Pakistan is averse to discussing Afghanistan with India, fearing that would legitimize India’s interests in that country. But it would be in the interests of all three to do so, says the author. Two questions […]
There are various alleged origins attributed to this festival. Some hold that they celebrate the marriage of Lakshmi with Lord Vishnu. In Bengal the festival is dedicated to the worship of Kali. It also commemorates […]
Ganesha points out that be it a safe deposit vault or a human being there is a master key to open it. What is the master key which will open the personality of Narendra Modi? […]
Deepawali or Diwali is certainly the biggest and the brightest of all Hindu festivals. It’s the festival of lights (deep = light and avali = a row i.e., a row of lights) that’s marked by […]
SYDNEY (TIP): China and Southeast Asian governments demanded an explanation from the US and its allies on October 31 following media reports that American and Australian embassies in the region were being used as hubs […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Airline passengers will be able to use their electronic devices gate-to-gate to read, work, play games, watch movies and listen to music – but not talk on their cellphones – under much-anticipated new […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The BSE benchmark Sensex on November 1 hit a life-time high of 21,293.88 by gaining over 129 points in opening trade on sustained foreign fund inflows in banking, auto, metal and realty sectors. […]
MUZAFFARNAGAR (TIP): With October 30 killing of three youth — Afroz, 20, Meherban, 21, and Ajmal, 22, of Mohammadpurraisingh village of Muzaffarnagar peaceniks have lost another round to communal tension that has engulfed the western […]
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA (TIP): A US man who won a multimilliondollar jackpot playing the Florida Lotto has done it again. The Florida Lottery says 67-year-old James Bozeman Jr. has claimed a $3 million jackpot from the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A bloody resurgence of al-Qaida in Iraq is prompting Baghdad to ask the US for more weapons, training and manpower, two years after pushing American troops out of the country. The request will […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The assemblage on one platform of leaders from parties other than the Congress and the BJP is no precursor to another third front experiment. It’s at best an anti-BJP, non-Congress ideological bulwark […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): To insulate the bureaucracy from political interference and to put an end to frequent transfers of civil servants by political bosses, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre and the States […]
LONDON (TIP): Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, two former editors of Rupert Murdoch’s now defunct News of the World tabloid, were having an affair at the time their reporters are accused of hacking into phones, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Ace fighter pilot Air Marshal Arup Raha has been appointed the next Chief of the Indian Air Force. He will succeed Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, also a fighter pilot, on December […]
BANGKOK (TIP): A former Thai prime minister and his deputy vowed on October 29 to fight any legal charges against them for their alleged role in the death of anti-government demonstrators during a bloody 2010 […]
NIAMEY (TIP): The corpses of 92 migrants, most of them women and children, have been found in northern Niger after their vehicles broke down attempting to cross the vast Sahara desert, authorities said on october […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Eyeing an upper hand in a baroque regional power game after the withdrawal of US troops next year, the Afghan government tried to work with the Pakistan Taliban with the “ultimate” goal […]
MOSCOW (TIP): US security leaker Edward Snowden is set to start a new job at a major Russian website, three months after the fugitive was given asylum in Russia, his lawyer said on October 31. […]
DHAKA (TIP): At least four persons were killed as fresh violence erupted on October 29 across Bangladesh on the final day of a 60-hour opposition strike demanding a caretaker regime to oversee the next general […]
BEIJING (TIP): A Chinese policeman was arrested after he allegedly shot a woman dead and injured another in China’s southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Head of Pingnan County’s public security bureau, where the policeman worked, […]
CANBERRA (TIP): Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on October 28 to mark the impending end of Australia’s military involvement in the conflict, his office said. Abbott arrived at the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The law forbids a “foreign company” to make any donation to political parties even if it has an Indian subsidiary. Yet, the home ministry and the two leading parties, Congress and BJP, […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Two Indian nationals were among three people arrested for the murder of a constituent assembly election candidate in Bara district in southern Nepal in October. Police said on Sunday that Mohamed Alam, a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s claim that UPA had forgotten Sardar Patel till this year is far off the mark. The government’s publicity arm, directorate of advertising and visual publicity (DAVP), […]
WASHINGTON (TIP: Enrollment in health insurance plans on the troubled Obamacare website was very small in the first couple of days of operation, with just 248 Americans signing up, according to documents released on October […]
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