NEW DELHI (TIP): Alarmed over reports suggestingthat China proposed to construct three more dams onriver Brahmaputra in Tibet, India today asked Beijing toensure that the interests of downstream states were notharmed by any activities in […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): Twitter said Friday thathackers, in the latest online attack, may have gainedaccess to information on a quarter of a million of itsmore than 200 million active users.The social media giant said in […]
Economy The economy of India is the tenthlargest in the world by nominal GDP and the third largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). The country is one of the G-20 major economies and a member […]
The Republic of India is a large South Asian country rich in ethnic diversity,with over one billion people speaking hundreds of languages. Politically it is the world’s largest liberal democracy. The Indian economy is the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Just two days before announcement of results of the 1996 general election, then prime minister P V Narasimha Rao had directed A P J Abdul Kalam, scientific adviser to the defence minister […]
TOKYO (TIP): Hawkish Japanese premier Shinzo Abe held out an olive branch to China on Tuesday, sending a letter to Beijing’s leader-in-waiting to be hand delivered by a coalition ally. The move comes after months […]
TAIPEI (TIP): A boat with Taiwanese activists headed for disputed Japanesecontrolled islands turned back Thursday after coast guard vessels from the two sides converged and duelled with water cannon. The boat, carrying seven people including […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Senator John Kerry, on track to be America’s next secretary of state, told US lawmakers on Thursday that he would work to boost ties with China, but warned of a “long slog” ahead. […]
Inits first major diplomatic engagement of the New Year, India hosted Iran’s supreme national Security Council secretary and chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, last week. Jalili was in Delhi at the invitation of the national […]
BEIJING (TIP): Describing the last year as among the least problematic in the history of India-China relations, the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) official newspaper has said in an editorial that ties with India had […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese economy grew at its slowest pace in 13 years posting 7.8 per cent year-on-year growth in 2012 amid external jitters and domestic woes. Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed […]
KOCHI (TIP): Better air connectivity to Kerala, Voting rights in local bodies, Liberal baggage & gold allowance to NRIs in Gulf The Government of India and the Government of Kerala assured NRIs in the Gulf, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama, in an effort to rejuvenate the battered US economy, on Thursday, January 10th, nominated his Chief-of-Staff and budget specialist Jack Lew to succeed Timothy Geithner as the next Treasury […]
KOCHI (TIP): President of India, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee expressed confidence that the Indian economy would bounce back to an 8-9% GDP growth due to its strong economic fundamentals and the reforms driven policy initiatives of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The rise of China and India as major world powers and how they view their relationship with the West promises to test the established global order, according to a US think tank. In […]
GUANGZHOU (TIP): A weekly Chinese newspaper at the centre of anti-censorship protests appeared on newsstands on Thursday as a newsroom strike ended amid fresh calls for the Communist Party leadership to loosen its grip on […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): With the second round exit of Parupalli Kashyap and PV Sindhu, it was left to Saina Nehwal to carry the Indian hopes at the Korea Open Super Series Premier in Seoul on Thursday. […]
Gobind Munjal, a successful Chartered Accountant and CPA by profession has worked as a Senior Vice President of Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions and served on the Board of Directors of the International Division of […]
In July at least 37 people were killed by flood waters inand around the city of Beijing, China. In the rural andsuburban areas outside Beijing, many more people died inas a result of flooding, which […]
Indian sports received a huge setback and a major embarrassment when the International Olympic Association decided to suspend the Indian Olympic Association due to Government interference. This decision was on the cards after IOA decided […]
Adam Lanza, clad in ‘black battle fatigues and a military vest’ picked up the deadliest arms as if to wage a battle against his enemies and thus become a ‘martyr’ to the memory of his […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The number of Indian students studying in the United States has dropped continuously for the second consecutive year while the count of international students in the country has now reached a record high […]
On December 6, Asadullah Khalid, Head of Afghanistan’s intelligence set-up, the National Directorate of Security, was seriously injured in a bomb attack by a Taliban suicide bomber posing as a peace envoy. President Karzai announced […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Large US firms have spent millions of dollars in 2012 itself to lobby for their Indian business interests along with other issues. Global retail giant WalMart, whose lobbying with US lawmakers for access […]
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 […]
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