NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hit out at the government for not being able to keep its promises and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted to create a “Swachh Bharat” (Clean India) but people wanted […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The country’s defence acquisition council (DAC) on Thursday gave the green light to a proposal to buy six Apache AH64E attack helicopters for the army from the United States. The Boeing-manufactured helicopters and associated equipment cleared by the council are expected to cost around […]
BENGALURU (TIP): Infosys Ltd, in a surprise announcement, said Vishal Sikka has resigned as CEO citing a stream of distractions and disruptions in recent months, pushing down shares of the second-largest Indian IT services firm almost 8 per cent on Friday. UB […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP received the lion’s share – Rs 705.81 crore – of Rs 956.77 crore that corporate houses donated to five national parties between 2012-13 and 2015-16, a report by a Delhi-based nonprofit pushing for poll reforms […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP today set the ball rolling for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, fixing an individual target of “at least 360- plus” seats and winning constituencies (around 120 or so) where it had never won or had […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Japan came out in full support for India in its protracted military stand-off with China at Doklam, near the Sikkim-Tibet-Bhutan tri-junction, saying no country should use unilateral forces to change the status quo on the ground. Acknowledging the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Career diplomat Nikolay Kudashev has been appointed as Russia’s new ambassador to India, the Russian embassy here said. Kudashev, a specialist in South East Asia, is currently the Deputy Director General Secretariat […]
NEW YORK CITY, NY (TIP): Consul General Sandeep Chakravorty unfurled the National Flag at the Consulate premises in the morning of 15 August. The unfurling of the flag was followed by the playing of the national […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): More than 70 years after the Faizabad Civil Court rejected its claim over Babri Masjid as a Shia Waqf, the Shia Central Waqf Board of Uttar Pradesh has moved the Supreme Court to assert its claim over the disputed site. […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): A Chandigarh court remanded Vikas Barala, the son of Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala, and his friend Ashish Kumar, in two days’ police custody on Thursday, a day after they were re-arrested and charged with a bid […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Two reigning superstars of Tamil cinema – Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan – on Aug 10 attended 75th anniversary celebrations of DMK’s mouth piece Murasoli in Chennai on Thursday amid speculation about their joining politics. While Rajinikanth is […]
NEW ROLE ? Amit Shah’s presence in Parliament would be a morale booster for BJP members ? Shah has already clarified that even after becoming an MP, he will continue to be at the helm of the party ? There is no question of him […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India and China continue to militarily reinforce their positions with the almost two-month long troop standoff in Doklam showing little signs of de-escalation, even as the Army on Thursday denied it had ordered evacuation of some […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): Giving a clean chit to power and irrigation minister Rana Gurjit Singh, the justice JS Narang Commission, probing allegations of irregularities in the sand mines auctions by the Punjab government, has said there was no loss of revenue and the auction was […]
The Vice President-elect also disagreed with the view that there is growing intolerance, saying Indian society is the most tolerant in the world because of its people and civilisation NEW DELHI (TIP): Vice President elect M Venkaiah Naidu […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): M Venkaiah Naidu was on Friday, August 11, sworn in as the 13th Vice President of India. President Ram Nath Kovind administered him the oath of office and secrecy at Rashtrapati Bhavan […]
SRINAGAR (TIP): Two soldiers including an Army Major were killed when terrorists opened fire on a search party of security forces this morning in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, police said. Another jawan was also injured in the gunfight. A search […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a sign of growing Japanese involvement in improving infrastructure in India, the two countries Thursday launched a cooperation forum for development of India’s north-east. The move is significant also because of India’s decision to ignore China’s OBOR initiative as the China Pakistan […]
PATNA (TIP): Bihar’s premier government hospital, the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS), kicked up a row by asking its new recruits to declare if they were “virgins” or married, but later replaced the word with “unmarried”. Amid […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Ruling NDA candidate M Venkaiah Naidu is tipped to be India’s next vice president as members of Parliament gear up to cast their ballot on Saturday. The name of the next vice president will be […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A Delhi court snubbed on Thursday an Enforcement Directorate (ED) prosecutor for asking Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah to chant ‘bharat mata ki jai’ to prove that he believes in the Indian Constitution. The remark came after a defence counsel […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Pakistan is constructing six dams on the Indus river in PoK with China’s assistance, Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh said in a written reply in Rajya Sabha on Thursday. Government has […]
Touting his business-friendly policies, nationalist rhetoric, and an aspirational appeal that struck a chord with a young and increasingly restless India, Modi led his party to a historic electoral rout. WASHINGTON (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ushered in a golden age for […]
With 58 seats in the Rajya Sabha, one more than the Congress, the BJP is the largest party in the Upper House of Parliament though it still remained in minority NEW DELHI (TIP): Sampathiya Uikey, the new lawmaker […]
Sushma Swaraj said in the Rajya Sabha that ‘patience is key to resolving problems’ because of patience is lost, there can be provocation on the other side. NEW DELHI (TIP): War was not a solution and India would resolve the border standoff with […]
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