Europe
Modi rocks UAE, nets major gains
DUBAI (TIP): There are about 700 flights every week from India to the Gulf region, the largest to any foreign region, and yet it took 34 years for an Indian Prime Minister to visit it, […]
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India
Narendra Modi auction PM, not action PM: Congress
PATNA (TIP): Terming Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an “auction PM” and not “action PM” over the way he announced the Rs 1.25 lakh crore special package for Bihar, the Congress today said people will […]
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Modi, Nitish brace up for ‘mother of all elections’ in Bihar
Just hours after returning to Delhi from a whirlwind 48-hour visit to the UAE, Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Bihar and announced a massive Rs 1.25 lakh crore package for the poll bound state. The […]
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India-Pakistan talks under a cloud
The proposed talks between the National Security Advisors of India and Pakistan this Sunday, which were decided at a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Ufa, have come under […]
India
Modi-Obama hotline becomes operational
WASHINGTON (TIP): The hotlines or secure lines of communication between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama and their national security advisers have recently become operational, though it has not been put to […]
India
Indian Diaspora in US Organising Grand Reception for PM Modi
The Indian community in the United States is planning to host a mega reception for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will travel to San Francisco after addressing a United Nations summit on sustainable development on […]
United States
Indian Consul General Mulay Rings Nasdaq Closing Bell on Independence Day
NEW YORK: India’s Consul General Dnyaneshwar Mulay invited American individuals and companies to join Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship projects ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’ as he, accompanied by Bollywood star Arjun Rampal, rang the […]
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Modi remains in election mode as he offends the opposition
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, like his predecessor and foe-turned-friend Lalu Prasad Yadav, has an earthy sense of humor. In a recent jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Nitish Kumar said, `ek pehle prime minister […]
Business & Economics
India’s economic data brings cheer amid worries over stalled reforms
NEW DELHI (TIP): India’s retail inflation cooled to a record low in July and annual growth in industrial production hit a four-month high in June, bringing cheer to investors fretting that gridlock in parliament is […]
Business & Economics
Global Indians – 13 Global CEOs
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has all along been appreciative of the struggles and achievements of NRIs. His close association with a number of NRIs all across the world is well known. There is no country in […]
India
Congress can’t do without power, PM Modi says
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Aug 13 hit out at Congress for disrupting Parliament, saying the party’s tactics demonstrated its dependence on power and the anti-democratic mindset which led to Emergency in […]
India
Ahead of I-Day, security agencies warn against 26/11 influx of terrorists
NEW DELHI (TIP): Security agencies have warned about a possible 26/11 style influx of terrorists from the sea and an attack on BJP offices, asking the forces to remain alert on the occasion of Independence […]
India
PM Modi’s Promises made a year ago – a Status Report
During his Independence Day speech in 2013, a year before he delivered his first speech as prime minister from the Red Fort, Narendra Modi delivered his speech as Gujarat chief minister in a college in […]
United States
Intense time ahead for US-India relations: Nisha Desai Biswal
NEW YORK (TIP): US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal said that before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second visit to the US in September, it will be a ‘very […]
India
PM Narendra Modi’s Second US visit to New York & Silicon Valley this September
New York: The US is very much looking forward to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second visit to the country next month and there is “excitement” in Silicon Valley over the potential of a technology partnership between the […]
India
Naga Accord: End of Naga Insurgency?
NEW DELHI (TIP): With India signing a historic peace accord with the rebel NSCN (IM) on Monday, August 3, curtain has come down on the oldest insurgency movement in the country which saw bloody clashes between […]
India
Tender for acquisition of 126 jets cancelled
NEW DELHI (TIP): After eight years, the defence ministry has cancelled the 2007 global tender to buy 126 fighter jets for the Indian Air Force, whose squadron strength nosedived in the last decade. “The Request […]
India
People’s President laid to rest with public outpouring of grief
RAMESHWARAM (TIP): This small temple town, with a population of just about 50,000, turned into mini India as one of the country’s most loved sons was laid to rest with full state honors on Thursday, July […]
Europe
E-visas for Chinese launched
BEIJING (TIP): The system of electronic visas for Chinese citizens, which was promised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Beijing last May has come into effect on Thursday. This will help Chinese, who are not […]
India
Bihar polls: Modi’s Charisma on Test
PATNA (TIP): After declaring a war on his principal rival, Nitish Kumar, at his earlier rally held last week in Muzaffarpur, a northern town known as the ‘political capital’ of Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi now seems to be Principal campaigners – Modi and Nitish pumping in […]
India
The Indian Panorama’s Tribute to India’s Missile Man Bharat Ratna APJ Addul Kalam
Shakespeare may as well had APJ Abdul Kalam, an outstanding human being, teacher, scientist, thinker and much more, in mind, when he penned these words in Julius Caesar in which Antony pays tribute to the slain Caesar. […]
India
Yakub hanging timeline & The Midnight Drama
NEW DELHI (TIP) In what was an unprecedented turn of events, the Supreme Court of India opened the doors of Court Room Number 4 at 3 am on Thursday to hear a fresh mercy plea […]
Asia
Pakistan to include ‘India’s role’ in school attack in dossier
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan would include proof of alleged Indian involvement in the Taliban attack on a Peshawar army school last year, which killed 152 people mostly kids, in a dossier that it would handover to […]
India
Modi to address NRIs in San Jose
SAN JOSE (TIP): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address U.S-based NRIs in San Jose during his visit to the Silicon Valley on September 27-28. The event is likely to take place in an arena dubbed the “Shark […]
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Ten years of India-US Nuclear Deal-Transforming bilateral ties
Ten years ago a historic, though unexpected, announcement was made in Washington after a meeting between the then US President George Bush and the then Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. It said that the […]