UNRULY PASSENGERS TO BE PUT ON ‘NO FLY LIST’
BAN DURATION Up to 3 months: For unruly physical gestures, verbal harassment, unruly inebriation Up to 6 months: For physically abusive behaviour such as pushing, kicking,…
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1993 MUMBAI BLASTS Abu Salem gets life term, 2 others get death sentence
NEW DELHI (TIP): Extradited gangster Abu Salem was on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (TADA) court in Mumbai…
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Ambassador Hardeep S Puri is appointed a Minister in Modi’s Rejigged Cabinet
PM Narendra Modi reshuffled his cabinet September 3 and brought in nine new faces. NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra…
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Hardeep S Puri-Just Minted Minister of State for Housing & Urban Development
Ambassador Hardeep S Puri, now Minister of State with Independent Charge of Housing and Urban Affairs in the rejigged Cabinet…
Read MoreDEMO, GST DRAG GROWTH TO THREE-YEAR LOW
NEW DELHI (TIP): Unable to recover from frequent policy disruptions, which started with demonetisation last November to Goods and Services Tax (GST)…
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Modi’s $87 billion river-linking project set to take off as floods hit India
NEW DELHI (TIP): After years of foot-dragging, India will begin work in around a month on an $87 billion scheme to connect…
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Bofors: SC to hear plea challenging dropping of charges against Hindujas
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a fresh turn of events, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal filed by BJP leader…
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Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh gets 20-year jail term, Rs30 lakh fine in rape cases
ROHTAK / CHANDIGARH (TIP): A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court sentenced Dera Sacha Sauda chief and self-styled godman…
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Modi Cabinet Reshuffle: Uma Bharti, Rajiv Rudy and 3 other ministers quit
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi set in motion the reshuffle of his council of ministers with the resignation…
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IN POLL MODE, AMIT SHAH SENDS EIGHT TOP MINISTERS TO THREE STATES
NEW DELHI (TIP): BJP chief Amit Shah today appointed eight top-ranking ministers looking after more than 15 key departments in the Narendra Modi government…
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Ram Rahim Singh’s supporters riot after his conviction- Breaking News
Close to 30 people killed and many wounded as supporters of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh protest the verdict against the…
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Amit Shah, Smriti Irani sworn-in as Rajya Sabha MPs
New Delhi (TIP): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah and Union Minister Smriti Irani took oath as Rajya Sabha MPs,…
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FOCUS ON FLOODS, INFRA AS INDIA, NEPAL INK 8 PACTS
NEW DELHI (TIP): Infrastructure development, measures to improve connectivity, earthquake reconstruction and a concerted effort to tackle the perennial problem of floods on…
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CBI GRILLS PC’S SON KARTI IN GRAFT CASE
NEW DELHI (TIP): The CBI grilled Karti Chidambaram for about eight hours in connection with an alleged irregularity in Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance…
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Rahul Gandhi, Mayawati to skip RJD rally on August 27
Video clips of chief minister Nitish Kumar’s statements against PM Narendra Modi before the 2015 assembly elections and Modi’s DNA comment and other remarks against Kumar will…
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Supreme Court declares triple talaq ‘void’, ‘invalid’
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court by a majority verdict Aug 22 (Tuesday) set aside the practice of divorce through triple talaq among Muslims,…
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AIADMK merger sets up mother of all battles for Sasikala
CHENNAI (TIP): Sitting in Parappana Agrahara jail on Bengaluru’s outskirts, VK Sasikala has the mother of all battles on her hands: her…
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Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim found guilty of rape, taken into judicial custody
Dera Chief’s followers protest; Violence breaks out; curfew imposed in many places in Punjab PANCHKULA, HARYANA (TIP): Dera Sacha Sauda…
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Right to privacy verdict: Top lawyers unsure about Aadhaar’s future
NEW DELHI (TIP): The landmark verdict of the Supreme Court ruling on right to privacy as a fundamental right was…
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Nandan Nilekani back at Infosys as Chairman
BENGALURU (TIP): Nandan Nilekani, the 62-year-old co-founder of India’s second-largest software services exporter, returned to the Infosys board after an…
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TN to probe Jayalalithaa’s death
CHENNAI (TIP): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Thursday announced that an inquiry commission headed by a retired High Court judge would…
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WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE IN AMRITSAR WITH INAUGURATION OF PARTITION MUSEUM
AMRITSAR (TIP): A first-of-its-kind 'Partition Museum’ bringing alive memories of the Independence era in the form of photos, artefacts and documents was…
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PM MODI WANTS ‘SWACHH BHARAT’, WE WANT ‘SACH BHARAT’: RAHUL GANDHI
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hit out at the government for not being able to keep its promises…
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Army to get its own attack helicopters
NEW DELHI (TIP): The country’s defence acquisition council (DAC) on Thursday gave the green light to a proposal to buy six Apache AH64E attack helicopters for…
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VISHAL SIKKA RESIGNS AS INFOSYS CEO; PRAVIN RAO NAMED INTERIM BOSS
BENGALURU (TIP): Infosys Ltd, in a surprise announcement, said Vishal Sikka has resigned as CEO citing a stream of distractions and disruptions in recent…
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Corporates donated Rs 957 cr to national parties, BJP got lion’s share: Report
NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP received the lion’s share – Rs 705.81 crore – of Rs 956.77 crore that corporate houses donated to…
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Amit Shah sets ‘360+’ BJP target for ’19
NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP today set the ball rolling for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, fixing an individual target of “at…
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JAPAN BACKS INDIA ON DOKLAM ISSUE
NEW DELHI (TIP): Japan came out in full support for India in its protracted military stand-off with China at Doklam, near the Sikkim-Tibet-Bhutan tri-junction,…
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Nikolay Kudashev is Russia’s new envoy to India
NEW DELHI (TIP): Career diplomat Nikolay Kudashev has been appointed as Russia’s new ambassador to India, the Russian embassy here…
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Consulate General of India Celebrates India’s 71st Independence Day
NEW YORK CITY, NY (TIP): Consul General Sandeep Chakravorty unfurled the National Flag at the Consulate premises in the morning of…
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