23:16
India for the first time today abstained from voting on a resolution on Palestine adopted at the UN rights body that calls for accountability by parties involved in last year's conflict in Gaza.India, however, maintained that there was no change in its long standing position on support to the...
23:12
His fans may be waiting for years to see Bollywood superstar Salman Khan tie the knot but the popular actor seems in no mood to get married though he strongly believes in love. Recently, Salman surprised everyone when he said he is open to the idea of an arranged marriage. However, when...
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In response to a question on India' s vote on resolution A/HRC/29/L.35 in the Human Rights Council today'', the Official Spokesperson said : 'There is no change in India's long standing position on support to the Palestinian cause. The issue in this particular Resolution was the reference...
20:06
Musicians play their instruments, I play the orchestra is how Michael Fassbender's Steve Jobs describes his genius in the newly released trailer of the upcoming biopic on Apple co-founder. Directed by Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin the film stars Seth Rogen as...
19:27
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has called on voters to reject blackmail when they vote in a bailout referendum on Sunday.In a short TV address, he insisted Greece's presence in the EU was not at stake and urged voters to reject the sirens of scaremongering.On Sunday, Greek voters will decide whether...
18:46
A powerful live bomb was found today at Torbung village in Manipur's Bishnupur district located on NH 150, which connects Imphal to Mizoram, Police said the improvised explosive device was found by the villagers.
18:43
Two female suicide bombers killed 13 people at a crowded market and a military checkpoint outside the biggest city in northeast Nigeria, witnesses said today. It is the fourth attack in a week in which at least 162 people have been killed, including four suicide bombers, as Boko Haram...
18:37
Undisclosed overseas assets such as immovable property, jewellery, shares and art works will be valued at fair market price for the purpose of tax and penalty under the new black money law. Besides, the value of an overseas bank account will be the sum of all deposits made in the account...
18:14
The ongoing resident doctors' strike in Maharashtra has been called off. Reports indicate that nearly 80-90% of the doctors' demands have been accepted.The nearly 4,000 resident doctors are expected to resume work as soon as possible. More details awaited.
18:03
A school headmistress has banned skirts at a secondary school in the UK's West Midlands region to prevent male teachers and pupils getting distracted.Rowena Blencowe of Trentham High School in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire took the action because she was fed up with reprimanding girls for showing...
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A powerful earthquake of 6.5 magnitude today flattened about 3,000 houses and buildings in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, killing at least six persons and injuring 48 others.The quake struck Pishan County of Hotan Prefecture at 9.07 am (local time), with the epicenter recorded at a...
17:53
Queen Elizabeth II today led a nationwide tribute, observing a minute's silence for the 38 tourists, mostly British, massacred in an Islamist attack on a Tunisian beach. Flags flew at half-mast over Buckingham Palace and Whitehall and play at Wimbledon was delayed as it was announced...
17:46
The power bill for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's official residence stood at over Rs 1.35 lakh for the month of June which prompted Congress and BJP to pounce on the AAP government with both the parties accusing it of wasting public money for personal comfort.The total bill was for two-metered...
17:45
A top Tunisian jihadist and associate of late Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by a US airstrike in Libya last month Seifallah Ben Hassine, listed as a global terrorist by the US, was killed mid-June in an airstrike that targeted a top Al Qaeda-linked Islamist, The New York Times...
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A top Tunisian jihadist and associate of late Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by a US airstrike in Libya last month Seifallah Ben Hassine, listed as a global terrorist by the US, was killed mid-June in an airstrike that targeted a top Al Qaeda-linked Islamist, The New York Times...
17:15
The Ministry of External Affairs on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Russia's Ufa for the BRICS Summit next week and also pay a visit to five Central Asian countries including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.The PM will be going to Ufa for BRICS after...
17:00
Can you find a world leader who has met generations of Indian politicians, most US Presidents, European head of States, several Popes, celebrated cricketers, Hollywood and Bollywood stars, some of the greatest scientists and many ordinary people, including what he calls, Chinese brothers and...
16:51
The Centre has notified the rules for calculating overseas income and assets under the stringent foreign black money law that came into force on July 1, 2015.The value of the overseas assets, including immovable property, jewellery and precious stones, archaeological collections and...
16:32
U.S. Surgeon General @Surgeon_General tweets: #TBT to @indiaabroad #IAPOY. Humbled to be surrounded by so many young promising leaders.Dr Vivek H Murthy, the first Indian American and the youngest ever (at age 37) to be appointed United States Surgeon General, is the India Abroad Person of...
16:21
In deciding to visit all the Central Asian Republics (CARs) together, which none of his predecessors has done, Prime Minister Modi hopefully intends to take a holistic view of India's relations with Central Asia. It is imperative that, beyond the usual bilateral discussions and agreements, he...
16:14
10 Chinese trawlers sought shelter in India due to bad weather. The trawlers are presently anchored in South of Diu Island. India lent help on humanitarian grounds, reports ANI.
16:12
Shark! by Peter Benchley, the article that inspired Jaws. Read It's so academic, it's impossible it imagine that it lent itself to a film that's ensured people stayed away from beaches after the film was released.
15:25
Reuters reports that Europe's Airbus Group and India's Mahindra Group have struck a deal to build helicopters jointly as they bid to win an expected wave of orders from the country's armed forces, the companies said in a statement on Friday. The two groups will form a joint venture in the coming...
15:12
The Narendra Modi government's credibility is at serious risk on three fronts: corruption, communalism and dissent. Under a seemingly placid surface, undercurrents are taking shape which, if not checked, have the ability to derail the government. The aggressiveness of its own supporters, the low...
15:08
It's a promise the Congress will keep. The party will not allow Parliament to function when it meets later this month unless top BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Vasundhara Raje are removed from office for the favours extended to disgraced cricket mogul Lalit Modi, said senior leader Ghulam...
15:08
The government has decided to recognise the service offered by rag pickers, who will be honoured with a national award for their contribution to keep India clean. There are millions of rag pickers in the country. This informal sector has saved the country. They are doing a good job and I...
14:22
Just 4.6 per cent of all rural households in the country pay income tax while such households with salaried income are close to 10 per cent, the first Socio Economic and Caste Census released in eight decades said today. The percentage of SC households paying income...
14:16
Around 73 per cent of households in India are rural, according to the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) data released by the government today. The Hindu reports that of these, 18.5 per cent are scheduled caste households and 11 per cent belong to the scheduled tribe category.The SECC,...
14:09
Amidst allegations of its principal trying to protect the accused, HRD ministry today refused to intervene in the molestation row at St Stephen's College, saying such issues are to be handled by the institution's Internal Complaints Committee as per Supreme Court guidelines. Ministry officials,...
14:06
Would you believe Lisa Ray is 43! The gorgeous @Lisaraniray tweets her GQ cover shot. Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Cte d'AzurPick up @gqindia for a celebration of my pioneer pin up days shot by @farrokhchothia and styled by #vijendrabharadwaj.(Click on the picture for a larger image).
14:01
After former Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar, another AAP legislator Bhavna Gaur has come under scanner over her educational qualifications with a Delhi court taking cognisance of a complaint seeking criminal prosecution of the MLA for allegedly furnishing false details in the affidavits...
13:59
A man has been arrested for getting an Aadhaar card made of his dog in the district, police said. Azam Khan (35), who is working as a supervisor at an Aadhaar enrollment agency in Umri town, about 45 km from the district headquarters, was arrested yesterday following a complaint that he had made...
13:52
Slamming the AAP government for drawing up a whopping Rs 526 crore advertisement budget, Congress leader Ajay Kumar today compared Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to a North Korean dictator who is into self- publicity. The AAP government has come under attack over the size of its information and...
13:30
Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje visits the family injured in the accident involving BJP MP Hema Malini.
13:28
The buzz over Coldplay front man Chris Martin's impromptu gig at a Delhi's Summer Smoke House bar hasn't died yet with the lucky ones who witnessed the jam session, going crazy on Twitter bragging about the night.But that's what you know. What you didn't know was that the 38-year-old singer also...
13:18
Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje reaches Fortis Hospital in Jaipur to meet BJP MP Hema Malini. Raje also met the family injured in the accident and the parents of the deceased child.
13:13
Taking a dig at Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for allegedly delaying an Air India flight after an official in his team forgot to carry proper travel documents, alliance partner Shiv Sena today asked if similar social work would be done for an ill person as well. Pardeshi was a part of the...
12:59
Medical bulletin on BJP MP and union minister Hema Malini says that she sustained a nasal fracture and injuries on para-nasal points. She's in the ICU, but stable now, a Fortis hospital doctor, said. The driver wasn't injured because the airbags in the Mercedes were deployed, but Hema Malini, who...
12:23
Just in: A car in Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu's convoy rammed into a building causing the death of one person, reports Times Now. Just last evening, a child was killed and four others, including veteran Bollywood actress and Mathura MP Hema Malini, were injured in a road accident on...
12:07
Even as Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje faces the worst crises in her political career, Dushyant Singh is vacationing with his wife and children at an undisclosed location abroad. Read
12:05
Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was allegedly directly involved in the plan hatched to eliminate his rival Chhota Rajan, claim reports. Media sources quoted officials as saying that Dawood had sent his trusted aide Chhota Shakeel to Australia in April end to personally lead the attack.
12:03
It is a matter of considerable satisfaction that within days of the Madras High Court passing an indefensible order asking the perpetrator and the victim in a rape case to opt for mediation, the Supreme Court has restated strongly that rape is an offence that does not brook any compromise. Read
12:01
Last year, he was the BJP's darling. Today, Arnab Goswami is a hated figure for Modi bhakts. What changed? Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com on how the BJP's Internet trolls strangle dissent. Read
11:57
Rafael Nadal insisted he has no intentions of quitting tennis despite slumping to a fourth successive Wimbledon humiliation. The 29-year-old Spaniard, who was Wimbledon champion in 2008 and 2010 and runner-up in 2006, 2007 and 2011, was humbled 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 by dreadlocked German Dustin...
11:49
The Supreme Court today sought a response from the Kerala government on Tamil Nadu's plea that the security of Mullaperiyar dam be handed over to CISF. The Tamil Nadu government has told the SC that the dam faced a terror threat. A bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu issue notice on the plea...
11:45
The Delhi High Cour seeks a reply from the police on the plea of St Stephen's Professor Satish Kumar seeking anticipatory bail in molestation case, but stays the arrest till August 17. The Hindustan Times reports that trouble may escalate for St Stephen's College principal Valson Thampu...
11:23
The Union government on Friday released the socio-economic caste census, saying the data will help in identifying the root causes of poverty.Addressing mediapersons at the event, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the socio-economic caste census would give better data for household...
11:08
Two passengers travelling on the same US-bound Air India aircraft from Mumbai as Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis have come out in his support, saying he did not delay the flight even as he has threatened legal action once he returns to India. An angry Fadnavis had tweeted yesterday...
11:00
In Christine Mehta's account of how she was deported from India last November, published in The Hindu on Thursday, there is a telling line. India's progressive visa policy makes living and working in India easy for most second and third generation Indians living abroad, except...
10:58
Maharashtra has set a wrong precedent by extending legislative privileges. Read more
10:57
If Dholpur had an official animal, it had to be the donkey.They are everywhere: this sleepy eastern Rajasthan city of 1.3 lakh has stray donkeys like other cities have street dogs.Some are pet donkeys, used for transport. Herds of them stand stoically inside buildings constructed in a Maru...
10:53
Dushyant Singh, son of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, on Thursday sent a legal notice to Times Now naming Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami and Director of Times Group, Vineet Jain, accusing the channel of making false and defamatory statements' and demanded a retraction.The notice alleges...
10:50
Just in: 11 school children have been injured in freak accident in Rajasthan after a live wire falls on the roof of the bus setting it on fire, reports NDTV. Details awaited.
10:31
Terming his meeting with India-born Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as very productive and insightful, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said the software giant will extend support for a digital village and smart city in the state. Fadnavis, who is on a week-long visit to the US, met...
10:24
In yet another setback for India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta, a federal US judge has rejected his appeal to overturn his two-year sentence and conviction on insider trading, rejecting his plea that there was insufficient evidence of him receiving personal benefit in exchange...
10:16
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will release the first caste-based census at North Block today. The finance ministry will tap into the data from the socio-economic and caste census to identify beneficiary and expand the direct benefit transfer scheme as part of its plans to build upon the JAM...
09:35
Rahul Yadav, the recently-ousted CEO of Housing.com, says he is too logical about the venture he co-founded three years ago.Yadav remains supremely confident of his instincts and capabilities, and is convinced he is destiny’s child. “I think whatever the world is today, it is because of a few...
09:19
Every day, five women are raped, 12 are molested, two persons are murdered and 26 more are targeted by snatchers in the capital, a crime-mapping by Delhi police's crime branch has revealed. Rattled by the rising crime graph in certain areas of the capital, Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi...
08:31
In the first such action, the Enforcement Directoratehas attached 1,280 acres of land in the United States in connection with one of the biggest bank loan frauds in the country.The unprecedented move to attach the land in California worth Rs 1,000 crore was initiated by the ED's Ahmedabad zonal...
08:24
Actor and BJP MP Hema Malini's driver has been arrested after an accident last night in Rajasthan in which a child was killed. A first information report was registered against him.The BJP leader's Mercedes was speeding and hit a Maruti Alto leading to the death of four-year-old girl who was...
04:00
New York Times reports: You know you have entered Tamil Nadu when you begin to see Jayalalithaa's face everywhere: a double-chinned Mona Lisa, her long, dark hair pulled back in a demure chignon. In the cities, her party members line the avenues with giant Jayalalithaa billboards to prove...
03:57
Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has said he will donate his $32 billion (Rs 2 lakh crore) personal fortune to charity.The 60-year-old nephew of King Salman is one of the world's richest people.He said he had been inspired by the Gates Foundation, set up by Bill and Melinda...
03:55
A solar-powered aircraft flying from Japan to Hawaii on the most perilous leg of a round-the-globe bid has beaten the record for the longest solo flight, organizers said today.But they admitted that veteran Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg is absolutely exhausted after nearly four days' continuous...
03:51
A government-linked Saudi news website says that King Salman has ordered an investigation and trial against a pro-Muslim Brotherhood scholar and a television host after an episode that was critical of King Abdullah's policies toward the outlawed Islamist group.Sabq news website, quoting unnamed...
03:51
Ford is recalling 432,000 Focus, C-Max and Escape vehicles because of a software problem that could keep their engines running after drivers try to shut them down.Ford Motor Co says there is a flaw in the body control module software in the vehicles. As a result of the problem, the engine could...
03:50
Facebook today confirmed that it is dabbling in video ads and sharing revenue with content creators, in a move that would compete with Google-owned YouTube.An advertising model being tested by the leading online social network is part of a Suggested Videos feature designed to recommend clips for...
03:49
Vajpayee called Gujarat riots a 'mistake': ex-RAW chief DulatHema Malini's car meets with accident; child dead, BJP MP in hospitalQualifier Brown sends Nadal crashing out of WimbledonModi's wise words for social media activistsIndia to roll out cash transfer of food subsidies from Sept
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