23:31
Sister Nirmala, the head of the Missionaries of Charity (MoC) founded by Mother Teresa, was buried in the St John's Church cemetery this evening. Archbishop of Calcutta Father Thomas D'Souza and several priests, sisters and representatives of the MoC from various states and abroad were...
23:30
Heavy rains caused due to deep depression has created a flood-like situation in Amreli and Rajkot districts of Saurashtra, besides claiming two lives with around 1,500 people shifted to safer locations. NDRF, Indian Air Force and SRP teams have been pressed into service at Rajkot and Amreli...
22:35
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has announced that he is running for the Republican nomination for president, in a long shot bid that will rely on wooing the socially conservative voters who dominate early primary states.Jindal, a 44-year-old former Rhodes Scholar who is barred by term limits...
22:15
Coming out in support of their chief minister, ministers from Rajasthan's cabinet spoke out against the allegations made by the Congress about Vasundhara Raje's involvement with Lalit Modi's immigration problems.We completely rule out Vasundhara Raje ji's resignation demand. The entire party...
22:01
US President Barack Obama spoke with his French counterpart Francois Hollande on Wednesday after reports that his government spied on France's leaders, giving fresh assurances that the practice had ended, Paris said.President Obama reiterated without ambiguity his firm commitment... to stop these...
21:31
Former TERI director Pachauri was today questioned by Delhi Police in connection with the alleged sexual harassment case lodged against him by a woman research analyst.Sources said 74-year-old Pachauri was questioned at his posh Golf Link residence here by a three-member police team which carried...
20:48
A local court today remanded Mansoor Ali alias Atiq, the alleged supplier of illicit liquor which claimed lives of 102 persons in suburban Malvani last week, in police custody till July 3.Atiq was arrested yesterday from Seelampur in Delhi.He has been remanded in police custody till July 3, said...
20:35
A top pro-Russian rebel said Wednesday that nearly half the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines jet shot down over Ukraine last year remains strewn across fields controlled by the separatists.Insurgency leader Andrei Purgin said about 40 per cent of the plane's charred parts were left behind by...
20:28
A message posted online claims that Islamist militants in four regions of Russia's Caucasus have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group.The voice recording posted on YouTube on June 21 said militants in Daghestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Kabardino-Balkaria regions had all sworn...
20:14
A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb at a gathering of Iraqi Sunni tribal leaders, killing 14 people in an attack claimed Wednesday by the Islamic State group, police said.Fourteen people were killed and at least 24 wounded, a police captain said of the Tuesday night bombing in the Baladruz area...
20:02
Somalia's Al-Shabaab insurgents said Wednesday its members were behind a car bomb explosion in the Somali capital targeting government officials from the United Arab Emirates that killed six people.We targeted enemy delegates from the UAE and we inflicted casualties upon them and their forces,...
19:41
The Congress on Wednesday said it had conclusive proof that Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje favoured Lalit Modi, and released a signed version of her secret affidavit to court supporting the former IPL chief's immigration application to the UK in 2011.She has been lying all along. The...
19:39
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday blasted the totally unacceptable scenes as growing numbers of migrants attempt to enter Britain illegally by hiding in trucks at the French seaport of Calais.On Tuesday, striking French ferry workers triggered severe transport disruption at...
19:32
Islamic State militants have destroyed two historic mausoleums in Palmyra, Syria's top antiquities official said Wednesday, raising fears that the extremists could next target the town's famed Roman ruins.Maamoun Abdulkarim, the head of the government's Antiquities and Museums Department, told...
19:14
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today sought to dispel apprehensions about the return of 'jungle raj' following the alliance between his Janata Dal-United and Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal for the coming assembly election and said there was no question of it as long as he was...
18:34
The International Day of Yoga was observed in all 192 countries except strife-torn Yemen, the Union cabinet was informed today. Soon after the Cabinet meet ended at the Prime Minister's Office this morning, the members were briefed about the Yoga Day celebrations across the...
18:28
Opposition parties today demanded the removal of Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani, saying she has no moral, constitutional or legal right to continue in her post after a Delhi court took cognisance of a complaint that she gave false information about her educational qualification....
18:23
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today arrived in Kathmandu on a two-day visit to Nepal to attend an international donors' conference where she is likely to announce a major financial package by India for reconstruction of the quake-hit nation. Swaraj was received by India's Ambassador to...
18:19
Just in: A Sydney-Dubai flight landed in Mumbai today after a medical emergency.An Airbus 380 plane made an emergency landing in Mumbai this evening after two passengers complained of chest pain. The plane was flying from Sydney to Dubai when it had to be diverted because of the medical...
17:29
The Food Safety Standards Authority of India will come up with a draft notification on the standards of alcoholic beverages in next two months. After cracking down on noodles and milk, central food safety watchdog FSSAI is now turning to alcoholic beverages with plans to set up standards...
17:16
Over 1,200 people have died in Pakistan's Sindh province due to a heat wave described as the worst in decades, as major hospitals in the country's largest city struggled to cope with the unprecedented influx of patients seeking treatment for heatstroke-related illness. The death toll in...
17:08
Amid India's objections to the USD 46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project passing through PoK, Pakistan has claimed that Gilgit- Baltistan and Kashmir were its part and not disputed territories.Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, speaking in the National Assembly yesterday about India's...
16:41
Maharashtra Women and Child Development Minister Pankaja Munde finds herself in the middle of a Rs 206 crore scam, in what may be called the first case of impropriety of the Devendra Fadnavis-led government. Read more
15:58
Home minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh said today that External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje Scindia will not resign. He tartly said that this was the NDA government and not the UPA government, alluding to the resignations of scam-tainted ministers in...
15:43
Just in: The Cabinet clears the setting up of six new IIMs, announces BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad. The proposed IIMs are likely to be in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra and Punjab. Details awaited.
15:38
The Congress is considering a boycott of union ministers Sushma Swaraj and Smriti Irani in the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament which will begin on July 21. A decision will be taken at the Congress Parliamentary Party meet on the same date. The Congress is divided on this matter as many MPs...
15:24
Just in: The Union Cabinet clears a proposal to set up a memorial in the memory of socialist leader Jai Prakash Narayan in Bihar.
14:59
Just in: Will President Pranab Mukherjee visit the famous shrine of Yadagirigutta in Telangana?If Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao has his way, the answer is yes. Pranab Mukherjee is scheduled to visit Tirumala Tirupathi temple in Andhra Pradesh on July 1, but sources tell us that KCR wants...
14:38
The Delhi Police has reached the residence of RK Pachauri, former chief of Teri for questioning in a sexual harassment case.
14:31
First reactions from the BJP: Senior leader Subramanian Swamy says: Since Smriti has not been summoned it means the complainant has not yet proved there is a prima facie case. So for now Smriti has no issue.
14:26
Delhi's Patiala House court says that while it has found the plea maintainable, the complainant must show proof on day of hearing, says Smriti Irani's counsel.
14:20
Trouble looms for union minister Smriti Irani. A Delhi court has said that the complaint or plea against the Union HRD Minister for allegedly giving false information about her educational qualification in affidavits filed with the Election Commission, is 'maintainable'. The court will hear...
14:12
A transgender residing in Mumbai, Joe Paul, was allegedly forced to vacate the rented flat where she had been living for the last three months. The broker forced me to vacate the flat. I had been living there for just three months, Paul said. A film-maker by profession, Paul claimed that she...
13:59
The Allahabad High Court today fixed the first week of August as the next date of hearing on a PIL seeking directions for a CBI probe into the killing of a Shahjahanpur-based journalist.
13:38
Just in: The three-week monsoon session of Parliament to begin from July 21.
13:35
Journalist, social science researcher and human rights activist, Praful Bidwai has passed away. He was just 66. He is believed to have asphyxiated while eating food. He passed away in Amsterdam. Bidwai wrote on environment, global justice and peace and was one of South Asia's most widely...
13:24
With bountiful rains, the monsoon has set in satisfactorily in Maharashtra with the state receiving 80 per cent rainfall of the month at the very beginning of the season. An official at agriculture department said the onset of monsoon has brought cheer amid predictions that it was going to be...
13:22
@sardesairajdeep tweets: One of the finest edit page writers from an earlier era: Praful Bidwai has passed away. Hard left: wrote with passion and commitment. RIP.
12:59
Just in: Tennis great Steffi Graf appointed Kerala's Tourism and Ayurveda brand ambassador, says Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.The decision was taken at a meeting of the cabinet chaired by the CM. Graf's remuneration package has not been spelt out as yet. The state government has also been wooing...
12:39
The government will play by the rule book and make sure that absolute standards of probity are maintained, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said as the Opposition continued its attack over the Lalit Modi controversy. Jaitley also said there is no question at all about the government going on...
12:35
The Income Tax department is likely to issue notices to Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi asking them to pay tax and penalty on income' of Rs 1,300 crore that investigators believe they earned from the transfer of shares of Associated Journal Ltd (AJL), publishers of the...
12:32
BJP MP from Ratlam-Jhabua seat in Madhya Pradesh Dilip Singh Bhuria passes away at a hospital in Gurgaon.
12:29
The forensic report of the Uttar Pradesh Police in the alleged murder of the Shahjahanpur-based journalist, Jagendra Singh, has virtually given a clean chit to the accused minister Ram Murti Verma. The report says that the journalist set himself on fire thereby letting off Verma and the police...
12:07
Another picture of the rescue ops.
12:06
In a swift response to an SOS from a distressed offshore coastal vessel, the Navy and Coast Guard today swung into action to rescue 14 crew members of the vessel MV Coastal Pride.A cement carrier, the vessel sank 24 nautical miles south of Daman (75 NM North of Mumbai) this morning, a Defence...
11:50
A man found guilty of raping a 15-year-old orphan in Tamil Nadu has been asked to meet his victim by a judge of the Madras High Court who said alternate dispute resolution is gaining momentum in the West. V Mohan was sentenced to seven years in jail in 2012, four years after the...
11:45
The benchmark BSE extended its gains and was up by 89 points in late morning trade led by sustained buying in healthcare, FMCG, and teck sectors. The broader markets advanced too with the BSE mid-cap and small-cap indices rising by 0.11 to 0.24 percent. The 50-share Nifty rose by 19.44 points...
11:31
Two years after vociferously arguing for an expansion of the provisions of the National Food Security Act, the BJP in government is bleeding it with a thousand cuts, both fiscal and otherwise. Read
11:27
Indira Gandhi's private secretary R K Dhawan, part of the sanctum sanctorum of former PM's office and residence, has spilled the beans on Emergency claiming that Rajiv and Sonia didn't have reservations about the Emergency while Maneka knew everything Sanjay was doing and was with him at all...
11:16
Charles Correa was a rare person, special and unusual. I was privileged to have known him and his wife, Monika, a textile master, from the time I was a young teenager, impressionable and curious, eager to reach out to men and women whose creativity, ideas and imaginative alternatives excited...
11:14
A Union minister and a chief minister stand accused of corrupting their office. If Prime Minister Narendra Modi lets them continue, he will have broken his election promise substantively, says Aakar Patel. Read
11:13
In the midst a raging controversy over her ties with ex-IPL boss Lalit Modi, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje today cancelled her scheduled visit to London. Raje was scheduled to visit London for an interaction with business tycoons ahead of the Rajasthan Resurgent Meet in Jaipur in...
11:01
Little-known English actor Tom Holland has been picked to play the web-slinging superhero in the next Spider-Man film, which is due for release in July 2017, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios said on Tuesday.Holland, 19, will play Spider-Man's teenage alter ego Peter Parker as a high-school age...
10:26
The Railway officials have confirmed no casualties have been reported so far after the Palamu Express derailed in Jharkhand on Tuesday.Yesterday at 8:40 p.m., the derailment of Palamu express took place. No casualty or injury have been reported. The Maoists had called for a bandh in that...
10:16
St Stephen's professor Satish Kumar, who is facing charges of molesting a PhD student working under his supervision, has resigned from the post of college bursar following which the governing body today made a new appointment for the administrative position.Kumar, an assistant professor in the...
10:11
Vile jihadis fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq have brutally murdered five prisoners by locking them in a metal cage and lowering them into a swimming pool.Filmed in the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, the sickening seven minute long video uses expensive underwater cameras to film the terrified...
10:08
At least 18 people are dead following a knife and bomb attack by a group of ethnic Uyghurs on a police traffic checkpoint in northwestern China's troubled Xinjiang region, sources said Tuesday, amid harsh restrictions on observance of the Muslim holy month of Ramzan.One source said the incident,...
09:45
Twenty-eight-year-old Afghan National Army Sergeant Essa Khan catapulted to fame following an attack on the Afghan parliament building that killed six civilians and left all seven presumed Taliban attackers dead.In video broadcast by Afghan national television of the immediate aftermath of the...
09:37
Meanwhile, in a crackdown on illegal breweries, the police in Thane district destroyed thousand litres of illicit liquor in raids.This raid comes a day after Thane's Guardian Minister, Eknath Shinde, reportedly ordered the wiping out of illegal breweries.Deputy...
09:35
A court in Mumbai has sent two women to police custody over their alleged involvement in a hooch tragedy. Toxic homemade liquor killed more than 94 slum dwellers in Mumbai, with more than 45 in hospital recently.The police have arrested five people in connection with the deaths. As per the...
09:17
The Congress party on Wednesday will hold a protest against Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje demanding her resignation over latter's involvement in former IPL chief Lalit Modi row. Read this story HERE
09:09
The National Security Agency spied on French presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, WikiLeaks said in a press statement published on Tuesday, citing top secret intelligence reports and technical documents.The revelations were first reported...
09:09
Rajesh Sakre would have you believe he is a regular guy, except he has just fought and won a case against one of India's largest banks.Sakre who has only studied till Class V, challenged the government-run State Bank of India back in 2011, when he realised that a sum of Rs. 9,200 was...
08:33
British lawmakers led by prominent Indian-origin entrepreneur Karan Bilimoria on Tuesday performed Yoga in the UK parliament, celebrating the first International Yoga Day.Lord Bilimoria, a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords and chairman of Cobra Beer, was joined by a number of...
08:14
A Delhi court is likely to pronounce today its order on a complaint against Union HRD minister Smriti Irani for allegedly giving false information about her educational qualification in affidavits filed with the Election Commission.The complaint against her was filed by freelance writer Ahmer...
08:09
Yoga is serious business and the Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu took his shavasan (corpse pose) a little too seriously! Prabhu was in Cochin, Kerala to observe the International Day of Yoga on June 21.According to a regional newspaper, the minister fell asleep during the event. This is...
03:07
Mission controllers trying to fly a solar plane around the world canceled take off from Japan early tomorrow because of weather problems over the Pacific Ocean. Solar Impulse 2 had been due to leave Nagoya, central Japan, at 2.30 am (1730 GMT) bound for Hawaii, on the latest and most...
03:07
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket into southern Israel today, the army said, the fifth such attack in under a month. Rocket was launched from the Gaza Strip to southern Israel, the army said on Twitter. No injuries reported. Police said they were trying to locate the point of...
02:04
A Daesh operative suspected of involvement in the 2012 attack on the United States diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, has been killed in a United States airstrike in Iraq, the Pentagon said on Monday.Ali Awni Al Harzi operated closely with multiple Daesh-associated extremists throughout North...
01:30
Al-Qaeda's north African branch has released footage of a jihadist with an English accent parading two Western hostages he says are being held in new territory under its control. South African Stephen Malcolm McGowan and Swede Johan Gustafson were abducted in Timbuktu, northern Mali, in...
00:58
Resident doctors of Delhi have called off their strike, says Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain. Delhi government on Tuesday invoked the Essential Services Maintenance Act to force an end to the strike by government doctors that continued to cripple health services in the national capital...
00:56
A fire has killed at least 15 elderly residents of a nursing home on the outskirts of the northern border city of Mexicali, across the border from Calexico, California, the Mexican city's mayor said today. Mexicali Mayor Jaime Diaz Ochoa said another five people were being treated at a local...
00:27
President Barack Obama spoke out against religious prejudice Monday at a White House dinner celebrating the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.Several members of the diplomatic community, lawmakers and Muslim Americans were on hand for a traditional Iftar dinner, which follows daily...
00:26
The US military will be sending dozens of tanks, Bradley armored fighting vehicles and self-propelled howitzers to allied countries in the Baltics and Eastern Europe in response to Russian actions in the Ukraine, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Tuesday.The equipment, enough to arm one combat...
00:24
ISIS has been forced from one of its stronghold outposts, a key access point to its self-declared capital, where it was entrenched for two years. And the defeat along a vital stretch of terrain could be a potential blueprint for more military successes against the militants.In freshly-liberated...
00:22
Government cancels licences of 2,406 NGOsBlackmoney SIT reviews IPL, Lalit Modi cases; seeks more updatesHooch tragedy: Illicit liquor supplier held in DelhiThe 4 options before Supreme Court in Jaya caseDeath toll rises to 630, as temperatures soar in PakistanChina blocks India's move in UN...
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