Current Affairs For The Year 2016 And Month Mar

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Chinaâ€™s Azhar snub shows depth of ties with Pak

Pratyusha, 24, started her career with Balika Vadhu. She was also a contestant on Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 5 and was one of the participants of Bigg Boss 7. Some 'personal reasons' are said to be behind the suicide; Pratyusha was admitted to Mumbai's Kokilaben Hospital where she breathed her last.
2016-04-01 23:44:34 Read More

7 key announcements by PM Modi at Nuclear Security Summit in US

PM Modi tweeted to say his US visit was full of fruitful meetings and interactions. In his address at the nuclear security summit, PM Modi focused on nuclear security and technological approaches to defend against nuclear terrorism among others.
2016-04-01 21:57:15 Read More

PM's Saudi visit push to 'de-hyphenate' from Pak

PM Modi's visit to Saudi Arabia on Sunday is part of a diplomatic effort to put pressure on Pakistan by forging ties with some of Islamabad's closest allies. Modi's visit is just over seven months after he travelled to another Pakistan ally, the UAE, and signed a security cooperation agreement.
2016-04-01 18:57:50 Read More

Balika Vadhu actressÂ Pratyusha commits suicide

2016-04-01 15:48:18 Read More

'State-sponsored nuclear terror greatest risk'

Pakistan has also made a show of arresting an alleged Indian spy in Balochistan and charged New Delhi with fomenting terrorism in its territory, but the allegations carry little weight given Pakistanâ€™s long history of exporting terrorism across the western world beyond the subcontinent.
2016-04-01 14:26:53 Read More

Kolkata flyover collapse an 'accident': IVRCL

2016-04-01 09:38:32 Read More

Let down by team mates, Virat Kohli's golden World T20 run ends

As the full toss left Andre Russell's blade and settled deep into the stands, dropping a deathly silence across the Wankhede Stadium, Virat Kohli stood dazed, gazing at the trajectory of the ball and perhaps wondering what else he could have done.
2016-04-01 07:22:41 Read More

US, Saudi Arabia slap sanction on Pak outfits

The United States and Saudi Arabia joined hands on Thursday to sanction Pakistani individuals and terrorist entities, including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), hours ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Riyadh.
2016-04-01 07:03:26 Read More

Home loan EMIs to come down from today

The Hyderabad-based IVRCL which was constructing the flyover in Kolkata, a portion of which collapsed on Thursday killing 24 people, on Friday described the incident as an "accident", a day after another official of the company had dubbed it as an "act of God".
2016-03-31 22:05:44 Read More

WT20: Windies beat India by 7 wickets, enter final

Simmons's first appearance of the World T20 produced a match-winning 82 not out off 51 balls as West Indies stunned India with a seven-wicket win with two balls remaining.
2016-03-31 17:09:12 Read More

Tata Steel exit: UK â€˜doing all it canâ€™ to save jobs, Cameron says

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday assured the nation that his government is "doing everything it can" to save some 20,000 jobs at Tata Steel, but warned there were "no guarantees of success" after India's steel giant decided to sell its loss-making UK businesses.
2016-03-31 16:33:55 Read More

Kolkata flyover collapse an act of god: Builder

2016-03-31 14:26:40 Read More

Catch the thrilling moments of India vs WI clash

Lendl Simmons scored a match-winning unbeaten 82 off 51 balls to help West Indies chased down the massive 193-run target and defeat India by seven wickets.
2016-03-31 12:54:06 Read More

Video: Kolkata flyover collapse caught on CCTV

2016-03-31 11:33:40 Read More

Video: Kolkata flyover collapse caught on CCTV

2016-03-31 11:33:40 Read More

Kolkata flyover collapse: PM directs central help

2016-03-31 11:27:03 Read More

What you need to know about the Kolkata flyover

2016-03-31 10:14:16 Read More

Collapsed Kolkata flyover was in congested area

"My thoughts are with the families of those who lost their lives in Kolkata. May the injured recover at the earliest," PM Modi, who is in the US on an official visit, tweeted. Sources said the Prime Minister is in touch with officials in Delhi.
2016-03-31 10:06:11 Read More

Live updates: 17 dead, dozens injured in Kolkata flyover collapse

Kolkata had one of its worst days today when a portion of an under-construction flyover collapsed in a busy north Kolkata neighbourhood, killing many people and leaving dozens injured and trapped under the debris.
2016-03-31 09:28:30 Read More

1 killed, many feared trapped as Kolkata flyover collapses

Many people are feared trapped under debris after an under-construction flyover collapsed in a congested area in North Kolkata near Ganesh Talkies early Thursday afternoon.
2016-03-31 08:05:26 Read More

Cameron to hold meet about Tata's 40k job losses

Amid signs of disarray in Whitehall, Downing Street rejected demands for the recall of Parliament, but Cameron will now chair an emergency meeting of ministers to discuss ways of keeping the embattled business afloat.
2016-03-31 07:10:09 Read More

UN doesn't know definition of terrorism: PM Modi

In the backdrop of terror attacks here last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the dangers posed by terrorism to the world and said the UN should address such major challenges failing which the global body could be rendered irrelevant.
2016-03-30 23:23:57 Read More

UN doesn't know definition of terrorism: PM Modi

Netaji made 3 'broadcasts' after 'death' in crash?

Although successive governments in India since Independence had refused to categorically assert that Subhas Chandra Bose had survived the air crash in Taipei, then known as Formosa, there is enough evidence in the files declassified by the Modi government on Tuesday to point out that Netaji may well have lived beyond 1945.
2016-03-30 22:30:12 Read More

Army to get 50k new bullet-proof vests, needs 3.5L

Ordinary infantry soldiers are still a long way from getting modern assault rifles and light-machine guns, new anti-tank weapons and light-weight ballistic helmets, but they are finally going to get desperately needed bullet-proof jackets after waiting for a decade.
2016-03-30 21:45:27 Read More

Can't bar women from entering Shani temple: HC

Haldhar Nag, the 66-year-old poet in Kosli language, remembers all the poems and 20 epics that he has penned. Sambalpur University is now coming up with a compilation of his writings - Haldhar Granthabali-2 - which will be a part of the university's syllabus.
2016-03-30 09:31:32 Read More

Mallya offers to repay Rs 4000cr to banks by Sept

The Bombay high court on Wednesday said that "women cannot be barred from entering Shani Shinganapur temple". "There's no law which prevents women from entering temples. Women should have equal access to places of worship," the Bombay HC said.
2016-03-30 07:12:55 Read More

Pak is a 'very, very vital problem': Trump

2016-03-30 05:00:26 Read More

5 PhD theses on this class III-dropout Odia poet

A nuclear-armed Pakistan is a "very, very vital problem", Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said and asserted that the country needs to "get a hold of" its situation. Last year, Trump had called Pakistan the most dangerous country in the world.
2016-03-29 19:58:24 Read More

Brussels: Do I call him a victim or hero, asks Infy techie's widow

Raghavendran, 31, who worked with Infosys, had been missing since the March 22 terror attacks in Brussels. His brother Chandrasekar, a student in Germany, put out a Facebook post the next day with Raghavendranâ€™s photos, appealing for information about him.
2016-03-29 17:39:28 Read More

Pak's 'confession video' shows arrested Indian tutored: Government

Rejects allegations of Yadav being involved in subversive activities in Pakistan, the MEA said he was being harassed while operating legitimate business from Iran. Pakistan Army had released a video purportedly showing Yadsav "confessing" his "involvement" in terror activities in Balochistan.
2016-03-29 15:57:43 Read More

How ISIS built terror machinery under Europeâ€™s gaze

2016-03-29 15:39:59 Read More

EgyptAir hijacker used 'bomb' made of iphone cases

2016-03-29 15:07:29 Read More

EgyptAir hijacker used 'bomb' made of iphone cases

2016-03-29 15:07:29 Read More

SC asks Sebi to sell certain Sahara properties

The Supreme Court asked the Securities and Exchange Board of India to initiate the process of selling 87 "unencumbered" properties of Sahara group, whose title deeds are with the market regulator, to generate the bail money for release of its chief Subrata Roy who has been in jail for two years now.
2016-03-29 14:17:11 Read More

India has many match-winners, won't focus on Kohli alone: Gayle

Speaking to the media at the CCI on Tuesday, the West Indian opener said he was ready to attack India on Thursday.
2016-03-29 12:28:36 Read More

EgyptAir plane hijacker arrested, all hostages safe

Egypt media reports that the hijacker, identified as Seif Eldin Mustafa, was seen emerging from the aircraft with his hands held up in the air. After the aircraft landed at Larnaca airport, the hijacker started releasing everyone onboard following negotiations.
2016-03-29 12:17:40 Read More

Now, 100% FDI in e-comm marketplace model

FDI has been allowed only for the marketplace model of e-commerce giants, but not for the inventory-based model. The government has also come out with definitions of 'e-commerce', 'marketplace model' and 'inventory-based model'.
2016-03-29 12:00:30 Read More

'Old school' Ashish Nehra shows how it is done

Thanks to T20, Ashish Nehra is enjoying a late career surge in popularity which has left the plain-speaking Delhi pacer with his tongue firmly in cheek.
2016-03-29 03:53:00 Read More

Virat Kohli and 'Art of Chasing' high targets in T20sÂ

In the ephemeral world of the T20 chase, crafting an innings to endure in the imagination can be tougher than preserving a patch of beach art.
2016-03-29 03:37:02 Read More

Mysterious breast disease grips Pune

In October last year, 28-year-old Prajakta Jadhav (name changed), a resident of Bhosari and a teacher by profession, noticed a painful lump in her left breast.
2016-03-29 02:47:22 Read More

Brussels attacks: Belgium arrested wrong man

A noisy citizen journalist who reveled in verbal and physical fights in public spaces, FayÃ§al Cheffou never quite fit the profile of a furtive underground operative for the Islamic State.
2016-03-28 22:56:30 Read More

Indian priest crucified by IS? Govt not sure

Even as Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna confirmed on Monday that Indian Catholic priest, Father Thomas Uzhunnali, was crucified by Islamic State on Good Friday in Yemen, where he was held hostage, the Indian government said it had no information of his whereabouts.
2016-03-28 21:15:47 Read More

Indian priest crucified by IS? Govt not sure

Jihadis may target Pakistan probe team: MHA

Pakistani officials who are in India to investigate the Pathankot terror strike are under threat from Islamic fundamentalist organizations based in Pakistan and their proxies in India.
2016-03-28 21:03:29 Read More

US Capitol lockdown lifted after gunman detained

The US Capitol and the White House were put on lockdown on Monday after reports of shots fired at the Capitol Visitors Center, where tourists gather to take tours, witnesses said.
2016-03-28 19:27:34 Read More

Man killed over barking dog in Bengaluru

As Yuvraj Singh and Virat Kohli struggled to up the run rate on Sunday night, and a hushed silence fell over Bengaluru's cricket-crazy fans, a bizarre incident played out in JC Nagar, in the north of the city.
2016-03-28 18:25:02 Read More

Missing Infosys employee in Brussels confirmed dead: Embassy

Raghavendran Ganeshan, the Infosys employee who went missing after the terror attacks in Brussels, has been confirmed dead.
2016-03-28 15:35:57 Read More

Missing Infosys employee confirmed dead in Brussels terror attacks

Raghavendran Ganeshan, the Infosys employee who went missing after the terror attacks in Brussels, has been confirmed dead.
2016-03-28 15:35:57 Read More

How Kohli-Dhoni planned winning onslaughtÂ

Virat Kohli, who mastered India's successful run-chase against Australia to take his team through to semi-finals at Mohali on Sunday, has admitted that he has "never played an innings" in a situation where 39 were needed in last three overs.
2016-03-28 14:26:17 Read More

DATE 2

Kohli's knock prompts comparisons with Sachin

Indian great Sachin Tendulkar remains the gold standard of batting in the post-Bradman era but Virat Kohli's latest masterclass in Sunday's World Twenty20 shootout against Australia has prompted comparisons with his famous compatriot.
2016-03-28 10:50:00 Read More>>

Lahore blasts killed more Muslims than Christians

A breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack in Gulshan Iqbal Park. Even though the group said it had deliberately targeted Christians "celebrating Easter", it has started to emerge that most of those killed in Lahore were Muslims.
2016-03-28 10:41:03 Read More

Shame on people for trolling Anushka: Kohli

Kohli wrote on twitter, â€œShame on people for trolling @AnushkaSharma non-stop. Have some compassion. She has always only given me positivityâ€.
2016-03-28 09:45:06 Read More

Who becomes a terrorist? Few answers

2016-03-28 07:42:33 Read More

Cong moves HC on Uttarakhand: 10 developments

Itâ€™s that time of the year again when the best in cinema across the country in various languages is honoured.
2016-03-28 07:17:16 Read More

Kohli world's best batsman, beyond phenomenal: Gavaskar

Blown away by Virat Kohli's power-packed knock that took India into the World Twenty20 semifinals, Sunil Gavaskar has said that the marauding right-hander is currently the world's best batsman and "beyond phenomenal".
2016-03-28 07:03:57 Read More

Rockets fired at Afghan parliament in Kabul

What turns people toward violence â€” and whether they can be steered away from it â€” are questions that have bedeviled governments around the world for generations. Those questions have taken on fresh urgency with the rise of the Islamic State and the string of attacks in Europe and the United States.
2016-03-28 06:36:46 Read More

Amitabh, Kangana, Bhansali win National Awards

2016-03-28 05:15:14 Read More

Kohli and India send reminder of T20 supremacy

This special win isn't just Virat Kohli's. It is equally India's. They were yet to come out full-throttle in this tournament but now they have.
2016-03-28 02:32:18 Read More

Day before floor test, Centre floors Rawat govt

Assembly Put In Suspended Animation
2016-03-28 00:01:56 Read More

DRDO working on Star Wars-like weapons

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is already tom-tomming its ongoing development of a 10-kilowatt DEW against UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) like targets, with â€œthe establishment of critical technologies of precision tracking/pointing and laser beam combinationâ€.
2016-03-27 23:25:15 Read More

Lahore: 70 killed, 300 injured in suicide blast

* Most victims were women and children - officials * Pakistani Taliban faction Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claims attack * Says was targeting Christians
2016-03-27 19:45:43 Read More

World T20: Virat Kohli's legend grows with Mohali masterpiece

Already this year, even before we come to the matter of what transpired in Mohali in game 31 of the ICC World Twenty20 between India and Australia, a must-win for the home team, Kohli had pulled off two super chases.
2016-03-27 18:46:26 Read More

56 dead, over 200 injured in Lahore suicide blast

2016-03-27 14:38:18 Read More

WT20: Afghanistan stun West Indies by six runs

Afghanistan registered first big upset of the ICC World Twenty20 2016, defeating mighty West Indies by six runs in their last match of the Super 10 stage at the VCA Stadium in Nagpur on Sunday.
2016-03-27 13:25:40 Read More

Kohli stars as India beat Australia to enter World T20 semi-final

The coast has cleared. The run-rate doesn't matter anymore. India vs Australia tonight in Mohali is a virtual quarter-final shootout. Whichever team wins goes through.
2016-03-27 13:13:45 Read More

'Many Muslims incompatible with modern world'

Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's 'chhoti bahu' Aparna Yadav is all set to make her electoral debut. Wife of Mulayam's younger son Prateek Yadav, she has been named as the party's candidate from Lucknow Cantonment seat for the 2017 assembly elections.
2016-03-27 11:28:07 Read More

No bank defaulter will be spared: PM Modi

Warning that no bank defaulter will be spared, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused Congress of helping the rich usurp people's money and claimed his government has "tightened the screws" on the "looters" who were now fleeing due to fear of going to jail.
2016-03-27 09:21:12 Read More

MSY's 'chhoti bahu' set to make electoral debut

Mulayam's 'chhoti bahu' joins family poll plunge

At least 56 people were on Sunday killed in a suicide bomb blast in a crowded public park in Pakistan's Lahore. Over 200 people were reported injured in the blast. An emergency has been declared at all government hospitals in the city, and a heavy contingent of police has cordoned off the area.
2016-03-27 09:02:08 Read More

â€˜Murder of democracyâ€™: Congress on Presidentâ€™s Rule in Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand was on Sunday brought under President's rule by the Centre on grounds of "breakdown of governance" in a controversial decision which comes in the wake of a political crisis triggered by a rebellion in the ruling Congress.
2016-03-27 08:47:13 Read More

PM Modi wishes India for today's match

In his monthly radio address 'Mann ki Baat', the Prime Minister also spoke about hosting the Under-17 soccer world cup next year and said it is a great opportunity for branding the country at the international level, for which immense awareness needs to be created within the nation.
2016-03-27 07:15:07 Read More

No CISF cover at 27 important airports

A report by a department related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture early this year had also expressed its concern, saying it found it "quite scary to know that the security of eight of our hyper-sensitive and 19 of our sensitive airports are not covered by the CISF.
2016-03-27 07:03:36 Read More

No CISF cover at 27 important airports

A report by a department related parliamentary standing committee on transport, tourism and culture early this year had also expressed its concern, saying it was "quite scary" to know that the security of eight of our hyper-sensitive and 19 of our sensitive airports are not covered by the CISF.
2016-03-27 07:03:36 Read More

Pak's Pathankot probe team reaches India

The team will travel to Pathankot on Tuesday to survey the scene of the attack and interview witnesses. This is the first time that Pakistani intelligence and police officials have come to India to investigate a terror attack.
2016-03-27 07:00:57 Read More

Syrian army recaptures Palmyra from ISIS

For government forces, the recapture of Palmyra following a three-week campaign backed by intensive Russian air strikes, opens up much of Syria's eastern desert stretching to the Iraqi border to the south and Islamic State heartland of Deir al-Zor and Raqqa to the east.
2016-03-27 06:57:07 Read More

Watch:Â BJP MP kicks an old man at an event

2016-03-27 04:31:26 Read More

Submerged shrines rise after 34 years

the ongoing drought in regions of Maharashtra and several temples have resurfaced for the first time after over three decades.
2016-03-27 00:32:52 Read More

Pakâ€™s Pathankot probe team arrives today

This is the first time India is opening its doors to Pakistan security officials, not merely in the NIA, but also to the airbase. What is significant is the fact that this is essentially a goodwill gesture from India.
2016-03-26 21:06:16 Read More

Punjab cops ignored Pathankot intel: ADGP

Senior Cop Tells DGP IB Had Sent Alert On 4 Terrorists
2016-03-26 21:04:33 Read More

Uttarakhand crisis: Centre mulls President's Rule

The political crisis in Uttarakhand took a new turn late tonight with the Centre mulling imposition of President's Rule ahead of Monday's trust vote for Congress Chief Minister Harish Rawat amid reports that the state assembly Speaker has disqualified nine rebel Congress MLAs which will dramatically alter the arithmatic of the assembly.
2016-03-26 19:25:04 Read More

Will Virat go past his idol â€” Sachin?

The truth is, there can be no fair, defi nitive answer to the query. The two careers overlapped a bit. But remember: pitches, bowlers, batting equipment, rules â€“ all have changed dramatically since 1989, when Sachin played his fi rst Test and ODI.
2016-03-26 18:33:00 Read More

Being Mohammed in Brussels

Radicalized supporters of global jihad might be a small minority amongst European Muslims, but they are overwhelmingly young men who have been born and brought up in Europe.
2016-03-26 18:33:00 Read More

WT20: England seal Kotla thriller to enter semis

England defeated Sri Lanka by 10 runs in a crucial Group 1 Super 10 match at the Feroz Shah Kotla on Saturday to secure a semi-final spot.
2016-03-26 17:36:00 Read More

Cracks in Mt Everest after Nepal earthquake

2016-03-26 13:47:25 Read More

Cracks in Mt Everest after Nepal earthquake

2016-03-26 13:47:25 Read More

HU crisis: KCR to take up matter with PM Modi

Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley on Saturday told a special court trying the 26/11 attack case that Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Zaki-ur- Rehman Lakhvi had told him about the Ishrat Jehan 'operation' and wondered why NIA chose not to mention it in its statement.
2016-03-26 13:05:14 Read More

Supported by BJP, Mehbooba stakes claim to power

Telangana chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday said that he will take up with Prime Minister Narendra Modi the demand for recall of University of Hyderabad vice chancellor P. Appa Rao.
2016-03-26 12:21:14 Read More

WT20: India, Australia eye semi-final spot

India squaring off against Australia is a virtual quarter-final shootout where the winner will book a place in the final four.
2016-03-26 11:27:44 Read More

Headley claims he told NIA about Ishrat Jahan

Several cracks and holes have developed in the Mount Everest region due to last year's devastating earthquakes that killed about 9,000 people across Nepal, according to a specialist team responsible for maintaining the climbing route on the world's highest peak.
2016-03-26 11:15:10 Read More

Kohli ready for Australia, says can perform even without provocations

Kohli believes the 3-0 sweep of Australia in January earlier this year, where he himself was a prolific run-getter, is what got India going in T20s this year.
2016-03-26 10:56:30 Read More

Congress rebels stun Uttarakhand CM with sting video

The die for government formation in Jammu & Kashmir was cast on Saturday with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti staking claim to power and the BJP supporting her claim before governor NN Vohra at the Raj Bhawan in Jammu.
2016-03-26 10:33:00 Read More

Calling women 'bimbo', 'fat pig', could lead to Trump's downfall

Trump denies being sexist. He said in an interview this week that some of his remarks were just "show business" and claimed he would be better for women than Clinton. Trump won the highest percent of women's votes in 11 of the first 15 Republican primary and caucus nominating contests.
2016-03-26 08:11:52 Read More

Dalbir fears Sarabjit redux in 'RAW agent' arrest

After Pakistan on Friday claimed it arrested an 'agent' from India's Research and Analysis Wing in Balochistan province, Sarbjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur said on Saturday she feared that Islamabad was trying to create another Sarabjit. Pakistan said the man is 'a serving officer in the Indian Navy' and deputed to RAW. Sarabjit Singh, who Pakistan alleged was Manjit Singh, was an Indian national convicted of terrorism and spying by a Pakistani court in 2003.
2016-03-26 08:02:23 Read More

Dalbir fears Sarabjit redux in 'RAW agent' arrest

'Saeed said Thackeray needs to be taught lesson'

On the eve of a visit by a Pakistani investigation team to probe the Pathankot attacks by Jaish-eMohammed, Islamabad announced that it had arrested a â€œRAW agentâ€ from Balochistan, which added a layer of discomfort to the already strained ties between India and Pakistan.
2016-03-26 05:05:38 Read More

'Saeed said Thackeray needs to be taught lesson'

Headley, the terrorist-turned-approver, also said in a deposition to a Mumbai court on Saturday that he visited the residence of the late Shiv Sena supremo as well as Sena Bhavan in Mumbai, for surveillance.
2016-03-26 05:05:38 Read More

To fight 'US capitalist enslavery', ISIS now needs American dollars

ISISâ€™ attempt to end "America's capitalist financial system of enslavery" with its own currency appears to have failed as terror group relies increasingly on US dollars. Reports suggest jihadists are demanding fines handed out for everything from repairing televisions to smoking are paid in dollars.
2016-03-26 04:33:11 Read More

'Had lost hope of returning alive' from Brussels

India may be home to the world's largest telescope project - the $1.47-billion Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) International Observatory.
2016-03-26 02:29:31 Read More

Kin of arrested Hyd students seek VC's ouster

Angry family members of 27 students and faculty members of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) picked by the police three days ago joined protests on Friday.
2016-03-26 01:05:58 Read More

DATE 3

â€˜Spyâ€™ held in Pak son of retired Mumbai ACP?

Centre mulls limiting police's power to arrest

The law ministry is keen to undertake a comprehensive reform of the criminal justice system and has referred the matter to the law commission for its recommendations on various amendments required in the CrPC.
2016-03-25 21:03:12 Read More

'Anti-national' JNU: Google blames it on a bug

Google Maps results take signals from many points on the web - including news outlets," the Google spokesperson said.
2016-03-25 19:30:15 Read More

Ladakh to get world's largest telescope?

India may be home to the world's largest telescope project - the $1.47-billion Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) International Observatory.
2016-03-25 19:08:15 Read More

Hated India since childhood for bombing my school in 1971: Headley

â€œI hate India and Indians since childhood and wanted to cause maximum damage,
2016-03-25 17:35:39 Read More

1 arrested in new anti-terror raids in Brussels

Belgian police carrying out a fresh anti-terrorist operation on Friday arrested a suspect, who suffered a slight injury, Schaerbeek mayor Bernard Clerfayt told AFP.
2016-03-25 15:21:09 Read More

Rs 500cr, 80 seats: DMK's alleged offer to Vijayakant for alliance

MDMK leader Vaiko on Friday alleged that the DMK and the BJP had made offers, including money, to DMDK leader Vijayakant, who had rejected them to join the People's Welfare Front (PWF) to fight the coming assembly elections in Tamil Nadu.
2016-03-25 14:42:07 Read More

Kohli becoming a 'wall' just like Tendulkar: Afridi

Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi on Friday compared batting maestro Virat Kohli with the legendary Sachin Tendulkar, saying he has now become the wall of the Indian cricket team, winning match after match with his bat.
2016-03-25 14:16:07 Read More

ISIS second in command killed in US raids: Report

2016-03-25 14:12:21 Read More

Unfazed by criticism, Afridi thanks Kashmir again

Unfazed by the criticism he drew for mentioning Kashmir in the previous match, Shahid Afridi once again thanked supporters from the valley for turning up to cheer his team in the lost World Twenty20 match against Australia.
2016-03-25 14:03:30 Read More

TOI poll: What nationalism means to you?

2016-03-25 10:14:16 Read More

Avalanche hits Army patrol in Leh, jawan missing

The Brussels bombers were allegedly planning to attack a nuclear power plant and had recorded 10 hours of surveillance footage of Belgium's nuclear power chief, it has been reported.
2016-03-25 09:37:57 Read More

Wives dragged into fray as Donald Trump-Ted Cruz spat heats up

Donald Trump and his main challenger for the Republican presidential nomination, Ted Cruz, have escalated their bitter feud, taking to social media to clash over two unlikely figures - their wives.
2016-03-25 09:18:21 Read More

Brussels bombers may have planned N-plant strike

2016-03-25 07:53:17 Read More

Fortune puts Kejriwal on 50 greatest leaders' list

2016-03-25 06:19:19 Read More

Hated Indians since 1971: 10 quotes of Headley

A Jet Airways aircraft carrying 242 persons including 28 crew members, who were stranded in Belgian capital Brussels following the deadly terror attack on airport and metro station on Tuesday, arrived in Delhi from Amsterdam on Friday morning.
2016-03-25 05:21:37 Read More

Ex-PM Yousaf Raza Gilani visited my house in Pak: David Headley

Labelling his wife Indrani Mukerjea a â€œhighly ambitious woman who was willing to sacrifice and give up her own children to achieve her ambitionsâ€, Peter Mukerjea filed a second bail plea in the murder case of his step-daughter Sheena Bora. This is the first time Peter has gone against Indrani.
2016-03-25 05:02:29 Read More

Brussels cops arrest six, French foil Paris plot

2016-03-25 02:45:31 Read More

Jet Airways brings home 242 stranded passengers

ISIS to crucify Indian priest on Good Friday?Â

The Indian priest was captured during an attack on a retirement home in Yemen which killed 16
2016-03-24 23:52:12 Read More

Brussels bombers were on US terror list: US mediaÂ

At least 31 people were killed and more than 200 injured after the two attacks on Tuesday morning.
2016-03-24 20:42:38 Read More

Indrani would sacrifice her kids to achieve her ambition, says Peter

Dutch football legend Johan Cruyff dies at 68

Johan Cruyff, the legendary Dutch football striker and coach, has died aged 68, according to a message posted on his website.
2016-03-24 12:49:27 Read More

Ramdev, BJP plotted against us in Uttarakhand, Congress says

The political crisis in Uttarakhand took a new turn with the Congress dragging Ramdev into the picture by accusing him of "hatching" a plot jointly with BJP leadership to topple the state government, but the yoga guru on Thursday refuted the charge.
2016-03-24 11:50:07 Read More

Watson to quit international cricket after WT20

2016-03-24 10:45:47 Read More

WT20: How Dhoni plotted India's great escape against Bangladesh

Leading a cricket team may not be rocket science but India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni proved it involves a bit of physics in Wednesday's World Twenty20 heartstopper against Bangladesh.
2016-03-24 09:12:07 Read More

Blog: The jugaadu genius of MS Dhoni

Australian all-rounder Shane Watson will quit international cricket after the ongoing World Twenty20 in India, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Thursday.
2016-03-24 08:33:46 Read More

Shoe hurled at JNU leader Kanhaiya in Hyderabad

There are many reasons why Belgium has become a hotbed of radical Islamism. Some of the answers may lie in the implanting of Saudi Salafist preachers in the country from the 1960s. Keen to secure oil contracts, Belgium's King Baudouin offered to Saudi King Faisal to set up a mosque in the capital in 1967.
2016-03-24 07:58:22 Read More

Brussels terror: 40 nationalities among dead, hurt

2016-03-24 07:53:08 Read More

Brussels terror: 40 nationalities among dead, hurt

2016-03-24 07:53:08 Read More

How a deal for Saudi oil sowed seeds of radical Islam in Belgium

How deal for Saudi oil radicalized Belgian Muslims

2016-03-24 06:53:38 Read More

Video: MS Dhoni loses his cool

2016-03-24 04:19:42 Read More

Lashkar tried to kill Bal Thackeray: Headley

Pakistani-American terrorist-turned-approver David Coleman Headley on Thursday said that terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) had made an attempt to kill Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray but the person was arrested.
2016-03-24 03:20:37 Read More

19-year-old survives Boston, Paris, Brussels

An American Mormon missionary has been injured in the Brussels attacks -after surviving the attacks in both Boston and Paris. Mason Wells, 19, from Utah was close to an explosion at Brussels' Zaventem Airport on Tuesday.
2016-03-24 00:12:31 Read More

Mother of two from Mumbai becomes face of Brussels horror

Wednesday's Brussels blasts produced a similar iconic moment. With blood dripping from her injured forehead and her clothes in tatters, images of Nidhi Chaphekar, a Jet Airways in-flight manager from Mumbai, sitting injured at Brussels airport, epitomised the horror of the terror attack.
2016-03-23 21:58:12 Read More

Brussels horror: Jet for 'Airlift'-like operation

In an 'Airlift'-like operation, Jet Airways is moving hundreds of its passengers stranded in terror-hit Brussels after Tuesday's serial blasts, to Amsterdam in 15 buses from late Wednesday night (India time).
2016-03-23 21:37:36 Read More

Just don't bowl a yorker, Dhoni told Pandya before the last ball

Dhoni was all praise for young Hardik Pandya, who held his nerve during the last few moments and executed the instructions brilliantly by not bowling a yorker to Shuvagato Hom.
2016-03-23 18:43:55 Read More

WT20: India win last-ball thriller against B'desh

Chasing 147, Bangladesh's batsmen fired in spurts but the pressure told with each wicket, and their chase ended on 145/9.
2016-03-23 17:55:11 Read More

Key suspects in recent attacks on Paris, Brussels

2016-03-23 14:21:15 Read More

Watch: How to sing the National anthem right

2016-03-23 13:41:14 Read More

World T20 live scorecard: India vs Bangladesh

Germany coach Joachim Loew says the battle for places in the world champions' squad for Euro 2016 starts in earnest with their high-profile friendlies at home to England and Italy.
2016-03-23 13:14:45 Read More

Live Blog: Bangladesh elect to bowl vs India

India are currently fourth behind Australia in Group 2 and a big result against Bangladesh today will ease their qualification burden ahead of a potentially slippery meeting with Steve Smith's side in Mohali on Sunday.
2016-03-23 13:14:07 Read More

Infosys techie in Brussels missing after attack, family awaits info

An Indian techie who works for Infosys has been missing in Brussels since Tuesday's attacks. Raghavendran Ganeshan's family says he usually took the metro to work, and that they have not been able to make contact with him since. Indian authorities are looking for Raghavendran, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said in a tweet.
2016-03-23 12:27:13 Read More

Jet taking injured crew's kin to Brussels

Bangladesh are one loss away from exiting the ICC World Twenty20, and hoping to beat them are India, who twice this year have gotten past them in T20Is without much difficulty.
2016-03-23 11:21:32 Read More

Jet Airways taking injured crew's kin to Brussels

2016-03-23 11:21:32 Read More

Govt hikes DA by 6%, 1 crore employees to benefit

Andrabi's party has been hoisting Pakistani flags every year on the occasion of Pakistan Day and Independence Day of the country on August 14. Andrabi was booked last year under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act for unfurling the Pakistani flag.
2016-03-23 11:15:07 Read More

On Pak Day, Andrabi's party hoists Pak flags

2016-03-23 08:56:22 Read More

On Pak Day, Andrabi's party hoists Pak flags

2016-03-23 08:56:22 Read More

El Bakraoui brothers were Brussels bombers

Around 1pm, a call came from Brussels to the Andheri home of the Chaphekars: blasts at the airport had injured Nidhi, 41, a Jet Airways inflight manager who had flown to the European city the day before.
2016-03-23 08:02:21 Read More

DATE 4

Video: Brussels convention center after attacks

2016-03-23 06:11:21 Read More>>

Brussels attacks: Hunt on for IS suspect 'in a hat'

2016-03-23 03:35:59 Read More

Belgium hunts IS suspect after attacks kill 30

World leaders united in condemning the carnage in Brussels and vowed to combat terrorism after the strike by Islamic State jihadists on the symbolic heart of Europe. Several global landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower in Paris, were lit up in the black, yellow and red of the national flag.
2016-03-23 02:19:47 Read More

Trump rhetoric gets muscle from Brussels

The statue of a cheekily urinating boy that has long drawn tourists to Brussels' city centre took on a new role on the Internet on Tuesday after attacks in the city that killed at least 30 people.
2016-03-23 01:16:07 Read More

Brussels terror: Hurt Jet manager's family prays

Belgian police are hunting an Islamic State suspect seen with two supposed suicide bombers shortly before they struck Brussels Airport in the first of two attacks that also hit the city's metro, killing at least 30 and wounding over 200.
2016-03-23 00:17:19 Read More

Attack exposes chink in India's airport security

Even as the terror attack at the check-in area of Brussels airport triggered a debate over the security drill followed at airports in general, CISF director general Surender Singh on Tuesday ruled out a review of security checks currently in place at airports in India.
2016-03-22 23:54:56 Read More

Brussels airport attack exposes chinks in India's airport security

World leaders condemn attacks, landmarks lit up in Belgium's colours

Twitter users express support for Brussels

Police launch manhunt for Brussels attack suspect

Police issued a wanted notice for a man suspected of involvement in Tuesday's bomb attacks at Brussels airport that left at least 10 people dead. Calling for information, they issued a photograph of a man, dressed in a white shirt and jacket and wearing a dark hat, as he pushed a luggage trolley through the airport.
2016-03-22 17:42:40 Read More

Brussels 'a disaster city', says Donald Trump

Brussels is "a disaster city" where assimilation has failed, US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said Tuesday after a series of apparently coordinated explosions rocked the Belgian capital's airport and a metro station.
2016-03-22 16:34:50 Read More

Terror strikes kill 34 at Brussels airport, subway

2016-03-22 15:03:32 Read More

'It was a war scene': Eyewitnesses describe Brussels terror attack

Bombs struck the Brussels airport and one of the city's metro stations Tuesday, killing at least 31 people and wounding dozens, as a European capital was again locked down amid heightened security threats.
2016-03-22 14:18:45 Read More

Brussels attack: Facebook activates safety check

Thirty-four people were killed in attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday, according to public broadcaster VRT. It also said police had found a Kalashnikov assault rifle next to the body of an attacker at the airport.
2016-03-22 13:21:10 Read More

WT20: India seek hat-trick of Bangladesh wins

On the eve of Holi festival, the government on WEdnesday hiked dearness allowance (DA) by 6 per cent, benefiting over 1 crore central government employees and pensioners.
2016-03-22 10:11:45 Read More

Brussels attacks: 2 Jet crew members injured

2016-03-22 10:07:07 Read More

First visuals: Brussels airport explosions

According to the company, iPhone SE's price was erroneously mentioned as Rs 30,000 in the first press release.
2016-03-22 08:04:04 Read More

Live: Several feared dead in Brussels Airport explosions

Two explosions were heard at the Brussels airport, media reports said. The exact cause of the explosions is not known. Images showed people fleeing from the terminal building.
2016-03-22 08:03:02 Read More

Two explosions at Brussels airport

Hyderabad University vice-chancellor P. Appa Rao, who went on leave after being in the eye of the storm following the suicide of dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, resumed his office on Tuesday.
2016-03-22 07:30:46 Read More

Students vandalise Hyd Univ VC's officeÂ

2016-03-22 07:08:08 Read More

Video: Tennis coach thrashed at Delhi CNG pump

2016-03-22 06:13:50 Read More

New iPhone's starting price in India to be Rs 39,000, not Rs 30,000

The all-new iPhone will be available in India at a starting price of Rs 39,000 and not Rs 30,000 as previously reported. According to the company, iPhone SE's price was erroneously mentioned as Rs 30,000 in the first press release.
2016-03-22 06:03:20 Read More

Appleâ€™s new iPhone SE: 10 best features

After months of speculation, iPhone SE is finally a reality. Apple introduced its least expensive iPhone on Monday, filling a hole in its product lineup with a small-screen model that targets new customers in emerging markets and fans of smaller phones as the company tries to stimulate falling phone sales. Here's a quick look at the top 10 features of the iPhone SE.
2016-03-22 04:47:11 Read More

News brief: Jaya's trick question to test loyalty

Apple's $399 starting price for iPhone SE is well below the $649 for the current iPhone 6S without a contract, which is beyond the reach of many.
2016-03-22 03:40:23 Read More

New iPhone's smaller screen may put off Indian consumers

At the product launch in Cupertino, California, Apple vice-president of iPhone Product Marketing Greg Joswiak singled out China as a target market, saying four-inch displays like that on the iPhone SE were still popular with first-time smartphone buyers.
2016-03-22 03:06:03 Read More

ED attaches Bhujbal co's mill, land worth Rs 55cr

Rs 55 crore in Maharashtra's Nashik district in connection with its money laundering probe against former minister and NCP member Chhagan Bhujbal and others.
2016-03-21 23:04:52 Read More

Flight delayed 13 hrs, flyers spend night on plane

2016-03-21 22:00:44 Read More

Flight delayed 13 hrs, flyers spend night on plane

The plane taxied out at the schedule time but soon thereafter developed a snag.
2016-03-21 22:00:44 Read More

iPhone SE: Has Apple got the price right?

Apple's $399 starting price for iPhone SE is well below the $649 for the current iPhone 6S without a contract, which is beyond the reach of many.
2016-03-21 19:51:52 Read More

U'khand crisis: Congress, BJP call on President

BJP members said the party would oppose any move by speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal to disqualify nine Congress rebels who did not support the state budget on Thursday.
2016-03-21 19:31:24 Read More

Pakistan's probe team may get Pathankot base access

The Pakistan joint investigation team arriving in India on March 27 to probe the Pathankot attack is likely to be allowed to visit the airbase.
2016-03-21 19:05:47 Read More

Bride gets divorce on impotence plaint

Dissatisfaction with sexual life isnâ€™t a reason women from rural India usually cite when asking for a divorce. But newly-married Fatima Biwi (name changed) from Katna village in Murshidabad sought divorce because her husband has erectile dysfunction.
2016-03-21 18:44:04 Read More

Apple launches iPhone SE, price starts at $399

India will have to wait for the iPhone SE. The device is expected to be available by May.
2016-03-21 17:56:44 Read More

First US President visits Cuba in 88 years

2016-03-20 23:17:11 Read More

Govt expects no dividend from 9 PSU banks

There are not many countries among the 50 he has visited during his two terms in office where US President Barack Obama hasn't made a positive impression.
2016-03-20 22:39:58 Read More

$181 billion Indian black money in tax havens?

Between six and seven trillion dollars worth of black wealth lies hidden in tax havens across the world, according to a fresh estimate by a trio of senior economists from the Bank of Italy.
2016-03-20 22:33:09 Read More

IS, Taliban anti-Islam, says Sufi forum

"He inherited challenges in each and every sector.He steered clear of them," Naidu said while moving the political resolution at BJP's national executive here.
2016-03-20 19:32:19 Read More

PM Modi Godâ€™s gift to India, Venkaiah Naidu says

The finance ministry has not budgeted for any dividends from at least nine public sector banks during the next fiscal, in what is being seen as an indication that the government expects the finances of several lenders to remain under stress even during 2016-17.
2016-03-20 18:37:16 Read More

Cong a 'sinking ship': BJP hits back at Rahul's horse-trading charge

Hitting out at the Congress over the Uttarakhand crisis, the BJP on Sunday said its leaders were quitting the party which had become a "sinking ship" due to a "serious leadership crisis".
2016-03-20 15:27:32 Read More

This is the world's longest aircraft

New photographs of the world's longest aircraft have been made public today ahead of its official unveiling and first UK test flight. The Airlander 10, which is part plane, part airship and part helicopter, is 92m long - around 15m longer than the biggest passenger jets.
2016-03-20 14:57:18 Read More

NRI unhappy as 2,400km walk raises only Rs 50k

Bobby Grewal said he was hoping to donate money also to SAKSHAM, which is involved in promotion of eye donation. However, with only Rs 50,000 in his kitty so far, Grewal said, â€œthe donations have been very less, so I donâ€™t know who would benefit from such meagre fundsâ€.
2016-03-20 14:35:28 Read More

Akmal earns PCB wrath for complaining to Imran

Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal has come under fire from the team management for allegedly requesting former captain Imran Khan to put in a word to the team management about pushing him up in the batting slot.
2016-03-20 12:58:33 Read More

After WT20 loss to India, Afridi may lose captaincy

Pakistan's World Twenty20 loss to India could spell the end of Shahid Afridi's rein as captain with the country's Cricket Board planning to sack him irrespective of the team's performance in the remainder of the tournament.
2016-03-20 12:25:11 Read More

Apple iPhone 5se: Pricing will decide its fate

This would help Apple in a traditionally slow season before the likely upgrades to the large-screen iPhone 6 family later this year.
2016-03-20 08:23:32 Read More

Apple iPhone 5se: Pricing will decide its fate

This would help Apple in a traditionally slow season before the likely upgrades to the large-screen iPhone 6 family later this year.
2016-03-20 08:23:32 Read More

I was a suicide bomber: Paris suspect charged in Belgium

The admission by Salah Abdeslam came a day after he was shot in the leg and captured during a police raid in Brussels, ending an intensive four-month manhunt. The gun and bomb attacks on the stadium, bars and a concert hall killed 130 people and marked the deadliest militant assault in Europe since 2004.
2016-03-20 05:55:17 Read More

Kohli has hunger to perform: Dhoni

Kohli's glorious run in 2016, especially in T20s has now seen him accumulate 430 runs from 10 innings, one of the best by an Indian batsman in recent memory. Dhoni believes the key is to keep on scoring runs as long as one is able to do it.
2016-03-20 03:59:55 Read More

Kohli dedicates match-winning 55 to Tendulkar

"It was a challenging wicket, that's what you want as a cricketer - new challenges to play. Last game, I was very disappointed to have got out, that really hurt," Kohli said after India defeated Pakistan in the WT20 league match.
2016-03-20 02:45:27 Read More

Indiaâ€™s first pod taxis in Gurgaon soon

Pod taxis, an idea with which Indian states have flirted for years, will finally debut in Gurgaon.
2016-03-19 18:43:36 Read More

India vs Pak: Things to know before WT20 clash

Don't be surprised if the streets are empty on Saturday evening. They always are when India take on Pakistan in cricket. The stakes couldn't be higher for MS Dhoni's boys in this make-or-break Group 2 World T20 clash at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
2016-03-19 05:52:06 Read More

DATE 5

Salah Abdeslam: 'Gay' ISIS fighter who became Europe's most wanted

Salah Abdeslam, the suspected ISIS jihadi accused of helping kill 130 people in the Paris attacks, has been caught alive after being shot in the leg during an anti-terror raid in Brussels. Five people in total, including Abdeslam, have been arrested in connection with the raid.
2016-03-19 05:35:57 Read More>>

61 killed as plane crashes during landing in RussiaÂ

All sixty-one people on board a flight from Dubai were killed when their plane crashed and burst into flames as it was landing in Rostov-on-Don, in Southern Russia, on Saturday morning, a local official said.
2016-03-19 02:25:37 Read More

62 dead as plane crashes while landing in Russia

Babus to be punished if SP loses votes: UP CM

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday warned IAS officers "to perform or perish'' ahead of the assembly elections next year.
2016-03-19 00:02:34 Read More

NRI sets up India's 1st gay marriage bureau

The general belief is that most homosexuals tend to identify their own partners and settle with them. But Benhur Samson, who used to help gays with surrogacy in India till 2013, was surprised when he received requests from them regarding prospective life partners.
2016-03-18 22:57:03 Read More

2 Muslims herding buffaloes hanged in Jharkhand

Local MLA from the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) Prakash Ram claimed that Hindu radicals were behind the killings. Reports said villagers who protested the deaths claimed the victims were targeted as they were cattle traders.
2016-03-18 22:38:57 Read More

2 Muslims herding buffaloes hanged in Jharkhand

Big dent in your savings as govt slashes PPF, NSC rates

A sharp reduction in small savings rates have always been a ticklish issue politically with Yashwant Sinha facing severe criticism when he cut rates as finance minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
2016-03-18 21:16:37 Read More

Trump as Potus? World on tenterhooks

The worldâ€™s 196 countries will doubtless accord the same respect for the United States if the American voters elect Donald Trump as president, but few candidates in US electoral history have caused so much consternation with the prospect of being elected to the White House.
2016-03-18 18:13:34 Read More

Paris attacks top fugitive Abdeslam arrested in Brussels raid

The main fugitive from Islamic extremist attacks in Paris in November, Salah Abdeslam, has been arrested in Belgium's capital after four months at large, French police officials said on Friday. Abdeslam, 26, was among the attackers who killed 130 people at a rock concert on November 13 in Paris.
2016-03-18 18:07:33 Read More

Paris attacks top fugitive Abdeslam arrested

World T20: Root gem seals 230-chase for England

Chasing 230, England produced a chase for the ages with Roe Joot's 44-ball 83 making all the difference.
2016-03-18 17:39:43 Read More

Uttarakhand govt in crisis: Top developments

2016-03-18 17:35:59 Read More

Now, Kanhaiya Kumar says Kashmir is an integral part of India

JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, against whom sedition charges have been slapped for allegedly raising "anti-India" slogans, on Friday said Kashmir is an integral part of India and so Indians can discuss the issues pertaining to Kashmiris at any forum.
2016-03-18 14:25:53 Read More

Interest rate on PPF cut to 8.1% from 8.7%

In a move that will hit the common man, the government on Friday slashed interest rates payable on small savings including PPF and Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) in a bid to align them closer to market rates.
2016-03-18 13:55:46 Read More

Imports loom as bad weather affects wheat output

Persistent rain and hail storms could cut India's wheat crop by at least 14 per cent this year, potentially forcing the world's second-biggest producer to import the grain for the first time in a decade, an industry body said.
2016-03-18 12:25:35 Read More

JNU students Umar Khalid, Anirban granted bail in sedition case

Jawaharlal Nehru University students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya were on Friday granted bail by a trial court in a sedition case. They were arrested on sedition charges for allegedly raising anti-national slogans at the JNU campus on February 9.
2016-03-18 10:58:33 Read More

Shabana reacts to Owaisiâ€™s â€˜Bharat Mataâ€™ remarks

Shabana Azmi has reacted to Owaisiâ€™s statement in her own unique way. Speaking at the India Today Conclave 2016, Shabana said, â€œI would like to ask Owaisi sahab, would he be ok saying â€˜Bharat ammi ki jaiâ€™ instead of Bharat mata, if he has got a problem with 'mata' and not 'bharat'.â€
2016-03-18 10:46:22 Read More

RSS now says gays need psychological treatment

The Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal row on Friday hotted up with Punjab assembly unanimously passing a resolution against its construction, saying the state does not have water to share with Haryana, which accused Punjab of "crossing all limits".
2016-03-18 09:45:59 Read More

RSS now says gays need psychological treatment

2016-03-18 09:45:59 Read More

Punjab defies SC, passes resolution against Sutlej-Yamuna canal

Satluj-Yamuna Link canal row: 10 things to know

A section in the Muslim community have said there is nothing wrong in saying â€˜Bharat Mata ki Jaiâ€™ as it is a slogan hailing the nation. The prominent community members also alleged that there was perhaps a tacit understanding between the BJP and MIM functionaries to keep raising rhetorical issues.
2016-03-18 06:37:21 Read More

SC allows photos of CMs, governors in govt ads

Stirring up a controversy, the Irinjalakuda diocese of the Catholic Church has sought an explanation from one of its members for marrying a Hindu woman.Benny Thommana belonging to the St Joseph's Church at Oorakam had married Lija Jayasudhan 10 years ago.
2016-03-18 05:16:35 Read More

No harm in 'Bharat Mata ki jai' chant: Muslims

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the publication of pictures of governors, chief ministers and ministers in government advertisements. The SC in May 2015 had held that only photographs of Prime Minister, President and Chief Justice of India can be published in official media advertisements.
2016-03-17 23:57:20 Read More

Kerala church asks member why he wed a Hindu

2016-03-17 18:09:08 Read More

Jat stir put on hold for talks with Haryana govt

"We have been invited by the government for talks tomorrow at Chandigarh," All India Jat Aarakshan Sanghursh Samiti President Yashpal Malik said. "Our leaders will be meeting Haryana chief secretary and Director General of Police tomorrow afternoon as per the government invitation," he said.
2016-03-17 13:25:05 Read More

Russia can rebuild its Syria forces in 'a few hours': Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin, who ordered a partial withdrawal of Russian warplanes from Syria earlier this week, said that Russia has kept some forces in Syria to support the Syrian army's action against the Islamic State, the Nusra Front and other extremist groups.
2016-03-17 13:09:15 Read More

IPL: Mallya resigns as director, RCB tells BCCI

IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore has written to the Indian cricket board (BCCI), intimating them about Vijay Mallya's resignation from the post of Director of Royal Challengers Sports Private Limited.
2016-03-17 12:21:13 Read More

Pathankot attack: Pak team to visit on March 27

Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj met her Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz at the SAARC conference of foreign ministers in Nepal's Pokhara. The two foreign ministers then issued a joint statement, in which they said a Pakistani investigation team would visit India on March 27 to probe the attack.
2016-03-17 12:16:19 Read More

Man behind $20m Saudi gem heist becomes monk

A Thai gardener behind a $20 million gem heist from a Saudi palace that has long soured relations between the two countries became a monk in hope of redeeming his karma. Kriangkrai Techamong stole the gems from a Saudi prince's palace in 1989, triggering the row dubbed as the "Blue Diamond Affair".
2016-03-17 11:50:17 Read More

Mallya seeks more time to appear before ED

Two flights bound for Nepal and Bhubaneswar were grounded on Thursday just before take-off after security agencies were alerted of a bomb threat call on the two airliners at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in New Delhi.
2016-03-17 10:37:48 Read More

No bidders for Mallya's Kingfisher House in Mumbai

For the second time in eight days, Congress amended official business in Rajya Sabha by altering the Aadhaar bill, forcing the government to take the legislation to Lok Sabha to overturn the changes and ensure its passage.
2016-03-17 09:04:07 Read More

Bomb scare on two flights at Delhi airport, all passengers evacuated

Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday declined specific comment if his government considered industrialist Vijay Mallya an absconder but sought to assure that every penny that is due from him to state-run banks will be recovered.
2016-03-17 08:32:16 Read More

Bomb scare on two flights at Delhi airport

2016-03-17 08:32:16 Read More

Bomb scare on two flights at Delhi airport

2016-03-17 08:32:16 Read More

Every penny from Mallya will be recovered: FM

2016-03-17 06:34:05 Read More

Every penny from Mallya will be recovered: FM

2016-03-17 06:34:05 Read More

10 richest tech billionaires in the world

2016-03-17 06:08:43 Read More

Aadhaar Bill: 10 things you need to know

Mallya's Kingfisher House to be auctioned today

Here's over to 10 wealthiest tech billionaires of the world.
2016-03-17 04:17:53 Read More

Ex-Haryana CM Hooda summoned in land case

A consortium led by the State Bank of India is likely to auction the Kingfisher House in Mumbai on Thursday, in a bid to recover part of the Rs 6,963 crore debt due from the now grounded Kingfisher Airlines. The house has been valued at Rs 150 crore.
2016-03-17 03:23:43 Read More

Cong may move court on Aadhaar as money bill

Congress on Wednesday threatened to move court against the Centre's decision to present the Aadhaar Bill as a â€œmoney billâ€œ, accusing the Modi regime of fraudulently trying to bypass RS where it does not have a majority .
2016-03-17 01:13:56 Read More

Govt may make loan defaulting criminal offence

The Centre is looking to revamp laws on loan defaulters, including making wilful default a criminal offence under the Indian Penal Code and defining timelines to ensure that those with unpaid bank loans don't take recourse to repeated adjournments in debt recovery tribunals to delay payment.
2016-03-16 22:01:01 Read More

UP polls: Want BJP ticket, bring 25k likes on FB

BJP's national president Amit Shah reportedly told UP assembly hopefuls that their social media presence will determine their suitability for the 2017 polls. The state BJP members must have 25,000 followers or likes to get a ticket.
2016-03-16 21:09:28 Read More

TN polls shaping up to be multipolar fight

Can DMDK, PMK, PWF Queer Pitch For Big Guns in Tamil Nadu? The clichÃ©d maxim, â€œno permanent friends or foes in politicsâ€, has been turned around with the smaller parties, barring the Congress, becoming foes of the main Dravidian parties
2016-03-16 20:31:15 Read More

Lok Sabha clears original Aadhaar bill despite amendments in RS

World T20: Chris Gayle's 47-ball century smashes England

Put into bat, England put up 182/6 without a single batsman touching 50, but that total was made to look 20 runs short as Chris Gayle waded into their attack to hasten a six-wicket win with 11 balls left at the Wankhede Stadium.
2016-03-16 17:36:35 Read More

Obama picks Garland ahead of Srinivasan for SC

President Obama on Wednesday nominated fellow Chicagoan and Harvard alumnus Merrick Garland to the US Supreme Court bench, to the all-round disappointing all the Indian-Americans and Asian-Americans who expected Sri Srinivasan to make the cut.
2016-03-16 17:00:11 Read More

PM to join leaders in wax at Madame Tussauds

Describing him as a "hugely important figure in world politics", the museum said the Indian Prime Minister had given the museum's team of artists and experts a sitting at his residence in New Delhi earlier this year.
2016-03-16 16:54:57 Read More

Govt says India â€˜not scaredâ€™ if Monsanto leaves

US seed company Monsanto is welcome to leave India if it does not want to lower prices of genetically modified cotton seeds as directed by the government, minister of state for agriculture Sanjeev Kumar Balyan said on Wednesday, in a sign the rift between New Delhi and the company is widening.
2016-03-16 15:05:07 Read More

DATE 6

Obama to nominate Garland to US Supreme Court

The nomination of Merrick Garland, 63, who currently serves as chief judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, would set up a potentially ferocious political showdown with Senate Republicans.
2016-03-16 14:29:23 Read More>>

Petrol hiked by Rs 3.07/litre, diesel by Rs 1.90

State-run Indian Oil Corporation on Wednesday announced a big hike in transport fuel rates, increasing petrol by Rs 3.07 a litre and diesel by Rs 1.90 - both in Delhi, with a corresponding increase in other states.
2016-03-16 14:12:59 Read More

Trump warns of riots if denied Republican presidential nomination

US Republican front-runner Trump warned of riots if he is denied the party's presidential nomination after a string of primary election victories. The New York billionaire scored big wins in Florida, Illinois and North Carolina on Tuesday which brought him closer to the 1,237 delegates he needs to win the nomination.
2016-03-16 12:44:21 Read More

South Africa paid $10m bribe for World Cup: FIFA

Football's governing body FIFA said on Wednesday that members of its executive committee had in the past sold their votes in World Cup hosting contests, including for the tournament held in South Africa in 2010.
2016-03-16 12:36:08 Read More

Sedition charge is often anti-free speech: Rijiju

The law on sedition is under review of the Law Commission and the home ministry has asked for a report on the issue as soon as possible, minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju said in the Rajya Sabha. He also admitted that the sedition cases were often violative of the right to freedom of speech.
2016-03-16 09:10:27 Read More

National-level kabbadi player shot dead in Haryana

A national-level Kabbadi player was shot dead by two armed assailants in Rithal village of Rohtak, with the murder captured on a CCTV installed at a house near the crime spot. The 24-year-old player Sukhvinder Singh was returning home after practice when he was shot dead on Tuesday evening.
2016-03-16 08:44:44 Read More

Top kabaddi player shot dead in Rohtak, murder caught on camera

Hillary and Trump on course to US presidential face-off in November

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump stayed on course to a November presidential election day showdown, winning at least three states each of the five that held party polls on what was described as "smackdown" Tuesday because it demolished the also-rans.
2016-03-16 08:41:54 Read More

Saudi Arabia 'mulls NATO-like military alliance'

Javed Akhtar recited 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' a few times, Akhtar condemned Owaisi as well as musalman Ke Do Sthaan: Kabristan ya Pakistan' - the other slogan he said is often raised frequently in few Indian cities.
2016-03-16 07:26:55 Read More

Saudi Arabia 'mulls NATO-like military alliance'

Clinton surges ahead, Trump hits a bump in Ohio

The mystery surrounding Gumnami Baba, who many believe was Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose living incognito in Uttar Pradesh's Faizabad district, turned deeper on Tuesday with old photographs of the Bose family retrieved from the district treasury.
2016-03-16 06:29:08 Read More

Amazon offered to buy Flipkart for $8bn: Sources

Flipkart reportedly considered selling itself to Amazon, upending the notion that Indiaâ€™s largest online retailer would go full distance as an independent Internet giant.
2016-03-16 05:02:19 Read More

Blast rips through bus in Peshawar killing 15 people

US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump won a crucial nominating contest in Florida on Tuesday, knocking rival Marco Rubio out of the race, but lost Ohio to John Kasich in a mixed result that set the stage for a long, bitter fight.
2016-03-16 04:21:11 Read More

Blast rips through bus in Peshawar killing 15 people

Hillary Clinton took a monumental step toward clinching the Democratic party's White House nomination on Tuesday, while Donald Trump's seemingly unstoppable rush to victory hit a bump in Ohio. Trump won key Republican primaries in Illinois, North Carolina and Florida.
2016-03-16 04:21:11 Read More

Trump knocks Rubio out, Clinton wins 3 states

2016-03-16 02:10:36 Read More

In last speech as MP, Bollywood's Javed Akhtar slams Owaisi

Big people evading tax as farmers: FM

A 118-room snowbirdâ€™s paradise that will become a winter White House if he is elected president. Mar-a-Lago is where Donald Trump comes to escape, entertain and luxuriate in a Mediterranean-style manse, built 90 years ago by cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.
2016-03-15 22:09:39 Read More

JNU panel report indicts students for 'defiance' in holding February 9 meet

There was a "deliberate attempt to mislead the administration about the real nature of the proposed event," says the committee report, a copy of which is with TOI.
2016-03-15 21:30:29 Read More

Netaji family photos found in Gumnami Baba's box

2016-03-15 20:07:27 Read More

Blog: Can India still win the T20 World Cup?

The Centre is probing cases of "some prominent people" evading taxes in the garb of agricultural income, but there is no proposal or move to tax farmers, finance minister Arun Jaitley said in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
2016-03-15 17:54:48 Read More

World T20: New Zealand end India's hot streak

Defending 126, New Zealand stunned India to end a seven-match winning streak and extend their own T20I record to five over the same opposition.
2016-03-15 17:29:12 Read More

A king in his castle: How Donald Trump lives

2016-03-15 16:23:20 Read More

Gunbattle in Brussels with Paris attacks suspects

Brussels officials confirmed a major operation was underway involving police investigating the 13 November shootings when at least one gunman opened fire. Police said one suspect was on the run, and officers blocked off roads in the Belgian capital's southern suburb of Forest.
2016-03-15 15:13:44 Read More

Is Myanmarâ€™s new president a puppet for Suu Kyi?

The remarks went against Trump's broad stand on immigration that includes opposition to the H1-B guest worker visa program that thousands of students from India typically use to mainstream themselves into the American workforce and society.
2016-03-15 14:18:05 Read More

Indian students become Donald's Trump card

2016-03-15 13:59:39 Read More

Live WT20: Raina gets rid of dangerman Williamson, NZ 3 down

Phase two of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 starts today with hosts India taking on New Zealand, in their first T20I in post Brendon McCullum era. In four previous encounters in T20Is, India have never beaten the Kiwis.
2016-03-15 13:28:10 Read More

World T20 live scorecard: India vs New Zealand

India face New Zealand in their opening match of the ICC World T20 2016 in Nagpur.
2016-03-15 13:26:54 Read More

7 Pak diplomats denied permit to visit Kolkata for World T20

Pakistan sources in New Delhi said India's decision to deny them permission to India was unacceptable and that India's deputy high commissioner in Islamabad, JP Singh, had been summoned to lodge a protest officially.
2016-03-15 12:17:37 Read More

Russia begins Syria pullout after Putin says 'objectives achieved'

The first Russian planes flew out of Syria on Tuesday, at the start of a surprise withdrawal that diplomats hope will boost a new round of UN-backed peace talks. However, Kremlin said Russia would continue to use advanced air defence systems to protect its remaining contingent in Syria.
2016-03-15 11:29:33 Read More

'Bomb' kills driver in Berlin car explosion

Photos from the scene showed the wreckage of a silver VW Passat station wagon, its windows blown out and its front end smashed in, about a kilometer (half mile) from the capital's landmark Victory Column.
2016-03-15 11:08:58 Read More

Mother Teresa to be made a saint on September 4

Pope Francis on Tuesday formally approved Mother Teresa's elevation to sainthood and set September 4 as the date for her canonisation. The move comes 19 years after the death of the missionary nun who dedicated most of her adult life to working with the poor of Kolkata.
2016-03-15 10:05:15 Read More

Trump favours Indian students staying back in US

Indians studying in American educational institutions should not be kicked out as the country needs smart people like them, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said as he sought to set the record straight about his immigration policies.
2016-03-15 07:20:08 Read More

Trump favours Indian students staying back in US

Indians studying in American educational institutions should not sent back as the country needs smart people like them, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said as he sought to set the record straight about his immigration policies.
2016-03-15 07:20:08 Read More

Facebook rejection that turned into a $4bn cheque

'You just never know whatâ€™s going to happen to youâ€¦ unless you quit trying'
2016-03-15 06:37:59 Read More

Mallya denies 'return' interview, paper puts out mail trailÂ

The Sunday Guardian newspaper has released the email trail of its interview with Vijay Mallya to counter the industrialist's claim that he had not given any statement to anyone. While Mallya claimed that the media statement was without verification, the newspaper said that it stood by its report. â€‹â€‹
2016-03-15 04:18:12 Read More

On Friday, will Mallya attend F1 or ED summons?

Drinks tycoon and motor racing boss Vijay Mallya faces a sensitive diary clash this week as the season-opening Australian Formula One Grand Prix coincides with an appointment to appear before the Enforcement Directorate.
2016-03-15 03:38:42 Read More

Documents hint Netaji may have escaped crash

Successive governments seem to have maintained that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose may not have died in a plane crash in Japan and in fact, he may have "escaped alive" from it.
2016-03-15 00:33:55 Read More

In a first, cops may arrest an Aboriginal manÂ

The police arrested the two non-tribal men identified in the complaint: a 25-year-old believed to have fathered the child, who was accused of rape, and a man who gave Tatehane liquor and was accused of abetting murder and interfering with aboriginal tribes.
2016-03-14 22:42:16 Read More

After cough syrups, 500 more drugs, including antibiotics, may face ban

Around 500 more medicines, including popular antibiotics and anti-diabetic drugs, may soon face a ban for being â€œirrationalâ€, unsafe and inefficacious, official sources said. The health ministry,is evaluating a list of over 6,000 products.
2016-03-14 20:49:14 Read More

JNU panel recommends expulsion of Kanhaiya

A meeting of the university's top brass chaired by the vice-chancellor today discussed the report following which the varsity issued show-cause notice to 21 students including Kanhaiya and Umar, who were found guilty of having violated university rules and discipline norms.
2016-03-14 17:07:46 Read More

Florida and Ohio may decide whether it is Trump or rump

A Trump win in Florida, where he leads comfortably in pre-voting polls, will almost certainly sink the campaign of the young Senator Marco Rubio whose home state it is. Trump is at 46% to Rubio's 22% according to one poll, with Ted Cruz and John Kasich following.
2016-03-14 15:18:09 Read More

'Fair and Lovely' phrase is racist: Jaitley

Without naming the Congress vice president, the finance minister said, "I have no problem with this phrase ... But this phrase is politically incorrect. It shows a racist mindset that what is not fair is not lovely."
2016-03-14 14:58:44 Read More

5yrs on, how the West got it all wrong in Syria

Five years after the start of Syriaâ€™s tragedy â€“ and within six months of this, remember, the regime itself trembled and the Western powers, flush with dangerous pride after destroying Gaddafi, predicted the imminent fall of the Assad dynasty â€“ the Syrian government is preparing to rebuild its towns and cities.
2016-03-14 13:34:02 Read More

We are favourites in our own minds: Kohli

"We are very confident with the way we have been playing. We have won 10 out of the 11 last games we have played, taking some good momentum in to the World Cup," said Virat Kohli.
2016-03-14 12:37:17 Read More

We are favourites in our own minds: Kohli

Afridi gets Pak legal notice for saying 'more love in India'

Captain Shahid Afridi has become embroiled in yet another controversy after a petition was filed against him in the Lahore High Court over his latest remark that the Pakistan cricket team gets more love in India than in their home country.
2016-03-14 12:22:56 Read More

WT20: India target first win over New Zealand

The qualifying stage is over, and now the major teams come into play as phase two of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 starts with hosts India taking on New Zealand, in their first T20I in the post Brendon McCullum era.
2016-03-14 11:09:33 Read More

WT20: India target first-ever win over Kiwis

Indiaâ€™s 2015 trade deficit with China up by $52bn

India's trade deficit with China increased to $51.86 billion in 2015, commerce and industry minister Nirmala Sitharaman told Parliament on Monday. She also said bilateral trade between India and China was worth $71.22 billion in 2015.
2016-03-14 10:58:52 Read More

PLA troops in PoK? China evades response

"I have not heard about the incident you mentioned," the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kong said at a media briefing, replying to a question about the presence of People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops at a forward post opposite Nowgam sector in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
2016-03-14 10:48:04 Read More

DATE 7

Shame on you! Miandad to Afridi for India love

"Shocked and hurt" by Shahid Afridi's comments that Pakistan's cricketers were loved more by Indians than the fans here, former captain Javed Miandad has said that players making such statements should be "ashamed" of themselves.
2016-03-14 09:54:43 Read More>>

Trump's foreign policy: Bar Muslims' entry to US, trade war with China

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump wants to deport 11 million illegal immigrants, ban Muslims from entering the country and suggested wiping out the Islamic State extremist group with a massive military operation.
2016-03-14 08:46:44 Read More

We will deal with that: Rahul on citizenship notice

Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Malik did well to quickly win hearts by deflecting the focus from the sticky political issues during Pakistan's first media interaction on Sunday.
2016-03-14 08:11:45 Read More

Ghulam Nabi Azad denies comparing RSS to ISIS

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Monday played down the showcause notice issued to him by the LK Advani-headed Lok Sabha ethics committee to respond to questions on whether he (Gandhi) had once declared himself a British citizen.
2016-03-14 06:34:47 Read More

News brief: Govt may ease startups' fundraising

The total debt was reduced to Rs 6,007 crore after banks converted Rs 1,400 crore of debt into equity by subscribing to shares at a 60% premium in April 2011.
2016-03-14 03:31:21 Read More

We're more loved in India than in Pakistan: Afridi

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh arrived at a landmark decision on Sunday , discarding its 90-year-old trademark khaki shorts for brown full pants on the final day of the Akhil Bharathiya Pratinidhi Sabha here.
2016-03-14 03:03:47 Read More

We're more loved in India than in Pakistan: Shahid Afridi

RSS to drop knickers, pull up khaki pants

2016-03-14 00:21:40 Read More

RSS to drop knickers, pull up khaki pants

Not right time to return, says 'international businessman' Mallya

On Friday, the Enforcement Directorate issued a summons to Mallya to appear before it on March 18, in a money laundering case.
2016-03-13 23:12:16 Read More

Kejriwal calls Sri Sri's event 'divine, amazing'

Kejriwal also said that the Centre and the state should come together to clean the river. "Jai Gurudev! This is amazing. This is a seven-acre stage and 4,500 artists have performed together. This is a divine and amazing sight," he said, while congratulating Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for spreading the message of "spirituality, love and peace".
2016-03-13 19:36:34 Read More

Kingfisher Air dues grew 50% in 5 years

Westerners among 12 killed in Ivory Coast gunfire

12 people including four Europeans were killed when gunmen opened fire on beachgoers at a resort town in Ivory Coast. Security forces are carring out clean-up operations right now, an officer told a briefing.
2016-03-13 17:11:23 Read More

US elections descend into uncivil war

The US presidential poll campaign is spiraling into an uncivil nationwide fracas. Republican Donald Trump has accused Democrats, including "our communist friend, Bernie Sanders" of disrupting his rally in Chicago on Friday, and threatened to send his own supporters to disturb Sanders' events.
2016-03-13 16:51:00 Read More

Now, Donald Trump claims 27% of Muslims â€˜very militantâ€™

Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump on Sunday claimed that more than one-fourths of the Muslims are "very militant", in latest controversial statements adding to his anti-Muslim rhetoric. These remarks come days after he said he thinks "Islam hates US".
2016-03-13 16:16:19 Read More

Judiciary facing crisis of credibility, CJI TS Thakur says

Judiciary as an institution is facing crisis of credibility, Chief Justice of India TS Thakur said as he asked judges to be conscientious of their duties. He also did not mince any word as he said that bar has "not been very cooperative" in disposal of cases even if judges are ready work longer.
2016-03-13 14:05:31 Read More

India, Asian economies will drive growth: IMF

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on Sunday said Asian economies led by India will be a major growth driver in the years to come and better representation of large emerging nations in the multilateral institution has transformed it from "my IMF" to "our IMF".
2016-03-13 13:42:37 Read More

S Arabia to â€˜completeâ€™ January mass executions

Four more prisoners are reportedly to be killed by Saudi Arabia as it moves to â€œcompleteâ€ a wave of mass executions that started in January. The kingdom put 47 people to death in one day that month, including the prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr and at least one teenager, sparking global protests.
2016-03-13 13:37:38 Read More

S Arabia to â€˜completeâ€™ January mass executions

6 out of 8 missing trekkers in HP located: Report

Six out of eight trekkers who went missing for over 50 hours in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu dictrict have been located near Chandrakhani area on Sunday. A media report quoting Kully deputy commissioner Hans Raj Chauhan said that they have been found during an aerial survey in the area.
2016-03-13 12:06:58 Read More

Wilful defaulters to be brought to justice: Centre

Amid a raging row over loan defaults by Vijay Mallya, minister of state for finance, Jayant Sinha, said "full force of the law" is being applied to bring all wilful loan defaulters to justice. All investigative agencies are working to bring them to justice, he said without naming Mallya.
2016-03-13 11:24:52 Read More

Hyderabad court issues non-bailable warrant against Vijay Mallya

A non-bailable warrant has been issued against Vijay Mallya after he failed to appear in a court in Hyderabad in connection with alleged dishonour of a cheque of Rs 50 lakh to GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd. Mallya's counsel said he will move the high court seeking quashing of the warrant.
2016-03-13 11:23:28 Read More

A look at how Syrian war has changed the world

The Syrian conflict has had outsized impact on global politics. It saw rise of the Islamic State, Russia's emergence as major global player, a destabilized Europe due to inflow of migrants and terror attacks, the subversion of Syria's neighbours and Iran's rise.
2016-03-13 11:03:29 Read More

Chinese Army spotted along LoC in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir

The Army spotted presence of senior PLA officials at the forward posts opposite Nowgam sector in North Kashmir after which some intercepts of Pakistani army officers suggested that the Chinese troops have come to create some infrastructure along the LoC, sources said on Sunday.
2016-03-13 07:53:18 Read More

Chinese army spotted along LoC in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir

'Hunted down by media in UK': Mallya in tweet

Mallya owes a consortium of 17 public sector banks an amount close to Rs 9,000 crore. The Enforcement Directorate recently registered a money laundering case against Mallya and others based on an FIR lodged by the CBI.
2016-03-13 06:36:53 Read More

'Hunted down by media in UK': Mallya in tweet

To maintain supply of sex slaves, ISIS pushes birth control

More than three dozen Yazidi women who recently escaped the Islamic State described the numerous methods the fighters used to avoid pregnancy, including oral and injectable contraception. In one case, a woman was forced to have an abortion in order to make her available for sex.
2016-03-13 02:53:15 Read More

Spotted: Mallyaâ€™s country house in UK

According to sources, Mallya, facing legal proceedings for defaulting on Rs 9,000 crore loans taken from various banks, is now safely ensconced in his sprawling Ladywalk estate in the village of Tiwen near St Albans in Hertfordshire.
2016-03-13 01:15:38 Read More

RSS bats for womenâ€™s right to enter temples

The RSS has said that it favours women's entry in temples "without any discrimination" though it questions critics who claim to be atheists but pick on Hindus.
2016-03-12 21:22:34 Read More

CBI to probe if netas pushed Mallya loans

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will probe if some public sector banks were pressured into lending and restructuring loans extended to the now defunct Kingfisher Airlines.
2016-03-12 20:37:54 Read More

As crorepati 'farmers' mushroom, tax men go digging for evasion

Agricultural income is exempt from tax and the CBDT has noticed that over the years, several taxpayers have declared significant agricultural income.
2016-03-12 19:55:53 Read More

MP BJP MLA threatens to chop off babus' hands

A BJP lawmaker from Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district has threatened to chop off officials' hands if they dared to remove names of villagers from the below poverty line (BPL) list.
2016-03-12 19:19:46 Read More

RSS khaki shorts out, pants in from today?

The RSS is expected to announce a change in its uniform on Sunday, switching from its trademark khaki shorts to trousers. Official declaration about this is likely to be made by RSS general secretary Bhaiyyaji Joshi at a press conference on the final day of Sanghâ€™s three-day meet in Nagaur.
2016-03-12 19:07:46 Read More

Pakistan team arrives in Kolkata for World T20

The Pakistan cricket team, led by Shahid Afridi, arrived at the Kolkata Airport on Saturday evening to participate in ICC World T20 2016 amid tight security.
2016-03-12 14:56:06 Read More

In Bihar, PM Modi slams Congress, praises chief minister Nitish Kumar

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday trained his guns on the Congress accusing it of "neglecting" Bihar's development since Independence and recalled Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's past association with NDA as he inaugurated a number of railway projects here.
2016-03-12 13:15:34 Read More

Print annual list of oldest pending cases: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday mooted a novel idea of courts coming out with an annual bulletin to highlight the oldest cases being tried by them to help create sensitivity on pendency of cases in the country.
2016-03-12 12:08:31 Read More

Mallya effect: Sebi bars defaulters from market

Cracking its whip on 'wilful loan defaulters', markets regulator Sebi has decided to bar them from raising public funds through stocks and bonds as also from taking board positions at listed companies - a move that would disqualify beleaguered Vijay Mallya from various posts.
2016-03-12 09:10:19 Read More

How Gaddafi's missiles are going into ISIS hands

In the sweltering heat, the gunmen unveiled a small arsenal: four Russian-made SA-7 missiles and two later models of the SA-16 variety. The heat-seeking missiles are capable of shooting down a civilian airliner.
2016-03-12 08:31:41 Read More

Â As US, S Korea stage mock attack, North says will wipe out enemies

North Korea said its military is ready to pre-emptively attack and "liberate" the South if it sees signs that American and South Korean troops involved in annual joint military drills are attempting to invade the North.
2016-03-12 08:12:21 Read More

Apple officially busts iPhone battery life myth

An Apple executive has dispelled the most persistent myth about the iPhone.
2016-03-12 07:51:05 Read More

Peter looking to sell house to fund legal battle

Peter, who has been booked for murder, conspiracy, destruction of evidence in the Sheena Bora murder case, has hired the most expensive criminal lawyer in the city who charges Rs 3-5 lakh per appearance in court. So far, the legal costs for Peter have escalated to around Rs 1.5 crore.
2016-03-12 04:34:53 Read More

A house for Mr Mallya, on a 30-acre Brit estate

While the whole country wonders where and how booze baron Vijay Mallya suddenly disappeared, Mumbai Mirror can reveal that this is the house on the outskirts of London where, even as you read this, he is probably enjoying an English breakfast of bacon and eggs.
2016-03-12 04:32:40 Read More

After India-Pak tie, Dharamsala loses IPL matches

After the high-profile India-Pakistan World T20 match was shifted from Dharamsala to Kolkata, the HPCA stadium will now miss out on hosting matches of the upcoming season of IPL too.
2016-03-12 04:02:58 Read More

Gujarat's eight brands most trusted in India

As many as eight brands from Gujarat are the most trusted by Indian consumers in the respective business categories they operate in.
2016-03-12 03:32:18 Read More

New real estate law may cover flats already sold

The government is making an effort to make the consumer the king, once the real estate bill becomes law.
2016-03-12 01:30:21 Read More

Soon, you may legally hit 140kmph on e-ways

You could soon drive at 130-140 kmph on expressways as the Centre plans to enhance the speed limits from the current 100kmph.Highways minister Nitin Gadkari told .
2016-03-11 22:07:10 Read More

Mallya's 2010 poll affidavit: No house, no liability & just Rs 9.5k

â€œWilful defaulterâ€ and liquor baron Vijay Mallya declared assets worth Rs 615 crore, including a Ferrari car, jewellery, bonds and debentures, according to the affidavit submitted to the Election Commission in June 2010 when he joined the Rajya Sabha. Surprisingly, Mallya laid claim only to a measly Rs 9,500 in cash and no property either as land or home.
2016-03-11 21:54:56 Read More

Mallya left on diplomatic passport on March 2

Controversial businessman Vijay Mallya flew out of India on March 2 on a diplomatic passport issued to him in his capacity as a Member of Parliament.
2016-03-11 21:40:23 Read More

Mallya still has Rs 5,700 crore pledge-free assets

The good news for banks is that there is a large chunk of free assets worth more than Rs 5,500 crore to back up the guarantees provided by Vijay Mallya and UB Holdings that will make up for the lack of security against loans of about Rs 7,000 crore to Kingfisher Airlines.
2016-03-11 20:04:02 Read More

DATE 8

Trump win will spark 'clash of civilizations': Arab security chief

In the latest sign of disquiet in the Middle East over the Republican presidential frontrunnerâ€™s comments about Muslims, Lt Gen Dhahi Khalfan Tamim suggested a Trump victory would result in a face-off with Isis and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
2016-03-11 16:11:23 Read More>>

Can US-Canada ties be a template for India-Pak?

"Our Canadian friends can be more reserved, more easygoing. We Americans can be a little louder, more boisterous. And as a result, we havenâ€™t always conveyed how much we treasure our alliance and our ties with our Canadian friends," President Obama said.
2016-03-11 16:01:11 Read More

PM lauds Sri Sri's, Art of Livingâ€™s â€˜soft powerâ€™

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar appeared to be working in tandem to respond to critics of the World Culture Festival. "If we keep criticizing ourselves, why would the world look to us?" Modi asked while Ravi Shankar said when one is doing something great, obstacles come.
2016-03-11 15:36:04 Read More

1st lookout notice on Mallya an error: CBI

"The detention order issued against Vijay Mallya by CBI was an error by a lower level officer," said CBI. The investigation agency also informed that Mallya had joined questioning on December 9, 2015 and 10 in New Delhi and on December 12 in Mumbai.
2016-03-11 14:56:38 Read More

South African teen may have found MH370 debris

The Enforcement Directorate(ED) on Friday issue summons to beleagured businessman Vijay Mallya and asked him to appear before it on March 18 in the money laundering case. The ED also issued directive to all 17 banks to come up with all documents related to issuing of loan to Kingfisher.
2016-03-11 12:50:23 Read More

After dilly-dallying, Pak allows team to come to India for WT20

Pakistan on Friday announced it would send its national cricket team to India for the World Twenty20 following security assurances from New Delhi after months of uncertainty.
2016-03-11 12:15:59 Read More

Live: PM Modi arrives at World Culture Festival

Anand Prakash helps who helps report bugs for a host of companies, was recently awarded close to Rs 10 lakh for a Facebook bug he identified.
2016-03-11 11:49:07 Read More

This 22-year-old hacker is worth Rs 1.3 crores

Casper Lotter said Friday his son Liam found the piece on December 30 near the town of Xai Xai and returned to South Africa with it. The curved piece has a five-digit number on it. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 jet vanished while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
2016-03-11 10:08:27 Read More

Money laundering case: ED issues summons to Vijay Mallya

ED quizzes former CFO of Kingfisher Airlines

Indian banks may be looking for Vijay Mallya to pay up Rs 9,000 crore, but the "wilful defaulter's" flight out of India was in the lap of luxury.
2016-03-11 07:50:45 Read More

Sri Sri's group to pay Rs 5 crore in 3 weeks

Former chief financial officer (CFO) of long-grounded carrier Kingfisher Airlines, A Raghunathan on Friday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate here for questioning in connection with its money laundering probe in the alleged default of over Rs 900 crore loan from IDBI bank.
2016-03-11 06:36:37 Read More

Hope for homebuyers as RS passes real estate bill: 10 key features

Indian banks may be looking for Vijay Mallya to pay up Rs 9,000 crore, but the "wilful defaulter's" flight out of India was in the lap of luxury.
2016-03-11 05:19:37 Read More

US Senate kills bid to block F16 sale to Pak

2016-03-11 04:46:20 Read More

No separate X-ray of tablets, iPads at airports

2016-03-11 01:29:01 Read More

I am not an absconder, will comply with the law, says Vijay Mallya

Indian banks may be looking for Vijay Mallya to pay up Rs 9,000 crore, but the "wilful defaulter's" flight out of India was in the lap of luxury.
2016-03-11 00:50:54 Read More

Vijay Mallya flew Jet first class to London with 7 heavy bags

Rajya Sabha passed the much-awaited real estate bill on Thursday, prompting PM Narendra Modi to hail it as "great news for homebuyers".
2016-03-11 00:19:41 Read More

Concept of marital rape not for India: Govt

COAI's counsel Kapil Sibal told a bench of Justices Kurian Joseph and R F Nariman that the problem of call drops was a universal phenomenon and there was no country in the world with zero call drops.
2016-03-10 22:05:49 Read More

'Telcos can't be blamed or fined for call drops'

2016-03-10 21:46:44 Read More

'Telcos can't be blamed or fined for call drops'

2016-03-10 21:46:44 Read More

Hope for homebuyers as RS passes real estate bill

The government on Thursday said the concept of marital rape, as understood internationally, cannot be applied in the Indian context.
2016-03-10 21:32:28 Read More

Mallya lookout notice was eased from 'detain' to 'inform': CBI sources

The sources said Mallya travelled abroad in October and returned in November, while he made two trips in first and last week of December and also a trip in January besides the recent trip reportedly to London on March 2.
2016-03-10 16:33:09 Read More

I think Islam hates us: Donald Trump

2016-03-10 15:18:20 Read More

Watch: Mob ransacks restaurant in Gujarat

"I think Islam hates us," Donald Trump told CNN, deploring the "tremendous hatred" that he said partly defined the religion. Trump maintained that the war was against radical Islam, but said, "it's very hard to define. It's very hard to separate. Because you don't know who's who."
2016-03-10 14:00:56 Read More

World T20: No clearance for Pakistan team yet

Pakistan's participation in the World T20 continued to be shrouded in suspense with the country's government refusing to clear the team's departure unless India provides written assurance of security.
2016-03-10 13:42:41 Read More

Want India's written word: Pakistan on WT20

Pressure on Mallya as banks seize 9 Kingfisher-related trademarks

Mallya, who built his fortune with Kingfisher Beer and is a guarantor to the debt, left the country last week, a lawyer for the lenders told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The banks have asked the court to demand his return and to impound his passport.
2016-03-10 13:28:34 Read More

Will go to jail but won't pay a penny: Sri SriÂ

"We have not done anything wrong. We have been taintless and will remain so. We we will go to jail but not pay a penny," Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said. The three-day World Culture Festival is to be held on the ecologically-sensitive banks of the Yamuna river.
2016-03-10 12:07:46 Read More

Will go to jail but won't pay a penny: Sri SriÂ

PM Modi to attend controversial Sri Sri event

The NGT told Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's foundation today that it has until tomorrow to pay the Rs 5 crores fine. The tribunal noted that if the foundation didn't pay the fine by tomorrow, the law will take its course.
2016-03-10 11:21:17 Read More

Isro successfully launches its sixth navigation satellite Â

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Thursday accomplished the penultimate step in developing the country's own navigation system with the textbook launch of IRNSS-1F navigation satellite.
2016-03-10 10:42:47 Read More

What about Quattrocchi's 'escape'? Jaitley counters Rahul on Mallya

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday reminded Rahul Gandhi of Ottavio Quattrocchi's 'escape' after Congress vice-president accused the NDA government of letting Vijay Mallya flee the country.
2016-03-10 09:07:56 Read More

Congress alleges govt let Mallya flee

Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said that banks will take every possible action to recover every penny from Vijay Mallya amid opposition's charges that the industrialist was allowed to flee the country.
2016-03-10 07:51:58 Read More

Vijay Mallya tracked to his country home near London?

Liquor baron Vijay Mallya has been tracked to his country house on the outskirts of London, according to Times Now. The government had on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that the industrialist had left the country on March 2.
2016-03-10 05:20:39 Read More

23 questions jihadis need to answer to join ISIS

A cache of leaked "surveys" given to would-be jihadis joining ISIS show 23 questions that make up the terror group's rigorous "entrance interviews". The documents ask new recruits to detail a host of information, including their birth date, nationality, blood type and "previous jihadi experience".
2016-03-10 03:39:11 Read More

P Chidambaram-era note on Ishrat goes missing

2016-03-09 23:26:43 Read More

Exemptions in Budget are for essential needs: PM

Hitting out at Congress, he said the exemptions offered by past governments, including those supported by the party, had created a situation which he was finding hard to explain.".
2016-03-09 21:41:56 Read More

Why only PMâ€™s pics in ads, govt asks SC

At a time when the opposition is accusing Narendra Modi of creating a cult image of himself and not giving due importance to his cabinet colleagues, the NDA government on Wednesday batted for its ministers and told the Supreme Court that their photos be allowed to be published in government advertisements.
2016-03-09 20:39:33 Read More

India strategic partner, Pak ally: Saudi mantri

PM Narendra Modiâ€™s first visit to Saudi Arabia early April will see a â€œtremendous upliftâ€ in bilateral relations, says Adel Al Jubeir, Saudi Arabiaâ€™s foreign minister when TOI caught up with him during his first visit to India this week.
2016-03-09 19:52:39 Read More

Obama in excellent health, sheds over 2kg: Doctor

The latest chart shows Obama weighing 79 kg, with a body mass index of 22.8 and a resting heart rate of 56 beats per minute. That's an improvement from his still-healthy 81 kg in 2014. Back then his height was 73 inches; the latest report showed him growing to 73.5 inches.
2016-03-09 14:30:52 Read More

Obama in excellent health, sheds over 2kg: Doctor

WT20: Pak departure on hold despite venue shift

PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan on Wednesday welcomed ICC's decision to shift the venue for the marquee Indo-Pak World T20 clash from Dharamsala to Kolkata but kept the Pakistan team's departure on hold awaiting an assurance from government of India.
2016-03-09 13:43:32 Read More

Oil-rich but cash-poor, Saudi Arabia now seeks $6-8bn in bank loans

Riyadh has asked lenders to submit proposals to extend it a five-year US dollar loan of that size, with an option to increase it, the sources said, to help plug a record budget deficit caused by low oil prices.
2016-03-09 13:42:51 Read More

It's Netaji's kin against Mamata in Bengal polls

"Subhas Chandra Bose's grandnephew Chandra Bose will be BJP's candidate against Mamata in West Bengal assembly polls," Union HRD minister Smriti Irani announced on Wednesday. He has joined the party in January 2016.
2016-03-09 12:40:36 Read More

NGT fines Sri Sri's AOL Rs 5cr but allows his event

The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday fined Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's 'World Culture Festival' to the tune of Rs 5 crores but did allow it to take place in Delhi at its planned venue on the banks of the Yamuna, as scheduled.
2016-03-09 11:55:14 Read More

ICC shifts India-Pakistan World T20 clash from Dharamsala to Kolkata

The confusion over the highly anticipated World Twenty20 clash between India and Pakistan finally ended after the ICC decided to shift the match from Dharamsala to Kolkata slated to be held on March 19.
2016-03-09 11:41:29 Read More

Mallya left India on March 2: Centre to SC

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders were summoned as accused by a trial court in a criminal defamation case filed against them by finance minister Arun Jaitley. Jaitley alleged that these leaders accused him of making pecuniary gains when he was DDCA chief.
2016-03-09 10:26:25 Read More

Defamation case: Court summons Kejriwal

2016-03-09 10:18:27 Read More

PM Modi compares the Congress to death, says it's never criticized

"Sometimes I feel Congress is also blessed (like death) ... whenever we criticise the Congress, media says the opposition is under attack," PM Modi said responding to the Motion of Thanks to the President for his address in Rajya Sabha.
2016-03-09 10:08:19 Read More

PM Modi quotes Indira to attack Congress

The bench issued notice to Mallya and sought his response within two weeks on petitions filed by a consortium of banks seeking direction for freezing his passport and his presence before the apex court. The AG also said that more than Rs 9,000 crore was due to various banks.
2016-03-09 08:48:48 Read More

Don't politicize cultural fest, Sri Sri appeals to political parties

: Art of Living Foundation chief Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Wednesday appealed to all parties not to politicize the World Cultural Festival 2016 to be held on Yamuna floodplains here.
2016-03-09 07:56:31 Read More

DATE 9

Watch: Tiger runs free on Doha expressway

2016-03-09 06:20:18 Read More>>

BCCI may shift India-Pak WT20 match from Dharamshala to Kolkata

Dharamsala's loss may be Kolkata's gain as the marquee India-Pakistan encounter of the ICC World Twenty20 on March 19 is likely to be shifted to the iconic Eden Gardens here.
2016-03-09 05:14:27 Read More

Here is how Mallya became 'King of bad times'

Itâ€™s been a month since the JNU row grabbed headlines. A lot has been written about it and the students who got charged with sedition. But very little light has been shed on ABVPâ€™s Saurabh Sharma, the JNUSU joint secretary who had called a section of the media to the university on February 9, and which had resulted in a student protest transforming into a national debate.
2016-03-09 03:35:42 Read More

BJP to Rahul: Pass GST, take credit for it too

Congress and BJP on Tuesday vied to take credit for the rollback of the proposal to tax EPF withdrawals, with the ruling party mocking Rahul Gandhi's claim that it took pressure from him for the government to backtrack on the controversial provision in the Budget.
2016-03-09 03:08:09 Read More

Total eclipse darkens parts of Indonesia

2016-03-09 02:37:43 Read More

Solar eclipse begins sweeping South East Asia

A solar eclipse began sweeping across the vast Indonesian archipelago on Wednesday morning, with hordes of sky gazers set to watch the spectacle, which will be marked by parties, prayers and tribal rituals.
2016-03-09 01:41:53 Read More

13 banks move SC to stop Vijay Mallya, but he's already left India

A consortium of 13 banks led by State Bank of India approached the Supreme Court on Tuesday to prevent controversial tycoon Vijay Mallya from leaving the country, but they may have left it for too late. Mallya is believed to have left for a foreign destination a few days ago.
2016-03-08 23:40:15 Read More

Telcos cheated government of Rs 12,400cr: CAG

The CAG was prevented from auditing these entities since 2009 when the private service providers moved different courts challenging the mandate of the auditor.
2016-03-08 20:52:26 Read More

MCI has failed, rejig it, says Parliament panel

The Parliamentary standing committee on health has called for a complete restructuring of the Medical Council of India (MCI), arguing that it has failed in its mandate as a regulator of medical education and profession.
2016-03-08 20:41:53 Read More

Cap profits, cut drug prices: Panel

In a move that could significantly bring down prices of expensive medicines, a high-level committee has recommended capping of trade margins for costly drugs at 35% of MRP (maximum retail price).
2016-03-08 19:44:30 Read More

Meet ABVP leader: The other face of JNU story

People gazed at sky in wonder and cheered while others knelt in prayer as a total eclipse of the sun unfolded over Indonesia on Wednesday. The rare astronomical phenomenon was witnessed along a narrow path that stretched across 12 provinces encompassing three time zones and about 40 million people.
2016-03-08 19:28:44 Read More

Are US, South Korea on a 'beheading mission' aimed at Kim Jong-un?

Joint military exercsies are reportedly incorporating a 'beheading mission' against the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The US has used strikes, often employing drones, to take out key figures in terrorist groups.
2016-03-08 16:06:59 Read More

Mallya misled govt, employees: Ex-women staff

In an open letter, which comes on the occasion of International Women's Day, the women employees have also accused the beleaguered industrialist of "killing" two airlines and rendering hundreds of people jobless.
2016-03-08 14:47:13 Read More

India-Pak tie in Dharamsala as scheduled: BCCI

The much-anticipated World Twenty20 match between India and Pakistan will be held as scheduled in Dharamsala, tournament director M V Sridhar said on Tuesday.
2016-03-08 13:44:13 Read More

Facebook pays Indian hacker Rs 10L for finding a bug in its system

The Facebook bug, if exploited, could let hackers access a userâ€™s messages, photos and even debit/credit card details stored in the payments section, among others.
2016-03-08 12:26:53 Read More

Ambani's telecom bet may rekindle family rivalry

India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is muscling into the cable TV sector as part of a media and telecoms offensive that pits him against his once-estranged younger brother and threatens to shake up both industries.
2016-03-08 12:03:00 Read More

Maruti launches compact SUV Brezza at Rs 6.99L

Maruti Suzuki has launched the compact SUV Vitara Brezza in India. The Brezza will start at Rs 6.99 lakh (ex-Delhi) in India and will come with six variants; its fanciest variant will cost Rs 9.68 lakh.
2016-03-08 10:30:04 Read More

Rahul takes credit for roll back of tax on EPF

2016-03-08 10:16:44 Read More

Banks petition Supreme Court to stop Vijay Mallya from leaving India

Having gained the tag of master poll strategist by running the Nitish-Lalu corner in the Bihar elections last November, Kishor is the man being watched from all corners.
2016-03-08 05:38:24 Read More

What is meldonium, why did Sharapova take it?

A minor girl was allegedly raped and set on fire on the roof of her house in Greater Noida's Tigri village early on Monday.
2016-03-08 03:32:25 Read More

Teen raped, set on fire by minor in Greater Noida

2016-03-08 03:31:55 Read More

Indian science institutes missing woman's touch

Country Fares Poorly In Global Survey On %age Of Women In Prestigious Science Academies
2016-03-08 00:27:29 Read More

Women in House: India's rank slips

Barely 12% of MPs in the Lok Sabha are women and the figure stands at 12.8% in Rajya Sabha.This is well below the global average of around 22% in both Houses.
2016-03-08 00:21:39 Read More

UP poll may end Prashant Kishor's glorious run

The 15th edition of the speak-in at Jawaharlal Nehru University had poet and professor Makarand Paranjape talking about â€˜Uncivil wars: Tagore, Gandhi, JNU and whatâ€™s left of the nationâ€™.
2016-03-07 23:53:08 Read More

Change the way women are seen: Dipti Sarna

FIGHTâ€™S ON: Itâ€™s men who should hide their faces, says Sarna
2016-03-07 21:42:46 Read More

'BJP MLA behind Af video that sparked riots'

Based on submissions by police officials, Justice Sahai holds BJP MLA Sangeet Som and 229 others responsible for uploading and sharing this video.But he recommends no action as an FIR had already been lodged against them.
2016-03-07 20:51:31 Read More

Govt looks to create 8-10 big PSU banks

2016-03-07 20:33:25 Read More

ED probes bank account details, to summon Vijay Mallya

The $75 million deal with Diageo was struck last month to get Mallya to relinquish the chairmanship of United Spirits Ltd (USL), which the British spirits maker now owns.
2016-03-07 20:21:59 Read More

JNU professor to Kanhaiya: Did you check facts?

Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova says she failed a drug test for meldonium at the Australian Open. The drug was only banned in January and there has been a string of failed tests by athletes in several sports since.
2016-03-07 18:58:52 Read More

US strikes Somalia jihadists, kills over 150

The US military carried out a drone strike over the weekend targeting a training camp run by Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab about 120 miles north of capital Mogadishu over the weekend, killing more than 150 fighters, the Pentagon said on Monday.
2016-03-07 17:16:25 Read More

Car that hit biker not part of Irani convoy: Cops

A day after an FIR was filed with the UP police claiming a car in HRD minister Smriti Iraniâ€™s cavalcade hit a motorcyclist, killing him and injuring two of his kids, the Mathura police on Monday said the vehicle involved in the accident was not part of the BJP leaderâ€™s convoy.
2016-03-07 16:36:27 Read More

I'm the dark-skinned Indian who did invent email: Shiva Ayyadurai

The obituaries all cited Raymond Tomlinson, who died over the weekend, as the â€œinventorâ€ of email, but out in the cold in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Shiva Ayyadurai bristled.
2016-03-07 16:13:53 Read More

Money pours in as move to stop Trump sharpens

Republicans hoping to halt Donald Trumpâ€™s march to their partyâ€™s presidential nomination emerged from the weekendâ€™s voting contests newly emboldened by reality show host's uneven electoral performance and by some nascent signs that he may be peaking with voters.
2016-03-07 16:01:19 Read More

31k women being used to breed next-gen jihadists

More than 31,000 pregnant women living in the so-called Islamic State are being used to create the next generation of terrorists, a wide-ranging report that details how the terror group indoctrinates children has revealed.
2016-03-07 15:10:22 Read More

Mallya can't access Rs 515Cr Diageo money, yet

The SBI, which leads the consortium of 17 banks that lent money to the grounded Kingfisher Airlines, had moved DRT against the airline's chairman Mallya in its bid to recover over Rs 7,000 crore of dues from him.
2016-03-07 11:34:04 Read More

India is top-ranked team in ICC World T20

India on Monday sealed the numero uno spot in the ICC Twenty20 rankings after Mahendra Singh Dhoni's side won the Asia Cup in Mirpur and will now enter the World T20 as the top team.
2016-03-07 09:54:58 Read More

Hike in UK visa fee to affect 1000s of Indians

The British government is set to increase visa fees across most categories of applications from March 18, in a move that will affect thousands of Indians who were the largest group of skilled workers to be granted visas to live and work in Britain last year.
2016-03-07 09:08:20 Read More

ED files money laundering case against Mallya

The Enforcement Directorate(ED) on Monday registered a money laundering case against businessman Vijay Mallya based on a CBI complaint against him. The ED is likely to question Vijay Mallya to ascertain whether money taken from banks as loan was diverted offshore.
2016-03-07 08:34:53 Read More

We need to torture ISIS militants: Trump

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Sunday that, as president, he would push to change laws that prohibit waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation methods, arguing that banning them puts the US at a strategic disadvantage against Islamic State militants.
2016-03-07 06:57:56 Read More

'Mikhail killed Sheena, I was only shielding him'

Indrani Mukerjea was in denial after her arrest in August last year on the charge of murdering her daughter, Sheena Bora. So much so that when Peter Mukerjea met her in jail, the only time he would do so, she reportedly told him: "I have been framed. I didn't do it. Mikhail did it. I only disposed of the body." The snatch of conversation occurred at Byculla jail in October and Peter was stunned by the web of lies.
2016-03-07 05:38:51 Read More

India well on track for World T20, Dhoni says after Asia Cup triumph

As India lifted the Asia Cup trophy without losing a single match in the tournament, skipper MS Dhoni said they were well on track for the World Twenty20, beginning in two days time.
2016-03-07 04:23:41 Read More

Girl jumps from 2nd floor to escape rape attemptÂ

A young girl jumped from the second floor of a building, allegedly to escape rape. She is a resident of Liluah in Howrah. She has sustained grave injuries on her head and face, and has been admitted to the Howrah General Hospital.
2016-03-07 04:22:39 Read More

31/36: SP landslide in UP council elections

2016-03-07 00:00:18 Read More

Delhi on high alert for Shivratri terror strike

Delhi Police has stepped up security around temples, iconic buildings, malls and markets, and military installations in Delhi and NCR after an Intelligence Bureau alert that terrorists might strike today, on the occasion of Shivratri.
2016-03-06 23:43:38 Read More

This heaven for cows is run by Muslims

No sooner does the Zohar Nawaz (afternoon prayers) gets over at a mosque in the central bazaar at Jodhpur, trim bearded educationist Haji Mohammad Atique dressed in a white kurta, pyjama and a skull cap rushed to the outskirts of the city in his SUV - He spends the next hour feeding cows at the Adarsh Muslim Goshala (cow shelter) on Bikaner Road.
2016-03-06 23:15:52 Read More

Army struggles to raise mountain strike corps

The Army is struggling to raise the new mountain strike corps it requires for effective deterrence against China, forcing it to dip into its critical war wastage reserves (WWR) in the absence of dedicated funding, even as the government continues to be keen to slash the â€œflabâ€ in the 1.18-million strong force.
2016-03-06 21:53:48 Read More

With intel sharing, India-Pakistan ties acquiring new layers

With reports that Pakistanâ€™s security authorities â€œsharedâ€ advance intelligence with India on terrorists possibly entering the country to carry out attacks, the India-Pakistan bilateral relationship is acquiring new layers and facets, since this would be a rare occurrence.
2016-03-06 21:28:15 Read More

Jaitley: Weâ€™ve won battle of ideology in JNU row

2016-03-06 21:01:49 Read More

Government lists 12 bills for passage this week

Vijay Mallya, the former United Spirits Ltd (USL) chairman, said it was unfortunate he was singled out as a wilful defaulter when larger borrowers who owe much more to the banks have not been done so.
2016-03-06 20:31:39 Read More

India beat Bangladesh to win record sixth Asia Cup title

India extended their unbeaten run in the inaugural Twenty20 Asia Cup by cruising to a eight-wicket win in the final over hosts Bangladesh, thus lifting the trophy to head into the ICC World Twenty20 as the team to beat.
2016-03-06 18:14:54 Read More

DATE 10

Mallya says he is not wilful defaulter

2016-03-06 17:25:45 Read More>>

Asia Cup live scorecard: India vs Bangladesh

Indian skipper MS Dhoni won the toss and opted to field first against Bangladesh in the rain-curtailed Asia Cup final on Sunday.
2016-03-06 15:22:43 Read More

Delhi on high alert after inputs of terror attack

"The foreign ministry has written to the Indian government asking it to send all 24 Indian witnesses to Pakistan for recording statements in the trial court in the Mumbai attack case," Prosecution chief Chaudhry Azhar said.
2016-03-06 13:38:16 Read More

Asia Cup final live: Rain stops, umpires to inspect pitch shortly

India will square off against Bangladesh in the final of the Asia Cup 2016 at Mirpur today. While India have won the tournament on five occasions, Bangladesh are yet to win their first.
2016-03-06 12:40:04 Read More

Terror alert: 4 NSG teams deployed in Gujarat

Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Sunday said Karti is being targeted only because he is his son but "the real target is me" and rejected as "malicious and totally false" allegations that he has undisclosed assets abroad.
2016-03-06 11:41:17 Read More

Karti being targeted as he's my son: Chidambaram

2016-03-06 11:08:27 Read More

Pakistan asks India to send 24 witnesses to depose in 26/11 trial

Terror alert in Gujarat: Raids in Kachchh

A massive security operation has been launched and raids were conducted by a police team, led by South Kutch Superintendent of Police Makrand Chauhan, early this morning in Varnora village of Bhuj taluka in Kutch district bordering Pakistan, police sources said.
2016-03-06 08:27:39 Read More

Ted Cruz stakes claim as Trump's main rival

Republican Ted Cruz posted two crucial wins over front-runner Donald Trump who also triumphed in two states in multi-state vote while in the Democratic camp Bernie Sanders clawed his way back into the presidential contest with two victories over Hillary Clinton.
2016-03-06 06:08:23 Read More

Bangladesh may drop Islam as country's official religion

Islam has been the countryâ€™s official religion since 1988, but the battle to overturn this â€“ which is being supported by many minority religious leaders â€“ will argue that the decision to designate Islam the official religion was illegal.
2016-03-06 05:49:04 Read More

Watch: Smriti's jibe on '50-yr-old youth leader'

Shakib injury a worry for buoyant Bangladesh in the final on Sunday.
2016-03-06 05:40:13 Read More

Asia Cup final: India hope to play hostbusters

2016-03-06 03:41:16 Read More

Asia Cup final: India hope to play hostbusters

2016-03-06 03:41:16 Read More

10 terrorists have entered Gujarat: Pak's NSA

2016-03-06 00:46:02 Read More

PM Modi steps in, tells FM to hold tax on EPF

2016-03-05 23:52:36 Read More

Little-known outfit puts Rs 11 lakh on Kanhaiya head

The government has decided to defer its plan to levy tax on 60% of employeesâ€™ provident fund withdrawal, following an intervention by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
2016-03-05 23:07:34 Read More

You are wasting public money: Govt to PSU banks

2016-03-05 22:48:46 Read More

Japan relaxes visa rules for Indians

2016-03-05 21:45:57 Read More

Govt to push Aadhaar bill as money bill in LS

Gujarat was put on a state of high alert on Saturday following an intelligence input from Pakistan's National Security Adviser (NSA) Nasir Khan Janjua to his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval that 10 terrorists had entered the state to carry out strikes.
2016-03-05 21:34:57 Read More

92-year-old Karunanidhi oldest CM face ever

2016-03-05 20:33:49 Read More

We need strong banks, not more banks: Jaitley

Bankers have "strongly supported" the idea of consolidation, suggesting the government to form a panel of experts to devise a merger strategy, Jaitley said. State-run lenders hold more than two-thirds of assets in India's banking industry.
2016-03-05 15:37:47 Read More

You have blood on your hands: Kingfisher employees target Mallya

The issue of non-payment of salary to staff of now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines came back to haunt its chairman Vijay Mallya again with the employees, in an open letter, accusing him of damaging the image of the country, particularly the aviation industry.
2016-03-05 15:09:15 Read More

World T20: Pak to send security team on Monday

"A three-member security team will depart for India on Monday to look into the security situation," Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told a press conference in Islamabad.
2016-03-05 15:06:04 Read More

Avoid jumping the gun in Pathankot probe: Pak envoy

Pakistan on Saturday said that dialogue was not a favour by one country to another but a necessity to normalise relations, remarks made in the backdrop of delay in foreign secretary-level talks with India which has made it clear that action on Pathankot terror strike takes the priority.
2016-03-05 13:17:41 Read More

Bank loan defaulters won't be spared: Jaitley

Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said getting banks back in shape is the top priority of the government, and that more resources will be found as and when required to boost their capital. He said steps such as the proposed bankruptcy law will help banks recover their loans.
2016-03-05 12:54:52 Read More

'Disturbing inputs' about terror attack during Shivratri: Army Commander

Western Army Commander Lt Gen KJ Singh has assured that steps have been taken to deal with it adding that such "mischievous" activities will not deter a great nation. He also said that such events are planned to create "maximum media impact".
2016-03-05 12:20:45 Read More

Mend your ways: BJP to Pak after tunnel found

Expressing concern over discovery of a cross-border tunnel along the international border in RS Pura sector of Jammu district, the BJP on Saturday said that Pakistan should "mend its ways and stop support to terrorism".
2016-03-05 12:07:32 Read More

Bangla fans irk India with MSD's 'chopped head'

Bangladesh fans are extremely upbeat about the team's chances against India in the Asia Cup final - to the extent that a morphed graphic photo of pacer Taskin Ahmed holding MS Dhoni's chopped head is spreading like wildfire online.
2016-03-05 11:26:20 Read More

Bangla fans irk India with MSD's 'chopped head'

Congress should be ashamed of Rahul's visit to JNU: Amit Shah

BJP chief Amit Shah on Saturday attacked Congress over the JNU row, saying it should be "ashamed" of Rahul Gandhi's visit to the campus and questioned whether "anti-national slogans" can be called freedom of speech.
2016-03-05 09:55:17 Read More

Theories over MH370's fate: Hijackers? Aliens?Â

With search crews just months away from finishing their thus-far fruitless sweep of a remote stretch of seabed where Flight 370 is believed to have crashed, officials appear no closer to solving one of the most mind-boggling mysteries of modern times.
2016-03-05 07:46:14 Read More

Budget drops Rajiv's name from many schemes

Interestingly, BJP, the major party in National Democratic Alliance, hasnâ€™t replaced Rajiv Gandhiâ€™s name with names of its own political favourites.
2016-03-05 06:11:36 Read More

Why India should be worried about Pakistani tunnel at J&K border

The BSF on Friday lodged a protest with Pakistan over a cross-border tunnel along the international border in RS Pura sector of Jammu district. "The tunnel was designed exclusively for infiltration. A big terrorist attack was being planned," BSF IG Rakesh Sharma said.
2016-03-05 04:01:37 Read More

After 'She Auto', Kochi to have 'She Shops'

Close on the heels of city traffic police launching the `She Auto' service, the Kochi corporation has initiated yet another project to empower women.
2016-03-05 03:47:51 Read More

Aggressive Virat Kohli good for game: Afridi

Pakistan failed to fire at the Asia Cup but skipper Shahid Afridi believes his side can make amends at the upcoming World T20. In a chat with TOI, Afridi spoke about his team's chances, the innings he played in the 2009 World T20 final at Lord's and more.
2016-03-05 03:22:45 Read More

Indian nun killed in terror strike in Yemen

Four nuns, including an Indian, Cecilia Minj, were among 16 people killed in Yemenâ€™s Aden city on Friday when terrorists stormed an elderly care home run by the Kolkata-based Missionaries of Charity.
2016-03-05 01:11:32 Read More

BJPâ€™s marketing better than Congâ€™s: Rahul Gandhi

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused PM Narendra Modi of launching a personal attack on him during the ongoing Budget session.
2016-03-04 23:39:15 Read More

UP designer faked abduction due to cash crunch

Noida-based fashion designer Shipra Malik, who was missing since Monday, had run away on her own as she couldn't cope with her financial problems, police said. The 29-year had dialled 100 on Monday to give the impression that she had been abducted.
2016-03-04 23:36:29 Read More

Let me save money on Rafale deal: Parrikar

India is trying to drive a hard bargain to get a better deal in the long-pending mega contract for acquisition of 36 French Rafale fighters, which will be worth around Rs 60,000 crore, that was announced after the Modi-Hollande summit in Paris in Aprillast year.
2016-03-04 23:13:53 Read More

Will decide on call drops penalty next week: SC

In order to give an early quietus to the controversy arising out of the Trai order making telecom companies liable to pay compensation for call drops, the Supreme Court on Friday said it would decide the issue on March 10.
2016-03-04 22:07:05 Read More

State elections: BJP seeks a booster, Congress its lost magic

Each of the states that wil contest assembly polls will witness fierce contests, with the stakes being high for key players particulary Congress, which will be facing a major electoral test at a time when the party is hoping to claw back some lost ground following its debacle in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
2016-03-04 21:18:48 Read More

Watch: Would Donald Trump fans support Hitler?

Donald Trump has rocked US politics. The presidential hopeful's inflammatory speeches and far-right stance on immigration and foreign policy have divided the Republican party and become the main talking point of the election.
2016-03-04 19:10:42 Read More

Kanhaiya gets advice from Venkaiah Naidu

2016-03-04 14:06:37 Read More

Not a politician, but a student: Kanhaiya

A day after Jawaharlal Nehru University students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar took on the Narendra Modi government, union minister M Venkaiah Naidu said he was "enjoying free publicity" while leaders of opposition parties showered praises on him Kumar for his speech last night.
2016-03-04 13:50:36 Read More

Why assembly polls in 5 states are crucial for BJP at Centre

State elections are important for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be able to gain control of Rajya Sabha, where members are indirectly elected by state legislatures. A lack of a majority in that House has stalled PM Modi's economic reforms agenda and delayed passage of the GST bill.
2016-03-04 12:52:00 Read More

Yemen gun attack: 4 Indian nurses among 16 dead

2016-03-04 11:44:34 Read More

JNU student can't be anti-national: Kanhaiya

JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, who was released on bail on Thursday, addressed JNU students and members of the press for the second time on Friday afternoon.
2016-03-04 11:35:47 Read More

Afzal Guru is not my icon, Rohith Vemula is: Kanhaiya Kumar

Jawaharlal Nehru University students' union leader Kanhaiya Kumar today said that no students of the university can be anti-national. Addressing the students in JNU campus, Kanhaiya also said that the taxpayers' money is absolutely safe.
2016-03-04 11:22:41 Read More

Ishrat case file never came to me: Shinde

Amid the row over Ishrat Jahan case, former home minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Friday that he had no knowledge of the issue as no file came to him. "I have no idea about this. The Ishrat Jahan case file never came to me," Shinde said in Mumbai.
2016-03-04 10:56:57 Read More

Assembly polls: Battle for 5 states starts April 4, counting on May 19

The Election Commission on Friday announced dates for assembly polls in West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and â€‹Pudducherry.
2016-03-04 09:30:06 Read More

DATE 11

Want freedom in India: Kanhaiya's 10 quotes

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TOI poll on Kanhaiya, Modi, Rahul speeches

2016-03-04 08:20:35 Read More

Trump: US needs to stay in Afghanistan

The US needs to stay in Afghanistan because its immediate neighbour Pakistan has nuclear weapons which have to be protected, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has said. Last year, Trump had called Pakistan the most dangerous country in the world.
2016-03-04 07:29:27 Read More

EC to announce polls in 5 states at 3pm today

Returning to a heroâ€™s welcome in the university after spending three weeks in detention over sedition charges, JNU studentsâ€™ union president Kanhaiya Kumar delivered a powerpacked political speech.
2016-03-04 05:53:50 Read More

Former Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma passes away

Indian Ex-Servicemen League has opposed the India-Pakistan World T20 match scheduled at Dharamshala later this month. Members say, if dialogue with Pakistan is suspended because of the latter's inaction on terror, cricket should not be an exception.
2016-03-04 05:32:42 Read More

Want freedom in India, not from India: Kanhaiya

77-yr-old to take Class 10 exam for 47th time

2016-03-03 23:25:32 Read More

Why canâ€™t you fix call drops, SC asks telecom operators

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea of Cellular Operatorsâ€™ Association of India to exempt telecom firms from paying compensation to consumers for call drops but asked why the companies were not fixing the problem.
2016-03-03 22:24:16 Read More

Punish Godse fans, Centre directs states

The Modi government on Thursday distanced itself from those eulogising Nathuram Godse, with Union home minister Rajnath Singh saying that state governments should take action against any one celebrating the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi.
2016-03-03 21:22:15 Read More

'Want Indo-Pak match? Bring us Masood's head'

A 77-year-old Rajasthani villager is getting ready to take his Class X board exam, for the 47th time. Shiv Charan Yadav, from Khohari village in Alwae, first took the Class 10 board exam in 1968. To put it in perspective, that would have been about a month after The Beatles arrived in India, at Rishikesh, to attend Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation training course.
2016-03-03 20:48:56 Read More

Snag hits Jet flight after landing in Mumbai

127 passengers had a close shave when a Jet Airways flight developed a technical snag while landing at the Mumbai airport on Wednesday.
2016-03-03 20:26:59 Read More

What a year in space does to a personâ€™s body

Scientists are about to learn exactly what spending a year in space does to a person, after two astronauts returned from a 340 day trip to the International Space Station.
2016-03-03 18:59:28 Read More

Facelifted Duster launched at Rs 8.46 lakh

2016-03-03 17:27:39 Read More

Pak threatens to pull out of World T20, wants guarantee on security

Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh's concern over inability to provide security for the India-Pakistan World Twenty20 match has not gone well with Pakistan Cricket Board.
2016-03-03 15:45:09 Read More

How an American found suspected MH370 debris

Blaine Gibson, a lawyer from Seattle who has dedicated himself to solving the mystery of the plane's disappearance, explained how he discovered the fragment on a sandbank near the tourist island of Benguerra in Mozambique.
2016-03-03 14:08:38 Read More

'Some people learn with age but some don't,' PM Modi's dig at Rahul

Jawaharlal Nehru University students union leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who was arrested on February 12 in connection with a sedition case, was released from Tihar Jail on Thursday evening.
2016-03-03 13:38:45 Read More

JNU student Kanhaiya Kumar released from jail

With banks going after him to recover unpaid loans given to long-grounded Kingfisher Airlines, beleaguered businessman Vijay Mallya remains defiant and says the "only regret" he has that the carrier is not flying when the oil price has dipped so low.
2016-03-03 13:12:55 Read More

This is Vijay Mallya's 'only regret'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday reached out to the opposition, saying he needs their support for "improvement" in his government, even as he attacked the Congress over disruptions in Parliament while skipping the raging issues like JNU and Dalit student's suicide.
2016-03-03 11:45:07 Read More

PM embarrasses Cong with Rajiv, Indira quotes;Â reaches out to oppnÂ

PM embarrasses Cong with Rajiv, Indira quotes

First PM Narendra Modi hinted that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has an inferiority complex. Then, he attempted to put the Gandhi scion in his place by quoting his father Rajiv Gandhi, twice, and then his grandmother Indira Gandhi, on the need for decorum in Parliament.
2016-03-03 10:44:46 Read More

TOI poll: Was PM Modi's speech impressive?

2016-03-03 08:35:44 Read More

In Rahul vs Modi, Round 2 goes to the PM

A young British woman has become one of the first cancer patients to be injected with a new vaccine designed to stimulate the immune system so that it destroys tumours wherever they have spread in the body.
2016-03-03 08:10:16 Read More

Why mock 'Make in India'? PM's top quotes

2016-03-03 07:08:11 Read More

Inferiority complex behind Parliament disruptions: PM Modi

Maruti Suzuki to hike car prices by up to Rs 34,494

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd , India's top-selling carmaker, will raise the prices of its passenger vehicles by up to 34,494 rupees, after the government imposed a new 'green' tax on all cars sold in the country.
2016-03-03 04:40:21 Read More

Martin Crowe, a batting great and T20 pioneer

New Zealand batting legend Martin Crowe, who died on Thursday after a long battle with cancer, once said that the only time he truly felt content was at the crease with a ball rocketing towards him.
2016-03-03 02:57:11 Read More

Outnumbered in RS, govt to get a boost from from 7 nominated MPs

The forthcoming biennial election to 13 Rajya Sabha seats in six states on March 21 may not give the ruling NDA an edge in the upper House but it stands to gain by recommending seven nominated members who could come in handy when the government looks to pass the crucial GST bill.
2016-03-02 23:45:34 Read More

UK cancer patient gets tumour-destroying vaccine

2016-03-02 22:52:59 Read More

India says Pakistan must act on terror before talks

Action on terror trumps any desire for diplomatic dialogue with Pakistan, foreign secretary S Jaishankar said on Wednesday, in the clearest statement yet that India would not agree to foreign secretary talks until Pakistan took clear action against the perpetrators of the Pathankot terror attack.
2016-03-02 22:25:45 Read More

LED-style drive for â€˜efficient fansâ€™ soon

The US Department of Defense is inviting vetted hackers to test its cybersecurity under a pilot program. Called "Hack the Pentagon," the so-called bug bounty program will give cash awards and other recognition to participants who can spot weaknesses on the Pentagon's public web pages.
2016-03-02 21:31:37 Read More

Most of Indiaâ€™s richest prefer Mumbai as home

â€‹â€‹The latest survey, conducted along with ultra-wealth intelligence consultancy Wealth-X, is based on the views of around 400 of the worldâ€™s leading private bankers and wealth advisers. Between them, they manage assets for around 45,000 UHNWIs with a combined wealth of over half a trillion US dollars.
2016-03-02 20:40:32 Read More

Pentagon invites hackers to attack its websites

A four-month-old miracle baby from Solapur survived more than 20 heart attacks over two months before undergoing a life-saving cardiac surgery in a city hospital
2016-03-02 19:15:58 Read More

President Trump? Frantic Americans search 'how to move to Canada'

Donald Trumpâ€™s surge is firing up the urge of many Americans to abandon the country once famed as the sanctuary of the world. Newspapers are running "How to flee America" tutorials. Google searches for "How to move to Canada" surged by 350% in the space of four hours after Super Tuesday.
2016-03-02 19:10:37 Read More

JNU celebrates Kanhaiya being granted bailÂ

JNU students shouted "azadi" and "laal salaam" to celebrate their union president Kanhaiya Kumar's bail besides taking out an impromptu "victory" march on campus Wednesday night.
2016-03-02 19:03:11 Read More

Infant survives 20 heart attacks in 2 months

2016-03-02 17:38:45 Read More

Infant survives 20 heart attacks in 2 months

2016-03-02 17:38:45 Read More

Jaitley takes a dig at Rahul's Lok Sabha speech

"As one evolves from a young to a middle-aged one, we certainly expect a certain level of maturity," Jaitley said reacting to the Congress vice-president's remarks that Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not consult his senior ministers on policy issues.
2016-03-02 14:59:59 Read More

Debris possibly belonging to MH370 found off Mozambique coast

An object that could be from a Boeing 777 was found on a sandbank off the eastern African country days ahead of the second anniversary of the jet's disappearance in March 2014. The flight disappeared on 8 March with 239 people on board en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
2016-03-02 14:18:27 Read More

JNU row: Delhi HC gives Kanhaiya 6-month interim bail in sedition case

The Delhi high court today gave 6-month interim bail to Kanhaiya Kumar, the student leader of Jawaharlal Nehru University who was arrested on sedition charge. Kanhaiya is currently lodged in the Tihar Jail.
2016-03-02 13:31:32 Read More

JNU row: Delhi HC gives Kanhaiya 6-month interim bail in sedition case

The high court gave relief to Kanhaiya by asking him to furnish a personal bond of Rs 10,000. It also said that Kanhaiya will have to cooperate with the police in the investigation in the case where alleged anti-national slogans were raised in JNU campus at an event last month.
2016-03-02 13:31:32 Read More

TOI poll: Was Rahul's LS speech impressive?

A powerful and shallow earthquake of magnitude 8.1 struck off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said.
2016-03-02 13:28:32 Read More

7.9 quake strikes southwest of Indonesia: USGS

Facing flak for proposing a tax on employee provident fund withdrawals, finance minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said he will spell out the final decision on the matter when he replies to the debate on Budget in Parliament.
2016-03-02 13:28:12 Read More

Tsunami warning after powerful Indonesia quake

2016-03-02 13:28:12 Read More

'We are not your enemy': Rahul's top 10 quotes

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the Narendra Modi government, saying it launched a "'Fair and Lovely Yojana' to convert black money into white".
2016-03-02 13:06:43 Read More

Rahul's jibe: 'Fair & lovely' scheme in Budget

A powerful and shallow earthquake of magnitude 8.1 struck off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said.
2016-03-02 12:07:54 Read More

No holy cows to protect: FM on Aircel-Maxis case

Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday rejected the charge that the probe is moving at a slow pace in the Aircel-Maxis case. "We have no holy cows to protect. Accusing us of going slow in probe is incorrect," Jaitley said during a debate in the Lok Sabha.
2016-03-02 10:08:21 Read More

Final stand on EPF tax during Budget debate: FM

IITian 'sells himselfâ€™ on Flipkart to get a job

IIT Kharagpur graduate Aakash Neeraj Mittal tried a novel way of getting his foot in the door for the Flipkart job -- by trying to sell himself on the e-commerce website!
2016-03-02 08:32:00 Read More

Terror attack on Indian consulate in Afghanistan, encounter underway

Explosions and gunfire rocked the area near the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday
2016-03-02 08:05:25 Read More

Give licences to dance bars by March 15: SC

The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Maharashtra government to grant licence to dance bars by March 15. The Supreme Court also the struck down live feed condition and said that there will be no CCTV coverage of performance area as it might violate the privacy of patrons.
2016-03-02 07:46:59 Read More

DATE 12

Astronauts back on Earth after 340 days in space

Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth after an unprecedented year in space for Nasa, landing in barren Kazakhstan with a Russian cosmonaut who shared his whole space station journey.
2016-03-02 05:13:46 Read More>>

Pakistan to US: We are 'ally from heaven not from hell'

Acknowledging that there was a "significant change" in its policy to act against terror groups without discrimination, Pakistan has said it hopes the US would now consider it an "ally from heaven" and not from hell, as described in a recent book by an ex-CIA chief.
2016-03-02 04:04:22 Read More

Trump, Clinton win big on crucial Super Tuesday

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton rolled up a series of big primary wins on Tuesday, as the two presidential front-runners looked to take command of their party's nominating battles on the 2016 campaign's biggest night of voting.
2016-03-02 02:37:35 Read More

Trump, Clinton win big on crucial Super Tuesday

Trump, Clinton score early wins on Super Tuesday

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton scored early primary wins on Tuesday in Georgia, CNN projected, as the two presidential front-runners looked to take command of their party nominating battles on the campaign's biggest night of voting.
2016-03-02 00:15:22 Read More

Now, majority of families have 2 or less kids

For the first time in the country's recorded history, more than half the families do not have more than two children, according to Census 2011 data released on Monday.
2016-03-01 21:40:10 Read More

Budget 2016: A 25-year-old could lose 18% of retirement income

Itâ€™s not about paying more in new taxes, which middle-class India has been doing year after year.
2016-03-01 21:22:53 Read More

Asia Cup: India reach final with hat-trick of wins

India's quest to book a place in the final of the Asia Cup on Sunday continued its dominant tone as they limited Sri Lanka to 138/9 after opting to field.
2016-03-01 16:56:05 Read More

Trump, Hillary dominate nomination race in US

2016-03-01 16:28:21 Read More

Was tortured, told to sign on Ishrat affidavit, claims ex-bureaucrat

Indian skipper MS Dhoni won the toss and opted to field against Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup match on Tuesday.
2016-03-01 14:49:29 Read More

Trump, Clinton eye 'Super Tuesday' boostÂ

2016-03-01 13:29:00 Read More

Asia Cup live scorecard: India vs Sri Lanka

Buoyed by two back-to-back wins in the Asia Cup, India will aim to extend their winning streak against a depleted Sri Lanka in their third T20I at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium.
2016-03-01 13:07:51 Read More

Govt to consider demands for rollback of tax on EPF withdrawals

Indian skipper MS Dhoni won the toss and opted to field against Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup match on Tuesday.
2016-03-01 12:38:09 Read More

Live Blog, Asia Cup: India vs Sri Lanka

Al-qaida's leaders were increasingly worried about spies in their midst, drones in the air and secret tracking devices reporting their movements as the US-led war against them ground on, documents seized in the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout and reviewed by Reuters reveal.
2016-03-01 12:37:38 Read More

Live Blog, Asia Cup: India vs Sri Lanka

2016-03-01 12:37:38 Read More

News brief:Â Indo-Pak WT20 tie in a fixÂ

The US has pressed Pakistan to reduce its growing nuclear arsenal but Islamabad has refused to accept any curbs on it saying America must show "greater understanding" of its security concerns in South Asia.
2016-03-01 12:30:42 Read More

'Osama bin Laden was wary of spies, drones'

US asks Pakistan to reduce its nuclear arsenal

2016-03-01 11:28:19 Read More

TERI's Pachauri charged with sexual harassment

The much-awaited India-Pakistan World Twenty20 clash is in jeopardy after the Himachal Pradesh government expressed its inability to provide security for the match.
2016-03-01 10:59:27 Read More

TERI's Pachauri charged with sexual harassment

The much-awaited India-Pakistan World Twenty20 clash is in jeopardy after the Himachal Pradesh government expressed its inability to provide security for the match.
2016-03-01 10:59:27 Read More

Sensex shakes off budget blues to post biggest one-day gain in 7 yrs

A day after the Union Budget, the benchmark BSE Sensex surged 777.35 points to close at 23,779.35 and the NSE Nifty reclaimed the 7,200-mark on Tuesday amid hopes of a rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India.
2016-03-01 10:18:22 Read More

BCCI in fix as Himachal doesn't want to host Indo-Pak WT20 tie

The much-awaited India-Pakistan World Twenty20 clash is in jeopardy after the Himachal Pradesh government expressed its inability to provide security for the match.
2016-03-01 08:34:23 Read More

TOI poll: Should govt roll back tax on EPF?

Post-Budget, many salaried Indians are left wondering whether the FM has left them richer or poorer. But hidden in the tangle of provisions are many ways and means that can help you save a chunk of tax. The Times of India-EY Guide is designed to help you understand the key tax proposals of the Budget and minimize the pinch.
2016-03-01 08:22:52 Read More

TOI poll: Should govt roll back tax on EPF?

Delhi Police on Tuesday filed chargesheet against TERI executive vice-chairman RK Pachauri and accused him of outraging modesty of women, sexual harrassment, stalking and criminal intimidation.
2016-03-01 08:22:52 Read More

No tax on PPF, only interest on EPF to attract tax, govt clarifiesÂ

Seeking to dispel the fears of the salaried class, the government on Tuesday said the PPF will not be taxed on withdrawal and only the interest that accrues on contributions to EPF made after April 1 will be taxed while principal will continue to be tax exempt.
2016-03-01 07:56:28 Read More

Watch: Councillors attack each other in Guntur

2016-03-01 05:27:31 Read More

Watch: Councillors attack each other in Guntur

2016-03-01 05:27:31 Read More

Union Budget 2016: Six ways to pay less tax, legally

Google's self-driving car hits a bus in California

Google cars have been involved in nearly a dozen collisions in or around Mountain View since starting to test on city streets in the spring of 2014. In most cases, Google's cars were rear-ended. No one has been seriously injured.
2016-03-01 02:50:58 Read More

Budget 2016: Times guide to personal tax

Increase the rate of surcharge on income exceeding Rs 1 crore to 15% from 12%.
2016-02-29 23:06:02 Read More

Budget 2016: Blow for Provident Fund withdrawals

The government on Monday changed the tax policy for employees' provident fund (EPF) contributions from April 2016 by restricting tax-free withdrawals to 40% of the corpus and mandating that the remaining amount be taxed unless it was being used to buy annuities.
2016-02-29 22:10:16 Read More

Where might India be 10 years from now?

India 2025 will be the worldâ€™s most populous nation, with a population of just under 1.5 billion, a little ahead of China. Gandhijiâ€™s famous statement that â€œIndia lives in her villagesâ€ will remain true with under 40% of the population in urban areas.
2016-02-29 21:54:32 Read More

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