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In a rare development, the Budget session of Parliament was tonight prorogued bang in the middle of it to enable the government to issue an Ordinance for authorising expenditure beyond April one in the centrally- ruled Uttarakhand in view of the political crisis in the state.The decision to...
23:41
The Mumbai police today lodged an FIR against the religious leader Radhe Maa for carrying a `trishul' (trident) on a flight from Aurangabad to Mumbai last year.Airport police station here registered the case after a magistrate's court earlier this month ordered the police to lodge an FIR under...
23:06
Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress is set to return to power in West Bengal by winning 178 seats and getting an increased vote share compared to 2011 assembly elections, says an opinion poll conducted by a news channel. Congress-Left parties' alliance will be the prime challenger to TMC...
22:38
Twenty-five students and two faculty members of Hyderabad Central University (HCU), who were granted bail in connection with the March 22 violence on the campus during which the Vice Chancellor's official residence was ransacked, were tonight released from the Cherlapally Central Prison here....
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Donald Trump has already upended American politics. Now he might do the same to the rest of the world.In a series of recent interviews fleshing out his foreign policy in the wake of the Brussels attacks, the Republican front-runner has questioned the modern relevance of U.S. alliances that have...
20:41
Over 5,000 people were rounded up by security forces since the Easter Sunday bombing here with more than 200 still in custody, Pakistan's Punjab government said today, even as Taliban militants behind the attack taunted the Prime Minister, saying the war has reached his doorstep.In the past 24...
20:19
Pakistani military today claimed that the detained spy was a serving Indian naval officer who converted to Islam to foment terrorism in Balochistan province and the country's financial capital Karachi.Kulbhushan Yadav is a serving Indian naval officer whose primary mission was to foment terrorism...
20:08
Consumer electric goods maker Havells has withdrawn a new advertisement for its fans after backlash from a section of viewers over anti-reservation sentiments. A sequence in our recent fan campaign of 'Hawa Badlegi' seems to have hurt the sentiments of some viewers. Havells is...
19:18
Eleven policemen have been on duty round-the-clock at the civil hospital morgue in Pathankot for the past almost three months to protect the bodies of four terrorists killed after they attacked the air force base in January.An NIA official said the hospital authorities have been asked to preserve...
18:46
Pakistan head coach Waqar Younis has offered to resign after his team were knocked out of the World Twenty20 at the Super 10 stage, the BBC reported on Tuesday.Pakistan exited the tournament after winning just one of their four games in Group Two.The team, captained by Shahid Afridi, beat...
18:39
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt's application for return of his passport was today allowed by special TADA court in Mumbai. Dutt was released from prison last month after serving his sentence in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. The court has allowed his application, said his lawyer Subash...
18:13
Pathankot attack: Will seek access to Masood Azhar, chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad, National Investigation Agency chief tells NDTV
18:05
EgyptAir hijacker 'unstable': Cyprus foreign ministry, says AFP.
17:49
Just in: Fifty files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose released by govt. The second tranche of 50 declassified files related to Bose available online, consist of 10 files each from the Prime Minister's Office and ministry of home affairs and 30 files from ministry of external affairs...
17:45
The government on Tuesday permitted 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in the marketplace model of e-commerce retailing with a view to attract more foreign investments. As per the guidelines issued by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) on FDI in e-commerce, foreign...
17:24
The hijack drama of EgyptAir flight MS 181 ends without bloodshed. Moments after all seven hostages leave the hijacked plane, Cyprus broadcasting reports that the hijacker emerged from the aircraft with hands held up. He has been arrested, says the Cyprus foreign ministry. EgyptAir Flight MS181...
16:57
Reacting sharply to BJP chief Amit Shah's comment that the sound of Rabindra Sangeet was getting drowned out by bomb blasts in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said there will be no bigger enemy than her for anybody who insulted the state. If anyone insults Bengal,...
16:53
A four-year-old girl was beheaded in Taiwan in what appears to have been a random knife attack, state media said.On Monday morning, a 33-year-old man attacked the girl with a cleaver in full view of her mother as they were on their way to a metro station in Taipei, the island's capital, the...
16:31
Shortly after a single-judge bench of the Uttarakhand high court ordered a floor test in the assembly on March 31, both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress have prepared to challenged different parts of the decision.While the Congress will challenge voting rights given to the rebel MLAs,...
16:09
JUST IN: EgyptAir hijacker identified as Seif Eldin Mustafa by Cyprus. A passenger was earlier wrongly named as hijacker.
15:58
The Supreme Court asks SEBI to sell Sahara property to realise the amount payable by Subrata Roy for his release from jail. For the interim bail of Roy the court had put conditions like depositing Rs 5,000 crore in cash and a bank guarantee of equal amount and tough terms including payment...
15:41
Fast bowling legend Wasim Akram had a nasty experience here when he was confronted by a drunkard while on a live shoot for a local television channel.The former Pakistan captain was speaking at a post-match show on news channel Aaj Tak after India's thrilling victory over Australia in a World...
15:39
Pakistan's Federal Information head Pervez Rashid and Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) head Lt Gen Asim Bajwa will address a joint press conference at 4:45pm (around 5:15 pm IST) today. The announcement comes just a day after the military launched a crackdown against militant elements in...
15:29
The body of Raghavendran Ganesan who died in the Brussels attack arrives at Chennai airportInfosys employee, Ganeshan, who went missing in last Tuesday's terror attacks in Brussels, has been confirmed dead, Manjeev Singh Puri, India's Ambassador to Belgium and the EU, told the press. The...
15:20
Congress leader Harish Rawat today said he will hold a 24-hour fast if any attempt is made by the Centre to annul the appropriation Bill passed by the state Assembly on its annual budget for 2016-17 after reports suggested that such a move may be afoot. Claiming that the legislation was tabled...
15:12
Sorabh Pant @hankypanty The suspect did this to get back with his estranged wife. Is that you, Arbaaz?
15:11
In other news, BJP president Amit Shah today dared West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to throw out from the party, Trinamool Congress leaders who are seen purportedly accepting bribes in lieu of undue favours in the Narada clips. Shah also refuted allegations of match fixing between BJP and TMC in...
15:09
Egyptian civil aviation minister says seven people, including three passengers, still on board hijacked EgyptAir plane.
14:44
With the Centre under attack over allowing a Pakistani probe team access to Pathankot air base, BJP chief Amit Shah today said Pakistan has for the first time made serious efforts towards investigating a terror case. First let me make clear one thing, that the Pakistan team which has come related...
14:39
In other news , former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has lambasted all those who troll Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma by linking her to Virat Kohli's on-field performance after every India match, terming them frustros with no love in their lives. His comments come close on the heels of...
14:36
Just in: The Nainital High Court orders floor test in the Uttarakhand assembly on March 31, rebel/suspended MLAs also allowed to take part.The Uttarakhand assembly floor test will be held at 11 am on March 31. Registrar General of Nainital HC to be present as an observer.
14:29
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades says Egypt plane hijacking not related to terrorism., says AP.
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Witnesses say hijacker threw a letter, written in Arabic, outside the parked EgyptAir plane in Larnaca airport. Ian Petchenik, a spokesman for FlightRadar24, tells news agency The Associated Press that EgyptAir flight MS181 flew in a typical fashion on the Cyprus, without the pilots signaling any...
14:04
Sunil Khilnani is standing in front of the new arrivals at Mumbai's Crossword book store in Kemps Corner, surrounded by a clutch of young book store staffers. This book is about 50 Indians. You can read one every night before you go to bed, says the historian about Incarnations, an extremely...
13:40
Cyprus state media says hijacker has ex-wife in Cyprus and wants to send a message to her.
13:32
Egyptian media identifies one hijacker of EgyptAir plane as Ibrahim Samaha.
13:29
Just in: The hijacker of EgyptAir flight MS 181 demands a translator and political asylum. Earlier reports said that the hijacker is believed to be from Libya. Meanwhile, Cyprus closes Larnaca airport after hijacking, flights diverted to Paphos
13:14
@EGYPTAIR Negotiations with the kidnapped result in the release of all the passengers, except the crew and four foreigners.
12:58
BREAKING: Everyone on board has been released by hijackers except for the flight crew and 5 'foreigners', says EgyptAir. Passengers on hijacked EgyptAir plane included eight Britons, 10 Americans. Cyprus TV reported that the hijacker has freed 20 Egyptians onboard and said the airplane was parked...
12:42
Israel scrambled warplanes in its airspace as a precaution in response to the plane hijacking, according to an Israeli military source.
12:38
Egyptian aviation authorities say, aboard MS181 are 5 crew members and 55 passengers.
12:37
First image of hijacked EgyptAir Airbus A320 flight MS 181 at the Larnaca airport in Cyprus. Courtesy: @airlivenet.Reports say that a few women and children have been let off.
12:33
Former European Commissioner for Education, Androulla Vassiliou, tweeted that hijackers have demanded that authorities leave runway in order to release women and children passengers. One armed hijacker took control of the Airbus A320 at 8.30am (6.30am GMT), police spokesman Andreas Angelides...
12:31
Unidentified men hijacked an EgyptAir flight MS 181 which was on its way from Alexandria to Cairo and diverted it to Cyprus, where it landed at Larnaca airport on the south coast, local police said. The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation reported that 55 people were on board, with a crew of 7....
12:17
Wading into the political controversy around the slogan 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' (glory to Mother India), veteran historian Irfan Habib said on Monday that the idea of Bharat Mata was an import from Europe and there was no evidence of any such imagination in either ancient or medieval India. Read
12:06
BREAKING NEWS: Egypt Air flight from Alexandria to Cairo has been hijacked and lands at Larnaka airport in Cyprus, BBC says. Around 80-81 people on board airliner, one man thought to be armed, says Cyprus state radio. A bomb suspected on board the plane. Details awaited
12:00
More details on the Mumbai 2002-2003 blasts cases: 10 convicted under various sections of POTA, Arms Act, Explosive substances Act, Railways Act. The 3 acquitted by Court are Nadeem Paloba, Harun Lohar and Adnan Mulla.
11:51
Just in: A Mumbai 2002-2003 blasts cases: 10 convicted and 3 acquitted by Court. This is the verdict in the blasts at Mulund, Mumbai Central and Vile Parle between December 2002 and March 2003.In 2014, the special Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) court framed charges against 16 accused. Saquib...
11:36
The Joint Investigation Team from Pakistan reaches Pathankot and visits sanitised areas of the IAF base.The JIT arrived in Pathankot today to continue their probe into the January 2 attack, where seven Indian military personnel were killed by Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists.The JIT will be taken to...
11:29
The FBI has managed to unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino gunman without Apple's help, ending a court case, the US justice department says.Apple had been resisting a court order issued last month requiring the firm to write new software to allow officials to access Syed Rizwan Farook's...
11:27
Supreme Court dismisses petition challenging Land Acquisition (Amendment) Act passed by Goa Assembly.
11:11
Ahead of the Pakistan JITs visit to probe the attack at the Pathankot air base, two of the three men who saw the terrorists from close quarters could not be located. Jeweller Rajesh Verma, SP Salwinder Singhs friend, was not at home and his family members were tightlipped about his whereabouts....
11:05
The suicide attack in Lahore on Sunday marks a further escalation by extremist groups in Pakistan. At least 72 people were killed, including a large number of children, and over 300 injured in the attack at a popular park where many were out on Easter day.The attack shook one of Pakistan's...
11:01
The Pakistani Joint Investigation Team (JIT) accompanied by Indian officials today headed for Pathankot in connection with the probe into the January 2 terror attack at IAF base.The five-member Pakistani team led by Punjab's Additional Inspector General of Police, Counter Terrorism Department,...
10:46
Congress workers protest against the Pakistani team that will shortly arrive in Pathankot. The Congress yesterday took a strong stand against the joint investigation team from the neighbouring country visiting the airbase, saying the unfettered access given to Pakistan's JIT by according an...
10:27
Tuesday will prove to be a day of windfall for the legislators of Telangana as they will be 'gifted' expensive gadgets like iPods and iPhones by the state government. As per a report in the Deccan Chronicle, the gadgets will be given to both members of the...
09:51
Influential US lawmakers, religious leaders and Indian Americans today strongly condemned the ghastly terrorist attack in Lahore that killed 72 Pakistanis. The barbaric attack in Pakistan is an outrage and I condemn this heinous act of terror in the strongest the possible terms, said...
09:49
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over a memorial service for Infosys techie Raghavendra Ganesh, the only Indian victim of the Brussels terror attack, as well as other victims during his stay in Brussels on Wednesday. Raghvendran Ganesan, 31, who had been missing since the twin...
09:29
The Pakistan Joint Investigation Team team arrived at Amritsar airport on Tuesday. They will be taken to Pathankot attack site in bullet-proof SUVs, where seven Indian military personnel were killed in a terror attack in January. The JIT will be taken to only those areas of the air force...
08:48
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has unlocked the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, officials said, ending a heated legal standoff with Apple that had pitted US authorities against Silicon Valley. Apple, backed by a broad coalition of technology giants like Google and...
08:29
Belgian police believe two gloves found on a bus that left the Brussels Airport shortly after twin bomb blasts last week were worn by the suicide bombers. Two of the attackers - Ibrahim El Bakraoui and Najim Lacchraoui - were captured in CCTV footage wearing gloves only on their left hands,...
08:07
The second tranche of 50 declassified files related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose will be released today. The files, which will be available online, consist of 10 files each from the Prime Minister's Office and ministry of home affairs and 30 files from ministry of external affairs...
02:01
A man known as Faycal C, the only person arrested and charged with involvement in the Brussels attacks, has been released for lack of evidence.Belgian media said the man had been suspected of being the mystery third man in CCTV footage of the bombers.But a judge found there was no evidence to...
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Strongly condemning the terror attack in Lahore, the US today called for global unity against fighting extremism and offered assistance to Pakistan in investigation.The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms this terror attack at a children's park in Lahore yesterday. It's...
00:46
Following reports of a shooting at Capitol Hill, the White House and related areas have been placed on lockdown. According to reports, one police officer was shot and not seriously injured. A suspected gunman has been detained. More details are awaited.
00:05
The visiting five-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) from Pakistan will not have access to the Pathankot airbase to carry out investigation into the terror attack.Interacting with reporters on Monday, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said he had especially denied permission to the...
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