President Barack Obama has authorised deployment of less than 50 special operations forces in northern Syria to counter the IS, a senior official in Washington said on Friday, expanding the US' involvement in the fight against the dreaded group from the air to the ground.
Beleaguered no-frills carrier SpiceJet on Monday approached the government for financial aid.
A new video purportedly of the test conducted on Krishna has surfaced on social networking site YouTube which is 58.55-minute long. CBI sources claimed the agency, in its records, has only about 45 minutes of video of the test conducted on Krishna at Forensic Science Laboratory, Bengaluru.
Almost 50 per cent of all the 350 million-odd active users on the social networking site are members of regional networks. The world's largest social networking site, Facebook, has decided to rid itself of regional networks like India and China in a bid to tighten its privacy policy.
Fraudsters duplicate SIM cards to hack into bank accounts.
Telecom companies as well as the regulator have been of the view that the auction should take place only when adequate spectrum is made available, and the bidding should be held simultaneously for both the services -- 2G and 3G.
'There exists a 'brotherhood' of sorts for a very long time and corrupt dealers and corrupt OMC officials are in it together,' Ashwani Attrish, founder, Empowering Petroleum Dealers Foundation, tells Sudhir Bisht, a veteran of the petroleum industry.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
According to statistics released by Facebook, the Indian government topped the list of nations seeking removal of specific content from the social networking site.
Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad launched to fight terrorism across country.
Even as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif headed to the United States for the 70th session of the UNGA and for bilateral meetings to be held on the sidelines of the multilateral summit, back home all that is expected of him is to internationalise the Kashmir issue, or as Pakistan puts it, the 'Kashmir dispute'.
The rise of the "professional Web" lets you collect colleagues like Pez dispensers. Resist the urge.
'Civil matters like loan recovery are being connected with criminal allegations, without any basis.'
The world's biggest social network Facebook wants to connect more people to internet in India which accounts for the third largest online user base globally after China and the US but has a very low internet penetration growth rate.
Air India has been in the red since the merger of then Air India and Indian Airlines in 2007.
'In the end, investing is about people.' 'If you get the right people, they make things happen,' Mengistu Alemayehu tells Shyamal Majumdar.
The three-year-old girl who had gone missing under mysterious circumstances last Sunday evening from India Gate was found a week later in West Delhi's Janakpuri area under equally dramatic sequence of events.
'Modi and BJP have fooled us enough by creating a Hindu-Muslim divide. Our anger is about jobs and farmers getting a good price, but Shah needs to be taught a lesson for betraying us.'
The order also prevents all persons from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen from entering the country for 30 days.
"We have removed the leader of an organisation that has continued to plot against and unleash attacks on American and coalition forces, to wage war against the Afghan people, and align itself with extremist groups like Al-Qaeda," the US president said in a statement.
During the hearing, which went for over two hours, the woman said she wanted to go with her husband Shafin Jahan.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
The company has also advised power firms to use trucks to carry coal from remote mines, like the Amrapali open cast pit in eastern Jharkhand state.
Diplomatic and Congressional sources tell Rediff.com that for all intents and purposes, the F-16 sale is dead.
A lowdown on how this career portal launched by the Government of India will change your search for jobs forever
'I can never define what kind of an actor I am; all I know is I have to remain focused and imbibe whatever role is offered to me,' Bobby Simha tells Praveen Sundaram.
The best way to curb gold demand is by reducing black money in circulation.
Currently, MNP is only available within a state/circle.
Senior Indian Police Service officer Sunil Paraskar, who has been accused of rape by a city-based model, on Friday filed an anticipatory bail application before the sessions court on which granted him interim protection from arrest till July 31.
And he's willing to spend more, discovers Nikita Puri.
Boko Haram and Dawood Ibrahim have struck a deal to sell drugs in India, discovers Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com
One of the oldest known social networking sites, Orkut, is shutting down on September 30 this year.
Now that cashless is once again the national buzzword, Harjot Singh Narula explains what you must know about cashless treatment under health insurance plan
'The majority community needs to accept that the Indian Muslim is peace loving, not communal and treat them accordingly.'
Foxconn has said it is aiming to develop 10-12 facilities in India, including factories and data centres, by 2020
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai MCGM has announced a 20 per cent cut in water supply from midnight tonight as it looks to cope with the crisis arising out of the "poor rainfall" received by the city in June.
Saroj Kumar Rath, author of the newly-published book Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks, speaks to Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa.
Saroj Kumar Rath, author of the newly-published book Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks, speaks to Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa.
An audio conversation accessed by CNN-News 18 between the slain Hizbul chief and the man responsible for the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai reveals how the two forces wanted to combine and pose a united threat to India.
A raft of banks could face tough questions in the sweeping US crackdown on alleged corruption in global soccer as prosecutors review how much they knew about millions of dollars in bribes flowing through the US banking system to accounts around the world.
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