22:29
Syria denounced as illegal today Washington's decision to close its embassy, while Russia said the move meant the United States had renounced its role as a peace sponsor. Their remarks came as Damascus said Israeli air raids on Syrian territory earlier today had killed a soldier and wounded...
22:28
Iran and world powers completed today what both sides called a substantive round of nuclear talks, with Iran's foreign minister saying he saw signs a comprehensive deal will be reached. We had substantive and useful discussions covering a set of issues including (uranium) enrichment, the...
21:25
Crimea ' Russian-backed forces began what appeared to be a steady occupation of Ukrainian military facilities in the breakaway Crimean peninsula on Wednesday, taking over the country's naval headquarters and two other facilities and positioning outside a fourth, according to defense ministry and...
21:24
BJP says there is no division in the party after veteran leader L K Advani was asked to contest from Gandhinagar. Advani wanted to contest the election from Bhopal.The BJP says that since Advani is a senior party leader it is natural for demands to come from many places. They say the party will...
20:45
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today warned that Darjeeling cannot be allowed to go the Andhra Pradesh way, asserting till she was alive she would not give an inch of land away. Attacking the BJP and the Congress for the game they played on the Andhra Pradesh bifurcation issue,...
20:41
The BJP has released 15 names from Uttar Pradesh and 21 from Gujarat.Jagdambika Pal to contest from DomariaganjRajyavardhan Singh Rathore to contest from Jaipur ruralHema Malini to contest from Mathura Jaswant Singh to contest from Dahod
20:36
The Bharatiya janata Party has decided to field its veteran leader L K Advani from Gandhinagar in Gujarat. Narendra Modi, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, has been assigned the constituency of Vadodara in Gujarat. Modi will now contest the national election from here as well as...
20:11
Former Chief Justice Rajinder Sachar today termed as shameful the act of political parties giving Lok Sabha tickets to Muzaffarnagar riots accused.This is shameful and unfortunate. People who have been prosecuted have been put up to fight Lok Sabha elections. This shows the psychology (of the...
20:07
The US today rejected reports that it is abandoning the nomination of Indian-American Vivek Murthy as surgeon general, saying his name was approved with bipartisan support.No, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said when asked if the Obama Administration has abandoned its nominee for surgeon...
19:40
Odisha Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik, BJD MP Sidhanta Mohapatra and BJP leader and former union minister Dilip Ray were among over 12 candidates who filed nomination for the ensuing assembly and lok sabha polls in Odisha today.Patnaik filed four sets of nomination papers from...
19:11
BJP will announce its Lok Sabha candidates at 8 pm.
19:08
AAP's Varanasi rally has been postponed by two days to March 25.
18:42
If you love him, flaunt him, thinks Divya Bandodkar who trills on Twitter: 'Namo tattoo on my hand.'
18:17
Just in: Digvijaya Singh tells the Congress party that he is ready to take on Narendra Modi in Varanasi. Singh on Friday asked the party's youth brigade to launch a strong, fearless and tit-for-tat campaign against Modi on social media. I have not seen a person who is more of a coward and a...
18:09
So, how safe is your city? Is Delhi really India's rape capital?Find out the number of rapes (registered case) across India on this interactive map on Rediff.com. Take a look.
17:56
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is likely to visit West Bengal on March 25 for the Lok Sabha poll campaign.
17:53
Rebel Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman recently told the media that he might contest elections as an Independent candidate. Suman was denied a ticket for the Lok Sabha polls after he fell out with the TMC leadership on many issues.A former journalist-turned musician and writer, Suman said, I am...
17:41
Dabhadi village in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra has been chosen by the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi for his third edition of Chai Pe Charcha tomorrow. Modi will be interacting with farmers across 1500 locations in India, for an hour from 5 pm onwards. This edition...
17:26
Jeffrey Archer. The man who sold over 270 million books. And he's not done yet. Tomorrow, on Rediff.com, you can be an unabashed fan girl/fan boy and tell him how much you loved Kane and Abel or the Prodigal Daughter. Tomorrow, on Rediff.com, Mr Archer will take questions from you about his...
17:01
Chaos broke out at the media centre in Kuala Lumpur for the missing flight MH370 after distraught Chinese family members of those on board the plane arrived to protest to Malaysian authorities. It came just before Malaysian authorities held a press conference where they revealed files were...
16:55
Garry Kasparov gets straight to the point: The West is too hooked on Russian cash to do the right thing with Putin. The former World Chess Champion says, Vladimir Putin is not Hitler. But we've got to stop him all the same.Read
16:48
If you haven't seen this... Shashi Tharoor's pictorial ode to his late wife Sunanda Pushkar on his website. See
16:47
A wary Bangladeshis visit to a familiarly foreign land yields pleasant surprises. Read
16:43
The Congress move to nominate Vishwajeet Kadam, who heads the party's state youth wing, as its Lok Sabha candidate from Pune is being seen as a desperate attempt to bury a tainted past, represented by suspended sitting MP Suresh Kalmadi, an accused in the CWG scam. Kadam's candidature, announced...
16:32
Chandigarh's sitting MP Pawan Kumar Bansal faces two dimpled beauties. Which one will the city choose? Read
16:24
Enchanted by the natural beauty of Arunachal Pradesh, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said he would like to settle there after retirement. Addressing a rally in Hapoli in Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal, Gandhi said he would love to settle at Hapoli, popularly known as the...
16:17
Dalit Camera's open letter to Arundhati Roy clarifying its position on the rumors spreading in New Delhi about the cancellation of the launch of the book, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste, introduced by Roy. ReadThis is Roy's response to the column. Read
16:14
The full text of Shashi Tharoor's complaint to the Election Commission that CPI MLA VS Sunilkumar had accused him of murdering his wife. Read
16:12
From a correspondent in Delhi: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is all set to contest from Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir.
16:02
Suspended DMK leader M K Alagiri today said he had never worked against the party at any point of time and wondered why the high command had suspended him, hours after it warned its cadres against having any truck with him. I was only trying to set right the 'disorder' and 'confusion' prevailing...
15:59
The DMK today warned partymen of disciplinary action against those who continue to maintain links with its suspended leader, M K Alagiri. The stern warning came two days after party supremo M Karunanidhi's elder son Alagiri held meetings with supporters in Madurai to chalk out his future...
15:57
Malaysia's defense minister says files were recently deleted from the home flight simulator belonging to the pilot aboard the missing Malaysian jetliner.Hishammuddin Hussein told a news conference Wednesday that investigators are trying to retrieve the files. He also said that the pilot,...
15:18
AAP leader Shazia Ilmi takes a swipe at VK Singh, BJP's candidate from Ghaziabad: Very curious about what date of birth Gen VK Singh will provide in his affidavit to EC..Read: Gen VK Singh loses battle for age, tries to save some honour
15:02
The BJP Central Committee is currently holding a meeting where it will decide LK Advani's constituency for the upcoming elections. Advani has skipped the meeting. It is believed that he could contest from Bhopal in Shivraj Singh Chouhan's Madhya Pradesh rather than from Gandhinagar in Narendra...
14:50
Congress candidate and Union Minister Shashi Tharoor has assets worth Rs 23.95 crore. This was revealed in the affidavit submitted by Tharoor along with his nomination, reports the Indian Express.Going by the previous affidavit filed in 2009, when he had the maiden electoral battle, Tharoor's...
14:48
Subhashree Panda, wife of wanted Maoist Sabyasachi Panda, today joined Ama Odisha Party along with over 100 of her women supporters. Subhashree, who was set free from jail in 2012, said she would like to contest the ensuing assembly elections from Ranpur segment in Nayagarh district. She was...
14:21
Former Congress leader Jagdambika Pal, comedian Raju Srivastava join BJP
14:17
Before elections, Mumbai's vada pav turns into a political hot potato. Read
14:09
In India's oldest city, the only female gatekeeper of heaven sits in her homespun sari and tends to an open oven in a 14th-century building near the sacred Ganges River. Read
14:03
Pro-Russian activists enter the Ukrainian naval base at Sevastopol in Crimea - and Russian flags are seen flying from buildings there, reports the BBC.
14:01
MK Alagiri has been declared a no-go zone by his party, the DMK, which is headed by his father, M Karunanidhi. The DMK today formally warned its workers of punitive action if they are discovered in contact with the 63-year-old leader. Read
13:51
Remember this? Mystery around Sunanda death not laid to rest yet. Read more
13:48
UDF candidate from Thiruvananthapuram parliamentary constituency Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday filed a complaint with Chief Electoral Officer against CPM leader M Vijayakumar for making an alleged defamatory statement against him.In a petition to the CEO, Tharoor alleged that all Malayalam channels...
13:16
Gearing up for Lok Sabha polls, the Railways has kept 75 companies of RPF ready for deployment in various parts of the country during the election time. One RPF company consists of about 90 personnel. Railway has also provided about 1,000 coaches for the movement of polling staff and security...
13:14
Madhu Kishwar tweets: Kirron Kher is a heavy weight in every sense in comparison to feather light Gul Panag!
12:52
And just when you thought there was finally some concrete news on the missing Malaysian plane... The company providing satellite images for the public to help search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight says a purported sighting of the plane is based on old data.An Indian IT analyst posted a...
12:44
Lunch read: An interview with novelist Kamila Shamsie, who says she would hesitate before saying she was from Pakistan if she was in India. Her latest book A God in Every Stone is an epic page-turner set in India's colonial past. Read
12:36
LK Advani is not attending a meeting of the BJP's election committee this morning, in an indication that a decision is expected soon on where he will contest the general elections from this year. There is a strong buzz that he could contest from Bhopal in Shivraj Singh Chouhan's Madhya...
12:30
The Russian president's speech about annexing Crimea is really about winning back the pride lost when the Berlin Wall fell. Read the full story here.
12:04
Each day that passes without a clear idea of what happened to missing Malaysia Flight 370 new theories and possibilities are proposed about the possible fate of the jet.Among the most recent theories proffered are a fire that disabled the plane, that it hid by flying in the shadow of another...
12:00
Even if it may not lead to any radical shift in India's foreign policy, Narendra Modi's rhetoric can't be ignored. His commentary on India's foreign policy may be indicative of the domestic priorities of a future BJP government, and how that may relate to the rest of the world. Read
11:58
Bonhomie at Wagah as India's BSF and Pakistan Rangers celebrate Holi.
11:56
Mamata Banerjee today sought to draw a distinction between those born with a golden spoon' and others who just happen to have relatives in politics, addressing an issue used by critics to needle her over her nephew's career. Read
11:48
After a period of silence over official assessment of the events in Ukraine, India finally expressed its tepid support for Russia, with its National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon stating that India believes Russia has legitimate interests in Ukraine. But the Indian Ministry of External...
11:41
Salman Khurshid has targeted Narendra Modi once again on the 2002 riots in his Gujarat, questioning a court's clean chit to him. I don't know who has given Modi a clean chit. A magistrate's court not summoning him is a big accomplishment for him. It is like a nursery child who gets good...
11:32
Meanwhile, the world looks on as Russia annexes Crimea. The Obama administration has intensified its global effort to garner support for Ukraine. The White House said it is looking at the international community, including India, to condemn Russia's action. Over the past few weeks, the top...
11:30
Three foreign nationals from Germany, Columbia and South Africa. All eight accused have been arrested on molestation charges. The men allegedly forcefully put colour on the women and then molested them.
11:20
Meanwhile, Peepli Live's 'Natha' Omkar Das has joined AAP.
11:14
Congress leader Manish Tewari is willing to contest elections from Ludhiana. Earlier reports had suggested that the Union Minister, who had been hospitalised due to a heart ailment, was unlikely to contest the Lok Sabha polls.The Information and Broadcasting Minister represents Ludhiana...
10:55
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has cancelled his proposed visit to Aizawl today in view of the ongoing Assembly session, party sources said. The Congress leader was scheduled to address an election rally at Mualpui locality in Aizawl today and also meet journalists at Lengpui airport near...
10:53
A common interest in central Asia over Uighur and Taliban militancy is bringing together Beijing and the United States, writes William Dalrymple. Read
10:48
Poacher Sansar Chand, who was blamed for wiping out Sariska's tiger population in 2005, died of prostate cancer in a Jaipur hospital on Tuesday morning. Sansar, who was in his late 50s, died hours before he was to appear in court in a poaching case. Read
10:46
Over 5 lakh votes were cast in the Rediff Pulse of the Nation survey. And the choice for India's next leader is... Find out
10:32
Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi has cancelled his proposed visit to Aizawl today in view of the ongoing assembly session, party sources said.Thanglawra Ngurte, member of the state PCC Media Cell, said his visit was cancelled in view of the assembly session which began on Tuesday.
10:31
A correspondent reports: Party patriarch L K Advani has refused to contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls from Gandhinagar, defying the express wishes of the party high command in general, and BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi in particular.Advani is likely to contest from Bhopal.Meanwhile, Modi,...
10:31
A correspondent reports: The Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party will meet at 11.30 am today to finalise the candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls for the remaining seats in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.According to sources, the saffron party will field...
09:13
Russia's move to annex the Ukrainian province of Crimea has badly affected the credibility and the international stature of Moscow, the White House has said. In general, Russia's credibility and stature internationally is affected by these actions...
09:12
The United States has ruled out the possibility of the missing Malaysian plane landing at its Indian Ocean base in Diego Garcia. I'll rule that one out, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters when asked about such news reports...
03:14
Never mind what the West thinks -- the Kremlin says Ukraine's Crimea region is now part of Russia. A signing ceremony Tuesday between Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister of Crimea and the mayor of the city of Sevastopol made it official, the Kremlin said in a statement. The...
03:11
It was the sound of the engine that alerted some people who were in Seattle's Fisher Plaza Tuesday morning that something was amiss. At about 7:40 a.m., Bo Bain was a few feet from the famed Space Needle that towers over the northern end of the city when he heard sounds he has grown accustomed to...
01:00
Sunny Leone, to her throng of fans, conjures up images that are mostly too vicarious to describe in these pages of resonant family reading. But once you hear her out, you would wonder whether it's a former porn star ' adult entertainer if you will ' or a marketing guru doing the talking. I...
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Maybe the plane was cyber-hijacked. The pilots' houses have been searched. Terrorist connections have been probed. Passenger backgrounds and possible motives have been scrutinized. And still, 10 days after the plane disappeared, we know nothing. Perhaps that's because we're overthinking it....
00:15
Union minister Shashi Tharoor today filed his nomination as a Congress candidate from the Lok Sabha seat here. Tharoor filed his papers before District Collector Biju Prabhakar. The seat is likely to witness a three-cornered fight among sitting MP Tharoor, CPI's Bennet Abraham and O...
00:14
A Ukrainian serviceman was killed on Tuesday at a Ukrainian base that came under attack in Crimea's main town Simferopol, the first death on the peninsula from a military clash since the region came under Russian control three weeks ago.As news spread of the death of the serviceman, in an assault...
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BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's scheduled public rally at Dumka on March 24 has been cancelled, the party's Jharkhand unit general secretary Balmukund Sahay said. Stating that a new date would be announced later, Sahay said the cancellation was necessitated following the...
00:12
A US judge blocked America's most high-profile terror detainee today from testifying in a New York courtroom to defend Osama bin Laden's son-in-law. I have considered this very carefully. It's much ado about nothing. It's not admissible, Judge Lewis Kaplan told the southern district court in...
00:11
Cong releases 3rd list, fight it out is the high command's diktat Sikh children face 'Bin Laden' or 'terrorist' abuse in US BJP fields ex-army chief V K Singh from Ghaziabad Jaitley defends release of terrorists to end Kandahar plane hijack crisis China starts searching its...
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