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 […]
KARACHI (TIP): Imran Khan led Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaaf (PTI) has called for a complete shutdown of the port city on December 12 as part of its countrywide protests against the Nawaz Sharif government. Senior PTI […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bhutan and not India was the first to to recognize Bangladesh as an independent nation, foreign office has said, putting an end to the decades-old speculation on the issue. “Bhutan was the first […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistani Taliban on December 11 criticized Nobel laureate Malala Yoususzai, saying the teenage activist has entered into an agreement with “satanic forces” to promote western culture and destroy Pakistan. In its first reaction […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): U.S. Senate on Wednesday, December 10, unanimously confirmed Richard Rahul Verma as the next US ambassador to India. Verma becomes the first-ever Indian-American to hold the post. Verma’s nomination was approved by the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A heated debate in the Lok Sabha on the alleged conversion of 200 Muslims to Hinduism in Agra saw a united opposition accusing the government of engineering “religious polarisation” for political gains. […]
The onset of winter is marked by poetic misty mornings, a crisp breeze, and nights when all you want to do is snuggle into a quilt and read a book. But the winter months are […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government has initiated the process of drafting a law against honour killings by treating crimes in the name of honour as a separate category of offences. The moves comes after 22 […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese social media users have pulled out details of the December 2012 Nirbhaya case in New Delhi to draw comparisons with assault and molestation of a woman in Henan province in central China. […]
LONDON ()TIP): Around 423 criminals from India are presently living in Britain. Data revealed by Britain’s National Audit Office has shown that as of March 2014, 10,650 criminals from overseas have been living in UK. […]
UNITED NATIONS: India’s economic growth is expected to improve to 6.3 per cent in 2016 with the country leading economic recovery in South Asia, according to a United Nations report. The UN World Economic Situation […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Beleaguered lowcost carrier Spicejet seems to have received a temporary breather from the government, official sources told FE. With the loss-making airline making an interim payment of Rs 5 crore on Wednesday […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Tata Power, the power generator led by Cyrus Mistry, is buying a 540-megawatt (MW) thermal power plant in Maharashtra to ramp up capacity, highlighting how a lot of India’s recent merger and acquisition […]
BHUBANESWAR (TIP): Putting their disappointing pool campaign behind, an inspired Pakistan notched up their first win over the Netherlands in 16 years, stunning the World Cup and Olympic silver medallist 4-2 to reach the semifinals […]
Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson graces the occasion Report/photos by Zia Khan/ 214-207-7922 DALLAS (TIP): Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas presided over the proceedings of the 16th annual thanksgiving celebrations and awards night organized by […]
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 […]
Afghanistan was blunder: Musharraf KARACHI (TIP): Former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf on December 4 admitted that recognizing the Taliban regime in Afghanistan was a “blunder” on part of Pakistan, but he blamed the West […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Hindu devotees slaughtered an estimated 200,000 animals during a recent festival in Nepal, organizers said on December 2, attributing a sharp fall in numbers to Indian export restrictions. Some 2.5 million worshippers from […]
Dr. Syed Amir and Dr. Zafar Iqbal WASHINGTON (TIP): The tradition of Mushairas, organized by the Aligarh Alumni Association of Washington DC (AAA), was started in 1975 initially with local poets from North America. The […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Here are some of the passport and visa rules that have been revised in the recent past. New Tourist Visa norms for US nationals: The Govt. of India has directed that, apart from […]
AMETHI (TIP): Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of living in an ivory tower disconnected with grassroot realities, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said here on December 4 his style of doing politics was different from […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh has arrested four members of an outlawed militant group, including the chief of its women’s wing, police said on December 1, as authorities intensify a crackdown on militants. The arrest follows Indian […]
In Gir you touch the history of India before humanity itself. Before monuments, temples, mosques and palaces. Or rather, a history as humanity was emerging, when humans coexisted with lions, before the former had overrun […]
NEW DELHI: (TIP): The Congress has questioned the decision of the Narendra Modi government to facilitate loan worth 6,200 crore through State Bank of India for Adani’s mining venture in Australia, demanding disclosure of the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The consumer affairs ministry is keen to set up a regulator for the over Rs 7,000 crore direct marketing industry and on Thursday minister Ram Vilas Paswan added his stamp of approval […]
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