Business & Economics
Month: April 2016
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YOUR SMARTPHONE COULD SOON REPLACE YOUR PASSPORT
LONDON (TIP): Forgot your passport on way to the airport? Relax as De La Rue, a Britain-based commercial banknote printer and passport manufacturer, is working on a technology that can store “paperless passports” in smartphones. […]
Business & Economics
BANKERS UNHAPPY WITH MALLYA’S ‘SWEETENER’ DEAL OF RS 4,000 CRORE
MUMBAI (TIP): Embattled liquor baron Vijay Mallya’s proposed ‘sweetener’ deal of Rs 4,000 crore has not gone down well with bankers. Mallya offered on Wednesday to repay more than half of the Rs 7,000 crore […]
Business & Economics
GOVERNMENT TO MONITOR UTILISATION OF FUNDS BY PSUS’ MONTHLY
MUMBAI (TIP): The government has decided to monitor the utilisation and management of capital expenditure by public sector units (PSUs) on a monthly basis. Besides, it is also keeping an eye on the investments of […]
Asia
Business & Economics
JAITLEY SEES FY16 GDP GROWTH AT 7.6%
CANBERRA (TIP): Pegging India‘s GDP growth rate at 7.6 per cent for the fiscal 2015-16, finance minister Arun Jaitley today said it is “much less” than its potential and expressed hope for better numbers next […]
Business & Economics
RBI relaxes norms for firms raising foreign funds for infrastructure
MUMBAI (TIP): The Reserve Bank on Wednesday relaxed overseas borrowings norms to help companies raise funds for infrastructure projects in the country. The central bank said it has reviewed the extant external commercial borrowing (ECB) […]
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GANGAUR #Hinduism
Gangaur is a festival celebrated in the Indian state of Rajasthan and some parts of Gujarat, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh. Gangaur is colourful and one of the most important festivals of people of Rajasthan and […]
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CHAITRA SHUKLA PRATIPADA OR GUDI PADWA
Gudi Padwa, the first Holy festival which marks the beginning of the New Year, new month and new day for the Hindus falls on Chaitra Shukla Pratipada. (8th April 2016) It is known as Gudhi Padwa (in […]
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WORLD T20: ‘TODAY WAS MY DAY’ – LENDL SIMMONS
MUMBAI (TIP): “It could have been a different ball game if I were out.” Lendl Simmons called it as he saw it. One line question, one line answer. The reference was, of course, the two […]
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Indian Americans
Consul General Riva Ganguly Das chalks out open door policy to solve community issues
NEW YORK CITY, NY (TIP): Ambassador Riva Ganguly Das, who recently took over as the Consul General of India in New York, in her maiden formal interaction with media persons, called upon Indian American media […]
Asia
Trump terms Pakistan as a ‘very, very vital problem’
WASHINGTON (TIP): Nuclear-armed Pakistan is a “very, very vital problem”, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said and asserted that the country needs to “get a hold of” its situation. “Pakistan is a very, very […]
Indian Americans
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Bangladesh court seeks arrest of Khaleda Zia over bus attack
DHAKA (TIP): A Bangladeshi court on March 28 issued arrest warrants for former prime minister Khaleda Zia and 27 other opposition party leaders on accusations they instigated an arson attack on a passenger bus during […]
E-Edition
Volume 10 Issue 13 | New York
Celebrating 10 Years of The Indian Panorama This Week’s Print Edition Reimagined for the Web Volume 10 Issue 13 | New York April 01 Introducing Home Delivery Subscription: As a home delivery subscriber to […]
Entertainment
2015’s Festival Sweetheart Film – “Miss India America” – Announces Limited Theatrical Release in D.C., Chicago & San Jose This Month
(Los Angeles, CA – March 18, 2016) After 22 sold-out screenings at mainstream and South Asian film festivals around North America in 2015 and multiple audience and jury awards under its belt, the smart, witty, coming-of-age comedy feature, […]