23:27
At least five persons were drowned when a country boat capsized on Biluakhai river in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district today, officials said. Bodies of five persons have been fished out after the country boat carrying devotees to a temple capsized on the river near Nachhipur village this...
23:08
Asserting independence of the central bank, Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan today said it is he who determines the monetary policy and the government can fire him if it wanted. I determine the monetary policy. I say what it is. The government can fire me, but the government doesn't set...
22:08
The Election Commission has told the Information and Broadcasting ministry to put on hold the selection of a new chairperson of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati till the poll process was over. Ministry had written to the EC seeking its views on the issue of finding a new chairperson after the...
21:35
EC sends show cause notice to Rahul Gandhi for his alleged remarks that 22,000 people will be killed if BJP comes to power; wants his response by May 12.
21:34
Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Janardhan Reddy passed away here today following prolonged illness. Reddy, 80, had been undergoing treatment for neurology-related problems and the end came at 5 am.A sitting Rajya Sabha member from Andhra Pradesh, Reddy, served as Chief Minister from...
21:22
A student of class ten was shot dead by some youths in a mobile shop here today, sparking tension in the area. Furious over the killing of Uvais, locals blocked road traffic, the police said.One person had been arrested in connection with the killing of the student while another, allegedly...
21:16
The Allahabad High Court today reserved its judgement on the bail application of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, who are serving life sentence for the murders of their daughter Aarushi and domestic aide Hemraj.The judgement was reserved on the bail plea of the Noida-based couple by a...
21:15
A special CBI court today issued summons to Amit Shah, the close aide of BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, and other accused in the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case. Today, on the first day of hearing, special judge J T Utpat here issued summons to the accused, seeking their...
20:37
Congress leader and former Union Minister Gurudas Kamat today filed a civil defamation suit in the Bombay High Court seeking damages of Rs 50 crore from the local Marathi daily `Vruttmanas'.He also filed a criminal defamation complaint against the newspaper and its editor Amul Acharya in a...
20:32
BJP did not buy the Election Commission's plea that Narendra Modi was not given permission to hold a rally in Varanasi on security concerns and said had EC taken immediate action at its level it could have saved such a situation.The party also said while other leaders like Rahul Gandhi, who is a...
20:31
MNS chief Raj Thackeray has backed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's bid to become Prime Minister, but his party has objected to a Gujarati newspaper advertisement on BEST buses, saying that it has ignored the contribution of Marathi people towards Mumbai's development.Alleging that the...
20:01
Senior IAS from Tamil Nadu cadre Praveen Kumar has been appointed special observer for Varanasi seat by the Election Commission. Chief Electoral Officer Umesh Sinha told reporters that Kumar has been asked to reach Varanasi at the earliest and remain there till electoral process is over. As part...
19:57
Suspended IPS officer Dinesh M N, who was recently granted bail by Bombay high court in Gujarat's Sohrabuddin Sheikh alleged fake encounter case, was today reinstated by the Rajasthan government. The officer was reinstated today and was put under the awaiting posting orders status,...
19:41
The Election Commission (EC) today said there was nothing particularly wrong in the speech of BJP leader Amit Shah in which he reportedly described Azamgarh as a base of terrorists.I have seen the speech myself...he only said Azamgarh. We found nothing much. Our people have also seen the video....
18:39
The ongoing AAP rally in Varanasi.
18:37
India still has the largest number of people defecating in open in the world, according to a new UN report prompting the Government to admit it as a huge shame. Globally, India continues to be the country with the highest number of people (597 million people) practising open defecation, says the...
18:20
Michelle Obama and Malala Yousafzai have become the latest high-profile figures to join worldwide calls for the return of almost 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria.The leader of Boko Haram, an Islamic militant group trying to overthrow the government, threatened to sell the girls at a...
18:17
What can India and the world expect if Narendra Modi, the self-styled Hindu nationalist who is front-runner in the elections, ends up winning a plurality of seats when results are declared on May 16? The conventional answer is that this depends less on the man and what he represents, than on the...
18:10
TMC leader Derek O' Brien says that if it's a Narendra Modi-led govt then the doors are shut, TMC will emerge as the 3rd largest party post elections.
18:02
Just in: Delhi University professor G N Saibaba arrested by Maharashtra Police for alleged Maoist links. The Maharashtra Police had raided his home last year, alleging that he is an active member of the banned CPI-Maoist.Police officials claimed Saibaba was named by JNU student Hem Mishra, who...
17:48
The battle lines are drawn. The swords are out. The casualty in all this is complexity. It started with the attack on anchor Hamid Mir and the allegation by his younger brother that the April 19 assassination attempt was the handiwork of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency. The allegation...
17:39
A group of people present at Rahul Gandhi's rally in Deoria, UP, raised pro-Modi slogans causing discomfiture to the Congress Vice-President. Gandhi who was campaigning here was faced with slogans of Har Har Modi, Ghar Ghar Modi during his rally while he was promising free housing, free medical...
17:18
Read: Hunting the 'fiery serpent: The quest to wipe out Guinea worm
17:13
Flanked by grim-looking security guards, Narendra Modi walks up briskly to the podium, tosses a glance at local party leaders waiting in the oppressive heat, and launches into his speech. Mr Modi, the man who many believe will be India's next prime minister, is, clearly, in a hurry. ...
17:08
Madhu Kishwar tweets: Glad that gul panag has been honest enough to deny that there was no attack on her in varanasi.
16:49
Gul Panag tweets: Just read about me being 'attacked'. Incorrrect. Safe & sound.The Aam Aadmi Party had alleged that actor-politician Gul Panag and other party activists were attacked in Varanasi, where they are campaigning for party chief Arvind Kejriwal, today.
16:46
Chief Election Commissioner VS Sampath clarifies on the exit polls. The exit polls can be telecast from 6:30 pm from May 12. The last phase of the Lok Sabha elections ends on May 12 at 5 pm. Earlier, EC HS Brahma said no exit polls can be telecast till May 16, the date of counting.
16:43
Election Commissioner H S Bramha says no exit polls can be telecast till May 16, the date of counting. Although May 16, when election results are expected to come out, is supposed to be a very big and important day for the markets, but analysts feel that the big move in the markets may come in...
16:40
Ten questions that Arnab Goswami should have asked Narendra Modi. Read
16:28
In taking on the Election Commission (EC) and particularly the chief election commissioner (CEC) VS Sampath in Varanasi, the BJP was not responding to just an immediate incident. Read
16:20
Gunmen in the Pakistani city of Multan have shot dead a lawyer defending a university lecturer accused of blasphemy, police and officials say. Police said that Rashid Rehman was sitting in his office when he was shot. Two of his assistants were injured. Read
16:06
Arvind Kejriwal's family, BJP leaders Amit Shah and Arun Jaitley and others involved in campaign but not having voting rights in the city will have to leave the constituency after canvassing ends tomorrow evening in accordance with rules, officials made it clear today. Aam Aadmi Party's Amethi...
15:44
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's failure to be assertive against corruption led to his government's undoing and rise of Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal, according to his former media advisor Sanjaya Baru. He, however, said, If he had got serious about tackling corruption, the government would...
15:44
The Aam Aadmi Party has alleged that actor-politician Gul Panag and other party activists were attacked in Varanasi, where they are campaigning for party chief Arvind Kejriwal.Panag, who contested as the AAP candidate from Chandigarh, was allegedly attacked at the city's historic Banaras...
15:30
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today alleged that its candidate for East Champaran constituency Amit Kumar Choube and his supporters were attacked with guns by BJP workers at Panpur Bazar area, but police said it was an incident between two marriage parties. AAP state Campaign Committee...
15:21
Update on the fire on board the INS Ganga: According to naval sources, the incident occurred around 11:50 am when welding work was going on on board the naval ship. During the welding work, the (welding) gun took time to ignite and when it did, thick flames erupted from the gun, injuring...
15:15
BJP's UP in-charge and Narendra Modi's close confidante Amit Shah is addressing a press conference in Varan asi. He says that Narendra Modi has covered more than 3 lakh kilometres across 25 states during his election campaign, addressing over 5,000 big and small functions including...
14:56
Raking up the caste issue, Narendra Modi today charged Congress with starting the politics of untouchability and hatred and Sonia Gandhi of resorting to unch aur neech politics for salvaging the lost political ground in the ongoing elections.Who started the politics of untouchability in the...
14:51
Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty rose over 600 points to hit record highs on Friday, driven by expectations that the exit poll results due on Monday will hint at a majority for the BJP in the ongoing general elections.
14:37
The fire on board the INS Ganga at the Naval dockyard in Mumbai comes in the wake of Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R K Dhowan saying yesterday that the Indian Navy has taken a 'serious note' of the recent accidents involving its submarines and the probe reports are in different stages. The INS...
14:31
Just in: Fire aboard frigate INS Ganga; three injured. Three persons, including a sailor, injured in a minor fire onboard INS Ganga at Naval Dockyard in Mumbai. Details awaited.
14:20
A day after Narendra Modi drove through Varanasi, his opponent AAP's Arvind Kejriwal today began his roadshow from rural parts of the constituency and took a jibe at the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate's helicopter visit. Kejriwal also said that he was confident about his victory with a huge...
13:50
Another Indian Mujahideen terror suspect has been arrested in Jodhpur by the Rajasthan ATS. Zakir (30) was arrested yesterday from Lala Lajpat Colony in Pratap Nagar locality in Jodhpur. He was also found to associated with the IM module of Rajasthan and was assisting the module's active members,...
13:44
Kejriwal's posters are largely absent from the city, but what is present at most crossroads of Banaras is his army of intrepid, undaunted workers. Read
13:36
The Supreme Court has also asked the woman architect and her father to go to the Gujarat High Court against pending inquiry by state.
13:34
Just in: The Centre tells the Supreme Court that it will not set up a panel to probe the Snoopgate case. The woman who was tailed by Gujarat police allegedly on the orders of chief minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court along with her father for restraining the Centre and...
13:15
The mother-son government had promised employment to 10 crore youth by 2014, but they failed, says Narendra Modi in Motihari, Bihar.
12:51
Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah tweets his displeasure on Mail Today's story that he is on the 'squatters list' of VVIPs occupying Lutyens bungalows even after his tenure has expired. This is what Omar tweets: Now to the house matter that has created a twitter storm in a tea cup. I'm not...
12:43
Billionaire NRI Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Resources has made it clear that it will not look at mining bauxite from the Niyamgiri hills to feed its Rs 5,000 crore Lanjigarh alumina refinery in Odisha until it gets approval from the local community. In deference to the sentiments of the community,...
12:38
Mayawati's core voters stand rock-like with her in this election, but a second layer of Dalit voters are drawn to Narendra Modi. Read
12:29
A knot of boys in their teens is forcing vehicles plying along the pucca road from Sonachura to Bhangabera to stop and pay up for Manasha puja, a few hundred meters from a 130-ft tall martyrs' tower near Tekhali Bridge, a silent witness to a battle that took place seven years ago between men...
12:23
Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy died in Hyderabad on Friday. He was 80. Reddy was suffering from liver ailment and was admitted to the NIMS hospital on April 26. His body has been shifted to his house in Somajiguda.
12:06
If the mainstream media is to be believed, the nation is buoyantly swept up by the Modi Wave that soaring hope and optimism they are allegedly pinning on Narendra Modi of Gujarat. But, the reality on the ground looks and feels decidedly drier. Read
12:02
Social worker who visited Paralympian Oscar Pistorius day after shooting said he cried most of the time and talked about future with girlfriend. Read
11:56
Smita Prakash tweets: Caste issue of a PM candidate reminds me of a rally in Bihar where Laloo Yadav introduced I K Gujral as a Gujjar. Gujral didn't correct him.
11:47
Narendra Modi and Mamata Banerjee have spent the last few weeks exchanging allegations, with the West Bengal chief minister also throwing in some unkind epithets, but the Congress' Rahul Gandhi says he sees a new partnership in the making. He had a political explanation for his prediction and...
11:44
To haat at 3.30am with 35kg wood, haariya in evening and bedtime by urakol (plane) lights. Read the report on the Telegraph.
11:38
After the 2009 general election, I spoke to many politicians (both winners and losers) about the changing nature of campaigning. Most seemed to agree on one point: that the age of mass meetings, drawing lakhs of people, was coming to an end. Read Swapan Dasgupta's column for the Telegraph.
11:36
In other news: Schoolgirls from Jakarta to Timbuktu describe what education means to them and their outrage at the Boko Haram abduction. ReadAlso read: Boko Haram: It's not just a religious problem
11:24
Arun Jaitley reacts to Modi's caste row: Congress is completely out of its depth, this Modi not an OBC issue is preposterous.
11:21
There is a difference between the politics of representation, participation and empowerment. These three styles triangulated at Amethi this time to destroy an old myth, the myth of family constituency. Read
11:15
Three more days for the last phase of the Lok Sabha polls and the barbs are still flying thick and fast. The Congress says that one more lie of Narendra Modi has been exposed -- that he is an OBC by birth. It is evident that with fabricated lies he is trying to fool one and all. Modi belongs to...
11:11
Last week, suspended Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of shielding those in the know about the Saradha chit fund scam. Ghosh is now under arrest for his alleged involvement in the scandal.
11:09
Arvind Kejriwal tweets: I invite Mr Modi for an open discussion on a public platform. Let Kashi people ask straight questions from both of us. Time place his choice.
11:04
The Supreme Court has ordered a CBI-probe plea in the Saradha scam. Hundreds of thousands of people in Bengal, Orissa, Tripura, Jharkhand and Assam have lost crores of rupees in the money marketing scam in April last year.Saradha, based in Kolkata, was headed by Sudipta Sen who is now in...
09:50
Thirteen people were todaykilled and three others seriously injured when a train rammedinto a jeep at a unmanned railway crossing in Kothipur area in Maharajganj in UP. The incident took place at 1 am when the jeep carrying 16persons was returning from a marriage function, police...
09:14
Voters in Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir were allegedly thrashed, stripped and labelled as traitors for not heeding to the boycott call by stone-pelters. They were allegedly assaulted for going ahead and casting their votes for the Lok Sabha elections. A middle-aged man from Kupwara was...
09:10
NDTV: A class 12 student of a leading private school here was Thursday found dead in the school premises, police said.The deceased was identified as the daughter of a Delhi-based businessman and resident of DLF phase-4 area here. Her body was found hanging in the washroom on the second floor...
02:35
A series of attacks in Iraq, including a bomb blast at a cafe in a Baghdad suburb, killed 15 people today, Iraqi officials said. The deadliest of the day's attacks was the cafe bombing, which struck in the evening hours inside a small cafe in the capital's northeastern suburb of Husseiniyah,...
02:30
British hate preacher Abu Hamza told his US terror trial today that his hands were blown off during a Pakistan army explosives experiment in Lahore in 1993. The device was prepared by an Arab with the same name as an expert alleged to have taught al-Qaeda recruits in Afghanistan in...
00:38
Continuing the anti-Modi tirade against Narendra Modi, Mamata Banerjee today alleged that BJP was collecting 'Modi for PM' fund and said her party would write to the Election Commission about it. Modi for PM fund is illegal. PM and CM can only have Relief Fund. How can a political party...
00:38
Responding to Congress charge that Narendra Modi was a fake OBC, Gujarat government on Thursday cited its two-decade old notification which says the Modh-Ghanchi (oil-pressers) caste, to which Modi belongs, was included in Other Backward Castes (OBCs) category.The Social Welfare Department of the...
00:37
The Election Commission today said it has sought a factual report on allegations that Rahul Gandhi, a candidate from Amethi, had violated rules by going to the polling area inside some booths in the constituency during balloting yesterday. It is a matter of fact (that Rahul was) seeing the...
00:37
Modi to EC: Why are BJP and I being troubled?CBI gets first woman Addl Director, TN govt suspends herModi attacks EC, takes out roadshow in VaranasiPM farewell address to the nation on May 17Goa: 1 dead, 4 injured in explosionIf EC has the guts, let them ban me: Mulayam
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