22:31
Dailymail: A Newark-bound United Airlines flight is carrying a passenger who claims to have 'poisoned everyone on board.' The suspect is being restrained by others on board and there is no evidence that passengers have been poisoned, Eyewitness News reports. The United Airlines flight, from...
21:18
Iran is ready to show more transparency on its nuclear programme, says President-elect Hassan Rouhani.In his first news conference since Friday's election, Mr Rouhani described as unfair sanctions imposed on his country. He also said Tehran would not suspend uranium enrichment activities.The West...
20:44
A special CBI court, hearing the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case, today reserved its order on the pleas of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar. Additional Sessions Judge Shyam Lal reserved the order for tomorrow. Court today reserved its order on our applications. It has fixed June 18 for...
20:20
Telecom regulator TRAI today allowed free mobile roaming on payment of a fixed fee from July 1 and reduced national roaming charges for others by up to 57 per cent. TRAI, however, said making national roaming completely free of charges is not practical as of now. The authority has...
20:11
NDTV reports: A day after his party, the Janata Dal-United ended a 17-year alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party, party president Sharad Yadav listed the terms for a possible reconciliation. We will see what happens if Advani returns to the central role, Yadav said.Read the full report here
19:25
Times Now reports: A merchant vessel Mol Comfort sinks off Mumbai coast. The ship split into two.More details are awaited.
18:50
The prime minister says he will be very happy to see him step into my shoes. Referring to Rahul Gandhi, the PM spoke to the media immediately after the swearing-in ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan today.
18:43
The Turkish government has said it could use the army to end nearly three weeks of unrest by protesters in Istanbul and other cities. The government would use all its powers and the armed forces if necessary, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said on state-run television. Read the...
18:29
Buoyed by the induction of the eight new ministers (four ministers, four MoS) were inducted, the PM says the UPA will have a third term. People will once again repose their faith in us, he said. The Congress on Saturday made its first formal overture to Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. It might seem a...
18:16
Among new Ministers of State, Manikrao Gavit gets Social Justice and Empowerment, Santosh Chowdhury Health & Family Welfare. Mallikarjun Kharge is the new Railways Minister.
17:55
Jesudasu Seelam is a Rajya Sabha member from Andhra Pradesh takes oath as MoS. It was on his charge that Arvind Kejriwal had used abusive language against MPs that the Upper House issued a breach of privilege notice to the civil society activist. A former bureaucrat, the 60-year-old Seelam...
17:52
Oscar Fernandes took the oath as Roads and Highways ministerGirija Vyas took the oath as Housing and Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation minister. Sis Ram Ola took oath as Labour and Employment ministerK S Rao gets Textiles Ministry... All cabinet rank ministers.
17:51
The 66-year-old EM Sudarsana Natchiyappan taking oath now as MoS. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu, in 1999, and after that was elected member of the Rajya Sabha from the state in 2004 and 2010. He is a first-time minister and takes charge as Commerce and Industry. J...
17:47
After the four ministers, the MoS inductions begin. First up is Manikrao Hodlya Gavit, a nine-term Congress MP, who represents Nandurbar in Maharashtra in the 15th Lok Sabha. The 79-year-old was first elected to the lower house in 1981, after which he has been a regular in Parliament. Despite his...
17:45
Each inducted minister takes oath, greets the President, the PM, Sonia Gandhi and the ministers and then returns to his or her seat. KS Rao taking oath now. The 70-year-old KS Rao is a fifth-term MP from Eluru in Andhra Pradesh; he was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1984. Only last year...
17:42
Girija Vyas, the Congress MP from Chittorgarh is inducted as a cabinet rank minister. The 67-year-old Vyas is a fourth-term MP from Chittorgarh, Rajasthan. She was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991, when she served as a deputy minister in the PV Narasimha Rao government. She was chairperson...
17:40
A huge round of applause for Oscar Fernandes. He too becomes a minister in the Union Cabinet. 69-year-old Oscar Fernandes is a Rajya Sabha member from Karnataka. On Sunday he was dropped as a Congress general secretary to enable him to become minister today.
17:38
Padmashri Sis Ram Ola, an 86-year-old MP from Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan, was inducted as a cabinet minister. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1996, and was a Union minister in the UPA, handling labour and employment, and mines.
17:34
Congress leaders from Karnataka are expected to be rewarded after last month's win in the state elections. Mallikarjun Kharge, who lost out in the Chief Minister's race, is likely to be the new Railways Minister. Oscar Fernandes, also from Karnataka, will be the new Surface Transport Minster,...
17:30
Manmohan Singh will induct eight new ministers into union ministry today as he gears up for the 2014 general elections. PM enters Rashtrapati Bhavan for the induction. Eight new faces will be inducted in the Council of Ministers today, with Sisram Ola and Oscar Fernandes making a re-entry after a...
17:18
Congress general secretary Ajay Maken on the upcoming cabinet reshuffle, says the average age of ministers is 52 and the party is trying to get younger faces in the Cabinet. This is the last cabinet reshuffle before the polls next year.
17:06
Birender Singh has been made member of the Congress Working Committee.
17:03
Chief minister Nitish Kumar may well sense a new secular' halo beginning to glow behind him, but beneath his feet he must also sense the cold discomfort of thin ice. If this is a leap of conviction, it is equally a lunge into uncertainty. Hereon, it is going to be a testing, if not also...
16:54
Amol Rajan, the columnist and former adviser to Evgeny Lebedev, has been appointed editor of the Independent -- the first non-white editorial head of a UK national paper. Rajan replaces Chris Blackhurst, in a surprise move less than two years since he was named editor. He is...
16:47
Yuri Gagarin made history in 1961 when, aged just 27, he became the first man to journey into space.His single Earth orbit on April 12 lasted 108 minutes and was one of the Soviet Union's most enduring Cold War victories. Read more
16:42
Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said the elevation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has strengthened the Congress while dealing a set back to BJP as its allies were running away.Modi's coming (to prominence) has become a danger not for us but for BJP. Congress has become...
16:11
Media is reporting that 40,000 ppl are stranded in Devprayag. I can tell u that Devprayag CANNOT accommodate that many ppl...not possible, tweets Alok Bhatt.
16:09
And in Mamata Banerjee's Kolkata, around 15-20 buses were damaged by a mob after a cyclist was hit by a minibus at the Mullick fatak area of Howrah town today, police sources said. The injured cyclist has been admitted to hospital, they added.
15:59
The National Crime Records have shown that in West Bengal there have been a staggering 29,133 reported incidents in 2011 accounting for 12.7 per cent of the total crime against women in India -- media, political parties and governments are sitting up and taking notice of a malaise that every...
15:54
Meanwhile, Rajasthan Royals player Ajit Chandila has been remanded to further custody in the spot-fixing case.
15:50
Barasat remains tense as locals blocked roads, hurled stones at vehicles, including that of a Trinamool MP, set fire to houses and gheraoed the local police station in protest against the gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old college girl on June 7. The body of the victim, a second-year BA...
15:44
Days after the brutal gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old girl in West Bengal's Barasat district, a group of women protestors on Monday shouted anti-government slogans and forced Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to leave the grieving family's house within five minutes of her arrival there....
15:07
Uttarakhand has been battered by the rain fury. The torrential rain has caused landslips in the higher reaches and swept away several roads and bridges in Uttarkashi and Chamoli districts. It has also led to suspension of the Char Dham Yatra. Read the full report on NDTV.com
15:00
Caste is not a word that modernizing India likes to use. It has receded to the unfashionable background. Newspapers reserve their headlines for the newer metrics of social hierarchy: wealth and politics, and those powerful influencers of popular culture, actors and cricket stars. Read
14:56
Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu today criticised former NDA ally JD(U) for questioning the elevation of Narendra Modi in the party and advised the Sharad Yadav-led outfit not to poke its nose into other parties. It is our right to decide who should preside, who should be the chairman of the...
14:54
The ruling AIDMK today acceded the plea of CPI for support to its candidate D Raja in the June 27 biennial elections to six Rajya Sabha seats and announced withdrawal of one of its nominee from the contest. The change of heart by Jayalalithaa to accommodate CPI came after Raja called on her this...
14:11
CPI today welcomed JD(U)'s decision to break its 17-year ties with the BJP and said its legislators would vote in support of Nitish Kumar government in the confidence vote in the Bihar Assembly on Wednesday.This, however, does not mean any overall support for the Nitish Kumar Government whose...
14:08
In other news, heavy rains lashed New Delhi for the second day in a row causing water-logging and subsequent traffic chaos in various parts of the city. According to the MeT department, Delhi received 21.9 mm rains from 5:30 last evening till 8:30 this morning. The rain gauges have measured a...
14:02
Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Modi resigns as Chairman of Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers looking into GST implementation.
14:00
Army's General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, K T Parnaik holds forth on China, AFSPA... to PTI. Parnaik says there were no compromises made to end the standoff with China. He said the army had received inputs on a threat to the Amarnath yatra. The Army has not misused AFSPA....
13:43
Eight new ministers -- four Cabinet rank and four Ministers of State -- to be sworn in this evening. Cabinet Ministers to be sworn in are Sisram Ola, Oscar Fernandes, Girija Vyas and K S Rao. Ministers of State will be Manikrao Gavit, Santosh Chowdhury, J D Seelam, E M S Natchiappan.
13:29
First reactions from the BJP on Nitish Kumar's address to the media, a day after the JD-U parted ways from the NDA.The BJP said Nitish Kumar should first take care of George Fernandes and not interfere in the internal matter of the BJP. Nitish had said today that the BJP betrayed its elders......
13:23
UK''s eavesdropping agency, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) had reportedly snooped on the emails and telephone records of the foreign politicians and officials during the G20 summit in 2009.According to Sky News, the officials' computers and phone calls were intercepted on UK...
13:01
Four hundred years ago, a maverick English sea captain, Thomas Best, sank four Portuguese galleons off the Surat coast with his two ships, Red Dragon and Hosiander. Captain Best and his crew's exploits in the naval Battle of Swally (corruption of Suvali) on October 28, 1612, impressed the...
12:53
Desperate need for money, lack of adequate organs lead to mushrooming of cyber forums for illegal sales; agents involved claim to 'facilitate transplants' at various hospitals for hefty prices. Read
12:52
Bhutan does things differently in South Asia, and nothing illustrates this so as much as the way it has conducted its transition to democracy. Read
12:48
The annual Kailash Mansarovar 'yatra' has been suspended today in view of heavy rains and landslides in Uttarakhand. The yatra has been stopped in Buddhi in Uttarakhand in view of landslides and heavy rains. The pilgrims have been accommodated in various locations and the route will be...
12:40
Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar began their political careers as close friends during the 1974 movement started by Jayaprakash Narayan. Lalu referred to Nitish as his younger brother and the latter reciprocated by calling his friend his elder brother. They parted ways in 1994 when Nitish formed the...
12:34
In other news, graphic photographs have appeared of domestic goddess' Nigella Lawson having her throat squeezed by her multi-millionaire art collector husband Charles Saatchi during a domestic row in a restaurant. What enraged Saatchi is not known but he was photographed attacking his wife no...
12:25
It's with a sense of sadness and loss that we register the death of B. Raman, who needs no introduction for the regular readers of our website... Outlook's tribute to Mr Raman. Read
12:21
The Hindu's tribute to B Raman: One of India's first external intelligence agents, B Raman, died in Chennai on Sunday after a battle with cancer. He was 77. Raman served for 26 years in the Research and Analysis wing, right from the day it was carved out of the Intelligence Bureau in September...
12:16
Meanwhile, Bahutkumbi Raman, one of the founders of the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency, and one of India's foremost security experts, passed away in Chennai on Sunday evening after a prolonged battle against cancer. He was 77. Mr Raman was a prolific writer...
12:12
The Union Cabinet reshuffle is slated for 5.30 pm today. Stay with us when that happens.
12:05
The morning after he unsubscribed from his alliance with the BJP, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar pointedly held his usual weekly janta darbar to address the concerns and complaints of the public.Given the political whorl he unfurled by ending his 17-year-partnership with his ally, the Chief...
11:51
Reacting to the BJP releasing Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar's 2003 speech in which he praised Gujarat CM Narendra Modi as a leader with a future outside the state, Nitish Kumar said the speech was made as a railway minister and should not be taken as a political speech. It is protocol to...
11:42
The split with the NDA is not a hasty decision. It was decided after due consideration and taken at the right time, he says dismissing the BJP's charge. He reiterated that the the JD-U had a cordial relationship with Sushil Modi, the deputy chief minister of Bihar, but external forces changed...
11:35
Yesterday, the BJP called for a Bihar bandh on June 18, day before Chief Minister Nitish Kumar faces a floor test in the State Assembly. It also called upon Kumar to resign and get re-elected as the leader of the party before the vote of confidence. Today is a black day in Bihar's politics....
11:29
Nitish Kumar said problems crept in (in the alliance) when the external influences started affecting the BJP state unit. Tell me, how do we work with leaders who betray the elders in the party. They talk about Indian culture and respecting elders, is this how they respect elders? he said. Nitish...
11:23
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar addressing a press conference in Patna. Yesterday, Nitish Kumar said that the, foundational principles (of the BJP) have been irrevocably damaged. I'm not bothered about the consequence even if they harm us. It may be anything but the coalition has ended. It's...
11:16
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid becomes the first minister from the new observer countries to visit the Arctic Council Secretariat.
11:14
The epic proportions of the illegal mining scam that was uncovered by the Karnataka Lokayukta in its 2011 report may actually have been just one act of a much larger, more complex and multi-layered drama. Read
11:13
C.P. Joshi's exit from the Union Cabinet was always on the cards for the twin reasons of resolving the power struggle in the victorious Karnataka unit of the Congress and the forthcoming Assembly election in Rajasthan. Read
11:10
Villagers in Saranda in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district are still awaiting schools and health centres, even as mining companies have lined up to invest in the newly secured forests. Read
11:06
Another development over the weekend -- The vibrant elections that have unexpectedly thrown up Hassan Rouhani -- a moderate cleric -- as Iran's next President have once again exposed those quick to label Iranian democracy a sham. Rouhani's victory following an electoral landslide, brushing aside...
11:02
Seventeen years ago, the Janata Dal (United)'s forerunner, the socialist Samata Party, stepped out of its ideological comfort zone to extend support to the Bharatiya Janata Party, thereby bringing the latter into the political mainstream. Read
11:01
The pasmanda's quest for empowerment will help democratise Indian Islam and deepen democracy in the country. Read
10:55
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh takes oath as member of Rajya Sabha after being re-elected from Assam. The much awaited reshuffle of the Union Cabinet will take place today, ahead of which C P Joshi also stepped down as Cabinet minister after Ajay Maken. Resignations of both Joshi and...
10:02
The BSE benchmark Sensex rose nearly 80 points in early trade today as funds and investors made selective buying ahead of RBI policy meeting. The 30-share barometer gained 79.48 points, or 0.41 per cent, to 19,257.41 with stocks of healthcare, IT, oil and gas and capital goods leading the...
10:01
The rupee fell by 33 paise to Rs 57.84 per dollar in early trade on the Interbank Foreign Exchange market today, weighed down by dollar's gains against other currency. Forex dealers said besides dollar's gain against other currencies overseas, fresh demand for the American currency from...
09:51
YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, whose judicial custody ends on Monday, will be produced before a Hyderabad court via video conferencing. The Kadapa MP and the YSAR Congress chief has been lodged in Chanchalguda prison since his arrest by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on...
09:50
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was recently elected a member of the Rajya Sabha from Assam for the fifth consecutive term, will take oath Monday.Singh, who is the Leader of the Upper House, will take oath in the chamber of Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari at 10 am. Another Congress...
09:13
Thirteen persons have been killed in Uttarakhand following incessant rains that lashed the hill state causing landslips in the higher reaches and sweeping away several roads and bridges in Uttarkashi and Chamoli districts.Three persons of a family were killed when a house caved in at New Mithi...
08:46
Breaking its 53-year-old record, the monsoon arrived 13 days ahead of its schedule in the capital on Sunday. Heavy rains that lashed the city on Sunday brought along much-needed relief from scorching heat but commuters were at the receiving end due to water-logging in various...
08:44
The much awaited reshuffle of the Union cabinet will take place today, ahead of which C P Joshi also stepped down as Cabinet minister after Ajay Maken. The resignations of Joshi and Maken were on Sunday accepted by President Pranab Mukherjee with immediate effect, a Rashtrapati Bhawan...
08:31
JD-U's unfortunate exit to weaken fight against Cong: RajnathJD-U-BJP break-up: 'Divorce between 2 mismatching partners'Rahul Gandhi gets his AICC team in time for the electionsHeavy rains hit train services, make Mumbai crawlCong rejig: Maken, Joshi made general secretaries; Azad, Fernandes out
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