ANAND: The family of a 39-year-old man from Anand district in Gujarat, who was shot dead in the USA in an attack, sought the Indian government’s help on Tuesday to get his body back. “We request […]
Actor Paresh Rawal is looking forward to the shooting of the Narendra Modi biopic and feels it’s a massive responsibility as an artiste to don the role of Indian Prime Minister. The yet-to-be titled film, which will […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A complaint was filed against Union Minister Giriraj Singh in a district court on April 2 by a Congress worker for his racist remarks against Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Sanjay Kumar Singh […]
Mr. Julio Ribeiro, Retired IPS officer, former DGP of Mumbai and Gujarat recently said: ‘As a Christian, suddenly, I am a stranger in my own country’. He was merely reflecting on the recent dilemma of the Christian community […]
The Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime (GCTOC) Bill 2015 carries disturbing echoes of draconian anti-terror laws such as the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) and the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA). Both […]
BENGALURU (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi and International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach will meet later this month in New Delhi to discuss India’s likely bid for the 2024 Olympic Games. “The Union government is […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): As his government heads towards completing one year in office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is looking again to his bureaucrats to put in their best to bring back shine to the image […]
WASHINGTON: Around 60 Indian-Americans have asked the US government and the Congress to consider imposing sanctions on India, alleging that they have “not been able to get justice” from the Indian system in reuniting with their […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The nation’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, was conferred on a former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on March 27. President of India, Pranab Mukherjee went to Vajpayee’s residence on Krishna […]
BEIJING (TIP): China’s government and the tourism industry are both excited about the prospects of India offering visa-on-arrival facility to Chinese tourists. Industry sources said this will result in more than doubling the number of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reach Ottawa on April 14, ending a 42-year-long hiatus in bilateral visit by an Indian prime minister to Canada. Indira Gandhi was the last Indian prime minister […]
Governments apologising for acts committed generations ago do give a veneer, even if superficial, of turning a new page on the blemished past, but there’s competing politics involved. For the large Punjabi community in Canada, the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government said would boost imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to improve electricity generation and revive plants worth billions of dollars to fuel economic expansion. India’s plan to import LNG will […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made clear his commitment to clear up the Ganga River. This is a most welcome step since Ganga is Holy to People world over. Ashes of many American Indians are taken […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe has again said that his country’s navy has the right to shoot anyone who intrudes into its territorial waters, notwithstanding India’s forthright disapproval. “The Lankan navy has […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lankan government on Wednesday said it may lift the ban on Tamil diaspora groups imposed by the previous Mahinda Rajapaksa regime to achieve reconciliation with the minority community. Foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Envoys of six leading world powers — US, Japan, China, Britain, Germany and Canada- hailed, March 14, India’s emergence as a major player at the “global high table” and complimented the new government for its […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Looking to expand in India, US-based infrastructure design and consultancy giant AECOM plans to hire 1,500 new employees here as it prepares to participate in initiatives like ‘Smart Cities’ and ‘Make in […]
COLOMBO (TIP): India and Sri Lanka on March 13 signed four bilateral pacts — agreement on visa, customs, youth development and building Rabindranath Tagore memorial — during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first tour to the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The first meeting of BJP’s new national executive finalised on March 12 by party president Amit Shah is expected in the first week of April in Bangalore. Shah finalised the party’s 111-member […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done well by focusing on Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri Lanka for diplomatic engagement, something that was long awaited. It has been 28 years since an Indian PM made a stand-alone visit […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — Vinod Mehta, founding editor of India’s Outlook magazine and a fearless and irreverent commentator on Indian politics, died Sunday. He was 73. Mehta died of multiple organ failure at New Delhi’s […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A day after the government faced embarrassment due to division of votes in Rajya Sabha over an amendment to the President’s address, an ‘unhappy’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Feb 4 […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Feb 28 announced a budget that put boosting growth before painful reforms, slowing the pace of fiscal deficit cuts and seeking to put domestic and foreign capital […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): As Prime Minister Narendra Modi braces to firm up New Delhi’s bid to countervail Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “One Belt One Road” initiative, Beijing has now suggested that India’s own efforts to […]
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