NEW DELHI (TIP): The Law Commission of India will soon recommend abolition of death penalty in the country, said a report on August 28. The Law Commission has prepared a 272-page draft report that has […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The percentage of Muslims in the country’s population increased 0.8 percentage points between 2001 and 2011 to 14.23% or 17.22 crore. In the previous decade, i.e. between 1991 and 2001, their share […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Arrested media baron Indrani Mukherjea, accused of murdering her daughter Sheena Bora, on August 27 broke down during questioning by the Mumbai Police. According to a report, Indrani started crying when she was […]
MALDA (TIP): Just when the Indian government is planning to take the import route to keep supply of onions on the common man’s platter steady, the pricey commodity is being sold at almost half the […]
PATNA (TIP): Under pressure from its allies in Bihar to finalise the seat-sharing arrangement for the upcoming Assembly polls, the BJP indicated on Thursday that it would seal the deal in the first week of […]
BANGALORE (TIP): India’s space agency ISRO crossed another milestone August 27 afternoon, launching its first 2,000-kg-plus satellite on a launch vehicle powered by an indigenous engine. The 2,117-kg GSAT-6 communication satellite flew into space on […]
JAMMU (TIP): Three civilians were killed and nine injured on Friday in heavy and indiscriminate shelling by Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. “Three civilians were killed and nine injured in indiscriminate shelling by […]
JAMMU (TIP): Another Pakistani militant was captured and four more were shot dead in a fierce gunbattle deep in the Rafiabad jungles of Baramulla as the Army and the Jammu and Kashmir Police wound up […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Law Commission of India on Wednesday recommended amending the Constitution to ensure that children below six years of age are protected from “all forms” of neglect, harm and exploitation. The Commission […]
In the run-up to the Bihar Assembly polls, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal travelled to Patna on Thursday and threw his weight behind Chief Minister Nitish Kumar by calling him a sushashak (good administrator) during […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Pentagon’s inspector general is investigating an allegation that the U.S. military command overseeing the anti-Islamic State campaign distorted or altered intelligence assessments to exaggerate progress against the militant group, a defense official […]
MONTGOMERY: Amelia Boynton Robinson, a US civil rights activist who nearly died while helping lead the Selma, Alabama civil rights march in 1965, championed voting rights for blacks and was the first black woman to […]
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA (TIP): Three young men who disarmed a gunman on a high-speed train bound for Paris will get a heroes’ welcome in their hometown in California, the mayor of Sacramento said on Monday. “Big […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama is caught between the White House aspirations of two of his closest advisers: Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. For months, White House officials […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least 13 people were killed and 16 injured in two separate road accidents in Pakistan on August 25, local media reported. Samaa TV said that in the first accident, a van-oil tanker […]
HERAT (TIP): At least 11 people, most of them children, were killed in a series of explosions at an Afghan gas storage facility, which triggered a massive inferno in a nearby settlement for displaced people, […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): At least nine people, including six policemen, were killed and several others injured as thousands of ethnic protesters demanding a separate state in the proposed new Constitution on August 24 attacked police with […]
MALE (TIP): Mohamed Nasheed has been forcibly taken back to jail by police, a month after the former Maldivian president’s 13-year prison term was commuted to house arrest, his party claimed on August 24, describing […]
SACRAMENTO, CA (TIP): Three Indian-Americans and as many persons from India are among 29 people, who have been named as Fellows this year by the American Society for Metals, for their contributions in the field […]
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ (TIP): Shourav Dasari correctly spelled the word “Psocoptera” (an order of insects including booklice) during the 2015 MetLife South Asian Spelling Bee finals to clinch the title of national champion and took […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): A Japanese climber will be the first to attempt to scale Mount Everest since a massive earthquake in April triggered avalanches that killed 18 climbers, shutting an industry that feeds thousands of people […]
ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (TIP): A Pakistani court on August 27 issued arrest warrant for former PM Yousuf Raza Gilani in a corruption case. The anti-corruption court issued the warrant against Gilani for his alleged involvement in […]
Sharia or sharia law is the Islamic legal system derived from the religious precepts of Islam, particularly the Quran and the Hadith (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia). Various recent studies demonstrate that the Islamization of America is […]
The global financial markets are in turmoil because of developments in China. The economic growth of China is slowing down since the last five years and is projected to grow at 6.3 per cent in 2016, […]
The India Day Parades in celebration of India’s Independence in New York and New Jersey are left behind and the season ahead will witness various Dessert and Diwali celebrations. Most of these events are organized by […]
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