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A 51-year-old Indian expatriate is battling for life after he was found unconscious at Sharjah International Airport, 15 hours after his flight took off. Sambandan Siva is currently in a coma at Dubai's Rashid Hospital.His condition is critical, his employers said. Siva, who works with the...
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Citing amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran's report, Zakia Jafri today claimed there was enough evidence to warrant a probe and trial against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra riots despite a clean chit by the SIT.There is sufficient...
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Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today held a one-on-one meeting with senior BJP leader L K Advani, with whom he is not on the best of terms since the party patriarch opposed his elevation as poll campaign head.Soon after the BJP Parliamentary Board meeting at the party headquarters...
22:20
A judge of the Gujarat high court today recused himself from hearing the bail application filed by suspended Indian Police Service officer N K Amin, arrested in Ishrat Jahan encounter case. Justice A J Desai did not give any reason for pulling out of the hearing. Amin had yesterday moved...
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The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund on Thursday said the deaths in mid-day meals in Bihar could have been prevented with strict adherence to protocols for preparing the meal. UNICEF said it is in touch with the concerned authorities to understand what happened and find ways to prevent...
21:46
President Pranab Mukherjee today promulgated the ordinance to give more powers to SEBI to deal with ponzi schemes. This gives the regulatory body powers to access phone call records of persons being probed for violations in securities market.
20:27
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today alleged the Congress was alwaysbad-mouthing the party and claimed that they would becomebeggars after the next year's Lok Sabha elections. Congress ministers (from Bengal) are always bad mouthing us. They should not forget that...
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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today condemned the killing of protestors in Ramban area of Jammu region and said such incidents had the potential to jeopardise the peaceful atmosphere in the state. It is highly unacceptable to shoot at unarmed...
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Former corporate lobbyist Niira Radia today told a special court that she had talked about Cabinet formation to former Telecom Minister A Raja and DMK MP Kanimozhi who are facing trial in the 2G spectrum case. Radia, who was deposing as a...
18:49
Lyricist Vaali, one of the veterans of the Tamil film industry, breathed his last today evening after a prolonged period of illness and hospitalisation in Chennai. He was 82, and is survived by his son. Vaali, who composed songs for Tamil films at a time when Kannadasan strode the stage like...
18:38
Curefew has been imposed in Ramban district this evening, says Deputy Commissioner of police Vinod Meena. Four people were killed and several others, including security personnel, injured in stone-pelting and the resultant firing today when a mob attacked a BSF camp in Ramban district over...
18:14
What the much-talked about Rolling Stones story on the Boston bomber says. Read
18:10
Something to chew on: Bihar, one of the most impoverished in India, had the worst satisfaction rates of the states surveyed, with only 22.1% of children saying they were content with the food supplied under the programme.The other states had satisfaction rates of between 76% and 99.5%. Read
18:09
India's program to provide free lunches for poor schoolchildren to supplement their diet and keep them in school has good intentions. A report by the Planning Commission published in 2010 found that it had been successful in reducing classroom hunger. Read
17:47
Rolling Stone has unveiled its next cover, featuring a dreamy photo of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and many people have erupted in outrage.The Slate, on why the cover is in fact, brilliant. Read
17:34
The principal of the government school in Chhapra where 23 children died in the mid-day meal tragedy suspected to have been caused by poisoned food is still absconding.No arrests have been made, two days after the incident, as a mass grave outside the primary school at Dharmasati Gandavan village...
17:29
Hartosh Singh Bal on the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case and the claim that patriotism is not about dying for the country but murdering for it. Read
17:24
The HRD Ministry has announced setting up a new committee to go into the quality aspect of the mid-day meal scheme nationwide. Here's what union HRD minister Dr Pallam Raju said.
17:16
The poor in India don't suffer from fewer lifestyle diseases than the rich -- they just don't know it. A new study shows that the actual prevalence of common non-communicable diseases is far higher among the poor than they report, and is as high if not higher among the poor than among the...
17:00
Kashmir Valley's leading cardiologist Dr Sheikh Jalal was injured and his two police guards killed in a militant attack in the saffron-rich Pompore town in Pulwama district, this afternoon, reports our correspondent, Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar. A senior police officer said that Dr Jalal is now...
16:50
Online payments broker PayPal has admitted it erroneously credited a man with $92 quadrillion. Chris Reynolds, 56, of Pennsylvania, found the amount when he opened his monthly statement. But the error was quickly recognised and his account had returned to zero by the time he had logged in. Read
16:38
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren wins floor test. The newly-appointed CM moved a vote of confidence motion in the state Assembly and won the floor test. In the 82-member House, the JMM has 42 members backing the motion as the High Court yesterday dismissed a petition of JMM MLA Nalin...
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Amardeep Sinha, Principal Secretary, Bihar government, said the state was committed to building kitchen sheds and storage rooms to ensure contamination would not happen again. However, there were at least 13,500 schools in the state that had no land where a kitchen shed could be constructed. He...
16:09
At least 34 students, including 13 girls, fell ill after allegedly consuming contaminated water in Dhule district in Maharashtra. The water was allegedly supplied by a tanker to the private Kasturbai Ashram school in Shind Kheda taluka of north Maharashtra's Dhule district. The students upon...
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Another update on the Neyveli mid-day meal incident: NDTV puts the figure as 102, not 66, girls affected. The girls were from a government school in Neyvelli in Tamil Nadu and were hospitalised after their mid-day meal left them sick. The girls had complained of giddiness and nausea soon after...
15:19
Questions that need to be asked from the Chhapra mid-day meal horror: If the food tasted odd, why did the children continue to eat it? That is the question that haunts me, even though I know the answer: because they were hungry; because it was probably the only meal they would get that day;...
15:12
Update on the insects and worms found in a mid-day meal in Amritsar. CNN IBN reports that the food in a mid-day meal kitchen in Amritsar was found to be contaminated with worms, during an inspection that happened in the aftermath of the Chhapra incident. The children in the school have been...
15:01
While a study by Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow has found that children love puri and sabzi, the state government has decided not to include these items in the midday meal menu.The decision has been taken as an inspection by the education department has revealed that purchase of unpacked...
14:55
Some of the postmortem reports on the children who died in Chhapra, Bihar, this week after an insecticide-laced mid-day meal is out. A preliminary report says that the insecticide was either in the food or the cooking oil. A chemical analysis of the ingredients seized from the school is...
14:52
Another mid-day meal horror: Insects and worms have been found in a mid-day meal kitchen in Amritsar. And another: Sixty-six students faint after consuming a mid-day meal in Neyveli, Tamil Nadu, reports CNN IBN. Details awaited.
14:40
And another story on the mid-day meal horror. Officials say initial investigations show the food that killed at least 23 children from a school in the eastern Indian state of Bihar was contaminated with organophosphorus. Read what the WSJ has to say.
14:34
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde orders a probe into the firing incident in Ramban in J-K. Shinde says any use of excessive force or irresponsible action will be dealt with strictly. Three people were killed and several others, including security personnel, injured in stone-pelting and the...
14:31
A certain union minister known for his affinity to talcum powder and face cream was the target of much sniggering at the cabinet meeting when he appeared looking more bleached than he usually does. In fact, the murmurs were so loud that the stoic Prime Minister turned around to find out what was...
14:25
Pharmacy chain CVS declines to sell Rolling Stone magazine amid criticism over glamorous cover image of Boston bombing suspect with story titled 'Jahar's World'. Read
14:24
Nitish Kumar's Bihar government has released a prominent ad in newspapers instructing the principal and cook in every school to first taste the free mid-day meal before it is served to children. Officials in charge of checking the meals will also have to taste the food and record the...
14:20
Pitched political battles are being waged between the votaries of secularism (the Congress) and those who complain about minority appeasement (the BJP). Read
14:19
When the NSA can't break into your computer, these guys break into your house. Read the eye-opener of a piece on Foreign Policy.
14:17
US vice president Joe Biden arrives in India Monday for a visit focused on improving the business climate between the two nations, a spokesman for the US Embassy in New Delhi said. Here's what else is on the agenda. Read
14:12
India's decision to increase FDI in defence is seen as a long-awaited positive move in the US, but major American defense industry players noted that there is unlikely to be a rush towards the country unless New Delhi is ready with fairly applied regulations.Read: Multi-brand retail FDI policy...
13:50
President Pranab Mukherjee called P Sathasivam to congratulate him on his elevation as Chief Justice of India. During the conversation, Sathasivam requested Mukherjee to allow him to take the oath at 9:30 am on Friday, instead of 11 am.The chief justice says the working hours of the Supreme Court...
13:34
The Indian Badminton League's glamour quotient has gone up by quite a few notches with a consortium involving former cricket captain Sunil Gavaskar and Telugu actor Nagarjuna buying the event's Mumbai franchise. The consortium also includes former manager of the Indian cricket team and...
13:29
The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Centre and West Bengal government on a PIL seeking CBI probe in Saradha chit fund scam. A bench of Chief Justice Altamas Kabir also issued notice to other state governments and the Centre on the petitioners' pleas for empowering Securities and...
13:20
Update on the firing in Jammu and Kashmir. The number of casualties is believed to be six, says NDTV. They were killed when the BSF fired at protestors outside their camp in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district today. Several people were also injured as in the incident. Locals say an imam had...
13:02
The government today cleared the raising of a China-specific mountain strike corps that is set to be the largest formation in the Indian Army eventually. Rs 64,000 crore has been earmarked for the new formation with more than 40,000 troops. Read
12:59
The recent launch of the first Dalit venture fund occasions an examination of the moral and ethical emptiness of capitalism. Read
12:54
Very often the most dangerous place for a woman in India is right in her own home. The alleged battery of Vijayalakshmi by her husband, the well-known Kannada film actor Thoogudeep Darshan, has once again brought attention to the issue of domestic violence against women. Read
12:49
The posters of the upcoming release Ship of Theseus may be beautiful, but what is the film really about? Read the interview with the director. Here's the official trailer of the film. Watch
12:41
Just in: Four people have died in an altercation between BSF jawans and locals in Srinagar. The BSF jawans allegedly opened fire on locals who attacked their camp. The locals say the jawans had desecrated a mosque and an imam was allegedly beaten up in the clashes. Top officials have rushed to...
12:27
Kiran Bedi makes a valid point. Why should the accused not pay for acid crime? State may pay only if accused cannot. Criminal must be made to pay for his sins. Crime perpetrators must be made to pay for crimes committed not only by going to jail and be on bail, but compensate financially too!
12:24
Now, the Supreme Court has asked states to frame rules within three months to regulate retail sale of acid and other corrosive substances.The SC has ruled that acid cannot be sold to minors, while a fine of Rs 50,000 will be slapped on those violating acid sale guidelines. The SC has also asked...
12:07
Acid attack victims, grappling with trauma and deformity for life, have welcomed the Centre's announcement to regulate sale of the chemical. The demand for regulating acid sale gained momentum after a 25-year-old woman from Delhi died after an acid attack at Bandra Terminus in May. Experts...
11:58
The Supreme Court's verdict on acid attacks is out. The court has ruled that medical treatment and rehabilitation costs of victims will be borne by the state government. A compensation of Rs 1 lakh will be paid within 15 days of the attack. The state government also has to pay a compensation of...
11:41
The depth of oppression in South Africa created Nelson Mandela, a revolutionary par excellence, and many others like him: Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Albert Lutuli, Yusuf Dadoo and Robert Sobukwe -- all men of extraordinary courage, wisdom, and generosity. ReadAnti-apartheid icon and one of the...
11:38
The Supreme Court verdict says that this year's medical admissions will not be disturbed, but medical and dental colleges will continue to hold their own exams henceforth and the MCI cannot conduct a common exam.
11:29
The SC said that medical and dental colleges will continue with their own exams and barred the Medical Council of India from conducting a common exam. The stand-off between the private medical colleges and the Medical Council of India (MCI) over NEET had left the future of nearly 4 lakh students...
11:15
The Supreme Court has quashed the common entrance eligibility test for admission in medical colleges. The SC holds as ultra vires the notification for National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) by 2:1 verdict. Justice A R Dave differs with the verdict of CJI Altamas Kabir and Justice Vikramajit...
10:59
The fatal consequences of having a routine midday meal for at least 22 children in Bihar's Saran district expose the chronic neglect of school education in a large part of India. That governments cannot find a small piece of land for a school and are unable to store food materials without the...
10:58
A wife will have a share in her husband's inherited or inheritable marital property on divorce, though the exact quantum of the compensation has been left to the discretion of the judge, according to a legislation that was cleared by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday. Read
10:55
Taste midday meal every day, record findings on the chakhni panji, and then feed children. Had this norm been followed, yesterday's midday meal tragedy in Bihar's Saran district, where the toll of children has climbed to 22 today due to insecticide found in food, could have been averted. The...
10:13
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi met BJP president Rajnath Singh on Wednesday night to discuss issues related to the party's campaign for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.Modi was recently elevated to the position of the BJP's Campaign Committee chief.Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha...
09:17
The US Olympic Committee and the White House today dismissed a call by an influential American Senator asking athletes to boycott the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia if Moscow gives asylum to whistle-blower Edward Snowden. If there are any lessons to...
09:16
US President Barack Obama has expressed his best wishes to Nelson Mandela on his 95th birthday as the former South African president continued to battle for his life in a hospital. On behalf of our family and the people of the United States, Michelle...
09:15
At least 717 people were killed and 1,108 injured in 203 cases of targeted violence against religious communities in Pakistan since January last year, a report released by a Congress established independent commission has said. Among those killed...
02:15
According to our source at the BJP headquarters, there is a debate going on, this is keeping in view the Nitish Kumar-NDA fallout, as to why shouldn't Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi fight the Lok Sabha elections from Bihar, instead of Uttar Pradesh.It is also being debated if Muzaffarpur,...
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The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has planned to soon organise a nation-wide mobilisation campaign to garner support for their demand for a new temple in Ayodhya, veteran leader Ashok Singhal said on Wednesday.Religious leaders from all over the country will take part in marches in Ayodhya in August to...
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Social activist Anna Hazare today demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should step down from his post, accepting moral responsibility for the coal blocks allocation scam.The picture is very clear in the coal scam. The truth of the scam is coming out, so Manmohan Singh should not...
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