With a view to check burgeoning subsidy, the government decided to cap supply of subsidized LPG cylinders to six cylinders per year per household. Any requirement over and above the six subsidised bottles would have […]
Erstwhile finance minster Pranab Mukherjee introduced the highly controversial law against tax avoidance through foreign investments in his Union Budget speech. GAAR, or the General Anti Avoidance Rules, entails rules and laws that targets entities […]
The Sensex has surged 24.90% in calendar 2012 so far (till 17 December 2012). From a 52-week low of 15,135.86 on 20 December 2011, the Sensex has risen 27.61%. The S&P CNX Nifty has also […]
Pakistan’s relations with two of its neighbors-India and Afghanistan – are strained, and a third border, with Iran, marks the Sunni-Shia divide within Islam. Domestic social services are in decline. Governance is widely conceded to […]
Cast: Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Vinod Khanna, Arbaaz Khan, Prakash Raj, Deepak Dobriyal Direction: Arbaaz Khan Genre: Action Duration: 2 hours 9 minutes STORY: Super-cop Chulbul Pandey moves to Kanpur – where he crosses guns […]
The outrage that the Delhi gangrape has triggered across the country seems to be unprecedented.We haven’t seen such a display of truthful emotions in the Indian parliament for a long time,while people are spontaneously coming […]
Indian laws against rape are amongst some of the toughest in the world. Owing to regular interpretation of Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the victim’s word is now considered substantive proof to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Inaugurating the 2nd India- ASEAN Business Fair- 2012 in New Delhi today, the Union Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles Shri Anand Sharma expressed confidence that the two-way trade between India and […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government on Tuesday cleared the decks for the Reserve Bank of India ( RBI) to initiate the process to issue new banking licences and widened the window for infusion of capital […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The Reserve Bank of India has allowed real estate developers and housing finance companies to raise funds overseas for low-cost housing projects. Developers and housing finance companies will be permitted to borrow $1 […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Utility and tractor manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has decided to buy the stake held by its US-based partner, Navistar International Corporation, in the truck and engine making joint ventures (JV) — Mahindra […]
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Australia’s Defense Minister Stephen Smith, India’s National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon and Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai have all spoken of the “Indo-Pacific” – a region spanning the Indian […]
A little over three years ago I wrote in The Hindu that at a time when interest in India and India’s interest in the world are arguably at their highest, Indian scholarship on global issues […]
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Asin, Himesh Reshammiya, Mithun Chakraborty, Raj Babbar Direction: Ashish R Mohan Genre: Action Duration: 2 hours 20 minutes STORY: Akela hai Mr. Khiladi, Ms. Khiladi chahiye. It’s that simple, really. MOVIE REVIEW: […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The “Visa on Arrival” (VoA) Scheme of the government has become popular with the tourists. The scheme registered a growth of 25% during the period January-November 2012 over the corresponding period of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) for the month of October expanded at a robust 8.2% versus a contraction of 0.7% in September. This beats the ET Now poll expectations of 4.9% […]
AHMEDABAD (TIP): Healthcare provider, Apollo Group of Hospitals has launched its telemedicine service in Yangoon. This facility will allow Myanmar to consult Indian doctors and have accessibility to quality treatment and latest medical technology without […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A delegation led by Dr. Lee Juho, Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Republic of Korea met Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, IN New […]
MUMBAI (TIP): According to industry experts, customised learning path and personalised content are to be the way forward for Gen-next children .While the rapid change in technology coupled with innovation and lush hybrid tools is […]
Born on the 4th of December in 1919, in the district headquarter town of Jhelum in the then Rawalpindi division of pre-1947 united Punjab, former Prime Minister of India Shri Inder Kumar Gujral died just […]
Salman Khurshid has discovered within a month in his new job that some things have not changed in India’s external affairs in nearly twenty years.When P.V. Narasimha Rao promoted Khurshid within a few days of […]
In the aftermath of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Narasimha Rao government reworked India’s dysfunctional economic and foreign policies to improve India’s abysmal terms of trade with the rest of the world. The […]
Cast: Aamir Khan, Rani Mukerji, Kareena Kapoor, Nawazuddin Siddiqui Direction: Reema Kagti Genre: Thriller Duration: 2 hours 20 minutes STORY: Surjan Singh Shekhawat who has been entrusted the task of solving a high-profile murder case […]
Mumbai: A report by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) on the value of MBA programmes around the world in terms of graduate employability has shown Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad , is among the top three business […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The export of fruit and vegetables, including processed food items, have risen 24 per cent in value terms to Rs 8,241 crore in 2011-12 over Rs 6,638 crore in the previous year. […]
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