NEW DELHI (TIP): Smarting under Jayalalithaa’s snub over the request for two seats each to CPI and CPM, the top Left leaders on Thursday attributed it to the Tamil Nadu chief minister’s confidence that the […]
SHIMLA (TIP): The Himachal Pradesh Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau on March 6 booked sitting BJP MP Virender Kashyap, who was allegedly caught accepting cash on camera. The case against the MP was registered under Section […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Former Army chief General V K Singh, who joined the BJP recently, said he was ready to fight the coming Lok Sabha elections, even as he came down heavily on the UPA […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US First Lady Michelle Obama has felicitated Indian acid attack victim Laxmi after she won the International Women of Courage Award for successfully leading the campaign against acid attacks on women in India. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Union Cabinet cleared the ordinance for Jat reservation in government jobs. The anti-graft ordinances, which were pushed by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, were not passed after President Pranab Mukherjee reportedly expressed […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama proposed a budget on Tuesday for the coming fiscal year that has less to do with managing US finances than with stemming his party’s losses in congressional elections. The mildly […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Reddy approached the Supreme Court against the Centre’s decision to create Telangana by bifurcating the State. A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam, before whom […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court held real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal guilty in the 1997 Uphaar cinema tragedy that claimed the lives of 59 persons saying they were more interested about making […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian- American attorney Vince Chhabria, who has represented San Francisco in defense of its health insurance law, adoption rights of same-sex couples and other major cases, has won Senate confirmation for a federal […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Arvind Kejriwal, who is in Gujarat, has violated the election code of conduct by not getting prior police permission for his road-show, the Election Commission said, adding a new installment to the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP-AAP confrontation escalated on March 6 with the BJP accusing its opponent of waging a surrogate battle on behalf of the Congress that wanted to deflect focus from allegations of corruption […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Bipartisan Senate opposition blocked swift confirmation on Wednesday for President Barack Obama’s choice to head the US justice department’s civil rights division, the emotional residue of the long-ago murder of a policeman and […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Whoever said parenting is a thankless task can cite this as prime evidence. In a case that has caught the even rebels in a litigious society slack-jawed, an 18-year old high-school girl in […]
BOSTON (TIP): Two Indians are among seven people charged in a US federal court here with wire fraud for their roles in a stock kickback scheme and face up to 20 years in prison if […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Representatives of US-led Nato and Russia have agreed to meet to discuss the Ukraine issue in signs that the Cold War opponents are stepping back after drawing red lines on how far the […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): Facebook is taking aim at people who are using the social network or Instagram photo-sharing platform to sell guns. Under pressure from gun safety advocates, the social network will block members under […]
BUFFALO (TIP): The bitterly cold weather that currently has much of the east coast of America in its icy grip has demonstrated its chilling intensity by partially freezing Niagra Falls for the second time in […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Climbers scaling Mount Everest will have to bring back eight kilograms (17.6 pounds) of garbage under new rules designed to clean up the world’s highest peak, a Nepalese official said on Monday. The […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on march 6 issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against former President Pervez Musharraf to secure his presence in the hearing in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case. The court in […]
BAGHDAD (TIP): Bombings mainly targeting Shiite areas of Baghdad and attacks on security force checkpoints in and around the capital killed at least 21 people Wednesday, officials said. Iraq has been hit by a year-long […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghan president’s elder brother is dropping out of the April 5 presidential race and throwing his support behind the country’s former foreign minister, a campaign official said march 5. The official, who asked […]
LONDON (TIP): One in every three women in the European Union have admitted to experiencing either physical or sexual violence from the age of 15. The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights says this corresponds […]
COLOMBO (TIP): A Sri Lankan family has stumbled upon the remains of at least nine bodies buried in the garden of their home, police said Saturday, the latest mass grave to be discovered in the […]
Ukraine threatens to become the Syria of Eastern Europe. And like Syria, civil war could ultimately decimate a vibrant and ethnically diverse society, and a rich civilisational legacy”, says the author. Ukraine threatens to become […]
LA PAZ (TIP): Carnival festivities in Bolivia left 70 people dead, most of them in road accidents but at least 15 in acts of violence, the government said march 5. Four days of partying at […]
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