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A car carrying AAP leader Manish Sisodia was attacked by unidentified men on Himmatnagar highway in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat today, the party alleged and claimed that the attackers were BJP workers. Some unidentified men threw stones at Manish Sisodia's car on...
22:22
The AAP today accused the BJP of trying to intimidate its workers and requested the Election Commission to initiate a probe into the violent clashes which took place between its members and supporters of the saffron outfit.It seems to hint at a concerted attempt by the BJP to attack and...
22:01
Former BJP national president Nitin Gadkari today defended his meeting with MNS chief Raj Thackeray in Mumbai, saying it was aimed at preventing the splitting of anti-Congress-NCP votes in the state. I met Raj Thackeray as an NDA member and not as a...
21:59
Former MP Jagdish Tytler, who on March 4 filed his nomination for the candidature for the Northeast Lok Sabha seat in Delhi under the primaries project, today withdrew his nomination. After meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Tytler decided...
21:50
Uttar Pradesh police have dropped charges of sedition against the Kashmiri students who had cheered for the Pakistan cricket team during a match against India on Sunday, according to media reports.The students of a private university in Meerut had been expelled and booked under sedition charges...
21:23
AAP leader Parveen Amanullah and six party workers were arrested today for allegedly violating the poll code of conduct, police said. Amanullah, who quit the Nitish Kumar government to join the AAP recently, is tipped to contest from the Patliputra...
21:22
Rebel Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman, who was denied a ticket for the Lok Sabha polls by the party, today said he was open to contesting the election from his Jadavpur seat as an independent. I am not ruling out the possibility of fighting the Lok...
21:20
The final countdown to the Lok Sabha polls has thrown up some interesting permutations and combinations.How many seats can the ruling Congress, the opposition BJP and the Third Front expect to win?Click here to read more
20:17
US President Barack Obama today imposed sanctions and placed restrictions on individuals supporting the Russian incursion and activities undermining democratic processes in crisis-hit Ukraine. In a communication to the Congress, Obama said the move does...
20:15
Goa's Congress legislator Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco praised Aam Aadmi party leader Arvind Kejriwal for daring to take on the high and mighty head on. I appreciate Kejriwal. He took Ambani head on. He had the guts to take Ambanis head on, Lourenco said,...
20:13
The in-camera trial in the sexual assault case against controversial self-styled godman Asaram Bapu will begin at the District and Sessions Court in Jaipur on March 19, with the victim deposing on March 25. We submitted the list of 58 witnesses in...
20:11
Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi today took on the RSS, blaming the right-wing outfit for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. He also ridiculed senior BJP leaders for claiming credit for...
19:22
For the first time in Pakistan's history, widows hailing from the minority Hindu community will get financial assistance from a provincial government.Special Advisor to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister for Minority Affairs, Sardar Sooran Singh said the initiative would provide relief to the...
19:19
According to reports just coming in, the CPI-M and the CPI have called off their alliance with the AIADMK in Tamil Nadu for the Lok Sabha polls. Sources said that the Left parties will contest the elections on their ownMore details are awaited.
18:57
An American anchor for the Moscow-funded Russia Today television network resigned live on air in protest at the deployment of Russia-backed forces in Ukraine.Liz Wahl said during a broadcast on Wednesday that she could no longer work for the network, which she accused...
18:39
Just in: Our sources tell us that DMDK is in talks with the BJP. The two parties are set to meet at 8 pm today. DMDK chief, actor-politician Vijayakanth may come to Delhi on March 8 to meet Narendra Modi, LK Advani and Rajnath Singh. Last month, the BJP had refused Vijaykant an appointment with...
18:20
Against the backdrop of recent submarine mishap, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today suggested that the Defence Ministry is not spending the funds wisely enough and contended the maintenance of the military assets was being neglected. He insisted that the Finance Ministry provides a lot of...
18:00
Pakistan today termed the slapping of sedition charges on nearly 60 Kashmiri students in Uttar Pradesh for cheering the Pakistani cricket team as very unfortunate and said its heart and educational institutions are always open if they wanted to pursue their studies here. Foreign Office...
17:32
It's confirmed. Filmmaker Prakash Jha will contest the Lok Sabha polls from Bettiah, Bihar on a JD-U ticket. Jha addressed a public meeting at Bettiah today along with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during the Sankalp Yatra. A JD-U leader close to Nitish Kumar said that Jha's name had been...
17:19
Madhuri Dixit-Nene tweets: Show us the power of the people: come dressed in pink!
17:14
Union Minister Jairam Ramesh has six days of intense touring of Seemandhra ahead of him. That's on the back of a six day tour. Ramesh feels it's necessary to visit Seemandhra again because the bifurcation issue is still very hot and many activists and cadres have been leaving the Congress. Ramesh...
16:55
Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy, the former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh has chosen the slippers (chappals) as the election symbol of his new political party, which he has christened Jai Samakyandhra Praja Samiti (JSPS).The Convenor of the party is Undavalli Aruna Kumar, a former Congress MP. The...
16:40
Just in: The Delhi HC lifts stay order, allows nationwide release of Madhuri Dixit-starrer 'Gulaab Gang' tomorrow.A day after issuing a stay order on the release of the Juhi Chawla and Madhuri Dixit starrer Gulab Gang, the Delhi High Court agreed to hear the appeal of the film's producers, who...
16:26
AAP leaders Shazia Ilmi and Ashutosh have been taken to the Mandir Marg police station for questioning. Also read: Kejriwal's mismatched socks and the 2014 general elections
16:22
Congress leader Purandeswari, the daughter of famous actor-politician NTR, says she wants to join the BJP, and will formally approach the party tomorrow.
16:20
The decline of Bronze-Age civilizations in Egypt, Greece and Mesopotamia has been attributed to a long-term drought that began around 2000 BC.Now, paleoclimatologists propose that a similar fate was followed by the enigmatic Indus Valley Civilization, at about the same time. Based on isotope data...
16:01
When the Supreme Court castigated Sahara Parivar chief Subarata Roy, and sent him to judicial custody on Tuesday, one man must have finally permitted himself a smile K. M. Abraham, former board member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the man who investigated the Sahara...
15:58
Oscar Pistorius on trial: Explore each side's case in this 3D rendition. Watch
15:52
AAP's s tactics harm the very people it represents. Read
15:48
The 'slow-motion decision' by Jayalaiithaa to dump her alliance with the Left parties has been utterly fascinating to watch. The veteran Left leaders could see her reaching out for her abacus to do fresh calculation and were in a state of animated suspense. Shrewd calculation has gone into...
15:43
Just in: All 14 AAP workers who were arrested for protesting outside the BJP office yesterday have been given bail. The Delhi police are now outside Shazia Ilmi's residence. The AAP candidate says she did not resort to any violence yesterday. Ashutosh has told AAP volunteers not to resort to any...
15:38
A local court in Goa today fixed the hearing on four different applications filed by Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal, accused of sexually assaulting a junior woman colleague, and the Crime Branch to March 21. The Fast Track Court ordered that it will hear the three applications by Tejpal and...
15:30
AAP Lok Sabha candidate Ashutosh has been taken away for questioning. The party got a notice from the EC notice over clashes with the BJP last evening.
15:15
Omar Abdullah on the UP government slapping sedition charges against Kashmiri college students: Have just spoken to CM UP who has assured me he will personally look in to the matter of the Kashmiri students in Meerut.
15:08
Here's what Subrata Roy, who comes with the suffix Sahara after his surname has been doing in Tihar jail. Sahara Chief Roy spent the day meeting his son, brother and a top company official besides reading newspapers in his cell. Roy who was brought to Tihar jail last evening and has been kept in...
14:58
Reports of more clashes between AAP and BJP in Gandhidham.The Delhi police submits its report to the Election Commission. The police say it was AAP protestors who began throwing stones at the BJP office. Delhi police have reached Shazia Ilmi's residence. The police have asked her to be...
14:43
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today made his Prime Ministerial ambitions known, saying he is more qualified and experienced than those roaming around for the top job. I am more qualified than those roaming around for the post of Prime Ministership, Kumar said in his 'sankalp yatra' held here...
14:32
The CEO of a virtual currency exchange has been found dead in her home in Singapore. A police spokesman said today there was no suspicion of foul play in the death of 28-year-old Autumn Radtke. The spokesman says Radtke, an American, was found dead in her home on Feb. 26. Her company, First Meta,...
14:00
Siddharth Varadarajan tweets: Four thugs recently beat up the caretaker of my flat in Delhi. The incident took place near our home, with the thugs saying, 'Tell your sahib to watch what he says on TV.' They also issued a threat to my wife, Prof Nandini Sundar, about her Chhattisgarh case. We...
13:43
If it is election time, leave nothing to chance, not even the location of a swimming pool.For the uninitiated, a pool to the south of one's house is inauspicious, say Vastu experts. That's the reason RJD supremo Lalu Prasad is filling up the existing swimming pool at his house.The pool was built...
13:40
Kanchan Gupta tweets: Charging Kashmiri students with sedition is debatable. But how does it exactly alienate adults who identify themselves with Pakistan?
13:27
Omar Abdullah tweets: Sedition charge against Kashmiri students is an unacceptably harsh punishment that will ruin their futures & will further alienate them. I will talk to UP CM ASAP & intervene on behalf of these misguided students to have this charge of sedition removed. I believe the...
13:05
So, the group of Kashmiri students of a private university in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, who were suspended on Tuesday, have now been booked for sedition after they cheered Pakistan during a cricket match.Sixty-seven students of the Swami Vivekanand Subharti University were suspended for celebrating...
12:55
The troubles in Ukraine are already reverberating in India, disrupting the supplies of a crucial oil to Asia's third largest economy -- sunflower oil.While Indian consumers so far haven't been exposed to any direct impact from the crisis in Ukraine, commodities traders said that could...
12:46
Meanwhile, Delhi police have left for AAP's Model Town office to possibly arrest Ashutosh. AAP's spokesman and former journalist Ashutosh has been named in the FIR filed by Delhi Police in relation to the clashes that took place between the AAP and BJP outside the latter's headquarters in the...
12:35
Sushma Swaraj, a senior leader of the BJP, has tweeted her opposition to the possibility that controversial Haryana politician Venod Sharma may have found an entry point into the coalition led by her party.I am against this, Swaraj tweeted this morning, about reports that Sharma, who quit the...
12:20
A Nato airstrike has killed five Afghan soldiers and wounded eight in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan officials say. The airstrike took place in the early hours of Thursday in Charkh district of Logar province, a defence ministry spokesman said. Nato said it was investigating the reported incident. Read
12:05
The numbers say it all. With about 81.45 crore people eligible to vote, India will witness a nine-phase election over a 36-day span covering 9,30,000 polling stations that will press into service 18,78,306 electronic ballot units the largest and lengthiest democratic exercise in the world. Read
11:59
KCR gambles to hit the EVM jackpot in Telangana. Read
11:57
Ramesh Srivats on Twitter:Ashutosh. Used to be a journalist. Now, runs to jail. Anagram.
11:53
For decades, India's business elite dreamed of an alpha-male dictator who would also be a university graduate and generally a wonderful person, while the intellectual elite waited for the revolution that would set everything right.The poor ensured that India remained a democracy by turning...
11:48
AAP leader Manish Sisodia today accused Gujarat Police of spying on him, a day after party leader Arvind Kejriwal was briefly detained in Gujarat while on a tour to inspect development in Narendra Modi's state.Sisodia, who along with Kejriwal is on a four-day visit to Gujarat, alleged that...
11:34
The Gujarat police have formed two teams to nab the accused, who attacked Arvind Kejriwal's car yesterday. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader is on a four-day visit to verify development claims by Chief Minister Narendra Modi.The windshield of the car carrying Kejriwal was damaged when BJP workers...
11:29
Kiran Kumar Reddy has in fact decided to float a new party. He will make an announcement at 4 pm today. With him will be 12 other leaders from the Congress including 'pepper spray' MP Lagadapaty Rajgopal. Reddy who had earlier indicated that he would NOT float a new party has now changed his mind...
11:19
Producers of Madhuri Dixit-starrer Gulaab Gang move a larger bench of Delhi HC against order staying release of the movie. Delhi HC agrees to hear the plea during the day.Yesterday, the Delhi HC stayed the release of the film, Gulaab Gang, starring Madhuri Dixit and Juhi Chawla. The film...
11:12
Just in: Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Reddy moves SC against bifurcation of the state.
11:11
Just in: The Supreme Court has deferred the hearing on the Centre's plea against the release of the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case till March 26.
11:04
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said that reports about the involvement of many groups, including the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of India, in the Islamabad District Courts firing and bomb attack had been pouring in and the investigation was going on in this regard. Read
11:00
I've always been slightly short with people who say, 'You haven't written anything again,' as if all the nonfiction I've written is not writing,' Arundhati Roy said. ReadThat's Siddhartha Deb's interview with Roy for the NYT. Deb's riveting essay on IIPM's Arindam Chaudhuri for Caravan...
10:56
Over 25,000 students were wrongly failed in exams conducted by Mumbai University (MU) over the past year-and-a-half, according to information obtained under an RTI application. Further, the RTI reply reveals that the Mumbai University examinations department has said details of action taken...
10:49
In Lucknow, workers of the Aam Aadmi Party, armed with brooms, had clashed with lathi-wielding activists of BJP and fought pitched street battles outside the BJP office on Vidhan Sabha Marg in protest against the alleged detention of Arvind Kejriwal.
10:48
So, charges of rioting, obstructing a public servant from performing his duty and damaging public property have been slapped against 14 AAP protestors including leaders Ashutosh and Shazia Ilmi. Police had initially detained 33 people out of which 14 were arrested late last night while others...
10:31
Times NOW exclusively reports: Gurunath Meiyappan, the son-in-law of BCCI President N Srinivasan and former boss of the Chennai Super Kings, has admitted to friendly betting with Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh in the Indian Premier League. Meiyappan is expected to be interrogated by the...
09:46
Indian-origin hedge fund portfolio manager Mathew Martoma, convicted for his role in the most lucrative insider trading scheme in the history of the United States, has been stripped of his MBA degree by the prestigious Stanford business school. This is the first time the Stanford Graduate School...
09:32
NDTV reports: Arvind Kejriwal today resumed his tour of Gujarat after a day of dramatic protests and clashes that followed his brief detention yesterday, which he described as harassment on the orders of Chief Minister Narendra Modi.The Aam Aadmi Party leader has alleged that the police were...
09:01
United States President Barack Obama has called British Prime Minister David Cameroon to consult on the unfolding developments in Ukraine as both the sides have agreed that Russia's action violated Ukrainian sovereignty. During the call, Obama and Cameroon expressed their grave concern over...
08:51
Fourteen Aam Aadmi Party workers have been arrested for after clashes with the Bharatiya Janata Party yesterday. AAP spokesperson Ashutosh has been booked for rioting by the Delhi police. FIRs have been registered under sections including rioting, obstructing public and damaging property. AAP...
08:42
The doctors in Uttar Pradesh, who were protesting protesting against the alleged high-handedness of police and administration, called off their strike this morning.Their decision comes after intervention by the Allahabad high court. The HC had yesterday taken suo motu congnizance of the...
04:41
Bombings mainly targeting Shiite areas of Baghdad and attacks on security force checkpoints in and around the capital killed at least 21 people, including an Indian today, officials said. Iraq has been hit by a year-long surge in bloodshed that has reached levels not seen since 2008, driven...
01:56
A magazine named My Pope (Il mio papa) -- billed as the first weekly in the world dedicated to Pope Francis -- was launched today by Silvio Berlusconi's publishing group Mondadori.The 60-page gossip-style magazine boasts tantalizing details on the Holy Father's week and is stuffed full of...
01:54
The US Pacific commander voiced concern today over China's intentions as the Asian power announced its latest double-digit hike in defense spending. Several lawmakers questioned Adm Samuel Locklear about US ability to contend with a rising China and sustain a pivot to Asia amid growing...
01:46
Afghan president's elder brother is dropping out of the April 5 presidential race and throwing his support behind the country's former foreign minister, a campaign official said today.The official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorised to speak to the media, told The Associated...
00:27
An asteroid the size of a football field is about to make a close pass by Earth but is not expected to hit or cause any damage, NASA said. Coined 2014 DX110, the asteroid will be part of a rare class of objects that comes nearer than the moon, and will shave by at around 2100 GMT (02:30 am...
00:25
Police late Wednesday night registered an FIR in connection with clashes between supporters of Aam Aadmi Party and BJP outside the saffron party headquarters in New Delhi, which left 28 persons injured.The FIR was filed at Parliament Street police station on the charges of rioting, preventing...
00:25
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has made more sacrifices in life than Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal and it would be a good thing if she becomes the Prime Minister, social activist Anna Hazare has said.As compared to Mamata, Kejriwal has made lesser sacrifices. Despite being a...
00:25
Kejriwal says sorry, deputies target ModiLathi vs jhadu: BJP activists beat up AAP workers in LucknowCongress, RJD, NCP seal Lok Sabha poll alliance in BiharGraft case: Jagan's assets worth Rs 863 crore sealedSC holds Ansals guilty for Uphaar cinema tragedy
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