23:38
German authorities think they 'have thwarted an Islamist attack', and a married couple has been arrested in a town near Frankfurt in connection with the case, the interior minister for the German state of Hesse told media persons.Read this story HERE
23:29
The railways has made free transportation of relief materials for earthquake affected people in Nepal.Transportation of relief materials by various government organisations or NGOs shall be booked free of cost to Raxaul station in Bihar from May 1 to 14, according to the notification issued...
22:58
President Barack Obama today nominated Gayle Smith as the Administrator of USAID and if confirmed by the Congress she would replace Indian-American Raj Shah as the head of the American aid agency.I've worked closely with Gayle for nearly a decade, and for the past six years Gayle has served as a...
22:32
A Pakistani national was killed in firing by BSF after he entered into the Indian territory from across the border in Basantar belt of Samba district in Jammu and Kashmir today.A Pakistani intruder wearing dark green clothes crossed the International Border at Border Pillar No. 189 near Chiliari...
22:20
Petrol price hiked by Rs 3.96 a litre and diesel by Rs 2.37 a litre, effective from midnight tonight.
22:12
Former CAG Vinod Rai today said the big-ticket corruption scandals are a thing of the past and the recent auction of coal blocks and spectrum stand a test of transparency.The big-ticket corruption scandals are a thing of the past and we may not have cases of such occurrences now, the former...
22:00
Aviation giant Airbus is to file a criminal complaint over alleged US industrial espionage, following German media reports, AFP news agency reports.Leaks from a secret report by Germany's national intelligence agency, the BND, suggest it collected information on European firms at Washington's...
21:44
The Ministry of External Affairs has responded to US panel's report that Indian minorities have been subjected to forced conversions and violent attacks under the new governments rule and at the hands of groups like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. India takes no cognisance of...
21:30
A fake name on a Facebook post can still get you in real trouble, especially when you're threatening to shoot every white cop you see.Ebony Dickens of East Point, Georgia, posted her Facebook rant under the name Tiffany Milan, police said.All Black ppl should rise up and shoot at every white cop...
21:13
More than 100 people were arrested in New York at protests over alleged police brutality against African Americans, officials said today.Thousands gathered Wednesday night in New York to demonstrate over the death of Freddie Gray, who succumbed to serious spinal injuries after his arrest in...
20:46
The Indian Army along with its Nepalese counterpart today rescued 84 Indians trapped in various parts of earthquake-hit Nepal. Standing shoulder to shoulder for humanitarian cause. Indian & Nepali Armies rescued 84...
20:35
The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is concerned about a rise in civilian casualties as the Taliban wage their spring offensive.The Taliban launched the annual offensive last week with an attack in northern Kunduz province, signalling a violent fighting season to come.Dominik...
19:58
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Beijing next month, the Chinese military today gave a guarded response in dispelling apprehensions of yet another military standoff at the LAC saying that it strictly abides by agreements to maintain peace and stability on the border.Chinese border...
19:30
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is likely to arrive here next week to hold talks with his Indian counterpart Manohar Parrikar to carry forward the over USD 6 billion (around Rs 381 crore) deal for 36 Rafale fighter jets.Defence Ministry sources said Drian will hold talks with Parrikar...
19:15
With more than 10,500 Indians back home by road, foreigners stranded in Nepal, are also opting for the road route to India and then home, reports Sharat Pradhan/Rediff.com reports from Sunauli on the Indo-Nepal border. The Indian immigration office at Sunauli, the main gateway to India for anyone...
19:04
The Indian military's swift evacuation of thousands of Indians from quake-hit Nepal has put China's PLA on the defensive with questions raised as to why its efforts to rescue stranded Chinese nationals did not match that of India. The media here has questioned why air force planes were not...
18:39
Lok Sabha passes Finance Bill, 2015, by a voice vote. The bill was passed with 41 amendments and six clauses. The Finance Bill 2015 was tabled in the Parliament today and contains the government's tax proposals for the fiscal FY16. Speaking in the lower house, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley...
18:08
Earthquake-ravaged Nepal is staring at a major economic crisis, with sectors like tourism and agriculture -- on which the country is heavily dependent -- thrown completely out of gear, industry body Assocham said today. At this point of time, a major economic crisis is looming over the Himalayan...
17:52
Indian Army's Rapid Action Medical Team at the field hospital at Rajdal Gana, Lagankhel, in the interiors of Nepal.
17:49
The Government of India has taken serious objection to outgoing Chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Rahul Khullar, slamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Jan Dhan yojana. The Finance Ministry is believed to have got in touch with the TRAI office for a clarification. Khullar...
17:42
@SpokespersonMoD IAF's C-17 will be transporting 40 tons of MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) contributed by the Gujarat government tonight.
17:32
The British public and the government raised 19 million pounds in one day for the victims of the devastating earthquake in Nepal. The British public donated over 14 million pounds to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Nepal Earthquake Appeal, matched by another 5 million pounds by the UK...
17:22
Finance minister Arun Jaitley takes a dig at Rahul Gandhi in the Lok Sabha while discussing the finance bill, today. Responding to Rahul's jibe that the BJP was suit-boot ki sarkar, Jaitley says, Being booted is good, but being booted out is bad. We are a soojh-boojh ka sarkar.He also attacked...
16:53
Climbing will resume on Mount Everest by next week after an earthquake-triggered avalanche that left 18 people dead on the world's highest peak, a Nepalese government official said today. Saturday's avalanche that ripped through base camp also destroyed ladders through the treacherous Khumbu...
16:32
We timed it and it was just short of 15 minutes. Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien was closeted in one-on-one meeting with Arun Jaitley at the union minister's office in Parliament House, which raised a number of eyebrows of various MPs who shall remain unnamed. They blandly said...
16:15
Nigerian troops rescued an additional 160 women and children from Boko Haram days after they found hundreds of other hostages, the military said Thursday.We are still working to verify the actual number of the rescued hostages but I can say they include around 60 women and 100 children, said Sani...
16:11
A tender, if sombre moment between Nepal and India as His Excellency Deep Kumar Upadhyay, Ambassador of Nepal presents his credentials to President Pranab Mukherjee today. Upadhyay, who was the ambassador-designate till now, expressed his gratitude to India for its quick response in helping...
16:07
BJP chief Amit Shah disapproves of a Haryana minister's remark that farmers committing suicide are cowards.
15:42
Do NOT buy canned tuna from Bumble Bee Foods. An employee was cooked alive with 12,000 pounds of tuna when the oven was turned on while he was cleaning it.Co-workers at the company's plant in Santa Fe loaded it with 12,000 pounds of tuna and turned it on. During the two hour cooking time,...
15:31
With incessant rains and the hot sun adding to the miseries of quake victims in Nepal, India today rushed 8,450 tents to its disaster-struck eastern neighbour. According to a statement issued by National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), the tents have been obtained from various paramilitary forces...
15:30
BJP is now the world's largest political party with 10 crore members, announces its president Amit Shah at a press conference. I take both pride and pleasure in informing that BJP has become world's largest political party with 10 crore members. Glad to inform you that BJP is a party which has...
14:38
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Swat awarded life imprisonment to 10 persons convicted for attempting to kill Malala Yousafzai. In September last year, militants behind the attack on Malala and two other school girls were arrested and identified. Malala, who is now an education activist...
14:31
A Pakistani intruder was gunned down by the paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) in the Samba sector of Jammu this morning. A BSF spokesman in Jammu said BSF troops deployed 'observed one Pakistani of approximately 30-35 years of age coming towards the border fence'.The troops challenged him,...
14:27
The cartoonist who drew the Prophet Mohammed for the first issueof the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo after the killings at the publication's offices in January has said that he will no longer turn his pencil to that subject.Mohammed no longer interests me, Renald Luzier, who works...
14:21
Punjab govt gets into damage control mode. Police top brass including DGP to brief media on Orbit bus incident at 3 pm.
14:10
Just in: Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal tells NDTV that the bus from which a mother and daughter were thrown out was unfortunately ours. The bus belonged to Orbit company, owned by the ruling Badal family, which came under fire from rivals parties with Aam Aadmi Party MP Bhagwant Mann...
13:44
Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval to to visit quake-hit Kathmandu tomorrow. Nepal on Tuesday said India has led the relief and rescue operations being carried out in the quake-hit nation and was the first to rush aid to the people.Nepal's Ambassador to...
12:54
Why are we not surprised? The Hoot reports that a woman journalist from a Marathi television channel was told to get up from the front-row seat she occupied at a function organised by the Swaminarayan Temple in Dadar, Mumbai to felicitate Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Phadnavis for bringing...
12:39
A court in Ernakulam, Kerala, here has found 13 persons guilty in the palm chopping case of a professor, while acquitting 18 others.The court upheld the decision to slap Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) on 10 of the accused. The NIA had submitted a charge-sheet against 31 accused in the...
12:12
The extraordinary tale of an ordinary man: How tea boy Raju Yadav turned his life around and became a web developer. Abhishek Mande-Bhot/Rediff.com, meets him. Read
12:04
Special NIA Court in Ernakulam finds 13 guilty in the 2010 hand chopping case of a college professor in Kerala.
11:58
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer got a nice pay bump last year, with a total compensation valued at $42.1M, up from $24.9M in 2013. While her base salary remained at $1M, Mayer received $11.8M in stock awards, $28.2M in option awards and $1.1M of non-equity incentive-plan compensation.Yahoo noted that it...
11:55
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today spoke to the Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, who had called to express condolences at the loss of lives in various parts of India due to the recent earthquake. Sharif also appreciated India's efforts in the rescue operations in Nepal. Modi has suggested...
11:53
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi met family members of Kishor , Kamble, a farmer who committed suicide, in Amravati, Maharashtra, today. A resurgent Rahul returned to Delhi after a 56-day hiatus to take on the government over the land bill and crop procurement. He was in Punjab on Tuesday...
11:41
A network of 293 ground motion sensors located across northern, eastern and northeastern India lay crippled during Nepal's 7.9 magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks, handicapping researchers trying to assess how the quakes affected cities and towns in these regions. Read more
11:34
After experiencing major devastation and loss of life in the April 25 earthquake, Nepal was left with an unsavoury taste in its mouth after receiving packets of 'beef masala' as part of the relief package from Pakistan, Mail Today reports. Since the majority-Hindu country treats cows as sacred...
11:10
A 14-year-old girl died and her mother is in hospital with severe injuries after they were thrown off a moving bus in Punjab on Wednesday for resisting molestation attempts by a group of men, reports NDTV. Two persons have been arrested and booked for murder. The teenager,...
11:05
A 39-member Indian Army team currently at the Everest Base Camp has voluntarily remained there to assist people including stranded tourists. The Indian Embassy also says that Army medical teams have been deployed at Barpak village, the epicentre of the Nepal Earthquake in the Gorkha district of...
10:59
Embassy of India in Kathmandu tweets that India helicopters have delivered 100 tonnes of relief material in various districts of Nepal including Gorkha, Dhading, Rasuwa, Nuwako, all of which are in the interiors of the country and need help the most.
10:55
Far away from their homeland and family members in the hour of tragedy, hundreds of Nepalese students studying here have turned into foot soldiers to raise funds for sending relief and succour to quake-hit Nepal. The 7.9-magnitude temblor on Saturday and succeeding aftershocks in the Himalayan...
10:43
India will provide e-tourist visas to 31 more countries, including France and Canada, enabling the citizens of these nations easy entry to the country.The e-tourist visa was launched in November last year for 45 countries from nine designated Indian airports.With the latest addition, the total...
10:41
INC India tweets: Amravati: Rahul Gandhi undertakes a 'kisan padyatra', interacts with farmers at Kunha village. #RGKisaanPadyatra
10:40
Kolkattans faced a lot of problems this morning due to the 24-hour shutdown call by the Left parties and their central trade unions to protest against the 'violence and vote loot' by activists of the ruling Trinamool Congress in the recently concluded Kolkata municipal corporation elections.This...
10:34
A 14-year-old girl died and her mother is in hospital with severe injuries after they were thrown off a moving bus in Punjab on Wednesday for resisting molestation attempts by a group of men.The teenager, her mother and younger brother boarded the private bus from their village in Moga district,...
09:57
Real Madrid players paid respects to the victims of the devastating earthquake in Nepal. The football stars wore special shirts with the caption 'United With Nepal' written on them. There was a minute's silence observed before Real's match against Almeria. Real Madrid won 2-0 thanks to...
09:31
The national level road transport organisations have jointly called for a nation-wide day-long strike that began midnight last night in protest against the proposed new road transport bill.The strike has been called jointly by both public and private sector workers which are affiliated to central...
09:29
The prosecution in the Little India Riot case has charged the accused Indian national of lying about being blocked by police from getting into his rented room in Little India, the area where the riot occurred in December 8, 2013. Arun Kaliamurthy, 29, took the stand yesterday on the third...
09:21
As the helicopter swooped over Nepal`s lush Gorkha Valley in search of earthquake survivors, the 10-foot `HELP!` sign spelled out by a desperate group of foreign trekkers couldn't fail to grab the pilot`s attention. Thank God you`ve come! said 31-year-old Julia Strelcoua after the...
09:07
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today began a 15-km day-long padyatra in Amravati district in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, during which he is meeting the families of farmers who committed suicide. Rahul, who reached Nagpur last night, left this morning for village Gunji to begin the...
03:48
After months of wait, Microsoft's ambitious IE-revamping attempt, Project Spartan finally has a name. And as fashionable and trendy as it could get, the newest browser on your Windows 10 OS will be called, the 'Microsoft Edge'.Apart from the name though, there is nothing more to it. The UI...
02:02
The UN has launched a $415m (270m) appeal for those affected by Nepal's earthquake, as frustration mounts at the pace of relief efforts.The UN said it wanted to support government efforts to provide emergency relief over the next three months.The riot police have clashed with people...
01:47
US President Barack Obama today called Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala to convey his deep condolences for the victims of the devastating quake and extended his full support for the rescue and relief mission.The President earlier today spoke with Prime Minister Sushil Koirala of Nepal to...
01:11
The International Committee of the Red Cross has started an online page where survivors of the April 25 earthquake as well as family members of those missing can register themselves to contact each other.The website -- http://familylinks.icrc.org/nepal-earthquake/ -- can help register names of...
00:56
Four members of a gang, which allegedly sent some Sri Lankan Tamil refugees from the state to various countries including Australia via Nepal using fake passports to avoid detection, have been arrested.The gang, all of them Sri Lankan Tamils, had used fake Indian passports to send Tamil refugees...
00:44
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today called up his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee to congratulate her on Trinamool Congress's massive victory in the civic polls.Kejriwal rang up and congratulated Banerjee for the party's civic poll victory, TMC national spokesman Derek O'Brien told...
00:33
As Mumbai Police's image takes a big hit with men in khaki facing serious criminal charges, including rape, its chief today said his first and foremost job was to provide quality policing and not to keep his force happy.Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria said he was accountable to people and not...
00:24
Maharashtra's Minister for Social Justice Rajkumar Badole said here today that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to inaugurate the erstwhile London residence of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar after purchase formalities of the 2,050 square feet bungalow are completed.The house in which Babasaheb...
00:02
In Baltimore, the numbers alone show the stark contrast between Monday's lawlessness and Tuesday's restraint.On Monday night, police made 235 arrests. After a citywide curfew went into effect at 10 pm on Tuesday, only 10 people were arrested. Police stand outside Oriole Park at Camden Yards...
00:01
After quake, Nepal grapples with post-disaster diseasesOur desire for good ties with India not reciprocated, says Pak PM'We just fled; we didn't even have time to take any money'Called Pakistan to ensure Lakhvi doesn't roam free: US reacts to 26/11 planner's releaseConcept of marital rape can't...
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