NEW YORK (TIP): Dr. Sadhna Shanker, a senior government of India, ministry of finance officer and wife of Dnyaneshwar M. Mulay, Consul General of India in New York, was felicitated at a meet and greet […]
As the Sikhs across the world celebrate the 545h birth anniversary of their First Master Guru Nanak Dev Ji, it is pertinent to ask if the Great Master’s message is kept in mind while celebrating […]
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 […]
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 […]
THIMPHU (TIP): President Pranab Mukherjee on November 7 arrived here on a two-day visit to Bhutan and was received by the King and his wife in a special gesture. King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck along […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan army chief general Raheel Sharif has renewed the offer to train Afghan military during his meeting with the new President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul and promised weapons for an infantry brigade. Raheel […]
NEW DELHI: India and the US are set to deepen and broaden their bilateral military exercises to include more warfare components involving nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. They would also invite more countries to join […]
BEIJING (TIP): China and Japan have reached an agreement on maintaining peace in the disputed chain of islands in the East China Sea after three years of war mongering. The agreement was reached in Beijing […]
BEIJING (TIP): Mexico has suddenly canceled a $3.75 billion contract to buy bullet trains from China. This is a major blow to the Chinese railway manufacturing industry, which is trying to sell high-speed trains to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Announcing a major recruitment drive, Infosys, India’s second-largest IT services exporter said that it will be hiring over 2,100 people in US, in order to support the growth of its business. “The […]
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Arun Jaitley on November 5 told industry captains that he expects the cost of capital to come down, a statement which CEOs read as a signal to a rate cut in […]
SB Hall to be a state-of-the-art centerpiece of UD’s business school, ‘global meeting ground’ for students, faculty, staff IRVING, Texas (TIP): A benign Sun shone on the venue of groundbreaking celebration on Friday, Oct. 17, […]
Operation Bluestar was grievously handled. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. I know that Indira Gandhi’s instructions were disregarded by those who in Amritsar were in charge of the operation. The Golden Temple […]
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 […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan has emerged as the world’s second-worst country in terms of gender equality, according to the annual Global Gender Gap Report published by the World Economic Forum. The report, published on Tuesday, measures […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Pope Francis may make a 17th century priest Sri Lanka’s first Roman Catholic saint during his trip next year, making good on his promise to give Asia more saints as models for the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US and India will continue to work together to further strengthen their military-tomilitary relations as the top defense officials of the two countries have discussed a range of bilateral security issues. Top […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): India has voted against the provisions of draft resolutions that would have required it to accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), saying there is “no question” of it joining the treaty […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a bid to bring down day-to-day expenses, the government on October 30 asked bureaucrats to abstain from holding meetings in 5-star hotels, avoid travelling abroad in first class and also put […]
COLOMBO/NEW DELHI (TIP): Five Indian fishermen were given death penalty by a Sri Lankan court on October 30 for alleged drug trafficking, invoking a sharp reaction from India which took up the matter with Sri […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Union home ministry has moved to amend the Citizenship Act to relax the stipulation of one-year continuous stay in India by certain categories of applicants — including a person of Indian […]
Nearly 3,000 members of India’s Sikh community were massacred after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards on 31 October 1984. The wave of ethnic cleansing which raged unhindered across […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Government will roll out by next week the muchawaited electronic-visa system for tourists from select countries including US and Japan. Home minister Rajnath Singh along with tourism minister Sripad Naik will […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India’s universal health plan that aims to offer guaranteed benefits to a sixth of the world’s population will cost an estimated 1.6 trillion rupees ($26 billion) over the next four years, a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Badminton queen Saina Nehwal put aside her racquet and walked on to the greens to try her hand at golf at the Delhi Golf Course here on Thursday. The 24- year-old Hyderabadi […]
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