23:33
Vinita Kamte, the widow of IPS officer Ashok Kamte, killed in 26/11 terror attack, today apprehended the matter surrounding the discrepancies in crucial call records of the 59-hours siege in 2008 provided to her would be put on the backburner under the watch of new Mumbai police...
23:04
The Aam Aadmi Party today formed a unit in Mizoram with the announcement of its adhoc leaders. Addressing a press conference, AAP national executive member in-charge of the northeast, Habung Payeng, announced the names of Lalthanzami and former IAS officer S L Sailo as the state unit's...
22:56
A 19-year-old Indian-origin student of the Southern Illinois University has gone missing with his family offering a reward of $15,000 for information leading to his recovery.Pravin Varughese, originally from Morton Grove, was last seen about 11 pm on Wednesday in Carbondale, Illinois, police...
22:28
Our correspondent in New Delhi says: The Bharatiya Janata Party has moved 33 amendments in the Lok Sabha on the Telangana Bill to the secretariat.The Bill will be taken up for discussion at 12:30 pm tomorrow.
22:10
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar today claimed the investigation into allegations of sexual assault against journalist Tarun Tejpal was another benchmark after that in the December 16 gangrape case in Delhi. This is a benchmark investigation after the (Delhi's)...
21:07
Congress is likely to finalise its candidates for the Lok Sabha elections after conclusion of the Parliament session on February 21. The party today began the process in this regard with the first meeting of its Central Election Committee...
20:17
Anti-government protesters today besieged the Government House in the Thai capital to prevent caretaker Premier Yingluck Shinawatra from working there, even as the Election Commission and ministers failed to strike a deal on holding elections to 28 seats in parliament.
19:59
The Nepal government today formed a commission to investigate the crash of a Nepal Airlines aircraft that killed all 18 people on board. The four-member commission, headed by former Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) Director General Tri Ratna Manandhar, was given 60 days to submit its...
19:40
Aam Aadmi Party founder and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said his party is against crony capitalism not capitalism. He also said it is not the job of the government to do business, rather it should focus on governance. We are not against capitalism, but we are against...
19:35
AAP's Kumar Vishwas will unveil his 'Mission Amethi' in front of party volunteers on Tuesday at the Maneeshi Inter College, Gauriganj, Amethi at noon. The program shall be attended by lead strategist of AAP from USA, Mumbai, Delhi and other places. Aam Aadmi Party...
19:13
Iran's top decision-maker Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said today that while he is not against a resumption of nuclear negotiations with the world's major powers, the talks will lead nowhere. Some of the officials of the previous government as well as the officials of this government think the...
19:10
Italy's Matteo Renzi was today nominated to be the European Union's youngest prime minister and immediately outlined an ambitious reform plan, promising energy, enthusiasm and commitment to revitalise the eurozone's third largest economy. The 39-year-old mayor of Florence said his first...
19:09
Six members of a vaccination team, including a doctor working for the WHO and three security personnel, were kidnapped by militants while administering polio drops to children in Pakistan's restive northwest today. The incident occurred in Ping area of Frontier Region Tank, a semi-tribal...
19:07
Days after US Secretary of State John Kerry asked Chinese leaders to support Internet freedom, Beijing today retorted by asking why he did not mention whistleblower Edward Snowden in a meeting with its bloggers. Dismissing Kerry's call to support internet freedom as naive, Chinese Foreign...
18:42
The fate of three death row convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case will be sealed tomorrow when the Supreme Court will pronounce its verdict on their plea for commutation of their sentence to life imprisonment on ground of delay in deciding their mercy plea. The judgement will be delivered...
18:37
The Goa police will request the court to hold the trial on a day-to-day basis in the rape case involving Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal. The state police today charged Tejpal with rape, sexual harassment and outraging modesty of a woman journalist in a lift of a five-star hotel in Panaji in...
18:34
YSR Congress Chief and Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy along with his supporters has been detained from Jantar Mantar while he along with his supporters was protesting against the Centre's decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh. The protest by Jagan and nearly his 4,000 supporters in Delhi comes...
18:21
In a relief to actor Salman Khan, the Bombay High Court today quashed proceedings against him in a magistrate's court on a private complaint seeking contempt action for posting court orders on his website concerning his criminal cases.
18:13
The finance minister presented the Vote on Account estimates before the Parliament today. It was an electoral imperative for him to attempt to repackage the 10 years of the UPA. He is faced with a harsh reality. He inherited an 8.5 percent GDP growth rate. He exits on a 4.5 percent GDP...
17:56
TDP and Seemandhra MPs have objected to Tamil Nadu Congress MPs JM Haroon, Congress MP S Alagiri and P Viswanathan standing like SPGs near P Chidambaram whenever he enters the House. They want to know why Speaker Meira Kumar was not taking note of this security ring.
17:51
Finance Minister P Chidambaram also used the last budget of the UPA government to take a swipe at BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. My mother and Harvard taught me the value of hard work, Chidambaram said while presenting the interim budget.Modi had, at a rally in...
17:50
In Parliament today, BJP leader and a former finance minister in the NDA government, Yashwant Sinha, said that the budget speech was written to primarily reply to Narendra Modi.In an apparent reference to Chidambaram's 2009 victory in Lok Sabha polls from Sivaganga after a recounting of votes,...
17:45
Anti-Telangana politician Jagan Mohan Reddy today courted arrest as he marched towards Parliament to protest against the creation of the new state by dividing Andhra Pradesh. The Telangana bill will be taken up in Parliament tomorrow and the government is determined to get it passed, even in the...
17:44
BJP has put conditions to support the Telangana Bill. This comes after Seemandhra ministers visited LK Advani on Monday morning. The BJP is keen that the government takes up the issue with opposition parties and discusses it with stake holders as well. The BJP wants these addressed: Why was the...
17:30
Tavleen Singh: The word from Kejriwal's CII audience is that he sounded more liberal in his economic views than Narendra Modi. Wow!
17:29
BJP senior leader LK Advani says that the BJP supports the Telangana Bill. The Telangana Bill will be taken up for debate at 12:30 pm tomorrow for four hours. Speculation is rife that there will be high drama inside and outside Parliament (near the Gandhi statute). Apparently, five suspended...
17:17
Narendra Modi's tweet in reaction to Chidambaram's interim budget: I welcome the decision on 'One Rank, One Pension' for our servicemen. Belated wisdom finally dawns on our 'hard working' UPA ministers.
17:11
In other news: The Supreme Court today extended till February 24 the interim bail to former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani, convicted in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case, but made it clear that it won't be further extended if she fails to file an affidavit stating the kind of burn injury she...
17:09
Also seen while the PC read out his speech:NCP chief Sharad Pawar was seen rubbing a spot on his right hand and applying balm. Parliamentary Affairs minister Kamal Nath whipped a canister of a spray, while Chidambaram was talking. No, not pepper spray, but some kind of a mouth freshener. Kamal...
16:57
After reading out the interim budget, finance minister P Chidambaram had hoped that Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh or Sonia Gandhi would come to his seat and congratulate him for the successful presentation of the Budget. Not only did that not happen, the customary handshake or pat on the back...
16:53
SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav apparently wrote a half-page note to Sonia Gandhi in the Lok Sabha when P Chidambaram was reading out the interim finance budget. The note, which was handed over to Sonia by MP Sailendra, asked that the suspension order on the 16 Andhra MPs in the aftermath of the...
16:48
Our sources tell us that Sonia Gandhi angrily asked BJP's M Venkaiah Naidu why the party went back on its assurance to support the Telangana Bill. This happened in Central Hall today when they bumped into each other. Clearly not to one to take a browbeating, Naidu said that the UPA Cabinet...
16:42
Ten days after refusing to stay the tabling of the Telangana Bill in Parliament, the Supreme Court today once againg dismissed two petitions challenging division of Andhra Pradesh. The apex court said it cannot take a different stand and different view from what it had taken on February 7 while...
16:35
When asked to outline the party's economic policy, Arvind Kejriwal says honest politics is AAP' policy. We need to encourage business, we have to simplify the system, Need to move away from representative democracy to direct democracy at the local level.
16:29
Arvind Kejriwal in defensive mode: Party completely disagrees with Prashant Bhushan's comments on need to nationalise key sectors.Prashant Bhushan had said that their political party would adopt a socialist-type' economic policy, but would not be totally against private sector participation.
16:26
Kejriwal says:-- We have possibly the best economist leading the country today. But are people happy? -- The best of economic policies simply remained on paper. They never got implemented. There was no honesty. -- The government claims they've brought about development. Development is done by...
16:06
Kejriwal says business should be left to the private sector. The government can't give jobs to all. Jobs must come from the private sector. Govt policies driving business away.
16:04
Former Delhi CM addressing a CII meet at a five-star hotel in Delhi. The meet is basically to put forth the AAP's economic agenda. Quick look at what he has said so far:Kejriwal says that if corruption ends prices will come down. Centre didn't bother to look into issues of industries in DelhiThe...
15:52
Contrary to the common belief, Vijayawada MP L Rajagopal's spray can did not contain either pepper or chilli powder.What he used in the Lok Sabha in an act that left fellow MPs in tears and the entire House red-faced is a chemical substance banned in war.The chemical is called capsaicin, derived...
15:48
A new coffee table book offers a rare look inside the well-guarded, high-walled complexes that house New Delhi's diplomatic community. German author Gladys Abankwa-Meir-Klodt spent two years researching and seeking permission to access the embassies of Chanakyapuri -- the Indian capital's...
15:27
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today criticised the central government on the interim budget, saying it was an election gimmick. It was possible to fool some people, but not all the people, Banerjee said replying to the debate on the governor's address in the Assembly. Noting that the...
15:15
Olympians are reportedly taking their Tinder use to the next level at the Sochi Games. Does having sex hurt their performance? Read
15:11
The Left Front in West Bengal would announce its candidate list for the Lok Sabha election in the state this month, LF chairman Biman Bose said today.Bose said the names of all 42 candidates would be announced shortly. Reacting to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's remark that opposition members...
15:04
Former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to address a CII meet today where he will be outlining AAP's economic policy. In the 49 days in power, Kejriwal has largely been seen as anti big industrial houses.
14:58
The long-standing demand of ex-servicemen for 'one-rank, one-pension' was accepted by the government today with Finance Minister P Chidambaram making an announcement in this regard in the interim budget. Presenting the interim budget, Chidambaram said the government would transfer Rs 500 crore...
14:56
French prosecutor rules out any criminal wrongdoing in Michael Schumacher's skiing accident. Formula One legend Michael Schumacher's catastrophic skiing accident may have been made worse by the camera attached to his helmet at the time of impact. French investigators are looking into the theory...
14:42
A metal detector was today installed in front of Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari's office in Parliament today after he wondered why is he exempt from usual checks that all others are subjected to. The Chairman made the remark as he walked into his office this morning. The Secretary...
14:31
The Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs has described the fame he has endured since the discovery of his 'God particle' as a bit of a nuisance' -- but admitted that it his was his work that kept him alive' during the breakdown of his marriage. Read
14:25
A co-pilot on an Ethiopian Airlines flight bound for Rome hijacked the airliner early Monday morning and flew it to Geneva looking for asylum.The man, an Ethiopian man in his early 30s, was arrested when the plane landed at Geneva International Airport, police said. Passengers and crew aboard the...
14:12
Rahul Gandhi asks opposition parties to fix a date to pass bills on which there is general consensus.
14:03
In Nagpur, where AAP has chosen to air-drop prominent leader Anjali Damania of Mumbai to contest against former BJP president Nitin Gadkari, a local supporter called Rupa Kulkarni said, The AAP cabinet of Nagpur had approached me over the last two months to convince me to contest elections...
13:46
Breaking news at this hour:Supreme Court extends by one more week interim bail of former minister and a convict in Gujarat riots case Maya Kodnani.Supreme Court refuses to interfere with Telangana Bill, says let Parliament decide first.
13:44
Finance Minister P Chidambaram today made a veiled attack on Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal, telling them neither populism nor individualism is an alternative way of governance and expressed confidence that people will entrust responsibility to a hand that works for equity. Chidambaram...
13:31
Narmada Bachao Aandolan (NBA) leader Alok Agarwal, who has been named as the AAP nominee from Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa constituency for the Lok Sabha election, has said that there is a strong possibility of his party emerging as a third force in the state. Be it the BJP or Congress, both the...
13:26
With the navy having contracted a US-based firm to salvage its submarine that sank last August in Mumbai, the defence establishment is now watching the technology that will play out in the Western Naval Command to recover the boat. Read
13:24
All 18 people, including an infant and a foreigner, aboard a Nepal Airlines plane that crashed into the side of a snow-clad mountain in the country's west have been killed, authorities said today. The 19-seater Twin Otter carrying 15 passengers and three crew members lost contact with air...
13:17
Sometimes, the end is foretold at the beginning. Arvind Kejriwal was quite reluctant to assume office as Chief Minister of Delhi, and the lack of a majority of its own for his Aam Aadmi Party seemed only part of the reason. Read
13:03
Dr Manmohan Singh's first statement after P Chidambaram's budget speech. I congratulate the FM for presenting a well balanced vote on account portraying a realistic picture of the economic situation in the country. The Finance Minister has aptly summarised the economic and social achievements of...
12:59
Finance minister P Chidambaram on Monday allocated an additional Rs 1,000 crore to the Nirbhaya Fund for the safety and empowerment of women.In order to make it clear that the (Nirbhaya) fund will be a prominent fund, I intend to declare the grant of Rs 1,000 crore as non-lapsable and in...
12:56
The Goa police filing the chargesheet says there is sufficient evidence on record to show that Tejpal had evaded arrest following the complaint.
12:51
The chargesheet has taken cognizance of the victim's statement and Tejpal's apology letter to her as the primary evidence, along with emails between the victim and the Tehelka management. Divided into 12 volumes, it has over 400 pages on the CCTV footage obtained from the premises of the...
12:49
Former Tehelka chief Tarun Tejpal charged by Goa police with rape of a woman colleague. Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal, who has been accused of sexually assaulting a junior colleague, was chargesheeted for all offences that he has been booked for, including for rape under the new Criminal Law...
12:39
The Sonepur cattle fair's main 'nocturnal attractions' were racy shows. Thousands queued to see dancing girls. Read more
12:33
'In theory, yes, Hindus are very open. I'm one of them. I've coined the phrase 'open architecture'.''But I think the Wendy Doniger group is not allowing open architecture. They are closing this architecture.'They are bringing a point of view in such a heavy-handed way that it tends to dominate...
12:26
So, why did Arvind Kejriwal really quit the CM's post? At 11am tomorrow, Kejriwal will take questions in a live chat on Rediff.com. Be there.
12:19
It's confirmed. An Ethiopian Airlines plane en route from Addis Ababa to Rome has been forced to land in Geneva after being hijacked, Swiss police say. One hijacker has been arrested. The airline said in a statement that all passengers and crew were safe.There are no injuries, and the police say...
12:15
An Ethiopian Airlines plane en route from Addis Ababa to Rome has been forced to land in Geneva, after unconfirmed reports of a hijacking.A spokesman at Geneva airport told Reuters news agency a hijacked aircraft had arrived at the airport.The airline said in a statement all passengers and crew...
12:07
Social activist Anna Hazare on Monday said he would campaign for Trinamool Congress in the Lok Sabha elections if West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee agrees to work on a 17-point nationalist programme suggested by him. I wrote a letter to every party asking them whether they are...
11:57
There was a dull predictability to Arvind Kejriwal's resignation last week. The man had never wanted to become chief minister of Delhi. But when the Congress offered unconditional support, he had no choice but to form a government. Otherwise the BJP's slogan, 'A vote for AAP is a wasted vote'...
11:53
Kavita Krishnan tweets: Modi's 'single so can't be corrupt' falsely implies that corruption is to benefit families. Worst corruption has been to benefit corporates.Here's the reference.
11:49
Some Union ministers from Seemandhra region of Andhra Pradesh today met L K Advani seeking BJP's support for a package for the region following the decision to create a separate Telangana state. The Congress ministers were accompanied by BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu in their meeting with Advani at...
11:46
The Goa High Court will hear Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal's bail application on Tuesday. Tejpal has been accused of sexually assaulting a junior colleague during a fest in Goa and has since been in jail. A court has allowed him to be present physically in the high court during...
11:39
President Pranab Mukherjee accepts the Union Cabinet's recommendation of Central rule in Delhi after Arvind Kejriwal's government resigned last week. The Union Cabinet decided on Saturday to impose President's Rule in Delhi and keep the assembly in suspended animation, accepting the two...
11:35
BJP's prime ministerial pick Narendra Modi on Sunday underlined his de facto single status, saying such a person alone can effectively take on corruption. Mere liye na koi aagey, na peechhey. Kiske liye bhrashtachaar karunga? (I've no familial ties. Who would I ever try to benefit through...
11:31
Shiv Aroor tweets: Not even by mistake does Lok Sabha TV cut to the Telangana hecklers in Parliament. Obedient chaps.
11:29
The Arvind Kejriwal government's bonanza to about 24,000 consumers who defaulted on power bills in response to AAP's 'Bijli-Paani Andolan' may turn out to be an empty promise. The Rs 6 crore needed for the 50% waiver was not accounted for in the appropriation bill passed by the Delhi...
11:26
YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, in Delhi today to protest against the creation of Telangana, has told NDTV that his party will support Narendra Modi if the BJP helps keep Andhra Pradesh united. Read
11:19
In a change of plans, the finance minister is reading out his budget from the Parliament. Details here
11:07
The finance minister will make his budget speech from the Lok Sabha studio.
11:06
Shares of power companies gained after activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal resigned as chief minister of Delhi on Friday, frustrated by obstacles put in the way of an anti-corruption bill. Reliance Infrastructure rose 0.4 per cent, while Tata Power Company traded up 2.6 per cent.
11:04
This is the first time in the history of the Indian Parliament that the finance minister has not read out the budget. Chidambaram will make his speech outside Parliament.
11:02
The finance minister has tabled the budget on the floor of the house, which means he will not read out the budget speech.
10:57
Finance Minister P Chidambaram will present an interim budget for the coming fiscal year today. Parliamentary Affairs minister Kamal Nath says that even if the house is disrupted, the finance minister can make the statement to a TV station. Chidambaram is presenting his ninth budget today,...
10:51
Huge security inside the Parliament complex today after Thursday's pepper spray fiasco. At least 250 plainclothes policemen have been deployed inside the corridors of Parliament.
10:49
Sources in the government tell us that the Telangana Bill will lapse since the government is not keen on a debate. A union minister, who did not wish to be named, said that the BJP has ditched the bill and reneged from its promise to support the Telangana Bill. The UPA wants the new government to...
10:03
Two metro stations Central Secretariat and Udyog Bhawan -- will remain shut from 9 to 5 pm on Monday, in view of the protests and demonstrations by the Seemandhara and Telangana activists in Delhi, an officials said.Due to security reasons, as advised by the Delhi Police, two metro stations will...
09:30
Finance Minister P Chidambaram will present an interim budget for the coming fiscal year on Monday. He will also seek Parliament's approval for expenditure through vote-on-account, which will allow the government to cover its expenditure beyond the current fiscal. By tradition, the...
09:27
The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the bail plea of former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani, convicted in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case. A bench of justices H L Dattu and S A Bobde on February 13 asked her to file an affidavit stating the kind of burn injury she had suffered following...
08:28
US investigators have been taking samples at a New Mexico underground nuclear waste site where airborne radiation was detected, though authorities stressed they had found no contamination. Officials monitoring the possible radiation leak said there was no danger to people or the environment...
08:27
However, the government is also worried about the Telangana-triggered interruption in the House. While the Railway Budget was reduced to a mere 14-minute show, people across the country await Congress-led UPA's last minute attempts to woo the voters ahead of polls.By tradition, the interim...
08:27
Finance Minister P Chidambaram will present the interim budget for 2014-15 in Parliament on Monday.Along with the budget, the Finance Minister will present a vote-on-account to seek Parliament's sanction for spending till July.Also, unlike a regular budget, the interim one does not have any new...
08:27
Italian leftist leader Matteo Renzi is to be nominated Italy's youngest-ever prime minister today after a daring power grab that has been welcomed by investors but has left many Italians sceptical.As head of the Democratic Party, Renzi engineered the ouster of his predecessor Enrico Letta- a...
08:06
As the UPA government gears up for the passage of Telangana Bill in Parliament this week, the two sides of the regional divide in Andhra Pradesh have stepped up efforts in support of their respective agendas. Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSR Congress will hold a dharna in Delhi on Monday against...
08:04
The Goa police will file a chargesheet today against Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal who was accused of sexually assaulting his woman colleague last year.Tejpal (50) has been accused of raping the woman in a lift at a hotel in Goa during Tehelka's ThinkFest in November 2013.The high-profile...
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