23:28
Opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei was chosen as Egypt's interim prime minister, according to sources close to the presidency.A military source confirmed that the former UN nuclear watchdog chief was to be sworn in later on Saturday, three days after the army overthrew President Mohamed...
22:02
A train carrying petrochemicals has exploded in a Canadian town, forcing the evacuation of up to 1,000 people. The blast sent a fireball and black smoke into the air, destroying dozens of buildings in Lac-Megantic, some 155 miles (250 km) east of Montreal. The train derailed early on...
22:01
At least 28 students and one teacher have been killed in an attack by gunmen on a boarding school in Nigeria's northeast. Survivors being treated for burn and gunshots wounds said some students were burned alive in the attack on the Government Secondary School in Mamudo town in Yobe state...
19:56
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today described the food security ordinance by the Centre as impractical and pre-Lok Sabha election bluff. Unable to safeguard the country's security, (UPA government) is claiming to give food security to...
19:05
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi while addressing 1,500 BJP workers in Bihar from Gujarat has slammed his counterpart Nitish Kumar, saying BJP would never forgive the JD-U leader for breaking the alliance. After Modi's elevation to the post of BJP's campaign committee chief, Nitish...
19:02
A special CBI court hearing the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case today trashed the petition of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar seeking to defer the proceedings of the case till July 20. The Talwar couple had yesterday moved a fresh petition...
18:28
Former India player and member of the 1983 World Cup winning squad Kirti Azad was today allegedly detained at the Heathrow Airport in London for two hours before being allowed to board a Delhi-bound flight. According to one of his office assistants, Azad was...
17:42
Central forces for the first phase of panchayat polls in West Bengal, slated for July 11, would reach the state tomorrow and on Monday, sources in the state home department said today. The central forces would comprise CRPF, BSF, CISF, besides police personnel...
17:29
Ishrat Jahan's family has alleged that she was not a terrorist and the authorities are trying to meander the case. While addressing a press conference, Ishrat's sister reiterated that her sister was innocent, adding that she will continue her 9-year-old fight for justice.
17:23
A PIL was today filed in the Supreme Court seeking quashing of controversial Food Security Ordinance on the ground that the constitutional provision has been misused for pre-election propaganda and political gains. President Pranab Mukherjee yesterday signed the ordinanceon Food...
16:47
Reports our correspondent from New Delhi: Former railway minister Dinesh Trivedi is likely join the Bharatiya Janata Party and contest from Gujarat. A close friend of Narendra Modi, Trivedi hails from Kutch. Indications are that Trivedi will convey his decision to Mamta Banerjee and resign from...
16:35
In another instance of Congress reaching out to Nitish Kumar, the Union rural development ministry has approved Rs 4,130 crore for the construction of 5,700 km of rural roads, highest allotment for the state in the past 12 years. The decision to allot the amount under...
16:15
Reports our Delhi correspondent: Union ministers have received a dinner invitation over a phone call from Rashtrapathi Bhavan for July 25 to celebrate Pranab Mukherjee's first year as president. However, the ministers are yet to receive a printed invite, which is making them...
16:11
Our Delhi correspondent reports: The seventy-third birthday celebration of Ram Vilas Paswan went unnoticed on Friday. Every year Sonia Gandhi personalty wishes the Lok Janshakti Party chief by walking across to her neighbour's bungalow, but this year she sent flowers. RJD Leader Lalu Prasad...
15:53
Reports our Delhi correspondent: Congress strategists are worried over BJP reviving the Ram Mandir issue with the visit of Amit Shah to Ayodhya today . Buzz from the war room is that Congress has plans to organise visits of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi to many temples in the next one or...
15:52
The BJP is in an upbeat mood as they are confident of win the Rajasthan and Delhi elections. The announcement of Nitin Gadkari as the observer had doubled up the enthusiasm of the BJP cadre, reports our Delhi correspondent.
15:50
Reports our correspondent from New Delhi: Congress cadres are taken by surprise by the visits of CBI director Ranjit Sinha to various leaders of their party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Rashtriya Lok Dal and Indian National Lok Dal. These leaders are aware that the...
15:42
Terming the ordinance promulgated by the Union cabinet to implement the Food Security Bill as a cruel joke on democracy, BJP president Rajnath Singh today said his party would not oppose the passage of the bill in Parliament but seek amendments to it. We will not oppose it (the...
15:12
Rajnath Singh, who held a two-hour meeting with RSS leaders in Nagpur today will share the RSS dictum with parliamentary board on Monday at 1030 am, reports our correspondent from New Delhi.
15:10
There is a buzz in New Delhi as to why Bharatiya Janata Party leaders are making a beeline at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh headquarters in Nagpur. Dr Murli Manohar Johshi visited on Thursday, LK Advani on Friday and party chief Rajnath Singh today. The meeting of the three party seniors with...
14:33
National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon is scheduled to visit Colombo next week to hold talks on a tri-lateral maritime security treaty among India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, officials said in Colombo today. Menon's visit to Lanka comes close on the heels of Sri Lankan President Mahinda...
14:12
The death of a Dalit boy, Ilavarasan, has triggered protests and violence in the Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu. The post-mortem report of the the 20-year-old is out and it states that he died due to a head injury. The report also says that there are no other big marks on his body. The...
13:03
NDTV reports: A state treasury officer from Uttarakhand was caught on camera keeping relief material in his private car. After complaints against him, the officer was raided and the relief material confiscated. He has now been suspended.Watch the video on NDTV
12:04
CNN-IBN reports: The Uttar Pradesh in charge and Bharatiya Janata Party's general secretary Amit Shah said that the BJP will soon build a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya. Shah, who is in Ayodhya to attend a party meeting, said, Before the meet, I came to seek Lord Ram's blessings. I've prayed for the...
11:40
Calling for closer military ties between India and China, Defence Minister A K Antony on Saturday said that it would be easy to maintain peace along the borders if both the forces have trust, mutual respect and confidence. If the military leadership on both sides from the top to the ground...
11:12
Central Bureau of Investigation director Ranjit Sinha told CNN-IBN, The probe in the Ishrat Jahan encounter was conducted as per the Gujarat high court's instructions. We have clear directions to find the genesis of intelligence on which Ishrat was killed. The law doesn't say if involved in...
10:29
NDTV reports: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will take the battle for the 2014 polls to Bihar today. Modi, who heads the party's election campaign committee, will address about 1,500 party leaders and workers in Bihar in a teleconference this evening.Read the full story here
10:03
The purchase of 45,000-ton INS Vikramaditya has been one of the most fraught international military procurement programs in recent years, plagued by delays and hardships including the ship breaking down at sea, ballooning costs and even a sex scandal.On Wednesday, it finally set sail...
09:52
The presidents of Nicaragua and Venezuela offered on Friday to grant asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela made their offers during separate speeches in their home countries yesterday. Snowden, who has been charged by...
09:47
A four-storey building has collapsed in the Jafrabad area of north-east Delhi on Friday night. One person has been killed in the incident.
03:47
NSA leaker Edward Snowden has sent out appeals for asylum to six more countries, WikiLeaks reported Friday, in a sign of the marooned fugitive's mounting desperation in the face of international indifference to his plight.Snowden remains trapped in a diplomatic no-man's...
03:19
Syrian state forces backed by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah hammered the central city of Homs on Friday, activists said, sparking concern from United Nations officials over thousands of civilians trapped in the city.President Bashar al-Assad's forces have been using heavy air...
03:18
Prosecutors wrapped their case against George Zimmerman on Friday afternoon after the mother and brother of teenager Trayvon Martin testified Friday that they believed the screams on a 911 call seconds before his death were his, not those of Zimmerman.I heard my son screaming, said Sybrina...
02:12
Britain's Prince Harry has qualified as an Apache helicopter commander, the Ministry of Defence announced today, putting him in charge of the aircraft he co-piloted in Afghanistan. Harry, 28, served as a co-pilot gunner in the attack chopper during his 20-week tour in Afghanistan's restive...
02:11
A suicide attacker and a car bombing killed at least 19 people and wounded 38 in separate attacks today targeting Shiites north of Baghdad. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, the latest in an increasing wave of violence across the country. Iraq has been facing...
01:29
At least 10 people were killed and more than 210 injured Friday as gunfire and running battles erupted at several locations in Cairo during a day of protests called by Islamists angered by the military ouster of President Mohammed Morsi.The bloodiest confrontation came as troops opened fire on...
01:16
Chinese authorities imposed tight control in the capital of Xinjiang today, the fourth anniversary of ethnic rioting which killed around 200 people, said state media, exile groups and ordinary citizens. Internet users posted pictures of baton-wielding security personnel in Urumqi, a city of...
01:03
Egyptian troops have opened fire on protesters marching in support of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, killing three and wounding dozens.The shooting came as crowds moved to the Republican Guard headquarters, where Mr Morsi is believed to be held.Later the Muslim Brotherhood's leader told...
01:02
Pope Francis cleared Pope John Paul II for sainthood Friday, a little more than eight years after his death and faster than any other person in the modern era.The Vatican said the healing of a Costa Rican woman has been approved as a miracle, one of the steps necessary for sainthood. Pope...
00:53
Nelson Mandela's doctors have rejected the idea of turning off the ailing icon's life support unless he suffers massive organ failure, a close family friend said today. Denis Goldberg -- an anti-apartheid activist who has been Mandela's friend for more than half a century -- said the issue...
00:41
Advocate for one of the victims of Ishrat Jahan encounter case has claimed a retired Gujarat police officer had heard his suspended senior D G Vanzara, main accused in the case, telling another officer that he had the clearance of Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the encounter.Mukul Sinha,...
00:27
Why India needs to speak up!Uttarakhand: 'More than 4,000 deaths are expected'Maoists training cadres to shoot down helicopters?SC seeks tally of illegal religious structures on govt landTwo pilgrims die en route to Amarnath shrine
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