23:50
An Egyptian court today set April 4 date for the retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons on graft charges. In January, the court overturned Mubarak's conviction on corruption charges and ordered that he and his sons Alaa and Gamal be tried again.
23:09
Apple kicked off an event expected to focus on Apple Watch with something else: an announcement that HBO's streaming service will debut on Apple TV and devices exclusively next month.CEO Tim Cook welcomed HBO CEO Richard Plepler to the stage after discussing Apple's newest retail store in China,...
22:53
BJP today said top separatist leader Masarat Alam is not a political prisoner but an extremist with Rs 10 lakh bounty on his head. Masarat Alam does not fit into the definition of a political prisoner. He is a criminal, separatist and extremist for India. He carries a Rs 10-lakh bounty on...
22:46
A large business delegation from India will participate in Egypt's economic conference this week to explore opportunities in the most populous Arab country. India's Ambassador to Egypt Navdeep Suri will lead around 43 people, comprising representatives from 25 Indian companies in addition to...
22:10
Four persons died today of swine flu in Maharashtra, raising the fatalities from the disease in the state to 215 so far.Out of four deaths, two are reported from Pune and one each from Satara and Aurangabad. A total of 88 new cases have been reported across the state today, an official from the...
22:01
Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate for questioning in connection with a decade-old case of terror financing through 'hawala channel'.Shah, the Chairman of Democratic Freedom Party of Jammu and Kashmir, has been summoned here for March 24,...
21:31
Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav's health has improved and he has been shifted out of the ICU.The condition of party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has improved and he has been shifted out of the ICU and moved to private ward, his brother and UP Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav told...
21:22
The Shiv Sena today virtually justified the lynching of a rape accused in Nagaland, saying mob fury reflects people's anger towards sexual crimes against women and the kind of justice meted out to the man should happen in Maharashtra as well.The way justice was meted out to the rape accused in...
21:08
The Gujarat government today said that as many as 124 lions died during the last two years in and around Gir forest.During the question hour in the assembly, Congress MLA Natvarsinh Thakor raised a question about deaths of lions aswell as leopards in Sasan Gir and Dhari Gir forests in the...
21:05
Lok Sabha is set to witness a confrontation over Land Acquisition Bill tomorrow when it is taken up for voting with opposition bent on opposing it even as the government again offered to make changes in the legislation in the larger interest of the farming community.NDA partner Shiv Sena,...
20:55
India today unveiled its indigenously developed and manufactured Rotavirus vaccine, claimed to be the world's cheapest at the rate of around Rs 60 per dose and aimed at boosting efforts to deal with diarrhoea that kills up to 80,000 children under 5 every year.'Rotavac', launched by Prime...
20:44
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said political rivalry with BJP notwithstanding he would not hesitate to knock doors of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the interest of the state.In the interest of Bihar I will go to anybody and even knock the doors of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Kumar...
20:30
Toughening its stand, Congress today decided to vote against against controversial Land Bill in Lok Sabha tomorrow if Government does not withdraw changes or refuses to send it to the Standing Committee.Party President Sonia Gandhi chaired two meetings of the Parliamentary Affairs Committee of...
19:59
A Sri Lankan court today imposed a travel ban on Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, former defence secretary and brother of ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa, and impounded his passport amid a probe into huge private floating arsenals set up during the previous regime when he was in office. A magistrate court in...
19:57
Sidelined Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy in an interview to CNN-IBN said, I will not confirm whether I plan to join the BJP, my present status is what should be of interest.I am presently just an MP of the upper house of the Parliament elected by the party and nothing more, he said.I think...
19:44
An Indian student was denied an internship at the Leipzig University in Germany because he comes from a country with a rape problem.Professor Annette Beck Sickinger denied the Indian male student an internship at Institute of Biochemistry, saying that they...
19:12
Actress Anushka Sharma has joined other Bollywood celebrities to criticise the government's move to ban the documentary on December 16 gang rape in India, saying such things make our country look regressive. The 26-year-old actress said although she has not watched the documentary 'India's...
19:10
Controversial Uttar Pradesh politician and former MP D P Yadav today surrendered before a special CBI court in Deharadun in connection with the 1992 murder of Mahendra Singh Bhati. Soon after Yadav surrendered in the court of special CBI judge Amit Kumar Sirohi, he was sent to Dehradun jail, his...
19:06
Just in: SMS services have resumed in Nagaland. Mobile and Internet services were blocked in the state after the tension mounted in the state after a rape accused was lynched on March 5.
18:57
Bharatiya Janata Party legislators in Jammu and Kashmir today lodged a strong protest with Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed over the release of hardline separatist leader Masarat Alam and demanded his re-arrest. The party also took exception to the misinformation campaign that the decision to...
18:10
Removal of senior leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav from the Political Affairs Committee will be discussed in the AAP's National Council meeting later this month, party sources said.The National Council, which has around 300 members is supposed to meet once every year. This year, the NC...
17:58
The Roka Function of Congress supporter Tehseen Poonawalla and Robert Vadra's cousin Monika Vadra saw many familiar faces from the Gandhi family.Tehseen, a well known businessman and Congress supporter is set to marry Monika Vadra, the cousin sister of Robert Vadra who is husband to Priyanka...
17:51
Just in: At least one person was killed, while another was injured in firing near a tea stall in the Qutub Minar area in Delhi. The masked assailant fired at the two victims before fleeing in a car. Cops have started investigating the case.More details awaited.
17:46
The Delhi High Court refused an urgent hearing on a PIL that sought to lift the ban on a documentary on Nirbhaya gangrape case. The documentary, India's Daughter, which was aired by BBC under much protestation from the Indian government featured a controversial interview with one of the rape...
17:39
The Jammu unit of Shiv Sena protested against the release of separatist leader Masarat Alam.The controversial decision to release Alam rocked both houses of parliament and accrued much ire from opposition political parties.Alam's release came soon after the controversial statement by newly sworn...
17:39
Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani met Pakistan envoy to India Abdul Basit on Monday.This meeting comes hot on the heels of the controversial release of separatist leader Masarat Alam and the statement by newly sworn J&K CM Mufti Mohammed Sayeed that the elections went smoothly because...
16:50
Pakistan today successfully test launched a surface-to-surface ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads to a distance of 2,750 kilometres, bringing most Indian cities under its range.Shaheen-III's test launch was aimed at validating various design and technical...
16:38
Prime Minister Narendra Modi sets off tomorrow on a five-day tour of Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri Lanka that is expected to give traction to the country's Indian Ocean outreach during which he also visit a former war zone and Tamil heartland of Jaffna.As Modi visits Sri Lanka on March 13-14 on...
16:30
After reports appeared of an Indian student, who had applied to a German university for admission, being reportedly turned down by a professor of the Leipzig University citing the 'rape culture in India', the German ambassador to India Michael Steiner wrote a strongly worded letter to the...
15:48
Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare announced that he would set off on his padayatra against the Land Bill on March 25 from Sevagram. He said that the yatra would start on March 25 and willconclude on April 27. Before that he would visit Bhagat Singh's village in Punjab and pay homage to him on...
15:39
The Peoples Democratic Party has hit back at the Centre over the release of hardliner Masarat Alam. Sources within the party have expressed their ire over the issue, saying, We don't have to share every decision with the Prime Minister's Office.Earlier in the day, PM Modi expressed his outrage...
15:28
Sudhir Gautam would be eternally grateful to Sachin Tendulkar. Facing troubles with the New Zealand Customs officials, the superfan was let out of his dilemma when he showed them a letter written by the Little Master. New Zealand have one of the toughest immigration rules in the...
15:01
Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of Bengal, today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the first time since he took power in May. During the meeting, Banerjee raised the debt problem that the state was facing and said most of them were a result of the actions of past governments. The debt...
14:53
A comic has broken the world record for telling the most jokes in a minute -- taking the humourous title off a German. Clive Greenaway managed to say 26 one-liners in 60 seconds in front of a live audience to claim the record. Although the 57-year-old fell two jokes short of the 28 he had...
14:47
Pakistan today successfully test-fired surface-to-surface ballistic missile, Shaheen-III, capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads to a range of 2,750 kilometres.
14:19
The centenary commemoration of World War I was inaugurated by a wreath laying ceremony by President Mukherjee at Amar Jawan Jyoti, India Gate. The President endorsed his remarks in the visitors book, stating On the centenary commemoration of World War-I, I join my fellow countrymen in paying...
13:52
Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi was removed from the post of Rajasthan Cricket Association president as the members of the association passed a no-confidence motion against him and his office-bearers at the extraordinary general meeting. Modi, who has been seeking to legitimise his return...
13:22
Slamming Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe for his remarks that Indian fishermen may be shot if they intruded into Lankan waters, Dravida Munnetra Kazagham said it amounted to a slap on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's face ahead of his tour to the island nation. It is not proper for...
13:13
Amid statements from the PM and the Home Minister on separatist leader Masarat Alam's release from prison in Lok Sabha, Hardline Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani stirred a controversy over the status of Kashmir, saying that India should realise that Jammu and Kashmir...
12:52
Srinagar based journalist Shujaat Bukhari tweets on the Masarat Alam release: This mindset that an elected CM of JK should always get a nod from home ministry even for release of a prisoner has always proven disastrous
12:35
Breaking his silence over the release of separatist leader Masarat Alam, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a statement in Lok Sabha on the same. Speaking in Lok Sabha, the PM said, I am in sync with the outrage that is being asserted in the nation and the Parliament. He assured the House and the...
12:26
Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrives in Lok Sabha to issue a statement on the release of the separatist leader Masarat Alam's release. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, he said, As soon as we heard the news of Masrat Alam's release we asked for a report from J&K home ministry. Public safety and...
12:15
The situation in Dimapur town of Nagaland, where a mob lynched a rape accused, was returning to normalcy with curfew being relaxed and markets reopening after three days even as more arrests were made in connection with the incident. The total number of persons taken under custody...
11:39
Not long after coming to power the National Democratic Alliance government made sweeping changes to the land acquisition law of 2013, claiming that the legislation was making land acquisition and economic growth impossible. The claim was brazen in its assumptions because there was no empirical...
11:13
Within minutes of the Lok Sabha proceedings beginning, chaos ensued with Congress's Mallikarjun Kharge raising the issue of the release of separatist leader Masarat Alam. Speaking on the issue, Kharge said, If Masarat Alam is released it raises question on democracy, this release needs to be...
10:52
A special court postponed its verdict in the multi-billion dollar Satyam fraud case to April 9. The six-year-old case rattled the corporate world after its founder and former chairman Ramalinga Raju on January 7, 2009, confessed to manipulating Satyam's account books and inflating profits...
10:47
As half the planet, women make immeasurable contributions to our world. They are entrepreneurs, farmers, educators, scientists, artists, soldiers, mothers, heads of state, the list is endless. Without them, economies would collapse, political systems would deteriorate, and families and...
10:36
After the Congress and other opposition parties have raised a hue and cry over the release of prominent separatist Masarat Alam, Home Minister Rajnath Singh will issue a statement on the same in Parliament. The Congress has demanded that the PM explain why their government is going easy and has...
10:21
In an angry response to the ban on India's Daughter, the BBC documentary, an activist involved with the NGO 'Stop Acid Attacks' set up a huge projector in an Agra village on Sunday evening, and screened the film. The activist, Ketan Dixit, an independent documentary film-maker, said that he...
09:53
JUST IN: Meeting between the government and opposition on the Land Acquisition Bill underway in the Parliament.
09:31
The Indian government is inviting the world to point fingers at India, and call it undemocratic and unconstitutional, said Leslee Udwin of the ban on the documentary India's Daughter, which has resulted in the film going viral on YouTube. Why are they doing this? Why are they intent on...
09:07
A record-breaking attempt to fly around the world in a solar-powered plane has got under way from Abu Dhabi.The aircraft - called Solar Impulse-2 - took off from the Emirate, heading east to Muscat in Oman.Over the next five months, it will skip from continent to continent, crossing both the...
08:17
In today's age when high profile journalists are increasingly known for their hubris and self-servicing sermonising attitude, Vinod Mehta didn't let success go to his head. In fact, one of his greatest strengths was irreverence and the ability to look at things from a perspective. The irreverence...
08:04
It seems the Bharatiya Janata Party is in for more trouble after its ally in Jammu-Kashmir, the Peoples Democratic Party, is now securing the release Ashiq Hussain Faktoo, a separatist leader, who has been lodged in in Srinagar jail for the past 22 years. Faktoo, is a...
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