23:19
More than a quarter century after being slapped with a fatwa from Iran calling for his murder over his book The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie says the world has learned the wrong lessons about freedom of expression. The British author, in an interview published today by the French news...
22:51
As many as 41 women forced to work as sex workers were rescued by a team of Telangana police from Gautam Nagar area of Chandrapur city in eastern Maharashtra today. K Venugopal Rao, superintendent of police, CID, Hyderabad, led the raid.
21:56
The tiff between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lt Governor Najeeb Jung is still on, as Jung has rejected the appointment of Swati Maliwal as the chief of Delhi Commission for Women. Maliwal said, I received a call from DCW office saying I'm not supposed to...
21:31
The Gujarat high court has extended 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case convict Babu Bajrangi's bail period by 10 days to enable him to undergo medical treatment. On April 23, the high court had granted bail to Bajrangi, which was supposed to end on July 23. However, yesterday, Bajrangi moved the bail...
21:23
All the 39 Indians held hostage in Mosul town of Iraq by ISIS militants over a year ago were safe, the government said. Union Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singhsaid government was in close and regular contact with relevant Iraqi government authorities to obtain information on their...
21:00
The body of an Indian sailor has been found on a ship off the Sri Lankan coast, prompting authorities here to ask the captain to dock the vessel at the Colombo Harbour and launch a probe. The ship en route to UAE's Fujairah port from China, was asked to berth at the Colombo Harbour after the...
20:49
The prolonged confrontation between the striking Film and Television Institute of Indias tudents and the government is set to continue with the former deciding to continue their protests after being unequivocally told there will be no talks unless they withdraw the stir.As the strike by the...
20:13
Mouthwatering food at dirt cheap prices in Parliament may soon be a thing of past. Following a huge controversy on the matter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked his floor leaders to consult the opposition and take a call on scrapping the subsidy, sources said. The prices - which were...
20:02
At least four people were killed Wednesday when their pick-up truck was swept away by a seasonal stream in southwest Pakistan, officials said, the latest victims of torrential rain and flooding that began last week.Their deaths bring the overall toll from this year's monsoon-linked floods to at...
19:56
The leader of a terrorist group bent on attacking the United States and other western targets was killed in a targeted strike earlier this month, the Pentagon said Tuesday.Muhsin al Fadhli, a Kuwaiti-born jihadi with a $7 million bounty on his head from the US government, was the leader of the...
19:50
The Central Bureau of Investigation registered FIR against 52 accused persons in Vyapam cases on Wednesday.The CBI hd earlier registered 12 FIRs and five preliminary inquiries into the same.The Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board scam, most commonly known by its Hindi acronym as the...
19:36
Curfew which was relaxed for two hours in Rajouri town today was again reimposed for the second consecutive day.Authorities had relaxed the curfew for two hours today after which it was imposed once again to foil any untoward incident as the situation continues to be tense but under control, the...
19:31
Could it be? Could Jon Snow really be returning from the dead?That's the scuttlebutt after a photograph surfaced of actor Kit Harington, sporting a scraggly beard and raven locks tied into a man bun, in Belfast.Harington, as you know, plays ... um, played ... Jon Snow in the Game of Thrones...
19:18
Donald Trump will head to the US-Mexico border on Thursday, traveling to Laredo, Texas to tour the border with a group of U.S. border patrol agents.Trump has hammered illegal immigration in interviews and stump speeches since he launched his Republican presidential campaign, when he referred...
19:05
A German magazine aimed at gay women has launched with a provocative new advert appearing to show Chancellor Angela Merkel in a lesbian relationship.The short clip, promoted on Twitter and swiftly picked up by German newspapers, features an actress bearing a strong resemblance to the...
18:50
Bail hearing for Janhavi Gadkar, the lawyer in the drink driving case on the Freeway, will be heard on Friday, July 24. Gadkar is accused of ramming her car into a taxi and causing the death of two persons. She has been in jail for nearly 45 days. Here's more on that case.
18:32
If you did not spot Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in Parliament today, it's probably because he is licking his wounds in private. The MP from Thiruvananthapuram earned a sharp rap on the knuckles from Congress president Sonia Gandhi after his comments at a party meeting went public. Tharoor had...
18:08
The Centre and states are taking administrative steps to meet the April 1, 2016 deadline for roll out of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Finance Ministry said today. The Select Panel of Rajya Sabha has submitted its report to the House on the GST Constitution Amendment Bill and it is likely to...
17:34
While on the right to privacy, read this: Privacy and the Indian Constitution.
17:17
The Narendra Modi government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that citizens do NOT have a fundamental right to privacy under the Constitution, reports the Times of India. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told a bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar that constitution does not confer right to...
17:07
And that's how her Twitter handle looks now.
17:05
And within minutes of that post, the 'Foreign Minister' is back on Sushma Swaraj's Twitter profile. Media reports suggest that the minister changed her twitter bio very recently, and left it blank. Or that she may have wanted to post some personal tweets, not as the country's foreign minister....
16:52
This is the union minister's Twitter handle now.
16:48
Sushma Swaraj removes 'Foreign Minister' from her Twitter handle.This comes hours after the External Affairs Minister tweeted today saying a Congress leader had pressed her to give a diplomatic passport to coal scam accused Santosh Bagrodia.However, the minister did not disclose the name of the...
16:45
Ai Weiwei announced on Instagram that he got his passport back Wednesday, four years after it was confiscated by Chinese authorities, reports AP.The artist and government critic posted a photo of himself holding a Chinese passport with the caption, Today, I got my passport.Ai was detained by...
16:39
The appointment of Swati Maliwal as Chief of Delhi Commission for Women has become yet another flashpoint between AAP government and Lt Governor Najeeb Jung who declared her nomination null and void, saying it did not have legal sanctity and was in violation of constitutional provisions. Two days...
16:25
The government today criticised Congress for giving a dissent note in the Select Committee on GST, saying it is against its own bill and Chief Ministers and hoped the opposition party will reconsider its irresponsible decision. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government will go ahead with...
16:06
Mumbai blasts accused Yakub Memon may not live to receive his second masters degree, in Political Science, which he earned while pursuing studies in the Central Prison here, if he is hanged on his birthday, July 30. A qualified Chartered Accountant, Yakub has done his MA in English Literature and...
15:59
AIADMK MPs in the Central Hall of Parliament say that the reason MDMK chief Vaiko met the Prime Minister Narendra Modi was because he wanted permission for Sun TV and Sun FM. The meeting had nothing to do with the CBI inquiry over the killing of the innocent Tamilians by the Andhra Pradesh...
15:55
One more pilgrim has died due to cardiac arrest enroute to the 3,880 metre-high cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas, taking the death toll in the ongoing yatra to 26, officials said today.
15:46
Proceedings in Lok Sabha were washed out today on the first working day of the Monsoon session with an aggressive Opposition seeking removal of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje in connection with Lalit Modi row. Members of Congress and Left...
15:36
Gujarat police has opposed in the Supreme Court the anticipatory bail plea of Teesta Setalvad, saying the social activist and her husband misappropriated funds meant for charity for personal expenses ranging from wine, earbuds to expensive mobile phone besides tampering with evidence. The state...
15:33
A satirical website has accidentally broken a real news story ' by revealing that America offered Israel a nice, big shipment' of weapons to try and salve its anger of the Iran nuclear deal. A spoof news story on The Onion, headlined US Soothes Upset Netanyahu With Shipment Of Ballistic...
15:28
East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh: Three people injured in a blast in a fire cracker unit. One person shifted to hospital.
15:23
East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh: 3 people injured in a blast in a fire cracker unit. One person shifted to hospital.
15:13
For decades, Bollywood has been content to churn out Hindi song-and-dance extravaganzas, secure in its position as the continent's largest filmmaking centre.But now a Telugu-language battle epic from southern India's rival Tollywood' has broken the country's box office records and shaken Mumbai's...
14:59
Fund embezzlement case: Teesta Setalvad and her husband 'misappropriated' funds of charity for personal nature like wine and luxury goods, the Gujarat govt tells the Supreme Court. The Gujarat police in its affidavit accuses Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand of not cooperating in the probe and...
14:55
The Supreme Court asks the Centre if a governor can decide over a mercy plea of any convict when the mercy plea has already been declined by the President of India. The SC Constitution bench raised this question while hearing the matter related to Rajiv Gandhi assassins. The matter is also...
14:39
Both houses of Parliament adjourned for the day. The cost of running each day of Parliament is estimated at Rs 6 crore. That's two days of zero business, which is Rs 12 crore. Chew on that.
14:28
External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj has listed out the arguments favouring her side in the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting held this morning. But interestingly she set the tone of the debate by tweeting about a Congress leader presssurising her to give a diplomatic passport to someone...
14:18
The select panel on Goods and Services Tax has submitted its report in the Rajya Sabha with a proposal for three modifications to the Bill. The modifications are related to Clauses 12,18, and 19. Clause 12 (4) (e) is on GST Council's powers on recommending rates within a band and the panel...
13:55
BJP president Amit Shah has asked party spokespersons to hold press conferences to send out a message to the public that the Congress is a stumbling block to debates in Parliament. Shah is in charge of handling the media and ensures that the government's message is heard in TV and print media.
13:39
Pakistani sufi singer Abida Parveen has survived a road accident when she was travelling from Lahore to Islamabad.
13:36
Avind Kejriwal's latest confrontation with Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung is likely to spiral considerably, courtesy a letter that declares Jung is meant to function as the government of Delhi, reports NDTV. The letter has been issued by Jung's office. It says the Constitutional definition of...
13:31
The Supreme Court, in its 1980 Bachan Singh vs State of Punjab ruling, laid down the rarest of the rare' principle in handing out the death penalty. However, the high frequency of the award of capital punishment by trial courts across the country should give pause for thought. New research...
13:28
Five days, one hour and 15 minutes after Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar warned Islamabad of an effective and forceful response' to unprovoked firing and cross-border terrorism, that discordant note was drowned by greetings and laughter at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi where...
13:19
@DilliDurAst Citizens don't have right to privacy under the Constitution, Modi Sarkar tells Supreme Court regarding a UPA scheme, Aadhar. Achche Din!
13:12
Rajya Sabha Select Committee endorses almost all of the 21 clauses in the GST Constitution Amendment Bill.
13:11
With Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis having turned down the demand to write-off farm loan, Shiv Sena today said the curse of farmers, with whose blessings the government came to power, could ruin everything. Farmers should not be shooed away like the beggars standing on one's...
13:01
Author Ravi Subramanian's new fiction, a thriller has been acquired by Penguin Random House, which will also publish an anthology compiled by the author, publishers said today. Subramanian, who is a career banker and finance service professional has penned seven novels so far and is thrice...
13:00
KFC has issued a statement today saying the fire in Bandra yesterday, took place at a shoe store and not at the outlet on Linking Road. The statement says, There is no report of a fire at the KFC store. We have shut the store until further notice to ensure everyone's safety.A fire broke out in a...
12:49
An Uber driver was arrested for allegedly misbehaving with a woman passenger in the city, police said today. According to a senior officer in Kolkata Police, Pintu Yadav, driver of Uber cab service, was arrested late Monday night based on a 25-year-old woman passenger's complaint lodged at...
12:43
Explosives were found lying close to railway tracks near Shahbad railway station in Haryana's Kurukshetra district today, following which rail traffic was briefly suspended on the route. Police said that some passersby noticed the explosives in Dolu Majra village after which the police was...
12:39
Indian-American Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal is unlikely to figure in the first Republican presidential debate on August 6 as his national poll ratings have kept him out of the list of popular top 10 candidates so far. Top Republican presidential contenders have begun preparations for their...
12:32
BJP MP and Supreme Court lawyer Ram Jethmalani on Sushma Swaraj's tweet this morning threatening to expose a senior Congress leader. Speaking to reporters outside Parliament, Jethmalani says, Kyon nahin kartiin hain? Usii time khulasa kartii... sab miley hue hain (Why doesn't she reveal names,...
12:23
We keep good company. India has abstained from voting on a UN resolution that granted special consultative status to an American NGO that works to free political prisoners across the world. Nine nations, including China and Pakistan voted against the resolution.India was among the 11 countries...
12:16
Rail traffic hit after seven bombs found on Shahbad track near Kurukshetra.
12:06
Meeting in Venkaiah Naidu's chambers in Parliament underway. Sushma Swaraj, Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Nitin Gadkari in attendance.The meet is to finalise the strategy against the opposition. The Parliament on Wednesday met for the second day of the Monsoon Session, which saw the Rajya Sabha...
11:57
Congress MPs wearing black arm bands in Parliament protesting against the government's refusal to take action against Sushma Swaraj and Vasundhara Raje Scindia.
11:53
The Rajya Sabha is once again adjourned till noon. Minutes earlier, Jaitley asks the house to state in what way did EAM Sushma Swaraj err in the Lalit Modi issue? Pandemonium breaks down and the house is adjourned.
11:40
CPI-M chief Sitaram Yechury says people have died outside Madhya Pradesh so the Vyapam issue cannot be a state issue.
11:38
External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj tells BJP Parliamentary Party she offered no help to Lalit Modi and also defends the MP govt over the Vyapam issue, BJP spokesperson Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi says. The Prime Minister tells BJP MPs that they should be proud of government's work.Meanwhile, Rajya...
11:23
A confident Amit Shah and his team obviously means that the BJP has a strong counter-strategy in place to turn the tables on the Congress before the monsoon session is over, reports Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com.Read more
11:21
The monsoon session of Parliament began on a stormy note on Tuesday with the Congress raising the Lalit Modi issue in the Rajya Sabha. Lok Sabha was adjourned as soon as it began. Congress is all set to corner the Modi govt on day 2 of the monsoon session over Lalitgate and Vyapam issue and is...
11:17
Congress MPs enter Parliament House wearing black hands and rush to the well of the house. The Congress has refused to hear Sushma Swaraj's statement on the Lalit Modi issue saying she should quit.
11:14
Within minutes, Lok Sabha is adjourned till noon amid Opposition protests over Lalit Modi controversy.
11:06
An apolitical movie about a very political decade. My movie will be denuded of any political agenda and bereft of any political leanings. It will be a true reflection of what has been authored by Mr Baru in his book. That's the stated intent of producer Sunil Bohra, who's just acquired the rights...
11:03
E. L. Doctorow, a leading figure in contemporary American letters whose popular, critically admired and award-winning novels -- including Ragtime, Billy Bathgate and The March -- situated fictional characters in recognizable historical contexts, among identifiable historical figures and often...
10:53
Just in: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi have called off a silent protest outside Parliament, for now. The protest was against BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj, Vasundhara Raje and Shivraj Singh Chouhan, whose resignations the party has been pressing for in the wake of...
10:35
India has abstained from voting on a UN resolution that granted special consultative status to an American NGO that works to free political prisoners across the world. India was among the 11 countries that abstained fromvoting on the resolution in the UN Economic and Social...
10:30
Pulitzer winning Indian-American doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee has been nominated for an Emmy Award for his documentary series on cancer. The six-hour programme based and titled after Mukherjee's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2010 book 'Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies' is among five nominees for the...
09:55
The war between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lt Governor Najeeb Jung continues. Jung today said that the appointment of a new chairperson for the state's women's panel is null and void.Kejriwal had appointed Swati Maliwal, the wife of Aam Aadmi Party leader Navin Jaihind, to head the...
09:49
The benchmark BSE Sensex stretched its losses for the third day today, declining over 109 points in early trade on sustained selling by investors amid weak global cues. The NSE Nifty fell below the 8,500-mark to trade at 8,498.65 points, down by 30.80 points, or 0.36 per cent over previous...
09:37
The adorable Prince George turns 2 today. Kensington Palace shared a new photo of the prince yesterday. The photo shows a playful Prince George leaning towards the camera as he is held by his father, Prince William, in the garden at Sandringham House. The photo was taken on the occasion...
09:13
Tom Moore, the cartoonist who brought to life the escapades of a freckled-face, red-haired character named Archie, has died in Texas. He was 86. Moore drew Archie Andrews and his friends on and off from 1953 until the late 1980s when he retired. He began drawing cartoons while in the U.S. Navy...
08:54
Sushma Swaraj is not the one to go down without a fight. The external affairs minister, who is under fire over the Lalit Modi controversy, today launched a counter attack. A senior Congress leader was pressing me hard to give diplomatic passport to the coal scam accused Santosh Bagrodia,...
08:42
Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the criminal procedure code were imposed in Jamshedpur's Mango police station area late last night following a clash between members of two communities over a molestation incident, official sources said. Keeping in view the prevailing situation,...
08:39
Aam Aadmi Party's Delhi chief Dilip Pandey alleged that a Delhi police bus tried to run over him in front of Rajinder Nagar police station. Pandey alleged that the incident happened around 10.30 pm on Tuesday when he was talking to the media over police action on AAP volunteers at Anand Parbat...
04:07
The alleged leader of Al-Qaeda's Khorasan Group was killed in an air strike by the US-led coalition in northern Syria, the Pentagon has said. The kinetic strike killed Muhsin al-Fadhli on July 8 while he was traveling in a vehicle near Sarmada, Syria, Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis...
04:02
The Federal Aviation Administration has said it was investigating a viral Internet video showing a home-made drone firing a handgun in the Connecticut countryside. The 14-second video called Flying Gun, which has been watched nearly two million times, has sparked fresh debate about the still...
03:21
The Federal Aviation Administration has said it was investigating a viral Internet video showing a home-made drone firing a handgun in the Connecticut countryside. The 14-second video called Flying Gun, which has been watched nearly two million times, has sparked fresh debate about the still...
02:53
Italy violates human rights by failing to offer enough legal protection for same-sex couples, a European court has ruled.Judges said the government had breached the rights of three gay couples by refusing them marriage or any other recognised form of union.Italy is the only major Western European...
01:53
US officials say a key al-Qaida figure has been killed in an American airstrike in Syria. The officials say that Muhsin al-Fadhli is dead. He was a leader of the Khorasan Group, a cadre of al-Qaida operatives who were sent from Pakistan to Syria to plot attacks on the West.
01:53
US officials say a key al-Qaida figure has been killed in an American airstrike in Syria. The officials say that Muhsin al-Fadhli is dead. He was a leader of the Khorasan Group, a cadre of al-Qaida operatives who were sent from Pakistan to Syria to plot attacks on the West.
00:50
President Barack Obama today ordered American flags to be flown at half-staff until Saturday in honor of five US servicemen who died in a shooting rampage in Tennessee last week. Four marines and one sailor were killed when 24-year-old Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez opened fire on two military...
00:49
Turkey today stepped up security on the border with Syria after a suicide bombing blamed on Islamic State extremists killed 31 people and raised fears of a spillover of the Syrian conflict onto its territory. Monday's attack in a town on the border with Syria was one of the deadliest...
00:21
Convicted killer David Sweat escaped from his prison cell not once, not twice, but almost every night for several months, a source briefed on the investigation told CNN.And during those nightly jaunts, Sweat learned his way through the maze of tunnels and pipes in the bowels of the Clinton...
00:18
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been discharged from hospital after a week of treatment for a persistent infection, his family said today, adding doctors had ordered him to rest.The 83-year-old Nobel peace laureate was on a course of intravenous antibiotics to treat the infection, which...
00:16
Curfew imposed after protests break in Rajouri over burning of IS flagAfter 40 days of protests, FTII students seek Rahul Gandhi's helpSeparatist leader Geelani issued passport valid for 9 monthsAfter SC denies relief, Memon submits mercy petition to Maharashtra governor
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