NEW YORK (TIP): Retiring Consul General PrabhuDayal and his wife Chandini Dayal hosted a party onFebruary 15th at the Consulate of India to celebrate Mr.Dayal’s 60th birthday and to bid farewell to the couple’sfriends in […]
Q. In your time as the Consul General ofIndia in New York, what were the mostsignificant highs and lows that youexperienced? Well, New York is the center of theUniverse. Although I have served in manyother […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Foreign Secretary Mr. Ranjan Mathai completed a series of very useful and important interactions at the State Department, including a brief call upon the new U.S. Secretary of State,Mr. John Kerry here on […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The twin blasts at Hyderabad aresuspected to be the handiwork of IndianMujahideen(IM) commander Riyaz Bhatkal. Althoughintelligence agencies are in no rush to jump to ajudgment, their suspicion of IM’s role is derived […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): British PrimeMinister David Cameron visited the site ofa colonial-era massacre in India onFebruary 20, describing the episode as”deeply shameful” while stopping short of apublic apology.On the last leg of a three-day trip aimedat […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Bharat Bandh:Nation-wide strike hit banking andtransport sector day two of nationwidestrike. While banking services were onFebruary 21 paralysed with ATMs runningout of cash in metro cities and publictransport disrupted during the Centraltrade […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): An India-born research scientist has driven the last forgotten nail in the coffin of slavery in the United States, a shameful casket that was thought to be long buried after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation […]
Ajanta and Ellora are the pride of Maharashtra. The rock-cut caves of both these sites are world famous and illustrate the degree of skill and artistry that Indian craftsmen had achieved several hundred years ago. […]
PM Cameron’s admission of colonialshame, while short of an apology orreparations to the heirs of thoseslaughtered, is welcome by all who insistthat history must be honest and not a tool ofadded insult to those who […]
Just as Herodotus is the father ofhistory, Thucydides is the father ofrealism. To understand thegeopolitical conflict zones of the 21stcentury, you must begin with the ancientGreeks. Among the many importantlessons Thucydides teaches in his Historyof […]
LONDON: (TIP) Prince Philip, the gaffe-pronehusband of Queen Elizabeth II, has hit the headlinesonce again for his “jovial” remarks, this time inreference to Filipino nurses.The 91-year-old Prince told a nurse from thePhilippines that her country […]
SHILLONG (TIP): It’s International Mother LanguageDay and campaigning for Saturday’s assembly polls is atits peak with political parties reaching out to varioussections of the electorate in their respective mothertongues.Speeches are being delivered in Hindi, Bengali,Assamese, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP):Underscoring India’simportance in Britain’sevolving foreign policypriorities, British PrimeMinister David Cameron wasin India this week for asecond time since assumingoffice in 2010.Though his visit toJallianwala Bagh has evokedmixed reactions in India, hebecame the first […]
Travelling in Darjeeling is like walking along the memory lanes during the time of the British Raj. Located in the cozy and inviting lap of the Kanchan Junga, Darjeeling the dramatic land is amazingly blessed […]
CHICAGO (TIP): The brother of aChicago man poisoned with cyanideshortly after winning the lotterysaid on Monday he is the familymember who asked authorities toreconsider the initial finding thathis sibling had died of naturalcauses.Imtiaz Khan said […]
ROME (TIP): Italian PrimeMinister Mario Monti hassaid that his governmentwould guarantee the “correctgovernance” of statecontrolleddefence firmFinmeccanica followingarrest of its chief executiveon corruption charges in theRs 3,600 crore VVIP helicopterdeal with India.”The government was ableto intervene […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): The 17 men whoreturned to India on Tuesday after asgood as cheating death in the UAE couldneither praise god enough nor controltheir emotions on seeing their families.Convicted in the 2009 murder of aPakistani […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Union homeministry is learnt to have recommendedrejection of mercy petitions in five morecases as it seeks to speedily dispose of allthe cases of death row convicts pendingwith it.Seeking to have a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Apportioning blame on the AtalBehari Vajpayee-led PMO, the Ministry of Defence todaysaid specifications in the VVIP helicopter deal weremooted in 2003, while it separately asked AgustaWestlandto categorically state its financial transactions withagents […]
Is there such a thing as ‘Hinduterrorism’, as Home MinisterShinde is heavily hinting at?Well, I am one of that rare breed offoreign correspondents – a lover ofHindus! A born Frenchman, Catholiceducatedand non-Hindu, I do hope […]
LONDON (TIP):India’s flagship culturalcentre in London – theNehru Centre, is facing asevere cash crunch.Budgetary allocation tothe centre – the culturalarm of the Indian HighCommission, with theresponsibility ofportraying India’scultural heritage hasbeen steadily dippingover the past three […]
Women senators from Afghanistan say they want US troops out of their country andwill not mind having the Taliban in the government if they respected the constitution NEW DELHI (TIP):Women senators fromAfghanistan have said they […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Sahara has expressed its desire to the Indian cricket board (BCCI) to move its Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise, Pune Warriors India, out of the western city due to ongoing tensions between franchise […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Rs 3,546-crore contract for 12 AW-101helicopters, inked in February 2010,has emerged as a test case for defenceminister A K Antony, who has builthis entire political career on areputation for honesty, governmentcircles […]
NEW DELHI / NEWYORK (TIP): Asoke KumarMukerji has been appointedas the next PermanentRepresentative of India tothe United Nations at NewYork. The announcementwas made in New DelhiFebruary 13. Mukerji replacesHardeep Singh Puri, whoretires this month after […]
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