NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 17 praised the contribution of Islam, calling it a “great religion” whose invocation of Allah was itself a call for abjuring violence and upholding peace for […]
BHOPAL (TIP): Police arrested two people in Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone district for allegedly posting a morphed image of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on social media to ridicule the Sangh’s recent decision to change […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join the ranks of prominent global leaders at Madame Tussauds in London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok next month, the world famous wax museum announced on March […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Aadhaar is set to receive statutory backing after Parliament passed a bill that will make the unique identification project the central plank for delivering government subsidies and welfare benefits. Only the President’s […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a setback to Punjab, the Supreme Court on March 17 directed maintenance of status quo on land meant for Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal after Haryana alleged that attempts have been made […]
POKHARA (TIP): External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj left Pokharan on Friday after attending the SAARC ministerial meeting in Nepal. Swaraj also held the first bilateral meet with her Pakistani counterpart after the Pathankot terror attack. […]
DEHRADUN (TIP): Police horse Shaktiman, which was subjected to a brutal attack during a BJP protest here on Monday, had his injured hind leg amputated in an emergency life-saving surgery on March 17 even as […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on March 17 agreed to hear on April 5 the plea of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) along with other petitions seeking ban on circulation of jokes about […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The National Commission for Minorities has issued a notice to JNU authorities over a professor’s alleged remarks calling Dalits and Muslim teachers “anti-national”, days after the National Commission for Scheduled Caste issued […]
ROHTAK (TIP): Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s close assistant Virender Singh, who was booked for sedition and criminal conspiracy on charges of inciting violence during the Jat agitation, was arrested on March 17, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Replying to a Calling Attention in the Lok Sabha on alleged alteration of affidavit relating to Ishrat Jahan case, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said, March 9,” No politics should be done […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has allowed Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s controversial three-day World Culture Festival to be held on the Yamuna floodplains starting on 11 March, Friday. However, the Art of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Rajya Sabha passed the much-awaited Real Estate Bill on Thursday, prompting PM Narendra Modi to hail it as “great news for home buyers”. The bill, which seeks to regulate the property […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Isro scientists on Thursday successfully launched the sixth in the constellation of indigenous regional navigation satellites that would help India establish its own GPS-like system. After lifting off at 4 pm on March […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government on Thursday approved a Rs 8,000-crore scheme to provide free cooking gas connections in the name of women members from poor households, reinforcing the idea of LPG emerging as the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar was slapped and abused by a youth on the university campus on March 10 evening. The attacker who identified himself as Vikas Chaudhaury slapped Kanhaiya thrice […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): If a woman is educated and above 18 years of age and yet does not exercise her right to say ‘no’ to a sexual relationship, then she cannot later allege rape when […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Amid the current thaw in bilateral ties, former Maldivian president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom on Tuesday said India remains the “most important strategic” partner of Maldives. “India was and remains the most strategically […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): India’s Foreign Secretary Dr. S. Jaishankar visited Washington D.C. on 6-9 March 2016. The visit was aimed at reviewing the India-U.S. bilateral relations and preparing for India’s participation at the forthcoming Nuclear Security Summit […]
HOUSTON (TIP) NASA recently announced the winners of two challenges to create new concepts for construction and human habitation on future space exploration missions, including the agency’s journey to Mars. Ahilan Anantha Krishnan from Indian […]
Shahnaz Husain was invited as Chief Guest at the New Delhi Institute of Management Inter-College Festival, MANTHAN 2016. Held over two days, on 8th March and 9th March, 2016, the festival had a variety of contests, […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Ambassador Riva Ganguly Das assumed charge as the new Consul General, March 7. She succeeds Ambassador Dnyaneshwar Mulay who was transferred last month to the ministry of external affairs in New Delhi. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who is facing legal proceedings for allegedly defaulting loans of over Rs 9,000 crores from various banks, had left the country a week back, government informed the Supreme […]
JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar will lead the movement demanding release of two other varsity students who are still in judicial custody in a sedition case. “Though I have got bail in the case despite both the government […]
NEW DELHI: ‘Life Mantras’ a book by Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy has topped the non-fiction category of Nielsen BookScan. According to Nielsen best-seller list, the recently unveiled book brought out by Rupa Publication, has topped the non-fiction book […]
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