BHOPAL (TIP): The Madhya Pradesh government will take the ordinance route to rechristen and overhaul the tainted examination and recruitment agency, Vyapam, after it failed to bring a bill in the monsoon session of the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): After 33 years of service, environmentalist R K Pachauri, accused of sexual harassment, was removed as the chief of The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri) on July 23. Pachauri had recently succeeded […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The VHP has put the NDA government in a tight spot with its patron Ashok Singhal on Saturday declaring that India will be a Hindu nation by 2020, following the BJP’s victory […]
ANANTAPUR (TIP): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on July 24 began his 10 km-long ‘padyatra’ from a village in the district to highlight the issues faced by farmers and women Self-Help Groups. Rahul, who has […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a move that may dilute powers of RBI chief, the government today proposed taking away his authority to veto the interest rate decision of the central bank’s monetary policy committee. The […]
DALLAS (TIP): Sandra Bland, like many people her age, regularly voiced opinions about racism and other topics on social media. The 28-year-old posted about going natural with her hair, the “Black Lives Matter” movement, and […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Barack Obama is inviting Pakistan beleaguered Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to the White House in October, raising the prospect of a second such visit in two years despite the US President reneging on […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan would include proof of alleged Indian involvement in the Taliban attack on a Peshawar army school last year, which killed 152 people mostly kids, in a dossier that it would handover to […]
BAMIYAN, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): Trudging halfway up a jagged goat trail, guide Mohammad Ibrahim extolled the panoramic view — a vast, ancient landscape of russet-hued cliffs that is on the frontline of Afghan efforts to jumpstart […]
YANGON (TIP): The Myanmar government and armed ethnic minority groups resumed critical talks on Wednesday to reach a nationwide ceasefire agreement that would end six decades of fighting before an upcoming general election that threatens […]
COLOMBO (TIP): The Maldives parliament said on July 23 it has sacked the country’s vice-president and accused him of treason, as international concern mounts over the state of democracy on the honeymoon islands. Lawmakers voted […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Anjuman-e-Badri hosted its annual public relations event at Jamali Markaz, Queens-New York. This event was attended by several local politicians which included councilmen, assemblymen, various supporters and Jamaat members. Also present was […]
MOUNTAIN LAKE, NJ (TIP): A Mountain Lakes man was arrested Saturday, July 11 morning by the New Jersey State Police for allegedly causing a chain reaction crash on Route 80 that killed a man, a […]
MINEOLA, NY (TIP): Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano announced, July 21, that the historic public-private partnership between United Water and Nassau County received an award for innovation from the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships […]
“Westphalian sovereignty is the principle of international law that each nation state has sovereignty over its territory and domestic affairs, to the exclusion of all external powers. The principle of non-interference in another country’s domestic affairs, […]
It took over two months for the Indian forces to push back the intruders and reclaim the posts under an operation code named Op Vijay. India lost 527 officers and soldiers in the operation and […]
QUEENS, NY (TIP): Queens Borough President Melinda Katz announced an allocation of $5 million of her Fiscal Year 2016 discretionary capital funds to support capital projects at all five City University of New York (CUNY) […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Wildfires have burned a phenomenal 5.5 million acres across the U.S. so far this year, an area equal to the size of New Jersey. This is the second-highest total in at least the […]
HOUSTON (TIP): NASA said Thursday, July 23, that its Kepler spacecraft has spotted “Earth’s bigger, older cousin”: the first nearly Earth-size planet to be found in the habitable zone of a star similar to our […]
SAN JOSE (TIP): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address U.S-based NRIs in San Jose during his visit to the Silicon Valley on September 27-28. The event is likely to take place in an arena dubbed the “Shark […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): “In one year, Parliament runs for eighty days during sessions. Each day, business in both Houses are transacted for around six hours. If we take into account the total annual expenditure on […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Twenty two years after 13 explosions rocked Mumbai leaving 257 dead and over 700 injured, one of the main accused Yakub Abdul Razak Memon is likely to be hanged at the month-end. […]
Ten years ago a historic, though unexpected, announcement was made in Washington after a meeting between the then US President George Bush and the then Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. It said that the […]
FLUSHING, NY (TIP): State Senator Avella joined a number of advocacy groups and community leaders at a press conference, July 23, to urge Governor Cuomo to sign into law Senate Bill S.903/Assembly Bill A.8122, which […]
LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA (TIP): A shooting at a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater left at least two people dead and nine others injured, health officials said. The shooting inside the Grand Theatre 16 involved “multiple victims,” the […]
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