NEW DELHI (TIP): The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the 2G spectrum scam in its draft report on April 17 sought to give a clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government on April 17 achieved “broad consensus” on the long-pending Land Acquisition Bill, paving the way for the contentious legislation to be taken up for consideration and passage in the Budget […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on April 17 filed a review mercy petition with President Pranab Mukherjee seeking clemency for 1993 Delhi bomb blast convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar and cautioned […]
BANGALORE (TIP): At least 16 persons, including 11 policemen, were injured in a bomb blast near the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s state office in the Malleswaram area of the city on April 17. The blast […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a bid to boost exports and bring down the current account deficit (CAD), the government on April 17 announced the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) which included major measures to revive the […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The Pune Sessions Court on April 17 sentenced to death Mirza Himayat Baig, 30, in connection with the 2010 bomb blast at Pune’s German Bakery that claimed 17 lives. Three days ago, Pune […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on April 17 granted four more weeks to film actor Sanjay Dutt for his surrender to serve 3.5 years in jail, holding that the CBI had no business to […]
LUCKNOW (TIP): With an eye on upper caste vote bank, BSP chief Mayawati announced names of 36 candidates for Lok Sabha polls, 18 of whom are Brahmins. Seeking to exploit the upper caste card to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Slamming the leakage of the draft JPC report on 2G scam as a “gross breach of Parliamentary propriety”, BJP on April 18 said its contents appeared like Congress documents where attempts have […]
SRINAGAR (TIP): A Jammu & Kashmir minister’s guards allegedly thrashed a bureaucrat after he slapped him thrice in the state’s Kishtwar town on Thursday. Kishtwar Development Authority chief executive officer Riaz Ahmad Choudhary said the […]
PURNIA (TIP) : Legendary mathematician VashishthaNarayan Singh, who had been languishing in penury, has joined the BhupendraNarayanMandal University (BNMU) in Madhepura as a visiting professor. The 67-year-old Singh started work on April 17 after the […]
TIRUPATHI (TIP): In a princely offering, an NRI devotee from US donated $ 3 Mn to the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at nearby Tirumala. M Ramalinga Raju, an entrepreneur based in the United […]
BEIJING (TIP): Nepal’s Maoist leader PushpaKamalDahal alias Prachanda sought more financial and technical aid from China during his first meeting with the country’s new President Xi Jinping. Hailing the “traditional friendship” between the two countries, […]
SEOUL: North Korea laid down rigid preconditions on Thursday for dialogue with Seoul or Washington, including the withdrawal of UN sanctions and a guaranteed end to South Korea-US joint military drills. The list of demands […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Seeking United Nations intervention, international human rights NGOs have approached UN’s Special Rapporteur on Torture after the denial of commutation plea by the Supreme Court of death row convict Devenderpal Singh Bhullar. […]
CARACAS (TIP): Venezuela’s electoral council announced Thursday night that it would audit the 46 percent of the vote not scrutinized on election night in a concession to opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, who said he believed […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic, deadly disease that affects five million people worldwide. It is irreversible, its cause is poorly understood, and it has a median survival of only about three years. […]
LONDON (TIP): Students from London School of Economics have started receiving email threats from North Korea after it was revealed that a BBC crew came with them undercover filming from within the secretive state. The […]
AAPI INFIGHTING TO THE FORE AAPI is a representative organization of American physicians of Indian Origin. The 30 year old organization has a membership of more than 52,000. AAPI claims proximity with the centers of […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Bank of America BAC -3.66% recorded net income of $2.6 billion in the first quarter, significantly above last year’s $653 million, on $23.7 billion in revenue. Earnings of 20 cents per share […]
ALBANY (TIP): Governor Andrew M. Cuomo nominated , April 12, Thomas F. Prendergast to serve as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Mr. Prendergast has served more than three years […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) expresses strong and unequivocal condemnation of the bombings on April 15, 2013 directed against innocent victims in Boston, Massachusetts, USA that killed three […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Alien Tort Claim Act or ATS violated the core principle of respectful co-existence by and between sovereigns/nations in the comity of nations – and invited retaliatory reciprocity whereby other nations could […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A bipartisan group of senators formally filed legislation early Wednesday, April 17 calling for border security as the cornerstone of immigration reform. The bill also would prevent undocumented immigrants from reaching full legal […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The centerpiece proposal on background checks in the proposed changes to a gun control bill failed to win enough support in the Senate April 17. The vote on the so-called Manchin-Toomey amendment was […]
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