NEW DELHI (TIP): Indian Potash Ltd (IPL) has signed a contract with Belarusian Potash Company (BPC) to import 1 million tonne of muriate of potash (MOP) at $427 a tonne this calendar year. The pricing […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Indian manufacturers and natural resources companies will spend Rs 40,800 crore on IT products and services in 2013, an increase of 9.1% over 2012 revenue of Rs 37,400 crore, according to Gartner, Inc. […]
BENGALURU (TIP): Tata Advanced Materials Ltd (TAML) has signed an MoU with UK-based Strongfield Technologies Ltd, manufacturer and supplier of high-tech components and equipment for defence and space applications. The MoU also facilitates the design, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Aiming to speedup implementation of the ambitiousTurkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline, theUnion Cabinet on February 7approved the setting up of a specialpurpose vehicle to build the 1,680-kmpipeline that terminates at Fazilka inPunjab.Tapi […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India onFebruary 7 said it is developing a longrangenuclear-capable Agni-VIballistic missile that would carrymultiple warheads allowing oneweapon system to take out severaltargets at a time.”Agni-V is a major strategic defenceweapon. Now we […]
BANGALORE (TIP): Pakistan’s decision to hand overthe strategic Gwadar port to China is a matter of“serious concern” for India, Defence Minister AKAntony said on February 7.“Chinese are now constructing that port on Pakistan’srequest. In one […]
BEIJING (TIP): Stepping up itscrackdown against self-immolation protestsin Tibet, China has detained 70 suspects fora string of suicides in November last year,coinciding with the once-in-a-decadeleadership change in China’s rulingCommunist Party.A total of 70 people have […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Has the BCCI missed a trick by not including Virat Kohli in the Rest of India squad for the Irani Cup, or even the India A and Board President’s XI teams which […]
JAMSHEDPUR (TIP): Chief Boxing Coach of India, GS Sandhu on Thursday said that London Olympic bronze medallist MC Mary Kom still has enough talent to represent the country in at least one more Olympic games. […]
CUTTACK (TIP): Indian women salvaged some pride, beating arch-rivals Pakistan by six wickets in the play-off match for the seventh and eighth positions in the ICC Women’s World Cup, at the Barabati Stadium on Thursday. […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP):Nirupama Rao,Ambassador of India to theUnited States, inauguratedhere January 28 an ApparelTrade show organized bythe Apparel ExportPromotion Council of India(AEPC), in cooperationwith M/S Trade Good, atthe PENN Plaza Pavilion.Ambassador PrabhuDayal, Consul General […]
As the US president, Barack Obama embarks on his second term, New Delhi is once again feeling the chill of a new administration in Washington. Sections of the Indian foreign policy making community are once […]
Justice Verma and his two colleagues on the commission set up to examine laws dealing with sexual abuse and terror have served the nation well in making a thorough examination of the subject in its […]
WASHINGTON (TIP):Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) this week cosponsored a HouseResolution calling for the U.S.Postal Service to establish a postagestamp to commemorate Diwali, the”festival of lights” marking theHindu New Year. Diwali is observedby Hindus, Christians, Jains, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The ‘Indiaspora 2013 InauguralBall’ organized by the Indian-American community washeld on Saturday, January 19, to celebrate the Secondinauguration of President Barack Hussein Obama. Thiswas the first of its kind event organized and heralded […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): Consul General ofIndia in New York Prabhu Dayal hosted areception to celebrate the 64th RepublicDay of India on January 26, 2013.The highlight of the reception was a readout of the address […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): Bank of India Chairperson & Managing Director Mrs. V.R. Iyer visited New York on Jan 30 and 31 and met US clients. She also attended an Investors’ Meet. She was accompanied […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Lokpal Billcleared by the Cabinet on January 31excludes political parties from itsjurisdiction and also rejects theproposal for the appointment of theCentral Bureau of Investigation chiefby a collegium comprising the PM,leader of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Alarmed over reports suggestingthat China proposed to construct three more dams onriver Brahmaputra in Tibet, India today asked Beijing toensure that the interests of downstream states were notharmed by any activities in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): “Vishwaroop”, the Hindi version ofactor-director Kamal Haasan’s controversial film”Vishwaroopam”, released peacefully on February 1 toan average response, which was likely to pick up overthe weekend.The movie, the original Tamil and Telugu version […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India has beencited for deteriorating human rightssituation by the foremost globalwatchdog of civil liberties with NewDelhi getting raked over the coals forabuses and mishandling cases rangingfrom the Maoist insurgence in centralIndia to […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Teachers backed by the breakaway CPNMaoistfaction in Nepal have forcibly shut down a local schoolallegedly for including Indian course syllabus as part of theircurriculum.Some 3,000 students have been left in the lurch after […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A bipartisan groupof top US Senators has introduced alegislation in the Senate aiming at severalchanges in immigration norms, includingdoubling of H-1B visa cap and establishing amarket-based escalator.The other proposed measures includerecapturing of unused […]
NEW DELHI: Growth in the country’s manufacturing sector slowed to a three-month low in January due to the impact of easing orders and power outages, a survey showed on Friday. The HSBC Purchasing Managers’ Index […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The government on Friday raised about Rs 3,100 crore through the divestment of 10% stake in Oil India (OIL), selling about 6.01 crore shares of the state-owned oil explorer at Rs 520 per […]
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