23:58
Greeks are hoarding cash and food amid mounting fears the economy could collapse, cracking open their wallets only to stock up on essentials and stripping supermarket shelves in the process. Mothers, elderly men and university students were spotted pushing heavily overloaded trolleys or coming...
23:25
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated President Barack Obama on Independence Day and expressed confidence that Russia and the United States can find solutions to international issues, the Kremlin said. In the message, Putin noted that while there are differences between Russia and...
23:04
Hours after Akshay Singh, a Delhi-based journalist, died in Madhya Pradesh, investigating the Vyapam scam, Dr Ashok Bachani has said that the autopsy report did not show any foul play in Singh's death. The medical officer at Dahod civil hospital where Singh's body was brought said, No...
22:39
The defending champion and seeded number 2 at Wimbledon, Petra Kvitova has been dumped out of the tournament by Serbian Jelena Jankovic in the third round match. The 28 seed won 3-6, 7-5, 6-4. Jankovic will now play the 13th seed Agnieszka Radwanska.
22:30
Aside from listening in on Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's phone calls, US spies also targeted top political and financial officials, according to new information released by WikiLeaks. The whistle-blowing website published a National Security Agency list of 29 Brazilian government phone...
22:13
A day after calls by some AAP MLAs for a hike in their allowances, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party appeared divided over the matter. Sanjay Singh, a senior AAP leader and member of its Political Affairs Committee -- the party's top decision-making body -- said it was not proper to demand a hike...
21:39
Heightened security measures across New York are in place in response to a call for vigilance by the federal government. The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have issued an alert calling for local authorities and the public to remain vigilant for...
21:02
Tunisia's president has declared a state of emergency, a week after the terrorist attack in Sousse which killed 38 foreign tourists - most of them Britons. It was not immediately clear why he made the declaration now - whether it was in response to a specific threat, or just on the...
20:23
In a bid to strengthen the party and improve its poll prospects, BJP president Amit Shah has made some fresh appointments, with Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and general secretary Ram Madhav as election in-charges for Assam elections due in June 2016. Ram Madhav has also been assigned the...
20:17
Who's this smartly blazered lady? It's Aseel Shaheen, a line judge who is one of around 350 men and women officiating at Wimbledon this year. The 41-year-old is the first Arab women in history to officiate at Wimbledon. The majority of umpires and line judges at the Championships are...
19:44
Tunisian police have arrested the girlfriend of the Islamic State gunman who wreaked havoc on a Tunisian beach on June 26. It has also emerged that Seifeddine Rezgui, who slaughtered 38 innocent holidaymakers in the resort town of Sousse, was spotted on the same beach just two weeks before the...
19:22
Telangana prison officials denied reports that jailed Indian Mujahideen operative Yasin Bhatkal had called his wife using a mobile phone from Cherlapalli jail. The allegation that Yasin Bhatkal called his wife with a mobile phone from inside the Cherlapalli Prison is baseless, factless and there...
19:17
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had to cancel his scheduled trip to his parliamentary constituency on June 28 due to heavy rainfall, is now likely to visit on July 16. During the visit, Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate a trauma centre at Banaras Hindu University and launch the Integrated...
19:15
A journalist working for a leading Delhi-based news channel on Saturday suddenly took ill and died after having interviewed parents of a girl who had been found dead near railway tracks after her name figured in the infamous Vyapam scam of Madhya Pradesh. The incident took place in Meghnagar...
18:44
The Uttarakhand government has sounded an alert following the weather departments warning of heavy rains in several areas, including the routes of the Chardham Yatra.Uttarakhand Disaster Management and Mitigation Centre has forecast heavy rains in several areas of the state for two days starting...
18:37
A BJP MLA in Jammu and Kashmir demanded that the Centre adopt a proactive policy and allow the army to carry out a Myanmar-type operation against the terrorist training camps across the LoC.In the recent days, there have been inputs by the army intelligence, RAW and other intelligence agencies...
18:34
The home ministry denied there was any threat to Prime Minister Narendra Modi from right-wing elements in the wake of such reports in a section of media. The sources said the reports are baseless and unfounded and that no new security risk has been added for the PM. There was no report of any...
18:31
In the 65 years since the Constitution came into effect, the republic has put down deep democratic roots. In the 40 years since the 1975 internal Emergency, public support for the ideals of the republic has significantly increased and the risk of the republic suffering a crippling attack has...
17:53
The state of Gujarat has extended its ban on Nestle's Maggi noodles for another month as the company failed to produce safety standard reports. On June 4, the state had banned the 2-minute noodle after samples had failed tests. Of the 39 samples, 29 were detected with objectionable...
17:39
The UK's royal family is gearing up for the christening of their newest member Princess Charlotte tomorrow where the two-month-old child of Prince William and his wife Kate will make her second public appearance. The baby will be christened in a low-key ceremony in St Mary Magdalene church...
17:10
A complaint has been filed against External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhre Raje and former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi in a district court in Bihar. The complaint was lodged under IPC sections 120, 124 and Information Technology Act 2000. Referring to media...
16:47
The Congress launched a fresh attack on the BJP, demanding Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh's resignation for alleged involvement in a Rs 36,000-crore scam in a scheme for supplying rice through the public distribution system. We are exposing a Rs 36,000-crore scam in Chhattisgarh...
15:48
Nationalist Congress Party supremo and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Sharad Pawar claimed that although senior lawyer Ram Jethmalani had given a proposition regarding the surrender of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's but it was 'conditional'.Ram Jethmalani gave a proposition...
15:26
The much-awaited civil services exam results were declared today with four women bagging the top ranks. Congratulations to all those who successfully cleared the Civil Services Exam & my best wishes as you begin the journey to serve the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted. To those...
15:17
Amid a raging controversy over the alleged molestation at St Stephen's College, HRD Ministry today asked University Grants Commission to take appropriate measure to ensure the institute's internal complaints committee completes the inquiry expeditiously and impartially. Given...
15:08
Anant Vikram Singh, son of Rajya Sabha member and Congress leader Sanjay Singh was arrested today in connection with a murder case of a constable here, police said today. Vijay Kumar Mishra, a constable was killed in September last year over a property dispute related to the ownership of Bhupati...
14:25
Just in: A speeding truck ran over a group of children in Muzzafarnagar leaving two dead and three injured. Protesting villagers clashed with police and pelted stones as they blocked the Delhi-Dehradun Highway. The incident occurred when the five children were going to school and a speeding...
14:18
The government has decided to give cabinet minister's rank to the Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog Arvind Panagariya. Arvind Panagariya has been given cabinet minister rank by the government and the other two members would be given the rank of minister of state, a source said. The post of...
14:04
Aditya Sinha on how he got the former R&AW chief A S chief to open up.Read the full column here
13:56
Looking back, the most thoughtful part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Sri Lanka in March might have been his meeting with former president Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo. It was a brief meeting, but was highly symbolic, and was probably hastily arranged as an afterthought, since it took...
13:37
Just in: The results of the prestigious civil services examination, to select IAS and IPS officers, among others, have been announced. The results have been dominated by women as they sweep the top four positions. Ira Singhal, Renu Raj, Nidhi Gupta and Vandana Roa are the first four...
13:18
Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani today said that he spoke to underworld don and one of India's most wanted terrorists Dawood Ibrahim in the 1990s and he offered to return and was ready to face the trial. Jethmalani said Dawood told him that he was not involved in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts...
12:53
Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay on Saturday alleged that the demands put forward by the Aam Aadmi Party leaders with regards to the hike in salary has exposed the two-faced nature their policies.The kind of demand that has been put forward by the MLAs for salary hike, I would...
12:51
Tamil Nadu Chief minister J Jayalalithaa took oath as member of legislative assembly, a few days after she was declared elected in a bypoll to R K Nagar constituency in north Chennai. As per constitutional norms, the AIADMK leader, who was sworn in as chief minister on May 23 after an...
12:05
Collision between a truck and a goods train left one dead and three injured in Purulia district of West Bengal. According to reports, around ten bogies were derailed.Details awaited.
11:45
Indian Mujahideen founder Yasin Bhatkal, who was lodged in the Hyderabad prison, made a phone call to his wife saying that he would be a free man soon with help from Damascus, reported The Times of India.This has triggered fears of Bhatkal getting support from Islamic State which is in control of...
11:08
His fans may be waiting for years to see Bollywood superstar Salman Khan tie the knot but the popular actor is in no mood to get married anytime soon though he strongly believes in love. Salman always comes up with a playful answer everytime the marriage question is asked. He recently said that...
10:32
Days after launching the Digital India initiative, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted this morning You, me & a #DigitalDialogue! Would love to hear your thoughts, insights & views on #DigitalIndia initiative. Come, let us talk digital.The overwhelming response along with a lot of...
09:53
Actor and BJP MP Hema Malini is discharged from Fortis Hospital in Jaipur. The 66-year-old underwent a surgery after her Mercedes rammed into a car killing a four-year-old girl on Thursday night. Hema Malini was doing fine, doctors attending to her said. She was also treated for a minor...
09:38
The civil aviation ministry said last night that it has given a clean chit to Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju in the Air India flight controversy and the Prime Minister's Office has been apprised about it. The ministry has informed the PMO that Mr Rijiju was not at fault for...
09:34
Here comes yet another tweet bomb from former Indian Premier League boss Lalit Modi and this time the target is Rahul Gandhi. My Q to #rahulgandhi and #robertvadra did you ever receive any hospitality from @lalitkmodi - and did u declare it to @INCIndia, he tweeted around eight hours ago. Let's...
04:38
Amid rising frustrations over the expensive, so-far fruitless search for vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, experts are questioning the competence of the company in charge, including whether crews may have passed over the sunken wreckage without even noticing.Such carping in a small, fiercely...
04:37
India has for the first time 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...
04:31
Everyone likes a good story. And Rahul Yadav's is a great one.He's taken the Indian start-up ecosystem on a roller-coaster. A ride that has ended for now, but the system will continue to shake and shudder for a while from the aftereffects.Some are calling him a maniac and a loser, and some a...
04:07
Russian lawmakers today passed a bill allowing people to force Internet search engines to remove links to data about them, overriding objections from the country's largest search provider.The legislation -- broader than the European Union's right to be forgotten initiative -- was passed by...
04:07
Greece's top administrative court ruled today that a weekend referendum asking voters whether or not they support bailout conditions can go ahead, rejecting a challenge by two individuals.The petitioners -- one of them a former judge on the Council of State that decided the case -- had argued the...
04:06
UNESCO has condemned the destruction by Islamic State group jihadists of antiquities in the Syrian city of Palmyra, describing it as an attempt to strip the people of their heritage in order to enslave them. These new destructions of cultural goods of the site of Palmyra reflect the...
04:05
Boko Haram carried out a fresh wave of massacres in northeastern Nigeria today, locals said, killing nearly 200 people in 48 hours of violence which President Muhammadu Buhari blasted as inhuman and barbaric. The militants have staged multiple attacks across restive Borno state since...
04:05
Belgium thrash India in FIH World LeagueIn the middle of Ramzan, Modi to visit 5 Islamic nations UNHRC adopts resolution on Palestine, India abstainsIslamic State trying to gain foothold in PoK: ArmyDjokovic, Sharapova restore order at WimbledonHema Malini's driver arrested; actress...
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