WASHINGTON (TIP): Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, India’s Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, and other high-ranking officials from both governments, along with captains of industry from both countries, will address […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO)-Metropolitan Washington Chapter, in collaboration with the Aligarh Alumni Association (AAA), Washington, organized 8th Annual Independence Day Mushaira-Kavi Sammelan on Saturday, 22nd August 2015 at […]
Update : Sep 20, 2015: BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmiya Dies Of Cardiac Arrest – Full report to Follow KOLKATA (TIP): BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya was rushed to the BM Birla Heart Research Institute he complained of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Five months after India announced the deal to purchase 36 Rafale fighter jets “off the shelf” from France, much of the expectations from the big-ticket deal appears to have evaporated due to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a setback for the Manohar Lal Khattar government in Haryana, the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the state law providing that a candidate aspiring to contest the panchayat elections should have […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library executive council accepted its director Mahesh Rangarajan’s resignation on September 17, giving the Modi government a free hand to appoint its nominee to the post. Rangarajan […]
Come September, and we have been used to expecting to come across an announcement of the annual gala of Nargis Dutt Memorial Foundation. A much awaited signature event of the Foundation for 31 years, it […]
NANGCHEN (TIP): A 2000-year-old lost stupa, one of the 19 built with Lord Buddha’s relics sent by Emperor Ashoka to China, has been renovated and restored with religious rites by an Indian monk in this […]
KOLKATA (TIP): Lenovo India Pvt. is eyeing the top position in the Indian PC market by March, its Marketing Director – India & South Asia, Bhaskar Choudhuri said. The company also aims to grab the […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) wants to make it easier to pay taxes in India. And the measures to be introduced in the near future, after obtaining an internal committee’s report, […]
SURAT (TIP: Like De Beers, Rio Tinto and other mining companies, the world’s largest diamond mining company Alrosa too has decided to lower its rough diamond prices by 8-10 per cent for its September sale. […]
A quaint hill station perched at an altitude of 8000 ft, Dalhousie sprawls across five hills at the foothills of the Dhauladhar range in Himachal Pradesh. This picture-perfect destination was founded during India’s colonial occupation back in […]
Accountability for past excesses is not easily achieved in post-conflict societies, but its need and relevance cannot be brushed aside. Fostering peace and reconciliation among formerly feuding sections of society, and finding constitutional solutions to core political […]
Top seeds Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza beat Casey Dellacqua and Yaroslava Shvedova to win the U.S. Open doubles title on Sunday, September 13, 2015 and cap off a perfect visit to Flushing Meadows, New York. […]
New Delhi, 17th September 2015: Hero Cycles, world’s largest bicycle manufacturer by volume, today announced its acquisition of Firefox Bikes in an all-cash transaction, India’s largest premium bicycle brand, as part of its strategy to further cement its […]
Sun Pharmaceutical has acquired InSite Vision, a US-based specialty ophthalmic product maker, in a $48 million (about Rs 320 crore) deal. The acquisition will enable Sun Pharma, India’s largest drug maker by revenue, to grow […]
Ahmedabad: Mr Chen Yuehua, Guangdong’s Deputy Director General of Department of Commerce, has announced that Indian and Chinese firms have signed 15 Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) worth US$ 590 million at the China-India (Gujarat) Economic […]
Another major crisis is unfolding in Europe. Still struggling to find solutions for the Eurozone and Ukrainian crises, The European elite was hardly prepared to face a serious refugee and migration challenge. The problem has […]
NEW YORK: ICICI bank CEO Chanda Kochhar is among three Indians selected for this year’s Asia Game Changer awards given by Asia Society to honour “true leaders making a positive contribution to the future of Asia.” […]
15 years ago, this month, a prime minister of India had traveled to the United States for the annual United Nations General Assembly mela. During that visit, he found time to attend a Vishwa Hindu Parishad event in Staten […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan on Sept 10 reiterated its stance for talks with India saying there would be no talks with New Delhi unless the issue of Kashmir was on the agenda. “Any formal talks with […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The next time guns boom from across the border in Jammu, India will not fire back immediately. Similarly, if Pakistan receives fire from India, it would spend the next hour establishing contact […]
My friend George Abraham and his lovely wife Lona invited me over to the wedding of their son Vilas with Suneela Tandra, September 5, 2015. Though the venue of the wedding was an hour plus drive […]
Last Sunday (September 6) was a particularly crowded one with a number of events, back to back. For a journalist, there are noholidays, until one chooses to have one. In the morning, I had a […]
MUMBAI: Market regulator Sebi on Thursday ordered B Ramalinga Raju and his family, the former promoters of fraud-ridden erstwhile Satyam Computers, to return Rs 1,803 crore of their ill-gotten money plus interest for over six-and-a-half […]
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