23:33
The special MCOCA court in Mumbai today allowed the state Anti Terrorism Squad to arrest Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal in Pune's German Bakery blast case.The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court has allowed the ATS to take Bhatkal to Pune; he will be procedurally...
23:28
The Election Commission has directed covering the pictures of leaves, which resembled the Two Leaves symbol of ruling AIADMK, on small buses plying in the city, but ruled that there was no need to interfere with the similar symbol at the entrance of the MGR Memorial.This has been conveyed in a...
23:02
The former royal editor of Rupert Murdoch's now defunct tabloid 'News of the World' has told a UK court that Princess Diana had given him a book of royal contact details.Clive Goodman said he received the book in 1992, telling the Old Bailey court in London that the late princess wanted me to...
23:00
Delhi Election Commission will keep a tab on activities by political parties ahead of the festive season, for any violations of the Model Code of Conduct.No political parties can use a festival or a religious occasion to further their political interest or as a means of campaign.In such occasion...
21:17
There was no inconsistency in the three dying declarations of the December 16 gangrape victim, the Delhi High Court on Thursday said while sending four convicts in the case to the gallows.The court said the convicts failed to bring anything on record to prove that the victim was tutored to...
20:42
A suicide bomber was today gunned down close to the Indian Consulate complex in Afghanistan's Kandahar province before he could detonate explosives. Sources in Kabul said the bomber was shot dead by Afghan security forces around 1:30 PM after he managed to gain access to the street housing...
20:40
Air India has unconditionally taken back 13 of the 17 cabin crew members it had sacked recently for indiscipline and defying flight duty time limitation, allegedly following pressure from a section of the employee unions, AI sources said today. A decision to revoke their termination was...
19:51
Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was today brought to the national capital from the Kashmir Valley after complaint of chest pain. Geelani, 84, arrived here this afternoon and was taken to Medanta hospital in Gurgaon, a part of national capital region, where he was attended by...
19:10
Congress names candidates for 71 seats in second list.Rita Bahuguna to contest from Lucknow, Raj Babbar from Ghaziabad
19:00
A German court has sentenced the president of European football champions Bayern Munich to three years and six months in jail for tax evasion. Uli Hoeness admitted defrauding German tax authorities of millions of euros.The former World Cup-winning German international footballer had kept the...
18:56
Our sources tell us that finance minister P Chidambaram, if elected to the Rajya Sabha, could be the Leader of the Opposition in the house. Right now, BJP senior leader, Arun Jaitley holds the post. The other contender for the post is Digvijaya Singh. But senior Congress leaders speculate...
18:42
In a press conference, Malaysia's defense minister and a Malaysia Airlines chief executive played down or dismissed a series of leads that had launched a frenzied speculation about the plane's fate. In what officials here describe as an unprecedented aviation mystery, it remains unknown...
18:37
The prestigious Pataliputra Lok Sabha seat will witness a contest between BJP's Ram Kripal Yadav, the long-time confidante of Lalu Yadav who recently quit RJD and joined the saffron front, and Lalu's eldest daughter Misa Bharti. M I Khan reports from Patna.
18:33
The makers of the yet-to-be released film 'Rahasya' today informed the Bombay High Court that a private screening of the film would be arranged for one relative of Noida's doctor-couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar convicted of murdering their daughter Aarushi in 2008.The Talwars, serving life...
18:25
Congress leader Manish Tewari says he will contest from Ludhiana, but wanted to contest from Chandigarh.
18:23
Why Dalit radicals don't want Arundhati Roy to write about Ambedkar. Read
18:19
And more trouble for Kejriwal. The AAP chief's convoy hit a two-wheeler in Nagpur. Kejriwal is in Nagpur todayJust last month, a 33-year-old biker was injured when a car from Kejriwal's convoy (he was still Delhi Chief Minister then) hit him. Kejriwal, who is unwell, has cancelled all his...
18:05
Oscar Pistorius threw up in court again after a picture of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp's blood-covered body was accidentally shown to the court at his murder trial in Pretoria. Read
17:58
The case against Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat indicted in the U.S. for alleged visa fraud, hung not on the merits of the case against her, but on what kind of immunity she held from prosecution and when she held it. Read
17:50
BJP to field Pramod Mahajan's daughter Poonam Mahajan against Congress' Priya Dutt from Mumbai North Central constituency.
17:48
On Twitter: Kejriwal : I waved at Modi ji but he didn't wave back. There is no Modi Wave.
17:42
The captain of a missing Malaysian jet is said to be an engineering buff who assembled his own flight simulator, while friends of the co-pilot are defending his reputation after one report portrayed him as a cockpit Casanova. Read
17:40
Chinese satellite images that were said to show debris from a missing Malaysian airliner were released by mistake, Malaysia's transport minister says. Hishammuddin Hussein also denied a US report that the Boeing 777 might have flown for hours after contact with air traffic control was lost. Read
17:24
For the first time ever, the BJP's headquarters for a Lok Sabha election is outside New Delhi. Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt's fascinating new column where she reveals the ground realities in the Battle for India. Read
16:58
The Mumbai police has filed an FIR against Arvind Kejriwal and AAP workers under Section 188 of the IPC for unlawful assembly and failing to obey public servants.The FIR comes after chaos at Churchgate and Andheri stations when two metal detectors fell to the ground as the crowd surged blindly....
16:43
And so it begins, a woman travelling in a local train in Mumbai has injured her eye when she was hit with a water balloon.
16:39
Two years after actor Saif Ali Khan allegedly assaulted a South-Africa based businessman and his father-in-law at a Colaba hotel, a local court today framed charges against Saif and his two friends. The court today framed charges against Khan and his two friends - Shakeel Ladak and Bilal Amrohi -...
16:34
Another time, another place: A Congress poster during the 1952 general elections.
16:33
Arvind Kejriwal blames the media for the ills (at least some of the ills) that plague AAP. Speaking about the chaos at Churchgate station in Mumbai yesterday, Kejriwal said the media was responsible, and not AAP workers. He said a section of the media was asked to project Narendra Modi and run...
16:14
Just in: The Supreme Court has adjourned the hearing in the Subrata Roy case till March 25. Which means the Sahara chief stays in jail till at least March 25, which is when the next hearing will be. The court has said Roy will have to stay in jail indefinitely till Sahara gives an acceptable...
16:05
Gul Panag has been formally announced as the AAP candidate from Chandigarh. Meanwhile, there's been a heated exchange between the media and AAP members at the presser in Chandigarh. The ticket was earlier given to Savita Bhatti, the late Jaspal Bhatti's wife.
15:58
Narendrum Modum supremus chefum ... Superb and utterly mad piece on Nostradamus's 'new' prediction. Read
15:51
Gorkha Janamukti Morcha today decided to back senior BJP leader S S Ahluwalia for the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal.
15:39
Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who recently returned to the party fold after he had to quit the post in the wake of corruption charges, is likely to bag a ticket for his confidante G S Basavaraj from Tumkur seat. Basavaraj is the sitting MP from Tumkur.
15:38
If you're in London and think PG Wodehouse was the greatest writer of his time, check this out.
15:26
In other news: If you use WhatsApp on an Android phone, you should be careful about what you talk about or share on the instant messaging app. Using a few scripts and a rogue app, anyone can peer into your chat logs and see what you talk about with your friends. Read
15:23
Read: What the juvenile convict in the Delhi gang rape.
15:20
Defence laywer AP Singh says they will appeal in the Supreme Court. The High Court did not show any leniency on the convicts and has upheld the order of the Saket fast-track court.
15:12
The Delhi High Court has upheld the death penalty handed out to the four men convicted in the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman that shocked the country in 2012.A trial court in Delhi handed down the death penalty to the men in September. It found them guilty of gang-rape, murder,...
15:06
Think hyperbole rhymes with Super Bowl? Don't worry, it could be the start of something beautiful. Read
15:00
Shiv Sena candidate Rahul Narvekar today withdrew from the biennial Legislative Council elections in Maharashtra, paving way for the rest of the candidates to be elected unopposed. Narvekar visited the election office at Vidhan Bhavan and gave the letter of withdrawal of his candidature.
14:59
The killing of 15 Central and State police officers in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday is just the latest in the string of hideous losses India's anti-Maoist counter-insurgency has suffered at regular intervals. Read
14:57
Sedition is an act against the security of the country. How does clapping for the Pakistani cricket team threaten security or even the interests of the Indian state? When did patriotism insist on uniforms or uniformity? Read
14:42
In a shot in the arm for 31-year-old Maragatham Kumaravel, the AIADMK nominee for the Kancheepuram reserved Lok Sabha constituency, over 200 local pastors in the temple town on Wednesday extended their support to her candidature. Read
14:40
Nitin Gokhale tweets: Finally! Air Marshal AK Roy, C-in-C ANC is designated Overall Force Commander. He will coordinate the search for MH 370 with other countries.Search to begin in area east of Campbell Bay (about 160-170km) on the approach to Mallaca Straits. 2 ships launched. Dorniers being...
14:37
BJP's central election committee, which is being held right now, has cleared the entry of B Sriramulu, former aide of Bellary's mining baron Janardhan Reddy, despite objections of senior leader Sushma Swaraj, keeping in mind his political utility and that he does not face serious charges in...
14:28
There will be no respite from Maoist attacks such as the one in Chhattisgarh as the government has lost many opportunities to strike at the heart of the insurgency. Read
14:21
The tussle between the AIADMK and the DMK in a record 35 constituencies has made the current round of Lok Sabha polls a unique one. But the possible emergence of a strong BJP-led third front and several other players going it alone may throw up a serious challenge to the State's two principal...
14:16
Suspended DMK leader MK Alagiri met Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today. While Alagiri termed the meet a courtesy call, sources tell us that they discussed political developments in Tamil Nadu. The PM also enquired about M Karunanidhi's health.Alagiri mentioned the sudden breakaway of the DMK...
14:08
The DMK's alliance with national parties in the past helped in bringing many projects to Tamil Nadu. Read
13:34
A Hindu right wing organisation has sought ban on Bollywood movie 'Total Siyapaa' for its anti-national content. Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) in their representation to the Central Board of Film Certification has demanded cancellation of the film's censor certificate, which hit theatres...
13:27
The Danish foreign minister is an aam admi. See
13:21
The guardian angel of the worlds largest democratic exercise, the Election Commission, has announced the schedule of the general elections. Along with a meteoric rise in the number of voters vis--vis 2009, there is a massive upsurge in the number of prospective voters who live their lives on the...
13:08
Putting up a brave face after a hard-hitting attack by its ally Shiv Sena, BJP today downplayed it as friendly advice and talked of long- standing committment between the two parties as Sena slammed it for creating a trust deficit by hobnobbing with Raj Thackeray. I read the article (in Saamana)....
12:53
The NDA has listed its seat share in Tamil Nadu with the following alliance partners. The Vijaykanth-led DMDK which announced its alliance with the BJP this week will contest seats in:ThiruvallurNorth...
12:38
Arvind Kejriwal tweets: TV channels pe chal raha hai - kejriwal ne kaha ki modi aur mayawati ke beech main modi ko prefer karunga. I never ever said that... why r some tv channels soooo desperate for a pro-modi. Complete fiction being planted in favor of modi. Aise to Modi ko vote nahi milne wale.
12:31
China's Premier Li Keqiang has pledged to continue search efforts for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight as long as there is a glimmer of hope.
12:27
Malaysia Airlines said today it would no longer use the flight codes MH370 and MH371 as a mark of respect to the 239 people on board its missing Beijing-bound passenger jet. The Kuala Lumpur-Beijing service -- formerly MH370 -- will now take on the code MH318, while the return route will switch...
12:23
Why wealthy Indian maharajas don't make it to billionaires' list. Read
12:21
The Delhi High Court will on Thursday pronounce its verdict on confirming the death sentence and appeals of four convicted in December 16 gang-rape case. A division bench of Justice Reva Khetrapal and Justice Pratibha Rani will pronounce the verdict in the afternoon.
12:11
The Congress may not be confident of forming the next government but could have owned its own IPL team had the plan to rope in several cricketers for election fructified. Ironically, it was the real IPL that nipped the purported plan in the bud ' and perhaps helped the players steer...
12:09
The BJP today faced another scathing attack from its oldest partner, the Shiv Sena, which has come out with an editorial tearing into its handling of alliances.The BJP appears to be doing deals with new parties while keeping existing allies in the dark, said Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray in his...
12:01
Uddhav said that the BJP is tying up with one regional party and carrying out backdoor deals with another. Read
11:57
The scale of the search for Flight MH370. A fantastic graphic on the Washington Post. See
11:47
Bleeding profusely from bullet wounds as his colleagues lay dead or badly injured, Manilal Thakur did what he thought was best. I stayed calm and pretended to be dead,' Thakur, one of the two survivors of the Maoist ambush in the Jeeram valley area of Sukma district in the Bastar region,...
11:43
The Central Reserve Police Force and the Chhattisgarh Police ignored their own intelligence services' pinpoint warnings that Maoist insurgents were preparing an ambush along the road where 15 police personnel were killed on Tuesday, highly placed government sources told The Hindu. Read...
11:36
C Narasimhan, a former Tamil Maanila Congress MP, joined the BJP in Chennai today. He has sought a Lok Sabha seat from the BJP in the Dharmapuri Parliamentary Constituency.
11:33
Incidentally, Kejriwal has cancelled his road show in Vidarabha today, saying he is unwell. As per reports, he will go ahead with the fund-raiser event at Nagpur this evening. Each person seeking to attend the dinner with Kejriwal at a luxury hotel in the city will have to shell out Rs 10,000....
11:25
If given the choice between Narendra Modi and Mayawati for Prime Minister, whom would Arvind Kejriwal favour?If you hold a gun to my head, I will choose Modi, the Aam Aadmi Party chief was quoted as saying soon after meeting a group of fund managers and stock brokers in Mumbai on Wednesday. The...
11:21
One of the world's most perplexing aviation mysteries is casting a harsh spotlight on Malaysia's government, as a leadership unused to heavy scrutiny comes under intense international criticism for a litany of confusing messages and a perceived lack of transparency. Five days after Malaysia...
11:17
Sambalpur police today destroyed a Maoist camp following an encounter with the rebels in the Sukhakani-Barhahad forest of the district. Besides, the security forces intensified combing on the Malkangiri-Chhattisgarh border to thwart infiltration attempts by the rebels from the...
11:10
Anna Hazare lost the battle against Arvind Kejriwal today but Mamata Banerjee was left standing alone on the burning deck in Delhi. Anna cited a last-minute chest congestion' to avoid the ignominy of facing a thin crowd on the Ramlila Maidan, the very same theatre he had lorded over...
11:08
US Attorney Preet Bharara's office had argued that Khobragade, 39, was not immune from her December 12 arrest on charges of visa fraud and making false statements about the visa application of her domestic help Sangeeta Richard. Khobragade's arrest on visa fraud charges had triggered a row...
11:01
India today termed as good as far as it goes the dismissal of visa fraud charges by a US court against senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade, whose arrest and strip-search had triggered a diplomatic row between the two countries. We have seen the judgement related to the indictment of January 9. It...
10:55
US investigators suspect that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 stayed in the air for about four hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location,...
09:25
Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called for reoccupation of the Gaza Strip, following a heavy Palestinian rocket fire into the Jewish state. He said Israel would have no choice but to reoccupy Gaza, from which it withdrew all troops...
09:24
A 41-year-old Indian man in Australia today pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting women on trains after offering to read their palms. Ajay Chopra pleaded guilty to assaulting three women and attempting to assault two others on V/Line trains as they...
09:12
A Chinese satellite has reportedly located the 'crash site' of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing shortly after taking off from Beijing on Saturday morning.The satellite, which was looking for remnants of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, found three suspected floating objects,...
09:04
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has some serious issues with the Election Commission.The senior Congress leader, while speaking in an event in London, tore into the EC, saying the diktats issued by it ensured that a political party would lose, not win, the elections.You should do and...
08:57
Police today arrested three more persons accused of molesting and almost stripping an18-year-old girl on a street in suburban Kandivali (West) inbroad daylight, taking the total number of arrested so far to six.The three accused nabbed today were Habib,19, and twominors, the police said.The...
07:01
Three months after she was arrested and charged with visa fraud before being freed on a bail bond, Indian diplomat Dr Devyani Khobragade's motion to dismiss the United States government's indictment on the ground of her diplomatic immunity was granted on Wednesday, March 12, by a federal judge in...
00:02
Annoyed over conflicting reports about the missing plane, China tonight asked Malaysia to verify rumours and share all information about the flight MH370 after official admission that it may have turned back and disappeared over the Straits of Malacca.We have send requests to the Malaysian...
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