21:42
The Islamic State group's branch in the Northern Caucasus region of Russia released a video that showed the execution of an alleged Russian spy. The new IS video reportedly called on Russian Muslims to kill apostates in the country and threatened to carry out an attack on President Vladimir...
20:54
A woman from the central Chinese city of Xian has died in an elevator of the apartment building where she was living after remaining trapped in it for over a month.The police found the woman's body, which had begun decomposing, on March 1, and launched an investigation. The scene was inhumane....
20:11
Malayalam actor and popular folk singer Kalabhavan Mani passed away at a hospital in Kochi today. He was 45.Mani, who started as a mimicry artist, was a popular character actor in all South Indian languages.He acted as hero in many Malayalam movies and was a very popular folksinger and stage...
20:08
An Indian priest missing after an attack on a care home run in Yemen is being held by the assailants, likely militants from the Islamic State group,officials said. Yemeni authorities have blamed IS for the Friday attackon the refuge for the elderly operated by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of...
19:23
A gun battle rages on in Kashmir's Kulgam district between government forces and terrorists. The encounter comes following the firing in Pulwama and Pampore recently.Â
18:34
CPI-M general secretary SitaramYechury said the present regime at the Centre would resemble Hitler's fascism model if a parallel is drawn with history, even as he accused BJP and RSS of manufacturing the debate on nationalism to serve their agenda of Hindurashtra. An aggressive nationalism...
18:12
A car bomb exploded at a crowded checkpoint outside the city of Hilla, south of Baghdad, on Sunday, killing at least 29 people, police and medical sources said. Twenty-nine people were killed and 47 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack targeting the main checkpoint north of Hilla, a police...
17:28
Union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy today said that JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar was an aberration and not a hero, while asserting that the Left parties were taking refuge in universities, media and NGOs. Kanhaiya is an aberration, the Minister of State for Skill Development and Parliamentary...
17:14
USÂ Comedian Louis CK called Donald Trump an insane bigot,' compared him to Adolf Hitler, and urged fans not to vote for him. In a 1,400-word letter, the Emmy winner told fans on his e-mail list that Trump is dangerous. It was funny for a little while. But the guy is Hitler. And by that I mean...
16:40
Five people were injured as a mob of alleged Bajrang Dal members barged into a church in Khamardih, Chhattisgarh on Sundayduring prayers and began vandalising the room and attacking the people present.Members of the Bajrang Dal chanting 'Jai Sri Ram' charged into the church. They attacked woman,...
16:26
JUST IN: Judicial panel report on Muzaffarnagar riots tabled in UP assembly; blames intelligence failure for conflagration.
16:07
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today launched a stinging attack on Rahul Gandhi for voicing sympathies for those who raised slogans for breaking up India and said it was the Congress vice president's ideological hollowness that he did something that likes of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi never did. The...
15:25
Karti is being targeted only because he is my son, says former Union Minister P Chidambaram. The statement made by the former minister come in wake of his son's alleged real estate investments across the world. In recent days, Karti has come under the scanner following reports that he had made...
15:15
Noted writer and activist Taslima Nasreen on Sunday lambasted those who announced bounty on JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar's head over his slogans on JNU campus. Taslima, who is quite active on Twitter and followed by many for her criticism of bigotry, wrote in disgust, I thought only...
14:52
Only the rich and the famous are talking of intolerance, there is no debate on the issue, actor Anupam Kher claimed. Â This is a no debate. The rich and the famous are talking of intolerance. If you ask a man on the street, they won't talk about intolerance. All they want is food two times a day....
14:22
In a case of honour killing, a 30-year-old woman was burnt alive in public by her brother and other relatives in Rajasthan's Dungarpur district when she came to meet her family for the first time since her marriage with a man of another caste eight years ago, police said. Rama Kunwar, who eloped...
14:04
After a strong opposition from Himanchal chief minister Virbhadra Singh over conducting the high-profile clash of the ICC World T20 between India and Pakistan at Dharamsala, AAP party also joined the chorus on Saturday to oppose the BCCI's move. The match between the arch-rivals, which is...
13:47
Farmers may rejoice. The government has finally acknowledged that farmers are part of India, that the farm sector faces acute distress, and that farmers need a helping hand. That is something which many commentators -- especially Mr Ashok Gulati -- have been saying for many months. Read more HERE
13:33
After Uttar Pradesh, Congress leaders will brainstorm over their game plan for the Punjab polls in the presence of political strategist Prashant Kishor at a meeting called on March 12 by party vice president Rahul Gandhi. Congress has been out of power in Punajb for the past decade and, party...
13:25
Amid ongoing fiasco over the anti-national sloganeering at Jawaharlal Nehru University in the National Capital and JNU students' leader Kanhaiya Kumar 's outburst against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government, a teenage girl Jhanvi Behal from Ludhiana has challenged the...
13:00
In order to avoid the risk of data spill and cyber threats, border guarding force ITBP has issued a set of social media usage directives to its personnel asking them to refrain from making comments on political issues and sending a like to obscene and hateful material on the internet.Official...
12:44
Lok Sabha MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav has stirred a controversy, asking Dalits and people from the backward community to pick up arms for fighting atrocities and shoot the corrupt officials.Yadav brazenly stated that he would reward those who beat the corrupt officials to death in...
12:28
Arjuna award winning boxer Manoj Kumar weighed in on the ongoing controversy surrounding JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar. In a scathing post on Facebook, the Arjuna Award winner slammed Kanhaiya and also criticized the recent events at JNU where anti-India slogans were raised.The boxer stated...
11:37
The father of a Kargil war martyr decorated with the country's highest military award has opposed Indo-Pak cricket matches anywhere in India as long the hostile neighbour continues its proxy war.The comments GL Batra, father of slain Indian Army captain Vikram Batra, came in the backdrop of a...
11:14
Ten terrorists are suspected to have entered Gujarat and are planning to carry out a big strike, the Intelligence Bureau has reportedly warned the state police.Security has been intensified across Gujarat following the warning. Combing operations have begun and a team of the National Security...
00:26
Times of India reports: Union minister Smriti Irani reportedly received minor injuries on Saturday after her car met with an accident on the Yamua Expressway. Irani, along with other senior leaders of the BJP, was returning to Delhi from a meeting of the party's youth wing in Vrindavan.According...
00:24
The controversy over an event at JNU commemorating Afzal Guru's hanging during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised was a constructed conspiracy of the state to defame the university, faculty member and noted economist Jayati Ghosh has said. It was a constructed conspiracy to defame...
00:23
Times of India reports: Teri executive vice chairman RK Pachauri, accused of sexually harassing a former woman colleague, had written six poems aiming to express his feelings, praising the beauty of the victim who he called cold for lack of her response.According to informed sources, Delhi Police...
00:22
The issue of non-payment of salary to staff of now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines came back to haunt its chairman Vijay Mallya again with the employees, in an open letter, accusing him of damaging the image of the country, particularly the aviation industry.The letter, which comes days after the...
00:21
Army commander warns of terror strike during Shivratri Delhi court discharges Lashkar bomb expert Abdul Karim TundaIrani asks: Is he a youth leader? He is close to 50 years! Rs 11 lakh bounty on Kanhaiya; cops yet to make arrests, fingers point to ABVPPCB stops women's team from travelling to...
