BEIJING (TIP): A day after China’s top leader Xi Jinping asked the People’s Liberation Army to intensify its “real combat” awareness and “military readiness” in view of its tension with Japan over disputed islands, Japan […]
RAJKOT (TIP): Reacting to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi invoking Mahatma Gandhi in his election speeches, chief minister Narendra Modi scoffed at the Gandhi scion for narrating the historical anecdote of how Motilal Nehru found Gandhiji […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on December 13 turned down Mulayam Singh Yadav’s plea to end CBI’s long and meandering probe into his family’s alleged disproportionate assets, although it handed the Samajwadi patriarch a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A day after her criticism of Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari, BSP chief Mayawati on December 13 changed tune to say that she had “respect” and “full faith” in the Chair and […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): First the good news: Indians are living much longer than they did 40 years ago. The life expectancy (LE) at birth of an average Indian male has gone up by 15 years […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A revised visa agreement between india and Pakistan will be launched when Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik arrives on a three-day visit to India. Besides the revised visa agreement, the two countries […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on December 13 allowed private medical colleges to hold their own entrance test for admission to post-graduate courses for the 2013-14 academic year but restrained them from declaring the […]
BANGALORE (TIP): Suman Kumari will soon be joining the new moms club. Her little bundle of joy is due to arrive in January. The assistant manager in SAP is working through her pregnancy, shrugging off […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Amnesty International has urged President Pranab Mukherjee to halt further executions and has picked procedural holes in the hanging of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab. In an open letter to the president, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The “Visa on Arrival” (VoA) Scheme of the government has become popular with the tourists. The scheme registered a growth of 25% during the period January-November 2012 over the corresponding period of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A delegation led by Dr. Lee Juho, Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Republic of Korea met Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, IN New […]
Sikkim, a mountainous region in the eastern Himalayas, has 600 species of birds, or about half of the over 1200 species to be found in India. Perched between Nepal in the west, Bhutan in the […]
Former chief selector of Indian cricket team Krishnamachari Srikkanth on Thursday sought to put an end to the controversy over Mahendra Singh Dhoniâ??s captaincy, claiming questions have raised after defeats but nobody gave the selectors […]
The clamour for an overhaul in Indian cricket keeps growing. The latest to come out in scathing criticism of Team India’s lack of ability is the recently-retired Rahul Dravid, who told the BBC’s Test Match […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): On the occasion of India’s Presidency of the UN Security Council, the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, New York hosted a special event to unveil and launch the world’s […]
NEW YORK (TIP): President Joyce Banda of the Republic of Malawi has appointed a prominent Indian American Bobby K. Kalotee as Malawi’s “Liaison Envoy” to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. President said Bobby will be the […]
New York based businessman and philanthropist Bobby Kalotee has lately been in the news for his appointment by Government of Malawi as Liaison Envoy to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. His charity work in Malawi did […]
Born on the 4th of December in 1919, in the district headquarter town of Jhelum in the then Rawalpindi division of pre-1947 united Punjab, former Prime Minister of India Shri Inder Kumar Gujral died just […]
Govt declares 7-day national mourning | Prez, PM, top leaders express grief NEW DELHI (TIP): Former Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral, who headed a Congress-supported coalition government in 1997-98, died at a hospital in Gurgaon […]
Fearing that slow development of transport infrastructure could become the biggest “game stopper” for India’s economic growth, PM Manmohan Singh has asked for speeding up completion of major railway, road and port projects NEW DELHI […]
NAPERVILLE, IL (TIP): His Holiness Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj returned to the Chicagoland area this month after presiding over the 20th Global Conference on Mysticism in Delhi, India. During his stay in the Chicagoland […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Scores of lawmakers from the House and Senate attended a gala organized by an Indian American organization to celebrate the work of the Congressional Caucus for India and Indian Americans. The caucus is […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The government of India has reviewed the provision relating to two months gap between two visits of a foreign national to India on a tourist visa. A Press Release from Indian Consulate […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed has criticized foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar for promising to take action against him if India provides evidence, saying the Pakistan government had been unable to resolve outstanding […]
In the aftermath of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Narasimha Rao government reworked India’s dysfunctional economic and foreign policies to improve India’s abysmal terms of trade with the rest of the world. The […]
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