the Gandhi Nagar Lok Sabha Parliamentary Constituency and it was...
15:16
Papal court handling pardons for sins says contrite Catholics may win 'indulgences' by following World Youth Day on Twitter. Read
15:12
Pakistan's new government has lifted a five-year moratorium on state executions, a move that human-rights campaigners say is a backwards step in the country's relations with the rest of the world. Read
15:08
Former Delhi BJP vice-president Aamir Raza Husain today said that he would prefer party veteran LK Advani or Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, as the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate in comparison to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who makes despicable and divisive...
14:53
The undertrial, Shakeel Ahmad Khatana, who was injured in a grenade attack in Srinagar along with four policemen who were escorting him, has died as a result of his injuries. A pedestrian was also injured in the attack in the crowded Batamaloo bus stand in central Srinagar around noon. ...
14:46
The Supreme Court has allowed the CBI to remove tainted SP Vivek Dutt from its Coal-gate probe team. The court today turned down the CBI's plea to shift DIG Ravi Kant, probing the coal block allocations between 2006 and 2009. The court said, We may consider the CBI's plea for expanding the probe...
14:38
Pakistan's new government has lifted a five-year moratorium on state executions, a move that human-rights campaigners say is a backwards step in the country's relations with the rest of the world. Read
14:35
Cheers, all best, warm regards -- having to choose the best way to sign off an email is a minefield. Which one do you use for what occasion? Read
14:25
In other news: In a world's first, UK scientists claim to have developed a novel method to charge mobile phones -- using human urine. Scientists working at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory have described the breakthrough finding of charging cell phones using urine as the power source to generate...
14:19
A couple has been sentenced by an Australian court to nine months in jail for a racial attack in which a Sikh taxi driver's turban was ripped off. Angeline Kim Sollitt, 44, and Michael John Arbouin, 40, were handed down the nine-month prison-term for the unprovoked and malicious attack on taxi...
14:09
As the death toll in Bihar's mid-day meal food poisoning case rose to 20, Union Minister for Human Resource Development MM Pallam Raju said on Wednesday that the government has taken a serious note of the incident and is hoping that other states and their respective authorities would exercise...
13:59
The death toll in the midday meal incident has gone up to 22. While 16 children, aged below 10 years and studying in Class I to V, had died in Chhapra itself, four others were declared dead on arrival at Patna Medical College Hospital last night. Two died at the hospital this morning. Among the...
13:40
Huge cracks have developed in some places in the Kedarnath shrine that faced the fury of last month's floods, although the sanctum sanctorum has escaped damage, according to preliminary assessment of the Archaeological Survey of India.The ASI has been given the responsibility to restore the...
13:35
The Allahabad High Court has granted bail to 70-year-old Ali Mohammed convicted by a lower court of raping his daughter-in law Imrana, that had prompted a minority community panchayat to direct her to treat her husband as a son.Ali Mohammed was granted bail on the ground that he has already spent...
13:30
Update on the grenade attack in Srinagar. Four policemen and an undertrial were among six persons injured today in a grenade attack by militants on a police vehicle in Batamaloo area of the city. Militants lobbed a grenade on a police vehicle carrying an undertrial at busy Batamaloo bus stand...
13:18
A seven-month-old baby, Ajay, died in the emergency ward of the Balia district hospital in eastern Uttar Pradesh, where sweepers and a rickshaw puller are asked to fill in for tasks meant only for trained medical professionals. Ajay was critical and suffering from septicemia. The surgeon...
13:06
Violent protests erupted in Chhapra in Bihar on Wednesday where 21 children died after consuming a mid-day meal in their school. According to television reports, people armed with sticks and rods set blaze a bus and damaged public property. According to reports, 27 children are undergoing...
12:59
Aarogyasri, founded in 2007 by Andhra Pradesh's then-Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, is the first program in India to provide government-subsidized health insurance to poor families in India. It covers all families with a yearly income of less than 60,000 rupees, meaning that almost 85...
12:52
Half of Indians have no toilet. It's one of many gigantic failures that have prompted Nobel prize-winning academic Amartya Sen to write a devastating critique of India's economic boom. Read
12:44
How models and aspiring actors spend a large chunk of their earnings to keep up appearances. Read
12:39
And news of another grenade explosion. Militants exploded a powerful grenade in the complex of the Regional Institute of Medical Science and Hospital in Imphal, but no casualty was reported.The impact of the explosion was so strong that it could be heard a few kilometres away from the spot....
12:34
Four persons have been injured in a grenade explosion in the Batamaloo area of Srinagar, say police. Details awaited. On June 28, militants today carried out a grenade attack on a CRPF picket in Sopore township of north Kashmir's Baramulla district, causing panic in the area. The grenade missed...
12:25
Dharuhera, a small township near Gurgaon, is now an emblem of the change India's economic liberalization has brought to the countryside and its socio-economic life. Here's why
12:12
Recent judgments on the disqualification of convicted legislators and candidates in custody, and the banning of caste rallies, are not correct in law and need to be revisited. Read press council of India chairman, Markandey Katju's, column on the Hindu.
12:06
The challenge of cybersecurity lies in protecting people without entering their private space or making 'national security' an excuse to trample on their freedoms. Read
12:04
India is the world's largest generic medicines exporter and has the third largest national economy in the world, according to data from the World Bank. But its healthcare policies are failing its poorest citizens. Read
11:56
The resignation of Delhi BJP vice-president Aamir Raza Husain over Narendra Modi's puppy remarks today gave Congress a fresh handle to attack the opposition party. If Aamir Raza Husain could say/do the right thing wonder why all former socialists who joined BJP quiet? Where do Shahnawazji &...
11:54
A batch of over 1,000 pilgrims have left the Jammu base camp for Shri Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas. A convoy of 35 vehicles, carrying 1,037 pilgrims, left from Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu at around 4.50 an to pay obeisance at the Amarnath cave shrine, police said.The 21st...
11:52
Flying a MiG-21 amounted to violation of his fundamental right to life, a serving wing commander has told the Delhi high court, seeking redressal after a regular flight exercise in 2005 went awry, leaving him with debilitating neck and back pain that has rendered him unfit for...
11:39
BSP MP Vijay Bahadur Singh has been expelled from the party in the wake of his remarks in support of Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, says party sources.
11:27
A girl who was kidnapped and raped in Dimapur, Nagaland, managed to flee her captor with the help of the 108 emergency response service in Meghalaya. Read
11:25
In other news: The cabinet committee on security is to shortly take a call on the diplomatic ramifications of raising a new army formation for the China frontier in the east and the Northeast. Read
11:17
Meanwhile, the Delhi court reserves for July 19 its order on CBI's plea to summon Anil Ambani, his wife Tina Ambani and others as witnesses in 2G case.
11:13
This is what the Justice Verma Commission ruled on juveniles: We did consider, however, a general lowering of the juvenile age. The research and the statistics in this area, as well as our own experience shows that it was not viable. Even the women's organisations, most of them were of the...
11:06
Just in: The Supreme Court has rejected a PIL trying to reduce the age of juveniles held for murder or rape from 18 to 16 years. Those below 18 will continue to be treated as juvenile even in cases of rape and murder. In effect this means, the juvenile accused of murder and gang rape in the...
10:57
In Mamata Banerjee's Kolkata, a biker and his accomplices chased a Frenchwoman and her male colleague through the lanes of Jodhpur Park and Lake Gardens on Saturday night, one of them declaring aloud his intention to f***' her, the Frenchman told The Telegraph today. Read his horrific account.
10:51
In the first fallout within the party of Narendra Modi's puppy remark,Delhi BJP vice-president and well-known theatre personality Aamir Raza Husain tendered his resignation on Tuesday, a day after he had made anti-Modi remarks on national television.The Padma Shri awardee, who had been...
10:28
Bihar's education minister has said the mid-day meal that killed 20 students of a primary school in Bihar was poisoned. He has said that a probe will find out if the poisoning was deliberate or accidental.50 students have been admitted to hospital of which nine are said to be critical.
10:19
Violent protests erupted in Chhapra in Bihar on Wednesday where 20 children died on Tuesday after consuming mid day meal in their school. More than 50 others are in the hospital battling for life.The Opposition RJD and BJP have called for a bandh in the district on Wednesday, while the LJP...
09:42
A group of 83 passengers aboard an Asiana Airlines flight which crash-landed in San Francisco has filed a lawsuit seeking millions from the aircraft's manufacturer Boeing, their lawyers said. While a final determination of what caused the deadly crash of the Boeing 777 is years...
09:41
An estimated 5,000 Syrians are dying every month in the country's civil war and refugees are fleeing at a rate not seen since the 1994 Rwanda genocide, UN officials said. In Syria today, serious human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity are the rule, said Ivan...
09:08
The White House today said there was ample legal justification for former CIA contractor Edward Snowden to stand trial and asked Russia to return him to US.Snowden, who has been stranded at the Moscow airport for three weeks now after his passport was withdrawn by the US, today applied for asylum...
08:52
Reacting to the reports of US government's access to customer data, software giant Microsoft has said that it did not allow any government to have direct or unfettered access to private information. Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder said the...
08:50
A serious water leak inside an astronaut's helmet forced NASA to cut short a spacewalk Tuesday outside the International Space Station.European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, who last week became the first Italian to walk in space, reported a buildup of water inside his helmet...
08:27
A mid day meal that proved fatal for school children in Chhapra in Bihar has left 20 dead and over 30 hospitalised. The state government has ordered an inquiry.Tragedy struck the Dharamsati village on Tuesday afternoon as more than 50 children all aged between 8 and 12 years fell seriously ill...
08:21
US Secret Service has arrested a man from across the street near the White House for carrying an unlicensed pistol and other fire arms. The man identified as Christopher Briggs was apparently shirtless and was found to be carrying an open container of alcohol along with the illegal weapons.
08:20
The long wait for the birth of Prince William and his wife Catherine's royal baby is big business for Britain's bookmakers. Punters around the world are betting on a girl called Alexandra to be born, well, any day now. And with footballer David Beckham joking that the child should be named...
08:19
Sixteen children have died in Bihar, allegedly as a result of food-poisoning from the free mid-day meal provided at their school near Chhapra in the central part of the state, 60 kms from the state capital Patna. Most of them who died were younger than 10.Another 35 children have been...
00:51
The District Magistrate today imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 CrPC in areas surrounding Maruti company in Gurgaon to avoid any confrontation between villagers and agitating sacked workers of the company. District Magistrate Shekhar Vidyarthi has imposed the orders in whole area of...
00:43
Hear Modi for Rs 5: Market discovers true value, says CongSupreme Court quashes Maharashtra's ban on dance barsHC REJECTS Sajjan's plea to quash 1984 riot chargesThe final few hours of the telegramDid Headley mention Ishrat? IB says yes, NIA says no
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