23:48
BJP president Rajnath Singh today claimed his party may win over 300 seats on its own in Lok Sabha elections in view of surging popularity of its PM nominee Narendra Modi. When I first asked BJP workers to work together to attain the magic figure of 272 seats, even the opinion polls said this...
23:19
With lead after lead failing to pan out, search and rescue officials said they will expand the search area for the Malaysia Airlines aircraft that vanished three days ago. The newly expanded search area encompasses a larger portion of the Gulf of Thailand between Malaysia and Vietnam, said...
23:16
The assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh will be held along with Lok Sabha poll on April 9, the Election Commission said today.
22:37
The Election Commission is mulling a proposal to increase the polling hours during the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in light of a jump in the cumulative number of voters in the country and the trend of bigger turnout at recent elections. According to highly-placed sources, the EC is working on an...
22:08
Unidentified armed men fired in the air as they moved into a Ukrainian naval post in Crimea on Monday in the latest confrontation since Russian military groups seized control of the Black Sea peninsula.With diplomacy at a standstill, Russia said the United States had spurned an invitation to hold...
22:03
The disappearance of a Malaysian jetliner is an unprecedented mystery, the country's civil aviation chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board. Dozens of ships and aircraft from 10 countries scoured...
21:42
Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray has called a meeting of his party office-bearers and Lok Sabha candidates here tomorrow, party sources said today. In the meeting, the Sena leader is expected to discuss the poll strategy with his party leaders following MNS president Raj Thackeray's decision...
21:12
Former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper empire, Rebekah Brooks, today justified cash payments to sources of news stories as part of the normal business. The former editor of the 'Sun' and erstwhile 'News of the World' tabloids is on trial over allegations of phone...
21:12
A Tel Aviv court today handed an Arab Israeli a 25-year prison term over the 2012 bombing of a bus during a major Israeli campaign in Gaza. Mohammed Mafarja, 19, was sentenced three months after being convicted on charges of aiding the enemy during war, attempted murder, causing an explosion...
21:08
China on Monday asked Malaysian authorities to step up search efforts and investigation into the missing Malaysia airlines flight, saying it had become a race against time.But relatives of the 151 Chinese passengers onboard said they were frustrated with all sides of the rescue effort.In a...
20:33
Former Pakistani military dictator Pervez Musharraf will not appear before a special court hearing the high treason trial against him tomorrow due to security concerns, his lawyers said today. The announcement came as a letter warning against possible attack on the 70-year-old former...
20:20
Judges are not caged parrots and courts do not work as the post office of prosecuting agency, a special court today observed while rejecting the allegation that ex-Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal had been spared purposely by CBI in the Rs 10 crore cash-for-post railway bribery case.While...
20:15
Sahara group chief Subrata Roy will have to remain in jail for some more time with the Supreme Court deferring hearing of the Rs 20,000 crore refund case that was slated for tomorrow.On the last date of hearing on March 7, the apex court had asked the Sahara group to come out with honourable...
18:47
So, former Karnataka CM Kiran Kumar Reddy has officially named his party Jai Samikyandhra Party. We were the first to tell you ... five days ago! Read
18:34
The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to take a decision on Khalistani terrorist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar's fresh mercy plea by March 27 or else it would decide on the issue of commuting his death sentence to life imprisonment on the ground of his mental condition. A bench headed by Chief...
18:17
A PIL has been filed in the Bombay High Court against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), its leader Arvind Kejriwal and members Mayank Gandhi and Anjali Damania for allegedly misusing the national flag and emblem to gain political mileage. The PIL filed by one Ram Samudre claims that the party was using the...
18:11
Just in: Malaysian aviation officials say two passengers travelling with stolen passports on flight MH370 were not Asian-looking men. It has been confirmed that a man falsely using an Italian passport and a man falsely using an Austrian passport purchased tickets at the same time, and were both...
17:56
The judge in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius on Monday banned live broadcasting and tweeting of the graphic testimony of the expert who conducted the autopsy on Reeva Steenkamp, who was fatally shot by her athlete boyfriend.As the graphic evidence was read out in court, Pistorius appeared to...
17:47
Making a jibe over the reported row in BJP over a move to field Narendra Modi from Varanasi and Rajnath Singh from Lucknow, Congress today wondered as to why Opposition party leaders were looking for a safe seat if there was a Modi wave across the country. The party also hit out at BJP over its...
17:45
After publisher, Aleph, pulled out the American author Wendy Doniger's book, 'On Hinduism', last week, they have issued a statement today saying that the book is out of stock and will be reprinted only after a panel looked at the objectionable matter in the book. The statement says the author...
17:19
Former RJD leader Ramkripal Yadav who quit the party after Lalu Prasad fielded his daughter Misa Bharti from the Patliputra seat has now decided to join the BJP. Yadav will also be contesting the Patliputra seat, who was a close confidant of Lalu and had resigned from all party posts on Saturday...
17:02
The secret of how AAP gathered 14 million phone numbers for its database. Read
16:57
Narendra Modi today sharpened his attack on Nitish Kumar, saying the JD(U) leader's arrogance and ambition to become Prime Minister drove him to split from BJP,and compared the socio-economic conditions of Muslims in Gujarat and Bihar to claim he practised true secularism. The BJP leader chose...
16:43
Two months after her death, Suchitra Sen is on poll graffiti in Bankura. In the constituency where the late actress's daughter is contesting as a Trinamul candidate, the wall writing describes Moon Moon Sen as the worthy' daughter of the mahanayika. Vote for mahanayika's worthy...
16:39
India's animals are fighting back. Across the country, attacks by cobras, elephants, tigers and other wild beasts kill an average of more than one person every hour as India's billion-plus humans increasingly collide with nature. Read more
16:37
We thought they were just cold, but now the Aam Aadmi Party is claiming the muffler worn over the head and covering the ears, as its trademark.In a list of do's and don'ts issued by the newbie political party to its novice members and campaigners, the party has authorized the wearing of Aam Aadmi...
16:34
The media honeymoon of the Aam Aadmi Party seems to be over. Even though media extensively reports the activities of the party it is now willing to put the party to a serious scrutiny as any other political party. The excessive media coverage to the party had made the AAP as the 'television...
15:59
China's official media today slammed Malaysia for its slow response in locating a passenger jet that went missing with 239 people aboard, two-thirds of them Chinese. In a hard hitting editorial, state-run Global Times blamed the Malaysian authorities for security lapses.The Malaysian side cannot...
15:50
Mahatama Gandhi's great grandson Shrikrishna Kulkarni's open letter to Rahul Gandhi in response to the Congress VP saying the RSS had killed Gandhi...Dear Rahul Gandhi,Gandhiji was my great grandfather. He was assassinated by Mr. Nathuram Godse. Many inquiry commissions have researched the case...
15:47
Facing the daunting task of going it alone in the Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu where 39 seats are up for grabs, Congress has put up a brave face with Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram saying they would field candidates in all 40 constituencies even if there is no alliance. Congress can face...
15:44
Dear Shrikrishna Kulkarni, Mahatama Gandhi wasn't your private property. Period, tweets Sanjivee.
15:43
Two Lashker-e-Toiba militants were killed and an Army officer was injured in an encounter between the two sides in Handwara area of north Kashmir's Kupwara district today. Two militants, believed to be foreigners, were killed and an army officer identified as Major Sandeep Kotwal was injured in...
15:35
Just in: One of the stolen passport holders on board the missing Malaysian aircraft has been identified. Authorities on Sunday said intelligence agencies are probing how four persons with fake identities boarded the aircraft and counter-terrorism agencies of other countries have been alerted...
15:15
Update on the missing Malaysian plane. A Vietnamese rescue helicopter has retrieved a floating yellow object from the sea and determined it was not a life raft from a missing Malaysian plane, as was earlier suspected, the country's civil aviation authority said on Monday.It has salvaged the...
15:09
Hardening his stance, rebel RJD leader Ramkripal Yadav today said he would contest the Patliputra Lok Sabha seat, from where party chief Lalu Prasad has fielded his daughter Misa Bharti.I will contest from Patliputra, Yadav, who was a close confidant of Prasad and had resigned from all party...
15:06
Narendra Modi addressing a rally at Purnea in Bihar. Taking a dig at the Third Front, Modi says the Third Front has more than three dozen PM hopefuls. Schools here hardly have computers, what is the Centre doing about it Shehzadeji? Bad governance is the reason for Bihar's doom, he said....
14:57
After years of crisis, the Catholic church may have found itself a new saviour. But can Pope Francis really make a difference? Read
14:44
Vietnam has scrambled rescue helicopters to check a yellow object floating in its waters that rescue teams suspect could be a life raft from a Malaysian plane that went missing with 239 people aboard, a minister said on Monday.New agency AFP reported that Malaysia is sending ships to investigate...
14:32
Amid reports of differences in the BJP over giving tickets to top leaders, sitting Lucknow MP Lalji Tandon today said he was ready to leave his seat for party's PM candidate Narendra Modi but appeared reluctant to extend the same favour to Rajnath Singh. Contesting elections is not the aim of my...
14:30
And Moon Moon Sen's unintentionally hilarious interview with ABP Ananda. Watch
14:21
TMC candidate from Bankura, Moon Moon Sen trills on how she plans to campaign and how it came about. Watch
14:13
One terrorist has been killed and an army officer wounded in an ongoing fierce encounter in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, reports Rediff.com's Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar. A senior police officer said troops of counter insurgency, Rashtriya Rifles and special operations group of...
14:06
Lion triplets meet dad for the first time; immediately annoy the hell out of him: See(Though, we think, the dad is spectacularly testy.)
14:00
A Chicago-bound Boeing 777 of Air India on Monday returned to Delhi six hours after taking off from IGI airport as the aircraft suffered a transponder failure just when it was about to cross Afghanistan. The flight, AI 127 with 313 passengers and 16 crew members, had flown for about three...
13:44
A tale illustrating how in Gujarat all parties will use and dump Muslims: Read
13:35
Colonel (Retd.) Devinder Sehrawat, an Army officer, a farmers' rights activist, a journalist and a politician, is another AAP candidate from South Delhi.
13:31
The third list includes 60 names, with satirist-turned politician Bhagwant Mann AAP's candidate from Sangrur in Punjab.
13:25
AAP announces its third list of candidates in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls. Ex-Tehelka journalist and Gulail.com founder Ashish Khetan will be contesting from New Delhi.
13:17
A Raja, the former telecom minister who was jailed on corruption charges, will contest the national election, said his party chief M Karunanidhi today.Also on the list of the DMK's candidates is Dayanidhi Maran, another former minister embroiled in a corruption case. Maran is being investigated...
13:15
The CBI has filed its first charge sheet in the coal blocks allocation case before a Delhi court. The CBI names Navabharat Power Pvt Ltd and its two directors, P Trivikrama Prasad and Y Harish Chandra Prasad, as accused in the charge sheet. The accused have been charge sheeted for the offence of...
12:52
Notwithstanding his suspension from the party, three DMK MPs met former Alagiri at his residence in Madurai in January. Party MPs D Napoleon, K.P.Ramalingam and J K Ritheesh met Alagiri, elder son of DMK chief M Karunanidhi, and greeted him on the eve of his birthdayin January. Bitter incidents...
12:51
Suspended DMK leader MK Alagiri is likely to launch his own party. Alagiri, who is the son of DMK chief M Karunanidhi says the decision will be made after the polls.Alagiri had recently been given a veiled warning by his father after he opposed an alliance between DMK and the DMDK, a regional...
12:36
When Central Industrial Security Force constable Roshni Halkar was posted to the Indira Gandhi International Airport here on security duties, she didn't imagine she would one day have to babysit a lost infant. But Halkar had to cuddle a two-month-old girl left behind at a cafeteria in the...
12:29
In a TV interview last week, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley admitted that the BJP had a Muslim problem.' Yes, we have it,' he said, pointing out that there was a problem both ways.' Part of the problem is that they (Muslims) have to understand us and part of the problem is...
12:26
Supreme Court sets a deadline of one year for lower courts to complete trial in cases involving MPs and MLAs.
12:17
So remarkable are the parallels that can be drawn between Arvind Kejriwal and Imran Khan, that it almost seems that they are clones of each other, says Sushant Sareen. Read
12:13
In Indian aviation, we never learn from past accidents; nor do our regulators or airlines show any interest in preventing a recurrence. Read
12:06
Malaysia's interior minister said two passengers who used stolen passports to board a Malaysia Airlines plane that went missing with 239 people aboard had Asian facial features, according to a report. Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished over waters somewhere...
12:00
The list of passengers on board the missing Malaysian plane included 154 Chinese, 38 Malaysians, 7 Indonesians, 6 Australians, 5 Indians, 4 Americans and 2 Canadians. Indians have been identified as Chetna Kolekar, 55, Swanand Kolekar, 23, Vinod Kolekar, 59, Chandrika Sharma, 51,...
11:54
After an electoral contest in Delhi in December, 2013 Assembly elections, the AAP and the Congress have a cozy relationship. The Congress Party announced an unconditional support to AAP.Its state leaders were willing to issue statements against the AAP but unwilling to strike. Read Arun Jaitley's...
11:45
Just in: A 6.9 magnitude earthquake shakes the coast of Northern California. US Geological Survey says the epicenter was 50 miles west of Eureka. There is not believed to be any threat of a tsunami, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.The quake struck late last night at 0518 GMT with...
11:41
BJP has reportedly succeeded in wooing Nawal Kishore Yadav to leave his claims over Pataliputra seat and offer it to Ramkripal. Read
11:35
There's a encounter on at Kupwara, J-K, between militants and security forces. A senior LeT commander is believed to be holed up in a building. Details awaited.
11:15
Actor-turned-politician Jaya Prada along with her political mentor and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh may join Rashtriya Lok Dal, as per the reports.Singh and Jaya were expelled from the SP for indulging in anti-party activities and denting its socialist image....
11:11
As the clock approaches 11, priest Brijendra Narayan Mishra, who is seated cross-legged, positions himself next to a small Shivling in the temple's garba griha. Mishra starts chanting mantras, but not in praise of Lord Shiva.His veneration is reserved for another 'deity -- a four-foot seated...
11:09
Bollywood actor Aamir Khan on Sunday approached the Mumbai police after an alleged hate campaign launched against him and his television show 'Satyamev Jayate' on social networking sites. Read more
11:07
After breaching 22,000 level for the first time, the benchmark BSE Sensex fell 47 points in early trade today on emergence of profit-booking by funds and retail investors tracking weak cues in other Asian markets. The 30-share barometer hit psychological 22,000 mark for the first time and moved...
10:55
A university in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, will revoke its suspension of 67 Kashmiri students for cheering for the Pakistani cricket team in a match against India.The UP government has also assured Jammu and Kashmir that the boys, in their early 20s, who had returned home, will not be...
10:50
Search and rescue planes scoured waters off the southern tip of Vietnam on Monday, searching for any trace of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner 48 hours after it vanished from radar screens with 239 people on board.On Sunday, a senior source said officials investigating the disappearance the plane...
10:03
The debris spotted by a search-and-rescue plane near Vietnam's Tho Chu island do not belong to the missing airliner, Malaysian authorities have said.They added that investigators are looking into the possibility that the missing flight could have been hijacked.A Vietnamese plane has reported...
09:40
The Union home ministry has raised concerns about telecom giant Vodafone sharing details of phone calls and emails with a British spy agency.In a letter to the department of telecommunications, the finance ministry has urged it to look into the concerns raised by the home ministry about Vodafone...
09:26
Amid mounting Republican attack on Barack Obama over Ukraine, his former defence secretary Robert Gates today asked his party colleagues to tone down their criticism and try to be supportive of the President in handling the crisis. In the middle of a...
09:24
The Delhi Chief Electoral Office has sent its report to the Election Commission of India recommending action over the alleged protest by the Aam Aadmi Party supporters outside the BJP headquarters in Delhi recently.According to the sources, Chief Electoral Officer Vijay Dev has sent his report...
09:23
Senior BJP leader L K Advani today claimed that his party would win the highest-ever number of seats in the Lok Sabha elections, pushing the Congress to its all-time low. I have seen all elections since 1951-52. And based on the experience and the...
09:06
Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today expressed confidence in the Congress securing an absolute majority in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Addressing a public meeting in Karimnagar town in Andhra Pradesh, Ramesh said the credit for forming Telangana goes...
09:05
A video showing AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal asking a TV news anchor to emphasise certain sections of his interview went viral on Youtube on Sunday night. The video, which is over a minute long, shows Kejriwal and the news anchor in a conversation after the interview. During the conversation,...
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