22:12
President Vladimir Putin today made light of the latest US sanctions against his aides over the Ukraine crisis, saying Moscow would hold off on reciprocal punitive measures. You know, both in the first case -- the American sanctions -- and in the second case -- the introduction of a visa...
22:11
A Pakistani court has directed authorities to prepare a case against jailed doctor Shakil Afridi, who helped the CIA track down al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, for alleged involvement in anti-state activities. The direction has been issued in a detailed verdict by Frontier Crimes Regulation...
22:10
Centre will soon appoint a panel to identify the new capital for Seemandhra. It will be a five-member committee, multi-disciplinary committee, which will have experts and administrators who will look at alternatives and make appropriate recommendations for the location of the new capital,...
22:10
Centre will soon appoint a panel to identify the new capital for Seemandhra. It will be a five-member committee, multi-disciplinary committee, which will have experts and administrators who will look at alternatives and make appropriate recommendations for the location of the new capital,...
21:22
This was the last thing Erdogan said Thursday before the lights went out on Twitter near midnight. We now have a court order,' declared Erdogan, who's ensnared in a scandal inflamed by social media over recordings that purportedly reveal corruption in his administration. We'll...
21:14
A lonely Barack Obama has said he feels abandoned after wife Michelle and daughters have left for a China visit, leaving him stuck with two dogs. During a funny 10-minute interview on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show aired yesterday, the US President, however, hoped his family will have a wonderful time...
21:12
AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today charged Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram with leaving the country's economy in a shambles and bringing it to the brink of destruction. Launching a sharp attack against Chidambaram at his hometurf, Jayalalithaa declined to...
20:20
A top Malaysian defence official today sought to assure distraught relatives of Chinese passengers on board the missing plane that the jet has not been shot down by his air force.Air operations commander of the Royal Air Force Lt Gen Ackbal bin Haji Abdul Samad, part of the high-level Malaysian...
20:16
Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh to contest from Amritsar against BJP's Arun Jaitley.
20:10
The Andaman and Nicobar islands were jolted by an earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale this evening but chances of Tsunami are ruled out, the government said.An earthquake measuring 6.5 on richter scale occurred some 70 kms east of Indira Point at 7.11 pm today.We do not see any threat...
19:41
Data recovered from a flight simulator seized from the home of the pilot of a missing Malaysian plane has been sent to international investigators for verification.As far as the simulator is concerned, we have forwarded the information to international parties to verify, and very shortly I...
19:30
Oscar winner Christian Bale is director David Fincher's choice to play Steve Jobs in the untitled movie that Aaron Sorkin has written for Sony, an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap.
19:30
Oscar winner Christian Bale is director David Fincher's choice to play Steve Jobs in the untitled movie that Aaron Sorkin has written for Sony, an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap.
19:17
In a major setback to former Maharashtra social welfare minister Babanrao Gholap, the special Anti-Corruption Bureau court in Mumbai sentenced him and his wife, to three years' imprisonment, in a disproportionate assets case.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on them. Presently an MLA...
18:40
Take a break from the polls and read this story: The touching moment a giraffe bid a sad farewell to a dying worker who had spent his entire adult life cleaning the animal's enclosure at a Dutch zoo. Read
18:36
So, it will be Arun Jaitley vs former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh in Amritsar.Sources said that Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa, who is considered not to be on best of terms with Singh, has also told the party leadership that the former Punjab CM would be a...
18:15
Voters are wise & can see how ruthless & ambitious Modi is to become PM. He will kill Advani, Sushma, Jaswant now & simple people if he wins. Becoming PM of India is Sheikh-chilli's Khayaali Pulao as far as Modi is concerned. People see his games, fake propaganda and WILL defeat him,...
18:02
In a series of flip-flops, Manish Tewari Information and Broadcasting minister and the sitting MP from Ludhiana, is reported to be having second thoughts about contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha elections once again, well-placed Congress sources told Rediff.com. The roadshow planned by his...
17:29
CWG scam tainted Congress politician Suresh Kalmadi, who was denied a ticket, has said he will decided whether to run for the national election. The Congress has not succumbed to his pressure to let his wife run instead of him.He told NDTV today that he is meeting with his supporters to decide...
17:14
India today said none of its nationals was killed in a Taliban attack on a heavily fortified luxury hotel in Afghanistan's capital. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi had said that four foreigners -- one each from New Zealand, Canada, Pakistan and India -- were killed in the attack...
17:08
Russian President Vladimir Putin signs law completing procedure to absorb Crimea into Russia, says Reuters
16:58
Infosys co-founder and Congress candidate Nandan Nilekani today filed his nominations for the Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency, where he is locked in a tough battle against five-time MP BJP's Ananth Kumar. Everywhere I went, the refrain was - we want change now, said billionaire Nilekani,...
16:42
Singh, 75, wanted to contest the election from Barmer and had reportedly told the BJP top brass that it would be his last election from the constituency where he was born. He had also said that if he was denied the seat, he would contest as an independent candidate. Col (Retd.) Sona Ram...
16:40
More painless if the BJP simply issued a circular asking its oldies to bugger off, tweets Shiv Aroor.
16:38
Congress has fielded a Bhojpuri film superstar Kunal Singh against the BJP's sitting MP Shatrughan Sinha from the Patna Sahib constituency in Patna. Singh, who is from Maner near Patna, is popular in the Bhojpuri film industry. It is not going to be a battle between two stars, but...
16:15
BJP senior leader Jaswant Singh has been denied the Barmer seat. The party has declared the seat and has decided Col Sona Ram Chaudhury will contest. The central election committee of the party on Monday put the decision on Barmer on hold amid indications that a strong section of the...
15:55
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal today expelled two party members for allegedly offering tickets to contest next month's national election in exchange for bribes.We are removing Aruna Singh and one more person from the party. They asked for money from some people and promised them tickets. The...
15:39
Mumbai police files complaint against website for 'offensive' articles about top cop Rakesh Maria's role in terror probe. Read
15:37
Stating that Narendra Modi was an ambassador of development and not a symbol of fear, BJP Vice President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has hit out at vested interests for claiming that the party had not done justice to the Muslim community in handing out tickets for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The...
15:31
For just 8 cents a day, the slum dwellers on the outskirts of Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh State, are able to indulge in what is a luxury to half of India's population: a working toilet. Read
15:20
The Delhi High Court asks the Election Commission to give details relating to the registration of the Aam Aadmi Party with it.
14:54
Yesterday, Shatrughan Sinha, a known Advani loyalist, thanked the BJP for honouring his wish to contest the poll from his native Patna Saheb instead of Delhi, and said now onwards, his only aim was to make action hero Narendra Modi Prime Minister. I was asked about fighting Lok Sabha...
14:50
Clashes break out yet again in Patna as BJP's Shatrughan Sinha files his nomination papers from Patna Sahib. BJP workers opposing the Lok Sabha candidature of sitting MP Shatrughan Sinha from the Patna Sahib seat, were beaten up by another group of party workers on Thursday, police...
14:28
This is the Guardian's obit on Khushwant Singh. ReadAnd this is what the New York Times obit says: Read
14:08
Kirron Kher, the BJP candidate from Chandigarh, files her nomination papers. The picture was tweeted by her husband, actor, Anupam Kher.Kirron filed her papers with the returning officer in Chandigarh followed by AAP candidate Gul Panag. Kirron was accompanied by Anupam Kher, local BJP President...
14:04
Even if the opposition wins, it is far from clear that the country's economy will return to high growth, writes Sadanand Dhume. Read
13:53
More poll news: Taking potshots at the Congress, rival BJP today claimed that the decision of Finance Minister P Chidambaram to opt out of the Lok Sabha poll race indicated the state of affairs in the party as it was running away from the contest. The (person) who served as the finance minister...
13:41
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's comment yesterday that went viral: Dekho Lakshmi kamal pe baith ke aati hai toh hame abhi Lakshmi lana hai. Jhadu ke upar toh Lakshmi nahi aa sakti sirf Kamal pe hi aa sakti hai. Lakshmi aane se pehle uska aasan toh taiyaar kare. Haath ke upar Kamal hona chahiye;...
13:34
Former Home Minister and one-time senior Congress leader Buta Singh will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections on a Samajwadi Party ticket from the Jalore constituency in Rajasthan. SP national General Secretary Ram Gopal Yadav said that Singh would be the party's authorised candidate for...
13:28
With five to six castes of roughly equal size in every constituency, but nearly always two major contenders, most people are compelled to vote outside their caste even if that really hurts. Read
13:23
It was because of Khushwant Singh that I made my first journey into the wonders of the Urdu language. He promoted Urdu like no other English writer in India has ever done. Rest in Peace, Dear Sir, writes Syed Firdaus Ashraf. Read
13:11
The four convicts, given the life term, were those who had raped the telephone operator. The sentencing in the photo journalist's gang rape has been adjourned to March 24.
13:00
So, four of the five persons convicted for the gang rapes of a photojournalist and a telephone operator that took place at Shakti Mills, have got a life term. The court found Vijay Jadhav, 19, Mohammad Qasim Shaikh, 21 and Mohammad Ansari, 28 guilty for both the gang-rape...
12:52
This has just come in: Four convicts in the Shakti Mills gang rape case get life sentence. The judge while handing out the sentence says the offence of rape is brutal and violates the right to life.
12:50
Just in: One convict in the Shakti Mills gang rape has been given the life sentence. The sentencing of the other four convicts in a bit. This convict raped the journalist as well as the telephone operator.
12:45
Nothing was sacred for the writer who never aged. Indrajit Hazra writes on Khushwant Singh. Read
12:43
Yogendra Yadav speaks of his decision to contest the Lok Sabha election, the AAP's expectations and the reasons for the party's high-pitched attacks on Narendra Modi. Read
12:41
The context is the US, but could very well be India. Slate's story on how difficult it is for candidates to reach voters when they don't watch TV and are too busy tweeting to care. Read
12:32
A Mumbai sessions court will pronounce the quantum of sentence in both the Shakti Mills gang-rape cases today. Yesterday, the court convicted five persons for the gang-rape of the photojournalist and a telephone operator that took place at Shakti Mills located in central Mumbai last year.The...
12:24
A US court has ordered Congress President Sonia Gandhi to provide a copy of her passport as documentary evidence by April 7 to determine if she was in America in September last year when a Sikh rights group claims it had served summons on her in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. Sikhs for...
11:57
Poll updates at this hour:Congress leader Satpal Maharaj, a former Union minister, quits the party to join the BJP, even as the Congress tries to retain him. He has declared he will not be contesting the polls. Anand Sharma has refused to contest from Hamirpur.
11:47
Here lies one who spared neither man nor GodWaste not your tears on him, he was a sod Writing nasty things he regarded as great fun Thank the Lord he is dead, this son of a gun. -- Khushwant Singh's epitaph to himselfThe first and only time I ever met him, shortly after he...
11:35
Who said what on the demise of Khushwant Singh yesterday. This is his son, Rahul Singh, in the Times of India. He went the way he always wanted to go: Peacefully without suffering and with his mental faculties all intact. In fact, as was his habit every morning, he was doing his usual...
11:30
Minutes after reports claimed that the Shiv Sena will field candidates in Varanasi and Lucknow, the BJP's oldest ally has quickly denied the rumours. Earlier reports had quoted Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut as telling a news agency that his party will announce Lok Sabha candidates on 20 seats...
11:16
Updates at this hour:BJP leaders have not given up. Senior BJP leaders will meet the home minister to ask for better security. The Shiv Sena will field a candidate from Varanasi. Will this mean the alliance with the BJP is shaky?
10:53
Delays in identifying satellite images that may show debris of a missing Malaysian plane in the southern Indian Ocean were due to the vast amounts of data that needed to be analysed, Australian authorities and the U.S. company that collected the images said.Australia rushed four international...
09:17
After objections raised by the defence forces, India rejected China's request for permission to allow its four warships to enter Indian maritime zone to search for the missing Malaysian airliner.China, whose 150 nationals are on board the aircraft, had on Wednesday sent a formal request to...
08:59
Russia still has the opportunity to deescalate the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, the White House has said while reiterating the allegations that it is Moscow which has violated international norms. The White House remarks came soon after United States President Barack Obama slapped new sanctions...
08:38
A search is resuming in the southern Indian Ocean for objects that could be debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, reports BBC.Bad weather and rough seas have been hampering the operation. Five planes will search a vast area south-west of Perth, Australia.Meanwhile, Australian PM...
02:23
Crimean self-defence forces overtake Sevastopol base without violence and raise Russian flags at the gates. Read more on Al Jazeera
01:09
Indian journalist and founder of CGnet Swara, a mobile news service, has won the 2014 Freedom of Expression Award, beating the US whistleblower Edward Snowden. The award, organised by the UK-based Index on Censorship, was conferred on Shubhranshu Choudhary for the service that...
01:04
European leaders are meeting in Brussels Thursday to discuss further sanctions against Russia. So far the EU has imposed financial and visa restrictions against 21 carefully selected Russian and Ukrainian officials -- but avoided anyone from President Vladimir Putin's inner circle and stayed...
00:15
An international air search in the Indian Ocean for possible debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has ended for the day, officials have said. Australia, New Zealand and the US said bad weather had hampered their efforts in the area 2,500km (1,550 miles) south-west of Perth. Four...
00:13
Chidambaram opts out of LS race; son given Sivaganga ticket Union minister Manish Tewari to contest from LudhianaCBI conducts nationwide search against 'fake' docsModi is an autocrat and dictator in his party: AAP AAP's Yogendra Yadav declares assets of Rs 3 croreAssam govt seeks public opinion...
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