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NDTV reports: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has hit out at separatists for calling a strike in the Valley to protest against renowned conductor Zubin Mehta's concert in Srinagar on Saturday.This is a big event for Kashmir... These (separatists) people are selective... If...
22:17
Dr Jeffrey Wigand -- whose personal and public struggle against Big Tobacco was immortalised in the Hollywood blockbuster The Insider' -- will arrive in New Delhi this week to speak to policy makers, civil society and journalists about public health and the tobacco industry. He is...
22:10
Jailed religious guru Asaram Bapu's son Narayan Sai has also landed in trouble with an Indore-based woman today accusing him of cheating. The woman has lodged a case against Narayan Sai in a local court alleging he got her married to an already...
21:19
Market leader IndiGo today followed its rivals and raised fares by 25 per cent to offset the impact of rupee fall and spike in international crude prices. IndiGo has revised upwards its fares, which are now 25 per cent higher than earlier, a source in...
20:02
A week after he surprised his national security advisers by deciding to seek authorization from Congress, President Barack Obama's path to military strikes against Syria isn't getting any smoother. The outrage that Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry expressed over an Aug. 21...
19:48
Four of the five accused in the August 22 gang-rape case were identified by the photojournalist and her male colleague during an identification parade held today in a South Mumbai jail, police said. A Test Identification Parade (TIP) was conducted today at Byculla jail in South Mumbai area,...
19:46
Taking on board India's concerns, the G-20 Summit today acknowledged that excess volatility of financial flows and disorderly movements in exchange rates can affect economic and financial stability of emerging markets and called for sound policies to address it.
18:54
The stage is set for internationally-renowned conductor Zubin Mehta's maiden performance in Kashmir tomorrow as authorities have beefed up the security around the venue following threats by little-known militant outfits. Mehta arrived along with his wife, for conducting the Munich-based...
18:42
Deutsche Bank today said RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan's inaugural statement hinted that the Reserve Bank is done with the rate tightening. Beyond the discussion on price stability, the rest of the Governor's statement was geared towards lowering the cost of doing business... We think that...
18:40
Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor has finally admitted that Katrina Kaif is special to him and the two share a special relation.Though both have categorically dodge questions about their relationship status, especially after pictures of their Spanish vacation were leaked, the 30-year old 'Barfi'...
18:38
Criticism of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has increased after he was made the party's campaign committee chief and such attacks by political opponents would go up further, BJP President Rajnath Singh said today. Our very popular Chief Minister Narendra bhai is being attacked. Such attacks...
18:37
A pharmacy student who allegedly jumped off the third floor of her college on Wednesday died in the trauma centre of the King George Medical University in the wee hours of Friday.The deceased, Sumbul Ishaq, was a student of MC Saxena College of Pharmacy and her parents and family members alleged...
17:48
After a delay of nearly a decade, Parliament today passed a key economic reforms legislation, the Pension Bill, that aims to create a regulator for the sector and allows at least 26 per cent FDI. The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) Bill, 2011, was passed in the Rajya...
17:41
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Thursday surprised his critics and loyalists alike, declaring he intended to serve the people of his state till 2017. His statement, part of a broader reply to a child's question, came amid the clamour within the BJP ranks to declare him the party's prime...
17:23
Just in: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat holds talks with LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj on the anointment of Narendra Modi as PM candidate. The Advani camp wants the CMs of the BJP states to be consulted before a decision is taken and that the decision must be taken at an appropriate time.
17:07
Just in: NCP workers vandalise toll booth at Jalna in Maharashtra.
17:00
As you begin work as the central banker, I think it is important that you pay attention to some office culture niceties -- Sidin Vadukut's open letter to RBI boss Raghuram Rajan. Read
16:57
Barbara Cartland meets Hollywood in dire Diana tale: The verdict on the controversial biopic. Read more
16:47
Shuddh Desi Romance conveys a simple but underrated philosophy in the most fun way possible, feels Sukanya Verma. Read
16:20
After a near washout of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, the government managed to pick up steam towards the end and pass some key Bills thanks to an alleged deal between the Congress and the BJP. Read
16:13
President Pranab Mukherjee is a keen diarist, but the only person who has the guts to turn the pages are his daughter.
16:10
A Parliamentary panel has expressed severe displeasure over the conduct of Gujarat police personnel on the issue of alleged assault on a woman Congress MP who was prevented by the cops from going to a function attended by Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
16:09
Priyanka Gandhi's new dictat is that no personal assistant from the AICC should accompany Sonia Gandhi to the US where she is undergoing treatment. The personal assistant is supposed to coordinate AICC matters and liaise with senior Congress leaders to know the gist of the Parliament proceedings....
15:55
The DMK has restrained Khushboo, a former Bollywood actress, from appearing on talk shows on TV channels. Her outspoken style has caused the DMK embarrassments often.
15:50
Principal Secretary to Prime Minister, Pulok Chatterjee's wife is unwell for the last two weeks. Jaya Iyengar Chattrejee has now been discharged from a Delhi hospital, but is still under medical observation. Chatterjee has been extremely busy with his hectic work schedule, especially after the...
15:25
Jodhpur Police has said it has received fresh complaints against Asaram Bapu even as it dispatched teams to the Ahmedabad ashram of the self-styled godman to collect evidence in the sexual assault case against him. Many victims have started coming forward with their complaints against...
15:19
Production at the Kudankulam Nuclear Plant is expected to start within 15-20 days as the trials runs have been completed, Union Minister V Narayanasamy today said. We will start production at the plant within 15-20 days as we have completed the trial run. The power production will slowly start....
15:14
Music amidst conflict may sound like a great catch-line, and ageing conductors need such props, but it is not doing the people of Jammu and Kashmir any good, says Sherna Gandhy. Read
15:06
Praveen Swami's column on Firstpost.com: Give Antony a break, understand situation along LAC before outraging. Read
15:00
A special CBI court in Hyderabad today extended till September 20 the judicial remand of jailed YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and other accused in connection with a case relating to alleged quid-pro-quo investments in the companies owned by the Kadapa MP.
14:32
A lower court in Bangalore has awarded life imprisonment in the gang-rape case of a law student. The order has come almost a year after eight men gang-raped a student of India's top Law College, National Law School of India, University (NLSIU) Bangalore. Six of the accused have been convicted by...
14:24
The RBI has clarified that it has no plans to take over temple gold and covert it into bullion. Some of India's richest temples such as Tirumala Tirupati, Sree Padmanabhaswamy, Shree Krishna temple of Guruvayur, Shree Siddhivinayak and Vaishnodevi are in no mood to part with their treasure to...
14:18
This is how Psycho Shankar escaped from Bangalore jail. Read
14:10
M Shankar alias Jaishankar, 36 -- a rapist and a 'psycho' killer -- has a total of 27 rape and murder charges against him. In three of the cases, he was sentenced to 27 years of imprisonment. He is still being tried for the remaining 24 cases in various courts across three states -- Karnataka,...
14:01
36-year-old Jaishankar, involved in several criminal cases including rape, murder and kidnapping, has been arrested from the Hosur highway near Bangalore Central Jail. Jaishankar, who earned the nickname of Psycho Shankar, for his maniacal ways, had escaped from jail on September 2.He had trapped...
13:55
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today said banking sector should come forward to strengthen the cooperative sector in the state. He said this during a meeting with the new RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, a spokesperson for the Chief Minister said. Considering the economic downturn, the...
13:55
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today said banking sector should come forward to strengthen the cooperative sector in the state. He said this during a meeting with the new RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, a spokesperson for the Chief Minister said. Considering the economic downturn, the...
13:47
Jhumpa Lahiri, the author of the forthcoming novel The Lowland' says there's no such thing as immigrant fiction: What do we call the rest? Native fiction? Puritan fiction?' Read the interview on the New York Times.
13:38
Review: Rituparno Ghosh's Satyanweshi disappoints
13:33
Antony's damp squib statement that Shyam Saran's report has not said China has occupied any part of Indian territory, and that the NSAB report was on infrastructure and development, has ensured that the house was adjourned till 2 pm.Chaos erupted after the statement, as opposition and Samajwadi...
13:20
Film producer Karan Johar has been provided armed security after he received an extortion threat via SMS on his mobile phone from an unknown number recently. Johar complained to the Khar police and the case has been transferred to the anti-extortion cell of the Mumbai crime branch. Read
13:02
Defence minister LK Advani speaks on the Chinese incursion on the Line of Actual Control. No question of India ceding to China any part of Indian territory, says Antony.A National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) ground situation report has stressed that the Chinese side had stopped Indian...
12:55
Asserting that something needs to be done, the Bombay high court has ordered the immediate implementation of a series of measures to make safe the Shakti Mills compound, which has been the scene of at least two gang rapes in recent months. Read
12:45
Fire in the Blood,' directed by Irish-Punjabi filmmaker Dylan Mohan Gray, describes itself as an intricate tale of medicine, monopoly and malice.The documentary, which opens in the U.S. this weekend and in India next month, argues that Western pharmaceutical companies and governments caused at...
12:37
The government today said it has nothing to conceal on the issue of Chinese incursion even as BJP accused it of weak response. Defence Minister (A K Antony) will be making a statement in the House on the press reports about Chinese intrusion, occupation of Indian territories. In Lok Sabha he will...
12:25
Women players of the Chhattisgarh powerlifting team on Thursday accused their association's general secretary of molesting them. Read
12:18
A police team will soon be sent to godman Asaram's ashram in Ahmedabad and certain other places in search of a CD said to have been in the possession of his close aide Shiva. Read
12:04
G20 leaders remain divided over the Syrian conflict as they enter the final day of their Russian summit.Italian PM Enrico Letta said the splits were confirmed during a working dinner in St Petersburg on Thursday. Read
12:03
A moderate intensity earthquake, measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale, shook Doda and Kishtwar districts of Jammu and Kashmir, but there were no reports of loss of life or damage to property. According to the MeT department, the quake hit the Doda and Kishtwar region at around 11.41 pm....
12:01
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemns the use of chemical weapons in Syria. India not in favour of armed action for regime change in Syria, he tells G-20 leaders.
11:50
More than 600 people, including Congress leaders and workers, were detained during today's bandh call given by the party demanding resignation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over IPS officer D G Vanzara's letter. Tight security is being maintained across the state to prevent any...
11:36
Calls to dilute the Juvenile Justice Act in light of what is perceived as lenient punishment to the juvenile offender in the Delhi gang rape case are understandable but misplaced. Read
11:34
Asaram is being pilloried by everybody, from parliamentarians to journalists, for alleged sexual assault on a teenager and is in jail now. Some of the horrified public responses at his alleged act can also be attributed to the general notion that dissociates sex from spirituality. This notion...
11:29
The Rajya Sabha will be in session till Saturday.
11:17
BJP to raise issue of Chinese incursion into Indian territory in Parliament, accuses govt of lacking political will to tackle the problem, says Prakash Javadekar. Defence minister LK Antony is expected to make a statement in Parliament at 3 pm today.
11:14
Vinegar and soy sauce from New Market, dresses from Gariahat and bhapa ilish at home in Baguiati.The woman who had braved the Taliban was like any next-door Calcutta girl during her eight-day holiday in Calcutta in July-August. Read
11:07
Defence Minister AK Antony will clarify in Parliament on Friday whether the Chinese troops occupied 640 kilometres of Indian territory near the border in north-east Ladakh, in April. A National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) ground situation report has stressed that the Chinese side had...
11:02
I have been acquitted, says Vishal (all names changed), standing in front of his single-storey, modest house in north Delhi's Rohini area.A few hundred metres away lives a family whose six-year-old daughter was brutally raped and cut to pieces by him. The family lives in constant terror because...
10:54
Based on the GDP numbers and the remarkable stability of the taka, Bangladesh's prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, is a better manager than our 'economist prime minister',' says TVR Shenoy. Read
10:53
In an interview, while he was in the US, Anna Hazare has said he will go on fast again. Read
09:40
Defence Minister AK Antony is expected to make a statement in the Parliament on Friday and clarify on the reports that 640 sq km of Indian territory being occupied by China in Daulat Beg Oldie and other sectors in Ladakh. A ground situation report on the Indo-China border revealed that...
09:39
The Indian rupee traded flat on Friday, a day after it saw the biggest gain in a week. The partially convertible rupee traded at 65.95 per dollar as against Thursday's close of 66.01 as of 09.20 a.m.Traders said there might be some consolidation as the rupee has gained sharply since Reserve Bank...
09:37
The Indian Embassy in Kabul has issued a general warning to all Indians settled in Afghanistan after Indian author Sushmita Banerjee was shot dead on Thursday. According to family wishes, the writer has been buried in Afghanistan as she was married and settled there. The embassy has issued a...
02:06
A US drone killed at least four terrorists today in an attack on a compound in Pakistan's northwest tribal region close to Afghan border.The US drone fired two missiles at a house in Darga Mandi in North Waziristan killing four inmates believed to be taliban terrorists.
01:05
BBC reports: British military scientists found traces of sarin gas in clothing and soil samples taken from a patient treated for apparent chemical weapons exposure last month near Damascus, Syria, the prime minister's office said Thursday.Read the full story here
00:58
Condemning the killing of Indian author Sushmita Banerjee in Afghanistan by militants, intellectuals here said by her assassination Taliban cannot suppress the voice of the oppressed women in that country. It is not only barbaric but also uncivilised.The killing proves that the development work...
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