NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh submitted his resignationon May 17, capping a 10-year tenure of two UPA governments that has been brought to an end by a shattering defeat in the Lok Sabha […]
ROME (TIP): World number one Rafael Nadal dug deep to maintain his chances of defending his Rome Masters title after a gutsy come-from-behind 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 win over Andy Murray in the quarterfinals on Friday. […]
LONDON (TIP): Argentina are favourites to win the World Cup in Brazil, Belgium can reach the final and nobody expects much of England, according to former France international Marcel Desailly. The Ghana-born 1998 World Cup […]
ROME (TIP): Sara Errani took advantage of a supportive crowd to beat second-seeded Li Na 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 Friday and reach the Italian Open semifinals for the second consecutive year. The 10th-seeded Errani is attempting […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Pakistan Cricket Board fined five of its cricketers $5,000 each Friday for participating in an unauthorized Twenty20 tournament in the United States. The PCB said fast bowler Wahab Riaz, allrounder Abdul Razzaq, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): After the landslide victory in Lok Sabha polls, Narendra Modi arrived in the national capital on May 17 to a rousing welcome by thousands of enthusiastic BJP workers and supporters to whom […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Modi blitzkrieg May 16 destroyed the BSP, leaving Mayawati, who once harboured hopes of becoming India’s first Dalit prime minister, without a single Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh. In a […]
CHENNAI (TIP): DMK leader M. Karunanidhi said he would accept the outcome of the Lok Sabha election as the verdict of the people. Accepting the total defeat of the DMK and its allies in Tamil […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Blazing a trail, the ruling AIADMK scored an emphatic victory in the Lok Sabha election in Tamil Nadu, winning 37 of the 39 seats on its own. The sterling performance has put the […]
swept the parliamentary elections here with the party candidates registering victory with handsome margins in all the seven Lok Sabha seats on May 16. The last time the BJP won all the seven seats in […]
The days of political instability in India should be over, with the people of India clearly preferring the BJP to lead the country. India has chosen, after almost three decades, a government that can function […]
LUCKNOW (TIP): The manner in which the ruling Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Congress have been swept aside in Uttar Pradesh clearly indicates that the “BJP versus the rest” in the Lok […]
It was often said of AB Vajpayee that he was the right man in the wrong party. As he steps down after a mammoth 10 years in office, people might perhaps say that Manmohan Singh […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP has crossed the 272 mark in the Lok Sabha on its own. Its stupendous performance has been propelled by the clean sweep, or the near clean sweep, effected by it […]
By Rajdeep Sardesai Barring a miracle, at some stage on Friday, Narendra Modi will be poised to fulfill his long-cherished ambition of being the next prime minister. Yes, exit polls have a spotty record in […]
First the good news. India’s wholesale inflation rate has moderated, albeit marginally, to 5.20%, in April from 5.70% in the previous month, driven down by a sharp drop in vegetable prices. Now for the bad […]
Omar takes blame Chief Minister and National Conference’s acting president Omar Abdullah owned responsibility for the coalition’s reverses. “I accept, unequivocally, the responsibility for this defeat. A lot of introspection & soul searching, personally & […]
We are a Democracy and each one of us has the freedom to express our differences without fear, but yet we have to work together in nation building and the common good of every member […]
NEW YORK (TIP): New York State honored Indu Jaiswal during women of distinction, honoring women in New York State Senate on May 13, 2014. New York State Senator Kemp Hanon nominated Indu for the award. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In his last address to the natiobn, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on May 17 said,”My life and tenure is an open book.” Manmohan Singh, who spoke first in Hindi and later in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP will include all its pre-poll allies in the government though the party has numbers to form government on its own. Soon after it became clear that the BJP would cross […]
KOLKATA (TIP):West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress put up a spectacular show, sweeping the Lok Sabha polls in the state to emerge as the fourth-largest party in the new Lok Sabha, while the BJP signalled its […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A US federal judge on May 16 temporarily blocked the military from force-feeding a Syrian prisoner on hunger striker at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. It was the first time a judge ordered […]
SHALOK, THIRD MEHL: Everything comes by His Command, and everything goes by His Command. If some fool believes that he does so himself, he is blind, and acts in blindness. O Nanak, one who becomes […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A single daily pill may help prevent HIV. And in America, gay men who have lost countless loved ones to AIDS can’t stop fighting about it. Much of the debate has played out […]
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