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There was no threat to the UPA government at present, union agriculture minister and president of Nationalist Congress Party Sharad Pawar said today, adding that his party was ready if mid-term polls came.Replying to a question regarding BSP supremo Mayawati's hint of the possibility of early...
22:14
A minister in the Uttar Pradesh government has been accused by the chief medical officer of Gonda district of abducting him. The CMO, S P Singh, said that the Revenue and Rehabilitation Minister Vinod Kumar Singh was trying to force him into including the names of contractual doctors under...
21:18
Pakistani authorities today announced a reward of Rs 1 crore for information leading to the capture of the militants who attempted to assassinate teenaged rights activist Malala Yousufzai, who was shot and seriously injured in the former Taliban stronghold of Swat. The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa...
20:26
The Meerut police said that they have cracked the kidnapping case of the director BDM, a company making cricket accessories. Two people have been arrested by the police.BDM company director Sudhir Mahajan has been rescued and taken to his home, said the police. The director of BDM company was...
20:08
Former Karnataka chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party strongman said today that it was impossible for him to stay on in the party, reports Vicky Nanjappa. I have made up my mind about not being a part of the BJP,' he said. Yeddyurappa was speaking to...
19:06
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi's scheduled visit to Panjab University campus tomorrow rpt tomorrow for an interaction with students has kicked up a row. Students organisations are divided on whether or not Rahul should be allowed to hold a rally in the university campus. The...
18:38
The minister has called the charges false and says it smacks of a conspiracy.
18:36
Vinod Kumar Singh alias Pandit Singh, minister of state for revenue and rehabilitation, created a scare by abducting the Chief Medical Officer of Gonda Dr S.P. Singh from his Officers' Colony residence on Monday, to force him to include the names of his aides in the list of newly appointed...
18:06
Energy tycoon and Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani is the country's richest man with a personal fortune of USD 19.3 billion, says a report. According to China-based research firm Hurun's inaugural India Rich List, Ambani is followed by the London-based steel baron L N Mittal who...
18:02
A total 60 per cent votes were cast today in the by-election to Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency in Murshidabad district where President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee is a contestant.However, polling was boycotted in 26 booths as a mark of protest against bad roads and lack of...
17:59
The strange relationship between Lionel Messi and his hometown in Argentina. Read
17:45
Separated from his older brother at a train station, five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. Nearly 20 years later, living in Australia, he began a painstaking search for his birth home, using ingenuity, hazy memories, and Google Earth. Read
17:42
10 travel websites worth bookmarking. On the New York Times. Read
17:37
The pistol allegedly used by Varsha Bhosale for ending her life belonged to her mother and legendary singer Asha Bhosale, who had lost it nearly three decades ago, police said today.In a brief meeting with police last evening, Asha Bhosale claimed she had lost the weapon nearly 30 years ago and...
17:32
Muammar Gaddafi's son Seif al-Islam without a doubt would get a death sentence if tried in Libya, his lawyer told the Hague-based International Criminal Court today. Although the Libyan government has danced around the issue, let's be very clear: if convicted (in Libya) Mr Gaddafi will be...
17:25
JRR Tolkien, the highly revered author of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, has a new book coming out next spring. This may seem peculiar given that the writer died in 1973. Read
17:23
The Supreme Court today issued notices to former Bihar governor Buta Singh, ex-Delhi Police Commissioner Y S Dadwal along with many other serving and retired bureaucrats and IPS officers for unauthorised occupation of government bungalows in the national capital. A bench of justices G S Singhvi...
17:17
At 14, Malala Yousafzai refused to be scared into silence. Now she's fighting for her life. Read the report on Newsweek.
17:05
Former Haryana chief minister Om Parkash Chautla today came out in support of the idea given by Khap panchayats that marriageable age limit of girls should be reduced to curb incidents of rape. After submitting a memorandum to Governor Jagannath Pahadia over recent cases of rape in the state,...
16:50
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh railed Wednesday against a mindless atmosphere of negativity and pessimism' being created in India over the issue of corruption, which, he said, could do us no good.' Read more
16:48
Drugs feature prominently in Jeet Thayil's debut novel Narcopolis, perhaps not surprising given its title and the opening, in which he calls Bombay the hero or heroin of this story.' Read
16:37
@Lisaraniray #WendellRodricks Wedding Gown has arrived. More beautiful than imagined and captures a quality of 'me' that my dear friend Wendell has seen.Former model Lisa Ray will wed Jason Denhi, an American management executive, this month.
16:31
Four years, one trial, an irreparable tragedy and several tribulations later, Bedabrata Pain is ready with his first film Chittagong, releasing this Friday. In conversation with rediff.com's Sanchari Bhattacharya. Read
16:19
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in a rare magazine interview published on Wednesday that he is tired of being hunted by the media and begged to be left alone as he tries to move on from a sex scandal that wrecked his career.Read
16:04
Sonam Kapoor has done only seven films in the five years that she has spent so far in Bollywood but her father Anil Kapoor says he is proud of his daughter's choice of projects. The 52-year-old actor said Sonam is not the kind of actress who looks for quantity and has rejected many big projects...
15:58
Apparently stung by Lalu Prasad's charge that he scuttled the special status demand for the state by his predecessor Rabri Devi, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today hit back saying that the RJD chief was being untruthful. It generally happens that people swear to speak only the truth ......
15:48
Russia has delayed delivery of a trouble-plagued aircraft carrier for at least a year on Friday, a blow to India's efforts to quickly build up naval strength as increasingly assertive Asian rival China expands its maritime reach. Read
15:47
In other news: A day after a teenage rights activist was shot in the head by Taliban militants, Pakistan Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani today condemned the attack on the girl as a heinous act of terrorism and warned that it had exposed the extremist mindset confronting the country....
15:43
The Nobel Prizes were established in the will of 19th century Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. Each award is worth 8 million kronor, or about $1.2 million. The awards are always handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896, writes the NYT.
15:42
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the two researchers had made groundbreaking discoveries on an important family of receptors, known as G-protein-coupled receptors, reports the New York Times.About half of all medications act on these receptors, so learning about them will help...
15:38
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited the two researchers for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.'
15:26
Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded jointly to Americans Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka. Details in a bit.
15:20
Apparently, if you want to eat a piece of ham off Padma Lakshmi's body, the going rate is $1,000. Read
15:15
Altogether 1.8 million children have been affected in the floods and struggling daily to meet their basic needs such as food, water, medicare and education during the past three months in Assam, as per an estimate of an internationally active NGO. Out of the total affected population of 4.89...
15:01
BJP today reacted sharply to the Prime Minister's remark on attempts to create a mindless atmosphere of negativity and pessimism over graft issue, saying the use of government machinery and legal system to promote corruption would lead to disaster.The mindful application of government machinery...
14:57
Students at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) have been accused of a shocking attack on an associate professor of history, whom they allegedly tried to set on fire. Read more
14:55
A successful neurosurgeon, who has taught at Harvard Medical School and other universities, spent his life dismissing claims of heavenly out-of-body experiences and refuting such talk with scientific logic, until he himself had a near-death experience. Read
14:48
Cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni may have given the Prime Minister's annual Territorial Army's Raising Day parade on Tuesday a miss but his absence was made up for by another World Cup-winning captain - Kapil Dev. Read more
14:42
Pop star Lady Gaga visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the Ecuadorean embassy as nine people who acted as his bail sureties were ordered to hand over a total of 93,500. Read more
14:10
Did a ban on Facebook and YouTube save lives in Kashmir? Read
14:09
Denied appointment by Prime Minister, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar today criticised Manmohan Singh for the September 19 order of Cauvery River Authority headed by him on release of water to Tamil Nadu, and said it had no basis and was an injustice to the state. Shettar left here on Sunday to...
14:05
Arvind Kejriwal of India Against Corruption has to be complimented for drawing the attention of the public to the alleged wrongdoings of Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi. By doing so, he has shown that in the fight against corruption, there cannot and should not...
13:55
It seems that Standard & Poor's only needs to sneeze and Indian markets catch a cold.On Wednesday, S&P simply reiterated in a regular report its concerns over India's large fiscal and budget deficits ' a concern that first raised headlines in April when the ratings agency warned the...
13:48
Samantha Geimer, the former teen with whom Roman Polanski was convicted of having sex in 1977, is writing a memoir to tell her side of the story in the infamous Hollywood scandal. Geimer, now 47, has bagged a deal by Atria Books to write 'The Girl: Emerging from the Shadow of Roman Polanski'. The...
13:42
After weeks of wrangling, Pakistan Supreme Court today approved a third draft of a letter that will ask Swiss authorities to revive graft cases against Asif Ali Zardari, with the government making it clear that any proceedings in that country would be conditional to the immunity available to the...
13:24
Pakistani surgeons removed a bullet on Wednesday from a 14-year-old girl shot by the Taliban for speaking out against the militants and promoting education for girls, doctors said. Read
12:45
Mayawati reiterates that the decision on whether the BSP will support the UPA will be made soon. Deri nahin hogi, she assures the crowds and walks off the dais. She said general elections could happen at any moment and deferred the decision on the party's support to the UPA. All through the...
12:40
Mayawati says the party wants her to take the final call on the alliance though the UPA has done nothing to control communal forces. Given the present political situation in the country early polls are very likely. The BSP is ready for it, she says. Mayawati says the decision on whether she will...
12:36
Mayawati says the central government's policies are anti-poor and has been hurting the people. There have been no measures to control corruption and inflation. She added that the Centre is doing nothing to support weaker sections of society.
12:33
BSP chief Mayawati begins her press conference, the second since yesterday. She is expected to announce her decision on whether the party will support the UPA. The press conference is being addressed at the BSP's National Executive meet. She said the party had discussed whether it would support...
12:27
Shares of DLF today slipped over 4 per cent on fresh allegations by activist Arvind Kerijwal about company's nexus with Robert Vadra and Haryana Government - although the charges have been rejected by the realty major. After making a weak opening, shares of the company further lost 4.37 per...
12:21
Just in: NCP chief Sharad Pawar announces that the party's ties with the Congress is intact and it will contest the elections together in Gujarat.
12:16
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati will make a major announcement with respect to her party's support to the United Progressive Alliance today. Yesterday, addressing a mammoth rally at the Ramabai Ambedkar Maidan in Lucknow, convened to mark the sixth death anniversary of her mentor and BSP...
12:08
Resplendent in a pink shirt, with a neatly trimmed white beard, Narendra Modi chuckles when asked if he is a dictator. Suggestions that he cannot compromise, lead within a team or suffer criticism are absolutely baseless', says Gujarat's chief minister. Read
12:04
The management of cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) sent a mail on Tuesday night to all employees asking them to resume work on October 13th. But the mail was largely silent on payment of pending salaries, the issue over which the airline's employees have struck work. Read
11:58
Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian daredevil, was forced to call off his record-shattering attempt to jump from the edge of space at the last minute due to high winds. The 43-year old former military parachutist had hoped to become the first skydiver to exceed the speed of sound during a...
11:56
The Arvind Kejriwal-led India Against Corruption (IAC) unleashed its second round of attacks on the relationship between Robert Vadra, son-in-law ofSonia Gandhi, and DLF, India's largest listed real estate company, yesterday (9 October). Read
11:51
Together, the BRICS' GDP now nearly equals the United States. But are they really the future of the global economy? Read
11:49
Great read on Foreign Policy: How extremists convince teens to become suicide bombers. See
11:45
Census 2011 threw up a malodorous statistic: people in 49.8 per cent of households have no toilet facilities and defecate in the open. In contrast, 63.2 per cent of households have a telephone connection, of which 52.3 per cent have cell phones; as for televisions, almost half of the country's...
11:42
Childhoods lost rolling beedis in Pranab Mukherjee's constituency Jangipur. His son will now be contesting the by-polls from there. Read
11:35
The Jimmy Savile revelations have prompted accounts of sexual harassment at work during the 70s and 80s. So have things really changed? Read
11:25
Timothy F Geithner, the United States Treasury secretary, returned to his childhood elementary school here in India on Tuesday before attending a day of meetings with Indian leaders and business executives.Both Mr. Geithner and his Indian counterpart, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, gave the...
11:23
Swami Vivekananda, a monk widely credited for raising global awareness of Hinduism and yoga more than a century ago, has become an unlikely touchstone in the run-up to the closely watched Gujarat elections.On Oct. 3, Sonia Gandhi visited the Swami's Ramakrishna Ashram, in Rajkot,...
11:21
Last week, India's federal cabinet cleared a bill that would, among other things, allow foreign companies to establish standalone pension fund companies in India. Until now, foreign companies have only been allowed to manage pension funds through their minority stakes in Indian insurance or...
11:16
A group of doctors have successfully removed the bullet lodged near the spine of a 14-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl, who was attacked by Taliban for speaking out against the banned outfits' atrocities, her uncle said today. Ahmed Shah, the uncle of Malala Yousufzai, told reporters in Peshawar...
11:08
On the Anti-Corruption law, the PM adds that experience has also shown that big ticket corruption is mostly related to operations by commercial entities. It is also proposed to include corporate failure to prevent bribery as a new offence on the supply side.
11:05
The Prime Minister added that the mindless atmosphere of negativity and pessimism that is sought to be created over the issue of corruption can do us no good. The mindless atmosphere of negativity... can only damage the nation's image and hit at the morale of the executive. I would like to stress...
10:57
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the Prevention of Corruption Act may be reviewed by the Centre to protect honest public servants.His comments come in the wake of the Congress-led UPA facing considerable flak over a slew of corruption allegations.Experience has also shown that big...
10:50
Sudhir Mahajan, director of cricket bat manufacturing firm BDM, has been kidnapped from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. His kidnappers have demanded a ransom of Rs 2 crore for his release. A special team of the UP police is probing the case.
10:49
A blogger in China who made a death threat against Roger Federer said he had apologised but remained at large after vowing to assassinate the world number one, according to an Internet posting. An Internet user under the name Blue Cat Polytheistic Religion Founder 07 threatened the tennis...
10:46
After announcing its foray into politics, India Against Corruption's (IAC) Arvind Kejriwal is looking for regional tie-ups. A few days ago, IAC leader Manish Sisodia had called on People's Party of Punjab (PPP) president Manpreet Singh Badal to forge an alliance in Punjab. A meeting between the...
10:40
Sudhir Mahajan, director of cricket bat manufacturing firm BDM, has been kidnapped from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. His kidnappers have demanded a ransom of Rs 2 crore for his release. A special team of the UP police is probing the case.
10:22
Concerned over the loss the state exchequer may suffer due to allocating free houses to slum dwellers till 2000, the Maharashtra government is mulling over framing a policy whereby the slum dwellers will have to pay for the cost of housing. We had taken an unfortunate decision of giving free...
10:22
The rupee declined for fourth day in a row by losing 16 paise to Rs 52.88 per dollar in early trade today, weighed down by dollar's gains overseas. Forex dealers said weakness in Asian currencies against the US dollar and demand for the greenback from importers put pressure on the rupee.
09:12
Ending weeks of speculation, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for elections now and as quickly as possible amid projections that his Likud party will emerge stronger in the polls, giving him the mandate to carry out military action against Iran. In a televised speech,...
09:11
Ahead of another crucial presidential debate in New York, US President Barack Obama has said that the United States will not let China win the race to clean energy technology as he will continue to emphasise on developing technologies ahead of countries like China. I'm not going to let oil...
09:10
The US is looking into allegations of human rights violations in Maldives but it has not been able to confirm them so far, the State Department has said. The remarks came after Amnesty International accused Maldivian security forces of abusing their power. We've seen the reports by...
09:09
Another incident of rape has been reported in Haryana -- this is the 14th such case in the state in the last one month.Two men have been arrested for raping a Dalit girl in Kaithal, Haryana.
07:46
Henry Kissinger on Xi Jinping, China's next leader, and the new Chinese leadership. Always worth reading: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/kissinger-offers-wise-words-on-china/2012/10/08/9d27c27c-1210-11e2-855a-c9ee6c045478_story.html
07:43
America's Permanent Representative to the UN Susan Rice (a likely Secretary of State if a second Obama administration comes about) just tweeted; @AmbassadorRice: Pakistan's future belongs to #Malala and brave young girls like her. History won't remember the cowards who tried to kill her at school.
05:10
A moving must-read piece from the New York Times on little Malala Yousafzai: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/my-small-video-star-fights-for-her-life/
04:47
A depressing report from the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/indian-toilet-campaign-battles-graft/2012/10/09/7328c53a-1228-11e2-a16b-2c110031514a_story.html
04:46
CNBC.com takes a hard look at India's aviation business in this report: http://www.cnbc.com/id/49294794
04:43
The fascinating story of Vineet Devaiah in Venture Beat: http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/09/vineet-devaiah/
04:39
Vikas Bajaj reports on the mall culture and the generational retailing divide from Patna in this New York Times feature: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/business/global/younger-indians-eager-to-embrace-foreign-big-box-stores-and-malls.html
04:35
Maps and visuals have surfaced of the mock-up of Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbotabad, where the US Navy Seals trained for Operation Geronimo: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57529010-93/bing-map-shows-cias-secret-bin-laden-compound-mock-up/
04:33
The United States filed suit against US banking giant Wells Fargo, alleging mortgage fraud that cost the government hundreds of million of dollars after the home loans defaulted.The civil fraud lawsuit, filed by Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara in New York federal court, seeks to recover...
04:18
For the second straight day, extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner aborted his planned death-defying 23-mile free fall because of the weather, postponing his quest to become the world's first supersonic skydiver until at least Thursday.As he sat Tuesday morning in the pressurized capsule waiting for...
04:14
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called an early general election, which could come as soon as January, nine months ahead of schedule.Netanyahu said the new elections for the 120-member Knesset -- the Israeli parliament -- would take place as soon as possible.His right-wing coalition...
03:04
A lawmaker from the Israeli prime minister's party is in the United States ahead of the presidential election and has said that President Barack Obama has not been a friend of Israel.Danny Danon, chairman of Likud's international outreach branch, said in Chicago today that Obama's policies have...
01:07
British radical cleric Abu Hamza Al Masri has pleaded not guilty in a court here to 11 terror charges, including plotting to set up a terrorist training camp on US soil and providing material support to Al Qaeda.Egyptian-born 54-year-old one-eyed and hooked-hand cleric appeared in Manhattan...
01:07
Two engines and three bogies of a goods train derailed in Bastar district on Tuesday night after suspected Naxalites uprooted the railway track, a senior police officer said.A police team has been dispatched to Badekaklur area in Bastar district after report of the ultras uprooting the railway...
01:07
The US State Department has informed that it owns a fleet of as many as 192 aircraft that range from vintage of 1940s to 2010.We've got some 192 aircraft; 150 are rotary wing, 42 are fixed wing, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters. The vast majority support our...
01:06
A major coup for the Mexican authorities turned to embarrassment, when it emerged that the body of the slain leader of the Zetas drug cartel had been stolen from a funeral parlor.Heriberto Lazcano's corpse and that of another man were taken to a funeral home in the town of Sabinas in the northern...
01:02
Kejriwal alleges Haryana govt-DLF nexus to favour Vadra Haryana govt denies Kejriwal's 'DLF nexus' allegations What nexus? 350-acre Gurgaon deal was clean: DLFCauvery row: Karuna demands Central rule in K'takaAir India gets its third DreamlinerMayawati predicts early elections, calls SP...
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