When Richard Norris from Virginia received a face transplant three years ago, it transformed his life.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests will submit a detailed report to the Prime Minister and concerned ministries regarding the concrete measures required to "preserve and rejuvenate" the fragile ecology of the region. 

At least four persons, including two policemen, were injured today in a blast here near the Gaddafi Stadium where a day-night match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe was underway.

A FIFA congress today started a vote for a new president with incumbent Sepp Blatter the favourite despite a major corruption scandal engulfing the organisation. 

A suicide bomber has blown himself up in the parking lot of a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia's eastern city of Damman, killing four people, according to the kingdom's official news agency.

Union Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Irani had a fierce Twitter war with Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today over IIT Madras' decision to ban a students body which was critical of the Narendra Modi-led Central government.

Rahul wrote on his official Twitter handle, "IIT student group banned for criticizing Modi Government. What next?"


The Congress student wing, the NSUI also held protests outside Irani's residence in New Delhi against the IIT Madras decision.

Irani reacted with a series of tweets:

@OfficeofRG yesterday u told NSUI to create disorder where there is order. Today ur goons come to my house as I'm away at work.

@OfficeofRG tell ur men strong arm tactics were tried in Amethi n didn't scare me during Lok Sabha elections. They won't scare me now.

The BJP today defended the decision of IIT-Madras to derecognise a students body and accused Congress of playing "low-level" politics on the issue to meet its own political ends and trying to divide the student community and create 'disorder'.


BJP defended IIT-Madras's decision to derecognise the students group after a complaint that it was critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the institute is an autonomous body with its own rules and has the authority to protect them in case of violations by some students.

No radioactive substance leak at Indira Gandhi International Airport, say atomic regulatory board and Delhi government. Organic liquid from another consignment spilled over the cargo carried by Turkish airlines; no radioactive substance involved, says the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board.


This morning, reports of a leak of radioactive substance from a consignment unloaded from a Turkish Airlines plane at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, suspended cargo operations for a while.


The Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had said the leak has been "plugged" and a team from the atomic energy department is on the spot.


The matter came to light when a pair of loaders felt irritation while handling containers that arrived on board a Turkish Airlines craft at 4:35 am.


Leakage was observed from four of the 10 containers of 13 kg each that were imported from Turkey.


The National Disaster Response Force was called in to check the substance and contain and plug the leak, sources said.

The government today released the Gross Domestic Product  figures. The GDP figure for 2014-2015 is 7.3, short of the government expectation of 7.4 per cent. The growth in the first quarter of 2015 is 7.5 per cent.


In effect, India's economy has grown at a faster rate than its Chinese counterpart for a second straight quarter, but nagging concerns remain over the government's new way of calculating its growth data and how the robust growth figures belie broad economic weaknesses.   Read more

Rahul Gandhi or rather the @OfficeOfRG tweets its indignation over the IIT Madras issue.

"IIT student group banned for criticizing Modi Government. What next?
Free speech is our right. We will fight any attempt to crush dissent and debate: Rahul Gandhi


The Indian Institute of Technology Madras was at the centre of row on Friday over de-recognition of a students group, many of whom are Dalits, following a complaint that it was critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, triggering protests from Congress and AAP.


In Delhi, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani backed IIT's action, saying the institution has clearly stated that some procedures by the students' organisation was not followed and it knew that Dean will derecognise it for violating norms.

Scores of NSUI workers today held a protest outside Irani's official residence in Delhi over the issue. The protesters from Congress' students wing raised anti-government slogans and accused the HRD ministry of being behind the action against the body.

 

'Invincible', 'Comeback Queen', 'Supremo' and of course, Amma. Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa is all of that and more after her acquittal by the Karnataka High Court in the disproportionate assets case.  

But singer?

And Shammi Kapoor fan?


We stumbled upon Jaya's 2012 interview with Simi Garewal on the Rendezvous show, where she confesses she had a crush on Shammi Kapoor (but never got to met him) and sings, Aaja sanam madhur chandni mein hum (Chori Chori, 1956).

Pure melody. Listen in.

Just in: Bomb scare at the FIFA congress in Zurich, reports German media. Zurich police confirms that a threat has been made. "We can confirm the receipt of a bomb threat." FIFA is meeting in Zurich to elect its next president, with Sepp Blatter being challenged by Prince Ali of Jordan.


Pic: The Fifa building where the meeting is being held. The picture was tweeted by ‏@tancredipalmer

Just in: Senior advocates Indira Jaising, Dayan Krishnan and HS Phoolka to argue for Delhi government in AAP vs L-G case at the Delhi High Court. 


Jaising, the former additional solicitor general had given her legal opinion on the matter when the issue came to the fore saying that the LG has no power under the Constitution to appoint a chief secretary. H S Phoolka, is a senior Supreme Court advocate, who contested the Lok Sabha polls on a AAP ticket, but lost.


The High Court is hearing Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's petition challenging the home ministry's notification issued last week, which declared that he has no role in the appointment of bureaucrats. The Supreme Court today refused to step into the power battle between the Centre and the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi and said the High Court will decide on a controversial home ministry notification that said that the Chief Minister had limited powers.

Scores of NSUI workers today held a protest outside HRD Minister Smriti Irani's official residence in New Delhi over IIT-Madras de-recognising a students' body for reportedly criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi.


The protesters from the Congress' students wing raised anti-government slogans and accused the HRD Ministry of being behind the action against the body.


They also demanded that the action against the students' body be revoked. Some of the protesters were detained by police when they tried to break barricades.


A senior official of the Madras IIT said the action was taken as the students had "violated" defined guidelines of the institute.


As per reports, the student group 'Ambedkar Periyar Students Circle' (APSC) was "de-recognised" following an allegation that it was instigating hatred against the Prime Minister.

In Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, separatist leader Shabir Shah's supporters wave Pakistan flags at a rally. This comes two days after home minister Rajnath Singh said that this government would not tolerate raising of pro-Pakistan slogans or display of Pakistan flags on Indian soil.


"We are worried about the future of youth, but such elements want to play with their future,'' he said, adding, "I appeal to the youth to come forward and confront them,'' Rajnath had said in Jammu on Wednesday, when he was in the state as part of the BJP's countrywide "Jan Chetna Parv''.


Significantly, this is the first time that Centre has appealed to local people to come forward and confront those raising pro-Pakistan slogans and waving Pakistan flags in the Valley. Earlier, the governments at the Centre dealt with such elements by slapping charges of sedition on them or keeping them under preventive detention. 

Pop star Taylor Swift saved the lives of three teenagers involved in a car accident following her concert. The 25-year-old singer did so with the help of the wristbands given to fans attending the shows on her "1989" tour, reported Ace Showbiz.


The three teens were Elizabeth Dazzio, her sister Caroline and a friend. They were driving home from the second night of Swift's show in Baton Rouge, Louisiana's LSU Tiger Stadium when Dazzio fell asleep behind the wheel and crashed the vehicle. Dazzio was unconscious while the two other girls were trapped inside the wreckage. Their cell phones were dead, so they tried to catch the attention of drivers passing by using the wristband, which had been programmed to light up in sync to the beat of Swift's music during the concert.


A woman eventually noticed the light and pulled over to help the girls and called 911. Dazzio was rushed to the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. Swift shared the story on Twitter and expressed gratitude that the three girls were okay. "This is unreal. I'm so happy they're okay," she wrote.

In the midst of the ongoing stand-off between the Delhi Lt Governor and the AAP government, the Centre today said it has no intention to run the city government through anyone and is conscious of its Constitutional responsibility and committed to uphold it.


He was replying to a question on whether the Centre wants to run the Delhi government through the Lieutenant Governor as it has given him absolute powers in several matters, including transfer and postings of senior bureaucrats, by issuing a notification, which was challenged in the court by the Arvind Kejriwal government.


"We are not against anyone but it is our responsibility to uphold constitutional provisions. Everyone should remain within the framework of the Constitution," he said without naming anyone.


Asked to comment on Delhi Assembly's resolution holding as "illegal" the Centre's May 21 notification giving more powers to the LG and Kejriwal's statement that the Narendra Modi-led government is trying to push the country towards "dictatorship", the Home Minister said he would not like to say anything on this but added that the government was committed to uphold the Constitution.


Singh further said that if any law and order situation arises in the national capital, the central government is obliged to intervene. "I don't want to say who is doing what but we are committed to uphold the Constitution. Law and order is also my duty...we will see," he said. When asked if a jung (war) is going on between the Centre and the Delhi government, Singh said in a lighter vein, "There is no jung, only Najeeb Jung."

A band, baja and baraat went empty handed after the bride refused to marry the bridegroom on moral grounds when her would be father-in-law kissed her cousin. The incident took place in Farrukhabad district in Kanpur. Read

North Chennai's RK Nagar will go to the polls on June 27. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa will be contesting the bypolls after party MLA representing the constituency, B Vetrivel, submitted his resignation, thereby vacating the seats. DMK will not be contesting from this seat.

Power secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha wins the race and has been appointed Cabinet Secretary.


Sinha was believed to be ahead in the race for the much-coveted cabinet secretary's job, even as finance secretary Rajiv Mehrishi was the other top contender to take over from Ajit Seth. Seth's extended term is due to end on June 13.

Typically, the government appoints the cabinet secretary 15 days before he formally takes over and the bureaucrat works as an officer on special duty in the cabinet secretariat.

Sinha, a 1977 batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, is among the senior-most IAS officers in the country and is seen as an upright officer.

Car bombs have exploded in the car parks of two heavily fortified five-star hotels in central Baghdad, killing at least 10 people, police and medical sources said. The Independent reports that a further 30 people were wounded in the blasts, which were around seven minutes apart.

India Today cartoonist Sandeep Adhwary's take on the PM's meeting with Dr Manmohan Singh. It was rumoured that the PM took lessons in economics from Dr Singh. 


Read: Why did Dr Singh walk into Modi's web?

CBI today told a special court that former Coal Secretary HC Gupta had allegedly concealed facts from then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that Jharkhand had not recommended Vini Iron and Steel Udyog Ltd for allocation of a Chhattisgarh coal block.

A lack of coherence marks the Modi government's foreign policy, especially in strategic relations with China and Pakistan. Nothing that has been said or done during the past year has reduced differences between India and them. Read former NSA chief MK Narayanan's piece for The Hindu. 

Gunmen fired at and injured this constable outside a bank in Shopian district of Kashmir and decamped with his service rifle, police said. The gunmen opened fire on a police party guarding Jammu and Kashmir Bank at Kachdoora in Shopian, resulting in injuries to constable Sartaj Ahmad, a police official said.  

The BJP on Friday said it looks forward to a favourable and positive interpretation of the Constitution by the Delhi High Court which will hear the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government's petition challenging the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) notification of May 21.


"At a situation when the state government is challenging the notification of MHA which has only reiterated the position that existed for the past several years, it's only natural that the courts will have to really interpret the Constitution," BJP spokesperson G.V.L Narsimha Rao said.


"So the matter is pending before the courts and the MHA notification and the powers of LG will hopefully be examined and we look forward to a very favourable and positive interpretation of the Constitution by the Courts," he added.


The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) notification had stated that the Lieutenant Governor has primacy in postings and transfers of officers belonging to Central services.


Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had reacted strongly to it, saying the NDA Government at the Centre was trying to run the national capital through the 'backdoor'.


Kejriwal had also stated that the notification was indicative of the BJP's nervousness about the Aam Aadmi Party's anti-corruption efforts.

Why Islamic violence is rooted in the foundational texts of Islam itself, says Open magazine. Read 

If you've been wondering, here's why Indian-Americans dominate spelling bee. Read

Maggi sales are estimated to have been hit severely since the news of the MSG and lead in the noodles broke 10 days ago. Read

"Modi's victory is his own victory. Now what he has done thereafter, it seems to me, leads us to believe that he was a bit too prolific with his promises."  Legendary journalist Inder Malhotra casts his experienced gaze on one year of the Modi Sarkar. Read

Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit seems to have landed in a soup for endorsing Maggi with the Haridwar Food and Drug Administration today serving a notice to her on the claims made in the advertisement.


The notice seeks a report from the actress within 15 days on claims made in the advertisement regarding the nutrition value of the '2-minute noodles', an official of Haridwar Food and Drug Administration said.


Maggi recently came under the scanner after samples collected by Uttar Pradesh Food Safety and Drug Administration were reported to be containing Mono Sodium Glutamate (MSG) and lead more than the permissible limits.


Nestle India was asked to withdraw a batch of the popular snack from the market by the authorities in Uttar Pradesh recently.


Dixit has been asked to explain how Maggi is good for health and the basis of making the claims. If the actress fails to respond to the notice within the stipulated time frame, a case could be registered against her, Food Security Officer Mahimanand Joshi said.

Also making news for all the right reasons is Mumbai Mirror film critic Rahul Desai, who has resigned after the fiasco over the revised ratings of Tanu weds Manu Returns.

This is what Desai posted on his FB page last night. 
"Only appropriate that I resign as Mirror film critic on the day a new Salman trailer hits the web.
"It's not always wise to adapt to changing systems and broken trust.
Good run; time to move forward.
*this verdict is not subject to alteration after research and viewer feedback"


On the day Tanu Weds Manu Returns released, reviewer Rahul Desai rated it two and a half stars in his review. However in the 26 May web edition of Mumbai Mirror, it was revised to a three and a half stars because 'reader feedback' and 'research'. , a little notice to readers said:

On its May 26 edition, the paper issued a tiny notice in the entertainment section of the paper, which read: "Our reviewer Rahul Desai had given this week's main fare Tanu Weds Manu Returns two and a half stars. Following reader feedback and research which differed significantly from him, this newspaper is upgrading the rating of the film to three and a half stars."

The backlash from journalists and readers was immediate with Mumbai Mirror trending through the day.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh says that the radioactive leak at the cargo complex in IGI Airport has been plugged. TV reports say two workers have been hospitalised. The radioactive substance came from Istanbul for Fortis Hospital whose authorities have been called, NDRF DG, says. An NDRF team is working at the site. 

More on that radioactive leak at IGI airport, New Delhi.

TV reports say the radioactive leak has been located to a consignment from Turkey, which contained radioactive compounds for therapautic use. The consignment has spilled over into the cargo area, but it is localised. An emergency response team is on the way, while NDRF's  anti-sabotage team is at the spot.

More on the SC order on the MHA notification.

The Supreme Court has asked the High Court to proceed on the Delhi government's fresh petition 'independently without being influenced by observations' made in the May 25 verdict. The SC also issues notice to the Delhi govt on the Centre's appeal against the HC order allowing ACB to take action against bureaucrats. The SC asks the Delhi govt to reply in three weeks on the Centre's plea for stay of HC order holding its notification limiting power of anti-graft panel as suspect.

Just in: Radioactive leak detected at IGI airport, New Delhi. NDRF's  anti-sabotage team at the spot. Details awaited. 

Fight your battles, we will not step in, the Supreme Court seems to say.

The apex court has refused to step into the power battle between the Centre and the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi and said today that the High Court has to decide on the home ministry notification that limits the powers of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal

The SC asked the Delhi HC to hear the Delhi government's fresh plea for quashing notifications without getting influenced by any observation. "The HC must hear the case independently," the court observed.


The High Court had, earlier this week, called the notification 'suspect' and said the Lieutenant Governor, who represents the Centre, is "bound to act upon the aid and advice" of the Delhi council of Ministers.

In a two-day "emergency session" of the Delhi assembly, which ended yesterday, the AAP-dominated house called the Centre's notification 'illegal'and approached the SC over the issue.

Details awaited.

Home minister Rajnath Singh's press conference on one year of the NDA government begins. 

Just in: The National Human Rights Commission has ordered a CBI inquiry into the Andhra Pradesh police shooting and killing of 20 Tamilians who it said were sandalwood smugglers.


The incident took place at two places in Seshachalam forest area of Chandragiri mandal in Chittoor between 5am and 6am on April 7.

Twelve of the 20 people who were gunned down were from Tamil Nadu and the the then CM O Paneerselvam has claimed that the Tamils killed were poor labourers from the state who went to Andhra Pradesh for work.


Panneerselvam also sought a credible and speedy inquiry into the operation carried out by the "Red Sanders Anti-Smuggling Task Force" of the Andhra Pradesh police.


This was followed by a notice issued by the National Human Rights Commission to the Andhra Praderh government after one of its members observed that it involved "serious violation" of human rights of the individuals and the firing cannot be justified on the ground of self-defence.


Also read: 'Killing 20 people is a massacre; you can't call it an encounter'
The DMK, BJP, PMK, Congress and CPI claimed that poor labourers from the state were among the victims and asked the Andhra Pradesh government to "pursue lawful means" to check red sanders smuggling.

Just in: Militants fire at a police guard deployed at the Jammu and Kashmir Bank branch in Kachdoora, Shopian. The guard has been critically injured. Area cordoned off and a search operation has been launched.


Shopian has seen frequent terror attacks. On April 26, an army major, a trooper and three militants were killed in a nearly 24-hour-long gunfight, in south Kashmirs Shopian district.


Representational picture

@sardesairajdeep  tweets: Just read IIT Madras correspondence. student grp protesting alleged failure to implement reservation, no mention of PM. #IITMadras

Actor Harrison Ford has flown a plane for the first time since his crash in March.


The 72-year-old actor has spent weeks in recovery due to a large head laceration, broken pelvis and ankle, after crashing his vintage two-seater fighter plane into the Penmar Golf Course on March 5, due to a mechanical failure.


However, the "Indiana Jones" star has now been pictured for the first time dual piloting a helicopter at Santa Monica airport in Los Angeles, reported Extra.


Coming in to land, Ford was seen smiling towards onlookers, clearly pleased to get his first flight out of the way. Ford's helicopter ride comes after he was also seen driving to Steven Speilberg's house earlier this week, looking "happy".


Pic: Ford's wrecked vintage two-seater fighter plane following the March crash. 

An Army jawan was injured in a landmine blast near the Line of Control (LoC) in Akhnoor belt of Jammu district. Sepoy Anoop Kumar was injured when he inadvertently stepped over the mine close to the LoC in Pallanwala sector of Jammu district yesterday, a defence spokesman said today. The jawan was rushed to the Military Hospital where his condition was stated to be stable, the spokesman said.

Fire breaks out on the 5th floor of Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi. Three fire tenders at the spot. The fire has been doused. No casualties and no damage.

It seems that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi cannot escape having to tell colours of his eyes, his gait, shoe size and other features to Delhi Police. Police have decided not to relax the requirement for "protected persons" to furnish the details for security reasons, something which created an uproar in March this year with Congress alleging snooping on its leader whose whereabouts were not known at that time.


Read more

On a day when Indian-Americans have scored (as they always do) two Indian-origin women have made it to Forbes' inaugural list of America's 50 richest self-made women, sharing the honour with high-achievers such as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, media mogul Oprah Winfrey and singer Beyonce.


India-born Neerja Sethi, with a net worth of USD 1.1 billion, has been ranked 14th on the list of the most successful self-made women in the US while London-born Jayshree Ullal comes in at the 30th spot with a USD 470 million net worth. Sethi, 60 co-founded IT consulting and outsourcing company Syntel with her husband, billionaire Bharat Desai, in 1980.

She served as Syntel's treasurer during its first 16 years of operations and is currently the vice president of corporate affairs, a role she has had since the company's inception, Forbes said.


Through their family foundation, the couple pledged USD 1 million in 2014 to the University of Michigan to develop a start-up accelerator.


Ullal became president and CEO of Arista Networks, a company that has emerged as one of Silicon Valley's most valuable networking firms. Forbes said Ullal "is one of America's wealthiest female executives".

It was a breathtaking exhibition of spell-manship at the Spelling Bee competition. And it comes as no surprise that desi kids dominated the competition yet again and how! Seven of the 10 finalists were Indian-Americans.

Interestingly, Vanya Shivashankar from California (a co-winner along with Gokul Venkatachalam) is the younger sister of a 2009 spelling bee champ Kavya. Vanya is the first sibling of the former champion.

After bagging the prize in 2009, Kavya met United States President Barack Obama, as most Spelling Bee champs have the honour to do so.

Accompanying Kavya was her youngster sister and star of today's competition Vanya.

Little Vanya is seen in this picture looking starry-eyed at the president. Who wouldn't? :)

Photograph: Pete Souza/White House Photo 

Read: When I meet Obama by Kavya Shivashankar  

In a controversial move, the Indian Institute of Technology has banned a discussion forum for students after an anonymous complaint was filled against it for trying to spread hatred against Prime Minister Modi. The forum, according to the complaint, summoned SC/ST students to question government policies on the use of Hindi and the ban on cow slaughter.

The decision came after the ministry of human resource development made an inquiry regarding the anonymous complaint it had received on the activities of the Ambedkar Periyar Student Circle on the IIT campus, The Times of India reports.

In the letter to the IIT director dated May 15, Prisca Mathew, under secretary to the government of India, wrote, "I am directed to forward herewith a copy of anonymous letter alleging serious complaints received from students, IIT-Madras along with pamphlet issued by Ambedkar-Periyar study circle on the above mentioned subject and to request that comments of the institute may please be sent to this ministry at an early date."

A week later, on May 24, the IIT dean (for students), Sivakumar M Srinivasan, sent a terse email to the coordinators of the APSC informing them that they had been "derecognized".

Read the full report here

The 209 members of FIFA are set to vote for their new president at their congress in Zurich, amid a huge corruption scandal. Sepp Blatter is seeking a fifth term; his only challenger is Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan.

In his first public comments since the scandal became public, Blatter, 79, used a speech opening FIFA's annual congress yesterday to deflect responsibility for FIFA's problems and simultaneously suggest he was willing and capable of solving them.

The vote comes two days after seven top officials were held in Zurich in a US fraud inquiry that indicted 14 people. Blatter has faced calls to quit but says he is not responsible for the scandal and is favourite to win.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said his ministry had completed all formalities in respect of the one rank-one pension scheme for ex-servicemen and nobody should try to "politicise" the issue.

"My ministry has completed all formalities and OROP will be implemented," he said, adding that the executive process takes some time. Speaking at a function in Pune to felicitate city-based war veterans, Parrikar said this issue should not be "politicised".

"People still do not know financial implications of this. The Defence Ministry has completed its calculations and there was a unanimous agreement with the armed forces on the formula," he said.

It was for the second year in a row that Indian-Americans were co-winners of the US spelling bee championship.

Last year's winners were Sriram J Hathwar and Ansun Sujoe. They scripted history by becoming co-champions of the prestigious competition, the first since 1962.  

This is the eight consecutive year that Indian-Americans have retained the trophy.

For the second straight year National Spelling Bee crowns co-champions and of course, they are Indian-Americans -- Vanya Shivashankar from California and Gokul Venkatachalam of Missouri.

The word list was running out and the final correct spelling of nunatak (a hill or mountain completely surrounded by glacial ice) resulted in a tie.

By correctly spelling "scherenschnitte" -- a German term for cut-paper art -- Vanya, 13, became the first sibling of a former champion to take home the trophy. Her sister, Kavya Shivashankar, won in 2009 on the word Laodicean, meaning lukewarm.

Kavya is also the India Abroad Young achiever of 2009.
 

Indian American children have aced the 2015 National Spelling Bee yet again, with Vanya Shivashankar from California and Gokul Venkatachalam of Missouri tying and co-sharing the title (as can be seen in this Reuters image). 

Lt Colonel Jason Amerine, a Special Forces war hero who played an instrumental role in the overthrow of the Taliban in the months after 9/11, is under investigation over a purported unauthorized disclosure relating to a US  hostage held overseas that was made to US representative  Duncan Hunter's office.

An Iraqi forensic team has exhumed 499 bodies from a series of graves in the presidential complex in the city of Tikrit, a top official in the Baghdad morgue who is familiar with the operation told CNN on Thursday.

Some Apple users are exploiting a bug that causes your iPhone to crash. The Post's Hayley Tsukayama explains what it is, and whether it does any lasting damage to your phone. 

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has condemned the "action of individuals" for bringing "shame and humiliation" on football in a corruption scandal.But he said that although many held him "ultimately responsible" for the football community, he could "not monitor everyone all of the time".

A train coach attendant was today arrested here for allegedly molesting a 32-year-old woman passenger on board the premier Rajdhani train. 

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said pro-Pakistan activities would be not be tolerated in Jammu and Kashmir even as he noted that the ruling PDP-BJP alliance in the state was doing well in the desired direction.

Oxford University has nominated its first female vice-chancellor in its history.

Concrete progress has been made in India-US relationship in the first year of the BJP-led government, the US today said, noting that President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have set an ambitious agenda for the same.

An Indian peacekeeper has been injured in fresh firing in the troubled Malakal region in South Sudan, with the UN mission expressing concern over the incident and asking parties to respect the sanctity of UN staff. 

The unprecedented twin investigations into FIFA have demonstrated that the opaque organization is subject to the law, not above it.

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