23:27
Egypt's top Muslim cleric declared today that peaceful protests against the president are permitted, dismissing declarations by Islamist hard-liners that those behind protests planned for June 30 are heretics. Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of the Al-Azhar mosque, said in a statement...
23:09
Swiss lawmakers rejected today a deal proposed by Washington to expose American tax dodgers and halt a raft a US lawsuits provided that Swiss banks that helped stash the cash pay massive fines. The Alpine country's lower house, or National Council, shot down the controversial Lex USA accord,...
23:05
At least 15 people, including four foreigners, have been killed in an assault by militant Islamists on a UN office in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a government minister says.The gun-battle inside the office lasted for more than an hour, witnesses said.A cameraman outside the UN Development...
23:01
The Afghan government will not take part in peace talks with the Taliban unless the process is Afghan-led, President Hamid Karzai has said.His statement came a day after the US agreed to talk to the Taliban in Qatar, where the militants have a new office.Karzai said the opening of the office...
22:45
Pakistani politician Imran Khan today urged the government and military leaders to build a strategy to halt US drone attacks in the country's northwest as he was sworn into parliament. Khan, the head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party which made a major breakthrough at the May 11 general...
22:17
United States Secretary of State John Kerry would travel to India on June 23 to co-chair the 4th India-US strategic dialogue, his spokesperson said today. Unlike his predecessor, Hillary Clinton, who had visited other Indian cities besides New Delhi during her three trips to the...
21:51
In one of their largest relief and rescue operations in the last several decades, defence forces have deployed over 8,500 personnel and around 20 aircraft in rain-ravaged areas of Uttarakhand.Defence Minister A K Antony has ordered the three Services to deploy their maximum possible resources...
21:49
CNN-IBN reports: Minister of State for Home RPN Singh said that the government's primary focus was to rescue people who are stuck in the hilly reaches of Uttarakhand. He added that the conditions are very difficult thought paramilitary is doing its best.Roads have been severely affected in...
21:25
The union cabinet is likely to consider a proposal to build a third metro corridor in Mumbai, which would run from Colaba to Bandra and Santacruz, in its meeting tomorrow. Sources said the Urban Development Ministry had forwarded a proposal for the setting up of a 33km long underground section...
21:21
BBC reports: Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have been sentenced to jail in Italy for one year and eight months for tax evasion. The pair were not at the trial and deny the charges. They are accused of hiding millions of euros from Italian tax authorities.Read...
21:13
The famous Kedarnath shrine located in the Himalayan ranges in rain-ravaged Uttarakhand is safe but will remain out of bounds for at least one year, Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said .Kedarnath shrine is safe but it is under a lot of slush, he told PTI in Delhi after a meeting with...
21:12
Cricketer Harbhajan Singh, who was stranded in Joshimath due to incessant rains while on a pilgrimage, was on Wednesday rescued and taken to safety by the Indian Air Force.Rescued by 205 army aviation squadron based at mamoon pathankot.thank u. sweet memories with the air crew.god bless, a...
20:25
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna says 500 roads and 175 bridges have been destroyed in the state because of the massive landslides and heavy rains. Thousands of tourists and pilgrims are still stuck in various parts of the state. He also informed that Gaurikund and Kedarnath route has...
19:41
Reports our correspondent from New Delhi: The Centre is eager to reach a solution on the Telangana issue, which will satisfy three regions -- coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema and Telangana. A decision is expected in a fortnight. This is the message the Centre has conveyed to the Andhra...
18:42
15,000 people are stuck around Badrinath, 5,500 around Kedarnath, says the Army. 9000 people have been rescued so far.
18:30
The complete list of those rescued in Kedarnath/Rudraprayag, so far.
18:28
Ganesh Godiyal of the Kedarnath Temple committee says around 500 people were rescued from the temple, where they had taken refuge. Another 1100 are waiting to be rescued. The PM has said that women and children will be resuced first, a SOP for any disaster.
18:26
The PM also said that the priority for the authorities at the moment was to rescue the stranded and provide urgently needed succor to those most in need of it. The PM promises Rs 1 lakh to next of kin of those who died in floods and Rs 50,000 to those injured.Here's a list of people who have been...
18:18
The Army says approximately 9000 people have been rescued in Uttarakhand. Twelve specialist mountain rescue teams have been inducted, while three battalions from the army are conducting rescue operations in the state.
18:14
Claiming that thousands of people have died in floods and landslides in Uttarakhand [the official figure still remains 100, though the PM has said it is likely to go up], BJP today demanded that the disaster that struck the hill state be declared a national calamity. We demand that urgent steps...
18:09
The PM said that the Central government will work closely with the Uttarakhand government to provide relief to the people. Uttarakhand CM Vijay Bahuguna has said that over 500 roads across the state have been damaged and 175 bridges washed away.
18:04
PM Dr Manmohan Singh addressing a press conference in New Delhi after the aerial survey with Sonia Gandhi, announces a Rs 1000 crore compensation package for flood-devastated Uttarakhand. Calling it a huge tragedy, he said he saw large-scale devastation in the area and warned that the death toll...
17:53
Election campaigns in India often come with promises of free food, goats, cows and even gold for the poor.But increasingly the list of freebies pledged in case of an election win, includes tech gadgets such as laptops and tablets. Read
17:45
This year's monsoon has advanced over India at the fastest rate in over half a century.The rains covered the whole of the country by Sunday June 16, about a month earlier than usual, having made landfall over the western coast on June 1. Read
17:34
See the Rediff.com slideshow: Swollen Yamuna leaves 15,000 homeless in Delhi
17:32
Uttarakhand CM Vijay Bahuguna who is in New Delhi gives an update on the situation in his state.The exact death toll cannot be estimated, but Kedarnath is in debris, but there's not much damage to the temple. It will take one year to start the char dham yatra [Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri and...
16:43
MoS Home Affairs RPN Singh gives an update on the situation in Uttarakhand. Singh says the government's first priority is to get people out of danger. We are airlifting people from Kedarnath and surrounding areas where the situation is the worst. All the 60,000 stranded in Uttarakhand are not in...
16:15
ABP News fakes news, shows Bolivian Bus slide mishap as Uttarakhand Flash Flood relief operation video. See
16:11
A survivor back from Uttarakhand tells a TV channel, if the government knew there were going to be floods here, they should have stopped tourists. Err...
16:08
The water level of the river Yamuna crossed the danger mark of 204.83 metres and reached 206.40 metres today in Delhi. The Flood Control and Irrigation department said the water level would touch 207.05 meters later on Wednesday.Aseem, a resident said, The water level is expected to rise. We will...
15:53
Also read: Are there man-made reasons for Uttarakhand disaster?
15:51
In other news: A Delhi court today refused to hear the interim bail plea of Vinay Kumar, one of the accused in the December 16 gang-rape case, for appearing in an examination, saying it has no jurisdiction. Vinay, who along with three other co-accused is being tried by a special judge at Saket...
15:43
In other news: A paranoid Mamata Banerjee says Maoists and a section of the CPI-M are out to kill her.
15:41
The Indian Air Force which is carrying out evacuations across flood-devastated Uttarakhand along with the Indian Army says the evacuation will take time to complete. The first priority is to evacuate people from the higher reaches where only helicopters can reach. At the moment people are being...
15:17
Food Minister K V Thomas today said more food grains would be allocated to flood-hit Uttarakhand to provide relief to affected people. We have enough stock of foodgrains in our godowns. We are taking measures to allocate more quantity of foodgrains to flood-affected Uttarakhand, Thomas told PTI....
14:55
126 MLAs, including those of Congress, CPI and four Independents vote in favour of Nitish Kumar government; 24, including 22 of RJD and 2 Independents, vote against government amid walk-out by 91 BJP and 1 LJP members.
14:45
And yes, as expected, Nitish Kumar wins the confidence motion in the Bihar Assembly with 126 votes as against 24. The halfway mark is 122. The voting was done by a head count, no fancy electronic voting here. The BJP abstained. The Assembly is adjourned.
14:37
Nitish Kumar basically blamed the BJP for allying with the JD-U while it suited them. The BJP did not Narendra Modi to campaign in the state in 2005 or 2010 to win the elections. Why did Modi suddenly find favour with the party? I remember I had sent back relief funds by the Gujarat...
14:31
The Bihar Assembly set to vote on the trust motion any time now.
14:29
Nitish Kumar gets eloquent: Says, Ayaa toh baar baar sandesa ameer ka, hamsey lekin ho na saka samjhauta zameer ka. We have no problem with Modi being campaign chief, but he is unacceptable as PM, says Nitish.
14:23
Nitish Kumar also criticised the BJP's decision to back Narendra Modi and said that Modi would be inadequate to serve a country as varied as India. The Gujarat chief minister will never be able to do justice to the country. Your people, your cadre are happy and enthused, but it does not...
14:12
He says other states gave more money, but did not issue advertisements. Referring to the 2003 video speech released by the BJP where Nitish Kumar was seen praising Narendra Modi, the Bihar CM says in that speech he had also said there was a black spot on Gujarat.
14:10
In the Bihar Assembly, CM Nitish Kumar speaks ahead of the trust vote. He says no party should have the misconception that they can form the government on their own. This is an era of alliances, he says. Hitting out at Narendra Modi, he questions the Gujarat CM's culture. Modi's government...
14:02
Here's what the ITPB says. The rain and flood situation in Uttarakhand is quite serious and unprecedented, chief of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police today said in New Delhi. DG Ajay Chadha said rescue operations will gather pace as the weather has improved today and three battalions of the force...
13:53
Meanwhile, in Bihar -- Four Congress MLAs and one MLA from the CPI have announced their support for Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar's Trust Motion in the state assembly.Congress legislative party leader Sadanand Singh during his speech in the Assembly said that the party leadership has decided...
13:53
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced an assistance of Rs 5 crore to the monsoon-ravaged Uttarakhand state where heavy rains and landslides have created havoc. Chouhan made this announcement yesterday after receiving reports of major damage in the hill state, famous...
13:49
How the battle for the position of India's foreign secretary is to be decided by the government's discomfort with the perceived proximity of S Jaishankar to the United States, leaving the field open for Sujatha Singh. Read
13:36
The rumors are true. Amazon is providing cloud services to the CIA. But what's most intriguing about the multi-million-dollar deal is not what Amazon is doing, but how the company is doing it -- and what that means for the future of that thing called cloud computing. Read
13:34
The Incredible Hulk's style may be timeless, but can it stand up to time? Read
13:16
Update on the Uttarakhand floods: The Maharashtra government pledges Rs 100 crore aid to Uttarakhand. Flash floods and landslips triggered by the monsoon fury left eight more persons dead, taking the number of people killed in calamity-hit Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh to 138 even as 2700...
13:05
In the summer of 2011, a junior minister's advice carried the day. Set a terrier to tame the watchdog, he told his seniors at an emergency government meeting. The watchdog was the media. Read
12:55
Tweet from the army: At Harsil: 1000 Army persons deployed 1350 persons rescued. Clearing of landslides along Rishikesh - Dharasu in progress
12:31
CNN IBN says 5000 people are missing at Gaurikund, the getaway point for Kedarnath. The Kedarnath helicopter base has been destroyed. The Kedarnath temple, however, is reported to be safe, but everything around the temple is destroyed. More than 20 temple staff are missing. The...
12:27
Rediff.com's MI Khan reports from Patna: Ninety-one BJP MLAs walked out from the Bihar assembly today soon after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar moved the Trust Motion. The BJP legislative party leader in the assembly, Nand Kishore Yadav, announced in his address that the BJP has decided to boycott...
12:13
Veteran BJP leader LK Advani may have come to terms with Gujarat CM Narendra Modi overtaking him as the face of the party, but close aide Sudheendra Kulkarni still hasn't. Here's what he posted on Rediff.com. Read
12:08
Nature's ongoing fury in Uttarakhand has claimed a completely new victim: a helicopter parked safely at a helipad firmly chained to the ground. A private company's six-seater Eurocopter parked near Hemkund Sahib was lost when a swollen Alaknanda submerged the helipad and swept the...
12:06
PM Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi will make an aerial survey of the rain-ravaged areas in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh today, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde says.
12:06
The Supreme Court today agreed to give an urgent hearing to a PIL on the issue of US National Security Agency snooping on Internet data from India and seeking to initiate action against Internet companies for allowing the agency to access the information. Agreeing to hear the PIL filed by a...
11:56
Even as Nitish Kumar presented the trust motion, BJP MLAs entered the Bihar Assembly shouting slogans in favour of Narendra Modi. The BJP says even if Nitish Kumar wins the trust vote, he has lost the trust of the people. 91 BJP legislators and 22 from the RJD are expected to vote against the...
11:47
9000 people rescued. 5600 jawans have been deployed. As weather improves, relief work intensifies and being monitored at all the levels, tweets Ajay Maken, General Secretary AICC and Chairman of the Communication Department of the party.
11:43
The Congress Core group meets to discuss Food Security Bill. However, Finance Minister P Chidambaram says the Core group meeting confined only to the flood situation in Uttarakhand. He said the situation in Uttarakhand was better than yesterday.Over 48 hours after floods, cloudbursts and...
11:31
Meanwhile, LK Advani's meeting with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has been postponed for tomorrow.
11:22
BJP nominates Sushil Modi as its leader in the Legislative Council and Nand Kishore Yadav as its leader in the legislative Assembly. Yadav will be the Leader of the Opposition in state Assembly as BJP is now the main opposition after JD(U) snapped ties with it. He was the road and highways...
11:13
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar moves one-line Trust Motion in the Bihar Assembly. Nitish, in his capacity as the Leader of the House, moved the motion seeking a vote of confidence which would be put to vote, if need be, after a discussion. Going by numbers, there is no threat to the Nitish...
11:05
Shut up, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee had shouted atKamduni women on Monday. Her party toughs ensured they did. Yesterday, the roar of a hundred women the previous day had been replaced by a deadening stillness. Read
10:48
The Congress Core group meeting on Food Security Bill has begun in New Delhi.Food Minister K V Thomas, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath and Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde are attending the meeting, which will decide whether the government should go for an Ordinance or for a special...
10:42
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will conduct an aerial survey of flood and landslide affected areas of Uttarakhand this afternoon.Dr Singh, who spoke to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna on Tuesday evening, assured all assistance in rescue and relief operations in the flood-hit state.The...
10:33
The Central Bureau of Investigation will record the statement of T K A Nair, advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in relation to the coal block allocations scam, according to sources in the investigative agency.It has also asked former coal secretary H C Gupta to join investigations intothe...
10:25
NDTV reports: Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the BJP's ideological mentor the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh or RSS, is expected to meet BJP's LK Advani later in the day today in an attempt placate the senior leader who had resigned earlier this month from all party posts to protest against Gujarat...
09:51
The rupee recovered by 15 paise to 58.62 against the dollar in early trade today at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market on increased selling of the US currency by exporters.However, dollar's strength against other currencies overseas capped the rupee's gain as investors await the conclusion of...
09:49
The BSE benchmark Sensex today fell for the second straight day by losing nearly 62 points in early trade on sustained selling by funds amid a mixed trend in other Asian markets.The 30-share barometer fell by 61.96 points, or 0.32 per cent, to 19,161.32. The index had lost 102.59 points in the...
09:16
Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone journalist who triggered the 2010 downfall of US Afghanistan commander General Stanley McChrystal, died in a car crash, his employer has announced. Hastings, whose profile of McChrystal quoted the four-star general as criticizing President Barack Obama and...
09:04
The water level in the Yamuna is set to rise over 207 metres on Wednesday, the highest the river has touched in 35 years. More than 1,500 people have been evacuated from low-lying areas in east Delhi like Usmanpur, Yamuna Bazar, Bhajanpura and Shastri Park and relief camps have been set up...
08:56
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will seek a trust vote today at a special session of Bihar Assembly to prove his majority which he is expected to muster without any hitch with the support of independents.Kumar, in the capacity of the Leader of the House, would move a motion seeking vote of...
08:53
The impasse regarding who will be India's representative at the Annual Conference of the ICC took a new turn as senior vice-president Arun Jaitley's name cropped up as a likely choice for the high-profile meeting in London on June 25.Mr Jaitley is in London right now. There is a possibility that...
08:52
A decision on the way ahead for the ambitious Food Security Bill is expected to be taken today with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi holding deliberations on the matter.A meeting of the Congress core group is scheduled to take place today in which Food Minister K...
03:38
A stunt double for Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has sued Rupert Murdoch's beleaguered media empire News Corp over allegations its British newspapers hacked her phone, the first lawsuit in the US against the company since a hacking scandal broke out two years ago. The lawsuit...
03:37
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has said she is proud of the tens of thousands of people who have taken to the streets to demand better education, schools and transport. My government is listening to the voices calling for change, said Ms Rousseff in her first comments since Monday...
03:35
Over 100,000 people flooded cities to protest the Brazilian government's services. See the full slideshow on Yahoo News!
01:34
The Washington Post: Google is preparing to ask the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government. The legal...
01:28
Volkswagen has admitted it lost its way in China, where it sells a third of its cars, saying it suffered a terrible wake-up call after discovering its brand reputation had plummeted in the eyes of the Chinese. The admission was made by the German carmaker's chief marketing officer Alexi...
01:26
Leaders of the G8 major economies have agreed new measures to clamp down on money launderers, illegal tax evaders and corporate tax avoiders. Governments agreed to give each other automatic access to information on their residents' tax affairs. They will also require shell companies - often...
00:20
Many Afghan women fear the rights they have enjoyed for the past decade could be reversed once foreign forces leave the country. Foreign troops will officially hand over the last of all combat roles to the Afghan forces on Tuesday. Al Jazeera's Jane Ferguson reports from Kabul.
00:16
Photos: Death toll in North India monsoon fury rises to 130US, Afghan govt to hold peace talks with TalibanYamuna water crosses danger mark, flood threat over DelhiNothing less than Telangana acceptable to us: TRSAntony panel will decide on Congress-JD-U alliance: DigvijayaSuicide bomber strikes...
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