NEW DELHI (TIP): Despite a majority of leaders at the Congress Working Committee meet pushing for Rahul Gandhi to be made the party’s prime ministerial candidate, the party demurred from the decision and instead decided […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): Upon meeting Cardinal Dolan, newly elected Mayor Bill de Blasio vows to try and bring the Pope to New York. “We have a common passion and a common wish,” de Blasio […]
DALLAS (TIP): Dallas City Council will finally decide in March, whether or not to ban single-use plastic (and paper) bags.For the first hour of the meeting at City Hall, January 14, it looked as though […]
MENLO PARK, CA (TIP): Facebook is facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it monitors users’ private messages. The lawsuit claims that when users share a link to another website via a private message, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US Senate has passed the USD 1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that eliminates the threat of another government shutdown at least until October and puts conditions on Pakistan for continuation of aid. […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): New York City is to pay $17.9 million to rest the case of civil rights claims of those arrested during the Republican Convention protests of 2004 that nominated George W. Bush […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The world will celebrate, January 20, the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who, in the words of President Barack Obama, “gave mighty voice to the quiet hopes of millions, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Subra Suresh, Chennai-born Indian-American president of Carnegie Mellon University, has been elected a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), a rare and highly coveted distinction within the academic fraternity. The […]
The word “prodigy” in the title of this column is used as a notable happening and an act so extraordinary as to inspire wonder. India’s unusual tough response over the arrest of its diplomat Devyani […]
“Trafficking” this is not, but “Amnesty” for an illegal alien it is, including, paid-for family reunification It is a fact that passports come in three “colors”: Red-for diplomatic; White for official; and Blue for everyday […]
The historic anti-graft bill The Lok Pal Bill has been passed by both houses of the Parliament and the UPA Government deserves the gratitude in sensing the sentiment of the people and doing the right […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): With mounting criticism over the proposal to introduce a tax on bank deposits and abolish all other levies, yoga guru Baba Ramdev, who is one of the key proponents of the new […]
The premier investigating agency of India seems to be acquiring a certain measure of freedom, after all. The Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will now be free to appoint consultants and employ […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): In an apparent AAP effect, Haryana government today gave a major relief to power consumers by reducing tariff in the state. While the Congress Government rolled back tariff hike for consumption of up […]
KUWAIT CITY (TIP): UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon warned on January 15 that nearly half of Syria’s population needs urgent humanitarian help, as aid groups urged access for relief delivery to civilians trapped by the […]
INDORE (TIP): After a monthlong speculation, Member of Parliament Priya Dutt has finally given her consent to formally join the Indore Cancer Foundation as a member of the board of permanent trustees. Confirming about the […]
NEW YORK (tip): To those who complain that opera is an elitist indulgence served up to snobs in dinner jackets, New York’s latest world premiere may come as something of a shock. Inspired by the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Indian minister and former UN Under Secretary General Shashi Tharoor and his wife are once again in the limelight on Twitter. Tharoor has been accused of having a more than required relation […]
ROSWELL (TIP): A 12-year-old boy drew a shotgun from a band-instrument case and shot and wounded two classmates at his middle school before a teacher talked him into dropping the weapon and he was taken […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): For the first time in the US, a man convicted on terror charges has asked authorities for documents obtained by the NSA to try to reverse his conviction, a document obtained has […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Three decades after the Army stormed the Golden Temple, freshly declassified British documents show that the UK gave military advice to India on retaking the temporal seat of Sikhs, kicking off political […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Indian Mujahideen is planning to turn oilcarrying tankers into fireballs using magnetic explosive device for spectacular strikes, counter-terror officials familiar with the revelations made by the terror outfit’s top operative, Yasin […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Former home secretary R K Singh has said that he had offered to resign when his successor Anil Goswami was brought in as officer on special duty almost two months before the […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain’s newspapers were on Wednesday left mystified by their French counterparts’ reluctance to quiz President Francois Hollande over claims of an affair, concluding “they do things differently” across the Channel. Britain’s rowdy media […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain has granted asylum to an atheist from Afghanistan due to fears he would be prosecuted back home, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind, his lawyers said […]
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