
New Delhi: Naxals on Sunday night ambushed a CISF patrol party near an NDMC plant in Chhattisgarh's Kirandul. Sources said six CISF personnel and the driver of the patrolling jeep were killed in the Naxal attack in Dantewada. Sources said that the CISF personnel were on a night patrol when they were ambushed. It is suspected that Naxals ambushed the vehicle and IED was used to target them. The jawans,...

11:11 PM, May 13, 2012

Kishtwar: An army jawan was late on Wednesday night killed in an ambush in a village in Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir following which the army cordoned off the area. According to latest reports, firing is continuing in the area from both sides. Meanwhile, the army has also launched search for Jahangir Sarori, a militant wanted in the Delhi High Court blast, who is believed to be one of the...

10:29 AM, May 03, 2012

Panaji: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the Assembly elections in Goa and with that, the hardest fall came for the Alemao family. All four members of the family lost their seats including Goa ministers Churchill and Joaquim. In fact, seven of 12 'family' candidates fielded by the Congress were trounced as Goa rejected family raj. Goa PWD minister Churchill Alemao, his brother and urban development minister Joaquim Alemao, Churchill's...

06:58 PM, Mar 07, 2012

Watch the special show on the politics of Goa, which is set to go for vote on March 3. ...

11:28 AM, Mar 01, 2012

Panaji: More than one-third of the 40 seats in the Goa Assembly up for grabs have been cornered by half a dozen families. The Assembly Elections of 2012 could well see the creation of a feudal political elite in the state as the Congress battles charges of growing nepotism. It has been called dinner table politics as the elite families club together. The question that Goa will answer in elections...

09:41 AM, Feb 29, 2012

Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who underwent two abdominal surgeries Saturday, tweeted fans about his condition as soon as he could from the hospital bed and thanked them for their wishes, which he feels never fails. Big B's scheduled abdominal surgery went off smoothly Saturday morning at the SevenHills Hospital here. His abdominal pain was due to an injury he suffered during shooting of 'Coolie' in 1982. "Took long because 2...

02:03 PM, Feb 12, 2012

Goa: As Goa goes to the polls early next month, the issue of corruption and land are foremost. An income tax investigation has exposed how politicians are conspiring with real estate and land sharks to sell Goa for a song. Indicted in the income tax order, which has been accessed by CNN-IBN, is minister Babush Monserrate who is being fielded by the Congress in the upcoming polls. Monserate got kickbacks...

06:24 AM, Feb 11, 2012

New Delhi: Late lyricist and singer Bhupen Hazarika and former civil servant and governor TV Rajeswar have been chosen for Padma Vibushan award, the second highest civilian honour, for this year's Padma awards. Late cartoonist Mario de Miranda, 88-year-old eminent painter, K G Subramanyan and Kantilal H Sancheti, well known orthopaedic in whose hospital in Pune Anna Hazare had undergone treatment recently, were also named for the Padma Vibushan award....

03:58 PM, Jan 25, 2012

New Delhi: US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns has stressed the need for "levelling the playing field" for foreign and domestic companies in the country's civil nuclear industry. During his visit, Burns held wide-ranging talks with Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai on Monday and also stressed the importance of continuing the implementation of the US-India civil-nuclear deal during his talks. "The Deputy Secretary stressed, in particular, the importance of continuing...

08:38 PM, Dec 13, 2011

Mumbai: Former US president George W Bush arrived in Mumbai on Monday evening on a "personal visit" and checked into the iconic Taj Mahal hotel in South Mumbai. "A private jet carrying Bush and his entourage landed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport sometime back. He is in Mumbai for some personal work," a senior IPS official said. Bush, 65, and his team checked into the Taj Mahal hotel where...

10:24 PM, Nov 07, 2011

Washington: The Indo-US nuclear deal had virtually collapsed as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told President George W Bush it was not going to work and the entire administration had given up on it. "I called the President (Bush). 'It isn't going to work. Singh just can't make it happen,' I said. 'Too bad,' he answered and didn't press further. "Later that night Nick (Nicholas Burns-the then Under Secretary of...

04:09 PM, Oct 27, 2011

With Pakistan-US relations hitting a new low, does India remain the next best option before the US? ...

11:19 PM, Oct 15, 2011

Suhasini Haidar: Hello and welcome to this weeks edition of Worldview with me Suhasini Haidar. Tonight the India-Afghanistan strategic partnership just signed. Does it mean India is actually ready for a leadership role in Afghan Security and more importantly is India becoming the US next option in Afghanistan? In fact we are going to put those to External Affairs Minister SM Krishna who sat down for a Worldview exclusive interview ...

02:49 PM, Oct 12, 2011