18:07
The CPM today held the UPA policies responsible for the hike in petro product prices, saying the government paid a whopping Rs 40,000 crore as subsidy to oil companies in 2010-11 from the public exchequer. Who is subsidising whom, senior party leader Sitaram Yechury asked, indicating that the aam...
17:46
Noted poet Anwar Farrukhabadi, who penned popular Hindi film song Humein toh loot liya milke husn walon ne, has died. He was 83. The poet breathed his last at his native place in Nakkhas in Farrukhabad yesterday. Anwar wrote around two thousand songs in Bollywood and for private albums. His songs...
17:18
The government today hiked petrol and diesel prices by a marginal Re 0.27 a litre and Re 0.15 per litre respectively following increase in the commission paid to petrol pump dealers. The government approved raising the dealer's commission paid on petrol from Rs 1,218 per kilolitre to Rs 1,499 per...
17:09
Nepal's Communist-led government has scrapped the licence of Indian 'Casino King' Rakesh Wadhwa to operate casinos for his alleged failure to fulfil tax liabilities. The ministry of tourism and civil aviation, which sanctions operating licences, has scrapped the licence of Nepal Recreation...
16:37
And now, in more courtroom drama, the Danish high court has rejected a plea to extradite Niels Christien Nielsel alias Kim Davy in connection with the 1995 Purulia arms drop case. On the night of December 17, 1995, as many as 300 Bulgarian-made AK-47 assault rifles, 10 rocket launchers, and...
16:21
Twelve babies have died at a state-run hospital in Kolkata, triggering protests by locals and relatives, which prompted the West Bengal government to order an enquiry into it. Superintendent of BC Roy Hospital for Children, D Pal, said most of the 12 babies were either premature or suffering from...
16:09
Amid questions over his continuance in the Union council of ministers, DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. It was not clear as to what transpired during the meeting which came ahead of the expected reshuffle of the Union council. Maran, however, sought...
15:41
Toral Varia reports: The Mumbai sessions court pronounces actress Maria Susairaj and naval officer Jerome Mathew guilty of murdering TV executive Neeraj Grover.Jerome has been convicted of culpable homicide not amounting to murder while Maria Susairaj has been convicted under Section 201 of the...
15:17
The government on Thursday released the list of 17 holidays for its staff in Delhi, though four of them fall on three Sundays and a Saturday and hence their effective holidays are only 13, besides two they can opt on their own from the list of 36 restricted holidays notified.Details, soon on...
15:12
With less rainfall this year and lakes drying up, Mumbaikars have reason to worry as the local civic body has said it will decide on implementation of water cuts in the metropolis in 10 days. We will wait for 10 days or so then decide whether to implement water cuts or not. By July 10 or 12 we...
15:07
Troubled star Lindsay Lohan, who turns 25 on Saturday, recieved an early birthday gift in the form of her release from the 35-day long confinement at home. The Mean girls star was under house arrest at her pad in Venice, California, after she pleaded no contest in a necklace theft case, reported...
14:57
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today questioned the Centre's decision to sending two drafts of the Lokpal Bill for consideration and demanded that the government be clear before seeking the states' views on the proposed legislation. Indicating his willingness to set up a Lok Ayukta in Bihar,...
14:38
India's swashbuckling opening batsman Gautam Gambhir, whose injury kept him out of the West Indies tour and who, controversially, played the IPL4 despite knowing about his injury, today declared himself fit for the upcoming England cricket tour.Which we thinks is great news.
14:20
Star Indian cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Mahendra Singh Dhoni will soon don the flying suits, with the defence ministry clearing their flights in Indian Air Force's mighty Su-30 MKI fighter jets. Our proposal to fly the two cricketers in the Su-30s has been approved by the defence ministry and...
14:10
BTW, hope you'll have read the outgoing home secretary GK Pillai's farewell interview to Sheela Bhatt? Here's the link
13:58
A powerful improvised explosive device was today found along the banks of the Dal Lake, the star attraction for tourists visiting the Kashmir valley, the police said. The 5 kg IED, placed inside a steel container, was planted by suspected militants near a wine shop outside a hotel along Boulevard...
13:37
Social networking site Facebook will launch a payment system, 'Facebook Credits', for Indian users, who could spend the virtual currency across various games or applications they use on the popular website from tomorrow. A virtual currency, Facebook Credits is already popular among gaming...
13:25
Rainfall continued to lash most parts of Rajasthan even as some areas in the desert state remained dry during the past 24 hours. Light to moderate rainfall occurred at many places in Jaipur and Bharatpur divisions, at a few places in Bikaner and at isolated areas in Ajmer, the Met department...
13:21
OK, the prime minister's media adviser found his car, laptop, mobile phone stolen yesterday, and our sympathies are with him at this moment of distress. Having said that, we found this funny tweet on the subject and wanted to share it with you'll!@auldtimer media advisor's car was stolen...
13:16
About 150 turtles, in search of beaches to lay their eggs, crawled into the busy tarmac of John F Kennedy airport in New York and delayed dozens of flights. The parade of slow-moving diamondback terrapins began about 6:45 am on Wednesday. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey...
12:52
You can scratch your head and wonder if Congress president Sonia Gandhi has ever given an interview to our own Press Trust of India, or how many interviews she has given the Indian media, but she has given a written interview to Xinhua, the official news agency of China. On the occasion of the...
12:43
In other news, the court verdict in Neeraj Grover's murder case should be out post-lunch today. The judgment is being dictated right now, and Toral Varia, present in the court-room, will bring us the verdict soon as it is out. Grover was murdered (allegedly, at least as of now) in 2008 by actress...
12:29
First he showed the Internet's 800-pound gorilla a thing or two about online behaviour. And now Mark Zuckerberg has shown Google founders a thing or two in the stock market too.The Facebook founder's personal fortunes have soared, thanks to investment fund GSV Capital's recent stake in the social...
12:10
He might be the founding father of the People's Republic of China, but the economic policies Mao Zedong followed have few takers today in the Communist Party of China, which believes he did it all wrong. In fact, as it celebrates its 90th anniversary, the party says Mao's ways resulted in chaos...
11:57
Former cricketer Imran Khan's political career and his complex relationship with his ex-wife Jemima are the focus of Kaptaan, an independent Pakistani film that is expected to be released later this year. Faisal Aman Khan, a Britain-based independent filmmaker who is directing the film, met the...
11:52
An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter Scale rattled central Japan today, causing alarm and panic in a nation that is yet to get over the trauma of the earthquake-generated tsunami of March 2011. The Japan Meteorological Agency has been quoted as saying that the quake struck Nagano, almost...
11:45
There's a lot of internet chatter on the prime minister's selective media interaction on Wednesday, most of it in anger and dismay. This is what Sush Jaitley has to tweet on the subject: MMS is like Sania Mirza. Is in luv wid Pak, bad at his job, in news for wrong reasons and still expects us 2...
11:39
In Uttar Pradesh, a 12-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in Khaampar area, the police said today. The girl was raped by one Manoj on June 28 when her mother had gone out and she was alone in her hut in Khaampar bazar locality, they said. Manoj has been arrested in this...
11:06
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which bought the social networking site MySpace for $580m, has now sold it for a fraction of its purchase price.An internet superstar before it was blindsided by Facebook, MySpace has now been bought by Specific Media.The financials have not been made public, but...
10:59
Music maestro Bhupen Hazarika has been admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital in Mumbai's suburban Andheri after he complained of breathing problems. The 85-year-old was hospitalised yesterday after he suffered breathing problems and was treated immediately. He is stable and doing...
10:56
A young researcher studying the problems of Maoists in Bihar has gone missing along with her facilitator from Jamui district.Jamui superintendent of police Raj Narain Singh said 23-year-old Juhi was believed to have gone missing on her way to Jamui railway station along with her facilitator to...
10:49
The controversy over poor umpiring in the ongoing Test series between India and the West Indies has taken a new twist as it has now emerged that Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was given out off a no ball on the first day of the second match in Bridgetown, Barbados.In what could erupt into a...
10:45
Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former Saudi intelligence chief and ambassador to Washington, has warned senior NATO military officials that his country would not tolerate losing a nuclear arms race to Iran and that the existence of such a device 'would compel Saudi Arabia to pursue policies', which...
10:39
The total cost to America of its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus the related military operations in Pakistan, is set to exceed $4 trillion -- more than three times the sum so far authorised by Congress in the decade since the 9/11 attacks.Click HERE to view graphic
10:35
Biz Stone, the co-founder and public face of Twitter, is to cease his work with the micro-blogging company and team up with his former colleagues in an attempt to invent the next big thing on the internet.According to a report in The Independent, the 37-year-old entrepreneur is restarting the...
10:31
Anna Hazare's attempts to meet and persuade Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to include the office of the Prime Minister in the Lokpal Bill appear to be going down the drain.'No meeting is likely between Anna Hazare and Sonia Gandhi today. No appointment has been fixed for today (Thursday),...
10:23
Good morning and welcome to another day's Live News As It Happens.News coming up first on Thursday morning is Timothy Roemer's departure from India. The former US ambassador to India, in his farewell speech, hoped that the cooperation between the two nations continues to prosper. Roemer, the...
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