The Special Investigation Team also suspects that a family insider may hold the key to the crime MOHALI (TIP): The Mohali police are now focusing their investigation on the former woman colleague of KJ Singh who had worked with him in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): “India remains ready to respond to the urgent needs of the Iraqi people for stability, security, political progress and economic reconstruction… were there to be an explicit UN mandate for the purpose. The Government of India […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Indian Army commandos participating in last year’s surgical strike on terrorists’ launchpads in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir livestreamed the entire operation back to army headquarters in Udhampur and Delhi, the officer-in-charge of the operation has revealed. “Yes, we were getting […]
CHENNAI (TIP): An inquiry commission, set up by the Tamil Nadu government to probe former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s death, will look into the circumstances leading to her hospitalisation last year and subsequent treatment, the government has said. The […]
LUCKNOW (TIP): Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s name has been removed from the voters’ list in Lucknow on the ground of being ”inactive” and ”absent” from his registered address in the city. According to the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) officials here […]
PANAJI (TIP): Tejpal, who then ran Tehelka, was accused of rape by a junior colleague in 2013. The charges against him include Sections 376(2)F and 376(2)K, which lay down stricter punishment for a person who uses a position of power or trust to abuse a […]
Contradicting BJP chief Amit Shah’s stand that the economy was sluggish due to ‘technical reasons’, Sinha says it is here to stay and the slowdown in demand has only aggravated the situation NEW DELHI (TIP): Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former finance minister […]
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR (TIP): The government is ready to talk to all stakeholders in Jammu and Kashmir without preconditions, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav, who arrived in Srinagar on September( 21 Thursday), said. “We have said from the beginning and we have maintained that our doors are open […]
THANE (TIP): Fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim is still in Pakistan, his brother Iqbal Kaskar has told the interrogators from the Intelligence Bureau and the Thane police’s crime branch, said officials. Thane police arrested Kaskar two days ago in […]
‘Illegal immigrants, not refugees’ “The Rohingya are not refugees… No Rohingya has got asylum in India, nor has anyone applied for it. They are illegal immigrants.” — Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister NHRC: taken up on humanitarian […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Modi government may introduce in Parliament the Women’s Reservation Bill, which seeks to reserve one third of seats in the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies for women. A senior BJP leader said top […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): The Bharatiya Janta Party on Sept 21 (Thursday) announced Swaran Singh Salaria as its candidate from the Gurdaspur parliamentary constituency, which fell vacant after the demise of actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna in April this year. The BJP central […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sept 21 met veteran actor Kamal Haasan and hailed him for coming out against communalism and corruption amid mounting speculation that the latter would take a political plunge. Kejriwal also said that the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In line with their contract obligations, French major Dassault Aviation has said it was coordinating between French suppliers and Indian companies to manufacture Rafale fighter jets in India. Rafale International comprising Dassault Aviation, Safran and Thales […]
LUCKNOW (TIP): In signs of fresh strains in the Samajwadi Party (SP) ahead of its state and national convention, its patron Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday removed Akhilesh loyalist Ram Gopal Yadav from the post of secretary of the Lohia […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Congress-led Opposition feels it has found an ‘inclusive narrative’ against the government in the looming economic slowdown, after highlighting issues such as ‘lynching’ and ‘intolerance’ in the last two years. As the government works on providing stimulus to […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Pakistan is now “Terroristan”, India said in a formidable rebuttal at the UN to Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi calling for a UN special envoy on Kashmir, alleging that the “struggle […]
SRINAGAR (TIP): The state police, the Army and the CRPF, in a joint operation, killed Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Abu Ismail, the mastermind of the Amarnath yatra attack, and his accomplice on the outskirts of Srinagar on September 14. Around […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Karti Chidambaram refused to appear before the CBI in the Aircel-Maxis case, his lawyer said. The agency had called Karti for questioning today in connection with the foreign investment clearance given in 2006 in the Aircel-Maxis deal when his father P […]
The World Bank-brokered water talks with Pakistan are taking place over Thursday and Friday, in Washington DC. Since the Pathankot and Uri attacks last year, Delhi has discouraged any kind of dialogue unless cross-border terrorism comes to an end. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Placing the onus on schools for the safety of students on their premises, the Central Board of Secondary Education today issued new security-related guidelines that included a psychometric test for the teaching and non-teaching staff. Psychometric […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India on Thursday rushed 53 tonnes of relief materials to Bangladesh and pledged all help to Dhaka in tackling the humanitarian crisis after nearly 400,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees fled to the country from Myanmar following the ethnic violence in the Buddhist-majority […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a major development that may spell more trouble for controversial businessman Vijay Mallya, Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is conducting a probe against the liquor baron for alleged “money laundering” in UK and beyond. Top sources […]
GANDHINAGAR (TIP): Deepening their strategic ties further, India and Japan on September 14 agreed to boost cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region in the midst of China’s growing assertiveness and pitched for a “zero tolerance” in combating terrorism, including towards Pakistan-based groups JeM and […]
Modi, Abe jointly Lay foundation stone for Rs 1.08 lakh-cr Ahmedabad-Mumbai high-speed train; 15 agreements signed GANDHINAGAR (TIP): It may have been a dream come true for PM Narendra Modi when, on September 14, he […]
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