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Cong clamour for Arjun scalp (12 May 02:20) |
| New Delhi, May 11: Arjun Singh today pledged "unflinching loyalty" to the Gandhi family, trying to douse the fire sparked by his recent rebellious comments. But cries for his head continued ... |
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For heart's sake, don't ignore Vitamin B1 (12 May 02:20) |
| New Delhi, May 11: Vitamin B1 deficiency might still account for unexplained heart failure in India, medical researchers have said, more than a century after the deficiency was shown to be l... |
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Midnight once more for Rushdie (12 May 02:20) |
| London, May 11: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, which won The Best of the Booker after the award had been going for 25 years, has been shortlisted once again for the prize which is to ... |
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Rise of the new Big 3 on southern stage (12 May 02:20) |
| Mandya, May 11: H.D. Kumaraswamy, Siddaramaiah and B.S. Yeddyurappa are hardly familiar names outside Karnataka. Neither young nor "happening", they don't gel with the state's tech-savvy ima... |
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Helium debut on nuke date (12 May 02:20) |
| Kuthalam (Tamil Nadu), May 11: The country today got its first pilot plant to extract helium from natural gas on the 10th anniversary of the Pokhran II nuclear tests. |
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Armchair generals worry BJP (12 May 02:20) |
| New Delhi, May 11: The BJP is enthusiastic about its "winnable" Lok Sabha seats but its "winnable" leaders are all comfortably entrenched in the Rajya Sabha. |
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Hole in wall prompts upper caste exodus (12 May 02:20) |
| Chennai, May 11: Many upper caste families have left Uthapuram village in protest since a breach was made in the "caste wall" erected to segregate the Dalits. |
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Red-faced CPM in central force dilemma (12 May 02:20) |
| Calcutta, May 11: The CPM held fire at the CRPF after an initial fusillade, apparently embarrassed by the widely televised spat between a party strongman and a paramilitary officer. |
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Purulia blast kills jawan on poll patrol (12 May 02:20) |
| Purulia, May 11: Maoists today blew up a Border Security Force patrol vehicle on election duty, killing one jawan in Purulia's Bandwan area. |
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Jammu attack ends long lull (12 May 02:20) |
| Srinagar, May 11: Eight people, including a photojournalist and three other civilians, died today in a daylong encounter in a village in Samba district that had managed to stay untouched by ... |
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A legal bond with America (12 May 02:20) |
| Gurgaon, May 11: When Aashish Sharma graduated from law school two years ago, his father had visions of seeing him argue in an Indian court and eventually become an honourable judge. |
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Sonia looks through Arjun (11 May 01:22) |
| New Delhi, May 10: The eye contact was missing. For the first time in many years, Sonia Gandhi and "loyalist" Arjun Singh avoided talking to each other at a public forum. |
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Poachers' trap kills big cat (11 May 01:22) |
| Patna, May 10: A Royal Bengal Tiger died after being ensnared in a trap, suspected to have been laid by poachers from neighbouring Nepal, at the Valmiki Tiger Reserve today. |
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Sariska to roar, with borrowed tigers (11 May 01:22) |
| Jaipur, May 10: Come June, Sariska will roar again. |
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Uma ready to battle BJP (11 May 01:22) |
| New Delhi, May 10: Uma Bharti has redrawn her political strategy as her prospects of returning to the BJP look dim. |
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Port Blair airport flooded (11 May 01:22) |
| Calcutta, May 10: A cloudburst flooded the runway and terminal building of Port Blair airport this morning, leaving around a thousand passengers stranded. |
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Amar lands nuke punch on Left (11 May 01:22) |
| New Delhi, May 10: The Samajwadi Party is using the nuclear deal to get back at the Left, its "natural ally", for having "pressured" the government to table the women's reservation bill in t... |
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BJP glare on cheerleaders (11 May 01:22) |
| Hyderabad, May 10: The Andhra Pradesh BJP issued a statement today saying it would not tolerate any "semi-nude" dancing at the Uppal stadium here during the IPL match tomorrow between the Ko... |
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Exile aid for Nargis (11 May 01:22) |
| New Delhi, May 10: Cyclone-ravaged Myanmar has refused relief from the UN, but its citizens abroad could put the country's military rulers to shame. |
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Shamed by cops, father kills self (11 May 01:22) |
| Calcutta, May10: A 45-year-old man hanged himself at his home today after being humiliated before his children by police because he had failed to pay Rs 1,000 to his debtor. |
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Synergy creative head missing (11 May 01:22) |
| Mumbai, May 10: The creative head of Synergy Adlabs, which produces Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain, Shah Rukh Khan's show on STAR Plus, has gone missing. |
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'Honour killing' in Haryana (11 May 01:22) |
| Chandigarh, May 10: A divorced 23-year-old and her lover were strangled and their bodies put on display as a "befitting lesson" for others, but Haryana police refused to term the murders a c... |
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Heat kills 174 in Andhra (11 May 01:22) |
| Hyderabad, May 10: The heat wave blowing across Andhra Pradesh has claimed 174 people, including seven children, over the past six days. |
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Acharya rejects brain mapping (11 May 01:22) |
| Bhubaneswar, May 10: The state police received a jolt as gangster Sandip Acharya alias Raja, prime accused in Biranchi Das murder case, today refused to undergo narco-analysis or brain mappi... |
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Snubbed Arjun shoots off mouth (10 May 01:37) |
| New Delhi, May 9: The Congress today snubbed Arjun Singh for saying the party's decision-making process had fallen into "a bit of a disarray", but an unfazed HRD minister shot from the hip a... |
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Women's quota splits all groups (10 May 01:37) |
| New Delhi, May 9: The women's reservation bill seems to be redrawing the political divide in Delhi. |
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Sneak-in bid across border (10 May 01:37) |
| Srinagar, May 9: The Border Security Force last night foiled an infiltration bid on the international border in Jammu, the first such attempt this year. |
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In power, party cries neglect (10 May 01:37) |
| New Delhi, May 9: Many in the Congress are dismayed that the party organisation has been neglected during its four years in power. |
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Sena duo among 20 off Mumbai riots hook (10 May 01:37) |
| Mumbai, May 9: A special court trying the 1992-93 riot cases today acquitted 20 people, including a Shiv Sena MLA, upsetting the Muslim leadership and raising questions about the Congress-le... |
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Troops find voice (10 May 01:37) |
| New Delhi, May 9: They are fighting from Kashmir to Chhattisgarh but when it comes to fighting for their own rights, India's paramilitary troops would rather leave it to their retired senior... |
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A Basanti blitz through Gabbarland (10 May 01:37) |
| Ramanagaram, May 9: In the early '80s, the shy teenager would carry lunch every day for her father, Karnataka chief minister Ramakrishna Hegde. A quarter of a decade on, she is ready to carr... |
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Cong vs Gowda in Karnataka Round One (10 May 01:37) |
| Bangalore, May 9: Assembly polls kick off in Karnataka tomorrow, with a majority of the constituencies in the first phase likely to see a straight fight between the Congress and the Janata D... |
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CPM sniffs private plot in airport delay (10 May 01:37) |
| New Delhi, May 9: The CPM has alleged that the modernisation of airports is being deliberately delayed to allow "backdoor" privatisation. |
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Indian mayor in UK (10 May 01:37) |
| London, May 9 (PTI): Indian-born Manjula Sood is set to become Britain's first Asian woman mayor when she takes up the post in Leicester city next week. |
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Vision, new lease of life for Cuttack girl (10 May 01:37) |
| Bhubaneswar, May 9: Looking at Rukmini Kallhar, the happy two-year-old girl sitting cosy on her mother's lap at JPM Rotary Eye Hospital, it would have been difficult to imagine that her past... |
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Cong scion to revisit state (10 May 01:37) |
| Bhubaneswar, May 9: Two months after his maiden visit to Orissa, AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi will embark upon a follow-up trip to the state next week. |
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Gangster denies link in coach murder (10 May 01:37) |
| Bhubaneswar, May 9: Police grilled gangster Raja Acharya for hours today, but failed to get any conclusive statement from him. |
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Women to manage kids' meals (10 May 01:37) |
| Bhubaneswar, May 9: The state government has decided to involve self-help groups (SHG) run by women in managing mid-day meal programmes in primary schools. |
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Major steps to shield minors (10 May 01:37) |
| Cuttack, May 9: Orissa government has launched a pilot programme in Cuttack to converge services and work towards a progressive elimination of child labour. |
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Venugopal returns, wounds reopen (09 May 02:50) |
| New Delhi, May 8: One part of AIIMS stiffened in apprehension and the other celebrated today as a court decision threatened to reopen wounds that had never completely healed at the country's... |
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Sensex battle with BSE (09 May 02:50) |
| Mumbai, May 8: A stock analyst from Pune has decided to take the Dalal Street Bronze Bull by its horns in a legal battle over the term "sensex", the biggest brand identity of Asia's oldest b... |
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Injured youth held for Britain student murder (09 May 02:50) |
| London, May 8: The murder of Samrajyo Jyothirmai Vempala, the 23yearold Wolverhampton University postgraduate student, at her lodgings in the Birmingham suburb of Handsworth on Tuesday after... |
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Muslim support, with a warning (09 May 02:50) |
| Bangalore, May 8: At a meeting with Muslim scholars and opinion-makers here on Tuesday, Congress leaders were asked a pointed question or two. |
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Azhagiri gets clean chit (09 May 02:50) |
| Chittoor, May 8: M.K. Azhagiri, the elder son of Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi, was today acquitted in the Kiruttinan murder case, five years after the senior DMK leader was stabb... |
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Paswan takes Dalit debate to New York (09 May 02:50) |
| New Delhi, May 8: Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan plans to take Dalit issues to a New York forum at a time when Mayavati, another champion of the community's cause, is trying to reach out to... |
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Sabeel returns home (09 May 02:50) |
| Bangalore, May 8: Sabeel Ahmed, the Indian doctor convicted in the Glasgow terror attack case, was deported to hometown Bangalore early today. |
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Teacher to sue 'bullies' (09 May 02:50) |
| Washington, May 8: An Indian-American professor at an Ivy League institution is suing her students on the ground that they were "anti-intellectual" in her class, causing her trauma and distr... |
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SC nudge on number plates (09 May 02:50) |
| New Delhi, May 8: States and Union territories must tell the Supreme Court within six months how they plan to implement a system of high-security number plates for all vehicles. |
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Azhagiri acquitted (09 May 02:50) |
| Chittoor, May 8: M.K. Azhagiri, the elder son of Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi, was today acquitted in the Kiruttinan murder case, five years after the senior DMK leader was stabb... |
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Dolphin fleeing Ganga filth killed (09 May 02:50) |
| Lucknow, May 8: A dolphin couple fleeing the Ganga's filthy waters got stuck in a shallow, muddy canal where the male was stoned to death by villagers this morning. |
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