NEW DELHI: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday addressed students and faculty of Delhi University's Sri Ram College of Commerce. This is his first public adress in the national capital after winning the Gujarat assembly elections.

Modi talked about the overwhelming feeling of pessimism prevailing in the country. The nation awaits true freedom in the form of good governance, he said. "Even after six decades of freedom, the nation awaits good governance," Modi said.

Referring to Gujarat's progress, he said the state's model was based on being pro-people as well as good governance. He said the buggest challenge was to use human r

She is 60 and mother of two, but the yesteryear’s Bollywood diva is all set to shock her fans with her wedding buzz. Yes, Zeenat Aman is all set to tie a knot with a 36-year-old businessman from Mumbai.  Zeenat is a proud mom of two Azaan (26) and Zahaan (23) and the kids are really delighted about her decision.  The actress is really happy to walk down the aisle again.    

South Indian actress Khushboo was visibly excited and a also tad disappointed when she met Amitabh Bachchan at a social do recently in Mumbai.

Excited, obviously because she is a huge Bachchan fan and has a deep reverence for the legend, whom she was meeting after a very long time. And disappointed because, like many times in the past, Bachchan showed her his palm as if he wanted to slap her when she again expressed desire to do a film with him.

"He showed me a chaanta when I told him that I wanted to do a film opposite him. I have been pleading for a long time now, but he doesn't approve of it since he has seen me as a kid. But I am dying to do a film

NEW DELHI: A fast-track court on Tuesday began the trial against the five accused in the Delhi gang-rape case, around 50 days after the 23-year-old woman's brutal rape, as the father demanded death penalty for the five men and a juvenile accused.

"All the six accused should be hanged," the father said at a press conference here, stressing that he would pursue the case till the end.

The fast-track court of additional sessions judge Yogesh Khanna started day-to-day trial in the case after framing charges of murder, gang-rape and kidnapping, among others, under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against the five accused.

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J&K police file FIR against online attackers of Kashmir's all-girl band SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered a case and identified several Facebook users who had posted abusive and threatening messages on the page of the only all-girls rock band of the Valley. "A case under Section 66 A of the IT Act and Section 506 RPC (Criminal Intimidation) has been registered in police station Rajbagh with regard to the hate messages posted on the Facebook page of the Pragaash band," a police spokesman said today. He said the investigations are in full swing but refused to give any details. However, an official associated with the investigation said police

NEW DELHI: With an eye on both the western and eastern fronts with Pakistan and China, the Indian armed forces are slowly but steadily building a formidable arsenal of spy, target acquisition and "killer'' drones or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles).

Even as the Navy sets up spy drone bases along the coastline and IAF inducts "killer'' drones, the Army has inked yet another contract to acquire two more "troops'' (eight drones each) of Israeli `Heron' medium-altitude, long endurance UAVs.

"Under the Rs 1,200 crore contract with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the Army will begin inducting these new Heron drones fro

MUMBAI: Bandra police on Monday arrested a former BPO employee who killed his wife at Bandra Reclamation on Sunday with the help of two friends, and tried to pass it off as a 'revenge attack'. The man was arrested after his three-year-old son's statement, who, along with his nine-month-old brother saw their mother being strangled.

The toddler's version exposed loopholes in his father 'revenge killing' story and helped police to crack the case within 12 hours of the incident.

Salman Shaikh, 28, initially told police that he and his wife Ayesha, 24, and their kids went to Bandra Reclamation when robbers on a bike stopped them. He claimed he

Today cancer is among the more discussed issues in our daily lives and it is quite possible that we have all lost someone close because of it. We often get emotional when in the climax of a movie Shah Rukh Khan dies due to cancer, we wrote hundreds of status messages on Facebook in solidarity with cricketer Yuvraj Singh when he was putting all his efforts in defeating cancer and how can we forget thousands of tributes on Twitter to the co-founder of Apple and technological visionary Steve Jobs, who died after a long battle with cancer.

To some people cancer is more than pain, falling hair, weakness, lumps in the body, nausea or vomiting. Actually what they are experiencing is

Coal India pact with 11 companies under vigilance lens NEW DELHI: Coal India Ltd (CIL) has gone out of its way to sign fuel supply pacts with 11 companies, including alleged Coalgate beneficiaries, even before these firms reached the qualifying milestones such as acquiring land, the state-run monopoly's internal anti-corruption watchdog has said.

In a report to the coal ministry, a copy of which is available with TOI, CIL's CVO (chief vigilance officer) Manoj Kumar said supply pacts for 5,935 mw — or one-and-a-half times of the national capital's daily requirement — have either been inked or cleared for signing in spite of "deficiencies in docume

  After a long wait of time, UIDAI has finally been able to launch its e-Aadhaar portal through which people who have enrolled for Aadhaar and have been waiting for their Aadhaar letter can easily download their Aadhaar letter online and use it anywhere by just taking a printout of the same. To download the Aadhaar letter, it is necessary to have both your enrolment number and date time of your enrolment. The complete procedure for downloading your Aadhaar letter or Aadhar card online is pointed below. Download Link :- http://eaadhaar.uidai.gov.in/eDetails.aspx 1. Make sure that you have your enrolment number and the date time of enrolment with you in order to proceed fo

New Delhi: In a move that can have serious strategical implications on India, Pakistan formally agreed to hand over the Gwadar port to China to develop the port further.  Pakistan's cabinet formally agreed to hand over the operation of its strategically located port to India’s another neighbour, whose ties with the country would not be called friendly. The Pakistan cabinet transferred the operations responsibility of the Gwadar port from Singapore's PSA (Port of Singapore Authority) International to China's Overseas Port Holdings. This had been agreed some time ago as PSA International and Pakistani navy fell out over land transfers, security issues and lack of infra

ISMAIL KHAN: Militants attacked an isolated army checkpost in Pakistan's restive northwest on Saturday, with at least 31 people killed in the initial assault, subsequent crossfire and a rocket attack on a house, officials said.

The Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility, saying the attack was in response to a US drone strike in neighbouring North Waziristan last month in which two commanders were killed.

The Pakistani military and pro-government militias have since 2009 regained territory from the Pakistan Taliban, who once controlled land a few hours' drive from the capital of Islamabad.

The militants attacked the post at Lakki Marwat ea

New Delhi:  Self-styled spiritual guru Asaram Bapu is once again in controversy, this time a serious one. He is being accused of conspiring to kill one of his disciples in Jabalpur by administering poisonous substance on the deceased. Source:http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/MP-NEWS-mp-asaram-bapu-in-dock-again-accused-of-murdering-disciple-4165999-PHO.html?seq=2&HT1=

A lot of people live in rented house nowadays. However, with the house rent increasing day-by-day, most of them find it difficult to pay rents and after paying rent, they don’t save much money. And on the other hand, even after working hard, salaries are not very high as expected. But don’t be upset as there is a solution to this problem, which will save your rent money. Did you know that most people are not able to earn enough money because of ‘Vastu Dosha’ Click on this slide show to know how to remove the Vastu Dosha from your life One of the biggest disadvantages of living in a rented flat or apartment is that you can’t make many changes in the fl

The Indian Dornier surveillance aircraft will now guard the coastline of Seychelles - the island country. Shri AK Antony, the Defence Minister handed over a Dornier surveillance DO-228 aircraft to the Foreign Minister of Seychelles Mr. Jean Paul Adam at a function yesterday. The maritime surveillance aircraft will be used to guard the extensive coastline of the island nation in the Indian Ocean. The DO-228 is a highly reliable, multi-purpose, fuel efficient, rugged, light weight twin turbo prop aircraft with a retractable tricycle landing gear. The Dornier 228 manufactured by the defence public sector undertaking, the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) will also be supported by the HAL t

ANKARA, TURKEY: A suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at the entrance of the US Embassy in the Turkish capital on Friday and at least two people are dead, a police official said.

An Associated Press journalist saw a body in the street in front of an embassy side entrance. The bomb appeared to have exploded inside the security checkpoint at the entrance of the visa section of the embassy.

Several ambulances were dispatched to the area. An AP journalist saw at least one woman who appeared to be seriously injured being carried into an ambulance.

Private NTV television said two security guards at the entrance were killed.

Defiant Iran plans to speed up nuclear fuel work Vienna: Iran has announced plans to install and operate advanced uranium enrichment machines, in what would be a technological leap allowing it to significantly speed up activity the West fears could be put to developing a nuclear weapon. In a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Tehran said it would introduce new centrifuges to its main enrichment plant near the central town of Natanz, according to an IAEA communication to member states seen by Reuters. The defiant move will increase concerns in the West and Israel about Iran's nuclear ambitions, which Tehran says are entirely peaceful, and may further complicate effort

55 per cent Indian-Americans own house in US: Report Washington: Though Indian-Americans have the distinction of being the highest-per capita income group among ethnic communities, they lag far behind their European counterparts when it comes to owning a house in the US. According to the 'Homeownership Among the Foreign-Born Population: 2011', released by the Census Bureau, 55 per cent of the Indian-Americans own a house of their own while 45 live in rented accommodation. Foreign-born owned households with a householder from Europe were the most likely to be owned free and clear (40 per cent), while foreign-born owned households with a householder from Africa were the least likel

One injured in shooting outside US court Washington: A county employee was shot and injured by two unidentified men on Thursday outside a court building in the US state of Texas, Xinhua reported. The shooting took place around 9 am outside a building across from the main Kaufman County courthouse, sources from the county sheriff's office told the Houston Chronicle. The suspects dressed in black, and one wearing a tactical vest, are believed to be driving a silver, older-model Ford Taurus. horities did not reveal the identity of the injured employee, who was transported to a hospital and whose condition was not immediately known. Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/one-injured-in

Syria protests over Israel attack, warns of 'surprise' Amman: Syria protested to the United Nations on Thursday over an Israeli air strike on its territory and warned of a possible "surprise" response. The foreign ministry summoned the head of the UN force in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to deliver the protest a day after Israel hit what Syria said was a military research centre and diplomats said was a weapons convoy heading for Lebanon. "Syria holds Israel and those who protect it in the Security Council fully responsible for the results of this aggression and affirms its right to defend itself, its land and sovereignty," Syrian television quoted it