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One more time, Facebook is trying to simplify its lengthy privacy policy and make it much shorter to explain how it targets advertisements to its 1.35 billion users. The world's largest online social network uses the information people share on its site, along with the apps they use and the...
23:50
One more time, Facebook is trying to simplify its lengthy privacy policy and make it much shorter to explain how it targets advertisements to its 1.35 billion users. The world's largest online social network uses the information people share on its site, along with the apps they use and the...
23:23
The leader of the Islamic State group said it will fight to the last man, in a strident audio recording released today that was his first public statement since a US-led alliance launched airstrikes against his fighters in Iraq and Syria. The statement was posted online six days after Iraqi...
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ISIS leader al-Baghdadi: 'Erupt volcanoes of Jihad':Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of extremist group ISIS, called on his supporters to erupt volcanoes of jihad' in an apparent new audio message released Thursday. The recording, which appeared to be genuine according to Flashpoint...
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A year after promising to address the audience in Hindi, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan today walked the talk and delivered his keynote address in the official language at a function.It has become an integral part of customer service to work in Hindi in the changing economic scenario. That is the...
21:08
From the BBC: Fifa's report into allegations of corruption during the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups has been questioned - by the man who investigated claims of wrongdoing.Read the full story here
20:57
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said here today that he would get involved in the politics in Uttar Pradesh, from where he has been to elected to Rajya Sabha, only if BJP asked him to.Parrikar was elected unopposed to the Upper House of Parliament from Lucknow today.Responding to a question...
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Three leading India-born CEOs, including Microsoft's Satya Nadella, who took their companies full speed ahead have featured in Fortune's Businessperson of the Year list topped by Google CEO Larry Page.Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Harman International Chairman Dinesh...
20:02
Indian and Chinese militaries will hold a joint anti-terrorism military exercise in Pune, the fourth between the armies of the two Asian giants. The exercise, code-named 'Hand-in-Hand 2014', will take place in Pune and had been coordinated through talks between the two countries' leaders and...
19:51
A local court has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to re-issue summons to US based multinational giant, Dow Chemical to appear before it and submit why it didn't present itself during the trial of the world's worst industrial disaster known as the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984.Dow, the...
19:44
Delhi Police are considering sending viscera samples of former union minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar, who was found dead in a hotel here in January, to forensic laboratories abroad to determine the type of poison that is suspected to have caused her death.The AIIMS medical board...
19:32
The French Navy chief Admiral Bernard Rogel today arrived in New Delhi on a six-day visit during which he will tour naval facilities in Goa and Mumbai, besides seeing the Mazagon Dock which is building six Scorpene submarines with help of a French firm.The admiral was received at the South Block...
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An encounter broke out between militants and security forces in Kulgam district of south Kashmir this evening, police said. The encounter broke out at Chounigam village, 70 kms from Srinagar, when security forces launched a search operation following information about the presence of some...
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Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis tweets: The High Court today dismissed the writ petition challenging the validity of the new government of Maharashtra.The 13-day-old BJP government headed by Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday won the confidence motion in Maharashtra assembly by a voice vote, amid...
18:30
Just two weeks ago, Yasir was regularly strapped into an explosive vest and handed a pistol, an AK-47 and a radio to stand guard at an ISIS base in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor.Yasir -- not his real name -- is just 15 and an ISIS child soldier. When we first met, he was clearly nervous,...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today had his first meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who said that China is looking forward to the Indian leader's maiden visit to Beijing.Modi met Li at the Myanmar International Convention Centre on the sidelines of the back-to-back India-ASEAN and East Asia...
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'It is a fact that we are all wired internally to give and share. What holds us back is the glue of inertia,' says Jasmeet Gandhi as he sets out on a 1,000 kilometre cycling journey to raise money for children afflicted with eye cancer. Read
17:24
Former actress Mamta Kulkarni was arrested along with her husband in Kenya in a joint operation between Drug Enforcement Agency and Mombasa Police, as per reports on Twitter.Kulkarni, who was a Bollywood siren in the Nineties, has resurfaced in news after after disappearing from the limelight...
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Accusing the BJP of not fulfiling its promise of giving a ministerial berth to RPI in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet, its chief Ramdas Athawale today asked the saffron party to get its act right, or risk the breakdown of 'Mahayuti'. The BJP seems to have forgot the role of its smaller...
17:16
Rohit Sharma becomes the first person ever to get to 250 runs in an ODI!
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Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and nine other political leaders were today elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party's Ram Gopal Yadav, state minister Azam Khan's wife Tazeen Fatima, Neeraj Shekhar, son of former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar, Ravi Prakash Verma,...
17:02
Rohit Sharma hits world record with a second double century in the Kolkata ODI. Read the live coverage here.
16:46
Gulberg Society massacre case: The Supreme Court asks trial court judge to complete proceedings in three months and asks for a daily hearing of the case.The Gulberg Society was a Muslim pocket in Chamanpura, Ahmedabad. On February 28, 2002, a mob started gathering outside the...
16:31
JUST IN: AAP first list of 22 candidates includes four former ministers for the Delhi assembly elections.
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Senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today slamed BJP for questioning his party alliance with RJD whose jungle raj he had fought earlier and questioned the saffron party's ethics in winning confidence vote in Maharashtra with the help of NCP. Narendra Modi during campaign in Maharashtra for Assembly...
16:07
Rosetta mission's safe landing gives scientists their first chance to ride a comet and study close up what happens as it gets closer to the sun. Read
15:48
Sensex off record-high, slips 68.26 points to close at 27,940.64; Nifty ends 25.45 pts down at 8,357.85.
15:47
MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweets this picture of the PM at the East Asia summit in Myanmar. East Asia Summit work done. Now time for PM's bilateral interactions followed by meeting with Indian community.Leaders of 18 countries including US President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Li...
15:36
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, George H.W. Bush, then president of the United States of America, issued this heraldic proclamation: A world once divided into two armed camps now recognizes one, sole and pre-eminent power, the United States of America. History had ended, the...
15:32
The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and the sports ministry have finally decided to act in the case involving boxer L Sarita Devi.Having stayed quiet when the Manipuri felt she was cheated in her semi-final bout against the Korean boxer at the Incheon Asian Games and her subsequent protest, the...
15:19
Reality check: How has the Modi govt fared in reviving the economy? Read
15:13
Making it clear violence has no place in a democracy and that the killing of innocents leads to nowhere, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today asked the Naxals to abjure violence and join the mainstream. Addressing the 75th raising day of CRPF, Singh said that Mao Zedong's ideology, which is being...
14:58
Amid horrific abuses against Burma's Rohingya, Aung San Suu Kyi's moral authority has vanished. Read
14:51
Petrol and diesel prices were today hiked by Rs 1.50 a litre after government raised excise duty on the two fuel to mop up an additional revenue of about Rs 13,000 crore.
14:26
PM Narendra Modi meets President of Philippines Benigno Aquino in Myanmar. The PM will conclude his three-day tour of Myanmar today.
14:24
BJP's quick repartee to Rahul's allegation that the PMO's Clean India initiative is nothing but a photo-op. BJP spokesperson Nalin Kohli says Rahul Gandhi's entire political career has been full of photo-ops -- travelling in local train, visitng Dalit's house, tearing up ordinance. Leaving aside...
14:21
The surgeon, who has been arrested for conducting 83 sterilisation surgeries at a village in Bilaspur district that left 12 women dead, today accused the administration of framing him and blamed poor quality medicines supplied by the state government for the tragedy. Laparoscopic surgeon Dr R K...
14:07
Read Commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman's complete statement on the WTO.
13:58
All the Congress leaders assembled at the Talkatora stadium take a pledge on the occasion following which Congress President Sonia Gandhi speaks. She says Nehru fulfilled his responsibility of formation of new India with enthusiasm and dedication. Without Nehru-ji, we would not have been able to...
13:33
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi speaking at the Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi on the eve of Jawaharlal Nehru's 125th birth anniversary. Rahul begins his speech with a anecdote from history of the time when his great-grandfather was interred in Naini Jail. Hes says India is the only country...
13:15
Former environment minister Jairam Ramesh holds forth on the bilateral accord on climate change signed between US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Read more
13:12
Shiv Sena stage a raasta roko at Mulund checknaka against the BJP government. Quite naturally, traffic disrupted in the area.
12:52
BS Raghavan, who was deputy secretary in the home ministry in Nehru government, remembers him. He writes, Nehru is often portrayed as a visionary with his head in the clouds. But he had his feet firmly planted on the ground when it came to building and nurturing institutions and setting them on...
12:46
As the Congress celebrates the 125th birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru (without inviting any NDA leader or the PM), it would do well to remind ourselves that whosoever is in power, Jawaharlal Nehru's memory must be kept alive in the interest of our democratic and secular values. The Hindu...
12:33
The Shiv Sena editorial in its newspaper, Saamna, sharply attacked the BJP saying: They have lost the moral right to govern on Day 1.The Sena said, The government has failed to prove their majority and must answer. Can those who crush the Constitution to win the vote of confidence win the...
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Just in: The Shiv Sena will meet Maharashtra governor C Vidyasagar Rao at 4:30 pm today. The Congress and the Shiv Sena - which are the main opposition party in Maharashtra will send a representation to the governor protesting against the Speaker, Haribhau Bagde's decision not to hold a...
12:16
The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to provide temporary shelters for the homeless. The Sc has also asked the Centre to call a meet of chief secretaries of all states over the issue. Urban Development and Housing Minister Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday promised more night shelters in the national...
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The Supreme Court asks the Centre and states to find out ways and means to provide temporary shelters for the homeless.
12:04
Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah reacts to the life term awarded to seven armymen in the Machil fake encounter case. Omar says that the sentencing is a watershed moment. This is indeed a very welcome step. No one in Kashmir ever believed that justice would be done in such cases. Faith in...
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Commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman has denied that India had been isolated at the WTO.Many countries saw merit in what we were asking for. India was never isolated or alone. Others weren't speaking up, she said.Countries including South Africa, Cuba, Venezuela and other emerging economies had...
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India had made it clear that it would not ratify the Trade Facilitation Agreement, a pact that seeks to ease custom norms, until a permanent solution was found on the food subsidy issue. India had asked WTO to amend the norms for calculating agri subsidies so that the country could...
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India has reached an agreement with the United States on public stockpiling of food, commerce minister Niramala Sitharaman said today, paving the way for the implementation of a global trade facilitation deal that has been stalled for months.India and the United States have resolved their...
10:59
Army sets example by sentencing 7, including the Commanding Officer and another officer for the 2010 Machil encounter case.On April 30, 2010, the army had claimed that they had killed three infiltrators in the Machil sector along the Line of Control. It had later claimed that they were Pakistani...
10:03
Continuing its winning streak for the fourth straight session, the benchmark BSE Sensex rose over 89 points in early trade today on the back of positive economic data amidst sustained foreign capital inflows. The 30-share barometer moved up by 89.84 points, or 0.32 per cent, to 28,098.74...
09:43
Zee News reports: At a time when the activities of madrasas are under increasing scrutiny, the Ministry of Home Affairs has found that majority of such institutions don't subscribe to jihadi ideology or play a part in its spread.An internal report of the MHA says majority of madrasas not...
09:42
Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins his third day of Myanmar visit with an early morning meeting with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev.Recalling his visit to Russia in 2001, PM Modi says he is sure India-Russia ties will be strengthened.Medvedev said: 'India is a close and valued partner...
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Former Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar will kickstart 'Sampark Yatra' from Bettiah in West Champaran on Thursday.This will be Nitish's first tour after demitting chief minister's office.The tour is being launched in a bid to prepare the party for the assembly polls due to be held in the state...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending the East Asia Summit in Myanmar on Thursday, a day after he met Southeast Asian leaders during the 12th ASEAN-India summit.He is also likely to hold bilateral talks with the Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang and meet several other leaders.Modi is...
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Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday will kick off the campaign for the Delhi assembly elections on Thursday on the occasion of 125th birth anniversary of India's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. The function will be held at Talkatora Stadium.Congress vice-president Rahul...
03:55
Russian troops crossing into Ukraine, NATO says: Tanks and other military vehicles towing heavy weapons pouring over the border from Russia into eastern Ukraine. Nightly artillery battles in the region's biggest city, Donetsk, and reports of fighting around another...
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The US senators behind a tough sanctions bill against Iran said on Wednesday they would push for more penalties against Tehran if they are unhappy with any nuclear deal, signaling a potential battle with the Obama administration less than two weeks before the deadline for an agreement.New Jersey...
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The UN Security Council is holding its 26th emergency session on Ukraine amid worries about a renewal of full-scale conflict in the rebel-held east. Yesterday's meeting comes hours after NATO's top commander said new columns of Russian troops and tanks have rolled into eastern Ukraine, which...
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Israel will not cooperate with a United Nations inquiry into its 50-day war with rocket-firing militants in Gaza this summer, a government spokesman said today. Since the Schabas commission is not an inquiry but a commission that gives its conclusions in advance, Israel will not cooperate...
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NATO on Wednesday said it has observed fresh columns of Russian tanks, artillery and combat troops entering eastern Ukraine in the past few days prompting Ukraine to redeploy government forces in anticipation of a fresh offensive by pro-Russian separatists.Those actions, along with an upsurge in...
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Dutch forensic experts recovered further human remains at the crash site of downed flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine today, but said they could not yet start salvaging the wreckage. A small team has recovered body parts at the site after pieces of the wreckage were lifted with a crane,...
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US: Pilot thrown free as spaceship broke apart : The surviving pilot of the Virgin Galactic spaceship that tore apart over the Mojave Desert did not know his co-pilot had prematurely unlocked the braking system and within seconds was thrown clear of the disintegrating craft, federal...
01:43
A top security official in Iran said today the Islamic Republic has written back in response to letters sent by US President Barack Obama, the first acknowledgement of such correspondence. However, it's not clear whether Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote the letters himself. The...
01:40
The Sudanese military sought to intimidate villagers in Darfur to keep quiet allegations of mass rape of more than 200 women and girls by Khartoum's soldiers, according to a UN internal report. The report by the joint UN-AU mission in Darfur suggests that a visit by a team of monitors to the...
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Two rockets fired at a school in the central Syrian province of Hama killed seven children on today, state media reported, blaming terrorists for the attack. Terrorist organisations have fired two rockets at a primary school in the town of Karnaz, killing seven children, wounding others and...
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Syrian authorities detained a prominent Damascus-based writer and dissident today as he was trying to leave the country, his political party said. Louay Hussein was taken into custody at the Syria-Lebanon border as he was heading to Spain to visit his family, according to the Building...
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Israeli settlers torched a mosque near the West Bank town of Ramallah overnight, Palestinian security officials said on today, as violence intensified in the occupied territory. The settlers set fire to the whole of the first floor of the mosque in the village of Al-Mughayir, near the Shilo...
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A spokesman for a small Pakistani militant group claims that a delegation from the Islamic State group has visited Jundallah's leaders in southwestern Pakistan. Jundullah spokesman Fahad Marwat said on Wednesday that the visit took place this week in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan...
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Israeli authorities gave preliminary approval today for construction of 200 new homes in a Jewish area of east Jerusalem, a move likely to ratchet up already heightened tensions in the city. The decision came shortly before US Secretary of State John Kerry was to arrive in neighboring Jordan...
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Ebola death toll passes 5,000-mark: WHO: The World Health Organization said today that 5,160 people have so far died of Ebola acorss eight countries, from a total 14,098 cases of infection. The numbers supersede figures the UN health agency gave last Friday, when it reported 4,960...
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Maharashtra: BJP wins the battle, can it win the war?Maha governor injured as legislators try to block his entry, 5 Cong leaders suspendedIndia's my second home, Aung San Suu Kyi tells PM ModiMaha CM Fadnavis wins contentious trust vote amid high dramaBotched surgeries: Chhattisgarh HC takes suo...
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