Washington (TIP): “9 Eleven”, a Bollywood-style thriller by Indian American director Manan Singh Katohara, has won the Best Narrative Feature Award at the 2012 Third World Independent Film Festival (TWIFF). The San Francisco festival celebrates […]
KOCHI (TIP): Kerala may get an Indian Institute of Technology during the 12th Plan. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here on Wednesday that the Centre is seriously considering a proposal to set up an IIT […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The Sensex rose more than 2 percent to new seven-month highs on Sept 14 after the government announced a hike in diesel prices and after the Federal Reserve announced a new asset purchase […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Tech Mahindra has set up three laboratories for Long Term Evolution technology, one in Delhi and one each in Pune and Bangalore. The software services provider, in which vehicle manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra […]
PATNA /HYDERABAD/AMRITSAR (TIP): People across the country have expressed outrage following the central government’s decision to hike diesel price by five rupees per litre, and restricted sales of subsidized cooking fuel or Liquefied Petroleum Gas […]
SRINAGAR/JAMMU (TIP): Intelligence sources called the arrest of Mehrajuddin Wani alias Javed Dand —one of the terrorists who arranged logistics for the Kandahar hijackers—a big catch, and the terror suspect appeared to conform to that […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The arrest of cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, who was charged with sedition for his ‘offensive’ cartoons, has once again brought into focus the contentious law under the Indian Penal Code. Sedition as defined under […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Dawoodi Bohra community in New York hosted a special Eid celebration event on Friday, September 7, at their community center in Springfield Boulevard in Queens. Dawoodi Bohra community resides in many […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Between 2006 and 2010, PSU power giant National Thermal Power Corporation awarded a coal mine contract worth over Rs 23,000 crore to a joint venture company in which 10% shares are held […]
New Delhi (TIP): Reiterating New Delhi’s support for Palestine’s bid for full and equal membership of the United Nations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced that India would contribute $10 million to Palestine’s budget for this […]
New Delhi (TIP): The Central Information Commission (CIC) and State Information Commissions will now be headed by judges, courtesy a Supreme Court controversial judgment on Thursday that ended the tradition of retired bureaucrats gracing the […]
New Delhi (TIP): The flight path taken by two American MH-47 Chinook helicopters to Abbottabad in Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden in May last year has triggered a controversy with questions being raised as […]
New Delhi (TIP): Declining to put on hold for now the loading of fuel rods in one of the two reactors of Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court Thursday said it […]
By B.Raman In a report to the US Congress on September 7,2012, Mrs. Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, intimated it of her decision to designate the Haqqani Network, an affiliate of the Afghan Taliban […]
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) has lately announced that it will phase out the funding for the International Canadian Studies program, which lasted for about forty years. I received this announcement […]
By Akshaya Mishra Why grudge poor parliamentarians the little fun they have? The whole of this session they have had no work. And when they finally had the chance to come together, some got carried […]
Washington (TIP): California Governor Jerry Brown has signed two bills aimed at battling workplace discrimination against Sikhs and Muslims by shunting workers wearing turbans, beards and hijabs to backroom jobs out of public view. “This […]
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