WASHINGTON (TIP): A city where the country’s president was once roasted for saying he smoked but“didn’t inhale” has legalized pot, marking a new high in America’s bid to decriminalize marijuana possession and use. Starting on […]
MIAMI (TIP): President Barack Obama is urging immigrants thrown into limbo by legal wrangling to keep planning for eventual relief. He’s professing confidence that his deportation directives won’t be thrown out in court. Obama says […]
HICKSVILLE, NY (TIP): Shiv Chopra, 16, was inducted into the National Honor Society on February 25 at a graceful ceremony at the auditorium of Hicksville High School. He, among other students, was made a member […]
NEW JERSEY (TIP): A multifaceted Prachi Makkar is currently a sophomore at Seton Hall University in the Stillman School of Business. She is studying Finance and Economics with a minor in Theatre. She is a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government is working to get the contentious land acquisition bill passed in Lok Sabha next week, but is increasingly wary that defiant opponents and procedural road blocks may come in the […]
Cornering the government over RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement against Mother Teresa, the Opposition in Rajya Sabha on Feb 26 demanded that PM himself condemn the controversial remarks. The uproar amid the heated exchange of […]
GANDHINAGAR (TIP): BJP-ruled Gujarat may follow Chhattisgarh in al lowing government employees to join the RSS. A senior official of the state general administration department (GAD) said the state government is considering delisting the RSS […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Economic Survey for 2014-15 has projected a growth of 8.1- 8.5 percent for FY16, and said there was scope for big bang reforms. It sees growth rate for the current fiscal […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Election Commission will launch a nationwide drive on March 1 to purify electoral rolls through linking of Aadhaar number with the electors’ database. The rolls authentication and purification mission will strive […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government on Thursday reiterated that no clause connected to the amount of compensation under the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (CLND) Act was waived off in the recent India-US agreement during […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Websites containing jehadi propaganda and other offensive material needed to be blocked in public interest and for protecting the sovereignty and integrity of the country, the Centre told the Supreme Court on […]
BHUBANESWAR (TIP): The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) has called for a 12-hour shutdown in Odisha’s Kandhamal district Saturday to protest the ban on the entry of its top leader Pravin Togadia into the region, a […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Moving ahead with its attachments in the disproportionate assets case against YSR Congress president Jaganmohan Reddy, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Feb 26 attached 29 assets worth Rs 232 crore belonging to Bharati Cements, […]
The world faces two existential threats: Climate change and nuclear Armageddon – and the bomb can kill us all a lot sooner and faster. The nuclear peace has held thus far as much because of good […]
VIENNA (TIP): Austria’s parliament passed a law on February 24 that seeks to regulate how Islam is administered, singling out its large Muslim minority for treatment not applied to any other religious group. The “Law […]
The most important country for Pakistan is India. How? It is an adversary with which we have very poor relations. We see each other as major threats. We cannot even sustain a dialogue. We have a […]
No laundry list of new trains to be started. No announcement of new lines to be laid with ambitious targets. No pet projects to be set up in core constituencies of the ruling party. Make no mistake, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama, with the largest number of Indian Americans in his administration, keeps dipping into the expanding talent pool of the three million-strong Indian American community, to take care of issues ranging […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The summons issued to Amitabh Bachchan by a federal court in Los Angeles in an alleged human rights violation case has been served to the superstar’s Hollywood manager Feb. 23, according to a […]
Satish Narayanappa Babu sentenced for illegally prescribing oxycodone and other substances, fraudulently collecting approximately $216,000 for services he did not provide. An Indian-American doctor has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by a United […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Three Central Asian men have been arrested here on charges of conspiring to provide material support to ISIS, with two of them threatening to carry out attacks within the US and against […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): PDP patron Mufti Mohammed Sayeed will head a 25-member cabinet, half of it from BJP, in Jammu and Kashmir and the swearing-in ceremony on March 1 in Jammu will be attended by […]
Dear Mr. Arnab Goswami, We, the undersigned, who have on many occasions participated in the 9:00 p.m. News Hour programme on Times Now, anchored by you, wish to raise concerns about the shrinking space in […]
MUMBAI: In its biggest-ever penalty, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) imposed fines of Rs 52 crore on realty giant DLF and seven others, including Chairman K P Singh, for “fraudulent and unfair […]
Amid controversy over Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s leave during parliament’s budget session and demands that he be elevated, party president Sonia Gandhi said Thursday that everyone will get to know when such a decision […]
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