23:33
US Secretary of State John Kerry today flew back home from Geneva with his orthopaedic surgeon on board, after breaking his right leg in a cycling accident in the French Alps. A US military C-17 transport aircraft is taking him and his orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Dennis Burke back to...
22:58
Senior most Information Commissioner Vijai Sharma is tipped to be new Chief Information Commissioner, while former CBDT chief K V Chowdary is understood to be in the running for the Central Vigilance Commissioner's post. These names are understood to have been cleared in the meetings that...
22:07
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Muslim woman who has sued retailer Abercrombie & Fitch when the store failed to hire her because she wore a head scarf in observance of her religion.The court ruled 8-1 that the company failed to accommodate Samantha Elauf's religious needs when she was...
21:52
At least 34 Iraqi police officers were killed and at least 48 more wounded Monday when an ISIS fighter drove a tank rigged with explosives into a joint Iraqi security forces base about 28 kilometers (17 miles) southwest of Samarra, two security officials told CNN.The attack happened at 3 a.m....
21:22
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagging the distressing rise in incidents of Dalit atrocities and demanded that a bill to prevent such crimes is brought in the monsoon session of Parliament next month.Referring to the incidents of Dalit atrocities in...
20:49
The US government on Monday found itself with fewer tools to investigate terrorism -- at least temporarily -- after the Senate let provisions of the Patriot Act expire Sunday night.While officials warned of national security risks, it is clear that the lapse will not come close to debilitating...
20:42
Continuing his campaign of reaching out to less privileged sections, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will be visiting Mhow tomorrow, the birthplace of Dr B R Ambedkar around whose work and ideology struggles of the suppressed classes are centred....
20:06
Under fire over Maggi issue, Nestle India today said it has got tested samples of the noodle brand in an external laboratory as well as in-house and the product has been found safe to eat with lead levels within the permissible levels for consumption. The company was, however, silent on...
19:55
Salman Khan's trial under Arms Act in the court of the chief judicial magistrate in Jodhpur has been put off till July 20 in the wake of the actor challenging the lower court's verdict in the high court. Khan was supposed to present his side in the court today but his counsel H M Saraswat moved...
19:46
Defence Secretary Ashton Carter will arrive tomorrow, on a two-day visit to the country, during which he will visit the Eastern Naval Command besides holding talks with top leadership in New Delhi on joint development of defence technology. India and US will also sign new 10-year defence...
19:20
Uber is in trouble once again. A woman passenger in Delhi has accused an Uber driver of sexually assaulting her while driving her to Gurgaon. The woman's brother lambasted Uber, an app-based taxi service, in a Facebook post that has been shared several hundred times, NDTV...
19:13
Air Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa, a Kargil war veteran, today took over as the vice chief of the Indian Air Force. He succeeds Air Marshal Ravi Kant Sharma demitted the office yesterday, after 40 years of service in the IAF. Dhanoa was commissioned in the IAF in June 1978 as a fighter pilot. He...
18:26
EAM Sushma Swaraj says, All governments until now said that Pakistan and India won't go to the International Court of Justice because we both are Commonwealth nations. We will ask SC if India can go to the International Court of Justice when such a provision is in place. There is a provision in...
18:20
Just in: So, the government has blinked. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj says the Saurabh Kalia is exceptional and the government will go to the international court if the Supreme Court allows it. The government will change the affidavit if the Supreme Court allows it, she said today. In...
18:14
Rainfall hits Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh providing relief from the intense persistent heat wave. But these are just pre-monsoon showers. Monsoon is not expected to reach Kerala before June 3.
17:53
West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra and three MPs from the state will accompany Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her maiden visit to London in July. Three MPs Derek O' Brien, Sugata Bose and actor Dev will be travelling with me along with Finance Minister Amit Mitra, chief secretary Sanjay...
17:24
Former Goa Minister Fransisco Miccky Pacheco who was on the run since April 9 over an assault case, today surrendered before a local court in Margao. Pacheco, representing Nuvem constituency on Goa Vikas Party ticket, went missing after his conviction in an assault case was upheld by the Supreme...
17:22
1 civilian is dead as per reports but it is not yet verified, Garib Das (DIG, North Kashmir) on Tangdhar encounter.
16:57
Nurses at KEM hospital in Mumbai, today remembered their colleague Aruna Shanbaug, who passed away three weeks ago, on her birth anniversary with the hospital administration deciding to name Room No 4, where she stayed for 42 years, after her. We have decided to name Room No 4 after Aruna, KEM...
16:50
Even after 11 days of the firing incident in film city in Mumbai, police is still struggling to reach out to the shooters. Yes, this is true that we have not been able to nab the shooters, but we are very much hopeful that we will reach upto them very soon, said Vilas Chavan, senior police...
16:41
Defending French Open champion Maria Sharapova crashed out of the French Open. The #2 seed lost against Serbia's Lucie Safarova (pictured) 6-7, 4-6. Safarova has booked her own place in the quarter-finals for the first time
15:58
The government today said Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is testing more Maggi samples collected from different states in the wake of UP FSDA finding monosodium glutamate and lead in excess of the prescribed limit in the instant noodles. While complete report of the tests...
15:50
As the BJP celebrates its first year in office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today told news agency UNI that the government had managed to usher in 'acche din' (good days) in the country. The PM also asserted that discrimination against any community won't be tolerated.Quick takes of the PM's...
15:31
Bangladesh factory owner and 41 others to face murder charges over 2013 collapse that killed more than 1,100 people. The eight-storey Rana Plaza factory building near Dhaka collapsed on 24 April. The building had housed at least five garment factories. A number of people were arrested and charged...
15:19
The issue of implementing the One Rank One Pension (OROP) principle for the veterans of the defence services continues to be in the news for all the wrong reasons, with a final announcement nowhere in sight. With the Narendra Modi government in its second year, its major poll promise of OROP...
14:52
Delhi Industries Minister Satyendar Jain on Sunday bemoaned Shakuntala Gamlin for writing a complaint letter to Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung over the conversion of industrial plots in the city from leasehold to freehold, saying that the senior IAS officer should have addressed the letter...
14:27
After weeks of speculation, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman have agreed to be on BCCI's advisory committee, according to Board secretary Anurag Thakur.
14:25
Another grenade attack on a mobile tower in Habbakadal, Srinagar, J&K, today, reports Mukhtar Ahmad/Rediff.com in Srinagar.One person was injured when militants attacked two mobile towers in the heart of the Srinagar this afternoon. A senior police officer said militants tossed a grenade...
14:00
Capt Kalia from the 4 Jat Regiment was the first Indian Army officer to observe and report the large-scale intrusion by the Pakistani Army into the Indian side of the Line of Control in the Kargil sector of Jammu and Kashmir in 1999. When their bodies were handed over to India, the...
13:51
PM Narendra Modi reacts to the Saurabh Kalia issue. There is no question of insulting our martyrs who give everything to the nation. I would rather quit politics than insult our martyrs.In a big blow to the family of Indian Army Captain Saurabh Kalia, who was tortured by...
13:44
Bangladesh is set to honour former premier Atal Bihari Vajpayee for his outstanding support for the country's independence from Pakistan in 1971, when he was a Lok Sabha member. A foreign ministry spokesman familiar with the process said Bangladesh will hand over Vajpayee's 'Friends of...
13:39
Just In: Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman to join BCCI in a newly-constituted advisory committee.
13:33
Just In: The Karnataka government has decided to file an appeal in the Supreme Court against the acquittal of Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case.
13:07
Farhan Akhtar @FarOutAkhtar Happy times at Milkha-ji's home. Came first in the paratha eating competition! Thank you Nimmi Aunty & @SoniaMilkha.Farhan Akhtar, who portrayed former Olympian Milkha Singh in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag took the cast of Dil Dhadakne Do, to Chandigarh to meet the legend...
12:32
The Congress vice president 'suit boot ki sarkar' jibe has not gone down well with Shiv Sena, an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre.In an editorial in its mouthpiece, the Saamna, the Sena lashed out against Rahul Gandhi saying, If the Congress thinks India's industrialists and...
12:12
Nurses of KEM Hospital in Parel, Mumbai, remembered their colleague Aruna Shanbaug, who remained in coma for 42 years after sexual assault when she was 25 and died in the hospital on May 18.Since the morning, scores of nurses visited the tiny room No 4 in the hospital which was Shanbaug's home as...
12:06
Senior IAS officer Shakuntala Gamlin, whose appointment as the acting chief secretary had triggered a turf war between Delhi Lieutenant Governor and the AAP Government, has complained to Najeeb Jung accusing Industries Minister Satyendra Jain of putting pressure on her over...
11:50
Narendra Modi has caught seniors in his government off guard with three of his foreign policy moves: e-visas for Chinese tourists, the purchase of 36 Rafale combat jets from France and the joint statement with President Barack Obama on a common strategic vision for the Asia Pacific. Read
11:42
Air Marshal BS Dhanoa takes over as the new Vice Chief of Air Staff of Indian Air Force.
11:38
TDP Telangana MLA Revanth Reddy, who was caught while allegedly trying to give a bribe to a nominated MLA to vote for his party's nominee in today's Telangana Legislative Council polls, was arrested and sent to 14-day judicial custody. The court allowed Reddy to vote in the polls. ACB Director...
11:33
Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Rajya Sabha MP on the NDA govt towing the UPA line on the Saurabh Kalia case. Chandrashekar says, It's a case where a crime has been committed against a brave soldier. His family is struggling for justice. I filed a petition in the International Court, which is pending...
11:17
Scattered rains were witnessed in the early hours as the city woke up to partly cloudy skies today with the minimum temperature being recorded at 25.9 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season's average. Weather stations at Safdarjung, Lodhi road and Palam recorded traces of rainfall in the...
11:10
Less than a week before Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels to Bangladesh, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has ruled out signing the Teesta water-sharing agreement with Dhaka during the trip.Responding to queries at a press conference Sunday on completion of a year in office, Swaraj said...
10:30
Pakistani troops today violated the ceasefire by firing with automatic weapons and Rocket Projectile Grenades on forward posts along the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.The Pakistani troops fired upon forward posts in Krishna Ghati sector at 0005 hours, PRO Defence Lt Col...
10:04
CNN-IBN reports: In a huge blow to Kargil martyr Captain Saurabh Kalia's family, the central government has refused to move the International Court of Justice against the treatment meted out to the war hero. The Narendra Modi government has said that moving the ICJ against Pakistan in the...
09:30
The Narendra Modi government may take a decision on the appointment of chiefs of Central Information Commissioner and Central Vigilance Commission on Monday.A meeting of a prime minister-led panel has been called today at the PM's residence and will be attended by Home Minister Rajnath Singh,...
08:35
People will have to shell out more from today while using mobiles, eating out and travelling as the service tax rate goes up to 14 per cent.Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his Budget had proposed to raise service tax from 12.36 per cent (including education cess) to 14 per cent. The proposal...
08:32
The former president of the local organising committee for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Danny Jordaan, admitted that the organisation he headed paid $10 million in 2008 to FIFA, although he denied that it was a bribe.Jordaan's remarks, published on Sunday in the Sunday Independent, comes...
08:31
Narendra Modi will be travelling to Israel, the first by an Indian prime minister to the Jewish country with which bilateral defence cooperation is on an upswing.No dates have been finalised for PM Modi's visit which will take place on mutually convenient dates, External Affairs Minister Sushma...
08:30
The finance ministry has came out with new three-page income tax return (ITR) forms, dropping the controversial provision for mandatory disclosure of foreign trips and dormant bank accounts, while it also extended the last date of filing.The new forms -- ITR 2 and ITR 2A -- will have only three...
08:29
24 out of total 33 crew members on board an ONGC supply vessel at the Bombay High off the Mumbai coast were rescued after a major blaze broke out in its engine room on Sunday.However, there were no casualties in the incident which occurred in the afternoon.While 24 out of total 33 crew members...
08:27
Any immediate respite from heat is unlikely for a few more days as the monsoon which was expected to hit Kerala on May 30, is delayed. The MET department has said that the monsoon is now expected to hit the Kerala coast by the June 4, three days after its normal onset date.The Southwest Monsoon...
08:24
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's assurance on the issue of roll-out of 'One Rank, One Pension' scheme on Sunday was met with skepticism with ex-servicemen seeking a firm timeline and the Congress saying he has further compounded the problem by saying it was a complex issue.Though Modi vowed to...
08:23
In today's special doodle, Google is commemorating the 86th birth anniversary of Indian film actress Nargis Dutt. Born as Fatima Rashid in Kolkata, but known by her screen name, Nargis, she is renowned for her memorable roles in movies including the Oscar-nominated rural drama Mother India,...
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