23:54
A female employee of Snapdeal, India's largest online marketplace, has been allegedly abducted late on Wednesday night, while she was returning home after work. According to media reports, Dipti Sarna, 24, an executive working in Snapdeal's legal department, was in an auto rickshaw,...
23:19
IMF chief Christine Lagarde became assured today of a second five-year term after the global financial institution announced there were no othercandidates for the position.One candidate, current Managing Director Christine Lagarde, has been nominated, the IMF executive board said in a statement....
22:32
Stepping up their cooperation, India and the UAE tonight signed a wide-ranging set of seven agreements including on cyber security, infrastructureinvestment and insurance after talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.At their...
22:01
In an announcement that electrified the world of astronomy, scientists said today that they have finally detected gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago. Scientists likened the breakthrough to the moment Galileo took up a telescope...
21:06
A riot and a fire at a prison near Monterrey in northern Mexico has left 52 people dead, state officials say.Another 12 were injured in the riot at Topo Chico jail that broke out just after midnight.Smoke was seen billowing from the complex but officials in Nuevo Leon state say the situation is...
20:51
Bernie Sanders' stellar victory in New Hampshire showed that his campaign has some serious legs. He won 6 of 10 voters and led in virtually every demographic category, except for those over 65 and households earning more than $200,000.Slowly, Sanders has been undercutting Hillary Clinton's...
20:28
Pakistan's powerful army chief Gen Raheel Sharif today confirmed death sentences given to 12 hardcore terrorists, including a top Pakistani Talibanmilitant, by military courts for committing heinous offences.The terrorists were found guilty of committing series of terror attacks in the country,...
20:28
Charlotte Von Schedvin was a blonde, blue-eyed young woman who hailed from Swedish nobility.PK Mahanandia was a poor art student from eastern India, seen as an untouchable in his country's caste system.Yet their chance meeting in Delhi, late 1975, when Von Schedvin asked him to paint her...
19:56
The Supreme Court today critically examined a decision of Arunachal Pradesh Governor J P Rajkhowa ordering maintenance of the party-wise position of MLAs in the assembly and said he had no role to play in it, as the anti-defection aspect fell under the domain of the Speaker.How can the Governor...
19:36
Amid outrage over his appointment as TERI's Executive Vice Chairman, R K Pachauri has proceeded on leave today and will skip TERI University's convocation on March 7 after a group of students refused to receive degrees from him.Facing the heat due to multiple sexual harrassment charges, Pachauri,...
18:27
Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has been hospitalised after he suffered a minor heart attack.In the immediate aftermath of the Pathankot attack, Musharraf had called on India to not 'overreact' saying that both nations were victims of extremism and also accused New Delhi of creating...
18:17
Have your mutual fund investments bottomed out? Don't worry, this too shall pass. Not us, that's what Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan said on Thursday. He said efforts by the central bank and the government to clean up banks' balance sheets would be successful and warned analysts...
18:09
Congress VP Rahul Gandhi pays his condolences before Lance Naik Hanumanthappa's body.
18:06
After stirring up the hornet's nest with his anti-colonialist remark about India, Facebook board member Marc Andreessen today apologised saying it was ill-informed and ill-advised comment about Indian politics and economics. Last night on Twitter, I made an ill-informed and ill-advised comment...
17:52
The NSG today said there were two heavily armed terrorists hiding inside the Pathankot IAF base, apart from the four killed, even as it refuted reports about confusion in command, saying it takes complete control of the situation when deployed for counter-terror operations anywhere in the...
17:30
Controversial former IPS officer D G Vanzara, an accused in the fake encounter cases of Ishrat Jahan and Soharabuddin Sheikh, who is out on bail since February 2015, holds a press briefing in the wake of David Headley's deposition today that Mumbra girl Ishrat Jahan was a Lashkar-e-Taiba...
17:02
On Republic Day, Bhawna Goswami walked up to President Pranab Mukherjee to receive the country's highest award for gallantry in peacetime. She fought hard to hold back tears as she received the Ashok Chakra, while the announcer provided an account of Lance Naik Goswami's act of bravery in...
17:00
In a boost to net neutrality, Facebook has decided to shut down its controversial 'Free Basics' programme in India, following telecom regulator Trai's decision decision to bar operators from charging different rates for Internet access based on content. Facebook had met with severe criticism...
16:53
The government on Thursday welcomed Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley's revelations, including that Ishrat Jahan, who was killed in an alleged fake encounter in 2004 in Gujarat, was actually a Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative, saying it was good for the country. Whatever revelations have...
16:43
Defence minister Manohar Parrikar, three service chiefs at the wreath laying ceremony at Brar Square in New Delhi. Lance Naik Hanamanthappa's body will be flown back to his home in Dharwad, Karnataka for the final rites which are likely to take place tomorrow.Hanamanthappa, who was battling for...
16:33
Defence minister Manohar Parrikar, three service chiefs at the wreath laying ceremony at Brar Square in New Delhi. Lance Naik Hanamanthappa's body will be flown back to his home in Dharwad, Karnataka for the final rites which are likely to take place tomorrow.
16:28
Other updates on the Odd-Even rule: -- 500 retired defence personnel will be employed to enforce the formula. SDMs won't be deployed. -- School buses will be exempt.-- VIPs will be exempt.
16:25
Mortal remains of Lance Naik Hanamanthappa brought to Brar Square, Delhi.
16:22
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal announces the reinstatement of the Odd-Even scheme from April 15 to April 30. Women drivers are exempt. Reading out the survey results on whether Odd-Even should be reintroduced, he said the government is reviewing public feedback on the scheme with 81% of respondents...
16:03
How Pranesh Pillai became Javed Ghulam Sheikh. Read
16:02
Defence minister Parrikar to lay a wreath on the body of Lance Naik Hanamanthappa at Delhi Cantt at 5 pm.
15:55
Lt Gen SD Duhan (pictured) holds a press briefing on Lance Naik Hanamanthappa Koppad's death and the circumstances that led to it. On arrival on Feb 9, his body temperature was normal, his heart rate was fast, he had a low BP. As time progressed, when the blood was supplied to body parts which...
15:38
Speculation is rife that AAP senior leader Kumar Vishwas may join the BJP (that's one of the reasons he was trending today). Vishwas spent his 46th birthday party yesterday surrounded by BJP leaders and conspicuously missing was his party boss and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.Kejriwal is...
15:23
While on the Ishrat Jahan story, read our 2013 report: The CBI story: How Ishrat Jahan and others were killed.
15:20
The Centre may reopen the Ishrat Jahan case with the CBI likely to initiate a fresh FIR on the basis of David Headley's deposition today. The Pakistani-American terrorist on Thursday said that Ishrat Jahan -- who was killed in an alleged fake encounter in 2004 in Gujarat --was actually a suicide...
15:06
Brigadier Varinder Singh's unfinished handwritten manuscript was meant to be an account of the Indian Army's capture of Pakistan's Quaid Post from Sonam, where one soldier out of 10 survived an avalanche last week.The brigadier died in 2012 doing what he loved best -playing basketball in a Noida...
14:57
Sensex falls by 747.59 points, currently at 23,011.31. The BSE Sensex slumped on Thursday as a string of state-run lenders reported disappointing numbers in the December quarter. The broader Nifty came close to breaching the key 7,000 levels for the first time since May 12, 2014. The BSE Sensex...
14:50
Lance Naik Hanamanthappa Koppad's wife who is in New Delhi for the last three days, has just arrived at Army R&R Hospital where the body of her husband lies. Mahadevi Koppad, daughter Nethra and Hanamanthappa's parents had been flown in to New Delhi from Dharwad in Karnataka after the Lance...
14:26
CM of Karnataka tweets: I've asked d officers at Karnataka Bhavan to make arrangements for a special flight to bring d body of d soldier back.
14:23
And the nonsense begins: Bajrang Dal and Durga Vahini members burn Valentines' Day greeting cards in Hyderabad.
14:19
In the buildup to the 26/11 attacks, David Coleman Headley received several thousands in American, Indian and Pakistani currency from Pakistans Inter Services Intelligence, the Lashkar-E-Toiba, fellow convict Dr Tahawwur Rana and his friend in the Pakistani Army Major .Headley, who is deposing in...
14:00
Cartoonist Satish Acharya pays tribute.
13:56
Barkha Dutt tweets: 21,000 'hardship' allowance for Siachen Heroes;55,000 for Babus. As we tribute Hanamanthappa, think about it.
13:52
He leaves us sad & devastated. RIP Lance Naik Hanumanthappa. The soldier in you remains immortal. Proud that martyrs like you served India, PM Modi tweets.While India will grieve for the soldier and move on, his family has to live their life without him. Seems terribly unfair that after...
13:26
JUST IN: Dr RK Pachauri goes on leave as TERI University Chancellor and will not attend the March 7 convocation. This comes after outrage mounted over TERI's decision to promote and vest executive powers with Pachauri, accused of sexual harassment by a colleague who later resigned....
12:51
Hanamanthappa was rescued from under 25 feet of ice in the Siachen glacier, after six days. He was hospitalised for three days, but despite aggressive medication could not survive.
12:47
Just in: Lance Naik Hanamanthappa passes away. The army hospital says he died at 11.45am.The only survivor in the Siachen avalanche that killed nine others, Hanamanthappa slipped into deeper coma this morning. Hanamanthappa was on maximal life support. His kidneys were non-functional and he had...
12:41
The health bulletin on Lance Naik Hanamanthappa. Click on the picture to enlarge.
12:38
Sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik pays tribute.
12:37
The health bulletin from the Army Hospital says Hanamanthappa remains on ventilator support and has been given the maximum permissible medication that his condition permits.
12:29
Siachen soldier Lance Naik Hanamanthappa slips into deeper coma, says army. A fresh bulletin from the Army R&R Hospital says Hanamanthappa is on maximal life support. His kidneys are non-functional and has been put on dialysis. His pneumonia has worsened and the blood clot disorder is not...
11:59
Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley divulges the identity of the man speaking over the phone to the 10 terrorists on 26/11. Excerpts.-- I met Abu Khafa in Muridke near Lahore in Pak at a meeting. Hafiz sahab and Lakhvi sahab were also present in the meeting.-- Headley tells court...
11:46
Public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam asks Headley to name the LeT terrorist from three options....Q: I gave you three options. Noor Begum. Ishrat Jehan and ((inaudible))A: Ishrat Jehan David Headley had earlier denied involvement of any woman suicide bomber in LeT, but seconds later remembered to name...
11:44
Making fresh disclosures on the brazen 26/11 attacks, Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley on Thursday exposed how ISI and LeT majorly funded terror operations in India and financed him from time to time and that Pakistan native Tahawwur Rana visited Mumbai before the terror...
11:13
The Reserve Bank of India had rejected an application by David Coleman Headley seeking clearance to open a business account in June 2007, the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist told a Mumbai court today. Headley told the court today that he had received funds for terror from both the Lashkar and...
10:59
The Delhi government is likely to not grant an exemption to women drivers in the second phase of the odd-even' car rationing formula that is expected in April, after the board examinations in the city's schools are over by the end of March. The scheme that was rolled out on January 1 for 15 days...
10:30
Clearly disappointed with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for not taking time out for the family of Lance Naik Hanumantappa Koppad , who miraculously survived an avalanche in the Siachen Glacier and is now battling for his life in a Delhi hospital, the people of Betadur village are not...
10:02
Sonam Kapoor-starrer 'Neerja', based on real incidents during the hijacking of the Pan Am Flight 73 at the Karachi airport in 1986, has been banned in Pakistan allegedly for showing the country in poor light. In an unusual case the film has been banned without even being submitted to the...
09:50
Over 130 schools have been asked to remain shut today following repeated sightings of leopards near the vicinity of Vibgyor High School in Marathahalli. Earlier, video footage of a leopard roaming around the school had turned up which showed the leopard walking around the school campus...
09:41
The man whom India holds responsible for last month's deadly attack on the air force in Pathankot, Pakistani terrorist Masood Azhar, is on the run and may even be hiding in Afghanistan, top sources in Islamabad have revealed. Days after the Pathankot base was breached by six Pakistani...
08:55
Facebook founder and head Mark Zuckerberg has distanced himself from the comments made by Marc Andreessen about India, saying the remarks were deeply upsetting and did not represent the company's thinking. I want to respond to Marc Andreessen's comments about India yesterday. I found the comments...
08:50
After being unable to depose before the Mumbai court owing to a technical snag, 26/11 planner and Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley began his deposition before the Mumbai court for the third day today. He's continuing on how the 26/11 attacks were planned and the ISI's hand in the...
08:20
Attention Harry Potter fans. A new Harry Potter book will be published this July. The book, called Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II picks up the story of Harry, Ron and Hermione where the epilogue left off, according to author JK Rowling's website...
08:08
A group of Teri University students and alumni wrote a letter to the acting vice-chancellor, condemning the appointment of RK Pachauri as executive vice-chairman of the green body, and has refused to accept their degrees at the convocation in March. Given the flow of events, it seems like Dr...
07:50
Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley today continued his deposition for the third day before a court. Headley's deposition did not take place yesterday due to a technical snag in the video conference in the US. Headley, who had conducted recce of the places in Mumbai which were...
03:50
Carly Fiorina is exiting the Republican presidential race after a seventh-place showing in last night's New Hampshire primary.While I suspend my candidacy today, I will continue to travel this country and fight for those Americans who refuse to settle for the way things are and a status quo that...
03:49
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie formally suspended his presidential campaign today.The New Jersey governor held a meeting with his campaign staff at 4 pm this afternoon to thank them and announce the news, a spokesperson to the campaign confirms to ABC News.The decision comes a day after the New...
03:47
The comedy website Funny or Die has released a surprise 50-minute film about the controversial businessman turned politician Donald Trump in the wake of his victory in the New Hampshire primary.Michael Moore: 'Donald Trump is a performance artist' Read moreDonald Trumps The Art of the Deal:...
02:04
Harry Potter is back for another round of magic, struggles with the darkness and parents.This time, Harry's the dad, struggling with his own son.The eighth installment of the Harry Potter series, the two-part play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, will be published as a book this summer, author...
02:02
The Catholic Church in Brazil today rejected calls supported by the United Nations to allow abortion in cases of the birth defect microcephaly.Abortion is restricted in Latin America's biggest country to cases of rape, where the fetus has no brain, or where the mother's life is in danger.The UN...
01:53
A Russian-backed regime onslaught in northern Syria was reported today to have killed more than 500 people this month, as Turkey faced new pressure to open its border to people fleeing the violence.World powers urged Russia to end its air strikes which a senior US official said were directly...
01:35
A small collective community in northern Israel, modeled after the communist ideals of the Soviet Union, may hold clues to the development of US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' political beliefs.Sanders is Jewish and a self-described democratic socialist. In the 1960s, he spent several...
00:40
At least 35 people were killed in a twin suicide bomb attack at a camp for people displaced by Boko Haram's Islamist insurgency in northeast Nigeria, the head of the Borno state emergency management agency said.We recovered 35 dead bodies and 78 injured following the attack on Dikwa IDP...
00:38
UK daily 'The Independent' reverts to using Bombay instead of MumbaiFresh trouble for R K Pachauri, another ex-TERI staff alleges harassment200 children complain of uneasiness after taking deworming tabletsRelief for Delhi as sanitation workers call off 16-day strike
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