22:47
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is likely to visit Odisha on March 31. Gandhi is scheduled to visit undivided Koraput district and address two public meetings in Nabarngpur and Koraput parliamentary constituencies, Congress MP Pradeep...
21:31
Controversial chief of right wing outfit Sri Ram Sene, Pramod Muthalik, today asked BJP's central leadership to retrace its hasty step of rejecting his membership within hours after he had joined the party. Muthalik, who membership was set aside by a red-faced BJP top brass after it raised a...
20:51
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has prima facie violated the Model Code of Conduct by his 'ink' remark, says the Election Commission. It asks Pawar to explain by 5 pm on Thursday failing which it will take a decision without further reference to him. Latest election updates on...
20:42
The Election Commission has asked the oil ministry to defer notification of new gas price from April 1. It says the matter is sub-judice.
19:55
Ukraine today ordered its outnumbered troops to withdraw from Crimea following the peninsula's lightning seizure and annexation by Russia in response to the fall in Kiev of a pro-Kremlin regime. The dramatic but seemingly inevitable announcement came after the fall of another Ukrainian base...
19:53
US President Barack Obama today vowed Western unity in punishing Moscow for annexing Crimea, ahead of crisis talks that could see Russia excluded from the G8 club of rich nations. In Ukraine itself, the country's acting president announced that its troops had been given orders to withdraw...
19:51
The co-pilot of the missing Malaysian plane had just completed his evaluation to fly the Boeing 777-200 plane and was flying for the first time without a check co-pilot monitoring his work, the airlines said today. Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27-year-old co-pilot who joined the airline seven year...
19:46
Smartphones are fast becoming means for terrorists to recruit people and communicate with each other, National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon said today. Addressing a seminar he said the same technology has been used for mobilisation and social protests by groups, including Aam Aadmi...
19:45
Prime Minister Najib Razak while addressing a press conference said that as per latest data Flight 370 flew along the southern corridor.He said that that the aircraft was lost and the conclusion was that the flight ended in the south of the Indian Ocean. There was no chance of any...
19:12
Malaysia's Prime Minister will make a live statement on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 at 10 p.m. (10 a.m. ET), he said Monday on Twitter.Prime Minister Najib Razak did not give any details of the statement.Also, two relatives of passengers aboard the missing airliner tell CNN they have...
19:06
An Australian navy ship steamed Monday night toward the remote spot in the Indian Ocean where a surveillance plane earlier spotted two objects that could be related to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.One object is a grey or green circular object, and the other is an orange rectangular...
19:01
Two Chinese family members of MH370 passengers say they've been asked to attend meeting in Beijing. An Australian navy ship steamed Monday night toward the remote spot in the Indian Ocean where a surveillance plane earlier spotted two objects that could be related to missing Malaysia...
18:47
TISS students expose UP govt's apathy for Muzaffarnagar riot-hit. Read
18:43
I am there (Amritsar) to fight the BJP candidate, whether it's Jaitley or Faitley or Footly, says Congress candidate Capt Amarinder Singh. The Congress is fielding former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh to take on BJP leader Arun Jaitley in Amritsar.
18:28
All the Prime Minister-in-Waiting's Men: Today's column by Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt. Read
18:19
An Australian navy ship was today close to retrieving several objects spotted in remote southern Indian Ocean by the international team hunting for the Malaysian jetliner, raising hopes of a breakthrough in the frustrating search for the plane that went missing 17 days ago.Australian and Chinese...
17:56
More of the no-holds-barred Jaswant Singh at his rally in Barmer today. I will not say goodbye till the party says goodbye, he said putting the ball on a possible expulsion firmly in the BJP's court. On other fronts, he was less diplomatic. NaMo NaMo ka jo tamasha hai (this circus around...
17:49
Photographer Jenny Mathews returns Rwanda to find genocide survivors she met 20-years ago. See
17:46
President Pranab Mukherjee has co-opted the services of T K Viswanathan as a consultant - on a contractual basis. Viswanathan, former secretary general of the Lok Sabha, has been asked to assist and render legal advice to the president on constitutionality and the formation of state government....
17:35
Apparently, the reason for Rahul Gandhi has moved out of the Congress War Room at 15, Gurudwara Rakabganj Road to 2, Tughlaq Lane - is now trickling out. Gurudwara Rakabganj Road apparently was not secure and inner-circle discussions and speculations, especially on the number of seats...
17:26
Union minister and Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee's election campaign in-charge Chiranjeevi welcomed his brother Pawan Kalyan's entry into politics. Chiranjeevi said that he would invite youth to enter politics for social justice. Replying to BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu's recent comment in...
17:23
Our sources in Delhi tell us that Priyanka Gandhi has taken control of the Congress campaign. Over the last 15 days, Priyanka has been attending meetings with Rahul Gandhi at the Tughlaq Lane bungalow. The siblings have been spending hours together till as late as 3 am to review events in the...
16:47
Christophe Jaffrelot on how Narendra Modi appeals to an urban class with eroding caste identities, increasing religiosity. Read
16:39
Bengal superstar Dev, a Trinamool candidate from the Ghatal constituency, when asked by a Bengali tabloid on whether he was enjoying the media glare on him, said, I feel like being raped, you can shout or you can enjoy.His comments have not gone down well with women activists who are now planning...
16:01
BJP candidate and sitting MP from Jhalawar-Baran Lok Sabha seat Dushyant Singh today filed his nomination papers from the constituency.Singh was accompanied by his mother, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, wife Niharika and thousands of party supporters when he filed his two sets of...
15:48
Filmmaker releases a dozen clips of controversial Modi speeches made just after the Gujarat riots. Read
15:47
The Malaysian authorities are giving another daily media briefing on the search operation. A ship maybe able to retrieve three objects spotted today by Tuesday. Two orange objects approximately one metre in length and one white drum were sighted by search aircraft, but remain unidentified and...
15:32
More than 30 relatives of passengers on missing flight MH370 have had to move hotels to make way for Formula One teams and fans arriving for the Malaysian Grand Prix. Thirty-two family members, including Chinese nationals, have been moved from two hotels near Kuala Lumpur's international airport,...
15:22
Ukraine's interim President Olexander Turchynov says he has ordered the withdrawal of armed forces from Crimea.The decision was taken because of Russian threats to the lives of military staff and their families, the president announced. Russian troops have seized most of Ukraine's bases in the...
15:17
Arvind Kejriwal's quip for the day: If Advani wants Modi to listen to him, he should drop v from his name.Kejriwal has questioned Narendra Modi's alleged links with the Adani Group, asking why the conglomerate was given acres of land at Rs 1 per square metre when the prevailing market rate was...
15:13
Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia files his nomination from Guna in Madhya Pradesh.
15:04
In India, more than 620 million people defecate in the open. That's practically half the population. The other half have become blind to the practice. So how do you get a blind population to open their eyes and see the big Poo Problem, asks UNICEF? India's first Poo Song - composed using...
14:58
Pramod Muttalik, the controversial chief of right wing outfit Sri Ram Sene, on Monday claimed it was Congress' conspiracy that had stalled his entry into BJP, which quashed his party membership within hours after opposition from within the party and also drew severe flak from other...
14:48
Jaswant Singh says he repents rejoining the BJP after he was expelled.In 2009, the BJP had expelled Singh from the primary membership of the party two days after the release of his book praising Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Follow the latest election updates on Twitter:...
14:37
Jaswant Singh addresses his first rally as an independent candidate at Barmer in Rajasthan. Earlier in the day, the senior BJP leader had filed his nomination from Barmer. Blaming Rajasthan CM and BJP president for his decision to run as an independent, Jaswant Singh says, Vasundhara Raje and...
14:20
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh today said the present state of affairs in BJP gave an impression that only their prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi prevails over everything in the party. The way in which things were happening in the BJP these days indicated that the party had no...
14:15
Nitin Gokhale tweets: Major decision: SC allows defence personnel to cast their votes at their place of posting but this is applicable to peace stations only.
14:08
BJP president Rajnath Singh tweets: Time For Change, Time For BJP. Bahut Hui Mehngai Ki Maar, Abki Baar Modi Sarkar.
14:06
A Mumbai court today is likely to sentence three men convicted last week for gang-raping a 23-year-old photojournalist at the defunct Shakti Mills in the heart of Mumbai in August last year.The trio, Mohammed Salim Ansari, Vijay Mohan Jadhav and Mohammad Qasim Hafiz Shaikh alias Kasim Bengali,...
13:59
Photojournalist gang-rape case: A Mumbai court has accepted Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam's application of framing of additional charges on the three common convicts in the photojournalist gang-rape case, for repeated offence under Section 376(e) of the IPC. The maximum penalty under...
13:53
Modi's wife, Rahul's girlfriend, Kejriwal's family among top political Google searches. Read
13:47
The Al-Minya Criminal Court began the largest ever trial of Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Egypt on Saturday. More than 1200 senior and mid-ranking members will stand trial on charges of attacking private and public properties. The charges are widely believed to be politically motivated and an...
13:41
A court in Egypt sentences to death 529 members of Muslim Brotherhood on charges including murder.
13:33
Despite promises made by various political parties to provide 33 per cent reservation to women candidates in the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled for April 9, only eight women are in the fray for the 60-member house.
13:29
Comedian Russell Brand and girlfriend Jemima Khan have fuelled rumours that they are engaged after she was spotted wearing a diamond ring. Jemima, 40, was seen wearing a diamond ring yesterday in east London and she apparently looked very happy, reported Daily Mirror. It looked like an engagement...
13:16
On Sunday, Plymouth, Britain-based Susmita Bhattacharya read her enchanting story Letters Home at a quaint Khar, Mumbai, store, Sanctum. The story was spawned by Susmita's time (8 years) at a centre in Cardiff, Wales, where immigrants from countries afar as Bangladesh, Iraq and Somalia...
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After struggling for years to find an agent or publisher, it was funny how the book was noticed by an editor through Facebook! Susmita wrote on her blog.I had had a short story, Growing Tomatoes, published in Planet-The Welsh Internationalist in 2012. Someone read it and commented...
12:59
So, BJP senior leader Jaswant Singh has filed his nomination papers from Barmer as an Independent candidate. A sulking Singh on Sunday dared his party and said that he is not a piece of furniture to be adjusted after polls. He has warned that the party will have to suffer the consequences...
12:44
BJP leader Mohan Kundariya, who is the Lok Sabha candidate of the party from Rajkot in Gujarat, has courted a controversy by walking over school children at a function. According to reports, the video was shot during a yoga camp. Several supporters of the politician are seen waving tricolour...
12:44
Author and senior journalist M J Akbar on Saturday joined the BJP in the presence of party president Rajnath Singh. Akbar said he had come back to politics with the BJP for its policies and work to bring the nation back into a recovery mission.Akbar, who was close to then Prime Minister Rajiv...
12:23
Former Union Minister and the Congress candidate for the Mayiladuthurai Lok Sabha seat, Mani Shankar Aiyar strongly believes that the good work done by him as an MP for the constituency over the past two decades will fetch him a comfortable victory in the upcoming polls. At a time when Congress...
12:07
AAP is struggling to find candidates for high-profile seats such as Rae Bareilly, Lucknow and Amritsar against Sonia Gandhi, Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley. The party has announced candidates for 339 constituencies and sources say as many as 400 nominees could be fielded in the coming days....
11:55
Upset over being denied a ticket, former Union minister and Vice President of BJP Kisan Morcha Subhash Maharia today decided to contest as an Independent from Sikar constituency in Rajasthan.Maharia's announcement comes close on the heels of party veteran Jaswant Singh's decision to fight as an...
11:49
What surprised me about last week's kerfuffle over Jaswant Singh was not so much that he failed to be included in the BJP's list of candidates but that he has survived in politics for as long as he has. Read Swapan Dasgupta's column on NDTV.
11:42
The Congress is pinning its hopes on Ghulam Nabi Azad, who has strong secular credentials and a good track record, to score big victories in Jammu and Kashmir. Read
11:38
The fact that education matters only in the long run makes it uninteresting for political parties. But in this election, the voice of education can be heard. Read
11:38
Amid speculation about him campaigning in favour of Narendra Modi after he endorsed the BJP's PM candidate, rebel DMK leader MK Alagiri is soon set to launch a statewide tour to hold consultations with loyalists across Tamil Nadu as he looks to galvanise them ahead of Lok Sabha polls. Sources...
11:31
A tale of two names dominated the starting credits at the first workers' convention of the Trinamul Congress candidate from Bankura. Amar porichoy di aami? Aajke toh aalaap korte eshechhi... (May I introduce myself? Today I am here to meet you for the first time),' said the lady Bengal knows...
11:12
Padamsinh Patil, NCP candidate in Osmanabad, is facing trial for the murder of his cousin and political rival. Read
11:07
Sunanda Pushkar's viscera report has brought back the possibility of foul play in the mysterious death of the 52-year-old businesswoman in a south Delhi luxury hotel on January 17 this year. Sources said the report not only rules out the presence of any poison in Sunanda's body but also...
10:52
Finance Minister P Chidambaram feels the current set of challenges cannot be wished away by its successor. Read
10:51
Chinese aircrew have spotted suspicious objects in the southern Indian Ocean in the search for vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the official Xinhua news agency said on Monday. The white and square objects were spotted by searchers aboard a Chinese Ilyushin-76 plane, it said. Read...
10:50
The world's second-largest standing Army is fast running out of ammunition. Tanks and air defence units, artillery batteries and infantry soldiers are all facing the crunch. The Army is, obviously, tight-lipped on the ammunition shortage. But a simple calculation reveals that at present, it...
10:37
Even as the search for MH370 continues, another Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur to Seoul has made an emergency landing in Hong Kong after a generator failed.Hong Kong's airport says firefighters were put on standby for the arrival of the Airbus A330-300, which landed without incident...
10:07
The benchmark BSE Sensex gained over 124 points in early trade today on sustained buying by funds and retailers amid a firming trend in other Asian markets. The 30-share barometer, which had gained 15.23 points in the previous two sessions, shot up by 124.18 points, or 0.57 per cent, to...
09:50
Maharashtra EC has asked for a copy of NCP chief Sharad Pawar's 'bogus voting' comment on a CD.The Union minister on Sunday asked his party workers to take advantage of the multi-phase polling in the state by voting twice, first at their hometowns and then at their places of work.Read more on...
09:40
BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is scheduled to hold a rally in Bihar's Saharsa on Monday. Elaborate security arrangement have been in place to ensure security for Modi, who was targeted during a previous rally in Patna in Bihar.Follow the latest election updates on...
08:53
Upset over denial of Lok Sabha ticket, a sulking Jaswant Singh on Sunday dared his party, saying he will file his nomination papers tomorrow from Barmer as an independent while asserting that he is not a piece of furniture to be adjusted after polls. He has also made it clear that the party...
08:48
Southern actor Akkineni Nagarjuna is scheduled to meet BJP's prime ministerial candidate candidate Narendra Modi in Ahmedabad today, fuelling speculation that he might join the BJP.The BJP has gone all out to string together as many alliances as possible ahead of the national election which is...
08:48
A Mumbai court today is likely to sentence three men convicted last week for gang-raping a 23-year-old photojournalist at the defunct Shakti Mills in the heart of Mumbai in August last year.The trio, Mohammed Salim Ansari, Vijay Mohan Jadhav and Mohammad Qasim Hafiz Shaikh alias Kasim Bengali,...
08:46
Australia said on Monday that French satellite data indicating floating objects possibly linked to missing Flight MH370 related to an area outside the current search zone, while admitting to clutching at every piece of new information.Malaysian authorities on Sunday said the data was related to...
08:45
Good Morning.Here's a look at what will dominate the news today:A sulking Jaswant Singh may today file nomination from Barmer as an independentMumbai court to announce punishment for four guilty of photojournalist's gang-rapeSouth superstar Nagarjuna to meet Narendra Modi todayAustralia...
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