23:02
North Korea has released two Americans who have been held in the country for extended periods, after the director of national intelligence, James R Clapper Jr, flew to the country on a secret mission and secured their freedom.In a terse statement issued Saturday by Clapper's office, the...
22:34
An army jawan and a woman were killed today in firing by Pakistani troops who violated the ceasefire along the Line of Control in Uri sector of Kashmir. There was a ceasefire violation around 1715 hours leading to the death of a soldier and a woman, an army officer said.
22:33
The European Union's top diplomat Federica Mogherini today said that Jerusalem should be the capital of two states, as tensions gripped the holy city hit by Israeli-Palestinian violence. I think Jerusalem can be and should be the capital of two states, Mogherini told reporters in the...
22:21
Burkina Faso's army today declined to join talks with the opposition and civilian groups on a transition government, while ousted leader Blaise Compaore blamed the military and his political opponents of jointly plotting his overthrow. Representatives of political parties and civil society...
21:59
Mukhtar Ahmad reports:An army personnel and a woman were killed today evening in firing from Pakistan along the Loc. Pak violated the ceasefire at the Uri sector in north Kashmir's Baramulla district. More details awaited.
21:21
The London-based son of famous British Indian author Salman Rushdie has been convicted of drink driving after he was found asleep at the wheel of his BMW. Zafar Rushdie, 35, pleaded guilty to the charge last week and was banned from driving for 17 months and also fined 620 pounds which he...
21:21
A huge cache of arms and ammunition were recovered from a vehicle and two persons arrested in this connection in Assam's Chirang district this evening. During a search operation at Chapaguri under Dhaligaon police station, police searched a vehicle bearing West Bengal registration number...
21:05
The Home Ministry has taken serious note of a security lapse at Varanasi's Assi Ghat, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi took part in a Ganga clean-up drive Saturday morning as part of his 'Clean India' campaign, according to sources.Several security cameras at the venue were not functioning, the...
21:03
India has invited Israel to become a partner in the 'Make in India' initiative in the defence sector even as the Jewish state expressed its desire to share cutting-edge weapons technologies with New Delhi. These discussions were held yesterday between visiting Home Minister Rajnath Singh...
21:00
Two Army personnel and a porter were killed and another soldier was injured when an avalanche struck a patrol near the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district of north Kashmir today, Army said.
20:07
Tensions between the major powers have pushed the world closer to a new Cold War, former Soviet leader Mikhail S Gorbachev said today. The 83-year-old accused the West, particularly the United States, of giving in to triumphalism' after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of...
20:06
Tensions between the major powers have pushed the world closer to a new Cold War, former Soviet leader Mikhail S Gorbachev said today. The 83-year-old accused the West, particularly the United States, of giving in to triumphalism' after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of...
20:01
Hundreds of Sikhs protested outside the United Nations headquarters here demanding justice in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case even as a report on the killings and human rights abuses against the community was presented to the world body. Victims of the 1984 riots met with officials of the UN...
19:46
A Deputy SP ranked officer, leading a Meghalaya police team, was injured when they were fired upon by Assam policemen who mistook them for militants in a remote village in West Jaintia Hills district today, a top police official said. Deputy Superintendent of Police Ploster Syiem, who was...
19:40
India's Viswanathan Anand opened his campaign with white pieces against defending champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the first game of the World Championship which got underway in Sochi on Saturday.Follow the chess world championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Vishwanathan Anand here...
19:35
Claiming that people were impressed with the performance of Narendra Modi Government, senior BJP leader and Union Minister Prakash Javadekar today said the party plans to induct 10 crore new members across the country by March 31.
19:12
The last remains of the victims from downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 might never be fully recovered, the Dutch foreign minister said today, as five more coffins were flown out of Ukraine. We cannot say at this moment in any certain way... at what moment and even if we can recover the...
19:11
Four Indian Navy personnel, including an officer, were still missing over 42 hours after a Torpedo Recovery Vessel (TRV) sank off the coast of Visakhapatnam, killing at least one person. A full-scale Search and Rescue (SAR) operation is underway by Indian Navy to trace the four personnel who...
18:50
Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium gas has grown by 8 percent to nearly 8.4 tonnes in about two months, U.N. atomic inspectors say, an amount world powers probably will want to see cut under any nuclear deal with Tehran.The International Atomic Energy Agency issued a confidential report...
18:28
TV reports say that the Burdwan blast mastermind Sajid has arrested been arrested and is in the custody of the West Bengal police. Sajid, a Bangladeshi national, is allegedly the trainer of the Indian module of the Jammat.Two persons were killed in the accidental blast in a house at...
18:25
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi among other leaders on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asian summits in Myanmar next week in his first interaction with the pro-democracy icon.Modi leaves for Myanmar on November 11 on the first leg of his three-nation...
18:24
Four Army personnel and a civilian were today trapped under an avalanche near the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, Army said. At about 8 am today, an army link patrol operating in areas south of Nasthachun pass were overrun by an avalanche triggered from the...
18:23
Chinese President Xi Jinping today committed USD 40 billion to give a push to the country's mega plan aimed at reviving the ancient Silk Road and break the connectivity bottleneck in Asia. Xi pledged the sum at a summit attended by leaders of neighbouring countries including Pakistan and...
16:18
The new state of Telangana will now have representation at the Centre with the lone BJP MP Bandaru Dattatreya being inducted into the Union Cabinet. Prime Minister Narendra Modi reportedly called up Dattatreya and informed him about his induction into the Cabinet during the cabinet...
15:58
The Islamic State's staggering successes come at a cost. After all, it's not cheap to wage war and manage territorial conquests whose population is now roughly the size of Austria's.So how can ISIS, cut off from the rest of the world by financial and trade sanctions, and under daily aerial and...
15:40
Two days after an Indian naval vessel sank off the coast of Visakhapatnam, search is on to rescue the four missing sailors.One sailor had died after a Torpedo Recovery Vessel sank off the Visakhapatnam coast on Thursday evening. 23 others were rescued from the sea.The incident happened at around...
15:39
17 militants were killed in a gun battle with security forces in Pakistan's restive northwest tribal region along Afghan border, officials said today. The fighting took place in the Sepah Spin Qabar area of Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency last night. The bullet ridden bodies of the...
15:12
Goa Health Minister Laxmikant Parsekar has been chosen as the state's next chief minister. BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy announced this after a legislature party meeting. Parsekar was chosen unanimously, said Rudy, who along with BS Yeddyurappa was sent to Goa by the party's central...
15:05
Ten students, who had launched an Kiss of Love initiative to protest against moral policing, have been suspended by a Kochi college. The protest was organised by students of the Maharaja College against the attack on Downtown Hotel at Kozhikode and to express solidarity with the Kiss of Love...
14:02
Pakistan Army Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar has reportedly assumed the role of chief of Inter-Services Intelligence.Dawn reported that a military official confirmed that Gen Akhtar had taken over as the next director general of ISI, succeeding retired Lt Gen Zaheerul Islam.Akhtar, a close associate of...
13:27
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday wished senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Krishna Advani on his birthday, saying his unparalleled intellect and insight make him one of the tallest personalities in public life.Wishing Advani ji a very happy birthday. May he be blessed with long life...
12:46
Manohar Parrikar has faxed his resignation to Goa Governor Mridula Sinha who is not in the state. The Governor is expected to arrive in the state later in the afternoon. Sources have said that Health Minister Laxmikant Parsekar will be named as the new chief minister of Goa.The issue of...
12:05
Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who on an official tour to Israel, offered prayers at the Western Wall in the holy Jewish city of Jerusalem. This photograph was tweeted by Indians for Israel
11:28
The Bharatiya Janata Party's parliamentary board meeting to discuss induction of 10 new faces in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Union Cabinet, including Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, has just got over.Parrikar is tipped to be appointed as the next Defence Minister and will tender...
11:22
In a significant move, Mumbai Cricket Association's president Sharad Pawar has decided to attend the Cricket Board's Annual General Meeting, scheduled to be held in Chennai on November 20, after a gap of four years.Mr Pawar's name was proposed by the committee members at yesterday's managing...
10:57
Cricketer Suresh Raina on Saturday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for nominating him for the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan', and said that he would carry forward the task after the ODI series.Honoured to be nominated by @PMOIndia for #SwachhtaAbhiyaan. Will take up the endeavour as soon as I'm in...
10:06
The 'revenge match' between reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway and challenger Viswanathan Anand kicks off on Saturday at the Sochi Winter Olympics Complex in Russia. The two grandmasters will play 12 games for a purse of euro 1 million and the title of world champion. In case the...
10:04
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday nominated nine people for taking forward the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' including Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, Bhojpuri playback singer-actor and BJP MP Manoj Tiwari, Cricket players Mohammad Kaif and Suresh Raina.I have started the...
10:01
Manohar Parrikar, tipped to be the country's next Defence Minister, will resign as the chief minister of Goa on Saturday.While it is still not official that he will take charge of the crucial Defence Ministry, Parrikar himself has confirmed that he is moving to Delhi after being asked by Prime...
08:55
Fresh from her emphatic re-election, South Carolina's governor Nikki Haley is to visit India next week to bring investment and promote her state as a tourist destination in her parents' native country. During the 10-day trip beginning November 11, Haley and her delegation are scheduled to...
08:54
US President Barack Obama has decided to nominate Loretta Lynch as his new Attorney General, White House press secretary has said adding that a formal announcement would be made today. If confirmed by the Senate, Lynch would succeed Eric Holder, whose tenure has been marked by historic gains...
03:49
Dallas calmly marked the end of its Ebola crisis today when the last of the 177 people who were being monitored for symptoms of the deadly virus were to be cleared at midnight. Thirty-eight days after Thomas Eric Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola in a local hospital, there were no public...
03:48
President Barack Obama authorized the deployment of up to 1,500 additional troops to Iraq and is asking Congress for $5.6 billion, as the U.S. looks to ramp up the fight against Islamic State militants.The military personnel will serve in a noncombat role to train, advise and assist...
01:33
Ukraine today said that dozens of tanks and truckloads of soldiers had crossed from Russia into Kremlin-backed rebel territory, as five servicemen were killed in the latest fighting to tear apart a nominal ceasefire. The allegations that Moscow is stepping up reinforcements for the...
01:32
The World Health Organisation said today that 13,268 people had been infected with Ebola across eight countries, and 4,960 of them had died. On Wednesday, it had reported 13,042 cases and 4,818 deaths. The UN health agency has acknowledged though that the number of deaths are likely far...
01:32
The Republican candidate for the Senate in Virginia conceded defeat today, ending a longshot bid that almost turned into a shocking upset. The race was one of three still undecided after Tuesday's vote in which Republicans seized control of the Senate and expanded their majority in the House of...
01:31
Twitter plans to set up shop in Hong Kong early next year, focusing on ad sales instead of the one-to-many messaging service banned in China. The San Francisco-based service that has served as a platform for dissent and free speech wants to tap into booming growth in Greater China by selling ads...
00:19
Russia today warned of the imminent death of the World Trade Organisation if developed and developing nations don't come to an agreement at the upcoming Group of 20 summit in Australia. Russian President Vladimir Putin will participate at the G20 summit in Brisbane on November 15-16. His...
00:17
A French jihadist has described in court documents his path from the suburbs of Paris to Lebanon's capital Beirut where he was planning an attack on Shiite Muslims. Fayez Yusef Bushran disclosed his journey in court documents seen by AFP today. He is also charged with membership of the...
00:17
Portraits of President Vladimir Putin in the Ukrainian capital? Plenty -- but they're printed on toilet paper. The Kremlin leader's stern features stare from novelty rolls sold for USD 1.5 dollars in Kiev gift shops. He appears on T-shirts emblazoned with an obscene slogan. He's on doormats....
00:16
Kim Jong-un will prove an even more brutal leader of North Korea than his father, Kim Jong-il, the late dictator's bodyguard has warned.Lee Young-guk, who defected to South Korea, said that Kim Jong-un, who became Supreme Leader in December 2011, has created fake' loyalty that is based on...
00:14
Ukraine's military has accused Russia of sending a column of 32 tanks and truckloads of troops into the country's east to support pro-Russian separatists fighting government forces.Yesterday's cross-border incursion, if confirmed, is a significant escalation of a conflict that has killed more...
00:12
First expansion of Modi Cabinet on Sunday Race for Goa CM hots up: Deputy CM threatens to quit if not given post How would you react if your daughter was raped? BJP leader sparks controversy Budgam firing: Army admits mistake, wishes it had not happened It's a miracle am still alive, says Budgam...
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