23:58
A P J M Maraikayar, an elder brother of former President A P J Abdul Kalam, has urged Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to set up 'Kalam National Centre for Knowledge Discovery' in the capital in his memory. Dr Kalam had a personal library, students' interaction hall where he used to meet...
23:47
Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan today joined the chorus of intelligentsia against growing intolerance, saying he has been alarmed by a number of incidences and his wife Kiran Rao even suggested that they should probably leave the country. He also virtually supported those returning their awards,...
23:45
The ashes of Vishwa Hindu Parishad patriarch Ashok Singhal, who passed away at a Gurgaon hospital last week, were today brought here and immersed in the holy Sangam in presence of a large number of senior Sangh Parivar leaders.The ashes of Singhal, who breathed his last on November 17, were...
23:19
Vishwa Hindu Parishad general secretary Pravin Togadia today called for building of Ram Temple at Ayodhya by passing a law in Parliament. Ashok Singhal was synonymous to Ram Temple Movement. The real 'shrandhanjali' (tribute) to him will be to build Ram Temple, Togadia said at the condolence...
23:18
Highly critical of Karnataka government's decision to celebrate Tipu Jayanti to appease minorities, an article in 'Panchjanya' described him as 'Aurangzeb' of South who forcibly converted lakhs of people.Citing an eminent sage's advice, articles in 'Organiser' suggested that government should...
23:11
The Gujarat Congress today alleged that over one lakh voters in Ahmedabad have failed to exercise their franchise as their names were deleted overnight by the State Election Commission ahead of the polls to six municipal corporations held yesterday.However, SEC refuted these allegations by saying...
21:46
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today said his country was wiling to take the lead in forming a multilateral forum with UN support to ensure the maritime security of the Indian Ocean.He was making the keynote address at Galle Dialogue the annual maritime security conference held in...
21:19
Nepal's major political parties today agreed to table a Constitution amendment bill to accommodate the demands of Indian-origin Madhesis over the division of their homeland and better representation, a move likely to ease the political logjam and spiralling violence. After four protesters...
21:05
Vidhie Mukerjea, daughter of Indrani and Peter Mukerjea, has told CBI that when she tried to contact Sheena Bora after her disappearance in April 2012, she received a reply but from a new email id in Sheena's name. This may bolster the CBI's case that after murdering Sheena in April 2012 and...
20:53
Kashi Vishwanath temple authorities today denied media reports that they were planning to impose a dress code for the pilgrims and said it had only urged the devotees to wear decent clothes. There is no such dress code of wearing saree imposed for foreign women as well as domestic pilgrims...
20:50
JUST IN: former media magnate Peter Mukerjea is being taken to New Delhi by the CBI.Earlier in the day, the CBI got Peter Mukerjea's custody for another three days. The CBI had asked for a 10-day extension. Mukerjea's custody ends on November 26. The CBI has told the Mumbai court that...
20:35
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today said that two more families have claimed Geeta, a hearing and speech impaired girl who returned from Pakistan last month, to be their daughter but she has refused to identify one of them on the basis of their photographs.Swaraj also said that efforts...
20:15
Home Minister Rajnath Singh today paid a visit to the founding site of China's Communist Party here, perhaps making him the first BJP leader to visit the origins of the Red Movement.Singh, who concluded his six-day visit to China today, also visited a nearby police station in Xin Tian Di which...
20:14
Government officers who are by now used to take various pledges like Sadbhavna pledge, Anti-terrorism pledge, Swachh Bharat pledge and Ekta pledge, now will be required to do one more on November 26 every year, beginning this month.Modi government has decided to observe November 26 as the...
20:10
PM Narendra Modi waves at his supporters gathered outside Komala Vilas restaurant in Singapore's 'Little India'. The prime minister just finished dinner at the iconic restaurant hosted by Singpore's PM Lee Hsien Loong. Komala Vilas was opened in 1947 and has become a household...
19:57
Dreaded terrorist group ISIS does not consider South Asian Muslims, including Indians, good enough to fight in conflict zone of Iraq and Syria and so treat them as inferior to Arab fighters often tricking theminto suicide attacks.According to an intelligence report prepared by foreign agencies...
19:49
This winter, Bali, a city in Indonesia, has topped the list of most popular international destination for Indian travellers while Goa is the mostpreferred domestic destination, according to a survey.For Indian travellers, Bali is the most popular international destination and Goa the most popular...
19:44
BJP today expelled senior leader Hari Om from the party's primary membership for six years after he criticised the party's actions, including forming the coalition government with PDP.BJP state president and MP Jugal Kishore Sharma expelled Hari Om for gross indiscipline, anti-party activities...
19:05
Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong hosts dinner for PM Narendra Modi at Komala Vilas in Serangoon Road, Singapore. Komala Vilas was opened in 1947 and has become a household name in Singapore. It serves vegetarian food. Amid a standoff between China and some East Asian nations over South China Sea,...
18:10
PM Narendra Modi delivers the 37th Singapore Lecture with a tribute to the founder of the nation state -- Lee Kuan Yew. Highlights of his speech.-- To the people of Singapore on 50 years of Independence, I extend greetings of 1.25 billion friends and admirers-- I can do no better than to begin...
17:42
Belgian police have made five more arrests in anti-terror raids, but suspected Paris attacks gunman Salah Abdeslam remains at large, the authorities have said. The total number of arrests are now 21. Some 22 raids were carried out Sunday across Brussels and Charleroi, the federal prosecutor's...
16:53
The CBI gets Peter Mukerjea's custody for another three days. The CBI had asked for a 10-day extension. Mukerjea's custody ends on November 26. The CBI has told the Mumbai court that financial transactions were the motive behind Sheena Bora's murder and has asked the court for a remand...
16:37
After a successful three-day visit in Malaysia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Singapore's Changi Airport. Trade, urban and skill development, defence co-operation and cyber security will be high on his agenda during the two-day visit to Singapore. Prime Minister Modi will...
16:29
The CBI has told the Mumbai court that financial transactions were the motive behind Sheena Bora's murder and has asked the court for a remand extension of 10 days. Peter Mukerjea was produced before the court in connection with the Sheena Bora murder case. Peter was arrested on November 20 on...
16:06
Sheena Bora murder case: CBI seeks more 10 days remand of Peter Mukerjea. His custody ends today.
16:06
If a woman foreigner in shorts or capri pants wants to visit the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi, she will have to change into a sari first. The famed shrine in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency today introduced a dress code targeted particularly at women visitors from the...
16:00
After his son Tej Pratap Yadav was asked to repeat his oath as Bihar minister after a fumble, Lalu Yadav says that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should do the same. Yadav tweeted a link to PM Modi's oath-taking in May last year and said that when he had to say Akshunn or to...
15:39
The deep sea hunt for a missing Malaysian airliner has shifted to a remote part of the Indian Ocean where a British pilot has calculated that the Boeing 777 made a controlled ditching last year with 239 people aboard, officials said today. The patch of deep ocean southwest of Australia that Capt....
15:21
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell are reportedly planning to wed after 30 years together. The Hollywood stars, who met in 1983, will exchange vows in a ceremony at their ranch near Aspen, Colorado in the New Year, reported Contactmusic. It's going to be cowboy hats, horses and rock 'n' roll. All their...
15:13
The government is reaching out to the Opposition to bring it on board to ensure passage of the Constitution Amendment Bill for GST in the Winter Session, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu today said. Terming GST as the need of the hour, Naidu said: GST should be passed in the...
14:51
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal says RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav pulled him into a hug. I continue to be anti corruption, Kejriwal said.The Delhi Chief Minister drew flak from leaders of various political parties for hugging Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Yadav during the oath-taking ceremony of Bihar...
14:44
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have lunch with the media on November 28 at the BJP headquarters at 11 Ashoka Road. The event is rare for two reasons:1. PM Modi has restricted interactions with the Indian media2. The event organised by BJP president Amit Shah is the first meeting with the press...
14:26
Former president APJ Abdul Kalam's grand nephew APJ Sheikh Salim, who had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party recently, quit the party today. Syed Ibrahim was reportedly upset with the BJP-led Central government for not making Kalam's Delhi bungalow a memorial and allotting it to an Union...
14:06
Mali today started three days of national mourning for the victims of the jihadist siege at a luxury hotel that left 19 people dead in the capital Bamako, with neighbouring Senegal, Mauritania and Guinea joining in a show of solidarity. The investigation was following several lines with no...
14:00
Mukhtar Ahmad/Rediff.com reporting from Srinagar says that the pilot of the chopper carrying the six pilgrims was a woman. Everyone on board the chopper which was flying from Katra to the cave shrine of Vaishnodevi has died in the crash. The helicopter belonged to the privately-run Himalayan Heli...
13:32
A chopper carrying pilgrims to the Vaishnodevi shrine crashes in Katra, Jammu and Kashmir. Six pilgrims and the pilot have been killed in the incident. Katra is the base for the pilgrimage to Vaishnodevi in Jammu. Details awaited. File pic: Devotees wait to enter the holy cave of Vaishnodevi
13:27
1 Army jawan killed in Pakistan ceasefire violation at LoC Nowshera, Rajouri Distt, J&K.
13:20
Vowing to combat terror, India and Malaysia today decided to ramp up their strategic ties in security and defence sectors and called on all states to bring perpetrators of terrorism to justice as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with his Malaysian counterpart. Modi, while speaking at a...
13:15
French president Francois Hollande to go to US to meet President Obama to discuss the war on terror.
12:56
PM Narendra Modi releases Rs 940 crore for flood-hit Tamil Nadu. With the North East monsoon leaving a trail of destruction in the state, the state government on Monday pegged the damage at Rs 8,481 crore, with Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa urging the Prime Minister to immediately release Rs...
12:30
Voicing her concern about the growing environment of intolerance and throttling of the voice of expression in the country, acclaimed actress-filmmaker Nandita Das says this kind of cultural policing is dangerous for a democracy like India. The 46-year-old Earth actress feels it is crucial to...
12:28
An Aam Aadmi Party MLA was on Sunday booked for allegedly misbehaving with a police official on duty in northeast Delhi's Rohtash Nagar area, a charge denied by the legislator. According to the police, legislator Sarita Singh's driver allegedly hit the police official's motorbike while reversing...
12:21
It's taken four years in the writing, says NDTV's Barkha Dutt, and it goes on the stands next month @BDUTT tweeted. It took me four years to write & it's ready now- My first book- #ThisUnquietLand -Stories From India's Fault Line.Amazon, where the hardcover edition is available for Rs 419,...
12:14
HRD minister Smriti Irani has a spat with Economic Times journalist Anubhuti Vishnoi on Twitter.Vishnoi's report in the ET today says that HRD minister Smriti Irani recommended over 5,000 requests for admission to the Central government-run Kendriya Vidyalaya chain of schools in the current...
12:02
Infosys Foundaion, the philanthropic arm of IT major Infosys has instituted 11 faculty chairs at eight leading academic institutes across India over the past year. The grants range from Rs 2 crore to Rs 33 crore for setting up the chairs with a total commitment of Rs 56 crore. The donated...
12:00
When I first started out we used to charge 1 anna for one person. Now we charge Rs 20. Those days we made five rupees a day which worked out to Rs 150 a month. Now I earn Rs 300 to 400 every day. I was happier when I was earning Rs 15 a day. I could save Rs 10 every day. Now I cannot save...
11:53
Image of the day: A female Pakistani commando guards Sikh pilgrims from India as they arrive in Pakistan.Over 2,500 Sikh pilgrims arrived in Lahore on Friday from India by three trains to participate in religious and cultural rituals to mark the 547th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak.
11:42
Some good news coming in: One militant killed in an ongoing encounter with security forces in Kupwara, J&K.
11:41
Lalu's son Tejaswi Yadav takes charge as deputy CM in the Bihar government. Tejaswi, who at 26 is the youngest deputy CM of the state, said about his inexperience on Saturday, a day after the government was sworn in: No one comes with experience. He was also allocated the portfolios of PWD,...
11:30
Call it family values or finger firmly on the remote control, Lalu Prasad won't let his minister sons venture far from his shadow. Even though the sons - deputy chief minister Tejaswi and health, minor water resources, forests and environment minister Tej Pratap - are entitled to ministerial...
11:28
In a massive encounter that has entered its second day today, Indian Army personnel are engaged in a search operation to flush out hiding terrorists from the Rajwar forests in Handwara, Jammu and Kashmir. The fierce gun battle that has been raging on since Sunday entered its second day...
11:18
A serious setback for the BJP in Bihar need not be a substantial gain for progressive forces. The euphoric moment of an electoral battle is dangerous for it could take eyes off the retreat on multiple fronts in the ongoing political war for the very idea of India, writes former AAP member...
11:13
In a gesture of sagacious political leadership, the defence minister chose to be present with the family for the last rites of Mahadik in his native place in the Satara district of Maharashtra (picture). As per the military tradition of honouring the honourable, Mahadik's coffin would have...
10:45
An intricately carved gateway, built at a cost of over $1 million and representing hundreds of years of Buddhist and Islamic art forms in India, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 'Little India' in Kuala Lumpur on Monday.The Torana Gate is a gift from India to mark the launch of...
10:35
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will interact with the sugarcane farmers and take part in a march to highlight their problems in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district today.During the 'Kisan Padyatra', Rahul will interact with farmers of Hardakhedi, Sikrikalan and Patni villages and listen to...
10:33
Air India has mopped up Rs 7,000 crore by selling nine of its 21 Dreamliner aircraft to a Singaporean lessor, which it has taken back on lease from the company under an SLB (sale and lease back) arrangement.A major chunk of these funds will go into repayment of the bridge loan availed earlier for...
09:37
The case of Al Qaeda shows that even if the Islamic State is decimated in its heartland by the multinational coalition now bombing its forces, this may not mean the end of the death cult it represents. Like the Al Qaeda survived the destruction of its command centres in Afghanistan, the...
09:34
The rupee depreciated by 11 paise to 66.30 against the US dollar in early trade today due to appreciation in the US currency overseas. Dealers attributed the rupee's fall to fresh demand for the US currency from importers and banks. However, early gains in domestic stock markets capped...
09:27
Highlights of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's joint press statement with his Malaysian counterpart Najib:* We will work together to combat terrorism and on climate change.* Very pleased with our discussions. Bilateral ties will get deeper and stronger.* Appreciate your gesture of hosting me in the...
09:18
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday held talks with his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak on ways to ramp up bilateral cooperation with the focus on building a well-rounded partnership. On the third and final day of his Malaysia visit, Modi began bilateral programmes with a ceremonial...
09:16
Terming the Paris attacks as an international conspiracy, Lashkar-e-Tayiba head Hafiz Saeed has claimed that the attacks were staged to pin the blame on Muslims. In an interview with Online at an undisclosed location, the JuD chief condemned the attacks saying that Muslims in the West in...
08:39
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was accorded a ceremonial welcome in Kuala Lumpur as he entered the bilateral phase of his visit to Malaysia on Monday, the third day of his visit to this southeast Asian nation.Modi was greeted with a hug by his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak at Putrajaya, the...
08:37
At least 16 people were shot in New Orleans, Louisiana when a gunman began randomly firing at hundreds of people gathered in a playground for a video filming event. Local media describe a chaotic scene, with the injured lying on the ground and ambulances rushing away.Police estimate up to...
08:30
Terrorist outfit ISIS has a mother: the invasion of Iraq. But it also has a father: Saudi Arabia and its religious-industrial complex. Until that point is understood, battles may be won, but the war will be lost. Jihadists will be killed, only to be reborn again in future generations...
08:28
* Terror threat: Belgium police arrest 16, Paris fugitive still at large* Landslide in Myanmar kills about 100 people, with many others missing * At least 10 shot at playground during party after neighborhood parade in New Orleans, US* PM Modi to visit Batu Caves Temple, inaugurate Torana...
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