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The BJP's Central Election Committee will meet again on March 19 to decide Gujarat seats.The party's poll panel, which met for the fourth time today, has finalised 55 candidates who will contest from Uttar Pradesh, the state which sends 80 members to Parliament. Actor-turned-politician...
22:41
When a German tourist refused to surrender his passport as collateral at a car rental stand along a popular beach in the Thai resort city of Phuket, the woman behind the counter pulled out a bag full of passport books to prove he could trust her. But the tourist, Falko Tillwich, was...
22:27
Iranian authorities have prevented attempted sabotage at the country's heavy water nuclear reactor, a senior official said today without giving specifics as to the nature of the attempted disruption or its suspected initiator. Asghar Zarean, who heads security at the Atomic Energy...
22:26
Russian forces backed by helicopter gunships and armoured vehicles today took control of a village near the border with Crimea on the eve of a referendum on whether the region should seek annexation by Moscow, Ukrainian officials said. The action in Strilkove appeared to be the first...
22:05
Bharatiya Janata Party's central election committee meet has ended. Candidates for 50 seats from Uttar Pradesh to be announced soon. Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi, say TV channels.BJP...
21:01
Thailand today called off its search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane over the Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea after Malaysian Premier said hunt for the aircraft will shift to two new destinations. Navy commander Adm Narong Pipattanasai ordered the search to stop after Malaysian...
21:00
A kindergarten has been closed in northeast China for administering antiviral drugs to children that led to a host of medical problems like leg pain and nose bleeding among them, officials said today. Fanglin kindergarten in Jilin city had given some children the prescribed medicine...
20:54
The Malaysian Prime Minister stopped short of calling the disappearance of Flight 370 a hijacking, but he said Saturday that the jet veered off course, likely due to deliberate action taken by someone aboard.With that revelation on Day 8, the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane...
19:28
Fourteen Naxals including four women were arrested in two separate operations in the insurgency-hit regions of Chhattisgarh today, police said. Eleven cadres were apprehended after a gun-battle between security forces and ultras in Balrampur district of Surguja division, a senior police...
19:22
Malaysia turned the search for Flight 370 into a criminal investigation on Saturday, after the prime minister declared that the plane had been deliberately diverted from its planned route a week ago from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The plane then flew as much as seven hours to an unknown...
18:12
In his final address to Afghanistan's parliament today, President Hamid Karzai told the US its soldiers can leave at the end of the year because his military, which already protects 93 per cent of the country, was ready to take over entirely. He reiterated his stance that he would not sign a...
17:52
Supreme Court stays death penalty of two Delhi gang-rape convicts -- Mukesh and Pawan -- till March 31.After the Delhi High Court upheld their death sentences in the December 16 gangrape case, two of the convicts had approached the Supreme Court challenging their conviction and the death...
17:27
Two of the four men convicted in the Delhi gangrape case -- Mukesh and Pawan -- have approached the Supreme Court. Mukesh and Pawan, along with Akshay Thakur and Vinay Sharma, were found guilty of brutally gang-raping a 23-year-old paramedic in Delhi in December 2012. The...
17:22
Navjot Singh Sidhu, BJP's MP from Amritsar, on Saturday declared that he will not contest from anywhere except his own constituency.But the former cricketer added that he will sacrifice the seat for Arun Jaitley.
17:20
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today questioned the method and veracity of poll surveys that have predicted a dismal showing for the Samajwadi Party, and said his party would perform better than the last elections, when it got 23 out of the 80 seats in the...
17:19
Admitting that the Congress was going through an adverse phase ahead of the Lok Sabha elections due to various scams, senior party leader P C Chacko today criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his failure to interact with the media on various...
17:16
China today asked Malaysia to share exact information about the missing plane and said it had sent technical specialists to join the probe after the Malaysian prime minister pointed to deliberate action by someone on the jetliner to divert it.We asked Malaysia to provide thorough and exact...
16:50
Poonam Mahajan, late Pramod Mahajan's daughter and the BJP candidate from Mumbai North-West Lok Sabha constituency, today met Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray and sought his blessings and support. Poonam is like someone from our family. We are happy that she is in...
16:13
In a major setback to the Congress, the TRS on Saturday decided against finalising an electoral deal with the party in Telangana for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.News channels quoted TRS chief K Chandrashekhar Rao as saying that his party would not team up with the Congress in Telangana.
15:40
Bangladesh today joined an international search operation to trace the missing Malaysian plane by deploying frigates and aircraft in its exclusive economic zone in the Bay of Bengal. In line with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's directive, two patrol...
15:14
Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, known for his austere lifestyle, does not possess any property but owns two mobile phones, his key aide said today. Officials, who are filling up the prime minister's property details form, are facing a problem...
14:38
India on Saturday expressed disappointment over the second indictment against senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade in the US and termed it unnecessary. Any major consequent to this decision will unfortunately impact efforts to strengthen Indo-US ties, said the ministry of external...
14:00
Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran has disagreed with Central Bureau of Investigation Director's Ranjit Sinha's advice about dropping the pending corruption cases lodged against RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav. Sinha had recommended that the charges against Lalu be dropped and the matter...
13:50
The Janata Dal - United today fielded Bihar Assembly Speaker Uday Narain Chowdhary and former bureaucrat K P Ramaiah from Sasaram and Jamui constituencies respectively for the Lok Sabha elections. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar is the Congress...
13:48
A Pakistani tribunal today upheld the conviction of Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA track down Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, but reduced his 33-year sentence by 10 years. The Federally Administered Tribal Areas Tribunal had sentenced Afridi...
13:38
Uttam Khobragade, the father of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, has claimed that the issuance of an arrest warrant by the United States Attorney's office against his daughter should be considered as an act of aggression against India.An arrest warrant was issued on Friday against...
13:33
FIRs have been filed against Aam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas and a village head following a clash between their supporters in Amethi on Friday night even as the Congress rejected Vishwas' allegation that its workers were involved in the violence.FIRs have been lodged against Vishwas and his...
13:04
In a press conference held on Saturday morning, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said all possibilities behind the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 is being looked into.His comments came in the wake of reports that investigators believed that the plane had been...
13:01
The Tamil National Alliance has raised the issue of the arrest of a Tamil woman activist and her 13-year-old daughter in Sri Lanka's northern Kilinochchi district at the meeting of UN human rights body in Geneva. Balendran Jeyakumari and her daughter Vithushaini were arrested in Tharmapuram...
11:04
The BJP's Central Election Committee is meeting in Delhi today to decide which constituency the party's PM candidate Narendra Modi will contest from.Earlier, the Gujarat unit of the BJP had stated that Modi would definitely contest from a seat from the state.There has been lot of confusion about...
10:43
A top American commander has said that the US and Afghan forces are focusing more on going after the dreaded Haqqani network, which has threatened to disrupt the presidential elections in April in the war-torn...
10:38
Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370 was hijacked by one or more people with flying experience', investigators have concluded. The hijackers switched off the flight's communication device and steered it off-course, believe the investigators. The MH 370 went missing on Saturday...
10:22
The radars at the various military bases in India may not always be switched on.In a tweet, Ananth Krishnan points out this 'amazing detail' in a story by The Indian Express -- on India joining the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370 on a Bay of Bengal strip.In case the plane...
10:09
The US has deployed the state-of-the-art P-8A Poseidon aircraft to search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the Bay of Bengal that disappeared mysteriously last week, the Pentagon said. The P-8 will be searching the Bay of Bengal. The P-8 A...
10:04
Israel today shelled a post of the powerful Shia movement Hezbollah inside Lebanon after its soldiers came under attack on the border. The attack came hours after Israel and Gaza-based militant outfits reached an informal Egyptian mediated...
10:02
The US Senate has confirmed Indian-American Arun M Kumar to a key administration post that would make him responsible for foreign trade. I am pleased that the US Senate has confirmed Arun Kumar as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General...
03:12
Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism winner Ravish Kumar pays beautiful tribute to his late father on his death anniversary in this moving post. In this touching write-up, he tells his father how much he misses him, and that nothing seems right without him.He says that he would do...
02:56
NYtimes reports: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 experienced significant changes in altitude after it lost contact with ground control, and altered its course more than once as if still under the command of a pilot, American officials and others familiar with the investigation said FridayRead the...
01:03
Launching a frontal attack on the ruling AIADMK on various issues, including acute electricity shortage, DMDK chief Vijayakanth today exhorted the electorate to teach a lesson to the ruling party in the Lok Sabha elections. Kickstarting his election campaign here from Thiruvallur Lok Sabha...
00:28
Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, whose arrest and strip search soured Indo-US relations, was today re-indicted on US visa fraud charges, a day after a US court dismissed an earlier indictment.In fresh trouble for Khobragade, federal prosecutors re-indicted the Indian diplomat on charges of...
00:19
BJP moves EC against LIC scheme aimed at 'helping' NilekaniJaya seeks HC direction to quash EC order on party symbolParty overrode my view, tweets angry Sushma over Sreeramalu's entryI don't care who Sonia or Rahul are: Pavan Kalyan at party launchIndia hunts for missing Malaysian plane near Port...
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