India
ARVIND KEJRIWAL: MAN OF DESTINY
NEW DELHI (TIP): Arvind Kejriwal is a social activist and politician. He is the CM designate of Delhi as his party AAP won 67 of the 70 assembly seats of Delhi. He launched the Aam […]
Europe
EU leaders debate new anti-terror measures
BRUSSELS (TIP): Galvanized by the recent terror attacks in France, European Union leaders on February 12 debated a range of ambitious steps to better protect their 28 nations, including exchanging airliner passenger manifests, tightening controls […]
Europe
North Carolina Muslims call for calm as students buried
RALEIGH, UNITED STATES (TIP): The families of three Muslim students shot dead by a white neighbor said an emotional farewell to their loved ones on February 12, reiterating calls for the killings to be treated […]
Europe
BRITAIN BANS DRIVERS FROM SMOKING IN CARS
LONDON (TIP): Britain on February 11 banned drivers in England from smoking in their cars if they are carrying children as passengers. The move will become a law on October 1 and follows a similar […]
India
IIT alumnus Kejriwal inspires poll campaign on Powai campus
MUMBAI (TIP): After the landmark New Delhi assembly polls, it is the turn of young ‘netas’ at IIT-Bombay to do an Arvind Kejriwal in terms of promises. A team of students from the institute had […]
India
Sonia seeks four weeks to respond to CIC notice
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress president Sonia Gandhi has sought four weeks time to respond to a notice of the Central Information Commission seeking an explanation on why her party had not complied with the commission’s […]
India
BJP keeps options open in Bihar power struggle
NEW DELHI (TIP): BJP is keeping its options open of supporting Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi in the trust vote he has to face on February 20. “We are keeping our options open,” senior […]
India
India
J&K STALEMATE ENDS AS PDP, BJP SEAL ALLIANCE
SRINAGAR (TIP): The PDP-BJP alliance is all set to put an end to the Governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir and finally provide the state a government. According to an NDTV report, the two parties […]
India
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL VANDALIZED IN SOUTH DELHI
NEW DELHI (TIP): A Christian school was vandalized by a group of men in Vasant Vihar area of south Delhi early on February 13. The police have identified the school as Holy Child Auxilium which […]
India
134 companies enter final coal block race
NEW DELHI (TIP): Altogether 134 of the 176 companies that queued up for 21 producing coal mines have been found technically qualified to make their financial bid, coal secretary Anil Swarup said on Thursday. Adani […]
United States
FBI director acknowledges racial bias in policing
GEORGETOWN (TIP): In an unusually frank, personal speech, FBI Director James B. Comey on Thursday, February 12, acknowledged “hard truths” about racial bias in policing, saying there’s a desperate need for law enforcement to understand […]
United States
Senate confirms Ashton B. Carter as secretary of defense
WASHINGTON (TIP): Ashton B. Carter, a physicist with long experience in national security circles, handily won Senate confirmation Thursday, February 12, as secretary of defense, becoming President Obama’s fourth pick in six years to lead the […]
United States
Sikh Officers of Harris County allowed to wear their turbans on duty
HOUSTON, TEXAS (TIP): On February 6, Sheriff Adrian Garcia and members of Texas’s Harris County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) made history as they held a press conference to welcome the agency’s first Sikh American deputy who will […]
United States
Visiting Indian grandfather assaulted, injured; Alabama Police apologize
MADISON, ALABAMA (TIP): Madison police, February 6, roughed up a 57-year-old Indian citizen who was walking on the sidewalk outside his son’s home, leaving the older man temporarily paralyzed and hospitalized with fused vertebrae. “He […]
Asia
Pakistan likely sheltered Osama: Ex-ISI chief
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The former chief of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, ISI, Lt. Gen. Asad Durrani (retd) has said that the Government of Pakistan is likely to have sheltered slain terror mastermind Osama bin Laden and handed […]
Asia
Sri Lanka bans alleged killer of Rajiv Gandhi from travelling abroad
COLOMBO (TIP): A Sri Lankan court on Thursday barred former Tamil Tiger rebel leader Kumaran Pathmanathan, wanted by India in connection with the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, from travelling abroad, a lawyer said. Rajiv Gandhi was […]
Asia
Seven killed in Bangladesh after petrol bombs thrown at bus
DHAKA (TIP): Opposition activists in Bangladesh trying to enforce a transport boycott threw petrol bombs at a bus early on Tuesday setting off a fire that engulfed the vehicle killing seven people, a fire department […]
Asia
Another BLASTS KILL 6 POLICEMEN IN PAKISTAN
PESHAWAR (TIP): At least six soldiers were killed on February 10 in two separate roadside bomb blasts in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal region. Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks. The first remote-controlled improvised explosive […]
Asia
TALIBAN SUICIDE ATTACKERS ASSAULT AFGHAN POLICE STATION
KABUL (TIP): Taliban suicide attackers assaulted an Afghan police station February 10, killing one officer as a separate roadside bombing targeted a prominent female politician in the country’s east, authorities said. The attack on a […]
Asia
Yet Again – Khaleda Zia charged with inciting violence
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia was on february 11 charged by the police with‘instigation’ of the fire-bombing of a bus that left 7 people dead amid escalating political crisis in the country that […]
India
Business & Economics
Reset of a policy of equidistance
Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office, an Indian TV channel held a discussion on likely foreign policy reorientation. When the doyen of South Asian Studies, Stephen Cohen, was asked in which direction Mr. Modi […]
Featured
Delhi vote is a rejection of BJP
COMMENT By Indrajit Singh Saluja – Chief Editor – The Indian Panorama […]
Featured
The AAP’s Second Coming
In the winter of 2013, at a dinner party hosted by a prominent Janata Dal (United) leader in the national capital, shortly after the Delhi Assembly elections, I was witness to an extraordinary conversation. Seated at […]