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Whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who had pointed out alleged irregularities in allotment of land to Robert Vadra in Haryana, was tonight transferred yet again for the umpteenth time.A senior IAS officer, Khemka, who had in November last been posted as Transport Commissioner and Secretary...
23:33
Pope Francis has been told by Vatican doctors to lay off the pasta, after gaining weight since being elected as head of the Roman Catholic Church two years ago.The 78-year-old Argentinian pontiff has appeared noticeably more upholstered during public appearances over the last few months, with...
23:14
ISIS is gone, but the fear remains.As Iraqi forces, aided by Shiite militiamen, took control Wednesday of the northern city of Tikrit, they found vehicles laden with explosives and buildings that might be booby-trapped.CNN senior international correspondent Arwa Damon, who was in Tikrit on...
22:29
Lauding the services of former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao to the country, the Telangana BJP today hailed the Centre's proposal to construct a memorial to the departed leader in Delhi.The BJP's Telangana unit welcomes the decision of the central government under the leadership of PM Narendra...
22:19
The first wife of 'The Beatles' legend, John Lennon, today died after a battle with cancer. Cynthia Lennon, 75, passed away in the presence of her family at her home in Spain.A message on her son Julian Lennon's website said she died following a short but brave battle with cancer. It also...
22:06
Senior broadcaster C Lalrosanga has been appointed as interim Director General of Doordarshan. With a diverse experience in broadcasting, both in sound and visuals, he previously held the charge of Additional Director General of All IndiaRadio and. He has taken charge of the public...
22:00
INS Sumitra has left Djibouti for Al Hodeidah, a port city on the west coast of Yemen, Sitanshu Kar, Chief Spokesperson for Minsitry of Defence tweeted. The INS ship is likely to reach the port before noon tomorrow, Kar informed.Additionally, a C-17 aircraft of the IAF with 168 Indian...
21:24
A Spanish court Wednesday remanded in custody a Moroccan woman suspected of trying to send her twin 16-year-old sons to Syria to become jihadi fighters, a year after her other son was killed there.Spain's National Court, which is charged with terrorism cases, ordered that the woman be held in...
21:07
The racist barb by Union Minister Giriraj Singh involving Congress President Sonia Gandhi has drawn a sharp reaction from her son-in-law Robert Vadra who took to social media to condemn the comments.Appalled to read the comments by a Union Minister on the Congress President/ My mother in Law. A...
20:55
As Iraqi forces, aided by Shiite militiamen, took control Wednesday of the northern city of Tikrit, they found vehicles laden with explosives and buildings that might be booby-trapped.The potential booby traps were political as well as physical. Officials are concerned about the behavior of the...
20:35
Seventy years ago, Anne Frank died of typhus in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of 15.Just two weeks after her supposed death on March 31, 1945, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she had been imprisoned was liberated -- the timing showed how close the Jewish diarist had been to...
19:56
Amaravati will be Andhra Pradesh's new capital, chief minister Chandrababu Naidu announced today. The decision was taken by the state cabinet, he said.In today's meet we decided to name Amravati as the new capital of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Naidu said.Amaravati, which derives its name from...
19:48
In a shocking sexist comment, a ruling Samajwadi Party MLA in Uttar Pradesh today said women were more responsible for rapes, drawing strong condemnation from opposition parties....it is wrong to say that women are less guilty, they are more responsible for rapes, Shiv Charan Prajapati, MLA from...
18:45
Just In: The West Bengal government has banned the entry of VHP leader Praveen Togadia, announces home secretary Basudeb Banerjee.Further details soon.
18:44
Just In: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday attached assets worth Rs 742 crore in the name of former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran and his brother Kalanithi Maran in Aircel-Maxis case in which they have been accused along with six others.On August 29 last year, the CBI had filed the...
18:29
The acting high commissioner of Nigeria OB Okongor, reacts to Giriraj Singh's comments. Given that the minister is at the highest levels of government, the remarks made are unfortunate. India, Nigeria have close ties, such remarks not expected. We will not do anything that will destroy the...
17:35
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has 'liked' Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Facebook post about the Varanasi constituency page launched today within hours of its posting.The micro-site is a specially created one stop destination for gathering all information about Prime Minister Modi's...
16:52
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today joined the people of the Valley to offer special prayers for the improvement of weather conditions in the state. Sayeed paid obeisance at the holy Hazratbal shrine in the outskirts of Srinagar and offered special prayers for the...
16:24
Congress leader Milind Deora rightly condemns Giriraj Singh's remarks saying, Dark days ahead for our democracy when union ministers are allowed & encouraged to repeatedly make anti-women, racist & communal statements.But he seems to have forgotten his colleague Digvijaya Singh's remarks...
16:20
MoS VK Singh in Djibouti coordinating the evacuation from Yemen. The first IAF C-17 transport aircraft with 175 rescued Indians to depart Djibouti soon.
16:12
Loved this. Shashi Tharoor tweets: The joys of tweeting in India! I wrote paid a condolence visit. Got 10 replies like this:So u were paid fr a condolence visit? Shame on u.
16:11
Giriraj Singh also mocked Rahul Gandhi's absence from the political scene and likened it to the missing Malaysian airliner. Imagine a situation, if Congress was in power instead of us and had Rahul been the Prime Minister, and if for some reason, the PM had disappeared for more than 47 days....
15:45
Union minister Giriraj Singh apologises for his appalling racist remarks against Sonia Gandhi. As the BJP distanced itself from the minister, he said, I apologise for my comments on Sonia Gandhi. If I have hurt Rahul or Sonia in any way, I apologise. The minister shamed the country today...
15:31
MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweets this picture of Indians who were evacuated from Yemen. The ubiquitous smart phone seems to be a companion in every situation. The MEA says that these Indians were evacuated from Aden and are now in Djibouti. External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj confirms...
15:11
The Union Finance ministry has made the use of a pan card mandatory for any transaction above Rs 1 lakh. The Revenue Secretary issued a circular to all the secretaries to the government of India and to Chief Secretaries quoting the Finance Minister's Budget speech with this new proposal.The...
15:04
The Congress has said Giriraj Singh's remarks reflected the lack of moral fibre in the BJP. The Congress strongly deprecates and condemns the intemperate and distasteful remarks of Giriraj Singh bordering on insanity, said party spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala.It appears that the continuous...
14:59
Read Pritish Nandy's blog for the Times of India: Is a new Modi emerging?
14:46
And while on China, Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Pakistan next week to deepen economic and strategic ties between the two all-weather allies, a senior official said today.Xi was to visit Pakistan last year during his South Asia trip to India, Sri Lankan and the Maldives but...
14:40
On the eve of the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and India on April 1, 1950, the Chinese Ambassador to India, Le Yucheng, in written answers provided to a set of questions posed by the Hindu, emphasised the need for a renewal of China-India ties in...
14:31
MoS Home V K Singh greets Indians evacuated from Aden to Djibouti. You are safe now, he tells them.
14:28
Three-hundred-and-fifty Indians were rescued on Tuesday by the Indian Navy from the strife-torn Yemen's Aden city. INS Sumitra took the people to the neighbouring territory of Djibouti, which lies across the Red Sea. The evacuation process was initiated after India got approval on Tuesday to dock...
14:23
An influential American Senator has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is probably the strongest Indian leader to have emerged in his lifetime and asserted that the US needs to have more cooperation with India. I'm incredibly impressed with the new leader. Mr Modi is probably the strongest leader...
14:09
Flurry of activity in North Block over the last two days. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and 15 of his senior officials burned the midnight oil to complete the year-end process of allocation of funds to state governments and union ministries. Insiders say Jaitley signed as many as 600 times...
14:01
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today dedicated to the nation an expansion and modernisation project worth Rs 12,000 crore at Rourkela Steel Plant.Modi happens to be the second Prime Minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to visit the plant, one of the five integrated plants of public sector steel giant...
13:59
Brinda Karat on Giriraj Singh's . What is PM's Mann Ki Baat on this? We want to see what Modi has to say? It's condemnable. BJP spokespersons have refused to comment on the statement.
13:43
Union minister Giriraj Singh needs a muzzle. The minister shamed the country today with his hugely sexist remark saying it was the colour of Sonia Gandhi's skin that made her the Congress president.If Rajiv Gandhi had married a Nigerian and if she wasn't white skin, would Congress accept her as a...
13:26
The body of a 50-year-old woman was found from her husband's pyre giving rise to suspicion that she performed 'sati'. The incident happened in Latur district of Maharashtra, when family members went to collect her husband Tukaram's ashes yesterday, when they found her burnt body in the pyre....
13:11
A crucial day/night for Kashmir. The Met department predicts a western disturbance on J&K. This means the intensity of rain will increase by evening.Sonam Lotus (Director, Met department) says, there will be moderate to heavy rainfall all through the day and tonight is crucial for the state....
12:50
Senior BJP leader LK Advani is focusing his attention on a new love -- a new Sindhi TV channel. Primarily an entertainment channel, it is being put together by a group of Sindhis based in Dubai with Advani as the coordinator. The channel is targeted at Sindhis scattered all over India...
12:35
In a party bombarded with stings and explosive letters, AAP's former internal Lokpal Admiral Ramdas has now written a stinger to AAP's national executive. The letter raises flags on the post of convener, participation of women and inner party democracy in AAP. The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday...
12:31
Former PM Dr Manmohan Singh heaved a sigh of relief as he watched TV channels play out news that the Supreme Court had stayed summons against him in the Coalgate case. Two of Dr Singh's three daughters were present in court today when the verdict was announced. Dr Singh waited for his...
12:12
Manmohan Singh also raises the issue of lack of sanction to prosecute him in the case. Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal who is defending Dr Singh says a PM has plenary powers and his administrative decisions can't be termed illegal.
12:10
AAP released a fresh list of spokespersons yesterday. The obvious absentees were senior members Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, both of whom were recently expelled from the national council and other committees after an ugly showdown. Other than 14 spokespersons from Delhi, the list...
11:52
A new organisational structure with a defined mechanism for candidate selection for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections could be unveiled as Rahul Gandhi's plan to reform the Congress.The district-wise and block-wise organisational structure is being changed to constituency-wise units. Every...
11:38
Celebrations at Dr Manmohan Singh's home today. The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the CBI on ex-PM Manmohan Singh's petition in the Coalgate case. The SC has stayed all proceedings against Manmohan and five others in the case. The former prime minister petitioned the court challenging the...
11:26
Petrol prices cut by 49 paise per litre, diesel by Rs 1.21 a litre.
11:19
We all know that vegetables are good for us - but did you know that eating just one portion of leafy greens a day could stave off dementia? Researchers at Rush University in Chicago evaluated the diet and mental ability of around 950 older people every year for two to 10 years....
11:08
Sunita Tomar, 28 the face of India's tobacco battle, died at Mumbai's Tata Memorial Hospital at 4 am on Wednesday. Two days before she died, she wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about her dismay at BJP MP Dilip Gandhi's statement in his capacity as chairman of Lok Sabha's Committee of...
11:00
A meeting with Israel's President in Singapore on Sunday has revived a plan for a possible path-breaking visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Tel Aviv, but sections within the diplomatic community are cautioning against rushing into a trip at a time the region is on fire. Read
10:39
An 18-year-old girl was shot dead and her friend injured by an office boy of a residential school in Bengaluru, the police said. The deceased is a second-year pre-university student at the school and was residing at the hostel, they said. The incident took place last night and...
10:05
Main opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari won Nigeria's presidential election by 2.57 million votes, according to official results announced today. The Independent National Electoral Commission said the 72-year-old, from the All Progressives Congress (APC), won 15,424,921 votes or 53.95 per...
09:14
It has begun raining again in Srinagar today morning. The Meteorological Department has predicted that the Kashmir Valley would receive heavy rains today. The respite from heavy raise through yesterday had seen the water level in the River Jhelum receding below the danger...
08:48
An influential American Senator has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is probably the strongest Indian leader to have emerged in his lifetime and asserted that the US needs to have more cooperation with India. I'm incredibly impressed with the new leader. Modi is probably the strongest...
08:43
Misao Okawa, a Japanese woman who was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person, died at the age of 117 early Wednesday morning at a nursing home in Osaka, sources close to her said.Born in 1898, Okawa was recognised by Guinness as the oldest living woman in...
08:08
Around 350 stranded Indians were evacuated today from strife-torn Yemen's Aden city on an Indian Naval ship that will now take them to Djibouti, a country neighbouring Yemen and across the Red Sea.The evacuation operation took place in dark night conditions amid the escalating violence in...
02:32
Pakistan's former president and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari is planning to launch his daughter Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari into politics, a move indicative of strained ties with his son Bilawal.Bilawal Bhutto Zardari formally stepped into politics last year, but soon developed differences...
02:06
Former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari's campaign said Tuesday that Buhari has won Nigeria's presidential election and President Goodluck Jonathan has conceded defeat.A Nigerian Cabinet minister said Jonathan congratulated Buhari on the win. An aide in Jonathan's offices said the...
00:06
A BSF convoy came under IED attack laid by militants today while travelling on National Highway-51 in West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya causing minor injuries to three personnel.The incident took place in the afternoon when the BSF convoy, with the mortal remains of a jawan who died in a...
00:04
Maharashtra Government today said a complete loan waiver for farmers is not possible but it is looking at the possibility of restructuring cooperative crop loans to provide relief to distressed agriculturalists, who are facing losses due to natural calamities.From February 28 to March 3, about...
00:03
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