NEW DELHI (TIP): His lyrics speak of winter afternoons spent soaking the sun in the courtyard, stars walking the streets after rain, the moon being an insomniac and the heart a neighbour. Gulzar, whose song […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): Commenting on the statement released by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), which maintained that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has so far delivered around 1200 speeches and has been very communicative, Bharatiya Janata Party […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Amid reports that the Defence Ministry has initiated the process of appointing Vice Army Chief Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag as next Army Chief, BJP on April 19 sounded a word of […]
ARARIA, BIHAR (TIP): JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar vowed to do “whatever is required” to stop the BJP in Bihar, so as to prevent it from forming a government at the Centre. The Bihar Chief Minister […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): The BJP announced cheerily on April 18 evening that its alliance with Chandrababu Naidu in Andhra Pradesh is “rocking” – the reassurance was offered by Prakash Javadekar this evening who said, “It’s not […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Congress party stirred a controversy by putting Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s photo on its official website. The photo was published with a caption that […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav got himself embroiled in yet another controversy as he defended rapists saying sometimes boys make mistakes but don’t deserve the death penalty which was strongly criticised […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Marking a considerably high voter turnout as compared to the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, India voted for 91 constituencies in 14 states and Union Territories which went to polls in the third […]
LUCKNOW (TIP): It looks like UP cabinet minister Azam Khan’s problems are not over yet. On Thursday, Election Commission (EC) officials said the commission was probing numerous parts of a speech the Samajwadi party (SP) […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP on April 10 expelled party leader Jaswant Singh’s son Manvendra Singh from its national executive in the wake of reports that he was campaigning against the party’s candidate Sonaram Chaoudhary […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Elections, it is said, are about spending big. This despite repeated poll panel efforts to curb candidate expenses. The EC rule book is clear: Each candidate is entitled to spend a maximum […]
Unless the leaders of India, especially from the secular parties show some courage to stand up to fundamentalism that may emanate from any quarters whether it is Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian and stop exploiting […]
After entering a green light mode, India-US relations have slipped into an amber mode. How soon we can get back into smooth circulation will depend largely on the US, as the responsibility for the malaise […]
BHUBANESWAR (TIP): Beating the drums for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, yoga guru Baba Ramdev has again promised to bring back Indian currency stashed away in foreign banks within 100 days […]
PUNE (TIP): Unimpressed by Raj Thackeray’s support for its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, the state BJP unit has decided to take on the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) in the Lok Sabha elections. State BJP […]
PATNA (TIP): Misa Bharti, daughter of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, is taking all the help she needs and has hired two IITians and doctors to manage her campaign for the Lok Sabha polls in Bihar. […]
NEW YORK (TIP): As general elections draw closer in India, global financial major Goldman Sachs has said 40 million new manufacturing jobs can be created in a decade if states follow flexible labor laws like […]
EDISON, NJ (TIP): ” Chai pe Charcha” organized by the BJP worker and community leader Atma Singh on the occasion of his 52nd birthday, attracted a large number of Modi supporters. The event held at […]
Advani, P V Narasimha Rao knew of plot: Cobrapost sting NEW DELHI (TIP): An elaborate sting operation, conducted on 23 key people of the Ram Janambhoomi movement, claims that the demolition of the Babri Masjid […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): The BJP-TDPLoksatta- Jana Sena electoral alliance in the state has been formalized and an announcement on it is likely to be made on soon. As per the seat sharing arrangement finalized by BJP […]
LUCKNOW (TIP): Senior SP leader Mohammed Azam Khan has invited rebel BJP veteran Jaswant Singh to join his party. Talking to the media persons in Rampur on Thursday, Azam said: “It was disheartening to know […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a brave decision marking the reclamation of foreign policy from narrow political interests, India abstained from voting on a USsponsored resolution on human rights situation in Sri Lanka. While India had […]
Modi has made some stray remarks on foreign affairs, but they should be seen more as obiter dicta rather than a considered judgment. Little interest has been shown domestically about possible new orientations in foreign […]
According to Credit Suisse, there can be four scenarios post elections, Narendra Modi led NDA government with 2-3 allies; Narendra Modi led NDA government with 5-6 allies; other leader led NDA government with 8-10 allies […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): A day before the arrival of his rival and Congress candidate from Amritsar seat Amarinder Singh, BJP candidate Arun Jaitley advised him to show decency. “Everyone in public life must be honest,” Jaitley […]
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