23:10
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today hit out at the Congress saying that they cannot win the elections by spreading lies among the people. When people are fed up of mis-governance of the UPA government led by Congress, the party cannot win the elections by spreading lies, Modi was quoted as...
22:15
Amid talk of the NCP giving mixed signals on its alliance with the Congress for Lok Sabha polls, the BJP today denied that there had been any meeting between Sharad Pawar and party leader Narendra Modi, even as it dismissed any speculation of a likely tie-up. As far as my knowledge goes,...
22:13
The Mamata Banerjee government, which catapulted to power because of the Singur and Nandigram agitations, today decided to withdraw cases filed by the previous Left Front regime against activists, including two ministers and a prominent TMC MP. Of the cases filed by the previous Left Front...
21:59
The indefinite economic blockade against Arunachal Pradesh, in protest against the killing of 10 people in the state on January 29, today affected the supply of goods to the hill state. At least 25 loaded trucks bound for the neighbouring state were...
21:33
Accusing rival parties of politicising the 1984 anti-Sikh riots issue, the Delhi Congress today said the AAP's move to order a SIT probe was aimed at wooing the community ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. We welcome all inquiries into the 1984 Sikh...
21:31
Star golfer Tiger Woods, who is all set to arrive in New Delhi on Tuesday, said that his dream of visiting India will finally be realised as his friend Arjun Atwal has been requesting him to visit the country for some time. Arj (Tiger calls Atwal by that name) has...
20:53
Tata Power has exited Indonesian coal block PT Arutmin for $500 million.
20:52
The war of words between P Chidambaram and Arun Jaitley refuses to end with the BJP leader today taking a dig at the finance minister, saying he appears to be planning a life after retirement as he is practicing writing columns, which will make for excellent...
20:51
Senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde today said that he or any other party leader had not held any talks with Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh, who has resigned from service and is planning to join politics. Singh has neither contacted me nor has he contacted any...
20:49
Social media has erupted with outrage and horror over the death of a student from Arunachal Pradesh, who was reportedly assaulted by some shopkeepers at Lajpat Nagar, Delhi after a verbal altercation.Read the report here
20:47
How will the Taliban react to the 2014 Presidential elections in Afghanistan? If the militant group plans to disrupt the polls, how will they go about it?Click here to find out
20:29
The Congress today dismissed a demand for an SIT probe into the Batla House encounter, a day after a party MLA from Delhi raised the matter. The stand of the Congress and the government on the Batla House encounter remains the same for the last many years. There is not even...
20:27
Goa police today registered a case against unknown persons for disclosing the identity of the victim who was allegedly raped by Tehelka Founder Editor Tarun Tejpal, and for circulating defamatory emails against her. Deputy Inspector General O P...
20:14
Diesel price was today hiked by 50 paise per litre but there will be no change in petrol rates. The hike, effective midnight tonight, is excluding local sales tax or VAT. The actual increase will be higher and will vary from city to city. However, the price of non-subsidised cooking gas...
20:12
Goa police today registered a case against unknown person for disclosing the identity of the victim who was allegedly raped by Tehelka Founder Editor Tarun Tejpal, and for circulating defamatory emails against her. Deputy Inspector General O P Mishra told PTI that a case under section 228 of...
20:08
Madras High Court today reserved orders on a petition seeking a direction to DGP, and Superintendent of Police,Kancheepuram not to grant permission for a public meeting on February 8 in which the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is going to participate.
20:05
German President Joachim Gauck will arrive here on February 4 on a five-day State visit during which he will focus on the vast spectrum of bilateral relations. The President will be accompanied by a high-ranking delegation comprising, among others, representatives of the German cabinet,...
20:05
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today made it clear that there will be no hurdle in creation of Telangana during the tenure of UPA-II and the statehood bill will be passed in the coming session of Parliament beginning February 5. The bill will be passed. There will be no problem, he told...
19:57
Congress MPs from Andhra Pradesh with the help of Telugu Desam Party and BJP MPs have decided to submit at least 1,236 amendments to the Telangana Bill to create a huge stumbling block. Though there shall be eight major items on the Terms of References on Bifurcation of...
19:57
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde failed to distinguish between IAS officer R K Singh and R K Sinha. Shinde requested a senior BJP leader not to accommodate RK Singh as Rajya Sabha MP. The BJP leader who figured it was a case of mistaken identity told Shinde...
19:56
Congress leaders were up in arms against Finance Minister P Chidambaram's comment on lack of funds for the 'Namma Metro' in Bangalore. Chidambaram was booed and criticised for his remark Senior leaders Veerappa Moily, Jairam Ramesh, Ghulam Nabi Azad, GK Vasan...
19:24
The Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani Taliban are two very different things. The Afghan Taliban, who have stubbornly resisted the worst that the US and Britain could throw at them for the past 12 years, brought a measure of peace and stability to their war-racked country during the late...
19:10
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday listed India's corrupt politicians who, he said, should not be allowed to contest elections.Among the top mentions were Kapil Sibal, A Raja, Mayawati, Mulayam Singh, P Chidambaram and Suresh Kalmadi.Kejriwal was addressing his Aam Aadmi Party workers...
18:58
A section of the airport road in Srinagar will be closed due to construction of a flyover, prompting the authorities to announce today a traffic management plan for smooth movement of vehicles on the route.
18:53
The Bombay High Court today granted transit anticipatory bail to social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand on a complaint lodged against them in Ahmedabad for alleged embezzlement of funds. Justice Mridula Bhatkar today granted Teesta and Anand relief from arrest for four...
18:39
NDTV reports: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today proclaimed a series of top national leaders as corrupt and said his Aam Aadmi Party will target them in the national election.Two of the politicians he named -- Union minister G K Vasan and Nitin Gadkari of the opposition Bharatiya...
18:38
The world's chemical watchdog called today for Syria to pick up the pace in shipping out its chemical weapons stockpile after a key deadline was missed. The need for the process to pick up the pace is obvious, Director General Ahmet Uzumcu said in a statement after a meeting of the...
18:37
Describing the river Baitarani as the Ganges of Odisha, BJP today demanded immediate closure of at least 55 mines in its catchment area as per the recommendation of the Justice M B Shah Commission. The 55 mines along Baitarani, which are allegedly affecting the river, have been identified by...
18:13
Student Union leader says that incident involving northeast student Nido Taniam is not a racist attack. Delhi police sources say that they will treat it as a normal case.
17:40
BJP nominees Vijay Goel, Ram Narain Dudi and Narain Pachariya were today elected unopposed in the Rajya Sabha biennial elections from Rajasthan. As there was no contestant against them after the time of withdrawal ended, they were declared elected by Assembly Special Secretary and Returning...
17:30
Friends of Arunachal student Nido Taniam said that he came home after a tussle and never woke up after that. Nido was the son of an MLA.
17:15
Union Minister Farooq Abdullah today said he will approach court and give answer to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for mentioning his name in his list of corrupt politicians. I am happy that my name figured in the list. I will go to the court and answer... I will ask him...
16:52
Over 10 separatist leaders, including JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik, were taken into preventive custody and several others were placed under house arrest to scuttle protests after Friday prayers against the army's recent decision to close Pathribal fake encounter case. Malik and 10 of his...
16:48
A college student from Arunachal Pradesh has died allegedly after being beaten by a group of men at a crowded locality in south Delhi on Wednesday.The altercation started after the boy, identified as Nido Taniam, broke a window of a sweet shop after they made remarks on his hair. According to...
16:32
A documentary charting the euphoria around the farewell days of legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar in the game will be available on social media platforms, including YouTube from tomorrow. The film portrays people's emotions during Tendulkar's last Ranji Trophy encounter in Haryana...
16:28
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was today sworn-in as a member of the New Delhi Municipal Council, a day after the Union home ministry notified his membership of the civic body. Surinder Singh, the AAP MLA from Delhi Cantonment, was also sworn in along with Kejriwal at a special meeting of...
16:19
Harvard Business School's India-born dean Nitin Nohria has publicly apologised for the school's treatment of women students and professors, and vowed to make changes at the premier institution to deal with gender bias. Nohria acknowledged that Harvard Business School had sometimes treated its...
16:09
Sky enthusiasts can gear up for another celestial treat as the second supermoon of 2014 is coming up today. According to Space Foundation, an organisation working for popularising astronomy, the second of the five supermoons of 2014 would be visible on Friday.January is the only month with...
16:05
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Dr Harsh Vardhan on Friday criticised Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for failing to provide uninterrupted power supply, and said the state government has no right to function if it is unable to provide electricity to the people.It is the responsibility of the...
15:52
The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has downgraded India's aviation safety ranking, which means Indian carriers cannot increase flights to the United States and face additional checks for existing flights.The FAA has downgraded India to Category 2 from Category 1, Prabhat...
15:29
Some of India's best-selling small cars have failed independent crash tests conducted by a global car safety watchdog.All five small cars popular on the Indian market last year, including the famous Tata Nano and the Hyundai i10, failed the crash tests performed by London car-safety watchdog...
15:26
The National Thermal Power Corporation has Delhi government's plea not to stop power supply to BSES Yamuna Power Ltd for defaulting on payments.Sources say that NTPC has warned of snapping power supply to BSES Yamuna Power Limited if payment not made today.However, BSES Yamuna Power Ltd has...
14:59
Zee News reports: The face that has now become synonymous with Congress' advertisement pitching for Rahul Gandhi as the future leader has started to come under attack. Hasiba B Amin, who projects herself as a young face of the Congress party in the Hindi TV ad, is being attacked on the...
14:33
Legendary Formula One driver Michael Schumacher, who met a near-fatal accident while skiing, is responding to instructions after the doctors on Thursday started to reduce the dose of sedatives to bring him out of artificial coma, L'Equipe newspaper has reported.According to the report, Schumacher...
14:31
With just days left for the time for appeal to end, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday filed a review petition in the SNC Lavalin case in which CPI-M state secretary Pinnarayi Vijayan was discharged by a CBI court. On Nov 5 last year, CBI special court judge R. Reghu termed the...
14:20
An Indian worker, convicted of murdering his Saudi sponsor, has been executed in the Gulf kingdom.Muhammad Latif was beheaded here yesterday after being found guilty by a local court of killing his sponsor Dhafir Al-Dossari by hitting him with an iron rod during a dispute, according to the...
13:55
President Pranab Mukherjee will on February 4 decorate Sachin Tendulkar with Bharat Ratna at Rashtrapati BhavanTendulkar,40, who retired from international cricket on November 16 last year was chosen for the award along with eminent scientist Prof CNR Rao. Tendulkar will be the first sportsman to...
13:32
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna resigned from his post on Friday. Addressing the press, Bahuguna said he has submitted his resignation to the state Governor. He added he was merely following the wishes of his party. Union Minister Harish Rawat and state minister Pritam Singh...
12:03
India plans to launch its first giant population study that will track the health of about 15,000 healthy people above 50 for at least five years to pinpoint the risk factors for stroke and cognitive decline.The study, to be jointly conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here...
11:33
If the late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan were alive today -- and been the partys most-likely prime ministerial candidate in the upcoming parliamentary poll in April -- he would have advised Indias venerable pollsters of public opinion to go slow. At the rate at which they are going, they are making...
11:25
The family of Justice JS Verma, the architect of a report that became instrumental in shaping stronger anti-rape laws in the country, has refused to accept the Padma Bhushan award.Justice Verma, who died in April, was awarded one of India's highest civilian awards on the occasion of Republic...
11:06
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has denied media reports that he secretly met BJP's Prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in New Delhi on January 17 to discuss the new alliance.News of my meeting with Narendra Modi in New Delhi on January 17 appeared in a newspaper is completely...
10:58
The Supreme Court on Friday hear stayed the execution of 1993 Delhi blast convict Devender Pal Singh Bhullar After considering the curative plea in a chamber hearing on January 28, the apex court bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam, Justice RM Lodha, Justice HL Dattu and Justice Sudhansu...
09:37
Technology giant Microsoft is likely to name Indian-American top executive Satya Nadella to replace longtime chief Steve Ballmer as the new Chief Executive Officer, capping a five-month search for the only third CEO in the company's history.The Hyderabad-native, who is the executive vice...
09:32
The Delhi Police, under fire for allowing Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Cabinet colleagues to hold protest in the national capital on January 20-21, will on Friday furnish the explanation sought by the Supreme Court. Pulling up the Delhi Police, the apex court bench of Justice...
08:59
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who described himself as an 'anarchist' earlier this month, has now sparked a controversy when he said he does not see the need for banning 'khap panchayats' because they serve a cultural purpose. Kejriwal, who is a self-proclaimed advocate of...
08:59
People in eastern and central parts of Delhi should be prepared for power cuts lasting 8-10 hours from Saturday, as the distribution company catering to the two regions, BSES Yamuna, has sent an alert over its unviable financial situation.The second-largest of the three private discoms in the...
08:54
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna may tender his resignation on Friday. Union Minister Harish Rawat and state minister Pritam Singh are emerging as the frontrunners for the top job in the hill state. The decision to replace Bahuguna was taken at a meeting Congress chief Sonia...
08:39
Two people have been detained in connection with the Rs 7.69-crore heist here. The detention comes after several teams of the Delhi Police raided Haryana's Mewat, Rohtak, Sonipat and Panipat districts in search of the robbers. Six people robbed Rs 7.69 crore in cash from the business...
08:35
In an unprecedented move, Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh on Thursday tendered his resignation to Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil. Singh is the first Mumbai commissioner of police to quit.According to reports, Singh is likely to join BJP to contest the Lok Sabha election either...
08:35
The United States has raised concerns with Moscow over a reported Russian test of a cruise missile and is evaluating whether it breaks a 1987 treaty, a US official said today. Washington has raised the possibility of... a violation, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, amid reports...
08:29
Yahoo has said that usernames and passwords of its email customers have been stolen and used to access accounts, but the company isn't saying how many accounts have been affected. Yahoo is the second-largest email service worldwide, after Google's Gmail, according to the research firm...
08:20
New norms for issuing of PAN (Permanent Account Number) cards have been put on hold by the Finance Ministry.They would have come into force from February 3 and required verification of original documents of applicants. Currently, a PAN applicant has to just submit photo copies of documents...
03:27
The US government says it will seek the death penalty against Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. US Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement: The nature of the conduct at issue and the resultant harm compel this decision. Seventeen of 30 charges against the...
03:25
Russia has been accused by the US of breaching a key arms control treaty banning medium-range nuclear missiles. According to reports in the New York Times, citing US officials, Russia has been conducting flight tests since 2008 of a ground-launched cruise missile. Such a test would fall under the...
03:24
Justin Bieber was under the influence of alcohol, pot and Xanax when police stopped him for drag racing in Miami Beach last week, police documents allege. Yeah, we were smoking all night at the studio, the singer told a police officer who told he reeked of marijuana as he rode in a patrol car,...
03:23
An Italian appeals court convicted former exchange student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito on murder charges Thursday night. Prosecutors said the couple had killed Meredith Kercher in November 2007. They were convicted two years later of murder, but those charges were...
03:22
Hundreds of jobs are being lost at Barclays under changes in its corporate banking division, it has been announced. Around 400 posts will go, and the Unite union said a further 120 were being placed at risk this year. Barclays said it would try to avoid compulsory redundancies, but Unite...
02:16
Professor Amartya Sen with Prospect's editor Bronwen Maddox. Last night, Professor Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, delivered the Prospect/Joseph Rowntree Foundation anti-poverty lecture in front of an audience of several hundred people at the London School of...
01:35
AFP: It's as if the last seven years never happened: Hillary Clinton is the prohibitive early Democratic favourite in the White House race. A Washington Post poll today had Clinton obliterating the potential Democratic field and showed she would handily dispatch scandal-dented Republican...
00:35
The US says only around 4% of the chemical weapons declared by the Syrian government has been removed. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said he was concerned that the UN-backed plan to remove Syria's chemical arsenal was behind schedule. Mr Hagel told reporters in Poland that Damascus had to take...
00:33
Pak court stop's Bilawal's 'cultural coup' on Mohenjodaro\Condemned prisoners in Rajiv assassination case deserve death: SCAAP to contest over 350 LS seats, will fight tainted leadersCong-RJD-LJP alliance final in Bihar: Ram Vilas PaswanSrinagar-Muzaffarabad peace bus service to resume from...
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