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Time for Hard Decisions
For the Congress, things came to a head this week: on a single day, two senior Ministers in Assam and Maharashtra, States where it is in power, resigned; three of its MLAs in West Bengal […]
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Lok Sabha site names Advani a journalist, Rahul a strategy consultant
BHOPAL (TIP): Former deputy prime minister and BJP patriarch LK Advani is a journalist by profession and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is a strategy consultant, according to the Lok Sabha website. Strangely, the nation’s top […]
India
COURT SUMMONS SONIA, RAHUL IN NATIONAL HERALD CASE
NEW DELHI (TIP): A court here Thursday issued summons to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her son and party vice president Rahul Gandhi for misappropriating the funds of the National Herald newspaper that was shut […]
India
Finance, fertilizers and petroleum ministries to seek subsidy cuts
NEW DELHI: A swathe of ministries — from finance to fertilizer and petroleum — are going to make a case for a reduction in subsidies before Narendra Modi, a move that will push up your […]
India
TEAM RAHUL UNDER ATTACK AS CONGRESS LEADERS WANT ‘RUTHLESS INTROSPECTION’
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress should opt for ‘ruthless introspection’ and only those experienced in field work should be given leadership roles, party leaders said on May 22. Congress leader Milind Deora, who had on May […]
India
Cong allowed Modi wave to sweep country: Jyotiraditya
BHOPAL (TIP): Day after former Union minister Milind Deora blamed AICC vicepresident Rahul Gandhi’s advisers for the party’s decimation in the Lok Sabha polls, former Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on May 22 the “Congress […]
India
BJP crushes rivals in UP
LUCKNOW (TIP): The manner in which the ruling Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Congress have been swept aside in Uttar Pradesh clearly indicates that the “BJP versus the rest” in the Lok […]
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India Delivers Clear Mandate to Bhartiya Janta Party
Narendra Modi to be sworn in as Prime Minister on May 21 Manmohan resigns bringing to an end his 10-year tenure NEW DELHI (TIP): Addressing a euphoric crowd Friday, May 16 afternoon, Narendra Modi rallied […]
India
Congress has good chance of forming government with allies: Chidambaram
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress has a “very good chance” of forming a government under its leadership with some allies, finance minister P Chidambaram said on Thursday amid growing chorus of an “enlarged” UPA-III to stop […]
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LOK SABHA POLLS: PHASE 7 SEES 66% VOTER TURNOUT
NEW DELHI (TIP): Nearly 66% of the electorate exercised its franchise on Wednesday in the seventh phase of the 16th general election, in line with the heavy turnout that marked the earlier rounds of voting. […]
India
How the lotus bloomed on this Congress turf
AHMEDABAD (TIP): Ahmed Patel, Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary, enjoys tremendous goodwill in Bharuch which sent him to the Lok Sabha in 1977, 1980 and 1984. That he last won 30 years ago hasn’t stopped people […]
India
MANY STALWARTS MAY FAIL TO CAST VOTE
ALLAHABAD (TIP): The dilemma of not being able to vote is being faced by many stalwarts in 2014 general elections. Prominent leaders like Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Murli Manohar Joshi […]
India
Manmohan govt made Army weak: VK Singh
AMETHI (TIP): Former Army chief and BJP’s candidate from the Ghaziabad seat, V K Singh, on Friday accused the Manmohan Singh government of weakening the Indian Army. Singh, who was here to campaign for party […]
India
Sonia can get gold medal for graft: Nitin Gadkari
BOKARO/ DUMKA (TIP): Former president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Nitin Gadkari on April 18 lashed out at Congress and said if there was an Olympic Games to felicitate the most corrupt person in the […]
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India-US Relations
Dear Editor, In my view because of India’s non-alliance policy towards America the US India relationship always at neutral level. During the past 45 years since 1968, many times Americans from the mainstream have asked […]
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BABA RAMDEV BATS FOR BJP, VOWS TO BRING BACK BLACK MONEY STASHED ABROAD
BHUBANESWAR (TIP): Beating the drums for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, yoga guru Baba Ramdev has again promised to bring back Indian currency stashed away in foreign banks within 100 days […]
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BJP stands by Uddhav, dumps Raj
PUNE (TIP): Unimpressed by Raj Thackeray’s support for its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, the state BJP unit has decided to take on the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) in the Lok Sabha elections. State BJP […]
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JAITLEY’S ADVICE TO CAPTAIN: SHOW DECENCY
AMRITSAR (TIP): A day before the arrival of his rival and Congress candidate from Amritsar seat Amarinder Singh, BJP candidate Arun Jaitley advised him to show decency. “Everyone in public life must be honest,” Jaitley […]
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Indian students in US launch website on Lok Sabha elections
NEW YORK: A group of Indian students at Columbia University here has launched a website focused exclusively on India’s upcoming general elections, promising to provide a comprehensive and “no high-brow and jargon-led” reportage of the […]
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Stormy start to parliament’s last session before election
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress party hopes of pushing through new laws to tackle corruption stalled on February 5 when the parliament’s last session before a general election was adjourned amid rowdy scenes over the proposed […]
India
SUBSIDISED LPG CYLINDER HIKED TO 12
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Union Cabinet has approved raising the quota of subsidised LPG (cooking gas) to 12 cylinders per household in a year from current nine, Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily announced at a press […]
United States
SIT TO PROBE ANTI-SIKH RIOTS: DELHI GOVT
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Delhi Government on January 29 decided on a probe by a Special Investigation Team into the 1984 anti- Sikh riots, two days after Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said some of the […]
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Opinion poll predicts gains for BJP, losses for UPA
NEW DELHI (TIP): Despite an apparent wave of Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) till recently, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would have won 200-odd seats if the general elections were held in January 2014, […]
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Congress poll strategy: Rahul eyes ‘sandwiched class’
NEW DELHI (TIP): Not rich, notmiddle class, not BPL, is quite a mouthful. But shrunk to NRMB, the acronym stands for 70 crore Indians tagged by Rahul Gandhi as a vibrant vote bank sandwiched between […]
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Opinion poll predicts gains for BJP, losses for UPA
NEW DELHI (TIP): Despite an apparent wave of Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) till recently, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would have won 200- odd seats if the general elections were held in January […]