18:06
Big day ahead tomorrow as counting begins in the four states -- West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and union territory, Puducherry. Stay with us for the live coverage.
18:02
Secret US embassy cables released by Wikileaks show nations are racing to carve up Arctic resources - oil, gas and even rubies - as the ice retreats. the bbc.co.uk report says the cables suggest that Arctic states, including the US and Russia, are all pushing to stake a claim.
18:00
Now that Osama bin Laden's dead, who are Al Qaeda's most wanted leaders? Read it on cnn.com
17:03
The Daily Beast's David A Graham reports why having Hamza bin Laden on the loose could be dangerous. Hamza was supposed to be a dead man. As the Obama administration made jubilant remarks in the wake ofOsama bin Laden's death, counterrorism adviser John Brennan told reportersthat the young man...
16:53
China today dismissed as absurd reports that it had sought access from its all-weather friend Pakistan to the wreckage of the US secret stealth-modified helicopter, which had crashed during the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden in his Abbottabad hideout. Asked about reports that China...
16:33
All that you wanted to know about John Demjanjuk, the Nazi responsible for killing 27,900 jews in a death camp in Sobibor
16:28
Declan Walsh in The Guardian asks, what we hope is a rhetorical question: Whose side is Pakistan's ISI really on? He says the ISI has been accused of supporting Al Qaeda and double-dealing with the CIA. At the same time the ISI, Pakistan's powerful intelligence service, is being targeted by...
16:24
For those of us who have watched the film, Escape from Sobibor, here's a connect. A German court found John Demjanjuk guilty today, of helping to kill 27,900 Jews at the Nazi death camp Sobibor during the Holocaust. The Munich court sentenced the 91-year-old to five years in prison as an...
16:05
The legend of the Dark Lord gets more meat after his death. A Pakistani paper, which calls itself the Pakistan Observer has published this report today. We quote: Information collected from various sources and pieced together gives altogether a different turn to the Abbottabad episode and...
15:34
The UPA government asnnounced that it planned to bring a Bill to amend the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, in the coming monsoon session of Parliament. This obviouslycame after the Prime Ministers' assurance in the wake of a week-long agitation in Greater Noida, Agra, Aligarh and other parts of the...
15:31
Just in: The CBI will move the Bhopal Sessions Court for an early hearing in the Bhopal gas disaster case for slapping graver charges on the accused. Addressing a presser, home minister P Chidamabram admitted, It would be naive on my part not to admit that public outcry played a part in the CBI...
15:21
Amar Singh admitted that the voice in the CD was his, but said since his phone being tapped for a year, the people behind it had a bank of his voice samples which were concocted and doctored to create the CDs. He said contrary to expectations, he was happy that the gag order has been lifted. I...
15:15
Former SP leader Amar Singh today spoke to the media, a day after the Supreme Court allowed his tape transcripts to be outed. Amar Singh today claimed that the CDs containing his purported conversations with politicians, Bollywood stars and corporate honchos were concocted. He also claimed that...
15:10
Details of what happened when M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi was questioned by Income Tax authorities today. Kani was grilled for about 90 minutes over the Rs 200 crore transaction from Shahid Balwa-owned DB Realty to Kalaignar TV, in which she holds a minority stake. The 43-year-old MP...
14:52
Meanwhile, an amazing six in 10 Americans find it was wrong to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden, says a poll. Around 60 per cent of Americans believe the Bible's admonition not to rejoice when your enemies fall applies to how Americans should react to bin Laden's death. And more than...
14:47
Even as Pakistan has offered conditional access to Osama's widows, friend of a son of the slain Al Qaeda leader says US investigators may get some information from one of his wives, who is a teacher and highly educated. But would be hard pressed to get details from the others. Jean Sasson, who...
14:40
In Syria, protests continue unabated. Today, Syria's security forces quashed a town-by-town dissent by a mass round-up of opposition leaders. Thousands of students defied the crackdown to stage a protest in Syria's second-largest city Aleppo yesterday before being dispersed by baton-wielding...
14:21
Details of the PM's arrival in Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai received Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Kabul today, saying, 'Welcome to your second home'. Singh, who arrived earlier on a two-day visit to the Afghan capital, was given a ceremonial reception by the Afghan Police, the Army...
14:14
Warm welcome for PM Manmohan Singh in Afghanistan. President Karzai tells him, welcome to your second home, while the PM tells him we will stand by you through thick and thin. The MEA's Vishnu Prakash tweets: A ceremonial welcome was accorded to the PM by President Karzai on a glorious sunny...
13:51
Arun Jaitley, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi have also been arrested by the UP police in Ghaziabad.
13:38
Unconfirmed reports say Afghan intelligence has arrestedtwo men suspected of planning to assassinate the Indian Council General in Afghanistan.PM Manmohan Singh is on a two-day visit to Kabul.
13:25
BJP leaderRajnath Singh has been taken into preventive custody, just a few hours afterthe Mayawati government arrested UP Congress chief, Rita Bahuguna Joshi.
13:23
Apparently, Tihar jail has a professional cricket squad and a certain Jacob Martin who is currently lodged there for alleged human trafficking, is set to make a comeback to the gentleman's game. Former telecom minister A Raja can join up, a new career option seems imminent.
13:08
Only in India. In a shocking incident, seven patients in a maternity ward of the district hospital in Amravati, Maharashtra, were administered phenyl instead of a dose of medicine. Following this, the women began vomitting and complained of stomach ache. All them had recently delivered...
12:40
Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh is delivering a fiesty rhetoric on the UP-Delhi border on thefarmers'agitation inGreater Noida. He has already begun his hunger strike in support of the farmers. Says there is police repression under Mayawati, maximum incidents of police firing under her....
12:33
Maya presser is still on. Excerpts... If Rahul wants to help he should fight in his home (?). Opposition parties are conspiring against BSP ahead of Assembly elections Those breaking the law will not be spared. Cong, BJP never took the initiative in land acquisition.
12:25
Just in: SC pulls up ED for charge-sheeting Hasan Ali without informing the government committee that's monitoring sensitive cases.
12:24
What the Pakistan press is saying about PM's visit to Afghanistan. This is from the Pakistani paper The International News: It says: After restricting the flow of waters in the Indus, Jhelum and Chenab rivers by building hydropower projects on these rivers, India seems poised to intensify the...
12:12
UP CM Mayawati, reading from a prepared speech (no thunder, no bluster) says, the Congress is spreading lies and the Opposition parties are creating unrest, law and order problems, misleading the people. She says the allegations of land grabbing are false, and the farmers were in fact, given...
12:04
Right this minute: UP CM Mayawati's press conference in Lucknow. And... DMK MP Kanimozhi appears before Income Tax Departmentofficials in Chennai.
12:02
Aha! Finally, word from Bipasha Basu on her alleged conversation with former SP leader Amar Singh, part of the now outed tapes. Bipasha Basutweets: Pls request u all to go n hear d conversation 1st n then if u still think its me, I openly challenge anyone to prove it is me! A celeb takes...
11:53
More on Gaddaffi --Four rockets struck his compound today, killing at least two people. After the blasts, which could be heard in the center of Tripoli, sirens blared and at least two emergency vehicles sped toward the Bab al-Aziziya compound, reports cnn.com.
11:47
Yesterday, reports said Nato was unsure whether Libya's Col Muammar Gaddafi was alive as he had not made any public appearance in two weeks. But today, Libya's state TV has shown footage of Gaddafi meeting tribal leaders in Tripoli - his first public appearance in nearly two weeks. The...
11:38
Just in: Congress workers have been lathicharged outside the Lucknow Assembly. UP Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi has been taken into preventive custody. It may be remembered she, Rahul Gandhi and Digvijay Singh were at the Greater Noida yesterday after they hijacked the farmers' protests.
11:33
Just in: Essar Group CEO Prashant Ruia is now being questioned at the CBI headquarters in New Delhi in connection with the 2G case. The CBI had earlier told a Delhi court that former communications minister A Raja had given favours to at least two telecom firms, Swan Telecom and Unitech.
11:31
Just in: PM Manmohan Singh has just touched down in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is on a two-day official visit to the country.See our posts below for details.
11:20
Back to our favourite, the late, not lamented, Osama Bin Laden. Apparently,a diary noting says Osama actually calculated how many Americans would have to be killed to force the US from the Middle East. The entries appear in his seized journal and other files, reports bbc.co.uk. The Al Qaeda...
11:12
While India slept, a hundreds of people spent the night outdoors in the southern Spanish town of Lorca after an earthquake killed at least 10 people last evening. The magnitude-5.2 tremor toppled several buildings after striking at a depth of just 1km, 120-km south-west of Alicante. Lines of...
10:58
On the agenda when the PM reaches Afghanistan today is a discussion and an attempt at assessing the impact of Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin laden's death Although it is too early to evaluate the implications of Bin laden''s killing, India is keen to hear what President Hamid Karzai has to say about...
10:54
It's been six years since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Afghanistan. Today, as he leaves for his two-day visit to Kabul to discuss terrorism, regional development and ways to step up India's assistance to the war-torn country, the PM has emphasised that his discussions with President...
10:40
Good morning. Rahul Gandhi had a headstart and he did it in style -- the AICC general secretary, as you may well know, rode pillion into the farmers' protest at Bhatta Parsaul in Greater Noida at 4 am on Wednesday. He's still there. Jumping into thefray, now is BJP leader Rajnath Singh, whohas...
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