22:57
Bradley Manning, the US army private accused of leaking thousands of classified documents, has been found guilty of espionage but not guilty of aiding the enemy. Pte Manning has been found guilty of 20 charges in total. Read more on BBC
22:22
The train driver in last week's crash in Spain was talking on the phone when it derailed, investigators say.The train was travelling at 153km/h at the time, investigators at the Court of Justice of Galicia said.Francisco Jose Garzon Amo was speaking to members of staff at the state-owned railway...
22:12
Karan Pandey, the 19-year-old youth who was shot dead by Delhi police in an alleged attempt to stop stunt bikers from performing risky stunts in the high-security New Delhi area was cremated today amid demands of a CBI inquiry into the case by his mother.I want a CBI inquiry into the case as I...
21:58
Vicky Nanjappa reports: The Joint Action Committee for Seema-Andhra has called for bandh on Wednesday. All parts of Seema-Andhra will remain shut between dawn to dusk protesting the decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh and form Telangana.The bandh call given by the Seema-Andhra JAC also aims...
21:12
Vicky Nanjapaa reports: K Chandrasekara Rao, Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief, has termed the announcement as a victory of the people. He said that the long standing demands of the people of Telangana had finally paid off and he is very happy for them.When contacted, KCR, as he is known, says...
20:38
Welcoming the decision of the UPA to create separate state of Telangana, BJP leader Prakash Javadekar said many people have sacrificed their lives for the cause. BJP will look at the decision and then give its reaction, he added.
20:01
The Congress Working Committee today unanimously endorsed creation of a separate Telangana state from out of Andhra Pradesh. Read the full text of the CWC resolution on Telangana HERE
19:38
The decision to carve out Telangana was not taken due to political expediency, says Digvijaya Singh, adding that this has no connection with the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections
19:35
We have kept in mind security, water issues, liabilities, etc. All this will be considered while drafting the Bill. Modalities will be worked out for division of assets, liabilities and water resources. The formation of Telangana cannot be compared to demand from states. Telangana will have 10...
19:29
Just In: Hyderabad has been made common capital of Andhra Pradesh and the new Telangana states for a period of 10 years. Also, the new Telangana state will have 10 districts of Andhra PradeshThe actual creation of a Telangana state could take almost 4-5 months.Congress general secretary Ajay...
18:45
Sources tell Rediff.com that finance minister P Chidambaram dominated the proceedings at the Congress Working Committee.
18:42
So, next up is the Special Cabinet meeting tomorrow, which will take up the issue.
18:41
OK, so the Congress Working Committee meet on Telangana has ended. The CWC, as expected, unanimously passes a resolution endorsing the formation of the state of Telangana.
18:31
Even as the UPA government has endorsed the creation of a Telangana state dividing up the present state of Andhra Pradesh, it should also gear up to tackle a spell of intensive agitation by the Bodo tribe to press for their long-standing demand for a separate Bodoland state. Read K...
18:25
There will be a special cabinet meeting on Telangana tomorrow. After the UPA coordination committee and the CWC endorses it, the Prime Minister will refer it to the President. The first visuals of the CWC which is underway at 10 Janpath doesn't display any celebratory mood. Congress sources...
17:57
OK, so while an announcement on the formation of Telangana is expected after the CWC meeting, on right now, it is only after the cabinet meet on Thursday, that a formal announcement can be made. The UPA has already endorsed the formation of Telangana and the CWC is expected to state exactly...
17:40
The Congress Working Committee meeting is on. The formal announcement on the statehood will be made once the meeting ends.
17:37
Keshav Rao, leader Telangana Rashtriya Samhiti, welcomes the decision for the creation of the news state, but says it will not be in Andhra's interest for Hydearabad to be a shared capital. The future of Hyderabad has not been discussed at the UPA meeting. Rao says that he is not sure about...
17:24
The impetus for the big Telangana announcement comes from the fact that the national elections, in which the Congress will seek a third term in power, are just months away. Nearly half of the 42 parliamentary seats from Andhra Pradesh are housed in Telangana.
17:20
The CWC to meet on Telangana shortly, but since the UPA allies have unanimously endorsed the statehood, the CWC meet is probably just a formality. No clarity yet on whether Rayalaseema will be split or whether Hyderabad becomes the shared capital for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
17:16
UPA allies have endorsed the creation of the state of Telangana. Before the UPA coordination committee meet began, the PM took the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj into confidence and discussed the issue with her. Now, all that's left is for the Congress Working to meet,...
17:05
The UPA coordination meet to discuss Telangana statehood with allies ends in Delhi. The CWC meeting will be held around 5.30 pm, after which the announcement will be made.Congress president Sonia Gandhi held talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier in the day. Sonia met Home Minister...
16:50
Meanwhile, the Trinamool Congress swept the three-tier panchayat polls in West Bengal capturing 13 out of 17 Zilla Parishads, while the Congress put up a poor show with just one in Murshidabad.TMC's clean sweep in the zilla parishads in 11 of 12 south Bengal districts and two out of five north...
16:41
Just in: The Delhi Police today named underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel in its chargesheet filed in the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal.In the 6000-page long chargesheet, Delhi Police has also named S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan among 39 others as accused in...
16:35
Meanwhile, Congress President Sonia Gandhi has had to massage bruised egos apart from spearhead meetings on Telangana. She assured a delegation of party MPs opposed to creation of Telangana that their concerns would be taken care of when a decision on separate statehood is taken. ...
16:27
Next on the agenda is a meeting between Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy with the PM and Sonia Gandhi. Remember, Reddy had threatened to resign in protest over the Congress's decision, but has reportedly been persuaded not to do so. Read: Explained: How the new state of Telangana...
16:17
And the formation of the Telangana state inches closer. Congress president Sonia Gandhi and top UPA ministers -- Sushil Kumar Shinde, P Chidambaram and Kamal Nath arrive at 7 RCR, along with Farooq Abdullah, NCP's Sharad Pawar, RLD's Ajit Singh arrive. Up ahead now is the UPA coordination...
16:10
An American academic, who argues for gender equality in Islam, was prevented from addressing students at a university in India after an intervention by police, according to the organizer of the event. Read
15:54
Intimate portraits show the indomitable spirit of smiling icon who reduced photographer's team to tears just by his presence. The Nelson Mandela you haven't seen. Here you go
15:51
US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden has been advised to stay in Moscow's Sheremtyevo airport's transit area or places within the jurisdiction of Russia's imigration bureau, where his security is guaranteed. Read
15:43
From one writer to another -- Pankaj Mishra interviews Orhan Pahmuk. Read
15:16
Delhi Police today said it will move court for cancellation of the bail granted to cricketers S Sreesanth and Ankit Chavan and 19 others in the IPL spot-fixing case.A court had granted bail to the two players and several other bookies on June 10, saying there is no reason that they should be...
15:12
Just a month ago, Uttarakhand made the headlines with the tragic deaths of at least 10,000 people in flash floods. Here's what's happening in the state. Relief operations in disaster-hit Uttarakhand picked up today as the weather remainedclear for the second consecutive day with choppers, loaded...
15:00
In a brazen attack, heavily-armed Taliban terrorists, donning police uniforms, attacked a high-security prison in northwest Pakistan, freeing nearly 250 prisoners, many of them hard-core militants, and killing 14 people including six Shia inmates. The gunmen launched their attack around midnight...
14:44
As the Telangana pot continues to brew, a quick read on what the Constitution says about demand for new states. Read
14:38
South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela, who has been in hospital since 8 June with a recurring lung infection, continues to show improvement, a government statement says. But the 95-year-old remains in a critical if stable condition, it said. Read
14:28
The Delhi court has also ordered Ahmed to pay an amount of Rs 50,000. The prosecution which wanted the death penalty for Ahmed had argued that the ordeal Mohan Chand Sharma's family had to go through had to be taken into account while pronouncing the order in the case. However, the court ruled in...
14:17
Batla House encounter convict Shahzad Ahmed has been handed a life term Arguing that there were no mitigating circumstances favouring the accused, the prosecution had demanded Shahzad be sentenced to death. Shahzad is the only man arrested in the case. He was found guilty last Thursday of...
14:11
As it becomes certain that the announcement on Telangana statehood will be made after the UPA coordination committee and the Congress Working Committee meet this evening, last ditch efforts are being mounted by leaders who do not want the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. Rediff.com's Anita Katyal...
13:55
Actor-politician and senior BJP MP, Shatrughan Sinha has nosedived into controversy with his statement today that Bihar CM and former BJP ally was PM material. The JD-U and the BJP parted ways after the BJP elevated Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as its 2014 campaign incharge. Sinha had...
13:36
With a decision on the Telangana issue imminent, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today said the situation in Andhra Pradesh is peaceful. Law and order situation in Andhra Pradesh is absolutely fine, he said after a meeting with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and other senior Congress leaders and...
13:32
Here's what Congress leader and Union Human Resource Development Minister M Pallam Raju says after his meeting with Digvijaya Singh this morning. Raju has termed the possibility of a separate Telangana state as a matter of 'worry', and added that it would have a long-term impact on Andhra...
13:19
Kapil Sibal's piece for the Hindu: Great leaders, it is said, are dealers in hope. The leaders of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) are dealers in despair. While in opposition, their leadership is constantly in despair about India. The objective is essentially political: they hope to receive...
12:58
The Planning Commission has once again embarrassed us with its claims of decline in poverty by 2011-12 to grossly unrealistic levels of 13.7 per cent of population in urban areas and 25.7 per cent in rural areas, using monthly poverty lines of Rs. 1000 and Rs. 816 respectively, or Rs. 33.3 and...
12:53
India is still reeling from the deaths of 23 schoolchildren in the village of Dharmasati Gandawa in Bihar on July 17 after they ate a free school lunch that was made with cooking oil tainted with the pesticide monocrotophos. The police say that the cooking oil might have been kept in a container...
12:51
There are few better places to advertise products of mass appeal than the back of an auto-rickshaw. In the recent past, we have seen the gainful surface being used to sell, among other things, CDs of the self-help superstar Shiv Khera and books of the popular fiction phenomenon Chetan Bhagat. Read
12:47
Election candidates convicted of or facing charges of crimes such as rape, murder and attempted murder are almost twice as likely to be elected in India as those with clean records, according to data released Monday by the Association of Democratic Reforms and National Election Watch. ...
12:44
The court's ruling means that N Srinivasan may not be able to attend the Friday meeting of the BCCI working committee, its top decision making body. The BCCI had said the probe panel's clean chit means Srinivasan can resume charge.
12:20
The Bombay High Court has questioned the appointment of the BCCI panel to probe the spot-fixing scandal. The HC has ruled that the panel is illegal and and has directed the BCCI to form a new panel. The two-member probe panel, which was investigating the spot-fixing and betting scandal in the...
12:11
Shares of Jet Airways today surged 8 per cent in early trade after the Rs 2,058 crore-deal under which Abu Dhabi based Etihad will hold 24 per cent stake in the domestic carrier got the approval of FIPB with major riders to maintain effective Indian control over the airline. Cheering the move...
12:06
There is increasing disquiet within the Congress party over the manner in which Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is railroading the Telangana decision disregarding the assessment of a large section of the party. The security apparatus of the country too feels that creating Telangana could...
11:56
The CWC is likely to pass a resolution, which may endorse creating a separate state of Telangana. The CWC resolution may address other demands for separate states and is likely to suggest setting of a state reorganisation committee. Allies are expected to agree with the government's proposal....
11:52
With the UPA government likely to concede the demand for creation of Telangana state, the call for carving out a separate Vidarbha state out of Maharashtra has started gaining heat.
11:44
The Congress' top three leaders - Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi - will attend a series of meetings between 4 pm and 5.30 pm today at the PM's 7 Race Course Road residence in Delhi. At the end of those deliberations, the ruling party is expected to announce a new...
11:22
Nation writes a letter to Arnab Goswami, says it never demanded any answers. Hilarious piece on The Unreal Times. Read
11:20
While on food, US President Barack Obama had a private lunch with his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the White House, raising speculation about her much-rumoured run in the 2016 presidential elections. Though the lunch was initially scheduled in the private dining room right off the...
11:16
Something's cooking in the White House and the President of India has a hand in it.A singularly special envoy' from Rashtrapati Bhavan will call on US President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday. Later today the unusual envoy, Machindra Kasture, is scheduled to be received in his Turtle...
11:12
Just over a month after Rupert Murdoch surprised his wife of 14 years with divorce papers, Wendi Murdoch has switched lawyers, a move signaling that the separation could take an acrimonious turn. Read
11:07
Two months after the arrest of three cricketers for spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), the Delhi Police are all set to file a chargesheet on Tuesday naming underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his aide Chhota Shakeel as the fountainheads of the fixing and betting racket in India. Read
10:59
A series of major explosions at a Florida gas plant has injured several workers and left others missing. The Orlando Sentinel reported today that Tavares City Administrator John Drury said 10 of 24 people working at Blue Rhino, a propane gas plant, have not been accounted for after the blasts....
10:49
Former RSS activist Naba Kumar Sarkar alias Aseemanand, whose confession in December 2010 led to the unraveling of a saffron terror conspiracy behind the 2006 Malegaon blasts apart from several other attacks, may himself be never charged in the case. National Investigation...
10:46
At least 10 children are feared dead in a collision between a school bus and a truck on a national highway in Rajasthan this morning. The driver of the truck is absconding. Twenty children are in hospital. Early reports said the children, from Saraswati School, a private...
10:36
Fox News reports: Ten to 24 workers are reportedly missing after series of large explosions rocked a gas plant in Lake County, Florida.The Orlando Sentinel reports that the explosions began a little before 11 p.m. at Blue Rhino, a propane tank-exchange company in Tavares, Florida.Read the...
10:29
Nine children have been killed and 10 injured as a bus collided into a tempo at Hanumangarh in Rajasthan.More details are awaited.
10:18
Taliban insurgents disguised as police attacked a prison holding hundreds of militants in northwest Pakistan with rockets and mortars and have reportedly escaped with 300 prisoners after a gunfight with security forces. The attack around midnight, targeted the Central Prison in Dera Ismail...
10:06
Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congressis just short of a clean sweep in the West Bengal panchayat polls. The party ousted the Left in south Bengal, but met with hurdles in the north, where the Congress and the Left were ahead of the ruling party in Jalpaiguri, Uttar Dinajpur, Malda and...
09:28
The Indian Army is by far the most influential in the Asia Pacific region, a top American General said as he stressed on the importance of building military-to-military relationship between the two countries. As is in many of the Asia-Pacific countries, the army is the dominant service in...
03:54
Fears of a new round of violent confrontations in Egypt loomed on Monday as the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies organized protest marches on Interior Ministry buildings nationwide in defiance of warnings by the military-led government, even as the European Union's top foreign policy official...
03:50
Hawaii was bracing for tropical storm Flossie Monday, even as the storm began to weaken. According to the National Weather Service, the eye of the storm is headed directly for Maui and Oahu, with landfall expected Monday. Wind gusts could reach 60 miles per...
03:49
Militants have attacked a prison in northwestern Pakistan, in an apparent attempt to free jailed Taliban and Al Qaida terrorists.Witnesses say security forces are engaged in a firefight with the attackers at the prison in the town of Dera Ismail Khan. An intelligence official says the militants...
03:03
Authorities say five people have died, including three German citizens, after a helicopter crashed into a lake in northwest Romania shortly after takeoff. Ovidiu Petru Oltean, the mayor of the town of Taureni where the crash occurred, said the helicopter crashed yesterday minutes after...
02:32
Swiss television, citing local police, reports that 44 people have been injured, four of them seriously, in a head-on train collision in the west of the country. Public TV station SRF quotes Vaud canton (state) police spokesman Pierre-Olivier Gaudard as saying one person has yet to be recovered...
02:31
Militants attacked a prison in northwest Pakistan today with bombs, rockets and hand grenade, sparking an intense fighting between the attackers and law enforcers. The attack around midnight at D I Khan district of Khyber Pakthunkhwa bordering South Waziristan agency by the militants to free...
01:45
A Mass has been held in north-western Spain for the 79 people who died in a train crash.The service was held in the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela, a Catholic pilgrimage site where the train derailed last week.Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who comes from the city, and members of the...
01:18
A Saudi court sentenced today a rights activist to seven years in jail and 600 lashes for setting up a liberal network and alleged insults to Islam, activists said. Raef Badawi has been sentenced to seven years in jail and 600 lashes, lawyer Waleed Abualkhair wrote on his Twitter account,...
01:09
The Israeli and Palestinian delegations to renewed peace talks have agreed in principle to continue negotiations for at least nine months, the US State Department said today. They have all agreed to focus on having talks not just for the sake of talks, but this is the beginning of direct...
00:31
More than a dozen explosions, mainly from car bombs, ripped through marketplaces, parking lots, a cafe and rush-hour crowds in Iraq on Monday, killing at least 58 people and pushing the country's death toll for the month of July toward the 700 mark, officials said.The bombings ' 18 in all ' are...
00:05
Egypt must brace itself for many more days, if not weeks, of political turmoil and violence. But there are no signs at this stage that a Syria-style conflict will engulf the country.Egyptians are discovering in a more public and painful way than other Arab Spring states that removing...
00:04
An Italian tour bus plowed through several cars before it crushed through a sidewall of a highway bridge and plunged into a ravine, killing at least 38 people, authorities said Monday.Rescuers wielding electric saws cut through the twisted wreckage of the bus looking for survivors overnight, and...
00:03
Wearing a scarf to mask his face, the gunman held up at least three security guards and then fled the luxury Cannes hotel roughly a minute later with $136 million in diamond jewelry, more than twice the initial estimated worth of the loot.The simple, speedy theft is the biggest jewelry...
00:00
What if Modi vs Rahul battle was TODAY?Sand mafia runs UP, MP governments: DigvijayaCan we have closure on the 2002 Gujarat riots?'Cong may announce Telangana, but will delay its formation'Aus plane evacuated after cockpit smoke, pilots hospitalisedCongress calculations on TelanganaPutting meal...
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