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INVESTING IN INDIA | A conversation with Charles R Kaye

Jan 9, 2015 - 7:38 am EST @theindpanorama 0

NEW YORK CITY (TIP): The Consulate General of India, New York, held its 11th Media India Lecture on Friday December 19, 2014, with the guest speaker Charles R Kaye, Co-CEO of Warburg Pincus. Consul General […]

India

KARUNANIDHI RE-ELECTED DMK PRESIDENT FOR ELEVENTH TIME

Jan 9, 2015 - 7:37 am EST @theindpanorama 1

CHENNAI (TIP): A general council meeting of the DMK here on January 9 unanimously reelected former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi as party president for the eleventh time. The general council also reelected K […]

India

GOVERNOR’S RULE IMMINENT IN J&K

Jan 9, 2015 - 6:35 am EST @theindpanorama 0

NEW DELHI (TIP): Jammu & Kashmir governor N N Vohra has sent a report to the Centre conveying a “political deadlock” in the state in the wake of failure of any party or political formation […]

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Post-elections, what J &K needs

Dec 27, 2014 - 8:28 am EST @theindpanorama 0

The announcement of the election results has justifiably generated enormous excitement, both in the state as also the rest of the country, since the formation of a coalition government is proving to be a daunting […]

India

NC adds twist to J&K govt search, offers to back PDP

Dec 27, 2014 - 8:00 am EST @theindpanorama 0

SRINAGAR (TIP): Post-poll manoeuvres over government formation and the likelihood of Jammu and Kashmir being placed under Governor’s rule kept politics on the boil even as National Conference claimed it had offered unconditional support to […]

Excesses of Hindutva hotheads

Dec 12, 2014 - 6:44 am EST @theindpanorama 0

There is urgent need to restrain those making provocative and poisonous statements, says the author. All through his campaign that brought him spectacular victory in the parliamentary poll, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had concentrated on […]

RSS body seeks donations to fund Christmas ‘conversions’ in Aligarh

Dec 12, 2014 - 6:07 am EST @theindpanorama 0

ALIGARH (TIP): Dharam Jagran Samiti, an RSS offshoot, has distributed pamphlets in Aligarh seeking donations for converting Christians and Muslims to Hinduism. The pamphlet says it costs Rs 2 lakh to convert a Christian and […]

Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty

Dec 5, 2014 - 9:02 am EST @theindpanorama 0

I.S. Saluja Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 68th Independence Day of India on 15th August, 2014. It has been almost 4 months since he […]

India

4 Army personnel, 3 cops killed in terror attack in J&K

Dec 5, 2014 - 8:32 am EST @theindpanorama 0

JAMMU (TIP): Four security force personnel and three militants were killed in a predawn attack on an Army camp in Uri area of north Kashmir‘s Baramulla district which is going to polls in the third […]

Fractured mandate likely in J&K

Dec 5, 2014 - 8:31 am EST @theindpanorama 0

SRINAGAR (TIP): Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) seems to be heading towards a hung Assembly with no political party having a clear advantage after two rounds of the five-phase elections. The Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), […]

Rajapaksa calls snap polls to seek record third term

Nov 21, 2014 - 7:24 am EST @theindpanorama 0

COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa called early elections on November 20 seeking an unprecedented third six-year term in office amid signs of a drop in popularity and demands of his powers to be […]

Indian-American Ami Bera re-elected to US Congress

Nov 21, 2014 - 6:35 am EST @theindpanorama 0

SACRAMENTO (TIP): Amiresh ‘Ami’ Bera, the lone Indian American lawmaker in the US House of Representatives, managed to edge out his Republican opponent in a California race two weeks after the elections. Bera, who had […]

United States

Republicans elect Mitch McConnell as US Senate leader

Nov 14, 2014 - 7:49 am EST @theindpanorama 0

WASHINGTON (TIP): Republican lawmakers re-elected Mitch McConnell as their leader in the US Senate on November 12, ensuring him the powerful role of majority leader in the new Congress that begins in January. Meanwhile, President […]

India

AAP releases first list of candidates, top guns missing

Nov 14, 2014 - 7:41 am EST @theindpanorama 0

NEW DELHI (TIP): The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has repeated the line-up for the December 2013 Assembly polls while declaring nominees for 22 seats on November 13. Four former cabinet ministers, Somnath Bharti (Malviya Nagar), […]

HONG KONG PROTESTERS PLAN TO OCCUPY BRITISH CONSULATE

Nov 14, 2014 - 7:37 am EST @theindpanorama 0

HONG KONG (TIP): Hong Kong students plan to occupy roads surrounding the city’s British consulate in anger at a lack of support from London for their pro-democracy movement, as authorities ramp up pressure on protesters […]

Escalating tension is not good for either country

Nov 8, 2014 - 8:54 am EST @theindpanorama 0

While there will be no open war between India and Pakistan in the normally understood sense, this does not prevent Pakistan from activating its tools of terror There has been an escalation of tension between […]

Business & Economics

Why did I quit being a Republican?

Nov 8, 2014 - 8:51 am EST Mike Ghouse 0

It is one of the most difficult decisions of my life to quit being a Republican. The more people I talk to, the more confident I feel that the GOP has completely lost its anchor […]

Govt does a U-turn, tells EC no relief announced for anti-Sikh riot victims

Nov 8, 2014 - 8:33 am EST @theindpanorama 0

NEW DELHI (TIP): In a dramatic aboutturn, the Central Government has told the Election Commission (EC) that no decision was taken to give additional Rs 5 lakh compensation each to the families of those killed […]

Reliving the Memories of 1984

Oct 31, 2014 - 8:35 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

Thirty years after the anti-Sikh riots that raged in Delhi, there are no easy answers to these questions: What should the Sikhs do? Should they forget the past? Should they live in the past? Or […]

US nurse defies Maine’s Ebola quarantine, takes bike ride

Oct 31, 2014 - 8:26 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

WASHINGTON (TIP): A nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone but has tested negative for the virus ventured out of her home in Maine and took a bike ride on October 30 night, defying […]

Haryana Cabinet announced, CM keeps Home and Power

Oct 31, 2014 - 8:12 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

CHANDIGARH (TIP): Two days after being sworn in, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on October 28 allocated departments to his nine Cabinet colleagues, while retaining key departments, including Home, Power and Town and Country […]

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Pakistan’s Military Adventurism

Oct 25, 2014 - 5:18 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

Right environment to turn the heat on Islamabad Pakistan’s military adventurism on three fronts across its borders with India, Afghanistan and Iran has created just the right environment to turn the heat on Islamabad and […]

OFFICIAL CITES ‘EPIDEMIC OF FEAR’ IN US

Oct 25, 2014 - 5:01 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

WASHINGTON (TIP): The likelihood of a significant outbreak of Ebola in the US is remote, in the view of a top Health and Human Services official who is assuring lawmakers that government agencies are preparing […]

India

EC for e-postal ballot, proxy voting for NRIs

Oct 25, 2014 - 4:46 am EDT @theindpanorama 1

NEW DELHI (TIP): The Election Commission has told the Supreme Court that e-postal ballot and proxy voting options can be provided to nonresident Indian (NRIs). A committee set up by the poll panel to examine […]

Gadkari says happy in Delhi; Stage set for Fadnavis as Maharashtra CM

Oct 25, 2014 - 4:41 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

NAGPUR (TIP): A potential crisis in Maharashtra BJP over the choice of leader for the post of chief minister seems to have blown over with Union minister Nitin Gadkari saying he has no differences with […]

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