The announcement of the election results has justifiably generated enormous excitement, both in the state as also the rest of the country, since the formation of a coalition government is proving to be a daunting […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayeeand Madan Mohan Malaviya will be conferred the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, the government announced on December 24 This came on the eve of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Paving way for additional foreign investment in insurance and to move ahead with the re-allocation of cancelled coal mines, President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday signed the two ordinances in this regard. The […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): After months of discussion, the government is set to allow developers of special economic zones (SEZs) to throw open apartments, schools and hospitals to those who live outside the enclaves, a move […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The division and denial in Pakistan’s political class on terror was evident once again when former PPP minister Sherry Rehman said those engaged in the apologist narrative on terrorist attacks would be […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The division and denial in Pakistan’s political class on terror was evident once again when former PPP minister Sherry Rehman said those engaged in the apologist narrative on terrorist attacks would be […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India has conveyed toPakistan its “strong concern” on grant ofbail to key Mumbai attack handler ZakiurRehman Lakhvi, saying the release willmake a mockery of Pakistan’s commitmentto fight terror groups without hesitationand without […]
New Delhi (TIP): The deadlock in the Rajya Sabha seems to have no end in sight with both the government and opposition on December 18 unrelenting from their stand on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’sreply on […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a show of mercy, aDelhi court on December 18 said the menconvicted of murdering railway minister LNMishra in 1975 should not be condemned todeath and sentenced the four to lifeimprisonment instead.The […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The SupremeCourt on December 18 sked theChief Justice of Madhya PradeshHigh Court to divest one of hiscolleagues, accused of sexuallyharassing a woman AdditionalDistrict and Sessions Judge(ADSJ), from undertaking alladministrative and supervisoryfunctions. The […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Akhil BharatHindu Mahasabha wants to installNathuram Godse’s bust at public places incities across India, the far-right politicalparty’s national president ChandraPrakash Kaushik said on December 18.Social scientists feel the move might notonly […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on December 18declined to interfere with a Bombay High Court orderwhich stayed the Maharashtra government’s decisionproviding 16 per cent reservation to Marathas in jobs andeducational institutions.A bench presided over […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): SpiceJet’s fall from grace has led the cash registers ringing for other Indian carriers. Troubles at Kalanithi Maran-owned low cost carrier (LCC) started from mid-November when leasers started repossessing aircraft, leading to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government plans to set up a multi-model transport organization to facilitate faster movement of goods through rail, water, air and road, railways minister Suresh Prabhu said on Decedmber 18. The Minister […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Alibaba founder and executive chairman Jack Ma is this year’s biggest financial gainer as the billionaire entrepreneur’s fortune has swelled by a whopping USD 18.5 billion this year to USD 29.2 billion, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Cabinet on December 17 cleared the GST Constitutional Amendment Bill for its tabling in the current session of Parliament, as it races against time to keep the April 2016 deadline to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The BCCI on Wednesday submitted a list of individuals to the Supreme Court with potential conflicts of interest. The list reportedly includes names of Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Kris Srikkanth, Venkatesh Prasad and Sourav […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): U.S. Senate on Wednesday, December 10, unanimously confirmed Richard Rahul Verma as the next US ambassador to India. Verma becomes the first-ever Indian-American to hold the post. Verma’s nomination was approved by the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A heated debate in the Lok Sabha on the alleged conversion of 200 Muslims to Hinduism in Agra saw a united opposition accusing the government of engineering “religious polarisation” for political gains. […]
RAMNAGAR (TIP): She is 46 now and Shiv Kumar Yadav, the man accused of raping a finance executive in an Uber cab in Delhi, used to call her ‘chachi’ (aunt). But that didn’t stop him […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): After finding itself at the receiving end of several malicious campaigns in the social media, the Army on Thursday spelt out the dos and don’ts for its personnel who use these platforms. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A proposal to give Rs 5 lakh each to the kin of victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, triggered after assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, has been approved by […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government has initiated the process of drafting a law against honour killings by treating crimes in the name of honour as a separate category of offences. The moves comes after 22 […]
New Delhi (TIP): In a single stroke, the Supreme Court has dismissed more than 800 multiple appeals which were filed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) against judgments of the Armed Forces Tribunal that had […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress Rajya Sabha MP Hussain Dalwai on December 11strongly condemned the alleged efforts to “glorify” Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse and demanded arrest of those involved in such exercise. “A person who […]
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