NEW DELHI (TIP): As investigations by different agencies into the Darbha massacre in Chhattisgarh gather momentum, it is now emerging that there may actually have been a last-minute change in the route of Congress cavalcade […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president N Srinivasan came under all round attack with the Sports Ministry and Board heavyweights mounting pressure on him to quit. Srinivasan, however, remained […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Breaking his silence on the raging spot-fixing scandal, Sachin Tendulkar on May 31 said that the developments of the last two weeks were “shocking and disappointing” and the faith reposed by the […]
KOLKATA (TIP): Noted filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh died of cardiac arrest at his south Kolkata residence on May 30. He was 49. Winner of 12 national and some international awards, Ghosh was suffering from pancreatitis and […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): There is “no question mark” on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity and the party will “soon” decide its prime ministerial candidate, BJP president Rajnath Singh has said. “The decision on the […]
RANCHI (TIP): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought Jharkhand governor’s permission to probe the role of some bureaucrats, including former chief secretary AK Basu, for their alleged role in irregularities in allotment of […]
BANGALORE (TIP): In hilarious slip-ups in the Aadhaar card enrolment process, some cards have ended up with pictures of an empty chair, a tree or a dog instead of the actual applicants. Asked about the […]
SEATTLE (TIP): A suspicious letter containing the deadly poison ricin was mailed to President Barack Obama from Spokane, Washington, on the same day similar ricin-tainted letters were mailed to a federal judge and a post […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): 42 have made it to the national Spelling Bee semifinals. Of them 15 are Indian-American students. Six of them are girls. The Indian American students account for almost one-third of the total 42 […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Following conviction in the teachers recruitment scam, former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala is facing confiscation of his properties. Enforcement Directorate on Thursday attached a residential property belonging to Chautala under […]
TOKYO (TIP): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe decided to speed up talks on a civil nuclear deal to allow Japan to export nuclear reactors to India and to bolster maritime […]
BEIJING (TIP): Strategic cooperation with Japan “can only bring trouble to India”, warned a state-run Chinese daily following Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s three-day visit to Tokyo. There may be some tacit understanding in strategic […]
BEIJING (TIP): A major sex scandal has rocked schools in China as a number of teachers have been held for molesting girl students in recent days, prompting the apex court to strengthen crackdown on crimes […]
BEIJING (TIP): A Chinese newborn who was rescued from a sewer pipe has been released to his family and his mother is unlikely to face criminal charges because authorities concluded he fell into the toilet […]
WELLINGTON (TIP): Three Indians accused of raping a woman in Hamilton two years ago have been found not guilty by a jury in New Zealand on may 30 and will be deported to India. A […]
BEIRUT (TIP): Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview broadcast on May 30 that he is “confident in victory” in his country’s civil war, and he warned that Damascus would retaliate for any future […]
NEW DELHI/MELBOURNE (TIP): The seventh regional Pravasi Bhartiya Divas will be held in Sydney from November 10 to 12 with an aim to woo overseas investors and deepen two-way engagement with the Indians living there. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama has described Indian-origin Srikanth Srinivasan, who created history by becoming a top federal judge, as one of his “favourite” persons. “One of my favourite people right now [is], Sri […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Recently, Indian-American Srikanth Srinivasan scripted history after he was confirmed as the first South Asian judge to America’s second highest court. But Srinivasan is not the only famous person of Indian origin who […]
NEW YORK (TIP): It has been a long road from the small village in India where her parents were born, and her life began, but immigrating to the United States of America, becoming a naturalized […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): Millionaire yoga guru Bikram Choudhury has been charged with raping two female students attending his teacher training courses, in two separate lawsuits filed May 6 and 7 in Los Angeles, Calif., Superior […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Graduate Management Admission Council, which owns the prestigious GMAT exam for admissions to B-schools across the world, has announced the appointment of Sangeet Chowfla as its new president and CEO. Chowfla, who […]
WASHINGTON, D.C (TIP): The United States is looking to triple the number of Americans going to India for higher studies in the next five years. “That is still far from our goal of 15,000 in […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Rajasthan government Minister for Urban Development and Housing Shanti Dhariwal inaugurated on May 25 Rajasthan chapter of Indian National Overseas Congress (I) at Mint Restaurant in Long Island, New York. Inaugurating the […]
The writing is on the wall as China does not have good track record of strategic comfort and reliability vis-a-vis India. The current incidence of Chinese incursion into Indian territory in Daulat Beg Oldie region […]
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