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 […]
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 sought […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been named among the 30 most influential people on the internet by Time magazine in a list which also features US President Barack Obama. The list, which […]
KHANDWA (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 5 took on the opposition over the prospects of defeat of important bills in the Rajya Sabha, where the government is in a minority. “You may have […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): The India Diaspora Investment Initiative, a unique program President Barack Obama unveiled during his visit to India for the Republic Day celebrations, is seeking investment from Indian American and other investors to […]
The most important country for Pakistan is India. How? It is an adversary with which we have very poor relations. We see each other as major threats. We cannot even sustain a dialogue. We have a […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The summons issued to Amitabh Bachchan by a federal court in Los Angeles in an alleged human rights violation case has been served to the superstar’s Hollywood manager Feb. 23, according to a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): PDP patron Mufti Mohammed Sayeed will head a 25-member cabinet, half of it from BJP, in Jammu and Kashmir and the swearing-in ceremony on March 1 in Jammu will be attended by […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu shunned the populism of the past to deliver a reform-oriented railway budget on Thursday, February 26, that focused on modernizing an ageing network and improving amenities for the […]
Mangalore 25th Feb: In an another case of disturbing communal peace in the coastal city, unidentified miscreants targeted St. Joseph’s church, Deralakatte on the outskirts of the city here on Tuesday night. This follows the […]
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