22:31
CBI today scotched off allegations that the agency's Director Ranjit Sinha's opinion on Swan telecom, alleged to have been owned by Reliance, could hamper trial, as the views were in his individual capacity and never formed part of any court documents. Sources privy to the development said...
22:06
Defending the Judicial Appointments Bill, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the government has the highest regard of the judiciary and that there were no efforts to tame it. This is the first time that on one voted against a law, this will make appointment of judiciaries more...
21:27
The Nationalist Congress Party on Thursday dissolved its Uttar Pradesh unit and removed its president Fazle Masood with immediate effect, party General Secretary D P Tripathi said. The sudden action came amid speculations that Masood was set to join Congress, party sources said.
21:26
Two US officials say that roughly 4,500 people remain atop northern Iraq's Sinjar Mountain, and nearly half are herders who lived there before the siege and have no interest in being evacuated. The officials said a US team who spent time on the mountaintop reported numbers far smaller and...
20:58
People who would like to attend the Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort tomorrow can avail a free metro ride. Delhi Metro services will start as early as 4:30 am tomorrow and complimentary travel coupons will be provided to commuters from all stations to Kashmere Gate and Chandni Chowk...
20:29
Detectives investigating a claim of a sexual nature have searched a property belonging to Sir Cliff Richard. The home in Sunningdale in Berkshire was searched after police gained a warrant. The allegation dates back to the 1980s and involves a boy who was aged under 16 at the time. Richard said...
19:49
A massive Russian humanitarian convoy closed in on Ukraine's border today despite doubts over whether the trucks would be allowed across, and as deadly fighting rocked rebel-held strongholds. The nearly 300 vehicles headed towards southeastern Ukraine, even as intense shelling there in the...
19:41
Congress MLA Devendra Yadav has returned his five-month salary to the chief secretary but other Congress MLAs may not follow suit, saying they were working round the clock since becoming public representatives. Yadav, MLA from Badli constituency, returned an amount of Rs 2,67,495 through Lt...
18:45
Luis Suarez's four-month biting ban is upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but he is cleared to train with new club Barcelona, reports the BBC.A full explanation of the ruling will not be published until a later date. Suarez's lawyers argued world governing body...
18:39
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said there has been 80 per cent reduction in militancy related incidents in the state during the last five-and-a-half years. There has been an improvement in peace and security situation in the state during the last more than five and a half...
18:37
Eminent jurist Fali S Nariman today slammed the the two legislations that seek to overturn the present collegium system of appointment of judges, saying they hit at the root of judicial independence and may be struck down by the Supreme Court. Nariman, a former nominated member of Parliament, has...
18:29
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani congratulated Field Medal winning mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani by tweeting a uncovered photograph of her, in a move likely to be seen as a strong political statement. Read
18:28
In India's largest state, a misogynistic family-run political dynasty wants to pretend a rape epidemic doesn't exist. Read
18:03
The NCP today said it was in favour of consolidating secular, like-minded votes for the upcoming assembly elections in Maharashtra and a decision in this regard will be taken after the seat sharing arrangement with Congress is finalised after August 20. Talking to reporters, state NCP chief Sunil...
17:57
Malaysia said today that the remains of 16 victims aboard downed Flight MH17 will repatriated on August 22, declaring it a day of national mourning.Coffins bearing the remains will arrive on a special flight and be received by the country's king, prime minister and other dignitaries to a minute...
17:16
This cop saved a girl's life 20 years ago. Now, he's on his way to her wedding. Read
17:08
With his claim of paying a bribe to settle his electricity bill flying in the face of his predecessor Nitish Kumar's claim of good governance in Bihar, Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi made a U-turn today and said the incident was of an earlier period and the money was given for sweets.The CM also...
16:57
Shaurya Chakra for IAF's Wing Commander Upadhyaya for chopper rescue of two army pilots in Siachen in March.
16:50
'It is obvious within these two months that in many ways Narendra Modi has a great degree of resemblance with Indira Gandhi.''The same style of management of power. The same kind of attempt to reduce a large section of the political leadership into, if not spectators, bureaucrats. His leaders...
16:32
On a day when Imran Khan is leading a march to Islamabad, Pankaj Mishra's profile of him in the New York Times. Read
16:28
The British actor is thought to be top choice to play Judah Ben-Hur in a remake of the 1959 blockbuster, this time expanding the religious aspects of the story. Read
16:13
This date, 1947, Pakistan awakened to freedom. Happy Independence Day.
16:05
In other news, footie legend Pele last night announced he plans to marry a woman more than 30 years his junior. The Brazilian treble World Cup winner, 73, will make Marcia Cibele Aoki, 41, his third wife.
16:02
Also see: PHOTOS: Hundreds pay homage to Major Mukund Varadarajan'I was scared for his safety, but the army was his life'
16:02
Major Mukund Varadarajan was cremated with full honours on April 30 this year. Our reporter S Saraswathi who was there, writes that it was heart wrenching to watch 3-year-old Arshea, the major's daughter, stand near her father's coffin with absolutely no clue as to what was happening around...
16:01
India's highest peacetime gallantry award, the Ashok Chakra, will be awarded posthumously to Major Mukund Varadarajan's family tomorrow on Independence Day. Major Mukund Varadarajan, 32, of the 44th Battalion of the Rashtriya Rifles was killed in an encounter with Hizbul Mujahideen militants...
15:23
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to unveil an ambitious financial inclusion scheme on the Independence Day tomorrow to provide bank accounts to 15 crore poor persons with an overdraft facility of Rs 5,000 and accident insurance of Rs 1 lakh. The-two phase Financial Inclusion Mission,...
15:09
As the state celebrates its 67th birthday, there is an absence of a natural sense of exaltation. The sense of weariness is not due to incessant roadblocks, temporary fuel shortage and uncertainty about how the government-opposition conflict will unfold. Read
14:49
About 12 BSF jawans and some state police personnel today had a narrow escape as a landmine planted by Maoists exploded close to a road immediately after the platoon passed the way in Malkangiri district in Odisha. The incident took place at Telrai chowk close to Kalimela-Motu main road when the...
14:40
Rajya Sabha passes Constitutional Amendment Bill. Ayes: 158, No: 9.
14:38
Celebrations began in Havana on Tuesday to mark the birthday of retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who turned 88 yesterday. The commemorations, which include two days of cultural, athletic and civic events, began at 6 p.m. local time (2200 GMT) with the opening of an audiovisual exhibit of...
14:34
Meanwhile, Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda, quit Twitter and Instagram after receiving insensitive images and comments about her father. I'm sorry. I should've risen above. Deleting this from my devices for a good long time, maybe forever. Time will tell. Goodbye, the actress, 25, tweeted late...
14:29
Sher Singh Rana convicted for the murder of Phoolan Devi, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The court had on August 8 convicted Rana in the 2001 murder case while it acquitted 10 other co-accused in the sensational murder of Phoolan who was then a Lok Sabha MP. Phoolan was shot dead from...
14:18
The Supreme Court grants 15 more days to Subrata Roy to wind up negotiations to sell his overseas properties. The SC has said that negotiations with foreign buyers were at a final stage and the company was getting quotations for their overseas hotels above their market valuation. No further...
14:09
We are a nation that cannot laugh at ourselves and take ourselves too seriously. At least that's what are law makers are. The government is now considering acting against radio jockeys airing jokes or mimicking MPs. Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan had raised the issue in the Rajya Sabha and...
13:49
The Planning Commission is likely to be bifurcated and an announcement is expected on Friday when Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day. On the anvil is an eight-person think tank for vision 2020. The implementation of...
13:35
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's I-day message to India: Kashmir is the main source of tension in Indo-Pak relations and we seek a peaceful resolution to explore new ways to bolster bilateral ties. We want peaceful resolution of Kashmir with our full sincerity so that by removing this main...
13:21
Cutting across party lines, Rajya Sabha members today made a futile bid for suspension of Question Hour to take up resumed discussion on a Bill that seeks to change the appointment system of judges. Soon after the House met for the day, Naresh Agrawal (SP), Sharad Yadav (JD-U), Derek O'Brien...
13:03
Violence erupted in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri for a fourth straight night Wednesday, with police firing smoke bombs and tear gas at demonstrators and some people lobbing Molotov cocktails. Racial unrest lingers in the St. Louis suburb following a weekend police shooting of an unarmed...
12:24
The Supreme Court has quashed a Bombay High Court order imposing restrictions on the height of human pyramids during dahi handi. The high court had suggested that the height of human pyramids during Janmashtami festival be regulated. The pyramids formed to burst dahi handis in honour of Lord...
12:18
A look at the 10 celebrated contemporary Hindi films that embody India's many extraordinary facets -- heartening, bleak, poignant, explosive and sublime. Read
12:11
As a child, I enjoyed studying Sanskrit, Sanskrit poetry and Indian classical music. I saw math in all these things, says Manjul Bhargava, the first Indian-origin person to win the Fields Medal.Read
12:06
The all India Human Rights and Social Justice Front had filed a public interest litigation and submitted that the film promotes nudity and pleaded to the apex court to immediately intervene in the matter. The petitioner has made Aamir Khan and the director of the film Rajkumar Hirani parties...
11:58
The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea filed against Aamir Khan and director Raju Hirani for the film 'PK' for allegedly showing nudity in the movie. Dismissing the plea, the SC said, These are matters of art and entertainment and let them remain so. Any restrictions on release of film...
11:51
CBI carries out searches at 28 locations in Delhi, Kolkata and Odisha in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam. The premises of ex-union minister Matang Sinh, his wife Manorajana, former IPS official Rajat Majumdar and East Bengal Club officials searched by the CBI. The agency has till now...
11:42
Our nationality is something we're proud of. However, with it comes a bunch of eccentricities that is unique to us folks. Tell us if you agree. Read
11:37
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to speak extempore when he makes his first Independence Day speech from Red Fort on Friday. If he does, he will probably be the first prime minister to do so without a script.PM Modi's speech, likely to be 45 minutes to one hour long, is set to break new...
11:31
Four children died of suffocation after they accidently got stuck in an abandoned car at Vedanatham in the Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday. According to police sources, a festival was taking place in Vedanatham. Read
11:19
The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Centre and all the states on a PIL seeking to ban cigarettes and 'bidis' in the country.
11:17
Two sisters from Maharashtra, found guilty of kidnapping 13 children and killing nine of them, are to be hanged soon, said sources.President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected the mercy petitions of Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit; their families have been told they could be hanged any time soon.The...
11:05
Purely technological solutions like the ambitious river-linking project, do not understand or prioritise those who are affected by these projects. Read
11:01
Who is the real Narendra Modi? The one that reached out to Islamabad in the first flush of his election victory, inviting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for his oath-taking, and exchanging shawls and sarees with him for their mothers? Or the one that on Tuesday sneered that Pakistan has lost the...
10:57
The spectre of sleeping pilots is back to haunt Indian flyers. A Jet Airways aircraft winging its way from Mumbai to Brussels last Friday suddenly dropped 5,000 feet in the Ankara airspace over Turkey. The commander of the Boeing 777 aircraft was taking 'controlled rest', which means a nap...
10:03
A fire alarm in a Jet Airways flight from Delhi to Bhopal caused a scare as it was about to take off early today. No one among over the 70 people on board were injured in the incident that took place around 5.45 am, airport sources said. The ATR 72 turbo prop aircraft, operating flight 9W 2654,...
10:01
Mukhtar Ahmad reports: The Pakistani army violated the bilateral ceasefire in the Hamirpur sector of the Line of Control in the Poonch sector late last evening. A defence spokesperson said the Pakistani troops carried out unprovoked firing using small arms and automatic weapons. Our troops gave a...
09:11
A bill to change the system of appointing or promoting judges faces its last test in Parliament today before it becomes law. The Judicial Appointments Commission Bill will be taken up in the Rajya Sabha a day after it was passed unanimously in the Lok Sabha, NDTV reports. The bill sets up a...
09:01
With more than one million people affected by the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the WHO has warned that there is no early end in sight to the severe health crisis and called for extraordinary measures to stop the transmission of the disease. According to the latest update issued by the...
08:38
BBC reports: Pope Francis has landed in South Korea, beginning his first visit to Asia since he took over the papacy in March last year. During his trip, he will beatify Korean Catholics who died for their faith and attend a Catholic youth festival. The South Korean Catholic...
03:51
A team of fewer than 20 Special Forces troops reviewed conditions on Iraq's Mount Sinjar Wednesday in preparation for a plan to rescue plan for religious minorities trapped there, a senior Defense official said.The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to...
03:48
Brazil was thrown into mourning Wednesday by the unexpected death of presidential candidate Eduardo Campos in a plane crash. The popular former governor of Pernambuco State in northeast Brazil's was just 49 and his death threw October's election wide open.Today we lost a great Brazilian,'...
02:44
Scotland Yard tonight arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of terrorism in Central London. He is currently being held for questioning and no further details are available until the initial interrogation is complete.
02:44
Israeli authorities told Fox News that three rockets were fired at southern Israel Wednesday night, two hours before the end of a temporary cease-fire.One of the rockets hit open land and a third was intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system. No damage or injuries were reported.The...
01:50
Saudi Arabia today gave USD 100 million to the United Nations to support counter-terrorism efforts and called on other countries to do the same. The donation follows a USD 500 million Saudi gift to the UN effort to help Iraqi refugees fleeing a jihadist advance. We have been stung by the evil of...
01:49
A 72-hour truce between Israel and Hamas teetered on the brink of collapse today with a rocket hitting the Jewish state just hours before it expired at midnight. Shortly before the rocket hit, an official told AFP Israel was willing to extend the lull by another three days as the...
01:41
A plane carrying Eduardo Campos, a front runner for the Brazilian presidential elections, crashed on Wednesday morning in the coastal city of Santos.Brazil's Ministry of Aeronautics confirmed to NBC News that the leader of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) was one of the seven people...
00:17
Jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) group seized a string of villages in northern Syria today in fighting that left 52 people dead, a monitoring group said. The jihadists captured eight villages between second city Aleppo and the Turkish border, buoyed by their successes in neighbouring Iraq, the...
00:17
The Ebola virus killed 56 people in just two days, bringing the global death toll to 1,069, the World Health Organisation said today. The death toll, which passed the 1,000-mark at the weekend, soared higher between August 10 and 11. The number of confirmed infections jumped by 128 over the...
00:12
Ukraine has set conditions for receiving Russian aid in the rebel-held east of the country. A huge aid convoy set off from outside Moscow on Tuesday morning.Ukrainian officials say aid should pass through a government-controlled border post and must be accompanied by Red Cross officials.The Red...
00:11
The 130 special advisers dispatched to Iraq this week have been tasked with developing a rescue plan for religious minorities trapped on Mount Sinjar, the Obama administration said Wednesday.The advisers will make recommendations about how to follow-through on an effort to get the people off that...
00:09
Pop singer Justin Bieber pleaded guilty today to misdemeanour charges of careless driving and resisting arrest seven months after his arrest in Miami Beach following what police initially called an illegal street drag race. The 20-year-old pop star's plea deal with prosecutors, detailed at a...
00:08
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out today at the UN Human Rights Council, accusing it of granting legitimacy to terror organisations by investigating Israel for alleged war crimes in Gaza. UNHRC gives legitimacy to murderous terror organisations like Hamas and Daash (Islamic State),...
00:08
Rescue workers have recovered the body of a man killed in a landslide and a hospitalised man has also died, raising to four the death toll in a shallow 5.1-magnitude earthquake in Ecuador's capital region. Authorities say another three people are missing in a landslide just north of...
00:07
The INS Kolkata is ready for its photo-op with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will commission it on Saturday.But the 7,500 ton warship - intended as the country's biggest and most powerful guided missile-destroyer -is missing basic weaponry, which leaves it virtually...
00:03
Insurance Bill: Govt bows to oppn demand for select panelOne dead, two policemen injured in militant attack in KashmirCongress takes the bitter pill, supports Judicial commission billRuckus within AAP: Now Shanti Bhushan calls Kejriwal incompetentLok Sabha sees animated debate over riotsGaza bomb...
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