NEW DELHI (TIP): The Congress hunt for a strong candidate for the Amritsar seat is likely to stop at senior leader OP Soni with former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh learnt to have expressed […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a countrywide crackdown, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday arrested five people possessing medical degrees from Russia and China and obtaining recognition from Medical Council of India through allegedly fraudulent […]
NEW YORK/JALANDHAR/ (TIP): Strongly arguing to dismiss case filed against Congress party in a US court for serious human rights violations pertaining to November 1984 massacre of Sikhs, Congress counsel invoked issue of India’s sovereignty […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The conventional narrative in India about the 1962 war has largely revolved around portraying the Chinese as the unbridled “aggressors”, who ripped apart the nascent “Hindi- Chini bhai-bhai” construct forever. The reality […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Federal Reserve is set to trim its bond-buying stimulus for a third time in a row on Wednesday, and will probably rewrite its guidance on when it might eventually raise interest rates. […]
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA (TIP): Issuing an outright warning to Moscow, Vice President Joe Biden declared Wednesday the United States will respond to any aggression against its Nato allies, as Russia’s neighbors looked warily to the escalating […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The death of fashion designer L’Wren Scott, the longtime girlfriend of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, was suicide, the New York City medical examiner’s office said on Wednesday. An autopsy completed on […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for masterminding 9/11 on the night of the attacks, his son-in-law has said as he unexpectedly testified at his federal trial in New York on terror charges. […]
NEW YORK /ISLAMABAD (TIP): Former ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha knew of Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan and LeT founder Hafiz Saeed was in regular contact with the slain al-Qaida chief, a […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka on March 19 claimed that most of the 47 member countries of the UN Human Rights Council are under pressure to back a tough US-sponsored resolution that has called for an […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistani fighter jets and helicopter gunships on Tuesday bombarded hideouts of the Taliban militants in the Waziristan region, killing at least 30 militants. The attacks on the hideouts in Waziristan tribal regions were […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepalese students protesting at fuel price rises set a parked bus on fire and vandalised other vehicles on March 19 during a strike in the capital Kathmandu, leading police to make more than […]
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (AFGHANISTAN) (TIP): A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people at a crowded market in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said, despite a tightening of security for presidential elections less than three weeks away. […]
DHAKA, BANGLADESH (TIP): A court in Bangladesh’s capital on Wednesday indicted a former prime minister and leading opposition figure in two related cases involving charges of corruption for allegedly using an illegal fund to buy […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Under international pressure ahead of voting on a resolution against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC, the authorities here have released two leading rights activists after their detention under antiterrorism laws. Father Praveen Mahesan, […]
The US courts do have jurisdiction as the alleged crime (visa fraud) was committed on the US. The Indian Panorama sought the view of Attorney Anand Ahuja on the statement of MEA spokesperson after US […]
Alightning fast re-indictment on March 14th, within 2 days of a judge’s dismissal, speaks to the Prosecutor’s rebuke of those who misunderstand law and chose to personalize their disrespect, while continuing to seek to hold […]
The private sector in India “hopes that everything would be hunky dory once the pro-business Modi becomes the PM. Unfortunately, problems of India are not confined to big business only. There are millions (45 per […]
Iam reminded of Antony’s words in Julius Caesar: “Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?” Yes, here was a Khushwant. When comes such another? A literary monarch who literally held sway over the literary […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama imposed sanctions on more Russian officials and a bank on Thursday and threatened to target the broader Russian economy if Moscow escalates its actions against Ukraine. “Russia must know […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Susmita Roye, an Indian- American associate professor of English at the Delaware State University, has been named as a recipient of the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Award for Faculty. The award has […]
FORT BRAGG, North Carolina: An Army general who carried on a threeyear affair with a captain and had two other inappropriate relationships with subordinates was reprimanded and docked $20,000 in pay Thursday, avoiding jail time […]
HOUSTON: A 27-year-old Indian-origin woman in the US state of Texas has been found guilty of causing arson that killed her husband two years ago. Shriya Bimal Patel was convicted on Monday of dousing her […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu promised his US counterpart Chuck Hagel in a telephone call on Thursday that Moscow would not assault eastern Ukraine. Hagel voiced concern about Russian military movements but Shoigu […]
INOC and NRI-SAHI Team cite deplorable conditions upon visiting the Muzaffarnagar refugee camps Ateam consisting of George Abraham, Chairman and Harbachan Singh, General Secretary of the INOC (I) (Indian National Overseas Congress (I), USA) along […]
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