22:41
Sources have revealed names that are believed to be set to join the Jammu & Kashmir cabinet. The names include Nirmal Singh, Bali Bhagat, Chander Prakash Ganga, Sukhnandan Chowdhary, Lal Singh and Sajjad Lone.Among names that are believed to be elevated as Ministers of State are Priya...
22:20
The Jammu Pradesh United Front (JPUF) has called for a two hours' token strike tomorrow in protest against the coming together of PDP and BJP.The coalition between BJP and PDP is a sellout by BJP of the interests of the people of Jammu region. It (BJP) has gained nothing for the people of Jammu...
22:08
A US appeals court has rejected a fourth request to move the trial for the accused Boston Marathon bomber to another city.The death penalty trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been delayed by painstaking jury selection, crippling snowstorms and last-ditch appeals for change of venue.Earlier this...
21:39
Congress and National Conference, the erstwhile ruling alliance in Jammu and Kashmir, are likley to stay away from tomorrow's swearing-in ceremony of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed-led PDP-BJP government in the state.We are going to stay away from the ceremony tomorrow, a senior Congress leader said on...
21:20
What colour is that dress? The question has been fascinating people all around the world, including Prof Barry C Smith of the University of London's Institute of Philosophy.We all assume that we see what's before our eyes, and if we have normal colour vision we should be able to tell what colour...
20:49
An Egyptian court listed the Palestinian group Hamas as a terrorist organization, judicial sources said on Saturday, part of a sustained crackdown on Islamists in the most populous Arab state.In a separate case earlier in the day, a court sentenced the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's top leader...
20:18
Former Bihar CM Jitan Ram Manjhi on Saturday announced the launch pf a new political outfit -- Hindustani Awaam Morcha counter chief minister Nitish Kumar and his party JD-U in the state ahead of next state assembly polls later this year.Finally ,we have decided to work under the banner of HAM...
20:04
Fans shared touching 'Live long and prosper' tributes to legendary Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy. Read full story HERE
19:38
Swine flu has claimed 36 more lives raising the toll to 1,041 even as the number of people affected by the H1N1 virus in the country breached the 19,000 mark today.As per data collated by the Health Ministry, the total number of deaths due to swine flu was 1,041 till yesterday while the number of...
19:04
Public sector oil marketing companies will increase the retail selling price of petrol and diesel by Rs 3.18 a litre and Rs 3.09 a litre respectively in Delhi with a corresponding increase in other States. The increase includes state levies and will be applicable from midnight February...
18:49
A Hindu temple in the US has been vandalised with several windows broken and the word fear painted on its wall, the second such incident in America's Washington state this month.Vandals used bricks to break several windows and then painted the word fear on the wall of the Kent Hindu Temple late...
18:19
In a major party reshuffle, Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy was on Saturday removed from the post of all India general secretary of TMC. Roy said that it is the prerogative of party to constitute and reconstitute and that the power lies with the Chairperson. However, Roy declined the...
18:11
Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger jailed for criticizing Islam, has had his weekly lashes delayed for a seventh time. Badawi was arrested in June 2012 after criticizing the Saudi regime and expressing views critical of Islam on his blog. He was eventually sentenced in May 2014 to 10 years...
17:48
Fellow bloggers have started responding to the brutal murder of Avijit Roy. Roy, an American blogger of Bangladeshi origin, was known for his writing against religious fundamentalism, was hacked to death by unidentified assailants in Dhaka, according to the police.Avijit Roy, 40, was...
17:36
RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy has been tweeting about Arun Jaitley's Budget, and here's what he has to say: #My first comment on budget is: it is the first budget resting on what would work in India and for India. It rightly ignores the stock market #Three game changers in budget. Mudra...
17:28
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe today will celebrate his 91st birthday will a million dollar bash attended by thousands of faithful party supporters.As elephants are slaughtered for the feast at a luxury hotel in Zimbabwe's famed Victoria Falls, critics are questioning the scale of the...
17:24
The Prime Minister's Office has accepted RK Pachauri's resignation as Chairman of the PM's council on climate change.Pachauri, 74, who faces allegations of sexual harassment, had quit on Tuesday also from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.TERI, which he heads in India,...
17:04
Jihadi John, a masked Islamic State terrorist seen in gruesome videos of beheadings of Western hostages, received anger management therapy in his first year of secondary school in the UK after getting into fights.Mohammed Emwazi, who has been seen in beheading videos of Western hostages, attended...
16:58
Mariam Veiszadeh, an Australian lawyer and founder of the Islamophobia Register, which tracks instances of abuse against Muslims, has become a target for Twitter trolls.The reality is people don't abuse me just because I'm a woman or because my name is Mariam or because I'm Middle-Eastern. They...
16:17
Superhero Batman's enemy and romantic interest Catwoman, Selina Kyle, has come out bisexual in the latest issue of 'Catwoman' comic book. Selina is the head of Gotham's Calabrese crime family, and, on the brink of a mob war, shares a kiss with the woman currently in the Catwoman costume,...
15:48
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the budget reflected lot of good intentions of the NDA government but it lacked any clear roadmap to achieve the goals. Describing the budget as disappointing, Singh, who is credited with ushering in economic reforms as finance minister in the...
15:38
Just In: Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor has been admitted to a hospital in Rajkot, Gujarat. She is under treatment for suspected swine flu, and the medical reports are awaited.
15:27
It was full marks for Finance Minister Arun Jaitley from his elder sister Madhu Bhargava for presenting a dynamic budget, saying it took care of all sections of society. After keenly watching the Budget presentation by Jaitley in the Lok Sabha from the visitors' gallery, she went...
15:18
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley peppered his speech with digs at the previous UPA regime and sprinkled it with interesting phrases taken out from Urdu poetry and religious scriptures as he presented his first full-fledged budget in Lok Sabha today.Sample this:Kuch to phool khilaaye humne, aur kuch...
15:18
The Special Investigation Team on black money has been accorded an about 10 per cent hike in the latest budgetary allocation for expanding its infrastructure and procuring logistics to effectively conduct its task of tackling the menace.The budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has...
14:43
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will interact with the public on the Union Budget via a talkathon today at 6 pm. One can ask him questions via Twitter, with the hashtag #AskYourFM. The talkathon will go live on the information and broadcasting ministry's YouTube channel and DD News.
14:06
Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt scooped this photograph of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley lunching on Kulcha-Chawal. The best way to beat the Budget Blues, we say, is a satisfactory meal!\
13:47
Downplaying partymen's desire for him to become Chief Minister for another term, DMK President M Karunanidhi today said he was more focused in protecting the party and urged his supporters to ensure that the movement flourished by serving people.The 91 year-old five time former Chief Minister's...
13:30
The Union Budget is progressive, positive, practical, pragmatic and prudent, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
13:23
Feuding US lawmakers narrowly avoided a Department of Homeland Security shutdown at the 11th hour, but funded the agency only until March 6, forcing Congress to revisit the issue next week. House and Senate members yesterday scrambled to prevent the premier agency securing the United States...
13:21
Goa's NCP chief Nilkanth Halarnkar today stepped down from his post, saying that he is not happy with the functioning of the party. NCP didn't contest 2014 Lok Sabha polls in Goa... they didn't contest Panaji by-poll and now they don't want to contest upcoming Zilla panchayat polls too in...
12:50
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has urged his army to prepare for war with the United States and its allies, state media said today, as Pyongyang ramps up the rhetoric ahead of US-South Korea military drills. Kim's comments came after South Korea and the United States yesterday conducted a...
12:19
For years, Moscow insiders have reacted to former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov's philippics against President Vladimir Putin with a roll of the eyes. Everyone knew what Nemtsov was going to say. The man Boris Yeltsin almost piсked as his successor had become irrelevant,...
11:20
Two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists were killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in Tral area of south Kashmir's Pulwama district.Based on specific intelligence about presence of terrorists in Ratsuna area of Tral, a joint operation was launched by Rashtriya Rifles units of Army and...
11:07
When Leonard Nimoy titled his 1975 autobiography I Am Not Spock, some Star Trek fans took it as an insult, thinking Nimoy was trying to distance himself from the role that made him famous. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Rarely does an actor get a chance to play a character...
09:37
Reuters reports: A security breach at car service Uber may have disclosed the names and driver's licence numbers of about 50,000 drivers across multiple states, the company said in a statement.The data breach involved current and former Uber drivers, and the company has notified attorneys general...
09:25
Leonard Nimoy didn't just have a massive impact on science fiction, he also transformed pop culture. Nimoy, who died today, took the thankless supporting role of an emotionless alien science whiz, and turned Spock on Star Trek into an icon.Before Spock came along, alien beings in mass media (and...
03:34
A leading Russian opposition politician, former deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, has been shot dead in Moscow, Russian media report.An unidentified attacker shot Nemtsov four times in central Moscow, a source in the law enforcement bodies told Russia's Interfax news agency....
02:14
US President Barack Obama will meet new Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and CEO Abdullah Abdullah on March 24, the White House said today.This would be the first US visit of the new Afghan President after taking over from his predecessor Hamid Karzai last year. Obama will host Ghani, Abdullah, and...
02:05
Someday,' producer Gene Roddenberry said many decades ago, I'm going to make a science-fiction series and put pointed ears on that guy.'The series was Star Trek,' and the guy was Leonard Nimoy, who died Feb. 27 at 83. A tall, taut-faced actor, he had been laboring in obscurity for 15 years before...
02:01
Somali pirates have released four Thai sailors who were held hostage for nearly five years, the longest period of captivity of hostages held by Somali pirates, a U.N. official said Friday.The four released on Wednesday were sailors of the MV Prantalay 12 vessel, a Taiwanese flagged fishing vessel...
01:35
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam today asked the Centre to take urgent steps for release of 29 fishermen arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy, besides releasing a financial package of Rs 1,520 crore for improving the socio-economic status of the state's fishermen.In a letter to Prime Minister...
00:55
The acquittal of six people in a case related to the killing of three British nationals of Indian origin during the 2002 Gujarat riots was today described as a 'failure of justice' by the victims' family.Citing lack of evidence, a special trial court in India today acquitted all the six accused...
00:17
Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut Star Trek,' died on Friday morning at his home in the Bel Air section of Los...
00:14
Would have been good if Rahul attended budget session: TharoorMufti to head 25-member cabinet; PM to attend swearing-in on SundayThe people who make Modi look stylishShame again: Sikkimese woman raped in Delhi; AIIMS doctor, 4 others arrestedSwine flu death toll crosses 1,000 markThe DRESS that...
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