23:15
Two Indian-origin brothers who ran a London-based sex trafficking ring have been sentenced to a total of 40 years and 6 months in jail by a British court. Ring leader Vishal Chaudhary, an Indian national who was found guilty of trafficking more than 100 women to Britain, was jailed for 31...
22:08
Pakistan today lodged a protest with the US over reports that a leading political party in the country was put under surveillance by an American spy agency. According to media reports the National Security Agency had spied on Pakistan Peoples Party. The PPP figures in the list of foreign...
21:23
Embarking on its first sortie in virtual world, the Indian Air Force today launched nation's first 3D mobile game in a bid to attract generation-next youth to pursue a career in the air force.Launching the 3D mobile game 'Guardians of the Skies', Air Marshal S Sukumar hailed the event as a...
21:18
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said, The Tapas Pal controversy was blow out of proportion by the media to malign the party. Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament Pal had threatened to kill Communist Party of India-Marxist workers and having their...
20:53
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met President Pranab Mukherjee and discussed issues related to the upcoming Budget session of Parliament. The President hosted a lunch for the PM, the first since Modi was sworn-in on May 26, sources said. The luncheon meeting came ahead of the budget session...
20:22
The MLAs of the Aam Aadmi Party, led by its National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal, today met President Pranab Mukherjee and demanded dissolution of Delhi legislative assembly and fresh polls in the national capital. The party, in a memorandum to the President, has alleged that the...
20:04
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the third most followed world leader on Twitter, next only to US President Barack Obama and the Pope. Modi, who was at the fourth spot till last week, has overtaken Indonesian President S B Yudhoyono today on the popular microblogging site with...
19:18
Tensions soared in Arab-dominated areas of east Jerusalem today following the death of a young Arab boy in a suspected revenge attack by rightwing extremists as Israel moved troops to its border with Gaza Strip amid heavy rocket, mortar attacks by Hamas militants. East Jerusalem, where an...
19:13
The Bombay High Court today handed over to CBI the probe into Bollywood actress Jiah Khan's death, five months after Mumbai police concluded it was a case of suicide and charged her live-in partner Suraj Pancholi with abetting it. The 25-year-old British-American actress was found hanging...
18:49
At least 660 rape crisis centres will be established across the country and named as Nirbhaya centres, as a tribute to the victim of December 16, 2012 Delhi gang-rape case. The centres will be set up in all the 640 districts and 20 additional locations in the country and the project will cost 477...
18:33
A day after an air-conditioning duct on the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar metro railway train malfunctioned leading to rain water pouring into a coach, its operator Mumbai Metro One claimed that it has taken all necessary measures to ensure such incidents do not recur.Inconvenience to commuters...
18:32
Siddharth Vashisht alias Manu Sharma, undergoing life term for killing model Jessica Lall in 1999, was today granted parole for 30 more days by the Delhi High Court so that he can prepare a diploma thesis for his post-graduation course. A bench of Justice S Muralidhar extended the parole, granted...
18:20
The Enforcement Directorate's petition for taking in its custody Saradha Group chief Sudipta Sen was today posted by a local court to July 10, while he was sent to seven days judicial custody. July 10 is the date for hearing on the ED's petition seeking to take Sen in its remand and sent him to...
18:12
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi welcomed this Ramadan by declaring the formation of the Caliphate, with him as the Caliph -- namely the successor of the Prophet Mohammed. It is the first return of a Caliphate since Kemal Atatrk's Turkish National Assembly abolished it in 1924. Read
17:41
This is probably the first time that a home minister is holding a presser on price rise.
17:39
Rajnath Singh's presser begins: To ensure there is no hoarding there should be raids where needed. Lot of raids have already been carried out in Delhi, he says.
17:36
A senior government source denied the story that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted German Chancellor Angela Merkel's invitation for a bilateral visit during his transit stopover in Germany on the way to Brazil to attend the BRICS summit. Modi wont attend the World Cup...
17:30
A wreath was laid to commemorate the death anniversary of Brigadier Mohammad Usman, MVC, at Jamia Millia Islamia University today. Several retired and serving officers including Lt general NS Ghei, AVSM, Commandant National Defence College and Colonel of the Parachute Regiment attended the...
17:27
Home minister Rajnath Singh will address a special press conference in North Block on escalating prices. Politicians on Tuesday slammed the BJP-led government for price rise, which is adding to inflationary pressures that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government inherited when it came to power...
17:18
Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa reports on the situation in Iraq. A parent of one of the nurses who requested not to be identified said that they cannot contact their daughter now. Yet other parents, whos daughters are in Tikrit, said, the basement of the hospital was stormed and the nurses were...
17:11
Kerala CM Oomen Chandy holds a presser in the wake of the MEA's presser. He says the MEA has assured help in getting the nurses out of Iraq. The MEA says options are limited but the safety of our nurses is paramount. The UN doesn't have a presence on the ground. The ability of the Red Cross in...
17:08
In other news: Two BRO personnel were killed as boulders from a hillside fell on their truck after heavy rains at Joshimath in Chamoli district, even as a landslip near Lambagad on the Rishikesh-Badrinath highway temporarily halted pilgrimage to the famous Himalayan shrine. A sudden downpour...
16:51
Syed Akbaruddin, MEA: India is not alone in working on this, we have partners in this across Iraq, we have partners even outside Iraq. It's a war zone, the situation is in flux. Last night I got 25 calls that they had moved, but they hadn't. Can only share corroborated information.
16:39
MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin says 1500 Indians have indicated they want to leave. He said it is not known where the nurses are being moved. Akbaruddin said there was a blast outside the bus that was taking them, not inside the bus. And as we said before, some nurses were injured.
16:35
MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin says 900 Indians have been provided tickets to fly out of Iraq mostly through Iraqi Airlines. It has been a difficult time for our embassies in for Delhi and Iraq. No mobile phones work in Karbala, Najaf and Basra, he said. He confirmed that all 46 Indian nurses...
16:21
IANS reports that one of the nurses contacted the Indian embassy officials in Baghdad and were advised to try and hold on till tomorrow morning. The men who asked them to leave have given the nurses two hours to decide and warned that the hospital is going to be bombed.Kerala CM Oomen Chandy...
16:14
Just in: 14 Indians, 5 Bangladesh nurses in Tikrit have been moved to Mosul by the ISIS. The nurses tell their families that they have been moved in buses. The MEA is yet to confirm the news. There are 46 Indian nurses stranded in Tikrit, Iraq. It was reported this morning that all the 46 Indian...
15:46
AAP leader Prashant Bhushan on Amit Shah getting Z+ security: The most secure place for him would be jail.
15:41
President Pranab Mukjherjee's son Congress MP from Jangipur steps into a land mine. He says Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Pal should be forgiven. Mukherjee says it's a controversial issue and discussions on it should be avoided. Mistakes are bound to happen and the issue should not be...
15:26
Death toll in Chennai building collapse climbs to 60.
15:26
Maria Sharapova's facebook page has been inundated with abuse after she admitted to not knowing who Sachin Tendulkar was. The five-time Grand Slam champion would never have imagined that her incidental remark on the cricket legend could trigger such an avalanche of diatribe. The infuriated...
15:06
A survey conducted by Skyscanner, a global travel search site, reveals that 49% of Indians surveyed are supporting the five times champions Brazil. Argentina and Germany share the second spot at the list with 15% support from the country. While 7% of Indians surveyed, support Netherlands after...
14:59
For those still unfamiliar with what TMC MP Tapas Pal said, here's quick refresher...Ekta kono CPI-M jodi amaar maa, bon, chacha, chachi karo gaye haat dey ei Tapas Pal chhere katha bolbe na. Tapas Pal nijer revolver bar kore guli kore diye chole jabe. Jene rakhben, bhalo kore jene rakhben, ami...
14:46
CPM leader Brinda Karat on TMC MP Tapas Pal's statements: Incitement to rape is a crime, this act of saying sorry is just an act. How will a man like Tapas Pal sit in the Parliament? Mamata Banerjee is the same CM who filed an FIR against a Jadavpur professor's cartoon, she should take action...
14:38
Also read: Why Sonia picked Kharge to lead Cong in Lok Sabha.
14:33
Kharge and Scindia met Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan today. It may be difficult for the Congress to get the post of Leader of Opposition. According to the rules of the House, a party needs 10 per cent of the seats in the Lok Sabha to become Leader of Opposition, which amounts to 55.The...
14:30
Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Jyotiraditya Scindia meet the Speaker regarding the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha.
14:04
A fire has broken out at a jewellery showroom located in the heart of Bangalore causing traffic jam on the busy MG Road in the city.Seven fire engines have been rushed to the location. According to reports, soon after the fire broke out, the employees of the showroom, Navaratna...
13:50
The Supreme Court has refused to grant bail to Asaram Bapu in a rape case filed in Gujarat. The court has asked him to approach the High Court. The Apex court, however, agrees to hear his bail plea in another rape case lodged against him in Rajasthan and issues notice to the state...
13:48
Update on the Chennai building collapse: The Justice Reghupathy Commission will probe the circumstances leading to the collapse of the under-construction 11 storeyed building. The Commission will find out whose ignorant attitude resulted in such a mishap that left many workers dead and others...
13:37
Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh launches the e-Office at the Ministry of External Affairs headquarters.
13:35
On a day when Mumbai got its first good rain of the season, the municipal corporation announced water cuts across the city. For at least a fortnight, beginning Thursday, the duration of the water supply will be reduced by 20%, which should translate into a 10-15% drop in supply, officials...
13:27
Gita Wolf collaborates with India's women tribal artists to create award-winning books and help the women step across the gulf that divides them from the modern world. Read more
13:20
The jacket on the man in that picture is nearly fifty years old, only a little younger than I. The first time I saw it was in a photograph sent back by my father from a long trip to the United States; it is the colour of lightly burned ochre and it has leather buttons on it the size of baby...
13:05
A 28-year-old Indian was today jailed for nine months in Singapore for being a member of an unlawful assembly during the Little India riot last December, becoming the 13th Indian to be imprisoned in the country's worst street violence in 40 years. Palanivel Dhasmohan, who worked in the...
12:52
Nearly two hours after the BSE halted trading this morning across all of its markets, including shares, currencies and indexes due to a network outage, markets have reopened once again. The BSE said all orders placed before the network outage would be cancelled. The exchange...
12:47
Tamil Nadu government constitutes a one-man inquiry commission to probe the Porur building collapse. Former justice R Reghupathy will conduct the probe. The death toll in the collapse of an 11-storey under-construction residential building near Chennai has risen to 53. The death toll stands at 53...
12:39
What happens when an Indian company really wants to make money off a sport it knows little about? Just add some cricket and Bollywood.Having spent around $90 million on exclusive broadcast rights for the FIFA World Cup, Multi Screen Media -- owners of Sony Entertainment Television, which runs the...
12:34
In Pictures: How the Modi govt responded to Maria Sharapova's blasphemous revelation that she had no heard of Tendulkar.
12:32
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will brief President Pranab Mukherjeeon crucial issues relating to the upcoming Union Budget, the Indian economy, international relations and the ensuing Parliament session. This is the fourth meeting with the President after Modi became PM.
12:28
Six things every Muslim (and Non-Muslim) should know about the Caliphate. Since ISIS declared its reestablishment, heres what you need to know about the history and meaning of the Caliphate. Read
12:25
An alliance with the BJP is not happening, says Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. In an exclusive interview with The Hindu's Suhasini Haidar, he speaks about the controversy over Article 370 and the significance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the State. Read
12:09
US senator John McCain on Thursday held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.His meet with the PM came a day after the US Senator discussed with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj ways to boost the bilateral relationship, as well as the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan.A new row has...
12:04
People are suffering due to rising inflation, but this Govt wants a honeymoon period. The BJP is constantly trying to lure our MLAs, even threatening us. We want the President to call for fresh polls, says Manish Sisodia, AAP.
11:53
Chief Justice R.M. Lodha deserves appreciation for breaking away from the secrecy surrounding the process of appointment of judges and disclosing that the government had unilaterally segregated the name of Gopal Subramanium from a four-member list it had recommended for appointment as Supreme...
11:51
The death toll in the Chennai building collapse climbs to 52.
11:49
On Wednesday, Maria Sharapova committed a cardinal sin. No, she did not wear full length trousers to Wimbledon. No, she did not play an entire match without screaming. She made the mistake of' not knowing who Sachin Tendulkar was.Clearly she is an atheist, because she does not know the name of...
11:47
'Super-Earth' Looks Promising, But Likely Too Hot for Life'. Read
11:39
Army Chief General Bikram Singh, who is in China on a four-day official visit, today held talks with People's Liberation Army (PLA) Chief of Staff General Fang Fenghui in Beijing.The Indian army chief's visit to China comes after a nine year gap. The then army chief Gen N C Vij rpt N C Vij had...
11:33
An unusual confrontation is building up ever since Dwarka Shankaracharya, Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati, ran down the followers of Shirdi Sai Baba, saying they ought not to worship the 19th century mystic who was no god, and remove his photographs and idols from temples where he gets the...
11:28
Questioning Shirdi Sai Baba's status as a Hindu god, Shankaracharya Swaroopanand Saraswati said that Sai Baba was someone who used to eat meat and worshipped Allah, (and) a man like that can never be a Hindu god.He also claimed that the devotees of Sai Baba use pictures of sanatan dharm gods and...
11:21
For the second time in less than a week, conscientious policemen were at the receiving end of highhanded politicians in their line of duty.A Congress MLA partying beyond the stipulated hour at Skyye, an upmarket lounge bar in Bangalore, allegedly abused, chased and slapped two constables who came...
11:12
The fiscal deficit during the first two months of fiscal 2014-15 exceeds 45 per cent of the amount budgeted for the whole year in the February interim budget. Read
11:07
Read:The Facebook Manipulation Study's Mysterious Connection to the Military.
11:02
Sherlock and Moriarty are to return in 2015, the BBC have announced after a series of tantalising social media posts. How? It's elementary, dear reader. Take a look
10:55
Shares listed on India's benchmark exchange BSE as well as its indexes have stopped updating on Thursday morning due to a connectivity issue, a spokesman for the bourse operator told Reuters. There are some connectivity issues. We are issuing a statement soon, the BSE spokesman told...
10:54
The death toll in the collapse of an 11-storey under-construction residential building in Chennai has risen to 53. Rescue work is continuing in full swing, a senior Tamil Nadu government revenue official said today. Twenty-seven people have been pulled out alive. A total of 80 people had...
10:41
The Chief Justice of India's criticism of the government's handling of former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium's nomination as a Supreme Court Judge has sparked a storm. Sources have told CNN-IBN that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is upset with the controversy. Sources say the Prime Minister...
10:37
A minor gas leakage was reported from one of the wells of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation at Kasanapalli in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, which has been brought under control, a senior officer said here today. There was a minor...
10:30
Palestinians are preparing to hold the funeral of a teenager abducted and murdered in Israel. The killing of 17-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdair on Wednesday was condemned by both Israeli and Palestinian leaders. The murder sparked fierce clashes amid claims it was in revenge for the killing of...
10:25
The spat between Shirdi Sai devotees and Shankaracharya Swaroopanand Saraswati has turned uglier and reached the court. The Naga seers have now sided with Shankaracharya. The Nagas have said that if Shankaracharya is insulted, they will take to the streets in protest. The Naga sadhus have...
10:05
The Bombay Stock Exchange has asked to shut down all markets due to a network outage, TV channels report. Network service vendor HCL is working on the snag, CNN IBN reports.
08:54
NDTV: An infiltration attempt by a group of terrorists was foiled by the Army in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir early this morning. Exchange of fire between the terrorists and the troops is reportedly still underway. No casualties have been reported so far.More details are awaited.
08:52
After reports that 46 Indian nurses trapped in the conflict zone in Iraq have been asked to leave within 5 hours by the militants, Iraq Red Crescent has said that they are safe. The nurses in Tikrit are safe, there is no threat. They are inside the hospital, Iraq Red Crescent President Yaseen...
08:47
The Supreme Court today expressed concern over the misuse of a law meant to target those guilty of dowry harassment and said people accused in such cases cannot be automatically arrested. The fact that Section 498-A is a cognizable and non-bailable offence has lent it a dubious place of...
08:45
NDTV: As heavy rains lashed Mumbai on Wednesday, photos and a video of a The Metro had opened with great fanfare on June 8 this year.The image of a mini downpour inside one of its compartments puts a question mark on Mumbai Metro's services and its impending fare hike. Of the sixteen...
02:04
Iran has supplied Iraq with fighter jets to help it counter the belligerent offensive by Islamist militants who have taken over large swathes of territory, a media report said today. Russia supplied an initial delivery of the aircraft just a few days ago but analysts at the International...
01:53
Ramadan, the Islamic religious festival marked by a month of fasting, officially started June 28 around the world but has been effectively cancelled for many Muslims in Western China. Government offices, hospitals and schools in China's Xinjiang region, where about half the 22 million population...
01:49
A Taliban suicide bomber struck a bus carrying Afghan military personnel in Kabul today, killing at least 11 people, officials said, as the militants step up their campaign of violence aimed at undermining the Western-backed government.The bombing came as the country struggles through its first...
01:48
India's chances of hosting the 2019 Asian Games was in jeopardy as the Olympic Council of Asia refused the Indian Olympic Association's request for extension of deadline for submission of final bid documents by 15 days.The deadline to submit the final bid ended on Tuesday, but with the government...
01:46
An Indian Mujahideen terrorist, suspected to be involved in the German Bakery blast of Pune in 2010, has been arrested from Kolkata, the police said. A special team of the Kolkata Police STF arrested Zahid Hussain, a Bangladeshi national, from outside Kolkata rail station under Chitpore...
01:45
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy has accused the French justice system of trying to destroy him, after he was charged in a corruption probe. The former conservative party leader fought back today in a broadcast interview after he was questioned over a highly publicised judicial investigation...
01:43
Chennai building collapse: Toll mounts to 47, 27 rescued so farAIIMS refuses to back doctor's claim in Sunanda caseNess Wadia writes to police, says Preity's complaint falseCAG exposes UP govt's false claims on Kumbh Mela successUS, European funds buy majority of RCom's Rs 4,800 cr QIPGovt puts...
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