23:51
Eight CRPF commandos have been killed in an IED blast in Bihar. Officials say that the toll may rise. More details are awaited.
23:34
JUST IN: An encounter between Naxalites and Cobra battalion is going on near the border of Imamganj and Aurangabad police stations.Five jawans have been injured in the encounter. More details awaited.
23:29
In a major crackdown, 653 crude bombs were seized from West Bengal's Burdwan district and as many as 1,117 people have been arrested in the drive launched by the police.Burdwan Superintendent of Police Kunal Agarwal said acting on a tip off the force raided and seized 123 bombs stored in six...
23:00
A freelance Indian journalist, who was recently attacked and harassed in Chhattisgarh, has won the prestigious 2016 International Press Freedom Award, it was announced today. Malini Subramaniam, a freelance journalist from India, was attacked and harassed after she reported on human rights...
22:47
The World Anti-Doping Agency's executive board wants the IOC to ban all Russian teams from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.WADA issued a seven-point list of requests after it published a report which confirmed claims of state-backed Russian cheating at the Sochi Olympics and beyond.WADA also wants...
22:29
A case of sedition has been registered against the management of a private school in Budhar town in the district for allegedly marking Jammu and Kashmir incorrectly on India's map in the school diary.Acting on the complaint of Shrikrishna Gupta, the case was registered against Green Wales School,...
22:13
Uncle of the truck driver who killed 84 people on the French Riviera says his nephew was indoctrinated about two weeks ago by an Algerian member of the Islamic State group in Nice, as anti-terrorism authorities question potential accomplices in the devastating attack.France held a countrywide...
22:03
Turkey's Interior Ministry has fired nearly 9,000 police officers, bureaucrats and others and detained thousands of suspected plotters following a foiled coup against the government, local media reported.News of the firings and detentions came as the United States. and European Union urged the...
21:27
A special CBI court hearing the sensational Sheena Bora murder case today extended till August 1 the judicial custody of key accused Indrani Mukerjea, her husband Peter Mukerjea and her former husband SanjeevKhanna.All the accused were produced before special CBI judge H S Mahajan.Meanwhile, in...
21:13
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said on Monday that the truck attack that killed 84 in the Riviera city of Nice was of a premeditated nature.Investigations have shown that Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel staked out the Promenade des Anglais on several occasions, taking selfies there throughout the day...
20:41
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre and the Law Commission to examine the Justice R M Lodha committee's recommendation to legalise betting in cricket. A bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice F M I Kalifulla, which accepted majority of the recommendations of Justice R M Lodha...
20:33
A judge has acquitted a Baltimore police officer on all charges in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died after he was injured in a police transport van.Lt. Brian Rice was acquitted on Monday after a bench trial by Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams. Rice is the fourth of the...
20:25
Two civilians killed in firing by security forces at Qazigund in south Kashmir
20:12
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has convened an All Party Meeting on July 21 to discuss the prevailing law and order situation in the Valley, an official spokesman said today. Invitation has been extended to all the political parties including PDP, BJP, National Conference,...
20:04
Breaking: Deputy mayor of Istanbul district shot in the head
20:02
Hours after Navjot Singh Sidhu gave up his Rajya Sabha seat, amidst rumours that he will be joining the Aam Aadmi Party and becoming their chief ministerial candidate in Punjab, AAP chief and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal took to Twitter and wrote, People can give their right hand for an RS seat....
19:38
JUST IN: Turkey cancels public servants' annual leave until further notice.
19:36
The health of eminent litterateur and social activist Mahasweta Devi, who is in critical condition due to old age complications, is showing slight signs of improvement. She, however, continues to be critical and on ventilation, doctors attending on her at the Belle Vue Clinic, where she is...
19:32
Punjab BJP president Vijay Sampla today said cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu did not take the party into confidence before resigning from Rajya Sabha and asserted the party will not be affected adversely even if he joins AAP. They did not (Navjot Singh Sidhu, his wife Navjot Kaur...
19:14
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan today said India has a long way to catch up with China on per capita GDP and will need years of strong growth but cautioned against expanding economy at the cost of environment. China's per capita GDP is about four times of India's, he said. So yes, we have a...
19:03
Evidence of widespread state-sponsored doping by Russian athletes at the Sochi Olympics was confirmed on Monday in a report by an independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency. According to the report, which was led by Canadian law professor and sports lawyer Richard McLaren and...
18:48
Problems on the London Overground delayed morning commuters for the umpteenth time and station staff gave them a cheeky explanation. The sign at Dalston Kingsland station read: We apologise for yesterday's power failure, this was due to someone capturing the station Pikachu.Read...
18:34
Karnataka Minister KJ George has resigned just hours after a police case was ordered against him in the suicide case of a senior police officer, who the minister is accused of harassing. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is yet to accept the resignation, according to reports.
17:54
Home Minister Rajnath Singh rises to make his statement on the debate on the situation in Kashmir in the Rajya Sabha. Burhan Wani was a Hizbul Mujahideen leader, he used to instigate Kashmiri youth, the home minister says.Jo kuch bhi ho raha hai poori tarah se Pakistan sponsored hai, kehne ko...
17:25
Just in: BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, who put his papers as a Rajya Sabha MP today reacted to reports that he was headed to the Aam Admi Party. Refusing to corroborate or rebuff reports, Sidhu said Punjab's interest was paramount. In the war of right and wrong, you can't be neutral, the former...
17:08
Russian President Vladimir Putin did on Sunday what no major western leader from the NATO member countries cared to do when he telephoned his Turkish counterpart Recep Erdogan to convey his sympathy, goodwill and best wishes for the latter's success in restoring constitutional order and stability...
16:35
Kashmir's print media gag of three days has been achieved without any written order, which would have required citing of some law, writes media watcher website, The Hoot. It has been achieved by brute force on day one, with police teams raiding printing presses and seizing copies...
16:23
Zakir Naik, a gentle, rockstar televangelist, is dangerous as young Muslims may be swayed by his fundamentalist interpretations of Islam and justify victimhood and extremism, says Shekhar Gupta. Read more
16:20
France fell silent today for the victims of the Nice truck attack, but the mourning was overshadowed by politicians tearing into each other over the massacre. A sea of people thronged the Nice promenade for the emotional minute's silence just days after a Tunisian attacker drove a truck into a...
15:58
Till Narendra Modi took over as prime minister and put an end to the practice, it was normal practice for media organisations to accompany prime ministers and Presidents on their official visits abroad.The practice that began with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in the mid-1980s was continued by Atal...
15:39
Amid the clamour within a section of Congress for Priyanka Gandhi to take an active political role, senior leader Jairam Ramesh has said no individual has a magic wand to revive the party and a team effort is the only way forward. I have always believed that the answer to the Congress' revival...
15:38
For desi travellers on a budget, consuming London is a challenge. It's so large, there's so much information and if there's more than one of you, reconciling different notions of what's worth seeing is a tense, snappy business. So we did the sensible thing; we gave up. We were living in a...
15:14
Just in: Navjyot Singh Sidhu resigns from Rajya Sabha.The veteran cricketer and three-time Amritsar MP, seemed to have headed towards a rehabilitation within the Punjab unit of the BJP after the Narendra Modi-led government nominated him to the Rajya Sabha. Sidhu has been on the sidelines of...
14:44
The Supreme Court ruling on the Lodha Committee recommendations on the functioning of the Board of Control of Cricket in India. Highlights...The SC accepts the massive Lodha commission recommendations. Recommendation on having no minister in BCCI and age cap of 70 accepted.It accepts...
14:24
Kashmir is being discussed as the Rajya Sabha begins after lunch. Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, beings the debate, saying, I stand here as a deeply hurt man.He says India has not learnt its lessons from Kashmir. Militants and common people cannot be treated alike....
13:57
Turkey detains 103 generals, admirals in total after coup, says state media.Turkish authorities have detained 6,000 people over Friday's failed coup. The sweep includes high-ranking soldiers and about 2,700 judges. The number is expected to rise further, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag has...
13:52
British foreign minister and top Brexit backer Boris Johnson pledged today that the country would continue to play a leading role in Europe as he met his European Union peers for the first time. We have to give effect to the will of the people and leave the European Union but... we are not going...
13:39
NIA files charge sheet against 6 alleged ISIS operatives before a special court.
13:17
Just in: China to hold South China Sea military drills despite tribunal ruling against country's claim to waterway ownership, reports AP.A United Nations-backed international tribunal last week struck down China's claims of historical rights in the strategic South China Sea, prompting Chinese...
12:29
Turkish security forces today carried out new raids against suspected plotters of the botched coup against the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as international concern grew over the scale of the crackdown. The authorities have said around 6,000 people have been detained so far in the...
12:12
Exploring the most controversial aspect of the Sunanda Pushkarmurder case, Delhi Police have examined Pakistan-based columnist Mehr Tarar, highly placed sources have told TOI.Only a handful of people in the department knew about it, they added.Tarar came to India two, three months ago for...
12:01
The Modi government has planned to introduce GST in the Rajya Sabha on July 25, a week after the monsoon session of Parliament began today. But before that happens, the bill has to have get the go-ahead from congress leaders at different levels. Sources say the prime minister has drawn up a...
11:39
Ruling PDP MLA from Pulwama Mohammad Khalil Band was injured in an attack by a stone pelting mob in his native district late last night, police said today.Band was on his way to Srinagar at around 11.00 pm when a mob attacked his vehicle with stones at Prechu in Pulwama, 26 km from Srinagar.The...
11:30
Lok Sabha adjourned for the day after paying tributes to sitting member Dalpat Singh Paraste, 6 former MPs who died recently.
11:03
In Jammu and Kashmir, the curfew and restrictions across Kashmir continued today in view of prevailing law and order situation.Police and para-military personnel have been deployed in strength to maintain law and order.Barring BSNL postpaid telephone and broadband internet services, all private...
10:56
ANI reports: PDP MLA Mohammad Khalil Bandh injured after being allegedly attacked by a mob in Srinagar, admitted to hospital
10:33
The Supreme Court will begin its hearing in the appeals filed by the four accused in the December 16 gang rape case on Monday.A special bench of the apex court hearing the plea of death convicts in the case has decided to sit two hours beyond its working time to ensure speedy disposal of the case...
10:28
The report to be released today into allegations of widespread state-sponsored doping in Russia has already sparked rumblings it could trigger the nuclear option of a full ban of Russia from the Rio Olympics.With the August 5 start of the Summer Games less than three weeks away, anticipation of...
10:25
The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the contempt petition filed by a consortium of banks against businessman Vijay Mallya.In April, the apex court had directed Mallya to disclose all of his assets held by him and his family.The consortium of banks had also rejected his offer to repay Rs 4,000...
09:35
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday morning apologised at the Golden Temple for mistakes made by that party that included equating a manifesto with the Guru Granth Sahib and printing its symbol, the broom, on the cover of the document alongside a picture of the holiest Sikh...
09:20
Sparks are set to fly in the Parliament once again over a range of issues, including the bill for the introduction of Goods and Services Tax across the country. The government has listed around a dozen bills pending introduction, consideration and passage during the monsoon session of...
09:14
123 live bombs recovered from a house in Burdwan in West Bengal. 10 people detained
08:46
Schools and colleges in the Kashmir Valley, which were scheduled to reopen today, will now open on July 25 as the Jammu and Kashmir government today extended summer vacations by a week in view of the prevailing situation.The Valley has been witnessing protests after the killing of Hizbul...
08:43
First day of the Monsoon Session beginning today is likely to be adjourned after an obituary reference to Dalpat Singh Paraste, Lok Sabha MP from Shahdol in Madhya Pradesh who passed away on June 1.Five-term MP Paraste (66) had suffered a brain hemorrhage while he was attending a public function...
08:25
Cleveland police chief asks Ohio Guv to impose state of emergency for the Republican National Convention where after nearly a year of debate, five months of primaries, 17 candidates, and much sniping, the Republicans will finally nominate Donald Trump and Mike Pence as the party's presidential...
08:15
A former US Marine sergeant who served in Iraq has been identified as the gunman who killed three police officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Sunday, according to a government source with knowledge of the investigation.Another source familiar with the investigation told...
08:07
Siwaan MLA Shyam Bahadur Singh caught on camera drinking country liqour at a function; Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had declared Bihar as dry state in 2015.The video shows the JD(U) MLA not only dancing with the bar girls but also seen making provocative gestures.The video was reportedly shot...
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