22:14
Activist Anna Hazare has said that his former associate Arvind Kejriwal, who has announced his intention to join politics, has no greed for money but he could have greed for power. It could be, Hazare told a TV channel when asked whether he thinks...
22:13
The Vedanta Group today said it wanted the Odisha government to pay Rs 700 crore towards cost of power drawn from the company's thermal unit at Jharsuguda. We want the Odisha government to pay us Rs 700 crore soon towards the power bill. I believe...
22:12
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today met his counterparts from Kenya, Seychelles and Madagascar, during which utilisation of Line of Credits extended by India to those countries and greater cooperation to thwart piracy were...
21:53
A team of Justice M B Shah Commission, which is probing an alleged mining scam in Odisha, today made a surprise visit to four iron ore mines in Joda and Koida mining circles in Keonjhar and Sundergarh districts...
21:52
Riding on expansion plans of steel majors, including the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam and the Steel Authority of India, India will soon become the second largest steel producer in the world, the government today...
21:50
Sam Pitroda, adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, will hold the first-ever global press conference on Friday on microblogging site Twitter to discuss global innovation. Sam Pitroda, Adviser to the Indian Prime Minister on Public Information...
21:49
Finance Minister P Chidambaram today briefed Foreign Institutional Investors about the current economic situation and the steps being taken by the government to boost growth. FIIs met me and I updated them on...
21:48
Four suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives allegedly involved in the August 1 Pune blast today opposed in a Delhi court the Mumbai ATS's plea for their custody, apprehending threat to their lives. Asad Khan,...
21:46
Lodha Developers today said it has completed the acquisition of 17-acre prime land in Mumbai from realty major DLF for Rs 2,725 crore -- the largest realty deal so far this year. In August, DLF had announced...
21:14
Don't send me gifts during the festival season, donate to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund. This is Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's simple message to scores of people, who send him gifts and greetings during the festival season every...
19:59
Salman Khurshid will go to Laos to participate in the 9th summit of the 48-member Asia-Europe meeting to be held on November 5-6, his first overseas visit since becoming External Affairs Minister. Khurshid will speak on global issues and on future direction of ASEM at the two-day summit of...
19:58
The KMC will keep ready personnel of Rapid Action team for vector-control at all the 15 boroughs of the corporation area to check mosquito-borne diseases like dengue in Kolkata. KMC Mayor-in-council member Atin Ghosh said the vector-wing of the civic body will put in place the mechanism to...
19:47
Lieutenant Commander Abhilash Tomy of the Indian Navy today began his solo circumnavigation across the globe, setting sail on Indian Naval Sailing Vessel (INSV) Mhadei. During his journey, the 33-year-old naval aviator will travel 21,600 nautical miles or 40,000 kilometres and remain at sea...
19:23
Russia today put into force a new law on the Internet that allows the government to block websites with banned content, prompting fears that it will be used to suppress free speech. The law, which was hastily voted in by the parliament despite opposition from major Internet companies, is...
19:09
While accusing Congress President Sonia Gandhi and son Rahul Gandhi of graft, Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy took a dig at India Against Corruption (IAC) activistArvind Kejriwal. Referring to Kejriwal's series of exposes on political establishment, Swamy said, unlike...
19:06
As the digitisation deadline ending at midnight last night, many cable homes here continued receiving signals without installing the government mandated set-top boxes, apparently because of an understanding between the West Bengal government and multi-system operators (MSOs). According to...
19:05
A tropical storm weakened on Thursday after slamming into southern India, bringing heavy rain and a storm surge and displacing 150,000 people. Six deaths have been reported in India and Sri Lanka.Just before the storm made landfall on Wednesday, an oil tanker with 37 crew ran aground off Chennai....
18:48
The office of senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka on Thursday filed a formal police complaint aftercomplaining of femal staff receiving threat calls in connection with the DLF-Robert Vadra land deal case. Reports in the media said that a female staffer in Khemka''s office had received the...
18:35
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray today met his uncle and Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, who is not keeping good health. The 86-year-old Sena patriarch has been ailing for some time and Raj is understood to have enquired about his health. This was Raj's fourth meeting with his...
18:25
In a poor village, the woman who is believed to be the estranged wife of the most powerful man in Gujarat lives in a one-room home. Meet Mrs Narendra Modi. The April 2009 Open magazine story. Read
18:14
Calling the very much married Sunanda Pushkar a 'Rs 50 crore girlfriend,' though, is not just crude, but is meant to demean her. Women may come for a price in Modi's world, but that's hardly the mindset we want to see in a modern day leader, argues Sherna Gandhy on Rediff.com. ReadAlso see:...
17:50
When England colonised us they took on the White man's burden. They took upon the burden to educate us. Civil society is doing the same thing by the Right to Food... says Professor Pradeep Bhargava in conversation with Rediff.com's Archana Masih. ReadProf Bhargava is an advisor to the...
17:45
Different types of frauds may have caused Rs 6,600 crore loss to Indian economy in the last fiscal and banks were the most common victim in swindling cases, a report by Ernst & Young has said. What we found alarming in this edition was that insider enabled fraud accounted for 61 per cent of...
17:30
Update on post-Sandy New York. Subways and buses started to roll again in some sections of New York City on Thursday, promising a morning commute at least slightly more fluid than Wednesday's gridlock brought on by Hurricane Sandy.Subway service had been scheduled to begin at 6 a.m., but a...
17:16
Focus on Tuesday's US Presidential elections... You've heard their policies, but what about the other questions? Like what's that jabbing gesture Obama makes with his thumb? And why are Mr President and Mr Speaker titles kept for life? We examine 10 of the lesser-spotted things about...
17:11
And on a more sombre note -- India's latest fiscal deficit numbers, released Wednesday, showed that the government's focus on austerity measures is having some impact. The cumulative deficit for the first six months of the year beginning April 1 was lower than the cumulative deficit over the...
17:09
Shake us. Stir us. James Bond is back and cooler than ever. The iconic spy at 50, . writes one of the world's greatest historians, Simon Schama. Read
17:01
Top BCCI officials led by vice-president Rajiv Shukla on Tuesday called on Union home secretary R K Singh to tie up the security arrangements for the matches. The MHA has assured the BCCI of foolproof security to the venues and players. Central forces will be deployed to aid the state police...
16:54
Just in: BCCI announces the dates of the Pakistan cricket team to arrive in India. They will reach India on December 22 and after the T20s in Bangalore and Ahmedabad and ODIs in Chennai, Kolkata and Delhi will leave for Pakistan on January 7.Also read on rediff.com: Tour by Pak cricket team...
16:50
Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy today targeted UPA chairperson Sonia and Gandhi and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi accusing them of converting a public firm into a private company. He said that Sonia and Rahul formed a private company named Young Indian and acquired a public...
16:47
Our Delhi sources tell us that the improvised Lokpal draft bill is ready. A Joint Select Committee on Lokpal is expected to submit its report to the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha on November 22, the first day of the Winter Session of Parliament. The final reading and clause-by-clause...
16:36
Writer Kiran Nagarkar has been awarded Germany's Cross of The Order of Merit, described as 'highest tribute Germany can pay to individuals'. If you're unfamiliar with Kiran Nagarkar, read our 2001 interview.
16:19
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's controversial statement calling Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar a Rs 50 crore girlfriend has led to a bitter war of words. Now Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has targeted Narendra Modi's marital status and demanded that the...
16:14
So what if you still can't pick the magazine off your neighbourhood news-stand - what else but for its quality journalism, silly - you can now get a taste of life in the fast lane, the Playboy way. Playboy Enterprises, the institution that has extended the iconic brand with the rabbit-head...
16:08
How Maina Umaiban, a girl from a sleepy village in Idukki district, became a writer who through her blog posts raised issues against practices in the society which she found disturbing. Read
15:58
In other news, youths in Ranchi will soon get the opportunity to work out with none other than their very own caption cool, Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Ranchi will be the next stop for Dhoni's gym, SportsFit, which is already running successfully in other centres. December is the likely date for the...
15:54
Just in: New York subway trains start running again, on more than half of the city's lines, officials say. Storm Sandy left at least 64 people dead in the US, cut power from millions of homes and paralysed transport on much of the eastern US seaboard.It made landfall on Monday night in...
15:46
Underlining that India and China are to an extent destined by geography to be rivals, West Bengal Governor and former National Security Advisor M K Narayanan today said Beijing's increasing assertiveness on its part while dealing with disputes is most disconcerting. He also said Chinese...
15:44
The CPI(M) today claimed S Jaipal Reddy has paid the price for defying the country's biggest corporate by being shifted out of the Petroleum Ministry and said this exposed the tentacles of big business in the appointment of Ministers.With this reshuffle, the process of putting persons in key...
15:28
The 14.2-kg cooking gas cylinder that consumers buy beyond their entitled six cylinders at subsidised rates, will now cost Rs 922, up from Rs 895.50 in Delhi, according to Indian Oil Corp, the nation's largest fuel retailer. The government had in September restricted the supply of subsidised...
15:25
The price hike in cooking gas cylinders today comes just a few weeks since the October 4 hike of Rs 11.42 per cylinder. This following the government's decision to raise commission paid to the dealers.
15:18
The price of non-subsidised LPG has been hiked by Rs 26.50 per cylinder. Which means gas cylinders will now cost a whopping Rs 922.
15:15
Pakistan's cabinet today ratified five recent agreements with India, including a landmark visa pact aimed at easing restrictions on several categories of travellers, including senior citizens and businessmen.Three of the agreements ratified by the cabinet during a meeting chaired this afternoon...
15:07
Protesters wearing caps with the legend Main hoon Salman Khurshid (I am Salman Khurshid) and waving black flags stopped the cars Mr Kejriwal and his team were traveling in at Malikpur. The police intervened and ensured there was no more trouble. But that delayed Kejriwal who was scheduled to...
14:45
India Against Corruption (IAC) activist Arvind Kejriwal's rally External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in his own constituency at Farrukhabad has been disrupted. Alleged Congress workers gatecrash the venue and protest resulting in a clash between the two factions. Kejriwal was protesting the...
14:39
Maintaining his strong opposition to the tour by the Pakistani cricket team to India, Shiv Sena today said it was a matter of national shame.The Pakistan team will be playing matches at Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Bengaluru. At one point or the other, Pak terrorists have attacked these cities,...
14:31
India's vulnerability to cyber attacks is once again out in the open. Hackers from Algeria carried out a successful attack on websites run by the Defence Research and Development Organisation, the Prime Minister's Office and five other government departments. Read more
14:20
Nobel laureate and India-origin author V S Naipual, known for his caustic writings on the country of his parentage, has said he has written enough about India and will not be writing anything more on it. I don't think so. I've written enough about India. I've written these four books and two...
14:02
At least three people have been wounded, one critically, in a shooting incident at a Halloween party at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, media reports say. The BBC reports that the incident took place at 23:30 local time, campus news outlet Neon Tommy said.At least one...
13:52
Police hunting gunman who shot several people at Halloween university party in Los Angeles, college says. Details soon
13:51
Revelation made by anti-graft crusader Arvind Kejriwal of an alleged nexus between the ruling Congress Party, the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and Reliance Industries reduced the share price of the group by 1.25 percent on Thursday.Kejriwal, whose group India Against Corruption (IAC)...
13:46
City-based irrigation department whistle blower Vijay Pandhare, who blew the lid off alleged irregularities in various projects across Maharashtra, has sought voluntary retirement from service. Read
13:39
The US today dismissed as hollow the offer of humanitarian aid for superstorm Sandy victims from Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafeez Muhammad Saeed, the 2008 Mumbai attacks mastermind and for whom the US has offered a bounty of USD 10 million. As you all well know, Saeed is believed to be behind...
13:37
Frenetic preparations for Sunday's Bihar Adhikar Rally in Patna might make it seem otherwise, but diplomacy is flavour of the season for chief minister Nitish Kumar. A week-long trip to Pakistan mid-November is in the works, and not long after he returns, he plans to welcome one of India's...
13:28
The charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder attracts a prison term of up to ten years. But in most accidental deaths, the police apply a charge of negligence (Section 304 A of the IPC), but this is bailable and attracts a prison term of only two years.
13:16
Beautician Nooriya Haveliwala convicted for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in 2010 drunken driving case of mowing down two persons. On January 29, 2010 Nooriya had partied with friends at a flat in Malabar Hill area, then at a pub in Mumbai Central following which she went to a...
13:14
Just in: Nooriya Haveliwala sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment in the 2010 drunken driving case.
12:53
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh was seen in a cheerful mood and smiled at the first meeting of the new Union Council of Ministers held at 7 Race Course Road today. In the classroom, apart from the Prime Minster, was also finance minister P Chidambaram. Read the full story on rediff.com shortly....
12:43
Singer Sophie Choudry holds court in the rediff.com office. She returns with her new single Hungama Ho Gaya, which boasts of some foot-tapping music and a very sexy video. The single was recently launched by Preity Zinta and close pal Yuvraj Singh. Well, don't feel blue. You can chat with...
12:38
Just in: Former president of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Bibi Jagir Kaur has been granted bail. Jagir Kaur is presently lodged in Kaurthala jail for abduction and causing forcible abortion to her daughter Harpreet Kaur. Harpreet, who had died under...
12:35
Union Minister of Fertilisers MK Alagiri did not attend the Council of Ministers meeting convened by the Prime Minister this morning. Alagiri is the only DMK representative in the UPA2 cabinet. Alagiri is apparently avoiding Delhi visits since he wants to focus on his son who has a...
12:31
Newly appointed External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid would be a valued partner for furthering India-US ties, a top American official said today. State Department spokesman Mark Toner also said that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks forward to work with Khurshid in the coming days....
12:24
A time-lapse video of images -- before, during and after the storm -- from the 51st floor of the New York Times building. See
12:00
While she spent five days in police custody, she spent 20 days in JJ hospital on 'medical grounds' and the rest in Byculla jail. Nooriya has been booked under Section 304 for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, rash and negligence act, causing grievous hurt and NDPS act, reports...
11:58
Beautician Nooriya Haveliwala convicted for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in 2010 drunken driving case of mowing down two persons. On January 29, 2010 Nooriya had partied with friends at a flat in Malabar Hill area, then at a pub in Mumbai Central following which she went to a wine...
11:51
About 400 humans have made the journey into the space. Five hundred mountaineers have conquered Everest. But not even half their numbers have undertaken a solo voyage round the world by sea. Rediff.com's Manu Shankar speaks to Lieutenant Commander Abhilash Tomy of the Indian Navy, who will...
11:49
After a slow start to the campaign, US President Barack Obama has bounced back with a masterstroke, reports Rediff.com's Bikash Mohapatra, who is covering the American presidential elections. Read
11:44
India may have dented its image as a champion of press freedom after the anticorruption activist Aseem Trivedi was arrested in September for lampooning the Parliament in a cartoon, but, in fact, political satire has a long history in many parts of the country, especially in Kerala. Read
11:38
Addressing the new council of ministers today Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. said that the fiscal deficit was too high and acted as a deterrent for domestic and foreign investment.India is also experiencing the fallout of difficult economic conditionsworldwide. Fuel supply arrangements, security...
10:57
Heavy rains all through the night due to the depression had thrown life out of gear in the coastal districts of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Continuous rainfall has already caused flooding in several parts of the district as people brace for the storm that is likely to cause...
10:55
Update on Cyclone Nilam. Fifteen sailors were today rescued and a search was on for six other missing crew who were on board an oil tanker that drifted and ran aground off the city coast in high velocity winds before the landfall of cyclone Nilam. Around 6.30 am, 15 people who were stranded on...
10:50
For culture vultures: A landmark exhibition Mummy: The Inside Story, opens on Nov. 21 at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in Mumbai. It is the result of a new collaboration between the British Museum, whose collection forms the display, and the CSMVS. Then in In January, the...
10:46
President Barack Obama is to resume an election campaign suspended in the aftermath storm Sandy, which wreaked havoc in the north-eastern US.Mr Obama visited areas of New Jersey struck by the storm on Wednesday. Read
10:43
In a very close presidential election where every single vote counts, both the Obama and Romney campaigns have been making special effort to reach out to the Indian-American community. The community, which numbers more than three million according to the latest census, is being reached through...
10:35
The Uttar Pradesh government has stepped up security in Farrukhabad for a protest to be staged here by India Against Corruption (IAC) activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal. Farrukhabad is the parliamentary constituency of external affairs minister Salman Khurshid, who faces allegations of...
10:07
Janta Party president Dr Subramanium Swamy has called for a press meet on the issue of alleged company law violations by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi, at the Constitution Club in New Delhi at 4 pm today.
09:34
CNN-IBN: The BSE benchmark index Sensex on Thursday fell by over 41 points in early trade to 18464.26, while National Stock Exchange index Nifty declined by 13 points, or 0.23 per cent, to 5,607.05. On Wednesday, the Sensex gained 74.53 points to close at 18,505.38 and the Nifty rose 21.80 points...
08:41
Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare has said that Arvind Kejriwal may not be greedy for money, but may be greedy for power, NDTV reports. Watch Anna Hazare's interview here.
04:58
President Barack Obama, addressing reporters in Brigantine, New Jersey, after touring damaged areas of the state with Gov. Chris Christie, said he's directed his staff members and people in his administration to tolerate no red tape or bureaucratic excuses when it comes to getting storm victims...
04:55
CNN reports: Some details on why New York's Bellevue Hospital -- one of United States' largest hospitals -- is being evacuated: The building lost regular electricity service during the storm, and backup generators have been providing power since then. But people have been having to carry fuel up...
02:38
The United States has dismissed as hollow the offer of humanitarian aid for superstorm victims from Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafeez Muhammad Saeed, the 2008 Mumbai attacks mastermind and for whom the US has offered a bounty of $10 million.As you all well know, Saeed is believed to be behind...
02:01
DMK MP Kanimozhi, the daughter of party chief M Karunanidhi, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his residence on Wednesday evening and handed over a memorandum that spoke at length about the problems being faced by Tamils in Sri Lanka.The DMK leader also brought to Singh's attention Sri Lanka...
01:57
New York's Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the United States, was evacuating its remaining patients due to damage caused by Sandy, city mayor Michael Bloomberg said.Bellevue will now have to be evacuated because of damage, he told a news conference. It's going to affect something...
01:55
Television sets without set top boxes in hundreds of households across Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata went blank as the deadline for switch over to cable TV digitisation ended this midnight. People watching various programmes faced a TV blackout when the clock struck 12. However, in some areas of...
01:35
Mukesh Ambani runs the government, not PM: KejriwalTwo killed as Cyclone Nilam crosses Tamil Nadu coastDid this letter to Reliance get Jaipal Reddy shunted out?Wall Street reopens after two-day shutdown Rupee rebounds from 6-week lows
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