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The chief prosecutor in Oscar Pistorius' murder trial said today in closing arguments that the athlete repeatedly lied during testimony in a crude attempt to defend himself against a murder charge for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.Prosecutor Gerrie Nel cited flaws in the defense, saying the...
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A Ukranian fighter jet was shot down today as it flew low over rebel-held territory in the east of the country.The aircraft crashed into a field after an explosion in mid-air and the pilot was seen parachuting out in an area some 40 kilometres east of the insurgent bastion of Donetsk, an AFP...
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Iselle was supposed to weaken as it slowly trudged west across the Pacific. It didn't and now Hawaii is poised to take its first direct hurricane hit in 22 years. Tracking close behind it was Hurricane Julio, which strengthened early today into a Category 2 storm. State officials are...
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The main prosecutor in the trial of Oscar Pistorius has argued that the South African athlete cannot avoid a conviction for murdering his girlfriend.Gerrie Nel accused the athlete of being a deceitful witness who told the court a snowball of lies.Pistorius denies murdering his girlfriend Reeva...
22:12
Islamist militants surged across northern Iraq towards the capital of the Kurdish region on Thursday, sending tens of thousands of Christians fleeing for their lives, in an offensive that has alarmed the Baghdad government and world powers.Reuters photographs showed Islamic State fighters...
20:56
Soldiers are clamping down on people trying to travel to Liberia's capital from rural areas hard-hit by the Ebola virus after the president declared a national state of emergency.Reports have emerged of families hiding sick relatives at home and of abandoned bodies being left in the...
20:31
Gujarat Governor Om Prakash Kohli today assumed the additional charge as the Governor of Goa. Chief Justice of Bombay High Court, Justice Mohit Shah, administered the oath of office to Kohli in the presence of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, cabinet ministers and Leader of Opposition Pratapsingh...
20:10
The Bombay High Court reserved its order today, on the quantum of punishment to be awarded to a driver who mowed down nine people and injured 36 others while driving a state transport bus in 2012 even as the state demanded the death sentence for him and the defence pleaded for leniency.The...
19:22
Another special Air India flight will leave tomorrow for Djerba in Tunisia to bring back 216 Indian nationals, who have crossed over there from strife-torn Libya.With the fresh batch of 216, the total number of Indians who would have come back from Libya by this weekend would be about 1,500,...
19:04
India today summoned the Pakistan Deputy High Commissioner and sought immediate release of the BSF jawan who was captured by Pakistan army in their territory after being swept away by a strong current of the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir.The issue was also raised by the Indian Deputy high...
18:46
Malaysian carrier AirAsia today withdrew all copies of its in-flight magazine from circulation and removed it from its website, complying with an order of aviation regulator DGCA, for wrongly depicting the map of India. The airline, which was directed to comply with the order by 1700 hours,...
18:44
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had briefed President Pranab Mukherjee about Mizoram governor Kamla Beniwal. For over 15 days, there was a flurry of of visit between Union Minister law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and attorney general Mukul Rohatgi at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Following the...
18:38
Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is seen as a regular in Parliament during Question Hour. Our sources tell us that Dr Singh cuts a lonely figure in Parliament. Not a single Congress MP goes near to him, nobody speaks to him nor even acknowledges his arrival.And here's the reason -- his...
17:41
As BJP president, Amit Shah, is now entitled to a type seven bungalow in Lutyens Delhi. Since Shah gets Z plus protection, the Union Ministry of Urban Development is all set to move a note to the Cabinet allotting and issuing a bungalow in its next meeting.
17:22
Update on the gas leak at Kollam, Kerala. At least 70 students were hospitalised after alleged gas leak at the KMML (Kerala Minerals and Metals Limited) factory in Kollam Thursday. Around 70 students from the nearby school and colleges of the factory were admitted in the hospital. Around 20...
17:07
NSA whistleblower's lawyer says Edward Snowden has been granted three-year residency after year's asylum ran out. Read
17:06
A young man lies dead in the streets of Liberia, left to rot in view of passers-by and local children. He is just one of many Ebola victims to have been dragged out of their homes and dumped on the country's roads by terrified relatives in a desperate bid to avoid being quarantined. The...
16:58
Intelligence sources tell Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com how investigators overlooked an important aspect of the 26/11 case. A key suspect, who helped Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley gather information for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has never been captured. Read
16:56
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16:22
70 students have been hospitalised in Kerala after an alleged gas leak from a state-run Kerala Metals and Minerals Limited, reports NDTV. Officials say 16 students are in the ICU on complaints of nausea and breathing difficulties.
16:07
Garry Kasparov, the Man Who Would Be King. A must-read on the NYT.
16:06
Relief for the family of the BSF jawan captured by Pakistan. Pak Rangers will hand him over to India tomorrow. A BSF jawan deployed along the India-Pakistan border was captured by Pakistani forces early on Wednesday after he was swept away by a strong current of the Chenab river in Jammu and...
16:02
The Indian government must reject proposed amendments to laws that could allow children to be treated as adults in cases of serious crimes, Amnesty International India has said.We believe amendment in Juvenile Justice Act will have serious implications, it is not right, says Gopika Basi,...
15:22
Fifteen days after the body of Milita Dutt Mandal, a producer with Rajya Sabha TV, was found in the basement of an highrise in Vaishali, Ghaziabad, police said a suicide note had been found in her car. Police said the note had been sent for a forensic examination. Read more
15:05
The RSS uses its resentment against mosques and loudspeakers to stoke anti-Muslim feelings among other Hindus, whenever it can, be it during riots, or before elections, says Jyoti Punwani on Rediff.com. Read
15:00
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been accused of being a deceitful witness who dropped the baton of truth, at the start of closing arguments in his trial for murder. Read
14:47
The Supreme Court directs SGPC and HSGPC to maintain status quo on the management control of gurudwaras prevailing at 2:30 PM today in Haryana till further orders.
14:27
Ratan Tata has lost his mind, West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra has said, rattled by the top industrialist's comment that he has not noticed any industrial development in the state.Onar motibhrom hoyeche (Maybe he has lost his mind). Maybe he hasn't got the information. I don't know why...
13:50
The Tata Group has retained its place as the country's most valuable brand at USD 21 billion, while the total worth of top-100 Indian brands now stands at USD 92.6 billion, says a new study. State-run insurance behemoth LIC is ranked second with a brand value of USD 4.1 billion, followed by...
13:49
The deadly Ebola virus that has claimed 932 lives so far is now closer to home than imagined. Union Health Minister on Wedensday in a letter to Parliament said that a total of 44,700 Indians are living in different countries affected by Ebola. Read moreEbola what, Ebola how? Read
13:36
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary, says the party will protest over the Khudiram issue all over Bengal
13:36
The Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal has found itself in the midst of yet another raging controversy for labelling revolutionary freedom fighters as terrorists in the Class 8 history textbooks.A history chapter titled revolutionary terrorism describes the activities of freedom...
12:59
Sacked Mizoram Governor Dr Kamla Beniwal is likely to leave Mizoram for Jaipur tomorrow, Raj Bhavan sources today said.Beniwal, who was scheduled to visit Hmuifang Tourist Resort, about 50 km from here, cancelled her programme, sources said. As she was leaving with a short notice, it would be...
12:50
Wikipedia has refused to delete the image of a monkey as the organisation claims that the featured Macaque owns it. Since the Macaque hasn't expressed any interest in it being taken down Wikipedia argues that they have every right to keep it up.The man who owned the camera was nature photographer...
12:48
In the last six months, especially after the Lok Sabha election, the Bharatiya Janata Party's Muslim membership in the State has seen an unprecedented growth. Read
12:42
Like father, like son?An FIR has been registered against jailed former minister Amarmani Tripathi's son for allegedly abducting a contractor and trying to extort money from him, police said today. The FIR was registered against Amanmani Tripathi and his four aides on the complaint of contractor...
12:12
The government is examining a demand for withdrawing the Padma honour conferred on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan following a Mumbai court framing charges against him, reports the Times of India. RTI activist S C Agrawal had filed a complaint with the Union home ministry on March 14 ,...
12:06
Downtown residential projects and commercial activities are all that chairman emeritus of Tata Group Ratan Tata could see on his way from Kolkata airport on Wednesday. I couldn't see any industrial development... All this looks like countryside development, he said. Read why Mamata Banerjee...
11:55
A Delhi court, which had issued summons against Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others, today deferred till August 28 the hearing in the case filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy in the matter pertaining to acquisition of National Herald daily. Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati...
11:47
The sacking order brings to an end the gubernatorial tenure of 87-year-old Congress leader from Rajasthan who battled with the Modi government over the appointment of Lokayukta and some legislations during her tenure in Gujarat. During her confrontation with Modi, Beniwal appointed...
11:46
The government today justified the sacking of Kamla Beniwal as the governor of Mizoram, even as the opposition accused it of political vendetta. Action was taken as per Constitution. There are serious allegations against Kamla Beniwal, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu said. The...
11:00
Border Security Officials in Jammu are seeking a flag meet with their counterparts in Pakistan to hold discussion of the Indian jawan, who was captured yesterday after he was swept away by a strong current of the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmi. We are in touch with Pakistan Rangers and have...
10:48
CNN-IBN reports: Cricket legend and Rajya Sabha MP Sachin Tendulkar has come under criticism for not attending a single session of Paliament this year. Senior Congress leader Rajeev Shukla questioned the point behind Tendulkar's nomination to the Upper House saying if he was not going to attend...
10:32
The hearing of the case, which was filed in a court in Kanpur on Saturday against Aamir Khan and a Hindi daily over its PK poster which featured the Bollywood star posing nude, will resume today. In the complaint which was filed by lawyer Manoj Dixit, actor Aamir Khan, producer Vidhu Vinod...
10:14
The benchmark BSE Sensex extended yesterday's losses by declining over 54 points in early trade today as funds and investors indulged in trimming positions, tracking a weak trend overseas. However, shares of companies related to railways were in keen demand after the government yesterday approved...
10:07
The Congress today demanded an explanation from Home Minister Rajnath Singh over the transfer and sacking of Mizoram Governor Kamla Beniwal. Governors are constitutional authorities and cannot be trifled with. Sacking of Beniwal is a violation of the Supreme Court order. It is vindictive, the...
09:52
A total of 44,700 Indians are living in different countries affected by Ebola, a deadly virus that has claimed 932 lives so far, The Times of India reports. Of this, 300 are CRPF personnel deployed in Liberia for United Nations peacekeeping operations, Union Health Minister Harsh...
08:52
Ahead of his first visit to India, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has said the US is looking for new partners and relationships in Asia Pacific region which represents both opportunities and challenges. On the eve of his first three-day visit to India, Hagel said at a meeting in Germany yesterday...
08:44
CNN reports: Russian President Vladimir Putin has named a new target as global sparring over Ukraine grows: food.In a decree signed yesterday, Putin banned food and agricultural imports from countries that have imposed sanctions against his country.The retaliatory move comes more than a...
04:17
Saudi men have been banned from marrying women from three Asian and one African country as the Gulf state toughens the rules restricting marriage with foreigners, a local daily said. Marrying women from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar and Chad is no longer permissible, Makkah newspaper...
04:16
Arch-rivals Samsung and Apple have decided to drop a series of bitter patent disputes pending in multiple courts outside the United States, the South Korean electronics giant said today.The two companies have been locked in a prolonged war of legal attrition in close to a dozen countries, with...
04:16
Israel has agreed to extend beyond Friday a 72-hour ceasefire that has halted a month of fighting in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, officials said today as Egyptian efforts intensified to broker a long-term truce between the two sides.Israel has agreed to extend a three-day ceasefire in Gaza beyond...
04:15
UN peacekeepers evacuated 220 staff and aid workers from northeast South Sudan today after militias killed at least six relief workers, a UN spokesman said. The troops from the UN mission in South Sudan were expected to continue evacuations tomorrow from Bunj, in Upper Nile State, where a...
01:52
The government is likely to introduce the bill to amend the Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments) Act, 1988, in Rajya Sabha today.The bill seeks to allow thousands of small industries to file just one return for compliance with 16...
01:48
In mid-July, Mapp Biopharmaceuticals, a small, privately held biotech firm based in San Diego, inked a deal to finalize the commercialization of an experimental drug known as ZMapp, a cocktail of three lab-created antibodies that, when combined, can do what no antibody-naturally occurring or...
01:38
Iraqi medical and security officials say two car bombs have exploded in Shiite neighbourhoods of Baghdad killing 51 people.Police said the first attack today evening was a double car bombing in a shopping area of Sadr City, a Shiite neighborhood in the east of the city, killing 31 people and...
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Cabinet clears Juvenile Justice Act amendmentsCabinet approves 49% FDI in defence, opens up railwaysKamla Beniwal, the Governor who clashed with Modi, sackedDhoni hits back: 'It was physical contact that we reported'Chenab current drifts BSF jawan, captured by Pakistan
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