23:37
Accusing BJP of buying votes, AAP today claimed to have handed over around 5,000 spy cameras to its volunteers to record any attempt to distribute cash and liquor to lure voters.We have information that BJP is distributing money, liquor and non-vegetarian food to the public and they are also...
23:34
Two months after a devastating cyber-attack, Sony Pictures Entertainment said co-chairman Amy Pascal is stepping down from her post.After Sony was hacked, embarrassing emails from the company's servers were leaked onto the Internet, causing public humiliation and private recriminations for Pascal...
23:13
Police today claimed to have busted a notorious 'knock-knock' gang with the arrest of nine of their south India-based members from the national capital. All the members hail from Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu and they were arrested while they were coming here after committing a series of...
22:11
The roast of actors Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor, hosted by comedy group AIB and uploaded on YouTube, has run into more trouble.A police complaint has been filed in Pune against the comedians of the group AIB, YouTube, actors Arjun Kapoor, Ranveer Singh and filmmaker Karan Johar.Actors Deepika...
21:44
Delhi Police has dismissed the suggestion that the attacks on churches in the capital had any pattern as there were incidents of theft in 265 temples as well last well. In a report submitted to the Home Ministry, police said the incident at St Alphonsa Church in Vasant Kunj, where...
21:28
Jordan said today its warplanes had launched new strikes against the Islamic State group, after vowing a harsh response to the burning alive of one of its fighter pilots captured in Syria. The announcement came as King Abdullah II personally paid his condolences to the airman's family, which...
21:28
In the final leg of her election campaign, BJP's Chief Ministerial nominee Kiran Bedi today attacked AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal and accused him of being a 'liar'. He's a liar, a total liar. I don't know to what extent they are spreading lies about me, that I will remove road side carts of...
21:24
US President Barack Obama today hailed good friend Dalai Lama during their first public encounter, calling the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader as an inspiration for freedom and dignity in a move that is bound enrage China.The two Noble Peace Laureates greeted each other as Obama entered the ball...
20:17
Till a day before joining the BJP, Kiran Bedi had no intention to join politics but things changed after she met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, her husband said today. Before her joining BJP we were not at all interested in politics. A day before joining the BJP, she said there...
20:09
The 'breakthrough' in the commercialisation of the 2008 nuclear deal between India and the United States, which was hailed as a triumphant outcome of the visit by President Barack Obama to India recently, is beginning to look more like a capitulation by the Indian government headed by Prime...
20:02
In yet another controversy to hit the Defence and Research Development Organisation, the project director of nuclear-capable Agni 5 missile programme R K Gupta has been moved out following which he has complained to the defence ministry alleging victimisation. While DRDO sources termed the...
19:59
An interview with British director Sam Taylor-Johnson, the woman charged with bringing the season's most-anticipated film to screen. Read it here
19:54
CNN reports: Jordanian fighter jets have returned home after carrying out missions, state-run TV reported.There was no immediate word on what the missions were or where they took place, but a government spokesman said most targets would be in eastern Syria.Jordan is riding a wave of anger...
19:04
Pope Francis has sent Catholic clergy a powerful reminder of their duty to stamp out sexual abuse of children by priests, warning that they must never let a fear of scandal lead to cover-ups.AFP reports that in a strongly-worded letter to the heads of national bishops' conferences and...
19:01
Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor tweets Just finished @AatishTaseer's #TheWayThingsWere. Wise,moving,erudite,sharply observed, perceptive, humane:1of the best novels I've read in yrs. To which Tavleen Singh @tavleen_singh tweets, @ShashiTharoor Shashi what incredible praise for Aatish's...
18:54
A top secret Pentagon has concluded that Vladimir Putin suffers from Asperger's syndrome. The study from 2008, which was based only on videos of Putin, claimed that the Russian president's mother had a stroke whilst pregnant with him that left lasting damage. As a result his...
18:43
Mayank Gandhi (AAP) @mayankgandhi I was among those who thought Amit Shah as a master strategist. In Delhi, all his masterstrokes seem silly and badly thought.
18:38
Curtains on Thursday came down on the high-decibel campaign in one of the most-fiercely contested Assembly elections in Delhi where BJP has staked its all on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's image against a resurgent Aam Aadmi Party in the February 7 polls. Roadshows by AAP Chief Arvind Kejriwal in...
18:28
BJP went all out in its attack on AAP on the last day of campaigning for the Delhi polls and charged that the party was trying to polarise voters along communal lines and also distributing cash to secure votes. There are reports that police have seized liquor bottles from candidates belonging to...
18:11
BS Bassi, Delhi Police Commissioner on Shiv Menon's interrogation: We have gathered all the necessary information from him.Menon is Sunanda Pushkar's son and was interrogated over his mother's death.
18:06
Baba Ram Rahim on Dera Sacha Sauda's support to BJP: We will support anyone who will work for the welfare of society. We support BJP as they have been working on promises they made like cleanliness, girl's education.
17:37
Any support from any quarter will be welcomed, Ashish Khetan, AAP on Mamata Banerjee's support to AAP.While BJP's Sambit Patra, adds, TMC is a sinking ship, instead of saving her own ship, she is busy steering AAP's ship.
17:34
Congress General Secretaries' meeting scheduled to take place tomorrow, Rahul Gandhi to be present.Campaigning for the Delhi polls ends at 6 pm today.
17:32
Both are scamsters and both are supporting each other, Sambit Patra, BJP on Mamata Banerjee's support to AAP.
17:17
And yes, West Bengal CM and TMC chief tweets her support for AAP. The Trinamool Congress has maintained a strident anti-Centre stand on various issues and is engaged in a political confrontation with the BJP.Click on the picture for a larger image.
17:05
Sinha also said that AAP's prospects seemed good.
17:03
BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha tweets on the battle for Delhi: Fight in Delhi is btwn (between) Kiran Bedi who has a clean image, has been a good officer & btwn (between) A Kejriwal who too has a clean image. Sinha also said that AAP's prospects seemed good. Kejriwal is a good man, he said....
16:14
Bail has been granted to two newspaper vendors of the Urdu daily Avadhnama on a surety of Rs 7000 each. The JJ Marg police in Mumbai booked a newspaper vendor for selling the January 17 issue of the Urdu daily Avadhnama, which carried a photo of the cover of the French magazine Charlie...
16:02
Former Gujarat top cop D G Vanzara set to walk out of jail after court grants him bail in Ishrat Jehan encounter case.The special CBI court in Ahmedabad, has already granted bail to IPS officer PP Pandey in same case.Pandey was the Joint Commissioner of Police when Mumbra-based 19-year old...
15:57
For all the women who think Unnao's BJP MP and Hindutva voice Sakshi Maharaj spouts words of wisdom, here's some of what he said in 2012 way before the BJP was in power. Listen up.Sakshi Maharaj warns: Women in Delhi and Mumbai are huge threats to Indian culture. It is therefore necessary...
15:38
Cable operators of Delhi are reportedly blocking NDTV and ABP News.
15:36
Home minister Rajnath Singh tweets this picture, saying, Met with a group of leaders from the Christian community today who were concerned over the reports of attacks on churches. I assured them that the present dispensation would never tolerate any discrimination in the name of caste, colour,...
15:22
More on the Bhushans.Supreme Court lawyer Shanti Bhushan, who is a father figure of AAP had presented a Rs 1 crore cheque to the party when it was founded. That was how much faith and belief he had about the party and what it stood for. But over the last couple of weeks his displeasure with the...
15:15
The buzz in the AAP headquarters in Delhi is that Arvind Kejriwal is sure of victory. The party, or at least, Ashish Khaitan and Ashutosh, believe it will get 57 seats out of 70. Kejriwal's swearing-in ceremony will be at Vijay Chowk on February 14 and not at Ram Lila Maidan as was the case...
15:12
AAP leader Prashant Bhushan is not on talking terms with any of the rank and file or for that matter any AAP leader. Prashant Bhushan is now tilting towards his father's opinion of Arvind Kejriwal and his party and has been heard saying that Kejriwal is dictatorial. Bhushan is upset that Kejriwal...
13:58
Jordan's King Abdullah is reportedly going to co-pilot a sortie against Islamic State positions in the aftermath of the terrorist group's brutal execution of Jordanian pilot Moaz Kasasbeh. Iraqinews.com reported that King Abdullah is personally involved in conducting the air strikes. Before...
13:43
The new home secretary LC Goyal meets home minister Rajnath Singh.
13:35
Sunanda Tharoor murder case: Her son Shiv Menon reaches the CBI office for questioning.
13:28
One person was killed in an attack on a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in a town north of Cairo early on Thursday.A fire broke out at the restaurant in a town in the province of Menoufia, 80 km north of the capital, after assailants on a motorcycle threw flammable materials and then opened...
13:25
President Barack Obama's visit to India for Republic Day may mark an inflection point in US-India relations. The symbolism of the invitation alone was unmistakable: in one bold gesture, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept aside the cautious, zero-sum politics of the last decade and openly...
13:19
LC Goyal takes charge as the new Home Secretary.
13:15
TMC MP Srinjoy Bose has quit the party. Bose who was arrested by the Special Crime branch of the CBI in connection with the Saradha case on November 20 last year, was granted conditional bail yesterday. Bose was released from after imposing three conditions that he would not leave the country,...
13:08
The prime suspect on the crime scene that is India is the middle class. Exactly 95.83% of Indians know absolutely nothing about India and they never will. This is because they haven't travelled abroad (India has 50 million passport holders). They have no experience of difference. They will...
12:51
On the last day of campaigning for Delhi, a desperate BJP chief Amit Shah has reportedly asked senior party members to step up attack on AAP over the funding issue. Not much time is left for campaigning now. The party has decided to attack AAP on its funding process as it has failed to...
12:44
Talk about extreme measures! In a grisly incident, a 19-year-old boy in China chopped off his left hand with a cleaver in order to cure his Internet addiction. Xiao Wang (pseudonym), a high school senior, is recovering after doctors were able to successfully reattach his hand. He performed the...
12:31
Girish Sanghi, formerly the Andhra Pradesh Congress MP is joining the BJP at 3 pm today. He will be inducted into the party by BJP president Amit Shah and could possibly be given the responsibility of helping the Bihar unit of the party prepare for the assembly polls.
12:28
A special court on Thursday has granted bail to suspended additional director general of police PP Pandey in 'the '2004 'fake encounter case of 'Ishrat Jahan and three others.
12:12
The Delhi police detained several protesters, who were protesting over the series of attacks on churches in the national capital. Shouting slogans for justice, agitators demanded immediate action against those responsible for the attacks.The protest outside the Sacred Heart cathedral in...
12:03
Kiren Rijiju, MOS Home: Home secretary Anil Goswami was an efficient and good administrator but this particular incident I wouldn't like to link with anything else.
11:57
Yogendra Yadav tweets: News coming in of lathicharge on people peacefully protesting against Church attacks. So becoming of this arrogant & insensitive government.Also read: Church attacks: 'Why is Prime Minister Modi quiet?'
11:49
The pilot in TransAsia Airways Flight 235 said mayday, mayday, engine flameout moments before the propjet banked sharply and crashed into a river, aviation officials said today, but they declined comment on a possible cause for the accident. Video images of the plane's final moments in the air...
11:43
That's a picture you will never see again -- Amitabh Bachchan campaigning for the polls. That's a picture of Bachchan campaigning in Allahabad in 1984, which saw him elected to parliament. The watershed in Amitabh Bachchan's life came with his decision to join politics, at his friend and then...
11:38
The AAP-BJP bitter spat today saw the Aam Aadmi Party today accusing the saffron party of trying to buy votes ahead of February 7 Assembly polls by distributing money and free liquor. We have information that BJP is distributing money, liquor and non-vegetarian food to the public and they are...
11:32
AAP's Yogendra Yadav tweets this: Dera Sachcha Sauda extends support to BJP. Now we know why the censor board was unceremoniously packed off in the case of MSG movie.
11:26
Just hours before comedienne Aditi Mittal was meant to perform at a popular South Mumbai restaurant, the show was cancelled.Cheval Bar and Restaurant in the city's famous Kala Ghoda area blamed the cancellation on unforeseen circumstances after NDTV called the reservation desk to book...
11:18
Why are we not surprised. ANI reports that Dera Sacha Sauda will support BJP in the Delhi elections. The Punjab and Haryana High Court has today declined to stay the release of the controversial film 'Messenger of God (MSG)', featuring the Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram...
11:11
Newly appointed Home Secretary LC Goyal meets Home Minister Rajnath Singh. Goyal took over from Anil Goswami last night. Goswami was sacked in the wake of the controversy over his alleged attempt to stall the arrest of Saradha scam accused Matang Sinh, a former Congress minister at the...
11:02
Narendra Modi's obsession with Arvind Kejriwal was today manifest in the last leg of his campaign for the Delhi polls when he castigated the Aam Aadmi Party leader for harbouring prime ministerial ambitions, without naming him. The Prime Minister had nice words to say about an old bugbear,...
10:59
Kirron Kher, BJP MP from Chandigarh on the Delhi polls: BJP will win and form govt in Delhi, I can sense the response will be very good.However, this is the reality on the ground. The TOI report says: With the campaign for Delhi drawing to a close in a frenzy of mudslinging and with opinion...
10:53
And BJP president Amit Shah's public meeting at Delhi Cantt has been cancelled as well.
10:50
JUST IN: Rahul Gandhi's road show in Okhla, New Delhi, has been cancelled. Gandhi, Congress vice-president, was scheduled to campaign in Delhi today before the campaigning period ended today at 6 pm.
10:48
A large number of policemen swooped down on activists protesting in the heart of Delhi against attacks on churches, and forced them into buses. The protest outside the Sacred Heart cathedral in central Delhi was unlawful, said the police, who were seen bundling activists into buses. They were...
10:23
Angry parents have surrounded a school in Kerala protesting after the school authorities locked up their children for hours. According to the parents, the officials of Hilltop Public High School in Kozhikode had locked up the kids for more than two hours inside the school. The principal said...
10:09
L C Goyal, a 1979-batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre arrived at the ministry of home affairs to take charge as the new Home Secretary. Goyal was appointed to the post after the government sacked Anil Goswami for intervening in the CBI probe against former union minister Matang...
09:35
Just hours before campaigning ends in Delhi ahead of the February 7 polls, Bharatiya Janata Party's chief ministerial candidate made a final push to the people, saying she loved Delhi and wanted to work for Delhi. On her campaign trail, speaking to reporters, the former IPS officer said, I...
09:16
In a final push to woo the voters on the last day of campaigning for Delhi assembly polls on Thursday, BJP MPs and Union ministers will hold at least one rally in each of the 70 constituencies in the national capital.A senior BJP leader said they have planned to hold rallies in all the 70...
09:09
The conclusion of a number of significant agreements by India and the United States during US President Barack Obama's recent visit to New Delhi has attracted a great deal of adverse commentary from Islamabad. PM Nawaz Sharif's Foreign Affairs pointsman Sartaj Aziz has voiced serious...
09:02
In an act that has caused much surprise and alarm, the JJ Marg police have booked a newspaper vendor for selling the January 17 issue of the Urdu daily Avadhnama, which carried a photo of the cover of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo with the controversial cartoon of Prophet Mohammed. Legal...
08:32
The Catholic church alleged that two key Vatican officials who were to address the 27th national assembly of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India in Bengaluru which began on February 3 had been denied visa.Cardinal Oswald Gracias, CCBI president, said the 140 bishops from across the world...
08:24
After being quoted as saying that he can make or break the government, controversial Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Unnao Sakshi Maharaj did an about turn and praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his politics of inclusive development and described him as a divine power.The five-time...
08:08
He's the foreign correspondent who became the centre of an international story, but after 400 days in an Egyptian prison Peter Greste has a newfound appreciation for the simple things in life. Flanked by his parents and two brothers in Brisbane on Thursday morning, just 10 hours after...
03:12
When ISIS posted a video of the immolation of Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh, it already knew it would face a backlash in the Islamic world. The video of al-Kaseasbeh's execution in a blaze of flame was circulated around 11:30 am EST. Just 10 minutes later, a list of talking points for...
03:11
Last year's massive hack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, which the U.S. administration has blamed on North Korea, cost the Sony division around $15 million.In Sonys results for the third quarter of its fiscal year (the fourth quarter of 2014 proper), the company had to provide forecasted rather...
03:09
Nobody likes to think his or her iPhone was made from minerals derived from a country where warlords and mass rapists profit from the mines. So a year ago, Apple made a bold claim: It had audited smelters in its supply chain and none of them used tantalum from war-torn regions in the...
03:01
Home Secretary Anil Goswami sacked for stalling CBI arrest Election Commission says EVMs are 'non-tamperable' AAP will get 51 seats in Delhi polls, says party's surveyAfter 'immigrants' gaffe, BJP rephrases chapter on northeast citizens Modi put up Jayanthi Natrajan to target...
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