NEW DELHI(TIP): The Supreme Court on February 19 declined to hear the bail plea, at this stage, of JNU students’ union leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who was arrested on sedition charges for allegedly chanting “anti-national” slogans […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The protests in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) began on Wednesday, Feb 10, when Left-oriented students’ group planned to organise a cultural program and a protest march to protest against the ‘Judicial Killing […]
ROHTAK (TIP):Jat protests have disrupted road and rail traffic with the worst hit being the Rohtak-Jhajjar, the epicentre of the protests, besides Bhiwani, Sonipat and Hisar. Trucks have been stranded near Rohtak bypass as the […]
Why Jats are protesting now? It’s a double whammy for them. The Punjab and Haryana high court on July 27 last year stayed the decision of the state government to grant 10 % quota to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The US, India and Pakistan are “quietly exploring” the possibility of a meeting between Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif on the margins of a nuclear security summit in Washington next month, […]
NAGPUR (TIP): Instead of a bullet train in the country, the Indian Railways should work on improving existing facilities, believes the ‘Metro Man’ Dr E Sreedharan. On sidelines of a function in Nagpur on Thursday, […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Mayor Bill de Blasio on Feb. 17 pledged that the city would spend more than $9 million in “language access” programs including translation and interpretation services in 2016, and that the […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Muslim Democratic Club of New York (MDCNY), on February 16, 2016, voted to endorse United States Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Presidential Primary. Sanders received unanimous support in a vote […]
NEW YORK (TIP): No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man’s religion or faith,” Pope Francis said in statement. Trump added that the government in Mexico, where Francis spent […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Hillary Clinton has said she is not sure if the US is ready to elect its first woman president even as the Democratic presidential front-runner emphasised that there has been a “big improvement” […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Ohio State University and Delhi-based IndoGenius have developed an online course to help students learn about the importance of India. The course, which was launched Jan 12 by Ambassador to India, Richard […]
ROWLAND HEIGHTS (CALIFORNIA) (TIP): Three students from China were sentenced on Feb 17 to years in prison after prosecutors said they stripped, beat and burned two classmates. The defendants and victims were “parachute kids” who […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): North Korea’s recently launched satellite is once again tumbling in orbit, after stabilizing briefly, according to a US official and other sources. The satellite update came as a key congressional watchdog agency said […]
UNITED STATES (TIP): An outbreak of fighting at a UN peacekeeping base sheltering civilians in South Sudan has killed at least seven people and injured 40, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday. The seven […]
Dear President Obama, The untimely demise of Mr. Justice Scalia is a grave loss to our Republic, as he, single-handedly, made us honor the Constitution as our collective Founding Fathers originally intended. J. Scalia, of Sicilian ancestry, was […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan hanged 324 people last year to rank third worldwide in terms of executions, but the vast majority of those put to death had no links to militant groups or attacks, rights groups said […]
MALE:A Maldives court has sentenced an Islamist opposition leader to 12 years in jail, convicting him on terrorism charges related to a speech that protested the imprisonment of the islands’ first democratically elected president, Mohamed […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil S Wickremesinghe on Feb 19 made it clear that his government was not averse to international participation in investigating the alleged war crimes in his country, but said […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Promising to end Nepal’s internal problems soon, Prime Minister KP Oli on Tuesday said the proposed political committee to address the demands of the Madhesis will be formed before his fence-mending India visit […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): At least nine tribal police personnel and seven terrorists were killed in three separate incidents at a tribal agency in Pakistan’s restive northwestern region bordering Afghanistan. The first incident occurred at Karpa Latri […]
The campaign begins virtually the moment the last vote has been cast in the previous Congressional mid-term elections – and even before that an aspiring candidate may be quietly putting the bones of a campaign together, […]
First, let us mourn the death of ‘Sonney di Chidi’ (golden bird) that Punjab once was. It was a prosperous state with abundance in resources. Even more promising was the leadership of those times (somewhat upto […]
What is the issue at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi? A radical left-wing student group as vocal and abusive as RSS/Parivar organized a function to discuss the ‘judicial murder of’ of Afzal Guru as […]
Beijing’s reported deployment of surface-to-air missile bound to be introspected as launchers on an island in the South China Sea recently photographed by a commercial satellite is an act of grave provocation. It is clearly in […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Ambassador Arun Singh, India’s envoy to the United States, inaugurated the curtain raiser for the 34th annual convention of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) during a solemn […]
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