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Maulana Wali rehmani and Maulana Kalbe Jawad will hold a press conference in Delhi on Monday to protest the demolition of listed heritage mosques and graveyards in Mehrauli.The clerics will also demand the filing of a FIR against Union Minister for Urban Development Kamal Nath.
21:17
Flaying BJP and AIADMK for their stand on the Sethusamudram project, DMK chief M Karunanidhi today said the national party, while in power, had proposed the alignment for the project which involves dredging of the 'Ram Setu' or Adam's Bridge, which it is firmly opposed to...
21:06
Suspected militants on Sunday killed a sarpanch in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir. Further details are awaited.
21:06
President Pranab Mukherjee today said 'evil social tendencies' could harm India's culture. The values of love, harmony, peace and sacrifice signify the strengths of India's culture, he said while inaugurating the Vedic Cultural Centre of the...
21:05
The Aam Aadmi Party today said that the Lokpal Bill, to be introduced by the Centre in the ongoing budget session, would not be acceptable to them in the present form. The Jan Lokpal Bill, which will be introduced by the central government in the...
20:30
Fishermen in Sri Lanka would stage a rally to protest against their Indian counterparts allegedly snapping their fishing nets and causing inconvenience to them, Sri Lankan Minister Douglas Devananda today said. Lankan fisherman have planned to hold a rally soon in this...
20:29
Rains and thundershowers lashed large swathes of northern plains, where six people lost their lives after being struck by lightning in Uttar Pradesh, while snowfall in higher parts of Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh kept the temperatures below...
20:11
The CBI has procured some documents from Italian authorities in Milan regarding the controversial AgustaWestland chopper deal.
19:29
Andhra Pradesh BJP chief G Kishan Reddy today said he has received a threat letter purportedly written by the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, in which the terror outfit claimed responsibility for the Dilsukhnagar bomb blast. He received the letter, written in Urdu and English, by...
18:49
Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi has preponed the first post-constitution parliamentary elections to be held from April, with the dates clashing with the Easter holidays, even as leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei called for a boycott of the...
18:47
Paresh Baruah, leader of the anti-talk faction of the ULFA, today appealed to media organisations not to call the outfit after him. The anti-talk faction is usually referred to in the media as the Paresh Baruah-led faction after the group led by...
18:32
The CBI has registered a case in a Delhi court against Bharti Airtel Ltd, Tata Communication Ltd and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd for allegedly causing a loss of nearly Rs 48 crore to the government since 2004 by illegally providing international long distance...
17:32
The CBI has arrested one more police officer in connection with the 2004 alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others, officials of the agency said. The CBI late last evening arrested Inspector of Special Operation Group Gandhinagar Bharat Patel. He was produced...
16:52
In a fascinating discovery, a British academic has stumbled upon a 500-year-old 'most wanted' notice for the arrest of Niccolo Machiavelli, the infamous Italian Renaissance political figure. Machiavelli is...
16:51
DMK will back former telecom minister A Raja if the issue of his request to appear before the Joint Parliamentary Committee as a witness on the 2G case is raised at the UPA Coordination Committee meeting on...
16:50
Reliance Industries has provided half of the documents sought by the CAG and promised to give most of the remaining when the auditor returns to audit its spending on the flagging KG-D6 fields. RIL provided...
16:49
Ahead of the launch of the Indo-French satellite 'SARAL' on board ISRO's workhorse rocket PSLV from Sriharikota, ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan today offered worship at the hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara. Radhakrishnan offered prayers today morning for the...
16:48
Union Minister Shashi Tharoor today suggested that if the party is voted to power, its president (Sonia Gandhi) or the vice-president (Rahul Gandhi) will be the natural choice for the post. Everybody knows who is the president and vice president of our...
16:45
The defence ministry will consider the reports of its joint secretary and the CBI team, which had gone to Italy to probe charges of kickbacks in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP chopper dea,l before taking a final decision on scrapping the contract with Anglo-Italian firm...
15:19
The Pakistani Taliban will directly approach three political leaders, including PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, to become guarantors for the peace talks, as it renewed its offer of dialogue with the government. The decision that the Taliban should approach...
15:15
Jammu-Srinagar National Highway reopened for vehicular traffic today after remaining closed for two days due to continuous snowfall, which also brought in a fresh spell of cold wave conditions across Kashmir valley. The Jammu-Srinagar National...
15:12
A colonel of the Indian Army has been detained with drugs worth Rs 16 crore at Chandel, Manipur.The colonel was detained by commandos of the Manipur police on charges of smuggling.
14:40
No Fire Zone, the documentary depicting the bloody Sri Lankan civil war, is creating immense pressure on the defiant government of the island nation to come clean on the alleged atrocities committed by its security forces during the last days of the war.Read the full story here
14:37
Some publishing houses have taken exception to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi being the chief guest at Romancing Print, an annual event of the print and publishing industry.Some prominent publishers have chosen to stay away from the event.Read the full story
14:08
As dust settles on the 'Hindu terror' issue, the government has said Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde had not apologised for his controversial remarks but only expressed regret, which was accepted by the BJP. Well, it is regret. That is the word that has...
13:30
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday visited hospitals and met those who were injured in Thursday's Hyderabad blasts. I am here to stand in solidarity with the people of the city. We should maintain peace and calm, PM said after visiting the blast sites. I am happy that the...
13:10
AIADMK general secretary and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa turned 65 today. The chief minister, who is nursing the ambition of playing a bigger role at the national level after the next parliamentary elections, had asked her party men to...
13:02
A correspondent in Delhi reports: Recently, diplomatic circles in Delhi were abuzz about the visit of a delegation of Republican leaders from the United States, including the party's chief whip.The delegation was on a mission to learn more about Indian politics. The Republican leaders were...
12:56
A correspondent from Delhi reports: A recently superannuated banking secretary is in constant touch with the Samajwadi Party leadership.According to SP insiders, every Sunday, the IAS officer hands over political notes running into two or three pages to party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.Sources...
11:57
A correspondent in Delhi reports: BJP chief Rajnath Singh has been quietly drawing up the party's manifesto for the next general election.Singh wants eight to ten attractive slogans that will highlight the BJP's poll promises on free goodies and developmental issues. Singh doesn't want to stress...
11:53
A correspondent from Delhi reports: The DMK plans to embarrass the ruling UPA right at a strategic time -- right before the forthcoming UNHRC meet in Geneva in mid-March and the end of the first half of the budget session in Parliament. DMK plans to host a TESO...
11:44
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister on Sunday visited the sites of the blasts that had claimed 16 lives on Thursday evening in Hyderabad.Dr Singh will also visit the hospital where the injured are being treated. He will later receive a briefing from the CM on the...
11:32
The founder of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Malik Mohammad Ishaq has been arrested in Pakistan. But does this move indicate a decisive crackdown on terror or is it yet another face-saving exercise by Islamabad?Read the full story here
11:30
Some of Pakistan's top ambassadors like Sherry Rehman, Salman Bashir and Masood Khan will lose their high-profile jobs in March after the general elections next month.Read the full story here
11:27
Indian political leaders can continue condemning terror strikes and blaming each other, but not one of them has a feasible idea about how to prevent the next attack against innocent civilians.Read the full article here
09:41
Scorecard:James Pattinson to start the proceedings. Kohli to face.He takes a single off the fourth ball. And Tendulkar gets to bat much to the delight of the crowd. People had queued up since morning just to watch him score a century.Peter Siddle shares the new ball. Tendulkar hits a...
09:39
Scorecard:James Pattinson to start the proceedings. Kohli to face.He takes a single off the fourth ball. And Tendulkar gets to bat much to the delight of the crowd. People had queued up since morning just to watch him score a century.Peter Siddle shares the new ball. India 184 for three...
09:35
Scorecard:James Pattinson to start the proceedings. Kohli to face.He takes a single off the fourth ball. And Tendulkar gets to bat much to the delight of the crowd. People had queued up since morning just to watch him score a century.India 183 for three after 53 overs.
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