23:44
On March 20, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi would be travelling to Vidarbha in Maharashtra to meet families of the farmers who committed suicide. The next 'Chai pe charcha' programme would be on the issue of suicides of Indian farmers.
23:08
The Maharashtra government will equip about 166 booths in the Naxal-affected Gadchiroli district with satellite phones for smooth polling, as they lack landline or mobile phone connectivity, State Chief Secretary J S Saharia said today. Saharia, who reviewed the poll preparedness for the April 10...
22:10
NASA has joined international search operations to trace the missing Malaysian aircraft by analysing satellite data and images gathered since the plane with 239 people aboard vanished from radar screens a week ago. The world's premier space agency on Monday began examining ways it can contribute...
21:52
Miffed over the re-induction of B Sriramulu, Sushma Swaraj tweets, I want to make it absolutely clear that B Sriramulu has been admitted in the party despite my stiff opposition. The party overrode my view. Sushma objected to Sriramulu rejoining the BJP because of his proximity to mining baron...
20:30
According to the AAP media cell, a group of Congress workers attacked AAP leader Dr. Kumar Vishwas and AAP workers campaigning in the in Jagdishpur-Amethi of Uttar Pradesh. Vishwas's cavalcade was stopped allegedly by Congress workers around 6.30 pm in Jagdishpur area. AAP...
20:16
Indian soldiers who took part in World War I will be honoured by the United Kingdom through a a series of events commemorating the 100th anniversary of the conflict this year. The British High Commission along with United Service Institution of India have planned a series of events to...
20:11
A moderate intensity earthquake rocked Andaman and Nicobar Islands this evening. However, there was no immediate report of any casualty or damage to property. The 5.5 magnitude earthquake occurred at 7.08 pm, an Indian Met Department report said.
19:01
The voting time for the Lok Sabha polls has been extended to ensure increased voter participation, says the Election Commission. Voters can now exercise their franchise from 7 am to 6 pm. Polling normally starts at 8 am and ends at 5 pm. The closing time for Naxal areas will be changed, says the...
18:47
Why President Obama will find Prime Minister Modi very disconcerting. Read
18:42
The Rajasthan Election department is aiming to set a new record in voter turnout in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in the state. The department has taken up several new initiatives to achieve its target of registering over 75 per cent polling. Programmes have been planned to create awareness...
18:21
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's national ambitions today suffered a setback with anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare ruling out support to her in the Lok Sabha elections, making a U-turn on the issue. Hazare, who caused a huge embarrassment for Banerjee two days ago by skipping a...
18:11
RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, famous for celebrating Holi in rustic style at his residence, has decided not to celebrate the festival this time as the election model code of conduct is in place.I have not become mad. The model code of conduct for the elections is already in place. The EC is watching...
17:49
India began a search of hundreds of uninhabited islands on Friday in the ever-expanding search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.Colonel Harmit Singh, the spokesman for the tri-services command which is coordinating the search in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, said that a land search...
17:41
It took the West 50 years to reach the level of air safety that Asia is trying to reach in 10. The difference can be deadly. Read
17:34
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today accepted the resignation of UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekeni who has quit to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Bangalore South constituency on Congress ticket. While accepting the resignation, Singh thanked Nilekeni for his excellent leadership of...
17:31
Military radar-tracking evidence suggests a Malaysia Airlines jetliner missing for nearly a week was deliberately flown across the Malay Peninsula towards the Andaman Islands, sources familiar with the investigation told Reuters on Friday. Read
17:10
Today is the 42nd birthday of Irom Chanu Shramila, better known as the Iron Lady of Manipur. On November 2, 2000, she began a hunger strike, demanding Repeal of AFSPA, which is still ongoing. Read the 2011 Rediff story on meeting Irom Sharmila.
17:06
As he prepares to make his return to Warwickshire, four months after flying home from the Ashes, Jonathan Trott speaks openly and candidly to ESPNcricinfo about the emotional challenges he has faced up to. Read
16:50
Successive Lok Sabha elections have shown a rise in number of candidates forfeiting their deposit, but this has not stopped people from throwing their hat in the electoral ring. Election Commission rules say that if a candidate fails to get a minimum of one-sixth of the total valid votes polled,...
16:48
Is Narendra Modi trampling upon his senior BJP colleagues while taking decisions? How come Team Modi underestimated the political action-reaction, while upsetting two of the party's founding fathers, LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, in the ticket distribution process? Read
16:41
That's Amul's take on the Kangna Ranaut super hit, Queen. If you haven't watched it yet, read the review here and go catch it this weekend.
16:40
Absence of name of actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha as BJP candidate from Patna Saheb seat today caused hurtburn among his supporters even as a large number of party legislators are angry over selection of turncoats. Former MLA from Bakhtiyarpur Binod Yadav and General Secretary of state BJP...
16:27
The Congress is expected to release its list of Lok Sabha candidates for the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Delhi and Tamil Nadu today.Reports suggest that Finance Minister P Chidambaram is not keen to contest in the Lok Sabha polls and is keen on taking the Rajya Sabha route. Chidambaram is...
15:59
Criticism for Kejri's sweeping statement that all media is paid media. Shammy Baweja tweets: Journalists who have joined AAP have become clean politicians and those who haven't have become paid. Friends, I havent been paid, have you?Shiv Aroor tweets: Really respect Ashutosh. The only journalist...
15:56
Gopinath Pillai, father of Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, has moved an application before as special CBI court seeking arraignment of BJP leader Amit Shah and former Director General of Police, Gujarat, KR Kaushik in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case on Friday. Read more
15:54
Ranjit Hoskote's I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded is the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award for English, 2013.
15:46
Fifteen Tamil couples from New Delhi met BJP's Prime Ministerial nominee for two hours yesterday, at the apartment of cardiac surgeon Dr Ganesh Mani in Greater Kailash. Most of the couples were doctors, advocates and retired bureaucrats. Modi answered questions on the future of India and his...
15:30
Arun Jaitley, the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, is the BJP candidate from Amritsar. Three or four more BJP Rajya Sabha MPs are being asked to contest the Lok Sabha polls. Interestingly, Navjot Singh Sidhu will be elected to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat, the seat which Arun Jaitley will...
14:46
Former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal's bail plea has been rejected. Tejpal, lodged in jail for allegedly raping a junior woman colleague, was today granted permission by a Goa court to meet his ailing mother, who is admitted in a hospital at Mapusa town. Additional district and sessions...
14:37
Seema Goswami: If the media were truly #paidmedia they would boycott this AAP press conference...Ashutosh: May I request my ex colleagues in BEA to stand up and save freedom of press and media and democracy from being crushed. Akhilesh Sharma: 'Problem is that his definition of paid media is...
14:29
Suspended DMK leader M K Alagiri today met Tamil super star Rajnikanth at his Poes Garden residence.Emerging out of the brief meeting, Alagiri told reporters that the actor was his well wisher and that he had come for his peace of mind. Declining to attach any political significance with today's...
14:19
Narendra Modi attacks Salman Khurshid for questioning the role of the Election Commission and the Supreme Court.
13:59
That's a picture of the building collapse in Santacruz, Mumbai, tweeted by the Indian Express.
13:56
Broadcast Editors Association condemns Kejriwal's statement on media and says it is wrong to say TV channels are pursuing a biased agenda. BEA says electronic media discharging its responsibilities in a fair and objective manner.
13:38
Yashwant Deshmukh tweets: AAP now openly accuses Times Now, India TV, India News and Zee. All CVoter clients!! The political hit job against us stands naked. Gr8.A sting had been conducted on Deshmukh's polling agency CVoter by a television news channel, which claimed the agency was willing...
13:32
Update on the building collapse in Mumbai:A seven-storey residential building collapsed in suburban Santacruz today, with many persons feared trapped. The building, located in Yashwant Nagar near Grand Hyatt Hotel, came down around noon following which firemen rushed to the spot. According to an...
13:31
AAP holding a press conference to address Arvind Kejriwal's allegations that the media has been sold out. Kejriwal has threatened to send journalists to jail after an inquiry into the issue if AAP comes to power. The whole media is sold out this time, it is a big conspiracy, it is a huge...
12:56
The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court has allowed Tarun Tejpal permission to meet his ailing mother. Hearing on the bail plea of Tehelka magazine's founder editor Tarun Tejpal, charged with rape and sexual assault of a junior journalist colleague in November last year, will be heard by the...
12:44
Three people have been convicted and three acquitted for gang-raping a nun in Kandhamal, Orissa in 2008. The nun was allegedly gang-raped on August 25, 2008 at Baliguda in Odisha's Kandhamal district, two days after communal riots broke out in the area following the killing of VHP leader Swami...
12:29
A seven-storey building has collapsed in Vakola in suburban Mumbai. Thankfully, the building was unoccupied, but since there was a slum next to the building, a few people may be trapped.
12:24
Arvind Kejriwal will hold a road show in Nagpur today.Narendra Modi will take part in a rally in Sambalpur, Odisha.
12:01
J-K chief minister Omar Abdullah tweeted criticizing Arvind Kejriwal's attack on the media. I really don't get AAP & Arvind Kejriwal's criticism of the media. But for the blanket coverage he has received AAP wouldn't exist today.The AAP leader has alleged that the whole media is sold and...
11:57
The demand for the right to vote was only a part of a comprehensive package of measures to emancipate the masses from poverty, exploitation and oppression. Read
11:54
Rahul Gandhi's control over the Congress's election management process is so complete that his team has opened a parallel war room, rendering the old one largely redundant. The old war room in Gurdwara Raqabgunj Road, run by Sonia Gandhi's lieutenants under Jairam Ramesh's charge,...
11:45
The Indian Ocean is becoming the focal point in the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370, drawing an armada of warships and military aircraft to the region. Looking for a little black box in the big blue, India today sent warships and surveillance aircraft to the Andaman Sea on a...
11:42
The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a PIL seeking a court-monitored probe into the fire tragedy in submarine INS Sindhuratna and a compensation of Rs 1 crore each for relatives of the two Navy officers who died. A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam, before whom the matter was mentioned...
11:35
Vikram Chandra tweets: AAP shouldn't complain about other parties getting too much media coverage. AAP gets headlines out of proportion with probable vote share.
11:33
The mystery over the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is getting increasingly intriguing. Six days after it went off the radar, innumerable conspiracy theories float around over what may have possibly gone wrong with the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft just hours after leaving Kuala Lumpur...
11:27
Amid global speculation on what exactly caused Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370 to jump radar contact and disappear, an ugly suspicion has taken roots in China that it could be the handiwork of Uighur terrorists. If this turns out to be correct, it would be the biggest attack by Uighurs on...
11:19
When Chhagan Bhujbal did a Narendra Modi. Watch
11:10
Some Mumbaikars waved energetically, some jumped out of vehicles to have a closer look at their 'aam aadmi' hero. They WhatsApped images of him, requested selfies. Arvind Kejriwal swept Mumbai off its feet on Wednesday, and how! Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel on the Kejriwal wave...
11:07
Arvind Kejriwal's visit to Mumbai, which included an auto ride and a journey on a local train, has left the Shiv Sena seething.The party, which has always been critical of Mr Kejriwal, said today that the 45-year-old and his supporters created chaos and broke the law as they traversed the city...
11:00
US officials helping in efforts to locate a missing Malaysian plane today said they are shifting their search to the Indian Ocean region amid reports that the aircraft could have flown for several hours before it disappeared nearly a week ago. It's my understanding that based on some new...
10:47
Labelled as an anarchist by his critics, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal has stated that his party is committed to function within the framework of Indian Constitution. Responding to the charge of being an anarchist leading elements with diverse ideologies lacking cohesiveness, Kejriwal said, We can...
10:29
Arvind Kejriwal has once again launched a scathing attack on media, saying that they have been paid heavy amount to promote Narendra Modi. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief said he will send media to jail when his party comes to power. Speaking at a fund-raising event on Thursday evening,...
10:06
Karnataka leader BS Sriramulu is all set to rejoin the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday, a day after the party provisionally allotted him a Lok Sabha ticket from Bellary. Sriramulu, a former minister, was a close aide of jailed mining baron Janardhan Reddy. He had quit the BJP and formed his...
10:00
Extending yesterday's losses, the benchmark BSE Sensex fell over 144 points in early trade today on sustained selling by funds, tracking weak global cues amid rising tension over Ukraine and signs of a slowdown in China. The 30-share index, which had lost 81.61 points yesterday, fell by...
09:59
The Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led Indian cricket team left here today for Bangladesh to compete in the ICC World Twenty20 Championship scheduled from March 16 to April 6. The former champions would open their campaign against arch-rivals Pakistan on March 21 at Mirpur in a Super 10 game and then...
09:40
Rescuers scouring the rubble of two Manhattan apartment buildings levelled in a gas explosion found the body of an eighth victim on Thursday, nearly 36 hours after the disaster. An unspecified number of people remain missing after Wednesday's building collapse in East Harlem, which sparked...
09:39
Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will address 'Vijay Shankalp Samavesh' rally in Odisha's Sambalpur district on Friday. The Odisha police have made elaborate security arrangements for the Gujarat Chief Minister's rally scheduled to be held at PHD ground in...
08:30
The United States has announced an end to its ban on BP obtaining government contracts following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, the worst oil spill in US history.The Environmental Protection Agency said in a tweeted statement that BP agreed to safety and ethics improvements in exchange for...
02:10
The Madras high court today issued notice to the Union Department of Information Technology on a PIL seeking to forbear officials from blocking Tamil website savukku (whip) consequent to a single judge's order in a criminal petition. The first bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Sathish K...
01:28
According to a tweet by the ABC News, two senior US officials have said that the missing Malaysia airliner was apparently trying to connect with satellite on an hourly basis hours after it disappeared.More details are awaited.
01:07
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has protested against the United States government collecting bulk data from internet communications on his page. In his post, he has urged the government for transparency over the the secret operations.Read the full post here
00:08
Union Minister K Chiranjeevi's youngest brother K Kalyan Kumar, alias Pavan Kalyan, is all set to launch his own political party in Hyderabad tomorrow. Though not yet officially announced, the new party's name will be 'Jana Sena' or 'people's army', with a star as its logo, according to a...
00:03
Yashwant Sinha's son, Pramod Mahajan's daughter in BJP's 3rd listBJP projected to sweep Guj, Rajasthan, Karnataka: SurveyDespite Sushma's opposition, Sriramulu back in BJPCongress retains scam-tainted Pawan Bansal, Azhar benchedAAP ki kasam! When Mumbai totally fell for Kejriwal MH370...
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