23:38
Russian President Vladimir Putin today ordered the defence ministry to begin the withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria tomorrow.The task that was set before our defence ministry and armed forces has as a whole been completed and so I order the defence ministry to from tomorrow start the...
23:18
The inquiry committee constituted to investigate incidents occurred on the night of February 9 on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus has recommended to rusticate JNU student's union president Kanhaiya Kumar and four others.On Feb 9, an event to protest the execution of Parliament attack...
22:57
Senior Nationalist Congress Party spokesperson Atul Londhe told Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com that his party stands behind former deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal who was arrested late this evening by the Enforcement Directorate under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.Londhe said the party...
22:33
Amid a raging row at Jawaharlal Nehru University, a section of the varsity's teachers want that a commission for nationalism should be established on the lines of commissions like national commission for women to find out what is nationalistic and what is not.'We suggest that a new Commission...
22:22
Former Maharashtra deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal was arrested on Monday evening by Enforcement Directorate in connection with corruption cases lodged against himThe former deputy chief minister was interrogated for more than nine hours today by a team of ED officials.The ED had summoned...
21:58
Pakistan has invited Hurriyat leaders to attend the ‘Pakistan Day’ function on March 23 in New Delhi, which will be observed at Pakistan embassy in the India’s capital.The invitation has been sent to both the factions of Hurriyat Conference, civil society members and some journalists.Confirming...
21:55
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya Mallya, who is facing legal proceedings for alleged loan defaults by his group to the tune of over Rs 9,000 crore, said he will comply with the law of the land.Shocked to see media statements that I gave an interview to Sunday Guardian without verification.I have not...
21:55
The National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to Tamil Nadu government over the alleged honour killing of a Dalit man.The Commission took suo motu cognisance of media reports alleging honour killing of a young Dalit man, who married a girl of upper caste, in Udumalaipett in Tirupur...
20:57
Turkey today held four suspects over a suicide car bombing that killed at least 36 people in Ankara, as warplanes pounded Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq over the attack, the capital's third in five months.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest carnage, which reduced...
20:39
JNU has asked Professor Amita Singh who heads the varsity's Centre of Law and Governance to clarify her alleged remarks calling Dalits and Muslim teachers anti-national after the National Commission forScheduled Caste sent a show-cause notice to the university.Singh had made the alleged comments...
20:37
A Palestinian-American member of the Islamic State group today gave himself up to an Iraqi Kurdish military unit in the country's north, an Iraqi Kurdish general said.The circumstances of the surrender were not fully disclosed but it marked a rare instance in which an IS fighter voluntarily gave...
19:44
As many as 117 Maoist sympathisers, including 34 women and 14 militia members, today surrendered before the police in Odisha's Malkangiri district. The rebel supporters who surrendered belong to Barha village in Mathili police station area, Malkangiri Superintendent of Police Mitrabhanu...
19:13
Eight persons, including two minor children were killed and 20 injured when a state bus in which they were travelling collided with another vehicle at a village near Pollachi in the district today, the police said.The victims include a four-year-old boy, a four-month-old girl and four women,...
19:00
 With around 977 companies and 46 countries registering themselves for the upcoming Defence Expo in Goa, theDefence Ministry has said the event is steering the path of steady growth.DefExpo India 2016, the ninth in the series of biennial Land, Naval and Internal Homeland Security Systems...
18:38
Even as the issue of abortion remains a sensitive one, a latest global report showed that 70 per cent respondents in India support abortion and said it should be permitted under any circumstances.Seven in 10 (70 per cent) of Indian respondents say abortion should be permitted whenever a woman...
18:18
WB CM Mamata Banerjee holds padyatra in Siliguri, West Bengal. That's footballer Baichung Bhutia behind her in the grey T-shirt.
18:17
The economics textbook has been rewritten in a Bengal factory whose sorry state of affairs has brought to fruition a dream Mamata Banerjee could not fulfil in Singur till now. Fruits and vegetables are being grown on the premises of Ural India's bus and truck unit in Haldia after lack of...
18:12
In a major development, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will be meeting Pakistan Prime Minister's Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on the sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) ministerial meeting in Kathmandu. Swaraj and Aziz will be in...
17:17
Thirty five FTII students were on Monday listed in a charge sheet for allegedly gheraoing and illegally confining the institute's director Prashant Pathrabe last year, of whom 30 were later granted bail.The Deccan-Gymkhana police, which is probing the case, filed the charge sheet against 35...
16:52
Pakistani skipper Shahid Afridi gets a notice from the Lahore High Court for his comment that Indian fans show more love to the Pak team than Pakistanis. We have always enjoyed playing in India and have been loved by Indian crowds more than crowds back home in Pakistan, Afridi had said.Afridi...
16:37
Malia Obama has been caught in a photo giving her sister a tongue-in-cheek thumbs-up as Sasha met Ryan Reynolds at a state dinner.The actor, who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, was one of four actors and actresses who attended the event in honor of new Canadian Prime Minister Justin...
16:09
AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi has said he will not chant 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai,' comments that came against the backdrop of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's suggestion that the new generation needs to be taught to chant slogans hailing mother India. I don't chant that slogan. What are you going to do,...
16:07
A two-decade old Central programme to finish incomplete irrigation projects has failed 66 million Indian farmers and halted the economic progress of 350 million Indians, according to an IndiaSpend analysis. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his budget speech last month, said the government...
15:48
RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav said that a comment made by his wife and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi is the reason the RSS was forced to change its decades-old dress code from khaki shorts to brown trousers. Rabri Devi ke ek tarkpurn akarmak bayan ne matra do mahine mein RSS ko half pant...
15:48
The high level team headed probing the Ishrat Jahan case will be headed by Additional Secy (Home) BK Prasad.Â
15:23
A female member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was one of two suspected perpetrators of a car bombing that killed 37 people in the Turkish capital Ankara, security officials said on Monday.The attack, which tore through a crowded transport hub a few hundred metres (yards) from the...
15:21
Just in: The Home Ministry constitutes a three-member team headed by an additional secretary to probe missing documents in the Ishrat Jahan case. In effect, a new probe has been ordered into the case. As many as four documents are missing from the home ministry file pertaining to the two...
15:15
Shocked and hurt by Shahid Afridi's comments that Pakistan's cricketers were loved more by Indians than the fans here, former captain Javed Miandad has said that players making such statements should be ashamed of themselves. These cricketers should be ashamed of themselves for saying such...
15:07
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj & Pak Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz to meet on the sidelines of the SAARC Meeting in Kathmandu.
14:56
The Government on Monday released the revised pensionary benefits to 2,21,224 defence pensioners drawing service and disability pension in which the amount along with first installment of arrears, had been released and credited by the Defence Ministry to the accounts of the pensioners.In the case...
14:44
A 22-year-old engineering graduate from a Dalit family was hacked to death by three men on a motorbike at a busy junction in Udumalaipettai town of Tamil Nadu's Tirupur district on Sunday afternoon, allegedly for marrying a woman from the Thevar community. Read more
14:28
No environmental clearance has been granted to any project on river Ganga in the last two years, government told Rajya Sabha today. When members during Question Hour expressed concern over the impact various projects could have had on the flow of the river, Environment and Forests minister...
13:47
Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan turned 51 today and expressed his biggest birthday wish, to buy his mother their ancestral home in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. The PK actor celebrated the special day with mediapersons here by cutting a cake and holding a press conference. When asked about his birthday...
13:26
The government has rejected the opposition's demand to extend the sitting of the Rajya Sabha by two days in the first phase of the Budget session, nipping its plan to corner it over the Aadhaar Bill, controversially passed by the Lok Sabha last week, reports NDTV. The opposition had in a rare...
13:22
World Twenty20 select XI - Michael Vaughan picks his best side. Take a look.
13:19
Broad gauge goods train arrives at Jiribam in Manipur this afternoon for the first time. Pic: All India Radio.
13:13
Just in: Rajya Sabha to go on a 39-day recess from March 16. The government has rejected the opposition's demand to extend the session to discuss the Aadhar Bill.
13:08
Here's the lowdown on what happened in the Rajya Sabha today.Ruling BJP and Congress today sparred in Rajya Sabha over remarks of Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad allegedly comparing Hindutva outfit RSS with terrorist organisation ISIS.While the ruling party and its ministers wanted Azad to...
12:44
'Just as the government is looking at ease of doing business, it needs to look at ease of resolution. When something goes bad, resolution the world over happens in six-nine months' time. Here it goes on for years.' Read more
12:42
The report, here, by the well-known author and Middle East hand of the Independent newspaper Patrick Cockburn regarding the US President Barack Obama's disillusion with Saudi Arabia amounts to a veritable critique of the Indian elite's dalliance with that Wahhabist state.In America a large...
12:41
Just as Iraq's army, backed by local militias and western war-planes, turns the tide against Islamic State, region's oil price war leaves it searching for money to buy weapons. Read more
12:39
Vijay Mallya row: Matter referred to Rajya Sabha Ethics Committee.The ethics committee of the Rajya Sabha will be looking into whether an act of impropriety has been committed by Vijay Mallya as a Member of Parliament after he left the country before banks — to whom Mallya owes over Rs 9,000...
12:24
Two days after tweeting that he is an international businessman, not an absconder, and denying that he has fled India, liquor baron Vijay Mallya on Sunday said he has already been branded a criminal in the country and therefore, it is not the right time for him to return.On Friday, the...
12:14
India successfully test-fires nuclear capable Agni-I ballistic missile from Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha.
12:08
A narrative is gathering force that, nudged by Pakistan's civil-military leadership, the country's is recovering liberalism. An examination of a new shrine, to Salman Taseer's assassin, tells another story. Read
12:07
The SC refuses to entertain a plea seeking a probe against the Mumbai police based on a statement made by former Union Home Secy RK Singh. Singh had alleged that a few corrupt officers from the Mumbai police work on Dawood Ibrahim's payroll.
12:00
TinyOwl, a Mumbai-based food technology start-up, is staring down the barrel of a gun.The numbers tell the dismal story. Burning through Rs 2.5 crore a month on an average, it was only left with Rs 18 crore at the end of January. In the past 18-odd months, it had raised Rs 152 crore from various...
11:48
The protester who breached security and reached the stage of Donald Trump has refuted the US Republican presidential frontrunner's claim that he was a Islamic State supporter, saying he planned to grab the mic and yell Trump is a racist but didn't intend to hurt anyone.I am not a member of ISIS....
11:46
The BJP says Ghulam Nabi Azad should apologise for comparing the RSS with the ISIS. Leader of the house in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley said, Everybody knows ISIS is a terrorist organisation. Unknowingly, Ghulam Nabi Azad gave respectability to ISIS. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi says Azad must introspect...
11:37
Just in: Senior NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal appears before Enforcement Directorate for questioning in connection with Maharashtra Sadan scam.
11:36
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad responds to BJP outrage over RSS-ISIS remark in the Rajya Sabha. The BJP raises the issue of Azad's comment on RSS in Rajya Sabha. Azad denies making the remarks and says there is a CD of his speech and if anything wrong is found in it, the house can move a...
11:15
Jat leaders to also submit memorandums to respective Deputy Commissioners giving 72 hours deadline to state for accepting their demands.
11:11
Jat leaders to hold state-wide protest in Haryana demanding reservation and withdrawal of criminal cases against them during Jat agitation
11:10
Police to file chargesheet today against FTII students for holding institute director Prashant Pathrabe in captivity during the strike
11:10
Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha: The government must act to give relief to farmers affected by crop damage due to hailstorm.What don't want what happened with farmers last time to be repeated. We want immediate action (crop damage due to hailstorm), he says.
10:59
A Raghunathan, former CFO of Kingfisher Airlines, reaches ED office for third round of questioning in connection with Rs 900 crore IDBI loan
10:47
Former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal is likely to appear before the Enforcement Directorate today in a money laundering case in which some of his family members have already been questioned.The agency has filed two cases against Bhujbal, his son Pankaj, nephew...
10:44
The National Commission of Scheduled Castes seeks report from the Tamil Nadu government over Dalit killing in the state.
10:44
Andhra Pradesh Congress leaders to meet the President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan at 1pm today.
10:43
BJP demands Congress apology over Ghulam Nabi Azad's comment comparing RSS with ISIS
10:39
Rahul Gandhi gives adjournment motion in Lok Sabha on crop damage due to hailstorm: ANI
10:35
ANI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has written to Prime Minister Modi, requesting him to direct the External Affairs ministry to secure immediate release of 96 fishermen & 82 fishing boats.She also requested PM Modi to put in place a strong diplomatic response, registering India's...
10:32
Enforcement Directorate has found evidences that money has been diverted outside the country by Vijay Mallya: India Today
10:10
Two of the eight trekkers, who were spotted but couldn't be rescued due to bad weather in Kullu, brought to safety. Six were rescued yesterday
10:08
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was on Monday served a show-cause notice by the Ethics committee of Parliament asking whether he had declared himself as a British citizen during his stay in the United Kingdom.A showcause notice has been issued seeking his (Rahul's) response on why he...
10:08
Hillary Clinton has accused controversial real estate tycoon Donald Trump of trafficking in hate and fear and claimed that foreign leaders are calling her to express their support in order to stop the Republican frontrunner from entering the White House. I think all Americans should be...
10:01
Mumbai Police issues prohibitory orders for assembly of five or more persons from March 13 to 27, with few exceptions (weddings, funerals): ANI
09:28
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has claimed that more than one-fourths of the Muslims are very militant, in latest controversial statements adding to his anti-Muslim rhetoric.It's (militant Muslims) 27 per cent, could be 35 per cent, would go to war, the hatred is tremendous,...
09:25
Popular Tamil television actor Sai Prashanth allegedly committed suicide at his residence in Chennai on Sunday, police said. According to police sources, the 30-year-old mixed poison in his drink.The reason behind the suicide is not clear. We think it could be loneliness, a police official said....
08:36
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who is currently in the United Kingdom and is being sought out over charges of money laundering, on Sunday claimed that the banks gave him loans after evaluating all aspects, adding that he is not trying to run to evade law enforcement agencies but is on a personal...
08:31
Amid the ongoing controversy over liquor baron Vijay Mallya, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director Anil Sinha has made it clear that the investigative agency will cover all the deals and transactions carried out by Kingfisher Airlines, as per a report by Economic Times.The report by ET...
08:25
An avalanche warning was again issued on Sunday for higher areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, advising people not to venture into these places over the next 24 hours.The advisory was issued by the Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE), part of the Defence...
08:22
* Congress Rajya Sabha strategy meeting scheduled to take place in Parliament at 10:15am today. * Whistle Blowers Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2015 to be tabled in Rajya Sabha today for consideration & passing.* Former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal to appear...
