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CNN reports: A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia Thursday, at a depth of 6.9 miles, the US Geological Survey said.The quake epicenter is more than 260 miles south of Jakarta, south of the island of Java.There have not been any immediate reports of damage. No tsunami...
22:56
Staff at an Irish hospital failed to adequately assess and monitor Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar who died after suffering a miscarriage, a key report on her death said today and warned that such incidents could happen again in the absence of clarity on abortion law.A clinical inquiry into...
21:09
A tweet by Amitav Ghosh in the light of the fact that George Orwell's 1984 has registered a 10,000% increase in sales on Amazon after the recent Prism: Interesting that Orwell's Big Brother grew out of his wartime job at BBC's Eastern Service where he was broadcasting to India.
20:45
At least 93,000 people, including over 6,500 children, have been killed in Syria's civil war, the United Nations said today, warning that the true death toll could be far higher. The skyrocketing number of deaths over the past year, along with documented cases of children tortured and entire...
20:25
At least three people were killed and 70 injured today when a commuter train crashed west of Buenos Aires, according to the municipality of Moron, where the accident took place. At the moment we have information about three fatalities and at least 70 injured people, according to preliminary...
20:11
Dismissing the possibility of any impact of Narendra Modi in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today said his elevation will not cast a magic spell as his Gujarat counterpart is hardly acquainted with UP politics. Modi's elevation and...
19:21
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, CNN IBN reports. The meeting comes following speculation that there may not be a special Parliament session to discuss the Food Security Bill as hinted by Finance Minister P Chidambaram earlier in the day.
18:35
In a boost to Congress in Bihar, 137 JD(U) and BJP leaders, including former JD(U) spokesperson Shambhunath Sinha, today joined Congress. Sinha and others were given primary membership of Congress by Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) president Ashok Chaudhary at a function held at the...
18:34
A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey has been defaced with paint, an Abbey spokesman has said. Read
18:25
As the debate about Internet privacy rages in the U.S. and worldwide, India is expanding its own system that allows its intelligence agencies quicker access to information on citizens held by telecoms and internet service providers. Read
18:23
Deep within the National Security Agency, an elite, rarely discussed team of hackers and spies is targeting America's enemies abroad. Read
18:10
Taking a dig at developments in BJP, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today described Narendra Modi as 'Bhasmasur', a mythological character known for trying to destroy his creator, and said the Gujarat Chief Minister has consumed his mentor L K Advani. Ramesh, a Congress strategist, also compared...
18:05
Thirteen members of a social organisation for women were arrested today for demonstrating near the residence of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to protest the gang-rape and killing of a girl student at Barasat. Condemning Saturday's gang-rape and murder at Barasat in neighbouring 24...
17:42
Find out when journalists are copying paragraphs from press releases, or using Wikipedia in place of research. Churnalism is a website -- and a browser extension -- that allows you to find out when reporters were lazy about a particular story. Read
17:37
First a disclaimer: I am a very strong well-wisher of the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) who successfully petitioned the Chief Information Commissioner to bring political parties under the RTI. Having said that there, I am not convinced that the CIC order, while well intentioned,...
17:31
The CBI today sent summons to Special Director of Intelligence Bureau Rajinder Kumar in connection with the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, the first time when an IB involvement in a criminal case has ever been questioned in the country. Read
17:26
Nelson Mandela was responding well to treatment for a recurrent lung infection on the sixth day of hospitalisation, as the South African Cabinet today wished the 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon a speedy recovery.A day after President Jacob Zuma told a jittery nation that Madiba (Mandala's clan...
17:22
Watch: The spoof on the Bharat Nirman ad.
17:12
Media firm TV18 Broadcast today launched in the UK a 24 hours news channel 'News18 India', which would be distributed through a joint venture formed with Viacom 18. After News18 India's entry into the UK, it would be launched across the globe, including key diaspora markets such as the US,...
17:00
While recent attempts to strengthen the investigation agency probing major fraud are welcome, its dependence on the Central government to initiate action is cause for concern. Read
16:57
At Narganju station in Jamui in 2008, an RPF jawan molested a woman selling daatun. She complained to MCC. Next day they accompanied her. Killed him, tweets journalist Rahul Pandita.
16:39
Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu today asked JD(U) to follow coalition dharma after some of its leaders allegedly criticised Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, widening the rift between the two parties. Speaking to reporters, Naidu said, some friends in JD (U) are making derogatory...
16:26
The update on the Bihar train attack is that one RPF jawan and two passengers have been killed in the gunfight with the Naxals, while seven have been injured. Both RPF and CRPF jawans were escorting the train.
16:25
Facebook is now adopting the hashtag, a distinctive feature of rival Twitter, to help members keep track of popular topics being discussed on the social network.Starting today, hashtags will be clickable on Facebook. Similar to other services like Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest,...
16:08
A crucial and ambitious freeway was inaugurated by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today. The Eastern Freeway, 17 kms long, and signal-free, will drastically reduce travel time between South Mumbai - India's most important financial district - and the Eastern Suburbs. -- NDTV
15:58
Slain BJP leader Haren Pandya's wife Jagruti Pandya today said that she recently met Asgar Ali, the man acquitted by court of killing her husband, at an Andhra jail. On Tuesday, I visited Visakhapatnam jail in Andhra Pradesh and met Ali, who was initially accused by CBI of my husband's murder but...
15:37
RR owner Raj Kundra gets philosophical. His tweet today: God made many puzzle pieces, but only those two 'cut out' for each other, can fit together to create a perfect and beautiful picture.
15:33
In another Naxal attack, three persons, including a Police Patil, were allegedly gunned down by a group of Naxals at a village in Maoist-hit Gadchiroli district, police said today.
15:28
In other news: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has waded into Australia's bitter gender debate raging around Premier Julia Gillard by saying his successor may be a female as women have the all qualities needed in leaders. If the circumstances are such that a female Dalai Lama is more...
15:25
MoS Home Affairs RPN Singh says reinforcements (CRPF, BSF personnel) have been sent. It is obvious this is a desperate act by the Naxals. They are now attacking unarmed innocent passengers. The aim of the attack is to snatch the ammunition and arms from the jawans. We are in touch with the RPF,...
14:56
Amitabh Kumar Das, the SP, Jamalpur, who spoke to CNN IBN earlier, now tells NDTV that two people have been killed -- one jawan and one passenger. Both RPF and CRPF jawans were escorting the train, mandatory for all trains crossing any red corridors. The Naxals are believed to have looted their...
14:44
The Bihar police say there was no bloodbath since the Naxals did not target passengers. Their targets were the RPF jawans who were escorting the train because of the weapons they were carrying. In all attacks, including the Tarmetlar attack by Naxals (where 76 CRPF personnel were massacred),...
14:35
SP Railway, Jamalpur, Amitabh Kumar, tells CNN IBN that the driver of the Intercity Express has been seriously injured as is one RPF jawan. Kumar says there were at least 80 to 100 Naxals (including women Naxals) who stopped the train, while it was passing a thickly wooded area in Jamalpur. The...
14:24
Just in: Five passengers have been injured in a Naxal attack on the Dhanbad-Patna intercity express train. Trains on the Delhi-Howrah route. The Bihar DGP tells CNN IBN that Naxals fired inside and though five other passengers and a guard were injured, the actual targets were the RPF jawans...
14:03
UP tourism minister Om Prakash Singh made a sexist comment at former chief minister and BSP chief Mayawati while addressing his party workers in Ghazipur. The minister in Akhilesh Yadav government allegedly called Mayawati 'ugly' launching a personal attack on her at a gathering in his...
13:54
The Indian Air Force is marking the beginning of the end of Russian dominance in its transport fleet after acquiring the first C-17 Globemaster III in the US on Tuesday. Read
13:53
India's paradox of fast economic growth across several years and chronic malnutrition in a significant section of the population is well known. It has vast numbers of stunted children whose nutritional status is so poor that infectious diseases increase the danger of death. Read
13:47
The rise of China is a phenomenon, and budding Indian diplomats must study its chronology, and what goes on in that country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is learnt to have told a group of Indian Foreign Service (IFS) probationers. Read
13:44
Read: Rajeev Shukla: Meet the man who is a minister, networker, BCCI mandarin and businessman
13:41
Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has been arrested and sent to judicial custody over a 2006 murder case. Akbar Bugti, a tribal Baloch leader had been killed in a military crackdown ordered by Musharraf when he was president. Musharraf has been sent to two weeks judicial custody, but...
13:23
The Samajwadi Party has welcomed the government's decision to get the bill passed at a special session of Parliament. The SP is opposed to the bill since it believes it will kill agriculture and drive farmers to suicide and the government was worried the SP, would pull out of the government if...
13:04
Food minister KV Thomas says political parties want a special session of Parliament. The BJP wants the Food Bill to be passed in the monsoon session of Parliament with certain amendments. The government had considered passing the bill as an ordinance, or executive order. This would be a...
12:50
This is what the Food Security Bill says. Read
12:47
Just in: The government has postponed the Food Ordinance Bill. The government says there is a lack of political consensus and will try to talk to the opposition again. The Food Security Bill, a pet project of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, was tabled in the Budget session of Parliament but...
12:36
Nitin Gadkari and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi's meeting with JD-U president Sharad Yadav. Yadav speaking to the media right now. Yadav says the final decision on whether the party will stay with the NDA will be taken at a party meeting. The date of the meeting will be decided this evening. Yadav, by...
12:24
Our image is quite shining, Finance Minister P Chidambaram quipped today in an apparent jibe at BJP rattled by the Advani-Modi controversy. (The 'quite' was a saving grace).The image of the UPA government is not a cause for concern and would not affect the performance of the economy, Chidambaram...
12:07
Jiah Khan's post-mortem report says that there were no external injuries. This is contrary to what her mother, Rabia Amin, said to the media, that there were bruises on her face and neck, implying that Jiah had been abused and beaten by her boyfriend Suraj Pancholi.
11:44
Here's what the editorial on the Hindu says on LK Advani's resignation and thereafter. The mutinous Lal Krishna Advani has retreated, leaving Narendra Modi's supporters to rejoice and glory in their victory. Yet for all its popular appeal, the legend of the victor and the vanquished, one a...
11:36
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will be covering Katihar in his Seva Yatra on June 13 and 14, after which a decision is likely to be announced. Sources in the party say that parting of ways is almost certain as it believes that it is now only a technicality for BJP to name Modi its PM...
11:33
This is what the Left front has to say on Mamata Banerjee's call for a federal front or a third front. It is nothing but a ploy by Banerjee to increase her bargaining power with the BJP and Congress before the 2014 elections. Everybody knows her political track record, CPI(M) politburo member and...
11:14
Nitish said he had spoken to West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on the phone and she had said that Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal qualify for a special status. However, BJP says the NDA is united and rules out the possibility of a third front.
11:13
However, rumours have been rife that JD-U is considering the possibility of teaming up with BJD. Nitish Kumar also said that BJP leaders Rajnath Singh and Murli Manohar Joshi had called him.
11:07
Meanwhile, here's Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar first statement since LK Advani met him yesterday after the JD-U leader has suggested to media sources that the party would reconsider the alliance in the wake of LK Advani's resignation. Now that Advani has 'taken back' his resignation, Nitish...
10:58
Not one to lose out an opportunity, Chidambaram makes a political statement at the press conference. Compared with the political image of some of our friends, our political image is shining, he said.
10:56
Chidambaram says repeatedly that India should not worry about the depreciation of the rupee. The economy is recovering and number of steps have been taken to spur growth. We will leave no stone unturned to achieve revenue and fiscal deficit targets and I believe the economy will regain losses...
10:45
Finance minister P Chidambaram addressing the media on the falling rupee. He said a number of measures have been taken to spur growth and investment and tame inflation. There has also been significant growth in the economy in the last nine months. But I have one thing to say, don't buy gold. Gold...
10:14
After a day's relief, the rupee today fell by 43 paise to 58.22 against the dollar in early trade due to increased demand for the US currency from banks and importers amid a weak opening in local equities.However, Chief Economic Advisor Raghuram Rajan said there was no need to panic due to fall...
10:10
The BSE benchmark Sensex today fell over 225 points to plunge below the 19,000 mark in early trade led by over six per cent drop in Sun Pharma, after the pharmaceutical major and Israel's Teva agreed to pay $2.15 billion patent infringement settlement to Pfizer and Takeda.Falling for the third...
09:51
Shares of MMTC today tanked nearly 10 per cent on the BSE in early trade as government's 9.33 per cent stake sale of the firm commenced on the bourses. The floor, or the minimum offer price for MMTC's share sale has been set at Rs 60 apiece. Soon after the commencement of the stake...
09:49
US whistle-blower Edward Snowden has emerged from hiding in Hong Kong and revealed to the South China Morning Post that he will stay in the city to fight likely attempts by his government to have him extradited for leaking state secrets.In an exclusive interview carried out from a secret location...
09:13
Army's top secret details about operational plans and deployment along the India-China border could have been compromised and around six military personnel have been indicted by a Court of Inquiry (CoI) in this regard. Sources said the indicted personnel are in the process of facing...
09:13
The Union Cabinet is slated to take up an ordinance to push through the Food Security Bill, which is the brainchild of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, on Thursday. The constant disruptions by the Opposition in Parliament had resulted in a delay in passing the Food Security Bill so...
02:43
BBC reports: The deputy chairman of Turkey's ruling AK party says it is open to the idea of a referendum on controversial plans to redevelop Istanbul's Gezi Park.Huseyin Celik hoped the gesture of goodwill would clear the area.
02:08
Hindustantimes reports: Actor Jiah Khan, who committed suicide on June 3, did indeed undergo an abortion earlier this year and the doctor who conducted it knew her and her boyfriend Sooraj Pancholi, the Mumbai police said on Wednesday.Read the full story here
00:28
BBC reports: South Africa's first black President Nelson Mandela is responding better to treatment in hospital, President Jacob Zuma has saidread the full story here
00:27
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