The premier investigating agency of India seems to be acquiring a certain measure of freedom, after all. The Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will now be free to appoint consultants and employ […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): In an apparent AAP effect, Haryana government today gave a major relief to power consumers by reducing tariff in the state. While the Congress Government rolled back tariff hike for consumption of up […]
KUWAIT CITY (TIP): UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon warned on January 15 that nearly half of Syria’s population needs urgent humanitarian help, as aid groups urged access for relief delivery to civilians trapped by the […]
INDORE (TIP): After a monthlong speculation, Member of Parliament Priya Dutt has finally given her consent to formally join the Indore Cancer Foundation as a member of the board of permanent trustees. Confirming about the […]
NEW YORK (tip): To those who complain that opera is an elitist indulgence served up to snobs in dinner jackets, New York’s latest world premiere may come as something of a shock. Inspired by the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Indian minister and former UN Under Secretary General Shashi Tharoor and his wife are once again in the limelight on Twitter. Tharoor has been accused of having a more than required relation […]
ROSWELL (TIP): A 12-year-old boy drew a shotgun from a band-instrument case and shot and wounded two classmates at his middle school before a teacher talked him into dropping the weapon and he was taken […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): For the first time in the US, a man convicted on terror charges has asked authorities for documents obtained by the NSA to try to reverse his conviction, a document obtained has […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Three decades after the Army stormed the Golden Temple, freshly declassified British documents show that the UK gave military advice to India on retaking the temporal seat of Sikhs, kicking off political […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Indian Mujahideen is planning to turn oilcarrying tankers into fireballs using magnetic explosive device for spectacular strikes, counter-terror officials familiar with the revelations made by the terror outfit’s top operative, Yasin […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Former home secretary R K Singh has said that he had offered to resign when his successor Anil Goswami was brought in as officer on special duty almost two months before the […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain’s newspapers were on Wednesday left mystified by their French counterparts’ reluctance to quiz President Francois Hollande over claims of an affair, concluding “they do things differently” across the Channel. Britain’s rowdy media […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain has granted asylum to an atheist from Afghanistan due to fears he would be prosecuted back home, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind, his lawyers said […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese police said eight people have been arrested in connection to an explosion which killed 15 people at a gambling site in Kaili City of southwest China’s Guizhou Province. It has not cited […]
LONDON (TIP): Veteran British presenter Dave Lee Travis sexually assaulted young women while live on television and in his radio studio, prosecutors told his trial on January 14. The 68-year-old former BBC star, one of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US Senate Intelligence Committee on January 15 released a report on the deadly 2012 assault on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, blaming the state department, the intelligence community and even the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama is expected to endorse changes to the way the government collects millions of Americans’ phone records for possible future surveillance, but he’ll leave many of the specific adjustments for Congress […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): A California appellate court refused on January 15 to overturn the conviction of Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Conrad Murray, who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of the pop […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain is recruiting an army of amateur historians to sift through more than 1.5 million pages of diaries written by World War I army officers, published online for the first time 100 years […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US military has suspended 34 officers in charge of launching nuclear missiles for cheating on a proficiency test, Air Force leaders said on January 15. The scandal at Malmstrom Air Force Base […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the drive to curb corruption in public life will become harsher and “all dirty hands will be caught”. The President called corruption a disease that has to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court today issued a notice to National Green Tribunal (NGT) Chairman Justice Swatanter Kumar on a PIL petition by a woman lawyer claiming that she was sexually harassed by Justice […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): Oxford University has apologized after an administrator accidentally emailed a list of all the poorly performing students’ marks to their peers on Wednesday. The email disclosed the names of students who were awarded […]
BEIJING (TIP): A tortoise beat a rabbit in a skiing competition held for pets and their owners in China, a report said on January 13. Cats and dogs faced off against a menagerie including a […]
CAIRO (TIP): Polls across Egypt closed on Wednesday evening, state media reported, after a second and final day of voting on a draft constitution that could pave the way for a presidential bid by army […]
© The Indian Panorama