WASHINGTON (TIP): The Obama administration on December 11 came out sharply against the Indian Supreme Court’s decision that has led to re-criminalizing gay sex, and urged New Delhi to advance freedom, including rights for LGBTs. […]
A Cobrapost investigation exposes 11 MPs who were willing to write letters of recommendation to promote a fictitious oil exploration company for money NEW DELHI (TIP): An investigative website, in an expose, has revealed names […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): At a time India’s Supreme Court ruled, in effect, that consensual homosexual engagement in India is illegal, Time magazine has chosen Edith Windsor, the pioneering American lesbiangay rights activist, as its Person of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme court on December 11 set a onemonth deadline for the police across the country to remove the red lights and sirens from all unauthorised vehicles and allow their use only […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): An American who went missing in Iran six years ago worked for the CIA and was not in the country on a business trip as US officials had claimed, US media reported. In […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Bharatiya Janata Party onDecember 12 declined to form a government in Delhi, citing “lack of a clear mandate”. It would sit in the opposition keeping in view the party’s “high moral […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Both Houses of the Andhra Pradesh legislature were rocked by protests on December 13 as the legislators from Telangana, across party lines, demanded immediate debate on the Bill for a separate State. The […]
SANAA, YEMEN (TIP): Missiles fired by a US drone slammed into a convoy of vehicles travelling to a wedding party in central Yemen on December 12, killing at least 13 people, Yemeni security officials said. […]
Death and transmigration of soul Just as a person puts on new garments after discarding the old ones; similarly, the living entity (Spirit, Atma, Jeev, Jeevaatma) acquires new bodies after casting away the old bodies. […]
RAHAT, ISRAEL (TIP): Israel on December 12 suspended a contentious bill aimed at resettling nomadic Bedouin Arabs into government-recognized villages after a series of objections rendered the plan politically untenable. The man behind the ambitious […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a huge respite to Lalu Prasad Yadav, the Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief in connection with the fodder scam case. December 13 was […]
PUNE (TIP): Social crusader Anna Hazare, who is on an indefinite fast at Ralegan Siddhi, has criticized the Union government for abdicating its responsibility towards the Jan Lokpal bill. He said the bill has not […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): After Congress chief Sonia Gandhi expressed her disappointment with the Supreme Court order on the gay rights issue, party vice president Rahul Gandhi said “these matters should be left to individuals”. Asked […]
President sends bill back to Centre, which will now send it to Andhra assembly NEW DELHI (TIP): The Andhra Pradesh Assembly has been given six weeks’ time to take a call on the state reorganisation […]
Regarded as a great form of aerobic exercise, cycling is an activity any one can take up. It’s also the best way to take in the countryside… When it comes to your fitness, it’s time […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Reflecting a thaw in their relations with Anna Hazare, a team of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on December 12 called on the Gandhian whose indefinite fast entered its third day and vowed […]
Media reports indicate the possibility of Nilekani as a wild card entry to political arena as the Prime Ministerial candidate of Congress NEW DELHI (TIP): Infosys vice-chairman and CII president S Gopalakrishnan on Thursday said […]
While we all know water is essential to our basic wellbeing, not many of us can manage to gulp down more than a daily dose of one or two litres. Water, after all, is plain […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Pakistan Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday and handed over an invitation from Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to visit Pakistan. Shahbaz Sharif, the younger brother […]
SHILLONG (TIP): Tejas, India’s first indigenously designed and developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), would be fully battle-ready by 2014, Indian Air Force chief N.A.K. Browne said in the Meghalaya capital. “Tejas, a fourth-generation fighter aircraft, […]
There are some foods that you must avoid if you want six pack abs. Generally, we tend to consume these foods out of laziness and availability, but you can’t be careless when you’re working on […]
NEW JERSEY (TIP): Overseas Volunteer for a Better India today announced that it will hold ‘Big Ideas for a Better India’ conference on December 22nd in Washington, D.C metro area. This event will bring together […]
CANON CITY, CO (TIP): Six-year-old Hunter Yelton, a first grader at Lincoln School of Science & Technology in Canon City, Colorado, was recently suspended for kissing a girl in his class on the hand. Hunter […]
WELLINGTON (TIP): The population of Indian ethnic group in New Zealand has risen by 48 percent to 155,000, latest census statistics show. The Chinese population rose by 16 percent to 171,000 while the number of […]
There must be no further delay in finalizing the National Security Doctrine, on the basis of which integrated threat assessments can be made”, says the author Over the years, continuing efforts have been made by […]
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