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British fighter jets were scrambled today in response to the sighting of two Russian military aircraft near UK airspace, hours after three Russian ships were monitored as they entered the English Channel. Quick Reaction Alert Typhoon fighter aircraft were launched today after Russian...
22:12
In a direct challenge to the White House, a Senate committee is to vote on a bill that would give Congress a chance to weigh in on any final nuclear agreement that can be reached with Iran. Despite a veto threat from President Barack Obama, there is strong bipartisan support for Congress to...
22:09
Al-Shabab militants have attacked a government complex in a busy area of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, leaving at least 17 people dead, including seven assailants.A car loaded with explosives was driven into the wall surrounding the compound, and gunmen then stormed the building.Officials say the...
22:08
A senior IAS officer has been accused of sexually exploiting a woman on the pretext of marrying her, after which the Haryana government tonight asked him to proceed on leave. The lawyer of the 1987-batch officer S N Roy, however, denied the charges alleging the complainant was only trying to...
21:39
Hillary Rodham Clinton is making her 2016 presidential campaign debut in Iowa at a small-town gathering, part of a concerted effort to tamp down big expectations and hold personal conversations with voters. Clinton, seeking to become America's first female president, announced her candidacy...
21:37
Prime Minister Narendra Modi todayasked why India, which has peace in its DNA and is the landof Mahatma Gandhi and Gautam Buddha, had to wait for 70 yearsfor the permanent seat in the UN Security Council. Underling that the United Nations will complete 70 years of its formation this...
21:31
The Kremlin confirmed on Tuesday that an oil-for-goods barter deal between Russia and Iran was being implemented and officials said the road was clear for Moscow to supply an advanced S-300 anti-missile system to Tehran.Oil and commodities traders contacted by Reuters were...
21:28
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced that a mechanism will be established to facilitate investment and business from Germany as the two countries agreed to broaden bilateral economic cooperation. Modi made the announcement after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel who both had...
21:22
BSF and Pakistani Rangers today held a flag meeting along International Border (IB) in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior official said. The flag meeting was held between officers of 9th battalion of BSF and 24 Pak Rangers along Border Out Post (BoP) Manguchak along IB in Samba...
21:06
Air India One, a Boeing 747-400 aircraft that carried Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Delhi to Berlin after halts in Paris, Toulouse and Hannover, developed engine problems and had to be replaced by another plane. The standby plane, kept in readiness in Mumbai, left early this...
20:41
Indian and Chinese troops today held a ceremonial Border Personal (BP) meeting along Sino-India border in Ladakh sector of Jammu and Kashmir and agreed to uphold peace and tranquillity along the LAC. A ceremonial Border Personal meeting was held today between Indian Army and Peoples...
20:13
Holding Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's alleged dictatorial tendency responsible for the rift within the Aam Aadmi Party, social activist Swami Agnivesh today said the party chief doesn't consider anyone before him. Kejriwal has dictatorial tendency. He doesn't allow anyone to stand...
19:29
Actor-turned-politician Rupa Ganguly on Tuesday alleged that she was assaulted by members of the rival Trinamool Congress while campaigning for municipal elections in Kolkata.Ganguly, best known for playing Draupadi in Doordarshan's epic Mahabharata, said she was campaigning in Ward 78 for a BJP...
19:26
A Delhi Correspondent: There seems to be a buzz in the Congress headquarters over reports that party vice president Rahul Gandhi, who has been on sabbatical for nearly two months, may be back in action on Wednesday.Reports say that Rahul could 'resurface' either in Delhi or Patna with the...
18:59
German Chancellor Angela Merkel presented an original first edition print of Max Mueller's 1898 book, 'Ramakrishna- His Life and Sayings' to PM Narendra Modi before he left for Canada.Modi visited France and Germany as part of a tri-nation visit which will conclude with his stay in Canada.
18:59
German Chancellor Angela Merkel presented an original first edition print of Max Mueller's 1898 book, 'Ramakrishna- His Life and Sayings' to PM Narendra Modi before he left for Canada.Modi visited France and Germany as part of a tri-nation visit which will conclude with his stay in Canada.
18:40
Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed the second leg of his three-nation visit as he left for Ottawa, Canada.I leave Germany with great satisfaction. This visit will strengthen the India-Germany ties. Thank you Germany!: PM Modi tweeted right before he boarded his flight to Canada.The visit to...
18:27
It was not any of the hard-nosed journalists or politicians but a 10-year-old Indian-origin schoolgirl that has stumped the British Prime Minister on the campaign trail.Reema, a student from the northern England city of Salford in Greater Manchester, asked a question regarding his favorite...
18:19
ANI files a complaint with the Delhi Police, Economic Offenses Wing, and the Cyber Cell of the Delhi Police regarding a photoshopped tweet.A fake tweet about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's love for Germany and German Shepherds from news agency ANI began trending on Twitter today. The PM...
17:47
Modi on terrorism: Terrorism has taken new and serious forms, we should devise a comprehensive strategy to tackle it, the PM said at the Joint Press Meet with Germany. We should put pressure on governments which provide shelter and support to terrorists, says PM Modi, in an apparent reference to...
17:37
The Prime Minister today gifted the German Chancellor Angela Merkel reproductions of some manuscripts and papers by Sir C V Raman who received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1930 for his work on scattering of light and whose life journey, even though he performed most of his studies and...
17:26
PM Modi at the joint presser with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. This is last public address in Germany before he leaves for Canada later today. The Lion and the Eagle will make a very good combination and I am sure of that. I want to thank the Chancellor that we spoke about India -Germany bond...
17:11
A week earlier, Sandeep Dikshit (Sheila Dikshit's son), when asked about Rahul Gandhi's continued absence for over a month, said, There have been a lot of discussions going on with regard to whether there will be a change in Congress leadership. Mr Gandhi (Rahul) is a capable leader, but when I...
17:01
Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit openly questions Rahul Gandhi's ability to lead the floundering Congress party. Dikshit, a Gandhi family loyalist, says, There are question marks over Rahul Gandhi's leadership qualities. Sonia should continue to lead the Congress. Sonia does not run...
16:23
BJP president Amit Shah on Tuesday said that his party will form next government in Bihar and did some math to support his argument. BJP is set to form the next government in Bihar. There is no confusion, Shah said in his short speech in Hindi after he launched the party's poll campaign in Patna....
16:09
Congress today accused BJP of trying to usurp the legacy of B R Ambedkar for vote-bank politics even as the Government came under attack on Dalit issues at a function held under the auspices of National Commission for Scheduled Castes and a Dalit outfit here.NCSC Chairman P L Punia, who is a...
15:28
A number of AAP leaders and prominent individuals today stayed away from the convention of party rebels Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan and chose to express solidarity through written statements instead. AAP's Patiala MP Dharamvira Gandhi, who had earlier faced the leadership's ire for taking...
15:25
On this day, 14 April, 1912 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40.
15:01
Australia Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has assured External Affairs Sushma Swaraj that a Special Task Force would be constituted for the expeditious investigation of Bengaluru techie Prabha Arun Kumar. She was stabbed to death while returning home in Sydney. A month later, the Sydney police...
14:39
Siddharth @svaradarajan Germany's way of respecting Sanskrit was to have a news bulletin in our language. Modi's way is to stop teaching German in KV schools!
14:26
Narendra Modi's Instagram tweet: Chancellor Merkel & I marvelling at the wonders of technology.In fact, the picture, which was posted an hour ago, was taken yesterday at Hannover Messe. Modi is in Berlin today and will leave for Canada this evening. The PM and Chancellor Merkel hold up...
14:20
Did this man suffer from Pentheraphobia (fear of your mother-in-law)?In a freak incident, a US man trying to shoot an armadillo accidentally hit his mother-in-law after the bullet bounced off the creature's armour. Larry McElroy was outside his home in Lee County, Georgia when he fired his 9 mm...
14:16
Just in: ICICI Bank cuts home loan rate by 0.25 per cent for new and existing borrowers.
14:08
Separatist leaders Yasin Malik and Masarat Alam were detained by police while they were on their way to Tral, according to news reports on Tuesday. The two leaders were en route to Tral a day after a suspected militant was killed by the Army in the forests of the area in...
13:55
Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj meets her counterpart from Australia, Julie Bishop, at the India-Australia Framework Dialogue in New Delhi. Swaraj asked Bishop to ensure that the perpetrators of the tragic murder of Prabha Arun Kumar are caught and brought to book.
13:38
Angry and unhappy over being sidelined in the BJP, Bollywood actor-turned-politician and Lok Sabha MP from Patna Sahib, Shatrughan Sinha. has decided to boycott BJP president Amit Shah's rally on Tuesday.Shatrughan Sinha will not attend Amit Shah's much-publicised rally in Patna...
13:21
Pakistan's Punjab government today challenged the Lahore High Court's decision to suspend the detention of LeT operations commander and 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi in the Supreme Court, saying his release has created problems for it. The Punjab government in its petition...
13:09
The controversial 'Mangalsutra (Thaali) removal function', organised by the Dravidar Kazhagam, was held early this morning before the Madras High Court ordered a stay on organising of the event. The function was held in accordance with the permission granted (by a single judge of the High Court...
12:55
Yuva Sena chief Aditya Thackeray has urged the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to stall attempts to axe net neutrality which according to him will draw public ire and do lasting damage to the nation which is on the threshold of moving forward digitally. Net neutrality is the...
12:52
Nigeria today marks the first anniversary of Boko Haram's abduction of 219 schoolgirls from the northeastern town of Chibok, as part of a series of events planned around the world. The commemoration and renewed calls for their release came as Amnesty International said the Islamists had kidnapped...
12:22
And this is the list given to Indian journalists where Adani's name goes missing.
12:22
On the first leg of his tri-nation tour, the Prime Minister, as we may be aware, was in France. In Paris, he met several CEOs from India as well as France with the focus on infrastructure and defence. Among the guests were RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani, Adani Groups Gautam Adani and Rajan Mittal of...
12:09
While the PM delivers his secular spiel in Berlin, back home in Ahmedabad, the Municipal Corporation's Shahpur Public School and Dani Limda Public School have saffron uniforms for Hindu kids and a green uniform for Muslim kids. Read
12:03
In a major boost to net neutrality in India, e-commerce major Flipkart has announced that it has pulled out of its partnership with Bharti Airtel on its platform, Airtel Zero.The company said it is committed to the larger cause of net neutrality in India and will be internally discussing over the...
11:57
India's secularism is not so weak that it will be shaken just because of a language, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said in the backdrop of a row over Sanskrit replacing German in government-run schools in India. Addressing a reception for the Indian community in Berlin last night, Modi...
11:42
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal have been voted among the 100 most influential people in the world in an online poll by readers of Time magazine. Russian President Vladimir Putin emerged the winner of this year's Time 100 readers' poll. He edged out...
11:39
Salman Rushdie pays tribute to German novelist and Nobel prize winner Guenter Grass, who passed away yesterday, aged 87. Read
11:35
CPI leader D Raja's column on Ambedkar: Today the nation celebrates the 125th birth anniversary of B.R. Ambedkar. In spite of being one of the worst victims of untouchability and having been denied basic human rights, Ambedkar rose as a colossus -- a jurist, a Constitution-maker and, above all,...
11:33
On the 125th birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, on April 14, India still finds itself unable to induct him into the pantheon of greats unquestioningly. His statue, with its ubiquitous electric blue suit, may be a common sight at bus stands, bastis and universities, but it hardly brings...
11:27
As the net neutrality debate hots up, Amul's take.
11:13
Why Congress is on a mission to own Ambedkar. Read
11:12
As India tightens its security in the wake of a terror threat, Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, who was released from a jail in Pakistan, was back with his family, his lawyer told The Indian Express.After Lakhvi was released from Adiala...
11:12
The brother of China's last emperor - who was pushed off the throne in 1912, ending the Qing dynasty - has died in Beijing at the age of 96, state media reported.Puren was the youngest sibling of the final Qing monarch Puyi, a child-ruler portrayed in the Bernardo Bertolucci film -- The Last...
11:06
For a country that is so dependent on overseas contract workers, the Nepali state seems to be capable of neither protecting its citizens abroad nor maximising the benefits of remittances to the national economy. This is a disgraceful and outrageous lapse, but not surprising given the...
10:52
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's grand-nephew, Surya Kumar Bose, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Berlin on Monday evening and is understood to have raised the issue of declassification of all secret files related to the freedom fighter amid a row over snooping on the leader's close relatives....
10:28
Intelligence agencies have warned of a possible terror strike in the next few months and issued an alert to all states.In a letter earlier this month, the Mumbai railway police have said that the terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba is planning to attack hotels and railway stations in the city in...
10:23
There was much buzz about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande's 'naav pe charcha' on the La Seine river. Hollande was seen giving details to Modi, probably in French, about various areas as the boat cruised through the river, as the PM listened intently....
09:45
Just in: It's definitely not a happy Bihu for this Congress lawmaker. The Assam police arrested MLA Rumi Nath arrested for her alleged links with pan-India car theft racket.Nath, the police says, has been arrested for alleged links to Anil Chauhan, who is the kingpin of an auto theft racket that...
09:10
CNN IBN reports: Even as the debate over free and equal access to the Internet continues, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad assured start ups and young Internet entrepreneurs that government will address their concerns. I can assure that the young Internet entrepreneurs, the...
08:58
Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh would attend a party workers convention tomorrow to sound the bugle for assembly elections to be held later this year.Our leaders Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh will launch the campaign for Bihar assembly polls at the...
08:43
Did Subhas Chandra Bose really die in that plane crash, asks Adheer Som, a Netaji researcher. The government, even this government, says that declassifying Netajis files will be detrimental to Indias interests. No one who reveres Netaji can ever wish harm upon Indias interests, and I believe...
08:30
It is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's last day in Germany after which he will head to Canada. Modi will attend a working lunch hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin today. He will take a tour of the Berlin Hauptbahnhof. Modi will be the first Indian PM to visit Canada in 42 years. He...
08:23
The Aam Aadmi Party today said that they have not sanctioned the convention to be held today by rebels Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan. The 'Swaraj Samvad' programme which is being organised is not an authorised event of the party, says AAP leader Sanjay Singh. The rebels are sending a wrong...
08:16
Aam Aadmi Party's rebel camp of Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav will hold a 'Swaraj Samvad' convention today to discuss the future course of action after their expulsion from the party's top echelons, even as the party warned of action against those attending the event. Sources close to...
01:51
Novelist Gnter Grass, the Nobel laureate who is perhaps best known for his novel The Tin Drum and who shocked his country when he revealed in 2006 that he had been a member of the Waffen SS in the last months of World War II, has died. Grass was 87.The news was announced by his publisher, Steidl...
01:32
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has slammed developed nations for questioning India over global warming despite it having the lowest per capita emission of gases and asserted that India will set the agenda for the Climate Change conference to be held in France in September.I am surprised that the...
01:30
The US military expressed concern today after Russia lifted its ban on supplying its advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran. Our opposition to these sales is long and public. We believe it's unhelpful, Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren told reporters. We are raising...
00:38
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked Indian professionals in Germany to act as a bridge between the two countries to help pitchfork India as a global manufacturing hub, promising a conducive atmosphere for it.It is a win-win situation for both countries, he said while addressing the Indian...
00:33
Holding that preserving the rights guaranteed under the Constitution, including freedom of expression, was its priority, the Madras High Court tonight cleared the decks for controversial 'Mangalsutra removal and beef banquet' to be held in Chennai on Tuesday by Dravidar Kazhagam.I am only...
00:31
The UN's cultural agency issued a fresh condemnation today of jihadists' destruction of Iraq's Nimrud, once the jewel of Assyria and home to a treasure considered one of the 20th century's main archaeological finds.I condemn this mad, destructive act that accentuates the horror of the situation,...
00:31
Seshachalam 'encounter': Witnesses reveal what happened Fourth attack in 72 hours: 6 killed, 8 injured in Naxal-triggered blastFuture Rafale deals will also be under govt to govt: Parrikar 'Minister' Ramdev to develop herbal forest, 'yogshala' in HaryanaMumbai attack mastermind Lakhvi's...
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