BEIJING (TIP): Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s agenda for the annual meeting of the ceremonial legislature: Revive the economy by encouraging consumers to spend more now that severe anti-virus controls have ended, and install a government […]
Giza (TIP): Egypt unveiled the discovery of long corridor inside the Great Pyramid of Giza on March 2, the first to be found on the structure’s north side. The corridor, which measures 9 meters (nearly […]
Abuja (TIP): Nigeria’s presidential candidate Peter Obi, who lost a historically tight February 25 election to the ruling party’s Bola Tinubu, said March 2 he would challenge the result in court. “We will explore all […]
Larissa (TIP): The Greek government on March 2 acknowledged failures in state management of its rail system, following a train collision that killed 48 and has triggered angry protests. As crews continued to work in […]
LONDON (TIP) : A transgender woman in Scotland convicted of raping two women before beginning to transition was on March 1 given eight years’ jail, in a case that has stoked political controversy in the […]
KYIV (TIP): Regional officials in southern and western Russia reported a string of drone attacks near the border with Ukraine and deep inside the country that caused no casualties, but provoked a security stir on […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): With the crucial presidential election in Nepal just nine days away, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda will seek a vote of confidence and reshuffle his Cabinet only after the polls, a media […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The cash-strapped Pakistan government surrendered to another IMF demand when it imposed a surcharge of up to Rs 3.23 per unit on electricity consumers across the country with effect from July 1, according […]
BANGKOK (TIP): An Indian state-owned arms manufacturer has shipped artillery barrels to military-ruled Myanmar, an activist group said March 1, warning they could be used by the junta in its crackdown on dissent. Myanmar has […]
Transparent & fair probe a must to refute vendetta charge The arrest of Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia by the CBI in connection with alleged irregularities in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped […]
SC warns against making India a prisoner of its past Reaffirming India’s secular ethos, the Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking the formation of a commission to restore ‘original’ names of historical places ‘renamed […]
Supreme Court of India says in a landmark judgement NEW DELHI (TIP): In a historic judgement, a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on March 2 directed that the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and Election […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): U.S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken, while addressing a press conference in Delhi on Thursday, March2, said that Russia could end the Ukraine war tomorrow if it wanted. He said that only […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Quad grouping of India, the US, Japan and Australia has decided to sharpen focus on counter-terrorism even as a joint statement avoided mentioning Russia and took no stand on the Ukraine […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on Thursday, March 2, set up a six-member expert committee headed by former SC judge Justice AM Sapre to investigate if there had been a regulatory failure in dealing […]
AAP government yet to find its feet on the security front It is the police capitulation to the radical preacher that will come back to haunt the administration. I see the hand of the political […]
It is evident that both Russia and the US have done little to end the conflict in Ukraine. India has offered to join efforts to resolve the crisis amidst western concerns over an emerging Russia-China […]
Sisodia’s arrest has profound national implications for the direction the Opposition will eventually pursue. After tarring the TMC and AAP with the corruption taint, it is inconceivable that the Congress could include the Opposition in […]
“Sitting there in the park, I felt a deep knowledge of Newark, an attachment so rooted that it could not help but branch out into affection.” – Philip Roth, ‘Goodbye Columbus,’ 1959. “Writing is like […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): US President Joe Biden has announced his intent to appoint two Indian Americans to his powerful Export Council which is the principal national advisory committee on international trade. The president on Tuesday, […]
WELLINGTON (TIP): A dairy shop owner of Indian descent and his family were left traumatized after robbers stormed his shop in West Auckland to steal cigarettes and cash. Uresh Patel from Kaurilands said he was […]
JALANDHAR (TIP): A US-based NRI, who was in Jalandhar to spend time with his family, faced an assault and it took the police full one month to lodge a case. The matter was brought before […]
Parminder Aujla SACRAMENTO (TIP): Indian American Shama Hakim Mesiwala created history with her confirmation as Associate Justice of the California Third District Court of Appeal to become the first South Asian and Muslim American woman […]
Nirpal Shergill LONDON (TIP): A 10-year-old Indian-origin schoolboy and award-winning fundraiser has travelled to Poland with his parents to hand over books and other stationery products collected in the UK for Ukrainian children displaced by […]
CHICAGO (TIP): When a massive earthquake shook Turkey and Syria a few days ago, the tremors of how a sudden calamity can turn lives upside down were felt across the globe. While humanitarian support and […]
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