After the excitement of the election and Narendra Modi’s very large victory, and the associated rally in Indian markets since, for me personally, the budget was a slight disappointment. While emphasising a commitment to budget […]
Presenting his first budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley summed up the prevailing economic situation as continuing to present a great challenge to the economic health of the country. Emphasising the need to move quickly to […]
Financial incentives announced for small businesses NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Asian Indian Chamber of Commerce (AICC) , a New Jersey based representative body of Indian owned businesses, will offer interest free loans to winners of […]
Budget 2014 reflects a number of priorities identified in the BJP election manifesto – the need to simply the taxation regime, provide a nonadversarial tax environment, revamped dispute resolution mechanisms and the need to build […]
“The time for excuses and blame games is over. Commuters deserve a resolution now.” QUEENS, NY (TIP): At a press conference, July 10, at the Bayside LIRR station, Democratic State Senate candidate and former City […]
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): The US and its allies are growing increasingly concerned as Afghanistan shows signs of unraveling in its first democratic transfer of power from President Hamid Karzai. With Iraq wracked by insurgency, Afghanistan’s […]
KABUL (TIP): A Taliban suicide bomber killed 16 people, including 10 civilians and four Nato soldiers, in an attack in eastern Afghanistan on July 10, officials said, as foreign troops wind down their war against […]
COLOMBO (TIP): A Buddhist group accused of instigating recent attacks on Muslims in Sri Lanka says Pope Francis must apologize to Buddhists for atrocities allegedly committed by Christian colonial rulers of the South Asian island […]
LAHORE (TIP): Just days after his organisation was declared a terror outfit by the US, Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed, who orchestrated the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, addressed a seminar at the Lahore high court spewing […]
BANNU (TIP): The number of displaced people from North Waziristan, where the Pakistan army has launched a major anti-terror operation, has almost doubled to over 900,000 in the last few days. Most of them complain […]
DHAKA (TIP): Eight HuJI militants, including its chief, were on Monday sentenced to death by a Bangladeshi court for a 2001 bomb attack targeting Bengali new year celebrations that claimed 10 lives. “They shall be […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Hailing the Japanese government’s step to ease restrictions on its military as “historic”, the US has said the decision will enable the Asian country to significantly increase its contribution to regional and global […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): Grammy Award-winning Charlie Haden, a legendary jazz bassist who played with artists including John Coltrane and Chet Baker, has died in Los Angeles. He was 76. Haden also joined pianist Keith Jarrett’s […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US House of Representatives has backed a resolution expressing support for Israel and its right to self-defence. Lawmakers endorsed the non-binding measure by a voice vote on Friday. It condemns Hamas for […]
HOUSTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama apologetically jumped the queue at a famous barbecue joint in Austin, where no one cuts the line, so he could order takeout for his official travel party and paid […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Federal health officials on July 12 disclosed a new safety breach at a high-security US government laboratory involving dangerous avian flu, a lapse that came to light as they investigated the potential exposure […]
OAKLAND (US) (TIP): A federal judge has sentenced a California chemical engineer to 15 years in prison and fined him USD 28.3 million for a rare economicespionage conviction for selling China a secret recipe to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The salaried class has reason to cheer the NDA government’s first Budget. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has reduced the income tax burden, albeit in a minor way, and put some extra money […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Describing the general Budget as a ‘sanjeevani’ (new life) to the “moribund economy”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 10 said it converts hopes and aspirations of the people into trust and […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s big push for smart cities in Thursday’s Union Budget will finally provide fresh direction and a sense of legitimacy to a concept that has long been popular but […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Finance and Defence Minister Arun Jaitley in his budget speech on July 10 announced that foreign companies would now be allowed 49 per cent stake in companies involved in manufacturing military equipment […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Former finance minister P Chidambaram, who presented the interim budget ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, has said he is happy to find the BJP government’s first Budget validating the figures presented […]
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NEW DELHI (TIP): The Modi government’s first budget is short on that one big idea, or, indeed, a clear road map on how to achieve its objectives — that was the consensus view in the […]
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