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Former Tehelka Managing Editor Shoma Chaudhury today recorded her statement before the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Goa in connection with the case of alleged sexual assault of a journalist by the magazine's founder-editor Tarun Tejpal. Shoma's deposition before Chief Judicial Magistrate...
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Pakistani politician Imran Khan today said that despite Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's recent statement on a possible fourth war with India over Kashmir, neither country could afford to do so as they both possess nuclear powers. He also noted that...
21:08
Strongly opposing the Prevention of Communal Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2013, in its present form, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today asked the Centre not to move it hastily and hold wider consultations with the...
21:07
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today said his government was not interfering with the ongoing inquiry into the alleged memorial scam during the regime of the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh. Action would be taken against all those found...
21:05
President Pranab Mukherjee is likely to represent India in the funeral of South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela on December 15. It is learnt that a proposal to this effect has gone to the President for his...
19:21
A correspondent from Delhi reports: The BJP has demanded that the draft Bill on Telangana, which has been sent to the Andhra Pradesh assembly, be circulated to all Members of Parliament. The saffron party has sought to know the reason behind the secrecy surrounding the Bill and why MPs...
19:10
Two persons were arrested today in connection with the killing of eight security personnel in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists in Aurangabad district earlier this week. Mukesh Mahto and Mohammad Basarat Hussain have been arrested from Nabinagar...
19:09
Union minister Adhir Chowdhury today criticised the Mamata Banerjee government for trying to 'settle old scores' with WBHRC chairman A K Ganguly over the law intern case, but said that the former Supreme Court judge should resign on moral...
19:08
A man fired two rounds from his pistol on board a local train in Mumbai after scuffling over a seat. One Tabrez Jethwa, who boarded an Ambernath local at Dadar station for Mumbra on Friday, was hit by two bullets fired by an unidentified man after a heated argument over a place to sit in the...
19:06
The UN today launched a mission in Bangladesh to end political turmoil triggered by a stand-off between the country's two main parties over the general elections scheduled for January 5. UN Assistant Secretary General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco arrived in...
19:05
Tejas, India's first indigenously designed, developed and productionised fourth generation plus Light Combat Aircraft achieved yet another milestone when at 11 am, its infrared air to air missile hit its designated target with precision. The test, demonstrating required parameters, was...
19:03
Amid protests in Seemandhra against the division of Andhra Pradesh, the Centre today appealed to political parties in the state not to make dangerousstatements and cooperate with it to ensure smooth bifurcation. The bill can only go so far. But...
19:02
As a massive controversy broke out over granting parole to actor Sanjay Dutt on the ground of his wife Manyata's ill health, a doctor who examined her has said she has been diagnosed with a tumor in the liver and a suspected heart ailment. Manyata...
19:01
Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray today paid a courtesy visit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at the latter's official residence in Gandhinagar. Uddhav Thackeray met the Gujarat chief minister at his residence. Their meeting lasted for...
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After a long time, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today held a public darbaar at his residence, meeting people from various sections of the society and listening to their grievances and complaints. Singh met 31 groups representing minorities,...
17:45
Cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan today said even though Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will try to improve ties with India, he will not be able to move fast on the issue due to pressure from fanatical elements. In an interactive session,...
17:43
Jordan has been elected as anon-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, filling a seat that Saudi Arabia had declined to accept after an earlier election to protest the world body's failure to end the Syrian and Israeli-Palestinian...
17:19
A cyclonic storm named 'Madi' will intensify into a severe cyclonic storm, bringing rain or thundershowers over some parts of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh during the next 48 hours, the Indian Meteorological Department said today. The depression over...
17:18
Thailand authorities today began stepping up security around key state buildings after anti-government protesters vowed to make a final push to oust Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Monday. Officials said hundreds of policemen will be...
17:16
Overcoming a string of failures over the years, the WTO today reached a landmark agreement that can help boost global trade by US$ 1 trillion, while taking on board concerns of countries like India to protect its food security scheme to provide subsidised grains to the...
17:15
Reiterating that the decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh was a grave mistake, Union Textiles Minister Kavuri Sambasiva Rao today said the AP Reorganisation Bill-2013 was unlikely to be approved by Parliament. Forget about approval, the Bill may not...
17:14
China has said it hopes to continue to strengthen cooperation and coordination with India in international affairs and work together to maintain peace in border areas. China's position was articulated by State Councilor Yang Jiechi during talks with...
17:13
After repeated warnings from the Supreme Court, Pakistani authorities today produced in court 14 men who had been detained without charge by security agencies. The men were produced before Justice Amir Hani Muslim, a member of the three-judge bench...
17:07
The Special Investigation Team has filed two charge-sheets against the three accused in the recent riots in the district, an official said. The charge-sheet was filed on Friday in the court of CJM KP...
17:06
A Kolkata-based NGO has written to Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi, requesting him to register an FIR against former Supreme Court judge Justice Ashok Kumar Ganguly in the case of alleged sexual harassment of a law intern. We call upon you to register an FIR in the...
17:05
The Bombay high court has dismissed a public interest litigation challenging a 1982 decision of the Maharashtra government allowing change of user on a plot of land in Kolhapur, belonging to singer Lata Mangeshkar. The division bench of Justices S J...
17:00
An Indian-origin serial rapist, sentenced to life imprisonment by a British court, has set a legal precedent in the United Kingdom regarding the retrial of cases where the accused had previously been acquitted. Harbinder Khatkar was found guilty...
16:59
China today issued a serious alert for worsening smog in central and eastern regions, a day after the country's financial hub suffered one of its worst bouts of smog, delaying flights and forcing people to stay inside. The China Meteorological Centre...
16:57
With most opinion and exit polls predicting a rout for it in four states, the Congress has sought to shift the discourse from assembly polls to Lok Sabha elections, citing past trends to buttress the point that provincial polls do not have a bearing on general...
16:55
Legendary music maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar has received a posthumous nomination at 56th Grammy Awards with his album The Living Room Sessions Part 2 in the World Music section. The sitar master, who died last December at the age of 92, won the World...
16:51
Indian officials from Accra today met the jailed Indian sailor, whose family eagerly awaits his return for performing the last rites of his 11-month son, who died earlier this week.The officials have also been in touch with Togo authorities to secure his early release on compassionate...
15:16
In a controversial move, despite the Kerala high court staying till December 10 the transfer of Bitti Mohanty, a rape convict who was arrested from Kannur after jumping parole in Rajasthan, the Kerala police has sent him to Jaipur. The Kerala Armed...
15:15
The BJP will raise in Parliament the issue of Justice A K Ganguly, who has been found guilty of sexual harassment by a Supreme Court panel, continuing as the chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission. Someone who has violated human rights...
14:53
A girl was injured after a young boy threw a acid on her face at a beauty parlour in Ludhiana today where she had gone for her bridal makeup shortly before her marriage. The 22-year-old victim, a resident of Barnala, was rushed to the DMC Hospital, police said. The boy managed to escape...
14:52
Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh arrives in Washington over the weekend to hold a wide range of bilateral, regional and global consultations with top American officials to send a strong signal that the India-US relationship is too important to be distracted by domestic political...
14:29
The technological opportunities provided by the India-US civil nuclear deal are yet to be tapped, former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today said. The Civil Nuclear Deal opened the way for extraordinary technological cooperation. I am not...
14:28
The two-day bandh call given by pro-united Andhra Pradesh groups in Seemandhra evoked a partial response on the second day in Visakhapatnam city as well as Vijayawada city and Krishna district. Banks, hotels are open in Visakhapatnam city but private schools have...
14:26
The Odisha government has issued an interim order for attachment of properties of Kolkata-based ponzy scheme firm Saradha Group and the state-based Seashore Group of companies which allegedly duped investors of crores of rupees. The state government...
12:58
Former Tehelka managing editor Shoma Chaudhury has reached a judicial magistrate's court in Goa today to record her statement in connection with the Tarun Tejpal rape case. The victim, an ex-employee of Tehelka news magazine, had accused Chaudhury of attempting to cover up the...
12:29
A Goa court on Saturday extended the police custody of Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal by four days.Tejpal had been arrested on November 30 and remanded to police custody for six days. He is facing charges of rape after allegedly sexually assaulting a colleague at an event in Goa.
12:09
Members of the Republican Party of India on Saturday staged a protest outside Pune's Yerwada jail where actor Sanjay Dutt is currently lodged.Dutt has recently been granted parole for 30 days over his wife Manyata's 'illness'.RPI activists protested the court's decision to grant bail to Dutt...
12:01
Alexander Blackman, a Royal Marine Sergeant of the British army, was sentenced to life for murdering a wounded Taliban prisoner in cold blood in Afghanistan's Helmand province.Blackman shot the prisoner while quoting lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet. The murder was captured on camera by another...
11:56
Former US President George W Bush and his wife Laura will accompany US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama to South Africa to pay their last respects to anti-apartheid icon Nelson Madela, who passed away on Thursday. The two Presidents and their wives will travel together on...
11:47
North Korea today released a US veteran of the Korean War who had been detained in the country since October for what the Communist regime described as hostile acts against it. North Korea's state-run news agency KCNA said that Merrill Newman was...
11:46
After a minor flutter created by Cuba and three Latin American countries, the WTO today adopted the historic Bali package which addresses several concerns of developing countries including India with regard to food security and trade facilitation. The Bali...
11:45
US President Barack Obama has called up Nelson Mandela's widow Graca Machel to express condolences of the First family and the American people, the White House said. The President thanked Mrs Machel for the profound influence that Nelson Mandela has...
11:42
The Pune Crime Branch has taken into custody two people from Goa for questioning in connection with the murder of noted rationalist Narendra Dabholkar. The duo, hiding in Old Goa,was detained on December 3, Goa Deputy Inspector General of Police O P...
11:40
America's secretive National Security Agency has defended its surveillance of cell phones globally, arguing that this is legally authorised under a sweeping US presidential order and such programmes have been used in some of the most dangerous parts of the...
02:46
President Barack Obama is highly influenced by Nelson Mandela, even though he met him in person only once, the White House today said adding that the anti-apartheid icon was part of an era of historic changes across the world.I think that Nelson Mandela had a profound impact on millions and...
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Businessinsider reports: Neel Kashkari, who oversaw the government's bank bailout at the height of the financial crisis, will attempt to succeed Jerry Brown as Governor of California in 2014, Bloomberg's James Nash & Michael B. Marois report, citing a Kashkari repRead the...
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An Italian court today allowed Indian authorities to question alleged middleman Guido Hashcke in the chopper scam case, which is being heard in that country. Haschke is giving his statement to the court in Milan on his role in the chopper scam and a team of Indian officials present there was...
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I've not met a more charismatic man than Mandela'Efforts on for release of Indian ship captain jailed in TogoDelhi Police asks law intern to record statementWe expect infiltration across LoC but are prepared: ArmyFour let off in gang rape case; 'victim', witnesses untraceableNelson Mandela will...
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