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A Saudi Arabian rights activist sentenced to prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam will not be flogged Friday for medical reasons, his wife said.Raif Badawi, convicted on charges that included insulting Islam, had been scheduled to receive the second of 20 sentenced floggings after Friday...
23:12
A suspected jihadist group targeted in a major anti-terror raid on Thursday had been planning to kill policemen in the street and at police stations, Belgian prosecutors say.The planned attacks were imminent, they said, adding that two suspects shot dead in Verviers during the raids were still...
23:03
A B Bardhan, former secretary general of CPI, was admitted in a private nursing home here following an increase in his blood pressure. His condition was stated to be stable. Comrade Bardhan, who was here to attend the party's national executive, suddenly took ill and was exhausted due...
22:51
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today expressed his strong support for closer economic ties with Japan and conveyed his greetings to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his recent victory in general elections. Modi conveyed his support when visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, who...
22:22
The US today slapped sanctions against two Indians, including a brother of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, and a Pakistan-based paper company for their ties with the D Company. Designation of two long-time members of D Company, Shaikh Anis Ibrahim Kaskar (Anis Ibrahim), the brother of Dawood...
21:41
The Delhi police today held meetings with sleuths of US Secret Service and top police officials of neighbouring states to chalk out a coordination plan and identify possible challenges in order to ensure fool-proof security during the coming Republic Day parade where President Barack Obama will...
21:38
BBC reports: 2014 was the hottest year on record across the globe, US scientists have confirmed. The year ranks as the Earth's warmest since 1880, according to two separate analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The ten warmest years on record,...
21:22
Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi today launched 'MeruEve', a new cab service which will be chauffeured only by women drivers. Twenty five such cabs were flagged off by Bassi and Siddhartha Pahwa, CEO of Meru Cabs, said that in the next couple of months, the number of such cabs will be...
20:59
The Aam Aadmi Party has launched a Twitter war against Kiran Bedi and Shazia Ilmi, who have joined the BJP by pulling out old tweets of the two.In a subtle attack on Ilmi on Wednesday, AAP Chief Arvind Kejriwal retweeted one of her old tweets, dated November 21, 2013, which said...
20:37
Shiv Sena, which is BJP's partner in Maharashtra and at the Centre, is considering contesting the Delhi assembly elections to be held next month. We are thinking about contesting the Delhi polls. A final decision will be taken soon. However, there has been no talk so far on a poll alliance with...
20:34
Just in: Congress has pit Kiran Walia against Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal in the New Delhi constituency. Walia a former Delhi minister was defeated by AAP's Somnath Bharti in Malviya Nagar constituency in the 2013 assembly polls. She had won the seat in 1999, 2003 and 2008. She was the...
20:28
Just in: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the global business summit at Taj Palace in New Delhi. I am happy to her here today. You will see India as a country of opportunities. I assure you that your inputs shall receive the government's highest attention, he said. The New Age India has...
20:21
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal today took a swipe at the BJP, saying that it roped in former top cop Kiran Bedi and his one-time aide Shazia Ilmi when Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in New Delhi turned out to be dud. Addressing a rally at Trilokpuri, which saw communal riots flaring up some...
20:15
The Congress today slammed its senior leader Shashi Tharoor for continuing to praise Prime Minister Narendra Modi ignoring the party's line. While senior leader and AICC Disciplinary Committee Chairman A K Antony said the party had earlier also cautioned Tharoor against lavishing praises on...
19:50
A Hyderabad-based engineer, who has studied in the US, was arrested today by the Telangana police for suspected links with the Islamic State, NDTV reports. 22-year-old Salman Moinuddin, a resident of Asif Nagar in Hyderabad, was stopped by security agencies at the airport yesterday when he...
19:14
Delhi polls: Congress's Kiran Walia to contest from New Delhi.
19:10
Paris hostage situation ends with the arrest of the gunman.
19:07
Abraham also denied she was writing Tharoor's biography as reported by India Today. BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday also claimed on his Twitter account that Katie is actually Katherine Abraham. However, Swamy later tweeted, My information is from the police. I made no such claim. I...
18:58
Katherine Abraham, the woman over whom the Tharoors allegedly argued, has filed a defamation suit against a TV channel for alluding that she was involved with Shashi Tharoor. The Special Investigation Team's probe into the murder mystery of Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor, wife of former Union...
18:54
A picture of top cop Kiran Bedi with former PM Indira Gandhi in 1973. Bedi joined the BJP yesterday and will contest the Delhi polls. A police officer who was there at the meeting says Bedi grabbed the chair next to Mrs Gandhi, but did not get any special attention.
18:45
Petrol price cut by Rs 2.42 per litre and diesel by Rs 2.25 per litre.
18:44
The Delhi High Court today chided the government for installing 15,000 CCTV cameras within weeks for US President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to the national capital, but failing to act fast when it comes to meet the needs of the citizens. So let's get someone from outer space, a bench of...
18:38
The Independent reports that the man, though heavily armed, is known to be an unbalanced individual who recently broke up with his girlfriend. Two individuals are being held by the gunman, who contacted the police himself, but insisted there was no link to terrorism.
18:26
US Secretary of State John Kerry made up for missing Sunday's Paris unity march with a visit to the capital to meet French officials and show American solidarity in the wake of the recent terror attacks, reports France24.The march, held to commemorate the 17 victims of last week's three-day...
18:17
AFP reports that two, and not three people, have been taken hostage in Colombes in northwest Paris. The gunman is believed to be a holding a Kalashnikov rifle. The post office has been cordoned off and there are choppers circling the area. Earlier today, there was a bomb threat at a Paris...
18:08
Just in: Three people have been taken hostage by a gunman in a post office in suburban Paris. Details awaited.This comes just a day after funerals were held for four people killed in last week's attack in Paris on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo by militant Islamists. Friends and family...
18:02
In Hollywood women and people from ethnic minorities are only rewarded for playing victims and villains. Read
17:54
AFP photographer Asif Hassan was shot while covering the Charlie Hebdo protest in Karachi, but appeared to be out of danger following surgery. The bullet struck his lung, and passed through his chest. He is out of immediate danger and he has spoken to his colleagues, Dr. Seemi Jamali, a...
17:35
Pakistani police have clashed with crowds protesting over an image of the Prophet Muhammad published in French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, reports the BBC. An AFP photographer shot at is believed to be in a serious condition. The authorities deployed water cannon to disperse the...
17:18
In a shocking incident of moral policing, a video has surfaced on social media showing a group of hooligans brutality thrashing a young couple in Latur, Maharashtra.The attackers belong to GanimiKawa, a rural organisation which often indulges in moral policing. According to reports in...
17:08
Ira Bhaskar, Censor Board member on her decision to resign: No pressure. Had already decided, there has been no board meeting for a year. It is a culmination process which has been going for a while, what is the point of extension if we are not able to function? I have decided to resign in...
17:07
AFP photographer shot at in Pakistan Charlie Hebdo protest, in serious condition.
16:44
Anti-Charlie Hebdo protests in Karachi turn violent. A photographer is shot as police fire on protestors.
16:37
Jagtar Singh Tara, convicted for life in the Beant Singh murder case, deported from Thailand, reports ANI.
16:35
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh addresses a press conference after the release of his film, MSG -- Messenger of God, was stopped today. Singh says, that he never put any pressure on the censor board to release the film and calls for censor board chief Leela Samson to say why she...
15:58
An Indian was among eight foreigners who are missing along with 14 others when a tugboat sank off the Yangtze River in China's east Jiangsu Province.Four from Singapore and one each from India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Japan were among the 25 people aboard the boat when it capsized while...
15:57
AAP's Ashutosh on Shazia Ilmi's induction: My wishes with Shazia, but shows BJP has turned into Arvind's B team, they can't fight him alone so taking ppl who've worked with him.Yesterday, Kiran Bedi, a former Team Anna worker, was inducted into the BJP.
15:41
Days after his shocking electoral defeat, embattled former president Mahinda Rajapaksa today handed over Sri Lanka Freedom Party's reins to the country's new leader Maithripala Sirisena, saying he does not want to see his party divided. I dislike to see my party divided,...
15:26
Finally. Former AAP leader Shazia Ilmi joins the BJP.
15:22
Just in: After Leela Samson, another Censor Board member Ira Bhaskar to resign.
15:21
Swapan Dasgupta @swapan on Leela Samson resigning as Censor Board chief. Samson's method: create a controversy just before term expires, submit resignation & emerge a political martyr. Congress debt repaid.
15:12
Just in: The US also wants a lockdown of central Delhi. The US advance security team wants all of central Delhi to to be closed for US president Obama's visit. The Obamas are in India from January 25 to 27, but US secret service has asked Indian security agencies to sanitise all government...
15:10
Former Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath prior demiting office paid a courtesy call on President Pranab Mukherjee as he is the appointing authority apart from being an elder statesman. The president heard Sampath's recommendation that the government enact a law giving legal teeth...
14:45
Just in: The Delhi-Agra highway will be be shut ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit to Agra on January 27. This means all shops, restaurants, hotels along the highway will be shut. The US advance team which met Indian security officials today said they want an emergency exit route in case...
14:40
Former law minister Jairam Ramesh created quite a stir at Bhatta Parsaul village in UP, holding forth against the Modi government's Land Acquisition Act.Ramesh, who was also a rural development minister, attended a farmers' meeting in the village.The Congress has so far been alleging that the...
14:30
The woman who says she was raped by an Uber Technologies Inc. driver in Delhi has reached out to a high-profile lawyer in the U.S. to sue the car-hailing company. The woman, who has not been named in accordance with Indian law that protects the identity of alleged victims of rape, has engaged...
14:26
Union minister for urban development, Venkaiah Naidu, hosted a delectable lunch at his house for Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu. On the invitee list were two BJP union ministers, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav, two Supreme Court judges and TDP MP C M Ramesh.Venkaiah told Chandrababu...
14:07
Union Ministers are all set to make a beeline in front of J Jayalalithaa's Poes Garden house in Chennai from Sunday.The first minister to meet her will be Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who wants her support on the GST Bill and the Land Acquisition Act.After Jaitley, this is the line-up: Ravi...
13:55
Shazia Ilmi after meeting Amit Shah says, she had a good meeting. He (Amit Shah) welcomed me in the party, will be joining party (BJP) soon.
13:54
So, Bharatnatyam danseuse Leela Samson has quit as Censor Board chief. She put in her papers on Thursday amid reports that the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal had cleared the release of the film MSG -- The Messenger of God featuring Dera Saccha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.That's...
13:52
The debut movie of Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh ' 'MSG: The Messenger of God' will not be released today since the film's producer has not received a censor certificate. The new release dates are being worked out. Hours after the Censor Board chairperson Leela Samson...
13:31
Former AAP leader Shazia Ilmi meets BJP president Amit Shah. Ilmi is likely to be inducted into the party today, a day after Kiran Bedi joined the party.
13:30
Congress leader Ajay Maken on Kiran Bedi's candidature for the Delhi polls: Kiran Bedi has an experience of 40yrs as a bureaucrat, when one runs pol admin, have to think otherwise not like a bureaucrat. She has an experience of 40 years, an experience of fighting with her seniors.And Kiran...
13:20
The Paris attacks were barbaric but also startling, leading many to ask what can be done to prevent this kind of terrorism. One man has a clear answer. That attack you saw in Paris? You'll see an attack in the United States, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told the New York Times. Elaborating on...
12:57
On Monday, the young students who survived one of Pakistan's worst terrorist attacks returned to the Army Public School in Peshawar.The school was shut for a month after the Tehreek-e-Taliban terrorists massacred 150 people, mostly children in the school. As traumatised students of the army-run...
12:28
The government today refuted charges of interference in the Censor Board's functioning levelled by its chairperson Leela Samson, who has decided to resign, even as it asserted that it has always maintained a distance from the certification process. The decision by Samson to resign came amid a row...
12:17
Stocks of SpiceJet today surged nearly 10 per cent after the company returned to original promoter Ajay Singh for its revival in a multi-layered deal worth up to Rs 1,500 crore. Shares of the cash-strapped firm rallied 9.92 per cent to Rs 20.50 -- its highest trading permissible limit for...
12:15
Shobhaa De '@DeShobhaa It took the beauteous Jaya Prada a really, really long time to discover her mentor Mulayam Singh Yadav was anti-women!Yesterday, actor-turned-politician Jaya Prada said she wants to join the BJP as she is impressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modis leadership.Everyone...
12:08
A woman faculty with a government-run college, who also writes scripts for Malayalam films, has been asked by college authorities to explain the indecent behavior'' of kissing her husband during kiss in the street'' recently held in Kozhikode to protest against moral policing.Deedi Damodaran and...
11:56
HS Brahma takes charge as the next Chief Election Commissioner in place of VS Sampath who demitted office on Thursday. The appointment of Brahma has been made keeping with the convention of elevating the senior-most Election Commissioner as the CEC, a recommendation the Law Ministry had made to...
11:49
There is nothing extraordinary about The Theory of Everything. It is a simple story -- part-biopic, part-romance -- about two people as vastly different from each other as any two people can be, who come together against all odds for the love that binds them. However, The Theory of...
11:45
Just in: In a major relief to Tarun Tejpal, former editor of Tehelka, the Supreme Court has directed the Goa court to adjourn the case against him for three weeks. Tejpal has approached the Supreme Court challenging a Goa session court order to proceed for arguments on charge against him in the...
11:29
Asserting that he didn't believe in hyphenated identities, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has said that his parents came to the US from India four decades ago to become Americans and not Indian-Americans.He invoked his ethnic heritage to make a call for immigrant assimilation and called people...
11:12
REVEALED! How Ajay Singh plans to revive SpiceJet. Read
11:11
Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi has, in a manner of speaking, challenged former India Against Corruption colleague Arvind Kejriwal to a direct fight in the Delhi polls. Speaking to NDTV, Bedi said, I'm ready to fight Kejriwal directly in his constituency, I don't care if I lose. Yesterday,...
11:04
Two Assam Rifles jawans were injured, one of them seriously, when militants attacked their post in Manipur's interior Chandel district bordering Myanmar. A top police officer said heavily-armed militants fired at the post of 20th Assam Rifles at Machi in the district yesterday injuring...
10:18
Fog and cold wave conditions continued to prevail in most parts of north India on Friday.Fog disrupted rail and air traffic with services of several trains being affected in the region.According to railways officials 135 trains are late due to the prevailing weather conditions.
10:17
Police have found a terror message scribbled in the washroom of Mumbai Airport warning of a terror attack on Republic Day.The message read: Is 26/01/2015 BOM OK?'The new message comes just a week after another scribbling was found on a wall inside the Mumbai airport threatening of an impending...
10:00
Two Italian aid workers who had been held hostage in Syria for almost 6 months have been released, the Italian government announced.Greta Ramelli and Vanessa Marzullo are due to return to Italy soon, the Prime Minister's office said via Twitter.
09:35
British Prime Minister David Cameron has arrived in the city to hold talks with US President Barack Obama on a wide range of issues including counter-terrorism, joint campaign against IS and cyber- securities. The two leaders had a private dinner at the White House after Cameron arrived here...
09:10
The UK and US are to carry out war game cyber attacks on each other as part of a new joint defence against online criminals.The first exercise, a staged attack on the financial sector, will take place later this year, Downing Street said.The unprecedented arrangement between the two countries was...
08:17
Cameroon's President Paul Biya has announced that neighbouring Chad will send troops to aid his country's army fight Boko Haram militants from Nigeria, a government spokesman said. Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has decided to send a substantial contingent of Chadian troops to back the...
08:15
A spokesman for Muhammad Ali says the boxing great is back in the hospital for follow-up care related to a urinary tract infection. Ali family spokesman Bob Gunnell said yesterday that the former heavyweight boxing champion was admitted to an undisclosed hospital earlier this week. He says...
08:12
Former national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told jurors she was stunned to learn that a classified mission to thwart Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions had been leaked to the news media. That leak is now the subject of a criminal trial in federal court. Prosecutors believe ex-CIA case...
04:09
US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in France to share a big hug for Paris hours after funerals were held for five of the 17 people killed in last week's jihadist attacks. Seeking to put behind a furore over the absence of a senior US official at a mass Paris rally in the wake of...
03:44
Hackers have targeted about 19,000 French websites since a rampage by Islamic extremists left 20 dead last week, a top French cyber defence official said today as the president tried to calm the nation's inflamed religious tensions.France is on edge since last week's attacks, which began Jan 7 at...
02:46
Today should be a day full of joy for Hollywood, as the Academy Award nominations were announced. But one thing film industry insiders and cultural commentators like to dissect even more than the nominations is who and what is missing.Today, outrage is focused on David Oyelowo being...
02:16
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah threatened in an interview today to retaliate against Israel for repeated strikes on Syria and said he has missiles that can hit the Jewish state.Nasrallah told Al-Mayadeen television that his powerful Shiite movement has had Iranian Fateh-110 missiles that can...
01:53
Those targeted in the raid had been under surveillance since recently returning to Belgium from Syria and were close to carrying out an attack, Magistrate Eric Van der Sypt said.The suspects were killed after they opened fired on authorities near a train station in Verviers. No civilians or...
01:17
Belgian investigators said earlier today they are probing whether an arms dealer sold weapons used in the Paris attacks, after confirming supermarket gunman Amedy Coulibaly sold the man a car belonging to his partner Hayat Boumeddiene.There was no immediate confirmation of any link between the...
01:10
Two people have been killed in an anti-terror operation in eastern Belgium, local officials say.Local residents in Verviers, in the east of the country, heard a fusillade of machine gun shots and explosions.Reports indicate that the gunfight followed a foiled jihadist attack on a local police...
00:26
What percentage of terror attacks in the United States and Europe are committed by Muslims? Guess. Nope. Guess again. And again...Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims. How many times have you heard that one? Sure, we heard Fox Newss Brian Kilmeade say it, but that...
00:23
Birdman, Boyhood, American Sniper sweep Oscar 2015 nominationsDera chief's 'Messenger of God' WILL release today18 armymen arrested for Nashik police station attack When PM Modi impressed Shashi Tharoor Kiran Bedi joins BJP, likely to be pitted against Kejriwal Militant who ordered...
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