NEW DELHI (TIP): With India signing a historic peace accord with the rebel NSCN (IM) on Monday, August 3, curtain has come down on the oldest insurgency movement in the country which saw bloody clashes between […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A special sitting of Lok Sabha held on May 13, 2012, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first sitting of Parliament of India had passed a unanimous resolution to “uphold and […]
The response of the Punjab Police to the Dinanagar terror strike on July 27 has stirred up a debate on the appropriateness of employing the State Police as against the Army in such a scenario. […]
New Delhi: The government has sought parliamentary approval for an extra Rs 18,995 crore social sectors during 2015-16, almost half of the total extra spending asked for over the Budget Estimates (BE). In a supplementary demand […]
New Delhi (TIP) (Secondary Research): The Government of India has announced highway projects worth US$ 93 billion, which include government flagship National Highways Building Project (NHDP) with total investment of US$ 45 billion over next three […]
New Delhi (TIP) : The Government has earmarked Rs 50,000 crore (US$ 8 billion) to develop 100 smart cities in the country from which each selected city would get assistance of Rs 100 crore (US$ 16 […]
TIP (Secondary Research): Europacific Growth Fund, the largest foreign portfolio investor (FPI) in India was born seven years before liberalisation ushered foreign investment into Indian equity markets. Today, it holds $131 billion in assets under management; […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Iran nuclear deal is not intended to push Tehran’s regime to reform but to prevent it building a bomb, secretary of state John Kerry told skeptical US lawmakers on July 31. In […]
MIAMI (TIP): Hillary Clinton will urge US lawmakers on Friday to lift the trade embargo against Cuba, arguing that Republican opposition to normalizing ties reflects the past’s “failed policies,” her campaign said. Clinton, the frontrunner […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to ban the possession of large-capacity gun magazines on July 29, following San Francisco to become the second major city in California to take that […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian-American Mary Thomas, a government attorney in Florida, has said that she will run for the US Congressional elections in November 2016. If elected, Thomas, whose parents arrived in American from India in […]
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY (TIP): An attorney for Republican presidential contender Donald Trump apologized on Tuesday for making the incorrect assertion that “by the very definition, you can’t rape your spouse.” In a story published on Monday night […]
CHICAGO (TIP): A white Ohio police officer who shot a black man during a routine traffic stop was charged with murder on Wednesday in what prosecutors called a “senseless” act motivated by anger. The case […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Malik Ishaq, the dreaded chief of banned Sunni sectarian outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was gunned down along with his two sons and 11 others early on July 30 morning by police in an alleged exchange […]
New Delhi (TIP): India would retain its “demographic dividend” for the next 85 years and a steady rise in the population will make India surpass China by 2022 to become the world’s most populated nation, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US authorities opened a probe on July 31 into the killing of a beloved lion in Zimbabwe, as the American doctor who hunted the big cat remained in hiding amid mounting global outrage. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US has issued a worldwide travel caution for its citizens including in India in the wake of increased threat coming in particular from the expanding global presence of the Islamic State. In […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States and other stakeholders in Afghanistan are scrambling to organize a response to the sudden disclosure that Taliban chief Mullah Omar has been dead for sometime and a council of the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A Delhi court on July 30 fixed August 14 for hearing a case in which the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a closure report giving a clean chit to Congress […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): After eight years, the defence ministry has cancelled the 2007 global tender to buy 126 fighter jets for the Indian Air Force, whose squadron strength nosedived in the last decade. “The Request […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on July 30 said the three terrorists killed in Dinanagar town of Gurdaspur district in Punjab had infiltrated from Pakistan and warned the neighboring country that any […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Yakub Memon has been executed but he has left behind a litigation record that will be difficult to break – his petitions were dealt with by as many as 14 judges of […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The hanging of Yakub Memon on July 30 in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts in which 257 people lost their lives and over 700 were injured, is the first execution of death sentence […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress on July 30 scrambled to disown the controversial remarks of its party leaders Digvijaya Singh and Shashi Tharoor over the hanging of Yakub Memon. With finance minister Arun Jaitley pouncing on […]
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