Against the backdrop of the cancellation of video address by controversial writer Salman Rushdie at the Jaipur Literature Festival, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said the entire episode had exposed the "worst communal vote-bank politics" of Congress.
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad claims that it has cracked the 13/7 serial blasts case. But the probe will be remembered for the many monumental blunders that left investigators red-faced, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
A court in Sri Lanka on Monday ordered the release of ten Tamil Nadu fishermen who were taken into custody by Lankan naval men on July 1, a top official said.
Describing Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's India visit as a trip "heavy on symbolism if not on substance", the United States media on Monday said his pilgrimage to the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer sent a message against Islamist extremism.
The Congress on Saturday saw "no crisis" over the opposition of it allies like Trinamool Congress to the FDI in retail and said that the party was fully behind Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue.
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. Psychologist Sadia Raval writes about what drives young women and men to take the drastic step and how you and I can prevent it.
With uncertainty over P A Sangma's candidature for the Presidential poll in the wake of the Nationalist Congress Party's threat to sack him, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday decided to adopt a wait and watch attitude and deferred the National Democratic Alliance meeting. Party sources said the NDA meeting, which was earlier planned for Wednesday, has been deferred as there has been no fresh development since A P J Abdul Kalam withdrew from the race.
Pushing for passage of the Lokpal Bill in the Lok Sabha, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday rejected demands for bringing the Central Bureau of Investigation under the purview of the anti-graft ombudsman, warning that no entity should be created inconsistent with the country's Constitutional framework.
To his critics, it was a retrogressive move that promised little more than a return to the 'stone age' long-ball football for which many England teams have been criticised in the past.
As a grand spectacle, of the kind that grabs headline news, 'Occupy' has indeed gone into the background even though the 'occupation' of Wall street continues at Union Square a few blocks uptown.
In a fresh jolt to United States-Pakistan ties, the Pentagon on Monday said it is withdrawing its team of negotiators from Pakistan for a "short period of time", after talks failed to lift the six-month blockade of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's supply routes to war-torn Afghanistan.
Ealier at a press conference, the Oneworld also announced the joining of Srilankan Airlines in its fold.
The purpose of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's recent visit to Pakistan was to ensure people-to-people contact between the two countries, says the spiritual leader. Priyanka listens in
Sri Lanka pacer Lasith Malinga feels that his side will have a distinct advantage over other countries during next month's Twenty20 World Cup as most of the island nation's players have prepared well by competing in the Sri Lanka Premier League.
On a day his associates staged a protest in New Delhi against the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, Anna Hazare came out with a new blog handle which is other than the one on the official website of India Against Corruption.
Deceased South Africa cricket captain Hansie Cronje, who fell from grace by admitting to match-fixing in 2000, was remembered by his family, former teammates and fans on his 10th death anniversary.
Al Qaeda terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri's role in India would largely depend on how Pakistan's ISI plans to use him, say Intelligence Bureau sources. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
New Zealand pacer Trent Boult was ecstatic at getting the prized wicket of Sachin Tendulkar but rued that they could not rein in the Indian youngsters, who steered the hosts to an assuring score on the opening day of the first Test, Hyderabad on Thursday.
Esha Gupta talks about Raaz 3, and how her life has changed after Jannat 2.
TCS is aiming to add another $10 billion to its turnover in the next five years or so. Which means, the company has to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 15 per cent. Can TCS pull it off?
R Siddharth takes us through the jounrey of shooting Aravaan.
Aseem Chhabra lists 10 of his favourite films that played in various sections at the 74th Cannes Film Festival.
A furious Mumbai Cricket Association might have banned Shah Rukh Khan after an alleged brawl between him and its officials but IPL Chairman Rajiv Shukla, on Thursday, said a final decision on the matter would only be taken after getting the version of all the involved parties.
Hopes of global growth recovery supported risk-on sentiments.
The Supreme Court has refused to review its judgment by which it had dismissed the petition of the Bihar government challenging the acquittal of Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi by a trial court in the disproportionate assets case. The apex court rejected the petition filed by the Bihar government seeking a review of its April 1, 2010, judgment by which it held that the state government cannot file an appeal in the case.
The Indian Army in its full military grandeur began the two-day celebrations of the 13th anniversary of its victory in the 1999 Kargil war with the hoisting of a massive national flag at the War Memorial in Drass sub-sector of the district.
The United States does not plan to release images related to the covert raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan fearing that this might incite emotions, a top counter terrorism official has said ahead of the first death anniversary of the Al Qaeda
The raging controversy over author Salman Rushdie's visit to the Jaipur literary festival and the abrupt cancellation of a video link with the writer at the last minute on Tuesday evening refuses to die down. We reproduce an interview with Rushdie, when he visited India in 2000.
With major political parties shying away from giving them tickets for Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, lesser-known political outfits have become a hot favourite of listed gangsters and those having a criminal past.
The schedule and scorecards of matches in the 2011 Champions League T20 tournament.
Sher-e-Punjab won the inaugural World Series Hockey title with a convincing 5-2 win over Pune Strykers at the Mahindra stadium in Mumbai on Monday.
A 43-year old Communist Party of India MLA in Tamil Nadu and two others were killed in a road accident in Pudukkottai district on Sunday, police said.
Controversial speedster Shoaib Akhtar has provided an insight into infighting that has always dogged Pakistan cricket team, recalling how greats like Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis were at loggerheads.
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who has been slapped with a five-year ban by the MCA on entering the Wankhede grounds in Mumbai refused to be drawn into the issue of whether would tender an apology to the cricket body.
Diplomatic circles in the US were expecting "low-level participation" by Pakistan in the crucial conference beginning on Monday in the German city, Dawn News channel reported, quoting its sources.
Asserting that the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers was a "military engagement", the United States has said it is carrying out a crucial investigation to determine the circumstances that led to the tragic incident but Islamabad has refused to participate in the probe.
After roping in eminent technocrat Sam Pitroda as Kerala's "development mentor", the Congress-led UDF Government plans to utilise the services of E Sreedharan as his term as MD of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is to end next month.
India coach Duncan Fletcher says the toss played an important role and losing Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar before lunch put India on the backfoot. Bikash Mohapatra reports from Edgbaston.
Colombia coach Hernan Dario Gomez has resigned after apologising publicly on Monday for punching a woman in a bar, the Colombian Football Federation (FCF) said.
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