22:51
On national television today in Pakistan, Hafiz Saeed, one of the world's most-wanted men, blamed India for the massacre of children at a Pakistan school and vowed revenge, reports NDTV. Not a single politician in Pakistan condemned the remarks of the man behind the terror attacks in...
22:41
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev today lauded the constructive role played by the Gurukul system of education and expressed his commitment to revive the old system in the country.He said the British rulers abolished the Gurukul system to inculcate western culture in Indians.In order to inculcate western...
22:08
Rajiv Shah, the administrator for the US Agency for International Development, is quitting. In a statement released Wednesday morning, he said he had mixed emotions but did not elaborate on why he was leaving the agency he has led since 2000.Confirming the report, US President Barack Obama...
20:53
Controversial Bharatiya Janata Party MP Giriraj Singh, referring to the massacre of school-going children that took place in Peshawar, Pakistan, posted on twitter: whatever happening in Pakistan is called friendly fight .Singh, who is known for making off-colour remarks, posted another tweet...
20:20
Two individuals were arrested from a house in Dhakas Jatrabari on Tuesday night with components required for developing surveillance drones. Dhaka Metropolitan Police's Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam claimed that the arrested Tanjil Hossain Babu and Golam Maula Mohan were active leaders of...
20:11
Two individuals were arrested from a house in Dhakas Jatrabari on Tuesday night with components required for developing surveillance drones. Dhaka Metropolitan Police's Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam claimed that the arrested Tanjil Hossain Babu and Golam Maula Mohan were active leaders of...
19:50
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today lifted a self-imposed moratorium on death penalty in terror related cases, a day after ruthless Taliban militants massacred at least 132 students and 16 staffers at an army-run school in Peshawar....
19:34
Polling personnel for 96 booths will be airdropped tomorrow in Dumka ahead of the fifth and final phase of polling in 16 constituencies on December 20. They will be brought back by helicopter on December 21, Deputy Commissioner Harsh Mangla said. Among other places, the 96 out of an...
19:26
Seven more adults wounded in the brutal terror attack on a school run by Pakistan army in Peshawar succumbed to their injuries today, taking the number of those fallen to the bullets of Taliban militants to 148, most of them children. The attack on Army Public School on Warsak Road was the...
19:23
The teachers (circled) gunned down yesterday at the Army Public School, Peshawar.
19:23
As many as 141 people, of whom 132 were children, were massacred on Tuesday when heavily armed Taliban suicide bombers stormed a Pakistan army-run school in Peshawar, firing indiscriminately. Another 130 were injured, some critically so.Dressed in para-military Frontier Corps uniforms, the seven...
19:23
Peshawar Attack: A Letter from 8-year old Bilal to his mother. Read
19:22
Tahira Kazi, the principal of the Army Public School and College in Peshawar, was set on fire by jihadists who slaughtered 142 people, most of them children. It is believed she was targeted because she's married to a retired army colonel, Kazi Javaid. A student who survived the...
18:18
Former chairman of the Tata Group, Ratan N Tata, who rarely tweets, did so today, saying: Deepest condolences go out to the families of the innocent students in Pakistan who were shot yesterday in an unforgivable massacre.
17:58
Tehreek-e-Insaaf leader Imran Khan says that all national parties, in fact, Pakistan's entire political spectrum are united in the fight against terrror.
17:53
A student, holding a rose, takes part in a prayer for victims of the Taliban attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, in Karachi. At least 132 students and nine staff members were killed on Tuesday when Taliban gunmen broke into the school and opened fire, witnesses said, in the bloodiest...
17:50
Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif in a press conference this evening, announced a committee, comprising members of all parties, to tackle the issue of terrorism in the country.He said that the committee will come up with a plan within seven days.Calling yesterday's attack in Peshawar an act of cowardice,...
17:30
@HMOIndia National Archives of India has further informed that 04 files related to Azad Hind Government are available with them.
17:28
NSA Ajit Doval at Pak High Commn #PeshawarAttack: Never in my life I have heard that people can be so brutal that they can kill innocent children... the country is stunned... entire world should condemn this... totally indefensible.
17:25
After a brief hiatus, oil companies today began supplying jet fuel to Spicejet after the troubled airline paid cash for the purchases. The budget carrier is getting fuel as per the terms of 'cash and carry' agreement put in place about six months back. We never stopped supply fuel. We...
17:12
Pakistan's front pages today...
17:00
And that's the gate of the Army Public School in Peshawar which was attacked by Taliban gunmen. Zohra Bensemra/Reuters
16:58
Yesterday, around 8 pm IST, Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif's advisor Amir Muqam was targeted in a bomb attack on Ring Road in Peshawar when he was returning after paying a visit to the victims of the terrorist attack. Muqam was returning from the Lady Reading Hospital where he had gone to meet the...
16:55
Just in: NDTV reports two explosions outside the girls' college near Peshawar in Pakistan. The blasts occurred outside the Girls Degree College Dera Ismail Khan. Security forces have surrounded the college. Details awaited.Pic: A reporter walks past a damaged wall of the Army Public School,...
16:40
Gurgaon: Bomb scare at Huda City Center metro station, police deployed at the station complex.
16:35
Our leaders have a lot to learn from Malala Yousufzai. She is clearly one of the most powerful messengers in raising awareness about education. This award is not just for me. It is for those forgotten children who want education, her words reflect her deep concern for the millions who are out...
16:29
'@shazlicious Blaming India,US or Israel is useless. Blame the Extremist muslims.Blame the ones who support people like Hafiz Saeed & Lal Masjid.
16:24
Breaking down the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. Take a look.
16:15
Once you enter the gates of the school, there is a long straight road ahead of you, with a playground to the right of the road and the school wall to the left. Perhaps it would not seem so long now, 13 years later. In my mind's eye, the length of the road remains the same, but I struggle to...
16:03
Over a hundred people are dead, many of them children. Even in the terror-stricken context of Pakistan, this attack is shocking. Read
16:01
The main motive was revenge, of course. But the Nobel Prize to Malala Yousufzai also contributed to the Taliban's anger.' Ahmed Rashid, who first wrote about the Taliban, speaks exclusively on the Peshawar school attack with Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com. Read
15:58
Pakistan army chief General Raheel Sharif today dashed off to Afghanistan to seek the extradition of Taliban leader Mullah Fazlluah, whose group claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on an army school in Peshawar left 141 people, mostly children, dead. General Sharif told Afghan authorities...
15:13
The Afghan Taliban have condemned the attack on the Peshawar school in neighbouring Pakistan that left 141 dead in the country's bloodiest ever terror attack, saying killing innocent children was against Islam. Survivors said militants gunned down children as young as 12 during the...
14:53
The Anti-Hijacking Bill has been introduced in the Rajya Sabha amid ruckus. This is a comprehensive bill that provides for death punishment for the offence when it results in the death of a hostage or a security personnel. It also provides life imprisonment and confiscation of the moveable and...
14:48
Sudheendra Kulkarni @SudheenKulkarni If #Modi Govt doesn't stop RSS/VHP parivar from organising #Gharwapsi events,it will be Ghar Vapsi (back to pavilion) for #BJP and PM ModiMarvi Sirmed retweetedGen Raheel Sharif @PakArmyChief Enough is enough, now strict action should have been...
14:47
Sonia Faleiro @soniafaleiro Pity #SmritiIrani cancelled Christmas, just when Santa was set to deliver her new brain.
14:29
After almost 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush told world leaders that they were either with or against terrorists.Pakistan, a country riven by competing impulses in a violent corner of the globe, has remained a bit of both. The storming of a...
14:21
In the wake of the terror attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, the Indian government has asked all states to beef up security particularly in educational institutions. An advisory has been issued to the state governments, Home Minister Rajnath Singh told reporters outside Parliament House....
14:04
The front page of Pakistani newspaper, Dawn, today.
14:02
There is no political, economic or even humanitarian logic in the government seeking to bail out SpiceJet, the airline next headed for death row. Among other things, the Civil Aviation Minister, Ashok Gajapati Raju, has asked public sector banks to give the company working capital loans (of...
13:58
Flight services of cash-strapped SpiceJet were grounded this morning due to the oil companies refusing fuel supplies to the carrier for non-payment even as the airlines said it will resume operations by this evening. Not even a single SpiceJet flight could take off since this morning due to fuel...
13:55
Suspected Taliban militants detonated a suicide bomb then stormed a bank branch in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, Reuters reports.The militants engaged in a battle with security forces while an unknown number of civilians were inside, police said.A Reuters witness at the scene heard the...
13:25
Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif's statement after the all-party meet held today in the aftermath of the terror attack. Sharif said all parties are united in the fight against terror. Beginning the meet on a sombre note, flanked by other MPs, Sharif says, Yesterday's attack was the worst terror strike...
13:09
Advisory issued to state governments in the wake of terror attack on Peshawar school: Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
12:58
Pakistan lies. It hosted Osama bin Laden (knowingly or not). Its government is barely functional. It hates the democracy next door. It is home to both radical jihadists and a large and growing nuclear arsenal (which it fears the U.S. will seize). Its intelligence service sponsors terrorists who...
12:54
Congress, TMC, NCP and Left walk out from the Lok Sabha accusing the government of misleading the House on schools being told to remain open on Christmas Day. Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till 2 pm as opposition creates uproar demanding a reply by the PM to debate on communal violence.
12:44
Pakistan International Airlines crew has refused to operate flights to Peshawar, and United Arab Emirates' government has suspended all flights going to Peshawar.
12:37
Government buildings and Pakistani missions world over will have their flags lowered to half-mast for the three days of mourning and books of condolences will be opened. The Pakistan government has announced a three-day mourning in the aftermath of the massacre of 141 people including 132...
12:26
AIBA bans India's foreign boxing coach B I Fernandez for two years, clears national coach G S Sandhu. Boxer L Sarita Devi received a one-year ban from the International Boxing Association (AIBA ) for refusing to accept her bronze medal at the Incheon Asian Games in October.
12:22
Omar Khorsani has called repeatedly for the most barbaric of attacks. He is very adept on social media. He is, in other words, eerily similar to the ISIS leader Baghdadi.The crux of the Pakistan army's 'strategic asset' policy -- its policy of regarding militants as those that can help...
12:13
The Taliban attack on an army-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar shows a merciless disregard for human life and highlights the urgent need for protection of civilians in the area, a leading rights group has said. At least 141 people, mostly children, were killed when Taliban suicide...
12:10
Pakistani news channel Express News says the terrorists knew the entire layout of the school -- the location of the auditorium, classes of the older children, canteen -- and even that the kids were appearing for an exam.
12:01
I am a Muslim. But I do not belong to your idea of Islam. I also believe that you are not Muslims. This is for the simple reason that you just killed the idea of humanity by killing those innocent schoolchildren. ..Read Mohd Hussain Rahman's open letter to the Taliban. Pic: A policeman stands...
11:52
In other news, the Supreme Court has said that it will monitor the Indo-Bangladesh border fencing and the construction of border roads to prevent illegal migrants from Bangladesh. The SC has also directed the central government to expedite the discussions on the deportation of illegal migrants....
11:51
The International Boxing Association has banned boxer Sarita Devi for a year. AIBA has provisionally suspended India's woman boxer Laishram Sarita Devi for refusing to accept the bronze medal at the Asian Games podium ceremony. Protesting against a controversial verdict, Sarita in an...
11:48
@thekiranbedi tweets: War against terror in Punjab became non-sparing after terrorists started to kill police families-Will armed forces in Pak respond similarly.
11:44
Just in: Six foreign airlines refuse to fly over Peshawar.
11:40
Writer, columnist and the niece of former Pakistan PM Benazir Bhutto writes: There is no word for a parent who buries a child. No equivalent of widow or orphan in any language that I know, we do not have the language to describe a parent who lays his child into the earth before his time. So with...
11:31
There is no class 9 in the Army Public School any more. All the students except for this boy, Dawood (surname not known) were killed in the Peshawar attack. Dawood, 15, is the only survivor. Yesterday, DG ISPR Asim Bajwa, addressing a presser said that the terrorists who attacked the Army Public...
11:18
PM Modi joins parliamentarians in observing two-minute silence in memory of Pakistan school terror victims. Schools all over the country observed a two-minute silence on Wednesday morning to mourn the loss of the young lives after Taliban terrorists laid siege to a school in Pakistan and gunned...
11:15
Only a week ago, Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi won the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, an event celebrated all over the subcontinent. Malala gave an interview the same afternoon to Barkha Dutt of NDTV and me from Oslo. She announced that she would return to Pakistan in July 2015 and said...
11:00
Students who escaped the massacre in the Army Public School said that they had seen bodies of their friends and classmates strewn all over the school and most had received bullets in the head. Doctors say they were shot at point blank range. Of the 141 dead, 132 were students. A student who was...
10:33
The operation of some flights and trains were affected in the national capital on Wednesday, as the visibility was reduced to 700 meters due to fog.According to Northern Railway around 14 Delhi bound trains including Mahananda express, Lichchavi expresss, Purushottam express and Mahabodhi express...
10:17
Flight operations of cash-strapped SpiceJet were grounded today due to non-supply of jet fuel by oil marketing companies. Not even a single flight has taken off till this morning due to fuel supply issue with the oil companies, sources told PTI. The state-run oil marketing firms have not yet...
09:53
Extending its losses for the third straight day, the rupee fell by 34 paise to trade at fresh 13-month low of 63.87 against the dollar in early trade today as the US currency strengthened overseas amid increased capital outflows.
09:36
Two car bombs exploded in a city in central Yemen on Tuesday afternoon, killing more than two dozen people, including at least 15 children returning home from school, according to a witness and Yemeni officials.The city, Rada, has been a flash point for the armed conflict...
09:33
NDTV reports:A seven-year-old boy died on Tuesday after being beaten brutally in a school in Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, allegedly by his teacher. Araj, a nursery student, was allegedly thrashed for not doing his homework and not paying the school fee.Senior police officer MP Singh said at around...
09:18
This morning's horrific news came from Pakistan. Taliban militants stormed a school in Peshawar, killing at least 145. Children were gunned down in their classrooms, or as they attempted to flee. Teachers and other staff members were murdered in cold blood.Several months ago we watched in horror...
08:30
Attacks against journalists have grown more barbaric in 2014 as 66 reporters were killed and kidnappings soared, a leading media rights group said.In its annual report published on Tuesday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said there was an an evolution in the nature of violence against...
08:19
US President Barack Obama will sign into law a bill passed by Congress to tighten sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine, the White House has said, amid a dramatic run on the ruble. The president does intend to sign the bill, spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters yesterday,...
02:49
A former Marine suspected of killing his ex-wife and five of her relatives has been found dead in the woods near his suburban Philadelphia home after a day-and-a-half manhunt that closed schools and left people on edge.District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said on her official Facebook page that...
01:52
Tuesday's slaughter, carried out by six Taliban terrorists, in Peshwar is the single worst terror attack in the country's history and one of the most brutal assaults on a school anywhere. Even in conflict-ravaged Pakistan, it seems an unprecedented act.The Pakistani Taliban emerged around 2007 as...
01:52
Two top American diplomats would visit India later this week to participate in the sixth round of US-India-Japan trilateral meeting. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Nisha Desai Biswal and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Russel...
01:46
The Pakistan military has launched massive air strikes in its remote border region against the Taliban in retaliation for the massacre in a Peshawar school on Tuesday morning that left at least 141 dead, 132 of them children.In a post on Twitter, Pakistan army chief Gen Raheel Sharif said:...
01:03
They began the day in their school uniforms, they ended it in burial shrouds.On the morning of December 16, 2014, it was exam time at the Army Public School in Peshawar and most of the students were inside the examination hall where they would take their tests.The night before, there must have...
01:00
Its been a tough month for fact-checking. Mondays edition of New York magazine includes an irresistible story about a Stuyvesant High senior named Mohammed Islam who had made a fortune investing in the stock market. Reporter Jessica Pressler wrote regarding the precise number, Though he...
00:59
Author Bina Shah writes for Guardian: Last week I wept with pride as Malala Yousafzai collected her Nobel Peace prize in Oslo, next to Kailash Satyarthi. The world stopped to listen as she gave her acceptance speech, in which she said:It is time to take action so it becomes the last time,...
00:58
Ending days of stand-off, Dharam Jagaran Samiti, a western UP-based Hindutva group, has called off its controversial conversion programme scheduled for December 25 in Aligarh.Satya Prakash Nauman, district president of the outfit, today said over phone,The proposed 'ghar wapsi'(conversion...
00:57
8-hour Pakistan school siege ends; 132 kids among 141 deadModi appeals for 2 minutes of silence in schools for Peshawar victims'I put my tie in my mouth so I wouldn't scream'Good Governance Day: Govt wants it wrapped up before Christmas breakDecember 16 gang rape: 2 years on, nothing has changed,...
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