23:52
This video shows Prince performing a stunning version of his hit song Purple Rain during his last live performance.Watch the video HERE.The singer played to fans at The Fox Theatre in Atlanta last Thursday.He performed two sold out shows with reviewers describing the performances as...
23:49
Stars have paid tribute to musician Prince, who was found dead today in his Paisley Park Studios. He was 57.You introduced me to James Brown, @michaeljackson, @JimiHendrix & effortlessly made them a part of your music & artistry. RIPPrince: tweeted politician and music aficionado Milind...
23:37
In an interview with New York Magazine singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell has written of her meetings with a young Prince. 'Prince attended one of my concerts in Minnesota. I remember seeing him sitting in the front row when he was very young. He must have been about 15. He was in an aisle seat...
23:20
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said today that transgender people should be able to use whichever bathroom they choose, voicing opposition to part of a far-reaching North Carolina law that critics says is discriminatory.Speaking at a town hall event on NBC's Today Thursday, Trump...
22:56
The singer Prince has died at his recording studio, age 57. Entertainment website TMZ said his body was discovered at his compound in Chanhassen, Minnesota this morning. His spokesperson confirmed his death to the Associated Press. Carver County Chief Deputy Jason Kamerud told Fox 9...
22:37
North Carolina and Mississippi's controversial new laws affecting LGBT rights are already threatening to cost the U.S. states millions in lost business and tourism.That situation could be set to worsen after the UK government updated foreign travel advice warning British citizens about risks...
22:24
China's government workers are being warned off dating handsome foreigners -- because they may be potential James Bonds.A 16-panel comic book-style poster that's been widely displayed across Beijing tells the story of an attractive young female civil servant -- Xiao Li or Little Li -- who is...
21:52
Telangana government today accorded sanction for prosecution of AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi in a case related to alleged hate speech. The government of Telangana hereby accords sanction for prosecution of the accused (Akbaruddin) for the offences punishable under Section 153-A of the IPC...
21:36
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump today exuded confidence that he will earn the party's nomination for the November elections and said he is in a good shape to go against crooked Hillary Clinton.It has been a very tough battle. I was being hit from every angle on every side. And I...
20:54
The dreaded Islamic State terror group may be linked to the explosion at a gurudwara in Germany's western city of Essen, media reports said today quoting officials investigating the attack.Suspicions of an ISIS involvement in the Saturday blast at the Nanaksar Satsang Sabha Gurdwara, which...
20:35
Delhi High Court today refused to stay the release of the movie 'Santa Banta Pvt Ltd' scheduled for tomorrow. Justice J R Midha passed the order declining the plea of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee seeking stay on the film on the ground that Central Board of Film Certification has not...
20:25
A Communist Party of India-Marxist supporter was killed and four other party workers were injured during the third phase of polling in 62 assembly seats in West Bengal where over 67 per cent turnout was recorded.Heavy turnout of 70.55 per cent was recorded in 16 seats of Burdwan while Kolkata...
20:18
With the last three hearings in the the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case being adjourned, Pakistani officials have warned that the trial, going on for six years, could face further delay if India does not send 24 Indian witnesses to Pakistan to record their statements.Thehearing of the case is...
19:28
More than 1 crore LPG consumers have given up their cooking gas subsidies in one year since Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a call to the well-heeled to give up the same. Since Modi made the appeal in March last year, 1,00,06,303 LPG consumers have stopped using subsidised cooking gas,...
19:14
Just in: BJP senior leader Dr Subramanian Swamy, former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu, Olympian boxer Mary Kom, senior journalist Swapan Dasgupta, economist Dr Narendra Jhadav, Malayalam actor Suresh Gopi have been nominated to the Rajya Sabha. The BJP government has recommended these names to...
18:57
Sir Roger Moore @sirrogermoore Incredibly, incredibly saddened to hear the wonderful director Guy Hamilton has gone to the great cutting room in the sky. 2016 is horrid.British film director Guy Hamilton, known for his work on four key James Bond movies, has died at the age of 93.The...
18:24
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, tennis star Sania Mirza, actress Priyanka Chopra, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and founders of Flipkart Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal have been named by Time magazine in its list of the '100 Most Influential People in the World'. Time's annual list, released today,...
18:16
Anticipating that the Centre would move the Supreme Court against the Uttarakhand HC verdict, Harish Rawat files a caveat in the court.
18:01
The Uttarakhand High Court's verdict setting aside imposition of President's rule in the state on Thursday spurred an elated Congress to attack the BJP, demanding an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah for trampling democracy and murdering the constitution.The...
17:54
In the second drought fatality in a span of two days, an 11-year-old boy died while fetching water from a well in drought-hit Beed district of Marathwada on Thursday. Sachin Gopinath Kedar of Veeda village in Kej teshil was fetching water from a well, half-a-kilometre from his home, when he...
17:41
Vijay Mallya, wanted in India for unpaid loans worth nearly a billion dollars, has said that banks have no right to details of the assets owned by either his family or him. Armed with a non-bailable arrest warrant against him, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has...
17:10
BJP biggies Meeting Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Amit Shah go into a huddle the party president's residence in New Delhi over the Uttarakhand verdict.
16:58
Zee Media Corporation today said its Group CEO - News Cluster Bhaskar Das has quit following his transfer to another Essel Group entity. Since Bhaskar Das, Group CEO - News Cluster of the company has been transferred to another entity forming part of Essel Group, Zee Media Corporation said in a...
16:55
Just in: Paris suspect Salah Abdeslam charged over Brussels shootout, reports AFP.Salah Abdeslam, the key suspect in November's Paris attacks, will be extradited to France from Belgium in a few weeks to allow for additional questioning by Belgian investigators, his lawyer said on...
16:44
The Queen prepared for her birthday extravaganza this week with an overnight trip to Downton Abbey.She spent last weekend at Highclere Castle, the Jacobean-style stately home in Hampshire which stands in for Downton in the TV series. The Queen was the guest of her godson George Herbert, 59, the...
16:30
Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Babulal Gaur, who had earlier stirred a hornet's nest after describing rape as a social crime, courted controversy yet again on Thursday after he was caught on camera allegedly touching a woman inappropriately as she was climbing on to a bus during an event in...
16:24
The Islamic State, notorious for its brutality, has reportedly executed 250 girls in northern Iraq for refusing to become sex slaves, according to a media report.The girls had been ordered to accept temporary marriages to the terrorists and were murdered, sometimes alongside their families,...
16:13
Amid the US' push to expand cooperation with India in the space sector, the country's nascent private space industry has expressed its opposition to the large scale use of low cost ISRO launch vehicles for putting American satellites into orbits.Such a move, corporate leaders and officials of the...
16:04
Well, it seems the BJP isn't too happy about the Uttarakhand High court's decision. Following the quashing of President's Rule and asking for a floor test on April 29, the BJP said, The Harish Rawat government in Uttarakhand is in minority and this will be proved on April 29.The BJP seem quite...
16:02
Pakistan Army chief Gen Raheel Sharif on Thursday sacked 12 officers, including two generals, on charges of corruption. The unprecedented sackings came two days after Sharif called for across-the-board accountability to root out corruption from the country. Among the officers who were...
15:37
President's rule has been set aside in Uttarakhand with the high court allowing former Chief Minister Harish Rawat's plea challenging the imposition of President's rule. The court also ordered a fresh floor test on April 29. The status quo as on date of proclamation of President's...
14:45
Presidential nominations for the eight vacancies in the Rajya Sabha are likely to be released in the next 24 hours. According to Article 80 (3) of the Constitution, the President may nominate as members those who have special knowledge or practical experience in literature,...
14:33
Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis tweets his delight: Delighted to meet Bharat Ratna @sachin_rt . He & @PepsiCo putting together a plan for drought relief in Marathwada.Just six days ago, former cricketer Vinod Kambli took a dig at Sachin Tendulkar about his silence over the Maharashtra...
14:27
Rezzak Mollah, a TMC MP has apologised to the BJP's Roopa Ganguly for the misogynistic remarks he made at her this week on local television.I am really sorry for making personal remarks against Roopa Ganguly, I apologise, Mollah said. The TMC leader had said, I know the length of the cigarettes...
14:08
What award-winning war photographer James Nachtwey thinks about the role of journalists in an unjust world would violate the basic tenet of the American media: reporters must not get too deep into a story, lest their emotions cloud their judgement.This is what he had to say. Read
13:59
The tiger is the epitome of evolution.'Every tiger has a stripe pattern that is unique. Each tiger is unique.Dr Yadvendra Jhala wanted to be a zookeeper as a child. Today he's one of India's prominent field biologists and wildlife experts and says a career in wildlife is a romance with nature for...
13:48
A group of investors questions whether Nikesh Arora has conflicts of interest due to his existing role as a senior adviser to the PE firm Silver Lake. Read more
13:44
Nurse from Kerala's Angamaly, Chikku Robert, stabbed to death in Salalah city of Oman.
13:40
When the Government Girls Higher Secondary School opened in Handwara on Wednesday after eight days of massive protests and curfew, only 20 students out of the 1,150 enrolled were present. The 20 had formed groups to discuss the tumultuous events that have taken place since April 12, when protests...
13:28
The man who massacred 77 people in Norway's deadliest ever terror attack has won part of a lawsuit against the government for inhuman treatment.A court in Oslo ruled in Anders Breivik's favour on one of two claims for alleged human rights violations and rejected the other on Wednesday...
13:19
'Hindu daughters' need protection and the only way to ensure that is to enforce a two-child policy for all religions, Union minister Giriraj Singh was reported speaking to the The Indian Express. Daughters will not be safe and might have to be kept under the veil, like in Pakistan, said...
13:01
West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle shows his softer side with an announcement on Instagram: We would like to welcome the arrival of our beautiful daughter Blush to this world 2 hours ago. Thank God,
12:37
The killing of a CPI(M) polling agent in Murshidabad district today kicked off a blame game between CPI(M) and TMC, with the Left party alleging that TMC had unleashed a reign of terror while EC was only acting as a mute spectator. The TMC denied the allegations and said the killing was a fallout...
12:24
Chinese dissidents from around the world will assemble in India next week to hold an international conference seeking transition to democracy in the communist country.New Delhi not only gave its go-ahead to the organisers to hold the conference in India, but also granted visas to Chinese...
12:17
The Rajasthan High Court has issued notice to the state government, Board of Cricket for Control in India (BCCI), Water Resources Department, Sports and Youth department and Rajasthan Cricket Association asking about their decision to host IPL matches in Jaipur. The High Court on Thursday has...
12:15
Veteran actor Dilip Kumar has been discharged from Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai. Dilip Kumar was admitted on Saturday morning complaining of respiratory problems and was treated for pneumonia.He was in the care of eminent physician Dr Jalil Parkar who had also treated Bal Thackeray.
12:10
India will organise an exhibition at the United Nations displaying stories of displaced Polish children, mostly orphans, finding refuge in India during World War II, offering a message of humanism as the world faces the biggest refugee crisis in recent history. The exhibition 'Passage to India -...
11:33
Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal: Pachauri out, good riddance but maybe the @guardian will give him a consultancy, they do so feel he is aggrieved.
11:26
The Governing Council of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has decided to end TERI's association with R K Pachauri with immediate effect. In a meeting held on Monday, the Governing Council, headed by new Chairman Ashok Chawla ex finance Secretary, has decided to pay a lump sum to...
11:17
The most recent issue of the Organiser, the English journal of the RSS, has a picture of B.R. Ambedkar on its cover, hailing him as the Ultimate Unifier. The issue (dated April 17, 2016) features several articles on the great man, one saying he provided the glue for nation building, a second...
11:14
They say they take inspiration from the Afghan Taliban's victory' over American troops. They are educated, some from well-off families, some hold regular jobs, some in the government. They freely declare their anger against what they call the Indian state and the Army'. They all want azadi....
11:03
A third terrorist has also been killed in an encounter with Army jawans in Kupwara. Earlier today, two other unidentified militants were killed in the same encounter with security forces in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, the army said. Acting on specific information about the presence of...
10:43
Signalling a major social change, women this morning were permitted entry to the Trimbakeshwar temple in Nashik, one of the 12 'Jyotirlingas' in the country.A group of three women activists of the Swarajya Sanghatana led by Vanita Gutte, was allowed to enter the temple amidst tight...
10:16
The latest expose contradicts Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan's statement, whose name figured in the Panama Paper leaks as allegedly having links with offshore entities in two tax havens. He had earlier denied any connection with those companies, saying his name may have been...
09:52
The ordeal is not over for the 16-year-old girl, whose allegation of being molested by an army man sparked violent clashes in Jammu and Kashmir's Handwara, leading to the death of four protesters, and imposition of an eight-day curfew. The teenager faces stiff hostility at her school from...
09:25
Minutes after the 50-wagon Jaldoot Express pulled into Latur railway station carrying 25 lakh litres of drinking water ' enough to take care of the city's daily needs ' Kavita Kamble and her family became the first ones to receive a 200 litre barrel at their doorstep. I cant believe the...
08:56
One CPI-M worker died after a crude bomb was allegedly hurled by TMC workers in Jitpur village in Murshidabad district. Heavy security has been deployed in the state, with one lakh security personnel deployed to look after law and order.The Election Commission has identified 3,401 hamlets in the...
08:25
Here's an update on the encounter: A defence spokesperson speaking to Rediff.com's Mukhtar Ahmad said another terrorist had been killed in the encounter. The operation is still on. So far two militants have been killed, the spokesman said.
08:20
Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, was conferred a French honour for her contribution in the fields of culture, education and environment.French Ambassador Francois Richier conferred the L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) on Bhattacharjee at...
07:44
A terrorists has been killed after an encounter between a group of militants and security forces begin early this morning in the northern Kupwara district in Jammu Kashmir. A police officer said the gunfight started after troops of counter insurgency Rashtriya Rifles and police jointly...
04:44
Hacking the San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone has produced data the FBI didn't have before and has helped the investigators answer some remaining questions in the ongoing probe, U.S. law enforcement officials say.Apple and the FBI are squaring off again Tuesday in testimony at a House hearing on...
04:09
As many as 500 people are feared dead after a shipwreck last week in the Mediterranean Sea, two international groups said today, describing survivors' accounts of panicked passengers who desperately tried to stayafloat by jumping between vessels.The disaster happened in waters between Italy and...
02:11
At Ground Zero in Africa's counterterrorism fight, senior US officials warned of deepening links between the Islamic State and Boko Haram andprodded Chad's ruling strongman to introduce reforms for thesake of long-term stability.But in a rare appearance before foreign journalists at his...
01:19
The US Air Force has started using its hulking B-52 bombers against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, but the enormous aircraft are onlyconducting precision strikes, a military spokesman said today.The B-52 Stratofortress -- originally designed in the 1950s -- became a symbol of US might...
00:57
Ukraine's defence minister warned today it may take years to settle the ex-Soviet republic's pro-Russian separatist conflict that has killed nearly 9,200 people and plunged Moscow's relations with the West to apost-Cold War low.Stepan Poltorak also accused Russia of keeping several thousand...
00:57
Hafiz Saeed's JuD runs 'Sharia court', gets notice from Pak courtAcute water crisis forces bahus to leave for sasural in BiharTelangana: Three minors at childcare centre 'burnt' with hot spoons as punishment
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