22:38
At least 17 people have been killed and 160 wounded in an Israeli strike that hit a fruit and vegetable market near Gaza City, Palestinian officials say.Hundreds of people were shopping in the market in Shejaiya, a spokesman for the Gaza health ministry said.The attack came during a four-hour...
21:59
In a bid to strengthen AAP's support base in the national capital, party's National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal will address a rally of auto drivers at the Ramlila Maidan here tomorrow. The information was provided by a party spokesman today. The AAP leader had addressed a similar rally of...
21:55
Anxious moments were witnessed in Parliament premises today as an alarm went off, triggered after a car inadvertently rammed into boom barriers at one of the entries to the heavily-guarded complex that has been targeted by terrorists once. As soon as the alarm went off, a gypsy carrying...
20:47
BK Modi -- Lalit Modi's uncle (the first commissioner of cricket's Indian Premier League) -- is constructing a Lakshmi temple behind Lotus Temple in Delhi on the land gifted by the NDA govt during AB Vajpayee's tenure .
20:28
The United States plans to sell 5,000 Hellfire missiles to Iraq in a USD 700 million deal, officials has said, as Washington tries to help Baghdad retake ground captured by Sunni militants. The US government, which has been reluctant so far to take military action in support of Baghdad, has...
20:07
Rival militias fighting for control of Tripoli airport agreed on Wednesday to a temporary ceasefire to allow firefighters to try to control a huge blaze at a fuel depot hit by a rocket.After a fortnight of the worst fighting since the 2011 war that ousted Moammar Gadhafi, most Western governments...
19:52
Union Public Service Commission will have its full bench meeting on Monday to deliberate the students agitation against the English test in CSAT. An internal note circulated among UPSC members has resolved unanimously reject the students demand of withdrawal of the English comprehension...
19:52
The full bench of Central Vigilance Commission is meeting on Thursday to identify the new Director of Enforcement. A panel of three names drawn from IAS officers from 1982, 1983 have been submitted to CVC. Rajan Katoch present director of the Enforcement Directorate is to assume office as...
19:51
President Pranab Mukherjee will observe Durga Ashtami by fasting -- he will not have lunch. Similarly Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not take even a drop of water till sunset on the days of Pradoshams. Such VVIPS 'fasting-styles' come as a hindrance to hosting official...
19:15
The buzz in the North Block which houses the Union ministry of finance is if Governor of Reserve Bank of India Raghuram Rajan or Finance Secretary Arvind Mayaram would become the first Indian to head the BRICS bank (also called as New Development Bank.) Insiders say more names will come up...
18:58
France has evacuated nearly 50 French and British citizens from Libya by ship, French authorities said today, amid growing lawlessness and unrest in the north African country. The French chief of staff said 40 French nationals and seven Britons were pulled out in the overnight operation and...
18:57
International observers turned back today after making another attempt to reach the site where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down in eastern Ukraine, and a government official said the area near the zone had been mined by pro-Russian separatists who control it. Observers from the...
18:44
Israel's ambassador to the United States is asserting that criticism of Secretary of State John Kerry's peace-making efforts is traceable to Israel's very rambunctious democracy, and not Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Ambassador Ron Dermer says Netanyahu appreciates Kerry's efforts to bring...
18:36
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in India. Kerry will be in New Delhi to co-chair the fifth annual India-US Strategic Dialogue with his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj. On the eve of his departure, Kerry said today, that the developmental plan of Prime Minister Narendra Modi reflected...
18:25
Home Minister Rajnath Singh is leaving for Pune this evening. He will visit the landslide affected village of Malin in Maharashtra.
18:17
Telangana brand ambassador and tennis star Sania Mirza tweets: 37 medals and counting at Glasgow..praying for many more to come..Wish tennis was still a part of CWG, great memories.
18:07
A six-month long investigation by The Hindu has revealed that the nature of reported sexual assault in Delhi is far more complex than earlier imagined. Among the key findings is that a third of all the cases heard during one year dealt with consenting couples whose parents had accused...
18:02
Read our 2006 report on the fallout between Sonia Gandhi and Natwar Singh.
18:01
Singh's book is to be launched next month and the possibility of his revelations has the political circles agog with anticipation. That this could be the second book after the one by Manmohan Singh's former media advisor Sanjay Baru that can put the spotlight on Congress chief Sonia Gandhi makes...
17:59
Congress president Sonia Gandhi refused her party's offer to be the prime minister in May 2004 because her son Rahul put his foot down, former foreign minister K Natwar Singh has said. Singh, in an interview to Headlines Today, said Rahul was totally against Sonia...
17:48
While Jacques Kallis will continue to play for the Sydney Thunder in the BBL, and for Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL, he has retired from all international cricket. Kallis today announced his retirement from all formats of international cricket. I realised in Sri Lanka that my dream of playing...
17:37
The toll in the Pune landslide has gone up to 10 with over 200 trapped.
17:37
Sports minister Sarbananda Sonowal today assured that Indian athletes, competing at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, will soon be paid their full daily allowance. Sonowal's reaction came in the wake of athletes' claims that they have not been paid their daily allowance which was last week...
17:09
MEA's confirmatory tweet: US Secy of State John Kerry will be arriving in a few hours. It will be the 1st high level interaction the US and India will have at a political level.
17:04
US Secretary of State John Kerry to meet PM Modi on August 1. Read: John Kerry hopes for warmer welcome in India after Israel fiasco.
16:56
The Supreme Court may allow Sahara chief Subrata Roy to use the conference room at Delhi's Tihar Jail. Roy's lawyers have asked for Wi-Fi facilities and the use of the conference room inside the jail. Roy has been in jail since the last five months, over the group's failure to repay lakhs...
16:43
The centre today rushed around 300 personnel of the NDRF to help rescue people who are trapped following a landslide in Pune. Nearly 80 personnel of the National Disaster Response Force have already reached landslide affected Ambegaon and joined in the rescue operations, while 220 more are on...
16:31
Train services between Mumbai and Nashik disrupted due to boulder fall and overhead wire breakage between Kasara and Igatpuri. The Puri-LTT Express has just left Nashik; running two hours behind schedule.
16:16
The Calcutta High Court orders a stay in the TMC MP Tapas Pal case. No FIR to be lodged as of now.
16:05
Maya Kodnani, Gujarat's former minister for Woman and Child Development, has been granted bail. Kodani had been sentenced to 28 years imprisonment for leading a mob, which killed 97 people in Naroda Patiya in Ahmedabad. Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi and 29 other convicts were also given life...
15:56
Pune landslide: District Collector Saurav Rao says the administration has mobilised the rescue machinery to pull out those trapped. Exact number of casualties is not known as we are moving slowly to ensure that those trapped are removed safely.The Indian Express reports that about 30 ambulances...
15:48
Singapore is testing whether mass surveillance and big data can not only protect national security, but actually engineer a more harmonious society. Read
15:43
Pune landslide: Maharashtra CM is expected to reach Ambegaon in Pune where the landslide has occurred. Reports say that incessant rains have disrupted long-distance train schedules as well. There are reports of a landslide on the railway track in Igatpuri which has affected Mumbai-bound trains,...
15:23
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today filed a criminal defamation case against DMK Treasurer and party's floor leader in the state assembly, M.K. Stalin, for allegedly raising slogans against her and Speaker outside the Assembly.
15:22
The union government has served eviction notices to former UPA ministers -- Shashi Tharoor, Kapil Sibal, Farooq Abdullah and Sachin Pilot.Sixteen former ministers of the UPA government have got eviction notices for Government bungalows, Minister of Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu told the Lak...
15:04
JUST IN: Evacuation of Indians likely to begin tomorrow from Tripoli, says Kerala CM.
15:03
A five-member delegation from the BJP is in riot-hit Saharanpur, on a fact-finding mission. Suresh Rana, who is part of the team says, the state govt (Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party govt) has failed completely, rioting went on for hours but no action was taken. Three people were killed and 24...
14:56
The Olympic champion Usain Bolt has remarked that the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games are a bit shit', according to reports. Bolt was apparently waiting in the rain for his car to arrive after briefly leaving the athletes' village when he made the passing remark. Asked if he was having fun in...
14:33
In Parliament today, several members shared their outrage over something they simply can't stomach - stale food in the canteen.The matter was raised in the Rajya Sabha as a point of order by Janata Dal United member KC Tyagi, who said Samajwadi members Ramgopal Yadav and Jaya...
14:24
Weeks after his minister kicked up a row with his comment that bikinis should be banned, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar today said the government's policy on dress code at beaches remains unchanged and that any moral policing in the tourist destination would not be tolerated. There is no...
14:18
Pune landslide: At least seven NDRF teams have been sent to the spot and rescue ops have begun.
14:00
While the Pune district collector has put the toll in the landslide as five dead, Sandeep Rathore, IG, NDRF, says he has no reports of any casualties or injuries yet. He confirmed that two teams were sent to the spot and rescue ops would begin shortly.
13:55
A local court has sentenced Palanisamy, owner and founder of the Kumbakonam school to 10 years in jail. The quantum of punishment for the nine others convicted today, for the devastating fire that charred to death 94 school children, will be announced shortly. Principal District and Sessions...
13:46
Updates at this hour...-- 2004 Kumbakonam school fire tragedy: School founder sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.-- SC asks Supertech to refund money to Noida twin towers flat owners.
13:44
The district collector feels that other villages near Ambegaon may also be affected in the landslide.
13:41
The NDRF says rescue ops at Ambegaon are being hampered by the incessant rain and the remote location of the village. Two teams comprising 100 people are likely to reach the spot any time now.
13:37
Pune district collector says five people are believed to have been killed in the landslide at Ambe village. Two teams of NDRF are reaching the spot. Pic: The landslide in Ambe village in Ambegaon Taluka of Pune
13:23
Pune landslide: Early reports yet, but locals say an entire hillside came crashing down due to heavy rain. At least 150 people believed to be trapped. Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan's office confirmed the incident and tweeted, Landslide in Malin Village in Ambegaon tq Dist Pune. Ambulances,...
13:09
Curfew was today relaxed for five hours in the violence-hit city of Saharanpur as the situation was gradually returning to normal. Keeping in view the peaceful situation, curfew has been relaxed for five hours today. If the situation remains stable, then we will relax curfew in the entire...
13:06
Casualties feared as many trapped in a landslide at a village in Ambegaon taluka of Maharashtra's Pune district, says the police.
12:48
Communication from Ambe village in Pune is limited since there is no cell phone connectivity. Local people are already at the spot to rescue those trapped. The nearest medical facility is believed to be 15 km away.
12:40
Twenty-four hour rain in Maharashtra has left 150 people trapped in a village in Pune. Early reports, quoting the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), says a landslide caused by heavy rains has left 40 houses buried in debris. Two teams of NDRF comprising 100 people are on their way....
12:33
The state, and individual schools, are not doing enough to protect children from physical abuse. The recent gruesome incidents in which three students were brutally thrashed by the principal of a school in Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh, and equally despicable conduct by authorities elsewhere, are...
12:31
Haryana CM, BS Hooda, announces a cash award of Rs 1 crore to CWG gold medal winners, Rs 50 lakh to silver medal winners and Rs 25 lakh to bronze winners from Haryana.
12:17
The girl's mother has filed the complaint. The incident was reported on July 21.
12:10
And the horrors continue. A seven-year-old girl has been allegedly raped in a Bangalore school. A school staffer's son has been held and a complaint has been registered. Details awaited. And in a fresh twist to the rape of the 6-year-old, also in Bangalore, the police has decided to let off...
12:04
Prime Minister Narendra Modi increasingly seems to be trapped in his own echo chamber. His government is fast confusing the trees for the forest and ignoring the sense of restlessness brewing outside its hallowed circles. There have been, no doubt, some interesting administrative decisions...
11:53
If Sushma Swaraj believed that television images beamed to Gulf countries of the external affairs minister seated next to Najma Heptullah during the Rajya Sabha debate on the Gaza violence would make up for the perception among Indians, from Oman to Saudi Arabia and beyond, that the Narendra Modi...
11:44
Meanwhile, the Lok Sabha has been adjourned till noon after uproar over alleged police action against Marathi-speaking people in Belgaum in Karnataka.
11:43
The District and Sessions Court has delivered the final verdict in the 2004 Kumbakonam accident where 94 children were burnt alive in their school. While the sentencing will be awarded later today, the court has convicted 10, including the school owner, head mistress and principal, while 10...
11:40
The BJP government on Wednesday denied media reports about snooping on former BJP chief and Union Home Minister Nitin Gadkari and said no bugging devices were found from the latter's residence as the Opposition pressed for a discussion on the issue.Making a statement in the Rajya Sabha, Union...
11:21
Italy's Finmeccanica has reached an agreement with prosecutors to settle legal proceedings over a high-profile helicopter contract between one of its units and India, adding this did not equal an acknowledgment of any wrongdoing.Sources in India said the latest developments in Italy will not...
10:42
After throwing enough indications of their coming together in past, the three major political parties in Bihar -- Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Janata Dal and Congress -- have formally sealed an alliance to contest the upcoming Assembly by-elections in the state. Reports on Wednesday said...
09:49
A Thanjavur district court will on Wednesday deliver its verdict in the Kumbakonam school fire tragedy case, which claimed the lives of 94 school children and injured 18 others nearly a decade ago. the tragedy occurred on July 16, 2004, when a fire broke out in the school's kitchen, which...
08:57
West Bengal's Trinamool Congress government will on Wednesday appeal against a Calcutta High Court order directing a CID probe into the rape and violence remarks by party MP Tapas Paul. Paul has already tendered a public apology and we feel initiating criminal proceeding against him is...
08:30
Curfew in the communal violence-hit Saharanpur will be relaxed for five hours today.Curfew will be eased from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm in the new city, Saharanpur District Magistrate Sandhya Tiwari said, adding that it will be from 2 PM to 7 PM in old city areas. On Sunday, the curfew was relaxed...
08:26
Twitter has reported that its quarterly loss widened to USD 145 million despite revenue more than doubling, but its shares soared on word of healthy user growth. Revenue at the popular one-to-many messaging service topped USD 312 million in the three months that ended June 30, with the...
08:25
The mother of a Mexican teen who was shot to death by a US Border Patrol agent nearly two years ago has sued the agency, saying her son was walking home after playing basketball with his girlfriend and friends when he was hit in the back by 10 bullets. Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, 16, was...
08:25
The last surviving member of the US crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died. Theodore VanKirk died Monday of natural causes at the retirement home where he lived in Georgia, his son Tom VanKirk said. He was 93. VanKirk was the navigator of the Enola Gay, a B-29...
08:24
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