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Amid reports that the health of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had deteriorated, BJP today issued a statement saying he was fine and such reports are misleading. Some speculations are being made about the health of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in some newspapers. He...
23:30
A US soldier pleaded guilty today to killing 16 Afghan villagers last year, as he faced a military hearing hoping to escape a death sentence. Sergeant Robert Bales, 39, pleaded guilty to 16 counts of murder over the massacre in southern Afghanistan in March last year. His lawyer said last...
23:30
The Yemeni army launched an all-out offensive today to recapture villages from Al-Qaeda groups in the southeastern province of Hadramawt, costing 10 lives, security and medical sources said. Troops backed by tanks and helicopters launched a dawn operation in Ghayl Bawazir, about 30...
23:08
Pop icon Michael Jackson's 15-year-old daughter Paris Jackson today allegedly tried to commit suicide and was rushed to a hospital here, according to media reports. She's going to be OK, a source close to the Jackson family told CNN. The source, who was at the hospital, said it was unclear...
23:06
Activists in Turkey have called for the sacking of police chiefs in Istanbul, Ankara and other cities over their forces' violent responses to protests.They presented a series of demands to Deputy PM Bulent Arinc, who on Tuesday apologised to injured protesters.The crackdown on protests over the...
23:05
Rescue teams worked frantically Wednesday to try to extract two people trapped beneath tons of rubble after the collapse of a four-story building under demolition in central Philadelphia, according to rescue officials.We have located people inside, said Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers. We are going...
22:45
Just ahead of a meeting between US and Chinese presidents, a Chinese-American scientist was allowed to leave China after being kept there for five years over a business dispute. It all happened so fast, Hu Zhicheng's wife couldn't get to the airport in time to meet him when he finally...
22:23
Michelle Obama threatened to walk out of a Washington fundraiser Tuesday night after a heckler interrupted her speech.It was a rare moment of unscripted anger from a first lady who has generally avoided direct political confrontation and has approval ratings higher than those of her...
22:10
Police today managed to thwart an attack by Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district which ended with the fleeing rebels leaving behind weapons and other supplies. Security personnel, who reported no damages or injuries, however, could not nab any of those involved in the attack...
22:08
Twentyfour Indian fishermen were arrested by Sri Lankan navalmen when they were fishing near Katchateevu today, officials said. The fishermen were arrested on the charge of intruding into Sri Lankan territory, fisheries department officials and Innocent Fishermen's Association Arulanandham...
21:37
The Centre has expressed its inability to send paramilitary forces for the three-phase panchayat polls in West Bengal beginning July 2, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today. Due to overstretched deployment of forces, it was not found feasible to...
21:20
An Islamic centre in north London was burnt down today in a suspected a racially-motivated arson attack, allegedly by a far-right group. The Al-Rahma Islamic Centre in Muswell Hill, north London, was burnt down early this morning and the Metropolitan...
20:50
Union minister Manish Tewari today took a dig at Opposition BJP, saying its demand for an early monsoon session to discuss the Food Security Bill is laughable as the party had not allowed the budget session to function smoothly. You did not allow the budget session to...
20:49
An internal probe report was today submitted to the BCCI about IPL spot-, in which three players including S Sreesanth of Rajasthan Royals were arrested by the Delhi police a fortnight ago. The fate of the report, which was completed without getting...
20:45
The Congress high command will decide on the future course of action on the CIC order on bringing parties under the ambit of the RTI Act, a move against which virtually the entire political class appears to be united. The decision will be taken...
20:43
A former UK police officer who had access to private information about celebrities, including Kate Middleton, has been jailed for two years for selling stories about them to the Rupert Murdoch-owned Sun tabloid. Paul Flattley had been in the force...
20:20
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi was today slapped with a legal notice by Asom Gana Parishad's youth wing, which gave him 15 days to apologise for his purported remarks -- that the party came to power for a second term in Assam with the support of...
20:19
23 pilgrims were stranded in mid-air for four hours in a rope cable car which stopped halfway to the famous Lord Muruga hill shrine in Tamil Nadu, following a snag today. The pilgrims, including six children and two differently-abled persons, travelling in two cabins were stuck...
20:16
Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni continued to maintain a stoic silence on the IPL spot-fixing scandal. He also showed no willingness to give his version in the 'conflict of interest' controversy over him having stake in a sports management company which handles...
20:13
Condemning the Naxal attack on a Congress convoy in Chattisgarh, former BJP ideologue K N Govindacharya today cautioned the Centre against engaging the ultras in dialogue until they shun their violent ways. The Centre should not engage the Naxals in...
18:32
Delhi police says they are not satisfied with Raj Kundra's answers. Kundra is the co-owner of Rajasthan Royals. The three players -- S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila -- all from RR have been charged with spot-fixing. Kundra told the police that players often invited bookies as...
18:25
Narendra Modi's meeting with Latin American envoys ends. The envoys apparently told Modi that he was one of the tallest politicians in India.
18:17
CNN IBN reports that a 90-year-old man, chained by his son, has been hospitalised. This comes in wake of news yesterday of a 35-year-old woman who was allegedly locked up in a room by her parents for about five years. She was rescued by the police from her house in Bangalore.
18:06
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today came out in support of the Central Information Commission order on bringing political parties under the RTI ambit. Political parties should function in a transparent manner and the public has the right to be informed about their functioning and...
18:00
Newly-retired David Beckham could make a sensational comeback -- in India. Goldenballs is being lined up to play in a football version of the megabucks IPL cricket league, which signs stars from round the world. Read
17:54
Pakistan's new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today sought an end to the controversial US drone attacks targeting al-Qaeda and Taliban militants in safe havens in the country's lawless tribal belts. We respect the sovereignty of others and they should respect our sovereignty and independence....
17:39
Quick updates: An encounter is on between security forces and militants in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir. Rajasthan Royals owner Raj Kundra's interrogation by the police has just ended. Three RR players are alleged to be involved in spot-fixing in IPL 6. Kundra told the police that players...
17:26
India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni addresses the press ahead of India's first game in the Champions Trophy. India plays against South Africa tomorrow. The questions however remained on the game tomorrow and not on the spot-fixing scandal or his uncomfortable relationship with Rhiti Sports....
16:44
Modi was apparently so confident of the victory in the by-polls that he did not even campaign for party nominees. He termed the defeat of Congress candidates in the two Lok Sabha seats as a reflection of public anger and an ultimatum for the Centre's ruling party ahead of the general elections...
16:41
@narendramodi 55m Going to meet Shri LK Advani ji.
16:38
Full day for Narendra Modi today. After his meeting with Rajnath Singh, the Gujarat CM is now headed to meet LK Advani. Advani has given in to populist demand and given his nod to the appointment of Modi to head a committee that would oversee the party's campaign and strategy for upcoming...
16:09
It is well known that Dr Manmohan Singh Prime Minister avoids media interactions, but that disease, if you will, has now spread to Union homeMinister Sushilkumar Shinde. At the PM's internal security meet with chief ministers, the government mandated P Chidambaram and Manish Tiwari to meet the...
16:03
It is believed that Rahul and Sonia Gandhi have not interacted with President Pranab Mukherjee in recent times. They have bumped into each other at meetings and at state banquets, but have stopped short of having a one-on-one. Congress sources believe that that Sonia Gandhi is more dependent on...
16:01
Rashtrapati Bhavan is likely to celebrate Pranab Mukherjee's first anniversary as President on July 23. By July 2014, Mukherjee's role in installing a popular government with a predictable fractured mandate is going to be another challenge. Pranab will be sorely missed in the Union Cabinet and...
15:46
Narendra Modi's meeting with BJP president Rajnath Singh ends. Rajnath makes a terse statement after the two-hour meet simply saying the party would defeat the Congress decisively in the 2014 polls. No statement on the leadership issue yet. Modi will head to Gujarat Bhavan to attend...
15:26
And here's what the Indian Express says on bringing political parties under RTI. Read
15:26
The tag line for India's much-acclaimed transparency law could well be: good for others, not for me. The Supreme Court loftily decreed the right to information to be a part of the fundamental right to free expression. Read
15:14
Read the interview with Devi Shetty, India's most celebrated physician, and one of the world's most famous surgeons (his patients include Mother Teresa).
15:12
Acid attacks are almost always tied to gender inequality and discrimination, noted a 2011 study sponsored by the Avon Foundation for Women. The study also noted that attackers prefer to use hydrochloric, sulfuric and nitric acids because they rapidly burn through flesh and bone:...
15:10
Trinamool Congress candidate Prasun Banerjee today won the Howrah Lok Sabha seat in a bye-election defeating his nearest rival, CPI(M) candidate Sridip Bhattacherjee, by over 27,000 votes. Though official results were still to be declared, Election Commission sources said that Prasun Banerjee...
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Narendra Modi is now meeting BJP chief Rajnath Singh at his residence. Rajnath Singh on Monday described the Gujarat Chief Minister as the most popular political leader in the country. The statement comes two days after senior leader LK Advani lauded Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh...
14:51
Earlier this month, the Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne, and the Lowy Institute, Sydney, released India Poll 2013: Facing the Future. A survey of Indian attitudes towards other nations and broad themes concerning foreign policy, the poll covered rural and urban citizens across...
14:48
The US military has refused to release transcripts of Bradley Manning's trial. In addition, they've denied press passes to 270 out of the 350 media organizations that applied. Without public transcripts or a press pass, it's virtually impossible for media organizations to accurately cover the...
14:46
News studios have gradually become the site where news is manufactured. Indeed, the very definition of news has changed as Indian television networks become increasingly promoter-driven. There are severe cutbacks in news gathering, reporters have been marginalised and the focus has shifted to...
14:44
India today blamed Pakistan for trying to revive Sikh militancy and said youth are being trained in ISI facilities to carry out terror attacks in the country.Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said there have been significant developments on the Sikh militancy front and its commanders based in...
14:29
What India's Political Parties Can Still Hide (despite the RTI). Read
14:23
The timely arrival of monsoon rains over southern and western India has cheered policymakers and farmers alike because the seasonal downpours largely determine farm output.But doubts are now surfacing over whether the prediction of normal rains would hold for the crucial sowing month of July. Read
14:13
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif formally elected Prime Minister in Pakistan's National Assembly. Pakistan's parliament elected Nawaz Sharif as prime minister, completing the first transition of power between two democratically elected civilian governments in the nearly 66-year history of this...
13:49
Union I&B minister Manish Tewari says it is time to sit back and think and consider with fear that Narendra Modi wants TADA and POTA back. The Congress is opposed to it. The Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002 (POTA) was an anti-terrorism legislation enacted by the Parliament of India in 2002....
13:41
Finance minister P Chidambaram on the BJP's by-poll win. Commenting on Porbandar MLA Vitthal Radadia's win over the Congress' Vinu Amipara, Chidambaram said the BJP should remember Radadiya had defected from the Congress. Radadiya was caught brandishing his gun at a toll booth last...
13:15
Addressing the issue of internal security in the backdrop of the just-concluded chief ministers' meet held by the PM, Narendra Modi says the centre has done nothing on internal security in the last 10 years. All the Centre does is talk, but it is the states that have to ensure action. These...
12:57
Narendra Modi holds by-poll victory conference. He said BJP workers had worked hard in the state congratulated them. He said the BJP victory was an ultimatum to the Congress.
12:52
Six young men who had, by mistake, occupied a coach reserved for army personnel were thrown off a moving train by soldiers in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Wednesday. Read
12:49
Domino's Pizza has hired a creative agency called T + Biscuits to test the feasibility of octocopter drones that could deliver a hot pizza at your doorstep. Heavily branded as the DomiCopter, the current prototype can deliver two, large pizzas in about ten minutes within a four mile...
12:45
The daughter of a Sikh aristocrat and a Hungarian opera singer was never going to be ordinary. But Amrita Sher-Gil ' in her art, in her adventuress life, and in the photographs taken of her by her pioneering father in the early 1900s -- proved truly remarkable. Read
12:17
The juvenile accused in the horrific December 16 gang rape finally 'came of age' on Tuesday. According to a source close to him, who did not wish to be identified, it was a quiet occasion -- not even a celebration -- at the government-run 'Place of Safety' in north Delhi's Timarpur where he is...
12:05
CNN IBN reports that the BJP has won in Jetpur, Limbadi, Dhoraji and Morva Hadaf, where the bypolls were held, along with the two Lok Sabha seats, on Sunday, officials said.
12:02
By-polls: Early trends show that the ruling BJP is leading in all the six seats -- two Lok Sabha and four assembly -- which were previously occupied by the Congress party in the by-elections held in Gujarat.After two hours of counting of votes for two the Lok Sabha seats of Porbandar and...
12:00
The miasma of corruption claims hanging over the Board of Control for Cricket in India, by far the most powerful body in the game because of its financial clout, is not going away any time soon. Read the column on the New York Times.
11:56
Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh chief Prakash Ambedkar on Monday alleged that Union minister Rajeev Shukla had met India's 'Enemy Number One' in Pakistan on April 5, 2004, and discussed important security issues with him.Ambedkar produced a two-page document, which he claims was an internal report...
11:34
By-polls: It is a crucial day for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as votes will be counted for the Howrah Lok Sabha seat where the election was held on June 2. So far, the TMC leads in two seats.
11:26
Meanwhile, the Delhi police has taken statements from the owner of Rajasthan Royals, Raj Kundra, in the spot-fixing case.
11:23
The Banaskantha Lok Sabha seat fell vacant after the death of Congress MP Mukesh Gadhvi. In the by-poll, the Congress fielded his wife Krishna Gadhvi. At Morva Hadaf, the election was held to fill the vacancy caused by Congress candidate Savita Khant, who died on the day of counting of the...
11:21
For the assembly seats of Limbadi, Morva Hadaf, Dhoraji and Jetpur 62 per cent, 64 per cent, 33 per cent and 45 per cent voting was recorded. All eyes have been on the results of Porbandar Lok Sabha (BJP wins) and the Jetpur Assembly seats where the BJP has given a ticket to Vithhal Radadia and...
11:18
The by-polls are seen as a crucial test for the Congress in the Gujarat, as the party currently holds all the seats. A win for the BJP will be leveraged by supporters of Chief Minister Narendra Modi as further evidence of his popularity.In Bihar, there was jubilation in the RJD camp as this was...
11:15
Results coming in for the two Lok Sabha and four state Assembly seats where by-polls were held on Sunday. The BJP's candidate Vitthal Radadia has won the Banaskantha seat over Vinu Amipara of the Congress. The BJP has also won the Porbandar Lok Sabha seat. Counting is underway at Panchmahal...
11:04
Now that the PM is done talking at the security meet, the chief ministers of seven Naxal-affected states will meet Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde separately, where they will discuss strategy to root out the Naxals. The formation of the National Counter Terrorism Centre is also expected to be...
10:50
A pat on the back for Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah. The PM said that 2012 saw a significant improvement in the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir.Incidentally, the chief ministers of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu are not attending the meet. Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar,...
10:43
The PM said that the government was open to dialogue with people who had given up violence and were willing to work within the framework of the Constitution.
10:39
The PM said that the challenge of Naxalism has received serious attention. The action plan includes taking concrete steps to root out the menace, ensuring state governments work together with the centre for eliminating the Naxal threat, strengthening the security apparatus in 34 Naxal-hit areas,...
10:32
Addressing the chief ministers' conference, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, I welcome all the chief minister and all distinguished partners to this conference.Talking about the recent Naxal strike he said: Naxal violence has no place in our democracy. The Centre and states need to work...
10:22
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde speaks at the chief minister's meet in New Delhi. The Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh was an attack on democracy. Naxal violence will be dealt with firmly, he said.The Chhattisgarh violence case has been handed over to the National Investigation Agency with the...
10:11
Counting for two Lok Sabha and four state assembly seats where by-elections were held on Sunday is underway. Counting has begun at four centers of Porbandar, Panchmahal, Limbadi and Banaskantha for all the seats and results are expected by Wednesday afternoon, officials said. Early trends,...
10:07
Narendra Modi is likely to oppose the National Counter Terrorism Centre at the chief minister's conference in New Delhi today. According to insiders, he will push for strengthening of the Intelligence Bureau.
09:59
Ahead of the chief ministers' meet on internal security in New Delhi today, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh said that the time for talks with the Naxals was over.There is question of any compromise with such forces. We are fighting, and we'll continue to do that. The recent Naxal...
09:09
CNN-IBN reports: Bharatiya Janata Party patriarch L K Advani has put a rider on making Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi the party campaign panel chief for the 2014 elections. Advani has told BJP chief Rajnath Singh to form a a parallel for the five state assembly polls later this year. The...
09:01
A public interest litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court against Ranbaxy Pharma for manufacturing adulterated drugs. The PIL seeks prosecution of all its directors and sealing of all its manufacturing units.
08:56
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for an internal security meeting of the chief ministers of all states. Anti-Naxal battleplan in wake of the recent attack in Chhattisgarh and National Counter Terrorism Centre are expected to be the main focus of the meet. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee...
04:08
Turkey's deputy prime minister apologised on Tuesday for the 'excessive violence' used by the police last week againstdemonstrators opposing the razing of an Istanbul park, the start of what later became nationwide protests against the pro-Islamic government. The deputy, Bulent Arinc,...
04:05
A Nepalese army officer accused of committing torture during his country's civil war in 2005, has pleaded for immunity in a London court today. Kumar Lama is accused of torturing two men when he was in charge of a barracks in Nepal at the height of the Himalayan nation's decade-long conflict...
04:04
United States has extradited a Bosnian national to his Balkan homeland so he can stand trial for alleged war crimes committed during the conflicts of the 1990s. Sulejman Mujagic was handed over to Bosnian authorities on Friday following an April ruling by a New York federal district court,...
03:04
At least 38 people died in Sudan today in one of the worst road accidents in the country in years when a bus collided with a truck, police said, blaming the crash on speeding. Because of a crash this morning between a bus and a truck south of El Gutaina town in White Nile state, 38 people...
03:04
Boston Marathon bomb suspect Djokhar Tsarnaev has told his mother that he is receiving thousands of dollars in support from unnamed sources, according to a video obtained by Britain's Channel 4 News.Zubeidat Tsarnaev replayed a recording of the conversation with her son, who is being held in Fort...
02:18
At the UN on Monday, over 60 nations signed a blockbuster international treaty for regulating the massive $70 billion global arms trade.Diplomatic sources in Jerusalem on Tuesday said that Israel supports the measure, but has not yet signed because an inter-ministerial committee is still looking...
02:17
History shows that if nations cannot manage to win all together, they are destined to lose all together,' declared Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on the first anniversary of his 2007 re-election. We defend freedom, justice, democracy and welfare for everybody.' Back...
02:15
The British parliament's upper house today voted down a bid to kill off a bill to introduce gay marriage in England and Wales, moving it a step closer to becoming law. Following two days of impassioned debate in the House of Lords that exposed deep divisions in the unelected upper chamber,...
02:14
Kuwait said today that barring foreigners from attending public hospitals in the mornings was aimed at resolving the problem of overcrowding at such health facilities. Since Sunday the health ministry in the oil-rich Gulf state began implementing the measure, described by activists as...
01:12
Several countries monitoring Iran's nuclear program have picked up information that the country's only power-producing nuclear reactor was damaged by one or more of several recent earthquakes, with long cracks appearing in at least one section of the structure, two diplomats said Tuesday.Iran is...
00:25
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said today the ball is in Israel's court concerning a resumption of peace talks that the US is pushing for, ahead of a visit by Secretary of State John Kerry. Kerry is exerting strenuous efforts... to come to a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,...
00:25
A judge today accepted a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity from the suspect in the deadly Colorado movie theater shooting, setting the stage for a lengthy mental evaluation. James Holmes, a former graduate student, is accused of opening fire in a packed Denver-area movie theater last...
00:24
An Army psychiatrist accused of gunning down soldiers waiting to deploy to Afghanistan at a Texas Army post said today his defence would show that he was compelled to do so because the soldiers posed an imminent danger to Taliban fighters. The military judge responded that Maj. Nidal Hasan's...
00:23
Thousands of people braved a heavy thunderstorm in Hong Kong's Victoria Park on Tuesday evening, lighting candles to honor the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, as Beijing tightened restrictions on reporters and on the Web in mainland China.The June 4 anniversary commemorating the...
00:20
RTI objectives can't be allowed to run riot: KhurshidIMAGES: Worst flood in 70 years inundates central EuropeThe most wanted desi jihadis and NaxalsAndhra police arrest woman Naxal behind Chhattisgarh attackB'lore woman 'under house arrest' rescued after 4 yearsPresident's medal winner ran terror...
00:12
A judge today accepted a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity from the suspect in the deadly Colorado movie theater shooting, setting the stage for a lengthy mental evaluation. James Holmes, a former graduate student, is accused of opening fire in a packed Denver-area movie theater last...
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