23:48
Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit on Friday said that his country will never allow terrorists to use its soil, and advocated continuation of dialogue between the two countries.The Pakistan government will not allow any kind of terror activities from our soil, he said.India and...
23:27
Leander Paes and Martina Hingis beat Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig to win the French Open mixed doubles final at Roland Garros on Friday.Paes-Martina beat the Indo-Croatian combine 4-6, 6-4, 10-8 in the tie-break to win their first French Open title together.
23:15
Questioning Pakistan's stand on Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday asked whether the militant attack on the BSF convoy in Bijbehara was the way to show its love for the people.First Pathankot airbase attack and then these type of incidents, Pakistan must think over...
22:53
It's Indian tennis stars Sania Mirza and Leander Paes on either side of the side of the net as they battle it out against their respective partners in the French Open mixed doubles final on Friday.Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig broke Paes-Martina and took the first set 6-4.
22:02
Maharashtra government had disbursed a total of Rs 1 crore and three lakh to the families of victims of the major fire at the Army's Central Ammunition Depot at Pulgaon in Wardha district, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said today. The state government stands firmly behind the victims of...
21:42
Indoor air in Delhi is not fit to breathe and the elderly and children who spend a lot of time in offices and homes are the worst sufferers, a survey has found. As per the survey, conducted by Artemis Hospitals as part of Clean Air India Movement, there is a correlation between indoor air quality...
21:29
Andy Murray defeated defending champion Stanislas Wawrinka 6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 6- to reach the final of the French Open. The Briton will face World No 1 Novak Djokovic for the title. Djokovic beat Austrian Dominic Thiem 6-2, 6-1, 6-4.
21:28
A special court today sent Indian Mujahideen's alleged key operative Abdul Wahid Siddibapa to judicial custody after NIA submitted that his further custodial interrogation was not required in the case. Siddibapa, 32, a resident of Bhatkal in Karnataka, was produced before Special Judge...
20:58
The Superintendent of Police andStation House Officer who lost their lives in the Jawaharbagh operation in Mathura were hit by bullets in the first 10 minutes of unprovoked firing by the encroachers, officials said. The anti-encroachment operation started around 5 pm and the strategy was to...
20:48
Hong Kong television commentator Wu Jun observed recently that despite Donald Trump's anti-Beijing rhetoric, he could in fact be the best president for China. The Chinese analyst is right: A Trump presidency could open the way for China's strategic dominance in Asia and elsewhere....
20:22
Amid a debate over triple talaq,Telanagana state Minorities Commission chairman Abid Rasool Khan today said the practice has been misused to discriminate against women and harass them as he then appealed to 'Ulemas' to initiate reforms to protect rights of women.He also favoured a debate on the...
19:54
ED today conducted searches on the premises of a Delhi-based businessman, alleged to be a contact of British national and suspected middleman Christian Mitchel, in connection with its money laundering probe in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP choppers deal. Officials said agency...
19:41
The first refugee team to ever compete at the Olympic Games has been revealed, with 10 athletes given the dream opportunity of going for gold in Rio. The International Olympic Committee made the announcement today after whittling down the shortlist from 43 athletes.Competing under the...
19:33
Nita Ambani's nomination to be an IOC member is a true testament to her efforts to take sports to every corner of the nation#proudindian, tweets Sania Mirza. This comes following the news that Nita Ambani has become the first ever Indian woman to be nominated to the IOC.
19:22
Ahead of the proposed Jat quota agitation from June 5, Gurgaon administration today clamped down on the gathering of five or more persons by issuing prohibitory orders under Section 144 of Code of Criminal Procedure with immediate effect.The orders were issued by Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner, T L...
18:55
Taking on the critics of his proposal to rechristen Akbar Road as Maharana Pratap Road, Union Minister V K Singh has said the country has to decide if it has to be proud of those who ‘enslaved’ it or those who fought the enslavers.Though the government has virtually rejected his...
18:33
Three paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF ) troopers were killed and eight others were injured, in an ambush by militants in the highway town of Bejibehara in Anantnag district this afternoon.A senior police officer said militants opened heavy fire from automatic weapons at a passing...
18:30
The members of a sect who had encroached on government land at Jawahar Bag area in Mathura and indulged in violent clashes with police will be booked under the stringent National Security Act, Uttar Pradesh DGP Javed Ahmad today said. The leaders of the sect 'Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti...
18:22
Update on the militant attack in Anantnag: The toll has now gone up to three dead, with eight people injured. All three BSF jawans who were critically wounded in the militant attack have succumbed to their injuries. Mukhtar Ahmad/Rediff.com
18:20
Nita Ambani, Founder and Chairperson of Reliance Foundation, has been nominated as a candidate to be a new member, pending election, of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), headquartered at Lausanne, Switzerland on Friday.The election will be held at the 129th IOC Session that will take...
18:16
The National Green Tribunal today directed Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living (AOL) foundation to deposit by tomorrow an environment compensation of Rs 4.75 crore imposed on it for damaging Yamuna's biodiversity during its three-day 'World Culture Festival' in March. A vacation bench headed by...
18:03
Two of the nine Border Security Force jawans who were injured when terrorists opened fire on their convoy in Bijbehara town in Kashmir's Anantnag district have succumbed to their injuries.The terrorists opened had opened fire on a bus carrying the BSF men in Bijbehara, injuring three of them...
17:19
MoS Home Kiren Rijiju on the Mathura incident: Chinta ka Vishay hai, dukhad hai. Bahut badi chook hui hai, report hamare paas aaegi to hum dekhenge. Will see the report. This shouldn't have happened, UP Govt should look into why this happened. There was lapse on the part of Uttar Pradesh...
17:13
Nine BSF jawans were injured, three critically, when militants opened fire on a bus carrying the men in Bijbehara town in Kashmir's Anantnag district. An official said that the injured were rushed to a hospital where the condition of the three were so severe that they have been referred to...
16:48
Three people were injured after firing broke out in the highway town of Bijbehara in Kashmir. Details awaited.Mukhtar Ahmad/Rediff.com
16:31
Nine trekkers from Delhi, stranded in remote Bara Bhangal area of Kangra district, could not be rescued today as inclement weather did not allow helicopter sorties. A chopper was sent to the area in the morning but it could not land due to strong winds and bad weather and returned,...
16:21
I am a very sensitive person. I am deeply pained on the Mathura incident but Law & Order of U.P is the core issue. Let's not divert. tweeted Mathura MP Hema Malini after she came in for severe criticism for uploading pictures of her film shoot while her constituency burnt. Violent clashes...
16:10
With the Samajwadi Party coming under fire in wake of the violent clashes in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said that the police should have been 'more prepared' before trying to evict the agitators, who had encroached on the land. It is quite unfortunate...
15:54
With news doing the rounds that Rahul Gandhi is soon going to be the Congress president, Rishi Kapoor believes that the party is only validating what he had said through his tweets sometime ago - that it's a party with a dynastic identity.Seated at his office in RK Studio in Chembur, with a wall...
15:51
The Bombay High Court today stayed the disqualification of three corporators from Thane who are facing charges of abetting suicide of builder Suraj Parmar. Hanumant Jagdale (NCP), Vikrant Chavan (Congress) and Sudhakar Chavan (MNS-turned-Independent) were granted relief by vacation Judge B...
15:49
Army chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday said Pakistan is aware of the' hostility ' faced by the multi-billion dollar ChinaPakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in a statement alluding to India which has publicly opposed the project. Read more
14:45
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha is making a courtesy call to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 14 at 4.45 pm in South Block. Rumours are rife that the meeting is about a discussion on AIADMK joining the union cabinet. Jayalalitha will be presenting a memorandum on the Cauvery waters,...
14:17
The Election Commission is adopting a wait-and-watch view in the aftermath of a sting operation carried out by a national TV news channel showing a cash for votes op by the Congress party. 4 pm today is deadline for withdrawal of nominations to the Rajya Sabha. The EC cannot interefere till then....
14:16
Demanding a judicial probe into the Mathura violence, the BJP today alleged that the killers of the two police officers enjoyed protection of ruling Samajwadi Party and the incident highlighted lawlessness in the state. Party President Amit Shah sent national secretary Shrikant Sharma to take...
14:14
Twenty-four people, including an SP and an SHO, have been killed in yesterday's massive clash between police and members of a sect who had encroached on government land here, even as tension prevailed in the area with police seizing a large cache of munition from the site and arresting 320...
13:46
BJP on Hema Malini's Madh Island boo boo: Hema is sensitive to the issue, will surely visit Mathura. In other words, looks like the Mathura MP has been given orders to get to her constituency asap. The BJP added, Hema is not the issue, what about SP government's responsibility?To bring you up to...
13:38
UP CM Akhilesh Yadav on the Mathura clashes: Didn't anticipate they would be so well armed.
13:26
Protesters who oppose Donald Trump had a scuffle with his supporters as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee held a rally in California, with fistfights erupting and one supporter even being hit with an egg. Hundreds of demonstrators blocked a police van and then entered the parking...
13:18
Is comedian Tanmay Bhat's video spoof depicting a trash-talking Sachin Tendulkar and Lata Mangeshkar cause for offence? Before addressing this question, we may have to ask another: Is it funny? The video shows Bhat playing Tendulkar and Mangeshkar. Tendulkar' is upset about Vinod...
13:13
BJP unhappy with Hema Malini, orders her to remove tweets about her film in the wake of Mathura violence.Image: Another picture Hema Malini tweeted on the way to Madh Island
13:01
Twitter outrage after Mathura MP Hema Malini posted this picture at Madh Island amid the violence in her constituency. The BJP MP has now deleted the tweets with pictures of her on a boat on the way to the shooting of her latest film Ek Thi Rani at Madh Island in Mumbai.Social media slammed...
12:36
UP DGP holds a presser on the Mathura incident: 124 people have been arrested in the matter, 23 policemen are in the hospital being treated for their injuries. They were harmed brutally, he said. Updates follow.
12:22
NDTV reports that Mathura SP Mukul Dwivedi was hit on head with a large stone. He suffered three heart attacks in hospital before passing away.
12:04
Sharat Pradhan/Rediff.com sends this update on the Mathura tragedy. The toll has gone up to 22, with one more succumbing to his injuries.
12:00
The mother of Superintendent of Police Mukul Dwivedi, who was killed yesterday in clashes during a drive to evict illegal occupants of a park in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, today rejected the compensation offered by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and said she wants her son back instead....
11:21
King Tutankhamun was buried with a dagger made from a meteorite, according to a new paper.The ancient Egyptians that helped make it also probably knew that the material they were working with came from the sky, the researchers have said.For years, scholars have speculated about whether...
11:10
The Nuffield studies of each British general election since 1945 are valued for two reasons. First, they assess an election campaign from all possible angles, from the perspective of politicians to the media coverage of the exercise. However, far more important, these studies approach the...
10:51
Toxicology tests for Prince concluded that the entertainer died from an accidental overdose of the opioid fentanyl, according to a report on his death by the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office. Fentanyl, prescribed by doctors for cancer treatment, can be made illicitly and is blamed for a spike in...
10:46
Twenty-one people, including an SP and an SHO, have been killed in the massive clash between police and encroachers that broke out in Mathura yesterday even as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav ordered an inquiry. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who spoke to Yadav, expressed anguish...
10:28
Continuing the upward trend for the third straight session, the Sensex rose 165 points to capture the 27,000-mark as investors indulged in widening their bets amid sustained foreign fund inflows coupled with firm global cues. The 30-share index, which had gained 175.18 points in the previous two...
10:08
CNN reports: Some artworks at the Louvre in Paris will be moved to protect them from possible flooding after the Seine burst its banks following days of torrential rain.The works in vulnerable locations will be evacuated to higher levels as the Louvre responds to rapidly rising floodwaters in the...
10:02
A seven-year-old boy missing since being abandoned in a bear-inhabited forest in northern Japan as a punishment nearly a week ago was found alive today and reunited with his parents, officials said. The boy, apparently unharmed and in good health, was discovered at a military base. Reports...
10:01
A driver, working for an app-based cab service, has been arrested for allegedly harassing and misbehaving with a woman judge in a city court who had hired his car to go shopping in north Delhi, police said today. The driver, identified as Sandeep, was arrested from Gurgaon and booked on...
09:43
Mathura clash: Rajnath Singh speaks to UP CM Akhilesh Yadav, expresses condolences to families of deceased police officials; assures help from Centre.
09:42
Kidney trade racket busted in Delhi, 6 arrested; Two are clerical staff of Apollo Hospital
09:41
India donates 2,000 bicycles to needy girls in Nepal as part of a program that aims to encourage school enrollment.
09:41
Met office maintains its earlier forecast of above normal rainfall this year.
09:37
National Investigation Agency Director General Sharad Kumar has said that there was no evidence so far to indicate direct complicity of Pakistan government or Pakistani agencies in the Pathankot attack.In an interview to News18, Kumar said, No evidence to show that Pakistan government or...
08:53
United States presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton tore into her likely election rival Donald Trump as never before on Thursday, saying his foreign policy is dangerously incoherent and labeling him unfit for office. He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires...
08:51
Former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali has been hospitalised for a respiratory issue, family spokesman Bob Gunnell said.Gunnell said in a statement that Ali was in fair condition but that a brief hospital stay was expected.Ali, 74, has been suffering from Parkinson's disease for...
08:47
A day after the Bihar School Examination Board put on hold the results of the toppers of Arts and Science streams of class X11 examination, the first seven rank holders of the two streams will re-appear for test today following media expose on some of their purported inability to answer basic...
04:39
Two fighter jets from elite U.S. military demonstration squadrons crashed in separate incidents on Thursday, including one that had just done a flyover of the Air Force Academy graduation in Colorado where President Barack Obama had spoken.In Tennessee, a pilot from the Navy's Blue Angels...
02:38
US House of Representatives Paul Ryan on Thursday said he's voting for presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.In an op-ed for the Janesville Gazette of Janesville, Wisconsin, Ryan -- who sparked a political firestorm last month when he told CNN's Jake Tapper he was just not ready to back his...
01:49
The Islamic State terror group remained the greatest threat globally in 2015, maintaining a formidable force in Iraq and Syria, including a large number of foreign terrorist fighters, a US report said today. IS' capacity and territorial control in Iraq and Syria reached a high point in...
01:14
Six children were among 19 civilians killed Thursday in regime bombing of opposition-held neighbourhoods in Syria's second city of Aleppo, the civil defence said.Regime air strikes and rocket attacks hit several neighbourhoods in the eastern part of the divided town, a civil defence official...
01:12
Terrorist safe havens not only continue to exist in the tribal areas of Pakistan, but also militants are able to openly raise funds from heavily populated areas, the US today said alleging that Islamabad is not taking action against terror groups like Haqqani network and Lashkar-e-Taiba.As a...
00:47
The Louvre museum in flood-hit Paris said it would close on Thursday to evacuate artworks held in its underground reserves as the River Seine began to burst its banks, AFP reported.The riverside museum -- the most visited in the world, home to everything from the Mona Lisa to priceless Egyptian...
00:31
Indian named as suspect in UCLA shootingGulberg Society verdict: 24 convicted, conspiracy charges dropped Modi to inaugurate Afghan-India friendship dam on SaturdayJogi likely to float new party; says Congress is BJP's 'Team-B'
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