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Triggering a fresh controversy, Maharashtra government on Tuesday issued a circular stating that from November 1, 2015 fresh autorickshaw permits will now be issued to only those who can speak the regional language of the state -- Marathi.After 1st November, permit for new auto rickshaw will be...
22:04
In the wake of reports claiming that private hospitals were turning away dengue patients, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said that though his government was working towards making the city a 'business hub', profit should not supersede humanity. Referring to the death of a...
21:58
Delhi government has announced its Anti-Corruption Helpline - 1031 - as new helpline number for dengue-related queries.The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, to give all relevant information about dengue and its treatment. As we were getting...
21:56
Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju today hinted that Robert Vadra's exemption from being frisked at domestic airports could soon be withdrawn as he described the hue and cry over his no-frisking status a non-issue.Wondering why Vadra did not seek to remove himself from the elite list of...
21:53
Cisco routers in India, Ukraine, Philippines and Mexico have been attacked by a sophisticated malicious software that possibly allows cybercriminals to harvest huge amounts of data without being detected, security solutions firm FireEye said today. Indian Air Force's secured communication...
20:21
Sri Lanka's minority Tamils today rejected government plans for a truth commission to promote reconciliation after decades of ethnic war, insisting on an international inquiry.Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera unveiled a range of reconciliation measures yesterday at the UN Human Rights Council...
20:19
In response to Chennai Super Kings Cricket Limited's petition in the Madras high court challenging Justice Lodha Committee's verdict of two year suspension from the IPL, the BCCI has argued that the CSKL is not a legal entity and hence cannot file a case. The said CSK is not a legal entity...
20:10
With Saudi embassy not responding to India's demand to cooperate in the case involving one of its diplomats charged with rape of two Nepalese women, the government is contemplating giving it a timeline for itsresponse before taking any action against the diplomat.The External Affairs Ministry,...
19:47
The ban on meat is spreading with Bengaluru being the latest city to ban it on Ganesh Chaturthi, which falls on September 17.The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike has issued a press statement calling for the ban for a day. Also read: Eggs hurled at trader's shop for supporting meat ban on...
19:31
Eight people died and five others are missing after a flash flood washed away vehicles at the Utah/Arizona border, the Hildale, Utah, fire department said.All the victims are mothers and small children, Assistant Fire Chief Kevin Barlow said. The youngest child was about 4 years old.The flooding...
19:25
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said the government has announced Rs five lakh to those who could provide clues about the murder of noted Kannada progressive writer and scholar M M Kalburgi.The government has decided to give a reward of Rs five lakh to whoever gives information about...
19:22
An Egyptian court today sentenced eight supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood to death while 80 others were sentenced in absentia to life in prison for indulging in violence and attacking a police station in Upper Egypt in 2013, resulting in the death of two poilcemen.The supporters were...
19:14
Nepal today said it will unveil its long-awaited new Constitution on September 20, despite the ongoing deadly protests by minority groups over the proposed federal structure.The Constituent Assembly has already began clause-by-clause voting on the proposed constitution, under preparation since...
18:54
That's a jam-packed Churchgate station this evening. The picture was tweeted by @nitish_nitigya.
18:11
When Mr Anthony D'Costa, a senior journalist with the Times of India, left his home in Vasai this afternoon and reached the railway station, he had little inkling of the horror that awaited him, and lakhs of other commuters like him who travel to South Mumbai every day on work.The train...
17:27
Just in: Kolkata's iconic Writers' Building evacuated after bomb scare. A bomb disposal squad is at the site. Writers' Building is the secretariat of the government of West Bengal and also houses chief minister Mamata Banerjee's office.
16:57
Just in: The Vasundhara Raje-led BJP government in Rajasthan has climbed down from its earlier stance of cancelling the holiday on Eid, on September 25. The state government says the holiday will stand, and it's up to employees to decide if they want attend work. No prizes for guessing what...
16:51
Train services still affected on the western line of Mumbai's suburban railway as this indicator at Mahim station shows. Pic: Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com.
16:24
No, Charlie Hebdo did not mock Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi in its cartoons. Read
16:08
French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been criticised for publishing a cartoon depicting the death of three-year-old Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi as its own controversial take on the refugee and migration crisis, the media reported on Tuesday.The cartoon attributed to the publication and...
15:50
If it isn't rains, it's trains. Mumbaikars using the suburban train network on the western railway were left stranded after a seven coaches of a local train today derailed between Andheri and Vile Parle stations, disrupting traffic on the busy route linking Churchgate in South Mumbai to Virar....
15:24
Heads up if you are taking a long-distance train out of Mumbai:Due to derailment between Andheri and Vile Parle, following WR trains are rescheduled today, 15th September,2015:12955 Mumbai Central-Jaipur Express will depart at 21.00 Hrs instead of its schedule departure at 18.50 Hrs.12961 Mumbai...
14:58
India's health ministry gets a sanitary-napkin machine -- but there's just one problem. Read more
14:53
AAP's Ashutosh on absconding colleague (and his dog) Somnath Bharti: This is Somnath-ji's personal matter, AAP won't interfere. But we advise him to come forth and take part in an investigation. An arrest warrant has been issued for Somnath Bharti, the Aam Aadmi Party leader and former Law...
14:19
A horrific blast in Petlawad, in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh, has claimed the lives of about a hundred people. It was caused by a stockpile of gelatine sticks stored illegally in a building. The detonation, which ripped through a three-storey residential-cum-commercial complex that also...
14:15
Yasin Malik who was on his way to Sopore, detained by police in Sangrama area of Baramulla district (J&K).
14:10
I am very sure that Rajnikanth, a patriot and spiritual person, will not do this movie which is about a tyrant, killer and murderer, BJP leader H Raja tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com Read
13:59
The arguments over the quantum of sentence in the 7/11 local train blasts will continue on Tuesday in a special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act or MCOCA Court in Mumbai. 189 people died and over 800 people were injured in the 2006 blasts. Last Friday, the special court convicted 12 of...
13:42
Two men in China's Jiangsu province tried to sell their kidney for Apple's latest offering, the iPhone 6s. One of the men, surnamed Wu, wanted an iPhone 6s but could not afford it. His friend Huang suggested they sell a kidney each for money, reported China Daily on Tuesday. The two...
13:27
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who arrived in India on Monday on a three-day state visit, held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi today. Excerpts from the joint statement.-- This is a historic year for India-Sri Lanka relations.-- We had the honour of hosting Sri Lankan...
12:46
Two stamps featuring Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, launched by the Department of Posts (DoP) in December 2008 as part of its series titled Builders of Modern India, have been discontinued, an RTI query by The Indian Express has revealed. The government now plans to introduce stamps under a...
12:39
The Pentagon has established a first-ever country special cell to speed up its defence ties with India and accelerate the process of co-development and co-production of hi-tech military equipment in the country. Established soon after Defence Secretary Ashton Carter assumed Pentagon's leadership...
12:22
A close-up of the wheels off the train that went off the track. Pic courtesy: Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com
12:21
Another picture of the derailed train, between Vile Parle and Andheri stations. Pic courtesy: Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com
12:14
Seven coaches of a local train today derailed between Andheri and Vile Parle stations in suburban Mumbai, disrupting traffic on the busy route linking Churchgate in South Mumbai to Virar. No casualty has been reported, Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO), Western Railway, Sharat Chandrayan...
12:07
@DaddysPride tweets this picture of people on the tracks at Goregaon station.
12:00
One is forced to wonder whether Modi is serious about all the bills people want him to pass. Because to me he has made no real honest effort at getting things moving legislatively,' says Aakar Patel. Read more
11:56
Another picture of the suburban train in Mumbai that derailed between Andheri and Vile Parle stations.
11:53
Just in: Early reports say seven coaches of a suburban train travelling from Mumbai's Andheri to Churchgate station, derails between Andheri and Vile Parle. Details awaited.The picture was tweeted by @Dhrumil929
11:31
US President Barack Obama has advised her daughter Malia to be open to new experiences when she goes to college and ensure that she gets a good grade.The advice... is to be open to new experiences when you go to college. Don't go to college just to duplicate the same experience you had in...
11:02
Notwithstanding claims of an amicable seat sharing arrangement having been reached among NDA partners for Bihar assembly polls, discontent seems to be brewing in Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP over allotment of 40 seats to it. LJP sources said there was a feeling in the party that Hindustani Awam...
10:52
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today described Sasmita Rana, who died at Sishu Bhavan in Cuttack a day after his visit, as the bravest girl he ever met. Expressing grief over the death of the little girl from Raitala village in Odisha's tribal dominated Keonjhar district, Gandhi tweeted,...
10:27
Four men suspected to be supporters of Islamic State have been detained in Kerala. They were deported from UAE, reports NDTV. Two of the men were held at the Thiruvananthapuram airport and two from the Kozhikode airport. The police say they are verifying the allegations.
10:24
Two Maoists including a woman were today killed in an alleged exchange of fire with police in a forest area of Warangal district of Telangana in the wee hours. There was an exchange of fire with the KKW (Karimnagar-Khammam-Warangal) committee near Somlagadda in Tadavai mandal under Pasara police...
10:18
A day after being ousted as Australia's prime minister, Tony Abbott fronted the press with a message for his successor.My pledge today is to make this change as easy as I can ... There will be no wrecking, no undermining and no sniping, Abbott said. This is not an easy day for many people in...
10:07
Just in: Four Islamic State supporters detained from Saudi Arabia detained in Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode in Kerala. Details awaited.
10:02
The Delhi police said the recovery of Aam Aadmi Party leader Somnath Bhartis pet dog was key to their probe in a alleged domestic violence case against him filed by his wife.The pet Labrador, named Don, was alleged to have bitten a pregnant Lipika at the behest of his master, reports The Indian...
09:05
The Centre today decided to provide additional 50 days of work in drought-hit areas under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme to provide relief to farmers in view of deficit monsoon in various parts of the country. At present, 100 days of work is provided to rural...
08:50
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been announced as one of the winners of the United Nations Champions of the Earth award in recognition of her country's initiatives to address climate change. Serving as the prime minister of Bangladesh, one of the world's least-developed countries...
04:09
US President Barack Obama has determined India and its three neighbours, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Myanmar, among a list of 22 nations that are major illicit drug producing or transit countries. Other countries on the list consists of the Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica,...
03:35
EU interior ministers have failed to reach unanimous agreement on a plan for binding quotas to relocate 120,000 refugees and take the strain off Greece, Italy, and Hungary, officials said. Yes, not everyone is on board at the moment, Luxembourg minister Jean Asselborn told a press conference in...
02:53
Around 1,000 migrants still arrived in southern Germany from Austria today despite a shock decision to reimpose border controls, German federal police said. Hundreds of refugees and migrants are still crossing the frontier, albeit at a slower pace than before the policy U-turn announced by...
02:25
Russia today successfully launched a Proton rocket, carrying a Russian telecoms satellite, from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the second successful launch since the disastrous loss of a Mexican satellite in May. The Proton-M took off at 10:10 pm local time (19:10 GMT) from the...
02:25
The United States today condemned all acts of violence at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa compound where Muslims and Israeli police clashed for a second straight day. The United States is deeply concerned by the recent violence and escalating tensions surrounding the Haram al-Sharif Temple Mount. We...
01:52
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor today said that there is a massive gap between Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'impressive speeches' and the reality, as he might have given excellent ideas but could not provide adequate attention to them. There is a massive gap between Modi's rhetoric and...
01:08
A professor was killed in his office at Delta State University in Mississippi, an official said today, and the campus remained on lockdown with the shooter still believed to be on the loose. County Deputy Coroner Murray Roark said history professor Ethan Schmidt was killed inside an office....
01:07
French President Francois Hollande, whose country is carrying out surveillance flights over Syria, said today it would be necessary to carry out air strikes against Islamic State militants there.We announced surveillance flights that would allow us to prepare air strikes if they were necessary,...
00:17
The governor of the US state of California today declared a state of emergency after massive wildfires in the state's north intensified due to a prolonged drought, destroying many homes and forcing thousands to flee.California Gov Jerry Brown declared the state of emergency as firefighters in the...
00:13
Pope Francis says he has felt used by people claiming to be his friend since he became pontiff, in a radio interview touching on the personal side of his papacy. I never had so many quote-unquote 'friends' as now. Everyone is the pope's friend, Francis said in a telephone interview with...
00:11
Patel quota agitation leader Hardik Patel tonight renamed his controversial 'reverse Dandi Yatra' as `Ekta Yatra' as he met Chief Minister Anandiben Patel during which he demanded suspension of cops who used force during the August 25 rally and release of those held. After the first...
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Dengue scare: Delhi sees 613 fresh cases in a weekIndia's bid for UNSC permanent seat gets a shot in the arm7/11 train blasts: All 12 convicts plead for leniencyDiplomat rape case: India walks the tightrope with SaudisMalcolm Turnbull is Australia's new PM, Abbott voted outThe Hero of the Battle...
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