SURAT (TIP): Buddhist Society of India’s Surat chapter on April 25 held a dharna to demand legal action against chief minister Narendra Modi’s younger brother Prahlad Modi for comparing him with Gautam Buddha. Prahlad Modi, […]
GONDA (TIP): It seems that no one can stop Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma from spewing venom against BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. A day after the Election Commission issued a show-cause notice to […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): In a move that has left the Congress redfaced, the BJP on April 25 inducted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s youngest brother Daljit Singh Kohli into the party. This was done at BJP’s prime […]
AHMEDABAD (TIP): BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has found supporters away from India, as a group of US-based non-resident Indians (NRIs), who had raised funds for Barack Obama during the 2012 US presidential elections, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Voter turnouts higher than the 2009 poll figures marked the fifth and biggest round of Lok Sabha elections covering 121 seats across 12 states amidst largely peaceful balloting on April 17. A […]
BOKARO/ DUMKA (TIP): Former president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Nitin Gadkari on April 18 lashed out at Congress and said if there was an Olympic Games to felicitate the most corrupt person in the […]
VADODARA (TIP): The fate of Gujarati flick ‘Namo Saune Gamo’ will be decided by a team of election officials in Vadodara on April 18. The election officials will watch the film that has been released […]
KANPUR (TIP): Prime ministerial candidate of BJP Narendra Modi touched the feet of senior party leader and candidate from Kanpur Lok Sabha seat MM Joshi on the dais to douse any doubt of chasm between […]
In May 2005, as Indian and Pakistani Track I negotiators were reaching a ‘settlement deal’ on the forbidden Siachen Glacier, the then Chief of the Army Staff Joginder Jaswant Singh made an unexpected public statement. […]
“With BJP declaring Modi as its prime ministerial candidate and the nation turning in his favor; US is trying to find an escape route”, says the author. There has been a buzz in the diplomatic […]
Amethi (TIP): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on April 18 criticized Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar for threatening farmers of a village in Baramati. Pawar is reported to have said that he would stop […]
LUCKNOW (TIP): Azam Khan, a senior minister in Uttar Pradesh, on April 19 said he will not apologise for an alleged hate speech that led to him being banned from campaigning by the Election Commission. […]
ETAWAH (TIP): Narendra Modi has attacked Mulayam Singh Yadav on his home turf in Uttar Pradesh, calling him soft on rapists, but tough on Muzaffarnagar riot victims. “Our Netaji (Mulayam) has a problem, where he […]
VARANASI (TIP): Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will file his nomination from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency on April 24, party general secretary Amit Shah said Saturday, April 19. “Modi will file […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Congress party stirred a controversy by putting Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s photo on its official website. The photo was published with a caption that […]
UNJHA (TIP): Away from the world’s gaze, she was leading a quiet life as a retired schoolteacher. But when the spotlight turned to her, Jashodaben Modi, officially accepted by chief minister Narendra Modi, was nowhere […]
LUCKNOW (TIP): It looks like UP cabinet minister Azam Khan’s problems are not over yet. On Thursday, Election Commission (EC) officials said the commission was probing numerous parts of a speech the Samajwadi party (SP) […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Elections, it is said, are about spending big. This despite repeated poll panel efforts to curb candidate expenses. The EC rule book is clear: Each candidate is entitled to spend a maximum […]
Modi’s silence on foreign policy is rather intriguing. “Our most severe external challenges are driven not by economics but politics, relating to territory, terrorism, religious extremism, nuclear blackmail, constraining our strategic options and boxing us […]
Unless the leaders of India, especially from the secular parties show some courage to stand up to fundamentalism that may emanate from any quarters whether it is Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian and stop exploiting […]
UDAIPUR/JHUNJHUNU (TIP): Accusing the BJP of copying his party’s poll manifesto, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on April 10 said its only focus seemed to be on making Narendra Modi the prime minister. “It took […]
After entering a green light mode, India-US relations have slipped into an amber mode. How soon we can get back into smooth circulation will depend largely on the US, as the responsibility for the malaise […]
RANCHI (TIP): India has been ruled by a “black magician” for the past 10 years, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said April 10. Quoting Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who said the Bharatiya Janata Party […]
BHUBANESWAR (TIP): Beating the drums for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, yoga guru Baba Ramdev has again promised to bring back Indian currency stashed away in foreign banks within 100 days […]
VADODRA (TIP): Narendra Modi broke silence over wife Jashodaben and mentioned her in his poll affidavit for the first time in 45 years of matrimonial alliance. Modi, who is fighting his fifth election from Gujarat, […]
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