NEW DELHI (TIP): Writer, historian and columnist Khushwant Singh died of cardiac arrest at his residence here on March 20 morning. He was 99. The mortal remains of Singh were consigned to the flames later […]
The 15th Annual FICCI FRAMES conference on the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry is back at the Rennaissance Hotel & Convention Centre situated on the picturesque Powai Lake in Mumbai. It’s Wednesday, March 12th 2014; […]
PATNA (TIP): Filmmaker Prakash Jha will contest the Lok Sabha election from Bettiah parliamentary constituency in Bihar on a Janata Dal-United ticket, state JD-U president Vashisht Narain Singh said. Jha’s name figured in the first […]
SHIMLA (TIP): The Himachal Pradesh Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau on March 6 booked sitting BJP MP Virender Kashyap, who was allegedly caught accepting cash on camera. The case against the MP was registered under Section […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Former Army chief General V K Singh, who joined the BJP recently, said he was ready to fight the coming Lok Sabha elections, even as he came down heavily on the UPA […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP-AAP confrontation escalated on March 6 with the BJP accusing its opponent of waging a surrogate battle on behalf of the Congress that wanted to deflect focus from allegations of corruption […]
Almost every newspaper headline on March 6 said the same thing: “Kejriwal’s detention sparks AAP-BJP clashes”. The media, including TV channels, focused on three things: the detention of Arvind Kejriwal and attack on his car […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): BJP and LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan sealed a seat-sharing pact in Bihar that will see Paswan’s group contesting seven Lok Sabha seats, a development that marks the much-travelled politician’s return to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday announced its first list of 54 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections and fielded former party president Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur. The list was announced after […]
While driving back from Long Island on Monday, February 24, I listened to an absolutely fascinating interview of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Julia Angwin, author of Dragnet Nation, on the issue of privacy and cyber […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): BJP and LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan sealed a seat-sharing pact in Bihar that will see Paswan’s group contesting seven Lok Sabha seats, a development that marks the much-travelled politician’s return to […]
SAN JOSE (TIP): US Congressional election in Silicon Valley this year was being seen as a two-person race between incumbent Congressman Mike Honda (Democrat) and his main challenger Rohit “Ro” Khanna (Democrat) until recently. It […]
Rajya Sabha approves Telangana bill amid din and chaos NEW DELHI (TIP): With the Rajya Sabha putting its seal of approval on the Bill for creating Telangana amid bedlam, the birth of the 29th State […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Having fallen out with Arvind Kejriwal after he floated AAP, social activist Anna Hazare on February 19 threw his weight behind Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee who […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Andhra Pradesh is likely to be put under President’s rule amid indications that a decision to this effect may be taken in the next couple of days. The state has been without […]
Rajya Sabha approves Telangana bill amid din and chaos NEW DELHI (TIP): With the Rajya Sabha putting its seal of approval on the Bill for creating Telangana amid bedlam, the birth of the 29th State […]
SAN JOSE (TIP): US Congressional election in Silicon Valley this year was being seen as a two-person race between incumbent Congressman Mike Honda (Democrat) and his main challenger Rohit “Ro” Khanna (Democrat) until recently. It […]
MUMBAI (TIP): MNS chief Raj Thackeray on February 13 wangled a promise from CM Prithviraj Chavan to shut down 22 toll plazas immediately and unveil a new policy before the poll model code of conduct […]
Even for a country with a long and unedifying history of parliamentary pandemonium, nothing can be as shameful and disgraceful as the use of pepper spray by a member on his peers to disrupt proceedings. […]
NEW YORK: A group of Indian students at Columbia University here has launched a website focused exclusively on India’s upcoming general elections, promising to provide a comprehensive and “no high-brow and jargon-led” reportage of the […]
New Delhi (TIP): In the wake of steaming debate on UK’s advisory role in Operation Bluestar, the Akalis on February 6 upped the ante against the government demanding immediate declassification of correspondence between the Indian […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress party hopes of pushing through new laws to tackle corruption stalled on February 5 when the parliament’s last session before a general election was adjourned amid rowdy scenes over the proposed […]
DEHRADUN (TIP): Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna, 66, has finally paid the price for the shoddy relief and rehabilitation work carried out by his government after last year’s flash floods. He drove down to Dehradun […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Despite an apparent wave of Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) till recently, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would have won 200-odd seats if the general elections were held in January 2014, […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Legendary Telugu actor and film producer Akkineni Nageswara Rao, also known as ANR, died January 22 in Hyderabad at the age of 90. Dada Saheb Phalke Award winner ANR, who is the father […]
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