23:35
The United States Central Intelligence Agency has been involved in a multi-year effort' to break through Apple's security code, according to a new report from the Intercept.Top secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden reveal a CIA-sponsored annual gathering...
23:19
Afghanistan's historic struggles against British imperialism and Soviet invasion will have been in vain if the country succumbs to pressure from neighbouring Pakistan, Hamid Karzai has warned in an interview with the Guardian.The former president of Afghanistan made his...
22:18
The latest weapon in the arsenal of devices to keep women safe in India is a collapsible baton that combines a Samurai sword design, stun gun, pepper spray, panic button, pen knife, oh and a sewing kit and mirror. The Samiidha Bhavani ' named after the Indian Hindu goddess of valour is tthe...
21:48
A German professor who rejected a male Indian student's application for an internship because of India's 'rape problem' has apologised. Prof Annette Beck-Sickinger, a professor of biochemistry at Leipzig University in Germany, told an Indian applicant: I don't accept any Indian...
21:46
The Star Wars universe is set to get its first lesbian character.Moff Mors has been named as the sci-fi series first official LGBT character, although her role in the franchise is yet to be explained. Mors is thought to be an Imperial -- working alongside the likes of Darth Vader and...
21:14
Rewind: Gandhi is arrested and charged with sedition on this day in 1922.
20:55
In the middle of a raging political row over the release of Kashmiri separatist Masarat Alam from jail, the ruling BJP has reportedly warned its Jammu and Kashmir ally Mufti Mohammad Sayeed: Mend your ways or we will end the alliance. BJP president Amit Shah summoned party leader Nirmal Singh,...
20:41
A social activist said he had been detained by police and had his computer equipment impounded after organising a public screening of the banned BBC documentary about the savage Delhi gang rape. Ketan Dixit, an activist and film-maker who has campaigned extensively against acid attacks on...
20:00
The Lok Sabha passed the land bill in a voice vote with 9 amendments even as the Congress and regional parties like the BJD and the TRS walked out as their amendments were not passed.
19:53
Pakistan is to resume executions for all capital offences, after earlier lifting a moratorium on the death penalty for terrorism offences only. All condemned prisoners who have exhausted the appeals process and whose pleas for clemency are rejected, now face execution, officials say. The partial...
19:35
Delhi police has launched a Facebook page to address grievances of Christian institutions and individuals in the wake of a series of attacks on Christian institutions in the city. The new Facebook page 'Delhi Police Minority Brethren' was created on February 22 and it can can be used for posting...
19:15
Jammu and Kashmir Home Secretary Suresh Kumar has said that no further release of militants or political prisoners will take place.This statement comes hot on the heels of the controversial release of separatist Masarat Alam by J-K Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. On Tuesday, the state...
19:12
The swine flu toll in the country has swelled to 1,482 while the number of affected persons crossed the 26,000-mark today even as a minister in the Rajasthan government tested positive for the disease. The Union Health...
18:45
Jammu and Kashmir deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh summoned by BJP chief Amit Shah amid row over separatist Masarat Alam's release.The release of the separatist by PDP chief and J&K CM Mufti Mohammed Sayeed has caused tremendous friction between the two parties that are running a coalition...
18:25
Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for Seychelles today on the first leg of his five-day visit to three key Indian Ocean countries that also includes Mauritius and Sri Lanka, asserting that strong relations with them was vital for India's security and progress.Seeking to ramp up India's influence...
17:59
A Pakistani court has reportedly issued a bailable arrest warrant against former military strongman General (retired) Pervez Musharraf in relation to the murder case of Lal Masjid cleric Ghazi Abdul Rasheed.Islamabad's Additional Sessions Judge Wajid Ali Khan presided over the hearing...
17:39
Centre has blacklisted 10 NGOs and issued show-cause notices to 87 in the last two years for misappropriating funds meant for social welfare. The deficiences found during a review and monitoring process of the NGO's were non-submission of utilisation certicates in...
17:14
The Islamic State group has publicly beheaded three men in northern Iraq, two of them for allegedly engaging in homosexual acts, according to photos shared by sympathisers on social media Tuesday.The jihadist group, which controls swathes of Iraq and neighbouring Syria, has carried out hundreds...
17:01
A Delhi court has discharged top Lashkar-e-Tayiba bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda in a 21-year-old case under TADA and on several other counts.Tunda, 73, was one of the 20 terrorists India had asked Pakistan to hand over after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, had withdrawn his bail...
16:52
In July last year, we had reported that leaders of the BRICS emerging market nations have launched a $100 billion development bank and a currency reserve pool in their first concrete step toward reshaping the Western-dominated international financial system. The bank, aimed at funding...
16:26
The molecular Indian restaurant Gaggan in Bangkok topped the S. Pellegrino Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list for 2015, moving up from the No. 3 spot last year.Gaggan was opened by 37-year-old Indian chef Gaggan Anand in 2010, and it sits inside a two-level white colonial-style house on a quiet...
16:23
In the wake of the rejection of an Indian student's internship request by a professor in Germany citing the rape problem in the country, Union Minister Gen (retd) VK Singh today said that differences of opinion exist and issues caused due to misunderstanding would go away. ...
16:23
MPs behave like hooligans. What they do inside Rajya Sabha is hooliganism, said Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha P J Kurien as Andhra MPs, especially Jesudasu Seelam, repeatedly disturbed the House. Angry Kurien told Seelam to resume his seat otherwise action will be taken against him. After...
16:16
NDTV reports: Rahul Gandhi, whose Congress party had announced that he would be back in Delhi by today, has extended his leave of absence and will now return only by the end of this week, sources said.He will not even be there to add to his party's numbers when the Lok Sabha...
16:04
Criticising Pakistan for failure to contain extremist groups, an influential US sSenator today asked it to either hand over Mumbai attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi to India or present him to the International criminal court in the Hague for crimes against humanity. Chairman of the powerful...
16:02
On Tuesday Akali Dal MPs met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to protest against some clauses in the BJP's Land Acquisition Bill. They were to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi but as he was leaving for Sri Lanka he told them to meet Jaitley instead. Now comes the interesting part....
15:55
Senior BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain has proposed that a museum on the life and times of Prophet Muhammad be built in India, home to the second largest Muslim population in the world. Hussain, during a recent official trip to Saudi Arabia, visited an exhibition-cum-museum on the life and times of...
15:47
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee might take action against Mukul Roy for speaking to the press, sources tell CNN-IBN.
15:41
Just in: The Shiv Sena, Akali Dal and the BJD have agreed to support the BJP on the land bill, NDTV reports. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vekaiah Naidu spoke to Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray. The NDA allies are unlikely to press for amendments, according to NDTV. The...
15:34
There're a couple of new dishes on the Parliament canteen menu: pesarattu and upma, courtesy TRS member A Jitendhar Reddy who is also chairman of the Parliament canteen committee. Reddy decided to introduce the two dishes to promote Telangana's rich cuisine among MPs. On Tuesday he went...
15:30
Scottish actor Daniel Portman, known for playing Podrick Payne on the hit TV show Game of Thrones, will attend the upcoming Bangalore Comic Con 2015. The three-day festival will take place at White Orchid Convention Centre from April 3-5. Portman becomes the second International actor to be...
15:17
The BJP's national executive is to meet in Bengaluru April 2-4, and its slogan, 'Capture Karnataka', says all about its main agenda. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the entire Union Cabinet are expected to attend the meeting, for which party president Amit Shah will send out the invitations by...
15:17
The Supreme Court has stayed Delhi high court order allowing the accused in the Uber cab rape case to recall and re-examine 13 witnesses. It has also issued a notice to the accused and the Delhi government on the victim's plea. Trial proceeding in the case have also been stayed.
15:12
The Bombay high court today dismissed the petition of Congress Rahul Gandhi who sought quashing of a complaint against him in a case of alleged hate speech against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.Rahul had earlier managed to get HC’s reprieve of not personally appearing in the defamation case...
15:07
Jadavpur University professor, Ambikesh Mahapatra, who was arrested in 2012 for allegedly circulating a social media clip lampooning West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wins a case against the state government in the high court. The court has ordered the government to compensate the...
15:02
Smriti Irani, Uma Bharti, Maneka Gandhi, Najma Heptullah and Harsimrat Kaur are seething with anger over the step-fatherly treatment meted out by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to their ministries. All of them have faced a cut in allocation of funds to their...
14:58
If you are not on the riotously funny Jeffrey Archer chat on Rediff.com, you should. For the bestselling author is on a roll. Here's a sample: Dilmesh Singh: Sir, you have seen lots of ups and downs in your life. When can we expect you to write an autobiography? Also, how would you...
14:51
Former Uttar Pradesh minister D P Yadav, convicted in a murder case, has been sentenced to life. He was earlier convicted in a murder case of Mahendra Singh Bhati, then MLA from Dadri in Ghaziabad district, and one of his associates.Bhati and his close friend Udai Prakash Arya was gunned down by...
14:24
West Indian batting great Viv Richards has been voted as the greatest ODI player in the history of the game ahead of India's cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar in an online poll. With an astonishing 29 of 50 jurors picking him as the best ODI player of all time, Richards won by a landslide in...
13:33
Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today that he is not satisfied with the report of the Jammu and Kashmir government on the release of separatist Masarat Alam. We have sought clarification, Rajnath said. The government in Jammu and Kashmir, where BJP is a partner, is not a...
13:21
President United States Barack Obama exchanged emails with Hillary Clinton on her private email address while she was Secretary of State but only recently learned the details of the personal email server she was operating, the White House said today. Obama had previously said he...
13:05
After freeing Hurriyat leader, Masrat Alam from the prison the Jammu and Kashmir government has cleared release of 15 Pakistani nationals including the border crossers and militants of different outfits lodged in various prisons. Sources said the cases of militants and those Pakistani...
12:54
India's ban on the BBC gang-rape documentary will not last very long as the country's courtsare not puppets of the government and civilised values will return, the British filmmaker behind the controversial film has said. My prediction is that the ban will not last very long a...
12:49
Normalcy today returned to Dimapur town with authorities lifting prohibitory orders imposed in the town in the wake of lynching of a rape accused. However, Internet and SMS services continued to be blocked. Prohibitory orders under Section 144 CrPC have been lifted from Dimapur town from 6 am...
12:27
Mark Lippert, the US ambassador to South Korea who was slashed at a breakfast meeting last week, has been discharged from hospital in Seoul, BBC reports. Lippert suffered gashes to his face and hand when he was attacked by a knife-wielding Korean nationalist. He told reporters...
12:03
A satire on how to survive the beef ban. Read the story here
12:00
Reacting to a statement by the Aam Aadmi Party that accused Yogendra Yadav for anti-party activities, he said, I want to thank my colleagues that they made their views public in a statement. I welcome the statement by 4 colleagues. Begins the possibility of open, transparent dialogue. Truth shall...
11:39
Philanthropist Sam Simon, one of the creative minds behind the popular animated series 'The Simpsons', has passed away due to terminal colon cancer. He was 59. Simon died yesterday at his home here, his foundation, the Sam Simon Foundation, confirmed the news via Facebook, reported Time. It is...
11:28
Ruckus continues in Rajya Sabha for the second day in a row over the release of Kashmiri separatist leader Masarat Alam. Addressing the Upper House, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said, The government has sought clarification from Jammu and Kashmir. He said that the Centre was not...
11:11
At Bharatiya Janata Party's parliamentary party meet held this morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked ministers to brief MPs regularly on what each ministry is doing.
11:04
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has to pay Rs 2 lakh as demolition charge for the illegal ramp outside his house in Mumbai's suburban Bandra. A notice has been sent to the actor to recover the cost of demolition. Khan used the ramp to park his vanity van. According to a MiD DAY report, the fee...
10:30
Was the Narendra Modi government unaware that the order to release Kashmiri separatist Masarat Alam from jail was a decision taken when the state was under central rule?On Monday in Parliament, Prime Minister Modi flayed the Jammu and Kashmir government for the decision, said the Centre had not...
10:26
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid wreath at the Amar Jawan Jyoti to commemorate World War-I centenary.The commemoration is in memory of the 1.5 million Indian soldiers who fought in the war under British Empire and over 74,000 who made the supreme sacrifice, whose names...
10:12
The Modi government has made significant changes in the controversial Land Acquisition Bill as it seeks to garner support from an Opposition which has opposed it as being anti-farmer.It moved nine amendments, including doing away with exemption to social infrastructure projects in...
10:04
India's Daughter, the documentary on the December 16 Delhi gang rape, premiered in the United States last night. Slumdog Millionaire's Frieda Pinto and Meryl Streep were among those who attended the event at New York's Baruch College. The screening started with a candlelight vigil honouring the...
09:16
Press Council chairman Justice Markandey Katju stirred another controversy today by calling Mahatma Gandhi a British agent in his latest blog post.Gandhi did great harm to India by injecting religion into politics, he said.By constantly injecting religion into politics continuously for...
08:55
Apple unveiled its first wearable device in San Fransico last night. Here are 13 things to know about the Apple Watch.
08:41
The divide within the Aam Aadmi Party continues to widen. A statement released by the party this morning attacks its senior leaders Yogendra Yadav and Shanti and Prashant Bhushan. We have decided to expose Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan to the world. Bhushan told leaders not to campaign for...
04:21
The destruction by ISIL militants of many of Iraq's archaeological treasures has provoked international outcry.Since summer 2014, the US-led coalition has been targeting jihadist positions in Iraq. But the Iraqi Tourism and Antiquities Minister now seems to have accused the...
04:18
Sam Simon, a co-creator of The Simpsons and animal-rights advocate who made a midlife career shift into philanthropy and channelled much of his personal fortune into social causes, has died. Simon died Sunday at his home in Pacific Palisades, California, his agent, Andy Patman said. He was 59.
02:22
President Barack Obama knew that Hillary Rodham Clinton conducted business on a nongovernment email account while secretary of state, but only recently learned the details of the privately run system she was operating, the White House said. The White House has drawn scrutiny over Clinton's...
02:22
UN investigators probing the 2014 Gaza war today requested for a deferral of their report presentation to allow them time to add more information after the head of the team quit under Israeli pressure. The Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict was scheduled to present its report to...
02:00
North Korea apologised to Bangladesh after one of its diplomats was caught trying to smuggle 27 kilograms of gold into the south Asian country, a Dhaka official told AFP. Son Young Nam the first secretary of the North Korean embassy in Dhaka tried to sneak in the bullion, worth around USD...
01:38
The United States has begun to deploy 3,000 troops on a three-month exercise to reassure Russia's nervous neighbors in the Baltic, military officials said. Operation Atlantic Resolve will see major NATO forces working alongside their allies in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia former Soviet...
01:38
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif today dismissed as of no legal value a letter from 47 US senators warning that any nuclear deal will require Congressional approval. In an open letter to the Islamic republic, the 47 Republicans, including Senate leaders and several potential 2016...
00:43
President Barack Obama slapped sanctions on seven Venezuelan officials , accusing them of perpetrating human rights violations and public corruption in the socialist-governed South American nation. The individuals all come from the top echelon of the state security apparatus that was...
00:33
Judges at the International Criminal Court urged the UN Security Council to take the necessary measures to tackle Sudan's persistent refusal to arrest the country's president and send him to The Hague to stand trial on charges of orchestrating genocide in Darfur. It was the Security Council...
00:33
Russia has vastly enhanced its military capabilities in Crimea since annexing the peninsula, turning it into a power projection platform, a senior NATO general was reported as saying. What we've seen is easy to describe as the militarisation of Crimea, the alliance's top commander for...
00:31
The United States announced a USD 5 million increased reward for information leading to the return of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, as it marked the eighth anniversary of his mysterious disappearance in Iran. The FBI had previously issued a $1 million reward for Levinson's return in...
00:30
Mamata finally meets PM on his ground, on her termsStudent denied internship in Germany because of India's 'rape problem'Indian-American political legend to run for CongressOppn rejects land bill, dubs govt move 'pro-corporate'Stalin, Tamil Nadu's own Prince CharlesJuveniles, accused of heinous...
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