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Month: October 2012
India
Nitin Gadkari to continue as BJP president, but second term at risk
New Delhi (TIP): BJP president Nitin Gadkari, confronting corruption charges, will remain in office for now despite corruption charges. He left for Himachal Pradesh today after the party allowed him to proceed with his scheduled […]
India
HImachal polls: Graft slur wins sympathy for Virbhadra Singh
Shimla (TIP): Contrary to expectations, corruption charges being levelled against Himachal PCC president Virbhadra Singh, instead of being an embarrassment for the party, have started winning him sympathy in his constituency. Curiously in his constituency […]
India
India
Kingfisher to arrange own funds to restart airline
NEW DELHI (TIP): Kingfisher Airlines, which agreed this week to pay overdue salaries to its staff, will source funding from its own resources to get the grounded carrier flying, the DGCA said on Friday. The […]
India
India
Gujarat polls: Hold on to your home turf, RSS tells Narendra Modi
Mumbai (TIP): The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh brass has asked Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to focus on the assembly elections in the state and leave the decision of prime ministerial candidate to the Nationalist Democratic […]
India
Haryana’s clean chit to Vadra a cover-up: Kejriwal
New Delhi (TIP): India Against Corruption (IAC) leader Arvind Kejriwal on October 26 termed as a cover-up the clean chit given by Haryana government to Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, in land […]
India
Lokayukta notice to Sheila
New Delhi (TIP): Delhi Lokayukta Manmohan Sarin on October 26 issued notices to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and PWD Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan on a complaint by former Delhi Minister Harsh Vardhan that there was […]
India
Krishna Pokhrel elected to New York Life Chairman’s Council
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): Krishna Pokhrel, LUTCF has been elected a member of the 2012 Chairman’s Council of New York Life Insurance Company today, says a Press Release issued by New York Life on October […]
India
Chilling reality: Madhya Pradesh tops in child rape, foeticide
BHOPAL (TIP): It is sure to come as an eye opener for the state government that claims to have left no stone unturned for the welfare of minor girls. Madhya Pradesh has recorded the highest […]
COUNTER TERRORISM
Pune blasts linked to Karnataka arrests
NEW DELHI (TIP): The August 1, 2012 Pune serial blasts carried out by the Indian Mujahideen are linked to the recent arrest of 16 terrorists, including a DRDO scientist , in Karnataka who plotted to […]
Europe
Malala ‘up and walking’, says her father
LONDON (TIP): Pakistan’s teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, shot in the head by the Taliban, is “up and walking,” her father said on Friday after visiting her for the first time at a specialised UK […]
United States
Consul General Invokes the Memory of Swami Vivekananda at the NFIA Convention
CHICAGO (TIP): Inaugurating the 17th biennial convention of the National Federation of Indian American Associations (NFIA), Consul General of India, Ms. Mukta Dutta Tomar, on Friday October 12, 2012 welcomed the delegates from all over […]
Europe
Business & Economics
Europe
Europe
Meningitis outbreak in US claims 24 lives
WASHINGTON (TIP): The death toll from a U.S. outbreak of fungal meningitis due to injections of tainted steroid medication has reached 24 with Indiana now reporting a third death, the Centers for Disease Control and […]
Featured
Europe
41 killed in Eid bombing at Afghanistan mosque
Kabul (TIP): At least 41 people were killed and 34 wounded when a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform targeted a mosque in northern Afghanistan‘s Mainama city just after Eid-ul-Azha prayers, an official said. “A […]
Europe
Featured
No Light at the End of the Tunnel
Whatever the outcome of Presidential election, the average American will find nothing to cheer him. The indication is clear from the debates that we have been witness to. It is just a blame game in […]
United States
Hurricane Sandy ‘Frankenstorm’ may Pound the U.S. East Coast before
NEW YORK (TIP): After dropping heavy rains in Jamaica and slamming the Bahamas, leaving 21 dead, Hurricane Sandy may possibly hit the East Coast near Halloween, according to some meteorologists, who have dubbed it ‘Frankenstorm.’ […]
Entertainment
Entertainment
Preity Zinta is in no rush to tie the Knot
Preity Zinta has revealed that she has no time to think about marriage, and asserted that she is in no rush to get married. The 37-year-old actress confessed that at this point of time she […]