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1 million newborns die every yr in India (21 November 02:51) |
| Almost 20 years after India signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child, experts are now looking at the glass as half full, on indicators related to child survival and development.
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From car cleaners to class toppers (21 November 02:48) |
| Nestled in the Aravallis and about 190 kms from Delhi, Bal Ashram's four-acre campus is a different world from the sweat shops, factories and farms familiar to the kids. |
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SC panel wants Reddys to stop illegal mining (21 November 02:44) |
| Karnataka's Reddy brothers have been slammed by the Supreme Court's high-powered environment panel which has accused their Obulapuram Mining Company of indulging in largescale illegal mining... |
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No better time to be a communist in US (21 November 01:36) |
| The international conference of communist and workers' parties began amidst a call to intensify popular struggles and expand solidarities in the wake of the current world capitalist crisis. |
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Snowstorm kills 8 in Rohtang (21 November 01:31) |
| Eight people crossing the Rohtang Pass on foot were killed on Friday when they were hit by a snow storm. |
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Babus risk angering Left attend Mamatas dinner (21 November 01:26) |
| Mamata held a quiet, private dinner for bureaucrats from the West Bengal cadre on Wednesday at party MP and minister of state for surface transport Mukul Roy's residence. |
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Naidu denies claim that RSS scuttled bid for BJP top post (21 November 01:22) |
| Senior party leader M Venkaiah Naidu has strongly denied that he was turned down for the post of party chief by RSS.
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Naxals sorry for Jharkhand train attack (21 November 01:14) |
| On the back foot after Thursday's attack on a passenger train in Ghagra, the rebels apologised, saying it was carried out by "overzealous new recruits". |
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India can win Nobel for filth says Jairam Ramesh (21 November 12:53) |
| Environment minister Jairam Ramesh, known for courting controversy, said if there was a Nobel Prize for dirt and filth, India would get it. |
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Dalai Lamas dig at judges pocket money (21 November 12:33) |
| Venturing far beyond where public figures have treaded on judicial corruption, the Dalai Lama during a lecture said, "Maybe in judiciary some pocket money... is working." |
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Day 2 Jawans still without a roof (21 November 12:25) |
| Accommodation couldn’t be provided to the 30-odd SRPF personnel stationed at the Gateway of India on Friday despite police commissioner D Sivanandan’s assurance. |
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Karkare death not due to faulty jacket (21 November 12:21) |
| The death Hemant Karkare, had nothing to do with the quality of the bullet-proof jacket he was wearing. For, not a single bullet that hit him went through the jacket, the postmortem report h... |
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Govt doesnt expect any big-ticket gains from PMs visit to US (21 November 12:15) |
| The government does not expect Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s first state visit to post-Bush US to yield “big-ticket” gains as it is aimed at “sizing up” the Democratic dispensati... |
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Amar Singh moves HC seeking stay on his arrest (20 November 09:09) |
| Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh has moved the Allahabad High Court seeking a stay on his arrest in connection with a "politically motivated" FIR lodged in Kanpur charging him wi... |
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Advani not to be Lok Sabhas Leader of Opposition for 5 years Naidu (20 November 09:07) |
| L K Advani has told party leaders that he does not want to continue as Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha for the whole of five years, senior leader M Venkaiah Naidu said today. |
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Sonia avoids Kodas name during rallies in poll-bound Jharkhand (20 November 08:33) |
| Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday said only her party can provide a clean government to Jharkhand. |
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Signature of 2611 accused matches with handwriting in maps
(20 November 07:46) |
| Specimen signatures of 26/11 accused Faheem Ansari matched with the writings on maps of Mumbai terror sites seized from him by Lucknow Police at the time of his arrest in a bomb blast case i... |
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Delhi Hurriyat talks cant succeed without us Pak (20 November 07:38) |
| Pakistan claimed that any talks between the Indian government and separatist Kashmiri leaders will not be successful without its involvement.
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China is not a party to the Kashmir conflict Hurriyats Mirwaiz (20 November 07:26) |
| "China has direct link with Kashmir because certain parts are in its control... given to it by Pak. We welcome the approach adopted by China and US in addressing Kashmir issue," the Hurriyat... |
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SC dismisses PIL seeking ban on immersion of idols (20 November 06:48) |
| The Supreme Court dismissed a PIL seeking a ban on immersion of idols of dieties during festivals like Durga Puja and Dussehrra saying it concerns the right to religious practice. |
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Soz to lead the Indian goodwill Haj delegation
(20 November 06:48) |
| In deviation of convention, Jammu and Kashmir state Congress chief Saifuddin Soz has been nominated as leader of Indian goodwill Haj delegation this year. |
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If there is a Nobel prize for filth India will win it Jairam Ramesh (20 November 06:44) |
| Environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh, known for making forthright comments, today said if there was any Nobel Prize for dirt and filth, India would get it. |
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SRPF jawans protecting Taj hotel spent night on pavement (20 November 05:45) |
| An embarrassed Maharashtra govt removed SRPF men from the Gateway of India, which they had turned into a make-shift home. The authorities have now shifted them to a cramped room at Colaba Po... |
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5000 under-5 children die in India everyday UNICEF (20 November 05:40) |
| Despite a decrease in child mortality figures, 5,000 children under the age of five die in India everyday due to preventable causes, according to a latest UNICEF report. |
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SRPF jawans protecting Taj hotel evicted from Gateway of India (20 November 03:56) |
| State Reserve Police Force jawans staying at the Gateway of India following their deployment to protect the Taj hotel have been evicted from the heritage monument. They will now be provided ... |
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Sugarcane price row Parliament adjourned till Monday (20 November 01:23) |
| Work in both houses of parliament stalled for the second consecutive day on Friday with opposition members stirring up a massive row over sugarcane prices and demanding a better deal for far... |
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Pakistan has nothing to fear from India Manmohan (20 November 11:47) |
| In an interview to the Washington Post ahead of his state visit to the US, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said it was a 'tragedy' that Pakistan has come to the point of using terror 'as an in... |
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Lok Sabha adjourned over sugarcane prices (20 November 11:31) |
| The Lok Sabha was adjourned until noon on Friday after opposition members disrupted the proceedings demanding a better deal for sugarcane farmers. |
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NSG decided not to use gas in 2611 attack (20 November 11:25) |
| National Security Guard was under pressure to use gas to neutralise the Lashkar terrorists during the Mumbai terror attack last year, but the idea was shot down for fear of repeat of another... |
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Maoists bomb SAIL mines (20 November 11:21) |
| Maoists on Friday exploded a bomb in Meghatpur mine and planted another at Kiribur, both run by public sector SAIL along the Orissa-Jharkhand border. |
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Koda to be arrested if he skips questioning ED (20 November 11:13) |
| Madhu Koda has claimed 'parliamentary privilege' as a reason to avoid Enforcement Directorate interrogation. Meanwhile, ED sources say that if the ex-Jharkhand CM continues to duck probe, th... |
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Centre to Maya Increase Rahuls security (20 November 10:54) |
| Times Now has accessed a letter written by the Centre to the UP govt expressing unhappiness over security provided to Rahul Gandhi. |
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Pak Army officer linked to Rana Headley (20 November 10:33) |
| The arrests of LeT suspects Tahawwur Hussain Rana and David Headley have widened into a global terrorism inquiry that has implicated a former Pakistani military officer as a co-conspirator,... |
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Veteran Cong leader and former Union minister B Shankaranand passes away (20 November 08:24) |
| Former Union minister and veteran Congress leader B Shankaranand died at a private hospital in the wee hours on Friday following cardiac arrest, family sources said. |
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2 killed 47 injured as train derails after Maoists blast tracks (20 November 08:06) |
| Two passengers were killed and over 47 others injured when eight bogies of Tata-Bilaspur passenger train derailed after Maoists blew up railway tracks on Thursday night in West Singhbhum dis... |
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2 killed over 47 injured as train derails after Maoists blast tracks (20 November 07:02) |
| Two passengers were killed and over 47 others injured when eight bogies of the Tata-Bilaspur passenger train derailed after Maoists blew up railway tracks on Thursday night in Jharkhand's We... |
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Jharkhand netas made fortunes as state stagnated (20 November 03:40) |
| Former CM Madhu Koda began his career as a daily wager. But his declared personal worth shot up from Rs 24.25 lakh in 2005 to Rs 1.17 crore in May 2009 when he fought the Lok Sabha polls. |
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PM LK Moily may decide on new CIC today (20 November 03:38) |
| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to meet Opposition Leader L K Advani and law minister Veerappa Moily on Friday to decide on a new chief information commissioner. |
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Headley chase Hunt on for mystery woman (20 November 03:37) |
| The probe into LeT operative David Coleman Headley's visit to several Indian cities is now trying to zero in on a mystery woman who had allegedly been in touch with Headley while he was in D... |
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British movie producer to explore Jesuss India link (20 November 03:35) |
| British film producer Kent Walwin's latest project could be his most exciting: Young Jesus — The Missing Years, on the years of Christ's life not described in the Gospels, and which, belie... |
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In 40 yrs India will be most populous country (20 November 03:31) |
| India is going to be the world's most populous country in the next 40 years, says a report released by
the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Thursday. |
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Madhuri to play Indira Gandhi (20 November 03:29) |
| November 19 was Indira Gandhi's 92nd birth anniversary. To mark the occasion, film-maker Krishna Shah has announced his epic global film, 'Mother: The Indira Gandhi Story'. |
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Fali slams SC panel for ignoring judge who penned gay verdict (20 November 03:25) |
| Senior advocate Fali Nariman recently attacked the Supreme Court collegium for its failure to promote the author of the historic homosexuality verdict, chief justice of the Delhi high court ... |
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Moshes little heart still beats for India (20 November 03:15) |
| Moshe, who lost both his parents in the 26/11 attacks last year, still thinks of Mumbai as home. The little boy believes his parents live there, and often asks about them. |
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BJP demands all-party meet on sugarcane row (20 November 03:10) |
| The BJP will bring an adjournment motion in LS and demand suspension of question hour in Rajya Sabha on Friday on the contentious sugarcane price issue. |
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Congress gets caned for lacking farmer leader (20 November 03:03) |
| RLD chief Ajit Singh, elated at having cornered Congress when the Opposition was down for the count, has been telling cane farmers that there was not one minister in the UPA who could have s... |
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Ulfa buying Chinese arms supplying to Maoists (20 November 03:01) |
| Ulfa 'foreign secretary' Sashadhar Choudhury and 'finance secretary' Chitrabon Hazarika have told cops that their 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Baruah is procuring arms from Chinese manufactur... |
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Congress fields trump card Rahul in bid to wriggle out of mess (20 November 01:50) |
| Congress on Thursday fielded its trump card Rahul Gandhi to wriggle out of the sugarcane mess with the party claiming the leader had extracted an assurance from PM Manmohan Singh to amend th... |
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Sushma Swaraj turned down BJP top job (20 November 01:48) |
| Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj was offered the post of party president much before the Sangh and the party had settled for Nitin Gadkari, the deputy leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha said. |
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Rana was duped by Headley says lawyer (20 November 01:46) |
| US-based Lashkar terrorist Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who is facing charges of plotting cold-blooded massacres of innocents, has claimed he was "duped" into joining the conspiracy by co-accused... |
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