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BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today sought a massive mandate for Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha polls, saying he is an embodiment of Hindutwa and economic progress. Now he (Modi) is the embodiment of the Hindutwa and economic progress and we sould go to all our areas and ensure he gets...
22:12
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said the Indian government had ignored development of pilgrimage places in the country as tourism destinations for the sake of distorted secularism. Speaking at a 'Pranpratishthan Mahotsav' at the pilgrimage town of Ambaji in Gujarat's Banaskantha...
22:10
Union minister Jairam Ramesh and BJP leader Amit Shah today sparred over 2002 riots in Gujarat with the former suggesting that the Ahmedabad court, which accepted the clean chit given to Narendra Modi by SIT, might be under the influence of the state government.
21:48
US Secretary of State John Kerry today welcomed new high-level talks between North and South Korea, while warning Pyongyang against trying to derail an upcoming South Korea-US military exercise. Kerry, in Seoul to discuss North Korea's nuclear programme at the start of an Asia tour, stressed...
21:38
Vodafone Group and Bharti Airtel won critical wireless telecom spectrum in metros like Delhi and Mumbai and several other cities in an intensely fought 10- day auction that gave the government over Rs 61,162 crore, far exceeding its own target. Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio Infocomm, which...
21:38
Vodafone Group and Bharti Airtel won critical wireless telecom spectrum in metros like Delhi and Mumbai and several other cities in an intensely fought 10- day auction that gave the government over Rs 61,162 crore, far exceeding its own target. Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio Infocomm, which...
21:24
An Indian airliner was today forced to make an emergency landing in Malaysia after a suspicious package found in a toilet triggered a bomb scare though it later turned out to contain three gold bars. The IndiGo flight from Singapore to Chennai carrying 145 people was diverted to Kuala Lumpur...
21:20
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is expected to present a pro-people budget in the Assembly tomorrow, as he braces himself for a major popular test in the Lok Sabha polls whose outcome may have a bearing on his standing within the ruling Congress. For a seasoned hand with an enviable...
21:05
British counter-terrorism police today said they were dealing with a series of suspect packages sent to a string of armed forces recruitment offices. Bomb disposal units have been called to deal with the packages, sent to at least six offices in southeast England, with police sources saying...
21:04
Afghan President Hamid Karzai today said Washington should respect his country's judicial authority after the release of 65 alleged Taliban fighters triggered US condemnation. Afghanistan is a sovereign country. If the Afghan judicial authorities decide to release the prisoners, it is of no...
20:26
Terming Ambassador Nancy Powell's meeting with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi an internal corrective of the United States, BJP today attacked the government for the failure of its foreign policy that led to some countries deciding not to deal with him.
20:13
In what has to be the irony of ironies, the expelled Congress MP L Rajgopal--the man who shot to infamy after he unleashed a can of pepper spray in Lok Sabha--once wanted stringent steps to curb unruly behaviour in Parliament. Rajgopal had successfully introduced a private members bill in...
20:13
The Cabinet Committee on Security has cleared a proposal worth over Rs 1,800 crore for procuring night-vision equipment in a bid to enhance performance of the Army's tank fleet at night. The Army's proposal for procuring TIFCS (Thermal Imaging Fire Control System) for the T-90 and T-72 tanks...
20:03
YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy has called for a bandh in Andhra Pradesh on Friday against the creation of Telangana, NDTV reports.
19:27
Just in: The Lok Sabha secretariat has clarified that 16 MPs have been suspended over today's ruckus over the Telangana Bill.
18:41
Good time to read Pritish Nandy's column on the power of disruption. Read
18:33
Keshubhai Patel (86), who submitted his resignation before the Speaker of Gujarat assembly today, said this in a statement: Due to (old)age and physical inability I have not been able to actively give justice to my responsibilities as Visavdar MLA, therefore I accept moral responsibility and...
18:27
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said the 15th Lok Sabha was going to enter the record books but for no good reason, apparently referring to the unruly scenes in the Lower House of Parliament over the Telangana issue. So the 15th Lok Sabha is going to be one for the record...
18:16
In a distressing pattern that has come to define the fate of publishing in India, another book whimsically determined to have transgressed cultural sensitivities, has been withdrawn from circulation. Bowing to the diktats of a Delhi-based Hindutva group, Penguin Books India has agreed, in an...
18:14
YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy has charged that Congress president Sonia Gandhi had 'behaved worse than German dictator Adolf Hitler and that her actions, which had led to such trouble in Andhra Pradesh, reflected in Parliament on Thursday. Read
18:13
Devdutt Pattanaik responds to the decision by Penguin to withdraw and pulp Wendy Doniger's book The Hindus: An Alternative History. Read
18:12
Three MPs were today rushed to a hospital in Delh as they complained of choking and burning eyes after a pepper spray attack by a member during introduction of Telangana Bill in Lok Sabha while another MP was admitted for a heart condition after he collapsed following the fracas. The pepper spray...
18:10
Despite Narendra Modi's chai, Arvind Kejriwal seems to have more in his social cup. Here is why. Read
17:45
Sunetra Choudhury tweets: My friend a bureaucrat from andhra just called to say they're calling L Rajagopal `Bhagat Singh' back there. Alright, then!
17:42
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal says the chaos in the assembly today clearly shows the nexus between the BJP and the Congress. Reading out the riot act, Kejriwa said the Congress and the BJP are hand-in-glove with each other and what happened today shows match fixing. The Congress is not supporting the...
17:33
T S Sudhir: When 3 states were formed, laddoos were distributed in both parent state and new state. 14 years on, pepper spray has replaced laddoo in AP.
17:25
Jyllands Park zoo says it may kill male giraffe to make way for female, days after death at Copenhagen zoo sparked outcry. Read
17:19
While bifurcation is a painful issue for many, one must understand it is the way forward, Union Minister of State for Finance J D Seelam tells Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa. Read
17:17
How do we get to a situation where it's alright for soldiers to go scot-free after committing premeditated murder? An essay on Kashmiri killings. Read
17:10
A Congress MP tells Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt the Congress plan to protect the Speaker and home minister and provide muscle to push through the tabling of the Telangana bill in Parliament. Read
17:08
Tunku Varadarajan on the Wendy Doniger issue. A militant Hindu once hurled an egg at the author as she lectured in London. He missed. Read
17:02
In a blow to Italy's attempt to internationalise the case of two Italian marines being tried in India for killing two fishermen, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked Rome to resolve the issue bilaterally. It's better for the question to be addressed bilaterally, rather than with the...
16:48
BJP senior leader Arun Jaitley's blog of the day, this time of the horror in Parliament. Read
16:43
Citing a 1995 judgement by a Supreme Court bench on Hindutva, the RSS today said the term Hindu terrorism was coined by certain sections with an objective to malign the image of RSS. To call Hindu a terrorist is a glaring contradiction. This term is floated only to malign this organisation, RSS...
16:37
While you digest Mr L Rajagopal's unapologetic statement, Anna Hazare has said that he will campaign for Mamata Banerjee during the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The TMC chairperson will meet Anna for talks in Delhi. Hazare said that although he sent a 17-point charter to all chief ministers in...
16:34
Unapologetic MP L Rajagopal says he will use pepper spray again if he is attacked. The Congress must realise its mistake in trying to bulldoze the passage of the bill, he said. Govt does not have the time to sit with its own MPs, they want to sit with the opposition, he says.
16:34
Congress MP L Rajagopal's first statement since he used pepper spray inside the Lok Sabha. Speaking to TV channels he said he always carries pepper spray for self defence. I used the pepper spray when I was attacked by TDP MPs. Pepper spray is not a lethal weapon. And if they have suspended me,...
16:16
The Aam Aadmi Party today fired a fresh salvo against Delhi's Lt Governor Najeeb Jung for not making public his association with Mukesh Ambani headed Reliance Industries.Attacking Jung over the Reliance Gas issue, party spokesperson Ashutosh said that Jung had worked with the Ambanis in the past...
16:10
US President Barack Obama has spent a whopping $ 1.55 million or Rs. 9.3 crore on five of his state dinners since 2009, with the most expensive of them being the first one hosted in honour of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.Records from the State Department Office of Protocol, whose budget covers...
15:59
Just in: Leaders of BJP, SP, BJD, CPI and TMC meet Lok Sabha Speaker saying they do not accept that Telangana bill was introduced.
15:42
Just in: Activist Medha Patkar has decided to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Yesterday, AAP said it was willing to extend its full support to Patkar if she contests the Lok Sabha polls. If she (Patkar) wants to contest Lok Sabha polls, our party will extend its support to her. Now it is...
15:36
Ratnakar Sadasyula tweets: So 18 MPs suspended, 3 from T region, and 15 from Seemandhra, very, very democratic.
15:34
Andhra Pradesh CM Kiran Kumar Reddy hits out at the PM. He said if the PM's heart was bleeding watching the disruption of Parliament proceedings, he should understand how crores of hearts are bleeding over the Telangana Bill. He said the Bill was introduced in an undemorcatic manner. Quitting is...
15:22
The seventh edition of the high-profile Indian Premier League could be shifted to South Africa due to the security concerns posed by the upcoming General Elections, the dates of which are clashing with the event. The Indian Premier League Authorities will be meeting Home Ministry officials next...
15:15
Lok Sabha adjourned till Monday.
14:57
Apparently resorting to a pacifier after the MNS agitation on toll collection, the Maharashtra government today assured party chief Raj Thackeray that it would draft a new policy on the issue before the model code of conduct for the Lok Sabha elections comes into force. Chavan also said that...
14:55
Lok Sabha set to resume at 3 pm. Get set for more drama or a quick adjournment. Or both.
14:54
The candidates contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha polls will now be able to spend Rs 40 lakh , an increase of Rs 15 lakh from the last poll expenditure limit.
14:51
The execution of Hashem Shabaani shows the pen can be mightier than the sword. Read Robert Fisk's column.
14:49
'The elections are still a few months away. The fascists are, thus far, only campaigning. Yes, it's looking bad, but they are not in power. Not yet. And you've already succumbed?' Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy writes an anguished open letter to her publishing house Penguin India, which...
14:44
In January author Henning Mankell was diagnosed with cancer in his neck and a lung. In the first of an occasional series he describes his initial shock, and the agonising wait for the treatment to start. Read
14:41
How Gandhi made it to the police headquarters in Germany. Read
14:40
It seems peculiarly abject and worrying when giant global publishers capitulate at the first sign of legal or extra-legal intimidation. Mukul Kesavan on Penguin pulping Wendy Doniger's Hindus
14:26
The Supreme Court today extended interim bail of former Gujarat minister and a convict in 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre case Maya Kodnani till Monday.Kodnani has filed the petition challenging the February 8 order of the Gujarat High Court declining to extend her three-month temporary bail...
14:24
TDP member K Narayana Rao rushed to RML Hospital as he collapsed in Lok Sabha after apparently consuming something, reports PTI.
14:20
Under India's labour laws, women engaged in informal work - such as domestic work - have few workplace rights. This makes it harder for women to have sustainable jobs, let alone a career. Read
14:19
The history of our freedom struggle is beginning to be more inclusive. Thanks to Jamia Millia Islamia which has just brought out a first-of-its-kind book on freedom fighters from Meghalaya. Read
14:17
We can be outraged by the racism in India only when we begin to accept that cultural and ethnic contamination is the overriding theme of our identity. Read
14:16
The Lok Sabha will reconvene at 3 pm. Till then, here are some other reads:Both Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal appeal to the popular in its raw and undiluted form. While Mr. Modi champions the majoritarian instinct in the popular, Mr. Kejriwal takes recourse to the symbolism of the aam...
14:12
Speaker Meira Kumar has suspended pepper-spray MP L Rajagopal, YSR chief Jagan Mohan Reddy and 15 other MPs involved in ruckus in Parliament today. The Lok Sabha has been adjourned till 3pm.
14:05
Rajya Sabha has been adjourned for the day. The Upper House saw uproarious scenes earlier in the day with members of TDP and AIADMK positioning themselves in the Well even before Chairman Hamid Ansari called the House to order. Opposing division of Andhra Pradesh, two TDP members carrying 'Save...
14:01
YSR Cong chief Jaganmohan Reddy questions the way Telangana bill was introduced in LS, says he will move court.
13:54
M Venugopal Reddy, the TDP MP from Seemandhra told Rediff.com that Jairam Ramesh, Rajiv Shukla and Kamal Nath were planting stories against him. He said he believes in Parliamentary democracy and would never ever carry a knife inside the Lok Sabha. He said he was carrying a broken mike and...
13:46
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar says she will consult leaders for initiating action against those involved in the fracas.But more importantly she raised doubts on whether the Bill had been tabled at all. Lok Sabha secretariat said Telangana Bill was introduced, but I don't think it was tabled. I...
13:35
Sushma Swaraj says what happened in Parliament is a Congress conspiracy.
13:29
The TDP MP who brandished a knife, now says he will complain as MPs beat him up in the House. The BJP and Sushma Swaraj says the Congress is solely responsible for what happened in the house today.
13:24
TDP MP Venugopal Reddy says he was waving a microphone, not a knife inside Parliament. Kamal Nath says action will be recommended to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on the issue. It is her prerogative to take action, he said. Speaker Meira Kumar emerges from Parliament looking disturbed. She says...
13:05
The smell of the pepper spray even felt outside the House, say MPs. The home minister has promised to take action against Rajagopal and other erring MPs.
13:02
CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta wants L Rajagopal arrested for using pepper spray in Parliament.
13:01
Union minister Kamal Natha said the government, Home Ministry and police will take action in accordance with the directions of the Speaker.
12:59
Amid all this chaos and anarchy, it was a blink and miss situation when the Telangana Bill was in fact tabled. But Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde confirms that the Bill was introduced and said it is now the property of the House.
12:56
Kamal Nath says he will recommend the strongest possible action against themembers to the Speaker. Speaking outside the Parliament House, he said, I am told that knives, pepper powder and other weapons were brought into the House.
12:49
Parliamentary Affairs minister Kamal Nath says the incident is a big blot on democracy, but when asked about how a knife and a pepper could have been got inside Parliament, he said MPs are not allowed to be frisked. Union Minister Rajiv Shukla said strong action would be taken against erring MPs...
12:41
A Parliament doctor was immediately rushed inside the Lok Sabha after the spray incident. The impact of the spray was so severe that mediapersons in the press gallery atop the Chair started coughing. And some more... A TDP MP Venugopal brandished a knife inside the House, but other MPs held him...
12:35
The pepper spray incident occurred despite unprecedented security in Parliament after a suicide threat by an MP.Fire extinguishers and blankets had been kept ready in Parliament after a Congress MP allegedly threatened to set himself afire to protest against Telangana. No visitors were allowed in...
12:30
TDP MP Venugopal Reddy breaks mike on Secretary General's table in Lok Sabha.Incidentally, L Rajagopal also smashed glass on the table.
12:29
Rajagopal had to be rescued by watch and ward staff after he was attacked by other members after the spraying.
12:29
MoS Home RPN Singh says the speaker has assured that appropriate action will be taken against Rajagopal. The MP had in fact said, before the session began today, that he would not allow the Bill to be tabled. In a 2011 Rediff.com report, Lagdapati Rajagopal declared that he owned total...
12:24
L Rajagopal, the MP from Vijaywada, who used the pepper spray, is also believed to have been injured. Three MPs were taken away in ambulances brought to the Parliament. Some MPs allegedly hit each other inside the Lok Sabha.MPs say they are saddened and it's unthinkable that this should have...
12:17
In the Rajya Sabha, Seemandhra MPs threw papers and snatched away the deputy chair's microphone.
12:16
Marshals had to be brought in as MPs came to blows in the Lok Sabha. MPs say they experienced severe coughing and a burning sensation in the eyes. Parliament has been adjourned till 2 pm.
12:14
The Telangana Bill tabled in Lok Sabha, but the House has been adjourned.In the LS, MP L Rajagopal is believed to have sprayed something like a pepper spray in the house leading to chaos. MPs were coughing and choking in the house. Marshals had to overpower MPs in the Lok Sabha. MPs do not have...
12:08
Veteran filmmaker Balu Mahendra passes away in Chennai. He was suffering from age-related diseases. Mahendra was born on 20 May 1939 in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka developed an interest towards photography at a very early age when his father had gifted him a camera. But his passion towards cinema...
11:58
Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt reports on External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid's first reactions to the US breaking bread with Narendra Modi on Thursday:I am not a visa officer of the US. The US is liberal, values human rights and we have a huge strategic commonality. Their assessment of any...
11:51
Even as the Telangana Bill is expected to be tabled in the Lok Sabha at noon today, four Congress MLAs from Seemandhra resign from the party.
11:48
Laxmi and Saraswati do not get along. Wise words from an old man who came to drink Narendra Modi's tea. Read more on Modi's Chai pe Charcha.
11:42
Both Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal appeal to the popular in its raw and undiluted form. While Modi champions the majoritarian instinct in the popular, Kejriwal takes recourse to the symbolism of the aam aadmi that is also constructed as a majority. Read more
11:34
Urban development secretary Sudhir Krishna has lodged a complaint against finance minister P Chidambaram for humiliating him at a high level meeting last Thursday. In a letter addressed to urban development minister Kamal Nath on the same day, Krishna said the incident took place at a meeting...
11:27
Both houses of Parliament adjourned till noon after uproar over Telangana and other issues.
11:22
The US has taken the first step to open its channels of communications with a leader it had so far refused to engage with, at least openly. Rediff.com's Upasna Pandey reports.
11:21
The US embassy's press release post the Narendra Modi meet. The US US Ambassador Nancy J. Powell today met with Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Gandhinagar. This meeting was part of the US Mission's outreach to senior leaders of India's major political parties in advance of the upcoming...
11:13
In a dramatic turnaround, Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government will not be tabling the Jan Lokpal Bill in the Delhi Assembly, reports said on Thursday. The report said that the AAP government will distribute the copies of the bill to all the lawmakers before tabling it. ...
11:08
Sparks did fly and the price for Yuvraj Singh did shoot up but the cash cannon did not boom as loud as it did in the head-spinning days three years ago. The first round of the IPL auction today clocked a record price for an individual with Bangalore scooping up Yuvraj for Rs 14 crore....
11:02
The Telangana Bill is to be tabled in the Lok Sabha today. In Andhra Pradesh, normal life was thrown out of gear in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions due to a bandh called against the Centre's move to table the Telangana Bill in Parliament today. The TDP, YSRCP activists and other united...
10:54
Unprecedented precautions are being taken in Parliament as the government decides on whether to introduce the controversial Telangana bill in the Lok Sabha today. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is meeting top ministers to discuss the tabling of the bill to create the new state by dividing...
10:39
Normal life was thrown out of gear in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions of Andhra Pradesh due to a bandh called against the Centre's move to table the Telangana Bill in Parliament today. The TDP, YSRCP activists and other united Andhra supporters held rallies at several places in the...
09:27
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday met Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray to find a way out over the MNS's protests on the issue of toll collection.Thackeray was detained on Wednesday for a short period after his party workers staged a rasta roko across Mumbai to...
09:18
Given the strategic relationship between India and the US and the strong business ties between the two countries, US President Barack Obama should care about creating jobs in both Bangalore and Buffalo and not only the latter, a former NASSCOM chairman told an American federal...
09:14
The US has identified Nehru Place and Gaffar Market in New Delhi, along with four others in India, as notorious markets in global piracy and violation of intellectual property rights. Manish Market and Lamington Road in Mumbai, and Chenoy Trade Centre and Hong Kong Bazar in Hyderabad are the...
09:11
The US India Business Council has urged New Delhi and America to take steps to strengthen the bilateral trade relationship to realise their true business potential. During his testimony before the US International Trade Commission on Trade,...
03:41
The government of embattled Italian prime minister, Enrico Letta, looked close to collapse as he dug in his heels in the face of an increasingly formidable threat to his premiership from the leader of his centre-left party. Letta insisted it was not in [his] DNA to break with the agenda of his...
03:40
He didn't like carpets, he banned portraits and enjoyed a cinema room in his dacha. Welcome to the former holiday home of Joseph Stalin -- the Soviet leader who helped make Sochi what it is today. Read the full story on CNN
03:38
Rand Paul v. Barack H. Obama. That's the name of a lawsuit the Kentucky senator announced Wednesday against President Barack Obama and national security officials over government surveillance. We don't do this out of disrespect to anyone we do this out of respect to the Constitution,...
03:36
A judge has set a November trial date for Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev, rejecting defence lawyer pleas for more time. The accused has pleaded not guilty to 30 charges, of which 17 carry the possibility of capital punishment. Prosecutors allege that the 20-year-old set...
00:25
At least 30 persons, including two police officers and four constables, were injured in a clash between protesters and security forces who fired in the air in south Assam's Cachar district tonight, police said. Five police women were missing since...
00:22
A catastrophic ice storm wreaking havoc in the American South is now poised to pummel the eastern seaboard, say forecasters. Some 140,000 people are without power in Georgia, Texas and North and South Carolina and 3,000 US flights have been cancelled due to ice and strong winds. Nearly...
00:18
Tihar inmates on hunger strike over new rule on meeting kinAAP to table Jan Lokpal Bill on Thursday despite Law Min's viewModi launches 'Chai pe charcha', commits to bring back black moneyCong gears up for poll campaigning, but why are its leaders sulking?Sena sharpens attack on Raj Thackeray...
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