WASHINGTON (TIP): Rights activists across the United States held a series of protests on Thursday demanding the closure of Guantanamo Bay as a hunger-strike at the jail entered a third month. In a day of […]
RAJKOT (TIP): Yoga guru Baba Ramdev yesterday slammed Congress and its vice president Rahul Gandhi, while calling Narendra Modi the only “trustworthy” leader in the country. “Congress ship will sink in 2014 general election because […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Janata Dal- United (JD-U) is expected to press for an early projection of the National Democratic Alliance’s prime ministerial candidate, with a party MP stating yesterday that it had laid down […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India’s premier Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is firing on in several directions with the work on hand involving MIRVs (multiple independently-targetable re-entry vehicles) and improvements in missiles, aircraft, tanks and […]
BHOPAL (TIP): Terming as ‘unfortunate’ the heckling of Mamata Banerjee by Left activists in New Delhi, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on April 11 said that police failed to ensure safety of the West Bengal […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A 20-year-old woman was gang-raped in a moving car by her husband and his two relatives here, police said on April 11. All attackers have been arrested. The incident came to light […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): Amritsar BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife, Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu, on April 11 said her cricketer-turned-politician husband feels “suffocated in the system for his honesty and this has led to his alienation […]
KOLKATA (TIP):West Bengal governor M K Narayanan rejected CPM’s argument that he did not know about the functioning of their party by saying that he has been an avid student of Karl Marx, Engels and […]
AMRITSAR: The Shiromani GurdwaraParbandhak Committee (SGPC) has written a letter to Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari urging him to direct officials of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi to entertain the SGPCrecommended passports for […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Bharti group chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal and Essar promoter Ravi Ruia on April 11 appeared before a special CBI court in response to the summons issued by the court in the case […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The hearing for Sri Srinivasan’s confirmation as federal judge, the first ever Indian- American to serve the post, began Wednesday, April 10. However, he is quipped to move up to the US supreme […]
YORK, Pa (TIP): Authorities in central Pennsylvania have released the names of the Indian American man and woman killed in an apparent murder-suicide, AP reported last week. Police in York County say the bodies of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.8 trillion budget plan that hopes to tame galloping deficits by raising taxes on the wealthy and trimming America’s most popular benefit programs. In aiming for a […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A man who lived like a hermit for nearly three decades in a makeshift camp in the Maine woods could be responsible for more than 1,000 burglaries for food and other staples, police […]
IRVING, TX (TIP): At least two people were killed and more than 40 hospitalized Thursday, April 11 when a charter bus swerved off the northbound lanes of President George Bush Turnpike near Dallas, hit a […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Leaders have reached a deal on the first major overhaul of the nation’s immigration system in years. And despite concerns from immigrant advocates, it puts border security before amnesty. A landmark immigration reform […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US federal agency, which received nearly 124,000 applications for the H-1B visas, has used lottery to determine who all would be given the most sought after work visas among IT professionals. The […]
KOCHI (TIP): A Navy officer’s wife has filed sexual harassment charges against her husband and his colleagues. The Kochi police filed a case against the ten Navy officers following woman’s complaint. The officer’s wife was […]
LUCKNOW (TIP): In a move suggesting growing differences between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has withdrawn the ‘VIP’ status of Raebareli and Amethi with regard to […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): After a week of sometimes bizarre scrutiny of candidates for Pakistan’s election, fears are growing that the process has failed to weed out the bribetakers and tax-dodgers it was meant to target. Pakistanis […]
KARACHI (TIP): A Pakistani grocer standing in historic polls next month was shot dead on Thursday in a drive-by killing in the southern city of Hyderabad, police said. Fakhrul Islam, 46, a candidate for the […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM/NEW DELHI: Thousands of Indians, especially Malayalis employed in Saudi Arabia, may be impacted by a new work policy of the kingdom that seeks to reserve a certain percentage of jobs for locals. According to […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US Senate voted Thursday to debate the nation’s most ambitious gun safety legislation in almost two decades, after a bipartisan group of lawmakers agreed on expanding background checks.With relatives of the 20 […]
Immigration Reform Bill on anvil is a welcome news. A bipartisan group of senators, known as the “Gang of Eight,” has apparently worked in close cooperation for months now and the reports emanating suggest there […]
Excitement over last week’s installment of Preet Bharara’s Political Greed Indictment show caused breathless stories, and many editorials to issue. The editorials, all, use a polite “workingwithin- the-system” incremental approach to incredulously nudge the corrupt […]
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