23:41
You won't believe what just happened! It's usually a phrase that precedes gossip, but it takes an entirely different meaning when you hear it from a head of state. That's what a Central American president told me in February of 2010. I was covering the Summit of Unity in the beach resort of...
23:27
The funeral for Hugo Chavez is Friday, but his final resting place will not be a cemetery. In an unexpected twist, Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced that the Venezuelan president will be embalmed just like Lenin (and) Mao Zedong and laid to rest at a military museum where generations of...
22:55
Click on CNN to see live visuals of Hugo Chavez's funeral
22:48
CNN: North Korea on Friday responded to tougher sanctions from the U.N. Security Council with another barrage of vitriol, repeating a vow to ditch all nonaggression pacts with the South. A day after the isolated regime in Pyongyang had threatened a possible preemptive nuclear attack -- something...
22:30
The state funeral of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is under way in the capital, Caracas. About 30 world leaders are attending the ceremony in the military academy and huge crowds of his supporters are gathered outside. Later, Vice-President Nicolas Maduro is due to be sworn in as acting...
22:28
Roman Catholic cardinals will begin electing a new pope on Tuesday 12 March, according to a statement released in Rome. The announcement came after 115 cardinals gathered at the Vatican for talks and prayers. Pope Benedict XVI stepped down last month after nearly eight years in office,...
22:09
Seven years of U.N. sanctions against North Korea have done nothing to derail Pyongyang's drive for a nuclear weapon capable of hitting the United States. They may have even bolstered the Kim family by giving their propaganda maestros ammunition to whip up anti-U.S. sentiment and direct attention...
21:41
An enraged North Korea responded to new UN sanctions with fresh threats of nuclear war today, vowing to scrap peace pacts with South Korea as it upped the ante yet again after its recent atomic test. Pyongyang is renowned for its bellicose rhetoric, but the tone has reached a frenzied pitch...
21:24
CNN IBN reports: CBI sources have told the news channel that the former Indian Airforce chief received bribes for fake engineeering deals in Mauritius and Tunisia.CBI is said to the book Tyagi and his brothers in the chopper scam. They are also looking into the role of Goa governor Wanchoo in the...
21:16
Latin American leaders and US foes joined throngs of mourners at a state funeral for Venezuela's Hugo Chavez today, as the nation eyes life without him with the formal swearing-in of his political heir. Venezuela has given a lavish farewell to the leftist firebrand, with hundreds of...
21:09
As a tribute to the Delhi gangrape victim, the government today bestowed the Rani Laxmi Bai - Stree Shakti award to 'spirit of Nirbhaya', a pseudonym given to her. The award, presented on the International Women's Day by President Pranab Mukherjee, was received by the mother of the 23-year-old...
20:58
The United States would like to present an outspoken Tibetan author with an award for courage but the activist will be unable to travel to receive the honour because Chinese authorities have routinely denied her a passport. Poet and activist Tsering Woeser was one of 10 women named for the...
20:43
Police and the mayor of a sleepy Dutch town failed in their handling of a riot triggered when thousands attended a party after receiving a Facebook invitation meant to be private, a probe found today. Some 4,000 revellers descended onto the northern town of Haren in September after a local...
20:27
Pitching for FDI in online retail, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today said he will take up the issue with Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma. I have expressed my view that if we have FDI in conventional retail, the same principle should apply in online...
20:09
Known for making controversial comments, Congress MP K Sudhakaran was at it again on International Women's Day today, stating that under the prevailing situation it was difficult for men to move around without being scared of women. Really, really I am afraid. I respect women, but...
19:56
The US economy created 2,36,000 jobs in February, according to official government statistics. The figure was much higher than analysts had expected, and more than the 1,57,000 jobs created in January, BBC reports. The unemployment rate fell to 7.7 pc last month, the lowest since...
19:28
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday fired a fresh salvo at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying his speech reminded him of proverb 'empty vessels make the most noise' and his poetry was a vain attempt to hide Centre's failures. I listened to the speech of the prime minister day...
19:06
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today fired a fresh salvo at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying his speech reminded him of proverb 'empty vessels make the most noise' and his poetry was a vain attempt to hide Centre's failures.I listened to the speech of Prime Minister day before...
19:04
Bollywood actor Salman Khan today urged a sessions court to hear the issue of his retrial in the hit-and-run case along with his appeal against the order of a magistrate invoking charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, which prescribes jail term upto ten years. The actor's lawyer...
19:02
My own daughter feels unsafe in the city. This is what Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, a vocal critic of city police, has to say about the law and order situation, especially on safety of women in the capital. Admitting that statistics on crime against women are shocking, she said the...
18:36
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde has said that the security situation in the north eastern states has improved significantly and the Centre has provided Rs 1659 crore to the region for modernisation of police forces. Addressing the members of the Consultative Committee attached to the Home...
18:32
The deposition of senior forensic experts, who had provided scientific support and services in the probe into the December 16 gang rape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus, continued before the fast-track court today. Senior Scientific Officer B K Mohapatra from Central Forensic Science...
18:22
Two homemade bombs today exploded in Dhaka's Shahbagh Square, the epicentre of anti-Jamaat protest in Bangladesh, leaving a senior security official injured. Witnesses said that the bombs were hurled by unidentified miscreants from the 4th floor of an adjacent hospital building.The bombs were...
18:17
India's government, like last year, is in a bind over Sri Lanka. The US, in a resolution to be put before the United Nations in Geneva this month, will express concern about the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, four years after the 26-year civil war ended there. Read
18:12
On the fifth straight day of deliberations, the Vatican said on Friday the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will hold a secret papal ballot in the first days of next week on a successor to Benedict XVI, who retired abruptly last month, citing old age and advancing infirmity. ...
17:47
Bodies bend at the waist and hands fling out in unison as they shout slogans; voices that recite poetry go hoarse and crack as they reach a crescendo because of the breath they take away.Towering over the crowds is a photograph of the Bangabandhu taken at the moment he delivered the speech rokto...
17:40
The Bombay High court confirms a death penalty for Raju Paswan who had raped a child two years ago. Raju Jagdish Paswan, 22, was convicted last year for murdering and raping a nine-year-old girl in June 2010 in Sangli district of Maharashtra.Last November, the sessions court had termed the case...
17:35
When she was a child, Mithali Raj, the Indian women's cricket team captain, trained in the art of Bharatanatyam, a genteel pastime for a proper young Indian girl. She loved performing and considered a career in dance. Read
17:26
A mother spent a lot of time wondering what life is really like for her daughter, who has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. Watching her navigate the day-to-day is one thing: comprehending the sources of her meltdowns and frequent distress from the inside is something else entirely. Read
17:17
Would you spend more than $100,000 on a one night stand? Did we mention it's with a sex doll? Well, apparently there are quite a few people in the world who would. Read the bizarre story here.
17:07
The United States has blundered through South Asia over the past quarter-century, committing three major errors that have destabilized the region and led to the rise of international terrorism.Its first big mistake was back in 1989. Having defeated the Soviet Union with the help of Pakistan and...
16:51
Men and women took to the streets in Delhi on International Women's Day to voice their opposition to proposed changes to India's sexual-assault laws, which omit some key proposals made by a panel after the gang rape of a student on a bus in December. Read
16:47
No candidate for pope can have it all. But the cardinals who will elect the next pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church seem to be looking for someone who combines the charisma of Pope John Paul II with the grit of what one Vatican analyst called, only slightly tongue in cheek, 'Pope...
16:43
On Valentine's Day, I started something called MANIFESTO (on facebook and Google+) The stated goal was simple: get men to declare what they would do towards a gender-equal world. To that end, I wrote my own MANifesto, and invited people to agree or disagree with it, add more...
16:37
Union Minister Shashi Tharoor was today heckled by BJP women workers, who were protesting against lack of safety for women, at a function in New Delhi to mark International Women's Day. As Tharoor arrived at Talkatora stadium in his car to attend the function organised by Delhi Commission for...
16:15
Two unidentified men ransacked Aam Admi Party (AAP) assembly office in North West Delhi on Friday early morning, injuring a party volunteer.
16:06
Taking a stern view against Pakistani establishment's machinations against India, the spiritual head of Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti's shrine on Friday opposed the forthcoming visit by Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to the world famous Sufi shrine. Diwan of khawaja Moinuddin...
16:00
For China, U.S. government secrecy has been a boon. Cyber-warfare directed against American companies is reducing the gross domestic product by as much as $100 billion per year, according to a recent National Intelligence Estimate. Because companies are generally reluctant to admit they've been...
15:55
The police today rescued a mentally challenged teenaged girl from the railway tracks at Kalna in Burdwan district. After spotting a girl squatting on the railway tracks near Kalna Gate this morning, locals informed the superintendent of police who immediately sent policemen to rescue her....
15:50
A 10-member CBI team, headed by a DIG-level officer, today visited a village in Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh district in connection with the probe into the killings of a police officer and two others there last week. CBI sources said the team, led by DIG Anurag Garg, met an IG-level officer of the...
15:44
Downplaying differences among Ministries over certain provisions of the anti-rape legislation, Government today said a special meeting of the Cabinet could be convened to pass the criminal law (amendment) bill. The Law Ministry has given its views. The Ministry of Home Affairs is putting...
15:34
It seems cliche, but it just might be true. The more sexist a man is, the more likely he is to be into big boobs.A recent study from the University of Westminster, published in February in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, showed that men's attitudes toward women influence...
15:33
The Special CBI Court today adjourned the trial in the Shehla Masood murder case till April 10 as the new CBI prosecutor sought time to secure documents on call details in connection with the case from private telecom companies. Special CBI Judge Anupam Srivastava adjourned the trial till April...
15:05
Amid rising cases of crime against women, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said our heads hang in shame due to recurring incidents of rapes and other violence against women. Flagging concerns about female foeticide and crime against women, Gandhi exhorted women not to bow down to...
14:58
She has been called Afghanistan's invisible first lady. Zinat Karzai, the 43-year-old wife of Hamid Karzai, is rarely seen in public, prompting criticism that she is not doing enough to further the cause of women's rights in her country. This week she gave a rare interview to the BBC's...
14:56
As the debate around the Delhi rape case has demonstrated, India is still a conservative country where sex is rarely discussed in the open. But, for the past 10 years, the Indian version of the worldwide play, The Vagina Monologues, has been trying to challenge some of those taboos. Read
14:54
Mason McQueen is the archetypal London cab driver. He lives in a comfortable home in Essex with his wife and daughter, knows the capital's streets like the back of his hand, and never stops talking. But he was almost lost for words when he went to India to share the life of taxi driver...
14:49
The Sri Lankan Navy has rubbished media reports that said its personnel allegedly attacked allegedly fired at Indian fishermen off the Kodiakarai coast. On seeing reports in the media on 7 March, 2013 on an incident of alleged firing at Indian fishermen by the Sri Lanka Navy off the...
14:38
A woman journalist working in an English newspaper was allegedly molested in Delhi on Wednesday night. The journalist was on her way home from her office in South Delhi when two motorcyclists allegedly molested her in Mansarovar Park of Northwest Delhi.The journalist who was riding a scooter was...
14:34
With the economy booming between 2004 and 2008, the average growth rate more than nine per cent, tax collections good, inflation and deficit low, it was the best time for the Finance Minister to have done away with various tax exemptions and wiped away the fiscal deficit, said S. Gurumurthy,...
14:26
On the eve of Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf's visit, India today said there cannot be normalisation of ties with it unless the terror machine still active there was brought under control. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said India has made sincere efforts to normalise its...
14:24
Any reporter who shows an interest in Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia can expect at some point to get a little gift from His Royal Highness. A driver will courier over a thick, tall green leather satchel, embossed with the oasis palm logo and name of Alwaleed's Kingdom Holding Co.,...
14:20
India is the sixth most favourable nation for Americans, while at least eight out of 10 do not like Pakistan, making it the third most unfavourable nation after Iran and Korea, according to a latest poll.According to the GallUP Polls, nearly seven (68%) out of every 10 persons interviewed for the...
14:17
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has sent out a warning to hospitals about a new antibiotic-resistant bacteria,carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE. While this strain of bacteria is not new, it has become more common in the last 10 years or so and has now become prevalent...
14:16
Amid increasing concerns over women's safety in the country, specially metros, IT companies, mobile firms and service providers are offering applications and services to ensure they feel safe outside their homes. The features offered include those by an IT start-up Localcircles.com, through which...
14:12
In a fresh effort to break the logjam over the National Counter Terrorism Centre, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today offered to work with states to evolve a consensus on this crucial security measure. Rejecting the Opposition charge that Government was not dealing effectively with internal...
13:57
Not just celebrations, but also protests demanding better safety for women look set to mark this year's Women's Day in the Indian capital, months after a horrific rape case made women's issues a policy priority. Here is a look at key events happening around the city Friday to mark Women's Day. Read
13:54
Initial probe into the recovery of 26 kg of heroin worth Rs 130 crore from an NRI's house in Zirakpur has not suggested any link with boxer Vijender Singh, whose car was recovered at some distance from the accused's house, police said today.We just recovered Vijender's car at some distance from...
13:49
Mariam Rashid, 48, sits on her cushioned chair behind a steel table, one eye always on the doorway. Every few minutes, she gives directions to someone passing by.Suddenly a breathless woman rushes in. Jaya has fought with her mother. They are outside the police station. She says if they...
13:40
If you haven't eaten lunch, try this. This week's invasion of locusts from Egypt offers adventurous home cooks an opportunity to try something new for dinner this week -- locusts, which most rabbis say are kosher, can be prepared many different ways.You can saute them like shrimp with garlic,...
13:35
Leaders from Latin America and beyond are gathering in the Venezuelan capital Caracas for the funeral of President Hugo Chavez.After the funeral, Mr Chavez's body will be taken to a military museum to lie in state for another seven days. Union minister Sachin Pilot will represent India at the...
13:31
Actress Rachel Weisz, who is married to James Bond star Daniel Craig, says she would not mind taking on the role of 007 villain. The actress met and fell in love with Craig while working on horror drama 'Dream House'. The couple later married. When asked whether she would like to play 007 villian...
13:29
A marshal, who has bodily lifted Karpoori Thakur and Lalu Prasad from the Bihar Assembly, intends to pen his experience of 27 years in the House. Recounting his experience, 62-year-old Captain Bhanu Prakash Sinha said that he had bodily lifted socialist leader Karpoori Thakur from the House when...
13:26
DMK president M Karunanidhi today expressed grief over the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, saying his death was a loss to all countries following socialist principles. In a party statement here, the 88 year-old Karunanidhi paid rich homage to Chavez and said scenes of...
13:03
Law to fight crime against women will be passed soon, says Congress general secretary Sonia Gandhi on Women's Day today. We have to eradicate the stigma of female foeticide and crime against women such as rape and molestation from our society, she says of issues that has been spoken of ad...
12:56
The truly problematic provision in a draft law against sexual predators at the workplace is the prescription of 'conciliation' between complainant and respondent as the first step in redress. Read
12:54
Data just tabled in Parliament show that of the 16.6 lakh police personnel in India in 2011 at the constabulary level, only 93,887 -- or 13.3 per cent -- are women. Progress on this count has been halting in the 80 years since India's first policewoman donned her uniform in Travancore in 1933,...
12:50
Though Bill on protection of women against sexual harassment at workplace has been passed in LS, activists are sceptical about its impact on MNCs. Read
12:47
Perhaps all those hysterical mask wearers, lustily cheering their great leader have done us an inadvertent favour by sending some of us back to reread history in self-defence and discover how nuanced media myths are created. On the morning of September 8, 1968, when protest was in the air and...
12:45
The mother of the Suryanelli gangrape victim today alleged that her family members had been restrained from attending the church by the vicar of their parish in view of recent developments in the 1996 case. The church, however, refuted the charge maintaining that no ban of any kind had been...
12:40
Nine out of 10 women in the national capital feel that Delhi is unsafe or very unsafe for them. Two-thirds have experiencedmisbehaviour on the city's streets. Two-thirds work in offices where there is no mechanism to deal with sexual harassment. Close to half feel they...
12:37
On a more positive note, this women's day, read this and then watch the film. The story of Ruksana, a 11-year-old living on the streets of Kolkata, is one of nine that features in Girl Rising, a film about the struggles that girls around the world face to get an education.The film, released on...
12:36
The brutal gang rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student here in December sparked global attention and monetary compensation for her family, but family members say the gestures haven't helped soften the blow of their loss. Read
12:33
The man who was my abuser was a fine host, a good husband, a caring father, a respected elder whose generosity and kindness were as genuine as the fact of the abuse,' Nilanjana S. Roy wrote in The Opinion Pages. These qualities were important, because they helped him conceal the...
12:27
Top designer Vivienne Westwood has bashed First Lady Michelle Obama's style, terming it as dreadful.' The 71-year-old told the New York Daily News that though Michelle is a very nice-looking lady, it's a nonstarter regarding clothes that suit her. She asserted that Jackie Kennedy was a...
12:25
The government today opened the country's first all-women post office in New Delhi and announced plans to open more such branches completely operated by women employees. In coming days, I believe there will be more all-women post offices across country for convenience of women, Telecom and IT...
12:24
A CRPF jawan, on duty at the summer residence of a Jammu and Kashmir minister, today allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle. Constable Rahul Kumar of 79 Battalion CRPF allegedly shot himself around 5 am at the official residence of Rural Development Minister Ali...
11:23
Osama bin Laden's son-in-law is in US custody and has been 'cooperating' and has already revealed 'key intelligence about the status, personnel and finances of Al Qaeda, according to a report by ABC News.Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was arrested in a dramatic take-down by CIA officials in Jordan several...
11:15
Ajay Katara, key witness in the murder and kidnap case of his elder brother Nitish Katara, has lodged an FIR against unidentified persons alleging that they had made an attempt on his life, and named politician D P Yadav as the mastermind of the attack.Ajay Katara filed the FIR at the Sahibabad...
11:01
More than three years ago ICANN, the global body that oversees the operation of the domain name or website address system, cleared the ground for the introduction of a broader web address regime covering local languages.The World Wide Web will soon allow addresses with domain names such as...
10:49
CNN-IBN reports: In a massive drug haul, the police have recovered heroin worth Rs 130 crore from a flat in Zirakpur, Mohali. The police has alleged that boxer Vijender Singh's wife's car was found outside the Zirakpur flat and 10 kilograms of heroin was also recovered from another car.But it is...
10:11
CNN-IBN reports: US President Barack Obama has signed into law the new Violence Against Women Act, which he termed 'very important' and representing the positive progress of the country.One of the great legacies of this law is that it didn't just change the rules; it changed our culture. It...
10:07
The US Senate has confirmed John Brennan as the next director of Central Intelligence Agency.Currently the counter terrorism adviser to the US President Barack Obama, Brennan was nominated by a vote of 63 to 34 yesterday. The vote was delayed by a 13-hour long filibuster by Republican Senator...
09:23
CNN-IBN reports: A Central Bureau of Investigation team has reached Kunda in Uttar Pradesh to begin investigations into the murder of a Deputy Superintendent of Police and two others.Raja Bhaiya, the MLA of Kunda, has been named as the main accused in one of the four FIRs filed by the CBI for...
08:10
The US Senate has confirmed John Brennan as the next director of Central Intelligence Agency.Currently the counter terrorism adviser to the US President Barack Obama, Brennan was nominated by a vote of 63 to 34 yesterday. The vote was delayed by a 13-hour long filibuster by Republican Senator...
03:19
Al Jazeera: The party of one of Kenya's leading presidential candidates has alleged vote-rigging and demanded that the count be halted, bringing further complications to the country's elections. The accusations by Prime Minister Raila Odinga's running mate on Thursday came a day...
03:18
Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, who has served as an al Qaeda spokesman, was captured and has been brought to the United States, two administration officials and a federal law enforcement official said Thursday. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith is being held in New York, and will appear in court Friday to...
02:57
On Thursday, the White House says the U.S. is capable of defending itself after North Korea threatened a nuclear strike. Read The Washington Post for more...
01:16
BBC: Hilton Botha, the former lead detective in the Oscar Pistorius inquiry, has resigned, South African police confirm. Det Botha was dropped from the investigation in February after it emerged that he was facing attempted murder charges in another case. He has also been heavily criticised for...
00:10
The new sanctions imposed on North Korea by the UN Security Council would bite hard, US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said today after the passage of an unanimous resolution in this regard. Taken together, these sanctions will bite and bite...
00:08
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