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RSS Influence over the BJP
Despite the nominal distance it maintains from the organisations of the Sangh Parivar, the RSS ensures that its writ runs where it matters: in the BJP governments at the Centre and in the States. The […]
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India
Basics very much in Indian economy’s favor
INDIA’S JOURNEY TO DEVELOPMENT AND CHALLENGES The economy of India is the tenthlargest in the world by nominal GDP and the third-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP).The country is one of the G-20 major economies, […]
Europe
Vijay Jolly, BJP Global Convener, Overseas Affairs on US Tour
NEW YORK (TIP): Vijay Jolly, BJP Global Convener, Overseas Affairs is on US Tour from August 18 to 30. During this period he will be crisscrossing the US, visiting Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, New […]
India
Yashwant Sinha Frontrunner to be Next Planning Commission Chief: Sources
NEW DELHI (TIP): Two months after coming to power, the Narendra Modi government seems ready to restructure the Planning Commission, the term of which is coterminus with that of the government. Sources in the government […]
India
308 communal incidents till June: Govt
NEW DELHI (TIP): Even as the Congress party tried to corner the BJP-led NDA government on communal riots, fresh data showed that the country witnessed 308 communal incidents this year until June, with Uttar Pradesh, […]
India
BJP, Congress working on deal over Insurance Bill
NEW DELHI (TIP): Tensions between BJP and Congress over the Insurance (Amendment) Bill appear to be thawing, with both sides seeking to negotiate a deal where the government will agree for the reforms legislation to […]
India
Jaswant Singh suffers head injury, admitted to hospital
NEW DELHI: Former BJP leader Jaswant Singh has been admitted to the ICU of Army Research and Referral Hospital here after he slipped at his residence and sustained head injury. The 76-year-old former defence minister […]
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US Bonhomie for India: US Secretaries Storm New Delhi
The recent visits of Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel are being seen as demonstrative of the resurgence of U.S. interest in India as both […]
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MR. MODI’S BAGGAGE IN OFFICE
S Nihal Singh There are obvious contradictions between Mr. Modi’s concept of tapping the very best in technology for the greater good and obscurantist and ludicrous beliefs that defy logic. The great danger is that […]
India
Army chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag warns Pakistan on beheading-like incident
Dalbir Singh Suhag takes over as new Army chief Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag has taken over as the head of the 1.3 million strong Indian Army, succeeding General Bikram Singh. Suhag, whose appointment had […]
India
No room for complacency in state polls, Amit Shah tells BJP MPs
NEW DELHI (TIP): On the back of BJP’s stupendous victory in the Lok Sabha polls, party chief Amit Shah has asked ministers and MPs to put their best foot forward to maintain the winning streak […]
India
Rajya Sabha MP Birender Singh Removed From Congress Working Committee
NEW DELHI (TIP): Cracking the whip against its sulking Haryana MP Chaudhary Birender Singh who appears set to join the BJP, the Congress on July 31 night removed him from the party’s working committee and […]
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US snooping on BJP unacceptable, SUSHMA TELLS KERRY
NEW DELHI (TIP): Alarmed by the disclosure last month that US authorities spied on BJP when it was not in power, foreign minister Sushma Swaraj raised the issue with visiting secretary of state John Kerry […]
India
No new VIP security duties for NSG
NEW DELHI (TIP): VIPs may no more enjoy the cover of coveted ‘Black Cat’ commandos. Government is learnt to have decided that VIPs would no longer get the cover of NSG commandos and the force […]
India
BJP president Amit Shah meets Rajasthan MPs
NEW DELHI (TIP): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah on July 25 met the Members of Parliament from Rajasthan stateat New Delhi’s Rajasthan Bhawan. Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje was also present at the […]
India
GIRLS NOT SAFE ON UP ROADS AFTER SUNSET, SAYS GOA CM
PANAJI (TIP): In potentially controversial remarks, Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday said girls would “disappear” if they walk on the roads in Uttar Pradesh in the evening and invoked the legendary Bhagat Singh […]
India
AFTER BJP, AAP INDICATES IT WANTS TO FORM GOVERNMENT IN DELHI
NEW DELHI (TIP): The race to form the government in Delhi heated up after both the BJP and the AAP indicated that they were ready to stake claim. A day after the BJP suggested that […]
Business & Economics
Towards Rebooting Growth: A BMR Analysis of Union Budget 2014
Budget 2014 reflects a number of priorities identified in the BJP election manifesto – the need to simply the taxation regime, provide a nonadversarial tax environment, revamped dispute resolution mechanisms and the need to build […]
India
BUDGET A VALIDATION OF UPA POLICIES: CHIDAMBARAM
NEW DELHI (TIP): Former finance minister P Chidambaram, who presented the interim budget ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, has said he is happy to find the BJP government’s first Budget validating the figures presented […]
India
HARYANA ASSEMBLY PASSES BILL FOR SEPARATE SGPC
CHANDIGARH (TIP): Haryana Assembly on July 11 passed a bill paving the way for the formation of a separate body to manage affairs of Gurdwaras in the state even as the main opposition parties INLD […]
India
COLLEGIUM CLEARS UDAY UMESH LALIT AS SC JUDGE
NEW DELHI (TIP): The collegium headed by the Chief Justice of India has recommended to the Centre to appoint senior advocate Uday Umesh Lalit, a sought after criminal law practitioner, as a judge of the […]
India
Lok Sabha site names Advani a journalist, Rahul a strategy consultant
BHOPAL (TIP): Former deputy prime minister and BJP patriarch LK Advani is a journalist by profession and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is a strategy consultant, according to the Lok Sabha website. Strangely, the nation’s top […]
Education
SEX EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS SHOULD BE BANNED: HEALTH MINISTER
NEW DELHI (TIP): After suggesting that to prevent AIDS fidelity in marriage was better than use of condoms, health minister Harsh Vardhan has generated another controversy – this time by stating in his website that […]
India
COURT SUMMONS SONIA, RAHUL IN NATIONAL HERALD CASE
NEW DELHI (TIP): A court here Thursday issued summons to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her son and party vice president Rahul Gandhi for misappropriating the funds of the National Herald newspaper that was shut […]
India
RAIL BUDGET LIKELY TO FOCUS ON PASSENGER SAFETY
NEW DELHI (TIP): On the back of two train accidents within a month of Modi government taking charge, railway minister Sadanand Gowda is likely to announce a slew of measures in his July 8 budget […]