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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
COMMENT By Indrajit Singh Saluja – Chief Editor – The Indian Panorama […]
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 […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): A human rights advocacy group, Sikhs For Justice, organized a protest demonstration in front of Thailand Consulate in New York City, February 9. They were protesting the extradition to India of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Manish Sisodia is all set to be the deputy chief minister in Arvind Kejriwal government which is likely to have four new faces this time, Aam Aadmi Party sources said. Barring Sisodia, […]
Sisodia likely to be Dy CM, Four new faces expected in AAP Cabinet NEW DELHI (TIP): Exactly one year after he had resigned as Delhi Chief Minister, AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal will be taking oath […]
BEIJING (TIP): China said it respects the aspirations of India and Brazil to play bigger roles at the UN Security Council, while keeping mum on Japan’s candidature. About the Indian and Brazilian applications to become […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Social activist Anna Hazare, who has been critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be in Delhi on February 24 to participate in a farmers’ rally being held to protest against the […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): “I am here to make friends”, said Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, amid applause from the audience, at the Friends of MP conclave at the iconic Avery Fisher Hall […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Jammu and Kashmir’s wait for a new government is likely to get over as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are poised to join […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar will soon visit Pakistan in what will mark the first official high-level contact between the two countries since Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif visited India last year for his […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Dr. Parveen Chopra was recently honored with the Presidential Philanthropy Award by the Martin Luther King birthday Celebration Committee at its thirtieth Awards ceremony held at the Marriott Hotel, Uniondale, New York. […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Kabul Chawla, the owner of real estate firm BPTP, rose to fame when his company outbid DLF in buying a land parcel in Noida for over Rs 5,000 crore in 2008. It […]
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