Pongal is one of the most popular harvest festivals of South India, mainly of Tamil Nadu. Pongal falls in the mid-January every year and marks the auspicious beginning of Uttarayan – sun’s journey northwards. Pongal […]
Maghi is the occassion when Sikhs commemorate the sacrifice of forty Sikhs, who fought for Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh master. Maghi, Makara Sankranti, the first day of the month of Magh. The eve […]
Makar Sankranti is celebrated on a fixed date that is 14 January every year. It also marks the termination of the Winter season and the beginning of a new harvest season. It is dedicated to […]
Like most other festivals in India, Lohri is also related to the agricultural activities of the farmers. It marks the harvesting season in Punjab and the end of the winter season. Lohri usually falls on […]
New Delhi (TIP): India has been pursuing an independent foreign policy based on national security interest which also applies to its defence acquisition and supplies, Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday, after US warned […]
New Delhi (TIP): Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday, Jan 7, attacked the Modi government over the ongoing farmer agitation and the hike in fuel prices, and said the country was today standing at the […]
New Delhi (TIP): Ahead of the Covid-19 vaccine dry run on 8 January, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan met the health ministers of states and Union Territories on Thursday, January 7. Guiding the state health […]
New Delhi (TIP): As a Bhopal-based laboratory confirmed that 437,000 poultry birds in Haryana died because of bird flu, the Centre on Friday, January 8, asked the six states where deaths because of the disease […]
New Delhi (TIP): India will chair the Taliban and Libya sanctions committees and the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the UN Security Council during its tenure as non-permanent member of the powerful 15-nation UN body. India, which […]
Ten newborn babies died after fire broke out in the Special Newborn Care Unit of a hospital in Maharashtra in the wee hours on Saturday, January 9, doctors said. The infants were aged between a […]
Jalandhar (TIP): With talks deadlocked, the Centre has started roping in heads of religious sects in Punjab to break the impasse on the farm laws. While Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar met Baba Lakha […]
Bathinda (TIP): Mohinder Kaur of Bahadurgarh Jandian village here, who hit the headlines after Kangana Ranaut tweeted her picture claiming that she was the same “Dadi” who was part of the Shaheen Bagh protest, has […]
New Delhi (TIP): As the eighth round of talks between the government and farmer’s unions ended inconclusively, the Opposition on Friday, January 8, hit out at the government, accusing it of trying to tire out […]
Sukoharjo, Indonesia (TIP): Indonesian Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the suspected mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, walked free from prison on Friday after serving 10 years for setting up a […]
Peshawar (TIP): Pakistani police on Friday claimed to have arrested the main accused in the vandalisation of a Hindu temple by a mob led by members of a radical Islamist party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. […]
Islamabad (TIP): A Pakistan court here on Friday sentenced three men to death, while a fourth was awarded 10 years imprisonment for committing blasphemy. Judge Raja Jawad Abbas of an Islamabad-based Anti-Terrorism Court announced the […]
Dubai (TIP): The United Arab Emirates announced on Friday that it would reopen its borders and airspace to Qatar after boycotting the tiny energy-rich country alongside its Gulf allies since 2017. The decision to restart […]
Brasilia (TIP): Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday the lack of trust in the vote count in the US election led to Wednesday’s mob attack on Congress and warned that the same could happen […]
Baghdad (TIP): An arrest warrant was issued on Thursday for outgoing President Donald Trump in connection with the killing of an Iranian general and a powerful Iraqi militia leader last year, Iraq’s judiciary said. The […]
Seoul (TIP): South Korea is dispatching a delegation to Iran as early as on Tuesday to seek the release of a tanker seized in the Gulf waters by Iranian forces, with a senior diplomat set […]
London (TIP): Britain began its third Covid lockdown on Tuesday with citizens under orders to stay at home and the government calling for one last major national effort to stem the virus before mass vaccinations […]
Madrid (TIP): Four migrants were found dead and three were treated for acute sunburn after their boat reached the Canary island of Tenerife on Tuesday, Spanish coastguards said. A total of 47 migrants were on […]
Hong Kong (TIP): The Hong Kong police arrested 53 people in dawn raids on democracy activists on Wednesday in the biggest crackdown since China last year imposed a new security law which opponents say is […]
Beijing (TIP): As China’s ruling Communist Party gears up to celebrate its centenary year, it has revised rules for its 92 million members, stipulating that no public expression of dissent will be tolerated. But party […]
Dubai (TIP): Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday banned Iran from importing of American Pfizer-BioNTech and Britain’s AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines. “The import of US and British vaccines into the country is forbidden. I have […]
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