NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 5 went for a sea change in his team as he shuffled portfolios of many of his prominent ministers. The most unexpected was the shifting of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Campaigners against the “draconian” Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) led by Irom Sharmila got a major boost when the Supreme Court in a landmark direction on July 8 said armed forces […]
JOHANNESBURG (TIP): India is working to achieve over 8 per cent growth in the coming years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Johannesburg on July 8, while attributing the rise of the country to HOPE […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): The Consul General of India in New York Riva Ganguly Das and FIA officials performed the traditional ceremony of lighting the lamp to kick off the 36th India Day Parade organized […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Indo-US cooperation in the vital infrastructure sector will get a new impetus when Road Transport, Highways & Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari arrives here July 9 for official talks with his counter-part US Secretary […]
WASHINGTON — The State Department June 30 put al-Qaida’s branch in the Indian subcontinent on its list of foreign terrorist groups. The action bans Americans from engaging in transactions with the group or its leader, […]
CHICAGO (TIP): A large contingent of artists, musicians, singers, dancers, poets, dramatists, authors, folk musicians, eminent Telugu personalities bolstered by a bevy of dazzling movie actors, celebrities, music directors complimented by prominent elected officials from […]
BALASORE (TIP): India on Thursday successfully test fired a new surface-to-air missile, developed jointly with Israel, from a defence base off Odisha coast. The medium range missile (MR-SAM), a product of joint venture between India […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A divorce through ‘triple talaq’ among the Muslim community is a “very important matter affecting a large section of people” which has to be tested on the “touchstone of constitutional framework”, the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): RBI governor Raghuram Rajan, whose three-year term comes to an end this September, pitched for a longer tenure for the central bank head, saying on June 30 that the global practice has […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on June 30 refused to modify its 2014 order on transgenders while clarifying that lesbians, gays and bisexuals are not third gender. A bench comprising Justices A K Sikri […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government on Wednesday asserted it has “enough” support for passage of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill in the monsoon session of Parliament that will commence from July 18 till […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): You can now have your picture printed on a postal stamp. Be it a picture of a bride and groom or an infant on his first birthday or those of close buddies […]
New Delhi (TIP): With the sword of disqualification hanging over its 21 Delhi legislators over the issue of office of profit, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has approached the Election Commission, seeking similar action against […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Three decades after the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft went into development, there is a grudging acceptance that the fighter which has been officially inducted into the Air Force, Friday, July 1, in Bengaluru is, in many ways, […]
India on Monday formally joined the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar received the MTCR membership papers from Envoys of France, Netherlands and Luxembourg in a small ceremony in Delhi. “Bolstering the non-proliferation […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In what may be interpreted as a diplomatic setback for India, the NSG meeting in Seoul ended Friday, June 24, without taking a decision on India’s entry into the group. It was […]
CHAMLIYAL BORDER (TIP): Batting for revival of the India-Pakistan reconciliation process to bring about peace in Jammu & Kashmir, chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on June 23 said if hostilities between the two neighbours can become […]
CHENNAI (TIP): India took a big leap in space technology on June 22 when Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) used its workhorse PSLV-C34 to inject 20 satellites including 17 foreign satellites into orbit in a […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): Millions of Indians on June 21 morning stretched and twisted their bodies and performed breathing exercises to celebrate the second International Yoga Day, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Chandigarh urging people to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): BJP MP Subramanian Swamy on June 23 appeared to target Economic Affairs Secretary, Shaktikanta Das, which prompted Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to call it an “unfair and false” attack. Hurling veiled charges […]
NAGPUR (TIP): “Kuchh karne jao to virodh karne wale bahot hote hain, (if you set out to to do something, you often meet stiff resistance),” said RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat here on June 23, indirectly […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Defence minister Manohar Parrikar on June 23 directed the armed forces to carry out joint exercises with friendly foreign countries specially, in South East Asia, in tune with India’s ‘Act East Policy’. […]
LUCKNOW (TIP): A five-member team of saints constituted by the Samajwadi Party to look into the “migration” of Hindus from Kairana on Thursday submitted its report to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav terming it a “dangerous conspiracy” […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Centre on June 23 launched a pilot programme to run scooters on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in the national capital. The project aims to find out if large-scale conversion of two-wheelers […]
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