18:49
The bigwigs of the BCCI and Sahara Group had on Tuesday started another round of discussions in a desperate bid to break the stalemate over the participation of Pune Warriors in the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League. A day after the BCCI's Working Committee rejected some of the demands...
18:43
Just in: The Board and Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sahara, after a special meeting today, have agreed to give their partnership another chance. The two have arrived at a compromise and early reports suggest Sahara is back in IPL and will be involved both in the Pune IPL and Team...
18:31
Heads up all Amitabh Bachchan fans (In other words much of India's 1.2 billion)A day after assuring fans that all is well with him post his abdominal surgery, Amitabh Bachchan has said he is now facing fresh medical issues. The 69-year-old megastar, who has been updating his fans on his hospital...
18:26
Shah Rukh Khan: Cast my vote..it's amusing how ppl r obsessed that the voter should show his/her finger..can I just stick my tongue out instead..rude enuff? Turnout figure in a bit...
18:22
A week after he lost his battle in the Supreme Court on the age issue, Army Chief Gen V K Singh today said the controversy was behind everyone and he was happy over its resolution.I think there was no controversy. They are all behind us. I have already said this. We are happy at the way things...
18:14
Two persons have been detained in connection with the alleged rape of a Anglo-Indian woman in a car in Kolkata even as the police said there were inconsistencies in her statements on the suspects. One of the five occupants of the car named by the woman as L Gidwani was in Canada since...
18:10
Open magazine editor, Manu Joseph, on the New York Times. Shaking off the horror of the past in India. Read
18:01
Till 3.30 pm, Mumbai voting was 29 per cent! UP's Naxal affected areas registered 60 per cent! Shame on you Mumbai!
18:00
Update on the killing of two fishermen off the Kerala coast by an Italian cargo vessel. Union Home Secretary R K Singh says a case will be registered against the Italian crew.
17:54
Must watch for all William Dalrymple fans: The author, historian and journalist speaks on living in and writing about the East, the crowd at the Karachi Literature Festival and why he continues to live in South Asia.
17:52
On Twitter: Abhijit Majumder Habitually boarding train to office after a terror attack. Mumbai spirit. Not going out to vote. Mumbai spirit.
17:35
A small, but important update on the Israeli car blast. News comes in that the explosives used in the Delhi blast and the triple blasts in Bangkok are different, though the Thai police has been quick to point to the Iran link. Something called C-4 has been used in the Bangkok blasts, which...
17:29
This is what the Tribune, Pakistan says of the visit.
17:28
While on Pakistan, Industries and Commerce Minister Anand Sharma is in Islamabad, the last day of his three-day visit and the first such minister to visit the country. This is the joint statement from India and Pakistan on the bilateral visit
17:23
Remember as you read this, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is in Pakistan seeking backing for the reconciliation process, saying its support was critical for the success of any Afghan-led peace process in his war-ravaged country. Karzai, who arrived in Islamabad this morning on a two-day...
17:09
Rahul Gandhi's dramatic act of tearing up a paper with a list of election promises of political opponents at a poll rally drew a sarcastic reaction today with Samajwadi party saying he may now jump from the stage to vent his anger.Rahul's sister Priyanka Gandhi played down the incident, observing...
17:06
President Pratibha Patil's son and Congress MLA Raosaheb Shekhawat has been issued a notice by the district collector in connection with the seizure of Rs 1 crore unaccounted cash from Amravati, where civic polls are underway.Besides Shekhawat, notices were issued to minister of state Rajendra...
17:01
A tweet from ESPN Cricinfo: Andrew Symonds has retired from all professional cricket. He will not play for Mumbai Indians this year.
16:55
Last month, UK politician David Lammy shocked many by blaming last summer's UK riots on an anti-smacking law, which he said leaves parents no longer sovereign in their own homes. Lammy -- the MP for the riot-hit Tottenham area -- later backtracked by saying the riots could not be blamed...
16:53
Security has been ramped up at Israeli diplomatic missions in the US in the wake of recent attacks on Israeli officials in New Delhi and Georgia, a former senior counterterrorism official has said. The ex-counterterrorism official, who worked closely with Israeli military and security...
16:47
The Kolkata rape case: She was just asking for it!Read the opinion piece on Firstpost.com
16:44
Our Delhi correspondent reports that Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar will address Pakistan MPs in Islamabad on February 22. In a surprise move, two BJP MPs will accompany her delegation. The delegation of six MPs includes -- Syed Shahnawaz Hussain and Tarun Vijay both from the BJP,...
16:39
Amidst concern and inquiries in India, a London-based tribal rights group today appealed to a UN committee to renew its call to close the key Andaman TrunkRoad to stop human safaris in the islands.The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination had sought the closure of the road in...
16:10
A health department clerk Mahendra Sharma was found dead today in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh. While the police said the death is a prima facie case of suicide, questions are being raised about the claim. The death of the suspended health department clerk is linked with the National...
15:59
No doubt, cell phones have become a necessity in today's world. But, a large number of Britons are now suffering from nomophobia -- the fear of being separated from their mobile, says a new study. Researchers have found that two in three mobile users are terrified of being without their phone and...
15:52
In pictures: American artist Karen Eland paints with ... beer.
15:48
A bunch of people have actually spent time and money doing a research on this. Researchers have found that like human beings, goat kids have the ability to change vocal sounds (vocal plasticity) and develop an accent. Vocal plasticity is the ability of an individual to modify the sound of their...
15:42
Health bulletin: Slow walking predicts dementiaThe speed someone walks may predict the likelihood of developing dementia later in life, according to researchers in the US. They also told a conference that grip strength in middle-age was linked to the chance of a stroke. Read Bacteria used to...
15:32
Just a 22.18 per cent voter turnout till 2 pm at the BMC polls. Let's see what happens after the day is done, but to put it in perspective, there was 75 per cent turnout during the Kolkata Municipal elections.
15:25
On Foreign Policy magazine, photos of a swinging Iran when the skirts were short, the dance was the twist, and America wasn't Enemy No 1.ReadAnd while you're at it watch/read Marjane Satrapi's pictoral essay, Persepolis.
15:16
Italian Ambassador Giacomo Sanfelice di Monteforte, who was summoned by Ministry of External Affairs by Secretary M Ganapathi, said his country's Navyfollowed the international protocol. After the meeting here, the envoy said the facts of the case are yet to be clarified.We are working in...
15:12
The Kerala government has announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs 5 lakh for two fishermen who were shot dead by Italian cargo ship Enrica Lexie, at 4.30 pm yesterday. The fishermen's association wants murder charges slapped on the crew. The Kochi police says a case has been registered against...
14:59
Here's what Priyanka Gandhi said at the poll rally in Rae Bareli today. A day after Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi tore the list of election promises of political opponents, his sister Priyanka said that people were bored of promises and now want real work. Everyone knows who all...
14:53
Nice read on the Hindu: Youth from Odaipatti village in Tamil Nadu risk their lives to work as cooks in US forward military.
14:43
An Indian woman has been rewarded for her 'bold' decision to leave her marital home within days of the wedding to protest the lack of a toilet in the household, an official said on Thursday. Anita Narre was handed $10,000 by Sulabh International, a non-profit group, for refusing to defecate in...
14:38
Suhel Seth tweets: The city of candle-light vigils has only 10% of its voting public up until 12 noon out to vote! Shame!!!
14:36
A high rate of inflation may be pinching hard on day-to-day life of people in the country, but a global survey has named two Indian cities -- the financial hub Mumbai and the national capital New Delhi -- among the four least expensive places across the world. As per the worldwide 'cost of...
14:18
The house where the late singer Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown got married has been put back on sale for 1.75 million dollars. The Mendham New Jersey mansion is on the market after Houston initially put it up for sale back in 2009, two years after her marriage to Brown ended. Photographs...
14:15
Pop diva Whitney Houston's funeral on Saturday is expected be broadcast live from the New Jersey church, where she started her career as a choir singer.Contrary to the initial reports, the services, to be held at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, will be a small and intimate affair attended by...
13:56
The family of Osama bin Laden's youngest wife, shot in the knees in the daring raid by US navy SEALS, has petitioned Pakistan's Chief Justice seeking release and that of her children from Pakistani authorities. The petition on behalf of Laden's Yemeni wife Amal Ahmede al-Sadah was moved by...
13:50
Marked by a poor turnout, polling is in progress today in 10 municipal corporations across Maharashtra, including the cash-rich Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, with no untoward incident reported so far.Voter apathy was evident in Mumbai with hardly 13 per cent of the 1.02 crore electorate...
13:40
As relations between them swing from love to hate, the US today said that divorce is not an option between Islamabad and Washington. I mean, from our perspective, divorce is not an option with Pakistan, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said, responding to the remarks made by...
13:29
In the theatre of the ridiculous, the Italian embassy says the fishermen tried to attack the vessel and therefore as per protocol, they were obliged to shoot. Two fishermen, one each from Kerala and Tamil Nadu, in a fishing boat were on Wednesday shot dead by security officials of an Italian...
13:13
Incredible video shows the view from the freezing surface of dwarf planet Pluto. See
13:06
The Supreme Court today sought response from the government on whether it could share the probe report on leakage of controversial Radia tapes with TataGroup Chairman Ratan Tata.A bench of justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhyay asked the Centre to file its response on Tata's plea, seeking a...
12:58
Update on the Israeli car blast. Investigators are scanning international calls made to Iran, Pakistan and middle-eastern countries around the time of the attack on Israeli diplomat's car in Delhi on Monday even as they carried out overnight raids to trace the motorcyclist who stuck the...
12:42
Right now, Priyanka Gandhi is addressing a rally at Rae Barelli. The fourth phase of the UP polls is on Sunday.
12:41
The US and Afghan governments have begun secret three-way talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told The Wall Street Journal, disclosing an important breakthrough in efforts to end the 10-year war. Karzai, whose government had protested being left out of recent talks between...
12:39
Just in: The Supreme Court seeks the Centre's response on whether its probe report on the leakage of the Niira Radia tapes could be given to Ratan Tata andothers.
12:33
There is the comb, the cigarette holder and the house keys he had on him when he was captured; the needle used to sedate him during his abduction from Argentina to Israel; and the booth in which he sat during his trial. Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, has lifted a...
12:26
Another of those bizarre fatwas: Malaysia's National Fatwa Council has ruled that foreign exchange trading is forbidden or 'haram' for Muslims as it was against the Islamic Sharia law.A study by the committee found that such trading involves currency speculation, which contradicts Islamic law....
12:20
Update on post-coup Maldives: Known for $2,000-a-night white-sand-and-turquoise-ocean atoll retreats, Maldives is hoping to build a more affordable tourism industry. But it's facing a challenge from the country's more religiously conservative population.Read more on the Wall Street...
12:17
Amid all the depressing news about a slowdown in the economy, a plethora of scams and poor performance in cricket, India has at least one reason to celebrate: It has overtaken Thailand to become the world's top exporter of rice.Read the report on the Wall Street Journal. Also see: 24...
12:12
Three former Karnataka BJP ministers, who lost their jobs over watching porn film clippings on mobile when the Assembly was in session, today submitted their replies to the show cause notice slapped on them by Speaker K G Bopaiah. The trio -- Laxman Savadi, C C Patil and Krishna Palemar sent...
12:10
First recorded casualty of the BMC polls: A tweet says that poet and lyricist Gulzar returns home without casting his vote as his name is not found in the electoral list.
12:08
Sir Paul McCartney has finally quit smoking cannabis -- at the age of 69. He revealed he had given up dope because of daughter Beatrice, eight. The Sun has the story.
12:04
Whitney Houston eerily told pals she felt her 'time was coming' and spoke of 'seeing Jesus' in the hours before her death, it emerged last night. The tragic star is said to have become increasingly spiritual -- quoting Bible passages and saying she felt her end was near. Last Friday -- the day...
11:58
She usually appears stoney-faced in photos, seemingly unwilling to crack a smile. But Victoria Beckham showed she does have a sense of humour when she posed for this cheeky photo which husband David posted on his Facebook page. The fashion designer, 37, stands on a New York street -...
11:54
In one of the world's worst incidents of prison fire, a massive blaze swept through an overcrowded jail in Honduras, killing at least 357 inmates and leaving officials struggling to quell growing public outrage at the treatment of victims and their families, reports stated.Pictures of the...
11:50
The core team of IAC (India Against Corruption) that was campaigning in Barabanki in January had attracted a crowd of almost 7,000 people. To put the numbers in perspective, this was perhaps far better than the crowd that the movement attracted at Anna Hazare's sit-in fast in Mumbai in...
11:47
Even before the smoke had cleared from a series of bombings in the Thai capital of Bangkok Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak blamed Iran for the incident, as well as the attacks against Israeli diplomats in Delhi and Georgia two days ago.Read the report on cnn.com
11:44
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said that al-Qaeda is the primary enemy of United States in the Af-Pak region and those part of the Taliban whosupport al-Qaeda is also American target. The Taliban is a very broad group. Our primary enemy in that part of the world is al-Qaeda. The...
11:35
Just in: Delhi police chief BK Gupta says that the probe into the attack on the Israeli vehicle blast is gathering pace. More soon.
11:27
Two fishermen, one each from Kerala and Tamil Nadu, in a fishing boat were shot dead yesterday by security officials of an Italian cargo vessel in the deep sea after being mistaken for pirates, an official said. The Italian vessel was identified as Enrica Lexie and has been directed to come to...
11:21
Here we go with our daily update on terror and terroism: A US drone strike targeting a militant compound killed five insurgents in a northwest Pakistan tribal region near the Afghan border today. Two missiles were fired by a US drone on a compound used by militants in Spalga town near...
11:13
Cancer-stricken Yuvraj Singh greeted the world with an uplifting tweet this morning.Got very good news from Dr Lawrence today. My tumour is almost out of my system. 2nd cycle of chemotherapy underway.Yuvraj is being treated by Dr Lawrence Einhorn, a US-based cancer expert who has treated Lance...
10:59
A horrifying story that's come to light in the 'cultural capital of India' Kolkata yesterday. A 37-year-old separated woman with two kids to support was lured with a job offer from a prominent night club, beaten and raped twice inside a car on the pretext of being given a lift on the night of...
10:52
A day after their meeting at the White House, US President Barack Obama and visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping exchanged polite warnings ontrade-related issues. Travelling to Milwaukee in Iowa, Obama said he would not stand by competitors like China that don't play by the rules,...
10:47
In world news.The United States has said it was not impressed at all by the latest Iranian claim of progress on its nuclear programme, saying the hyped move was calibrated mostly for the domestic audience. One thing is absolutely clear, Iran is clearly feeling the pressure of its...
10:40
Polling for 10 municipal corporations across Maharashtra, including Mumbai, to decide the fate of 1,244 candidates, began this morning amidst tight security. The elections are being held in Thane, Ulhasnagar, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Solapur, Nashik, Akola, Amravati, Nagpur and Mumbai municipal...
10:28
Israeli ambassador links Thailand bombs to Indian attacks (Guardian.co.uk)The DIY explosives found in a Bangkok house after a series of blasts rocked the capital on Tuesday were similar to devices used against Israeli embassy targets in India and Georgia, Israel's ambassador has said, a day after...
10:22
Iran's nuke achievements not terribly new, impressive: US (The Hindustan Times)The West suspects that Iran is developing nuclear bombs under the cover of its nuclear programme. But the Islamic republic insists the programme is only for power generation and medical purpose.Read
10:18
Israel's Mossad did not anticipate Delhi terror strike (The Times of India)The limpet bomb attack on the wife of the Israeli defence attache on Monday, seemingly as a retaliation against assassinations of Iranian scientists, appears to have come as a surprise to Mossad, Israel's external security...
10:16
Polls to Mumbai, 9 civic bodies in Maharashtra beginElections have begun in 10 municipal corporations in Maharashtra, including in Mumbai on Thursday morning, where a triangular contest is on the cards between the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party combine, Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata...
10:11
'Sticky bomb' blast: Overnight raids in Delhi (ndtv.com)Investigators probing the sticky bomb blast that hit an Israeli diplomat's vehicle in New Delhi on Monday have detained several suspects in overnight raids conducted in the capital.Read full report
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