COLOMBO (TIP): India and Sri Lanka on March 13 signed four bilateral pacts — agreement on visa, customs, youth development and building Rabindranath Tagore memorial — during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first tour to the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): After a sting operation claimed that AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal had talked of poaching Congress MLAs to form the government in Delhi, a new tape has emerged in which he allegedly said […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Congress on March 12 slammed the Modi government over the release of Masarat Alam, saying the way the entire episode unfolded smacked of a “fixed match” between BJP and PDP, coalition […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The first meeting of BJP’s new national executive finalised on March 12 by party president Amit Shah is expected in the first week of April in Bangalore. Shah finalised the party’s 111-member […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India’s swine flu outbreak appears to be waning, with the week ending March 8 recording a sharp fall in weekly deaths, which had plateaued at around 270 since February 8, shows surveillance […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Delhi Police will question Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar as part of its investigations into the alleged murder of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar. Delhi Police Commissioner Bassi said on March […]
NAGPUR (TIP): There are no minorities in India where all people are “culturally, nationally and DNA-wise Hindus,” senior RSS leader Dattatreya Hosabale said on March 13. “Whom do you call minorities? We don’t consider anybody […]
FERGUSON (Missouri): The shooting of two police officers during a protest rally in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked a sweeping manhunt for suspects on Thursday and ratcheted up tensions in a city at the centre of a […]
MIAMI (TIP): Two Pakistani-born brothers pleaded guilty on March 11 to charges of plotting a terrorist explosives attack against New York City landmarks and assaulting two deputy US marshals while in custody. The pleas were […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP) : Major world powers have begun talks about a United Nations Security Council resolution to lift UN sanctions on Iran if a nuclear agreement is struck with Tehran, a step that could […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US Secret Service said on March 11 that two agents were under investigation after an incident last week in which they were reported to have driven a government car into White House […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama will not accept action by Congress that “locks in” sequestration spending constraints, White House budget director Shaun Donovan said on March 12 as Republicans prepare to release their budget […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Empowered by a technology developed by the CIA, the US Justice Department uses secret airborne devices that mimic cellphone towers to track American citizens while hunting criminal suspects, a media report has said. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Obama on Wednesday nominated career diplomat David Hale as the US ambassador to Pakistan amid continuous misgivings about the country’s commitment to fight terrorism, fueled by new disclosures that Islamabad tried to […]
LONDON (TIP): A domestic inquiry into alleged war crimes committed during the Sri Lankan civil war may be set up in less than a month, President Maithripala Sirisena said on his trip to Britain. He, […]
TORONTO (TIP): Canadian immigration officials have arrested a Pakistani man who they say was plotting to attack the US consulate and other buildings in Toronto’s financial district. The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada said […]
DHAKA (TIP): The wife of an American blogger and critic of religious extremism who was hacked to death in Dhaka last month said that police stood nearby when the couple were attacked on a university […]
LETPADAN, MYANMAR (TIP): Myanmar police beat students with batons and detained some of them as they broke up a group of about 200 protesters who had been locked in a standoff with security forces for […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has inaugurated a new session of parliament, praising the country’s security forces in his speech. Ghani made an address Saturday as parliament reconvened. He said insurgents who tried to […]
What the senators did could technically count as treason. The good news is that Republicans in the Senate have noticed that their government is involved in a negotiation with Iran to prevent it acquiring a nuclear […]
It is fitting that the 30th anniversary of India’s defining victory in the World Championship of Cricket, which was celebrated this week, has coincided with the current team’s stirring run in the World Cup. Sunil Gavaskar’s […]
Describing Hinduism in India as “anti-human rights” and accusing former Afghan President Hamid Karzai of helping “India stab Pakistan in the back,” General Musharraf acknowledged on February 13 that “Pakistan had its own proxies” in Afghanistan and […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done well by focusing on Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri Lanka for diplomatic engagement, something that was long awaited. It has been 28 years since an Indian PM made a stand-alone visit […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director Rajat Gupta said his insider-trading conviction should be thrown out because prosecutors failed to prove their case under a sweeping appeals court ruling last year, says […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Women’s Education Project (WEP) will honor Kayce Freed Jennings of The Documentary Group and the film Girl Rising with WEP’s Red Bangle Award. The ceremony will be held on March 16th at […]
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