Entertainment
Month: December 2013
Europe
Jamaat calls for strike in Bangladesh over leader’s death
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh‘s Jamaat-e-Islami party has called for a nationwide dawn-to-dusk general strike on Sunday in protest of the execution of its leader Abdul Quader Mollah. The announcement to observe the general strike, a day […]
Europe
Europe
Incredible India
BIKANER: A VIBRANT DESERT TOWN
With oriental forts, graceful havelis and acres of white sand, travel attractions in Bikaner, the museum city are numerous. There are a number of Bikaner travel attractions and the most popular ones include: The tourist […]
Other News
Other News
BOULT SWINGS NZ TO INNINGS WIN
WELLINGTON (TIP): West Indies succumbed to a third innings defeat in four Tests, collapsing twice to lose 16 wickets in a day to New Zealand’s swing and pace. In the first innings, they lost their […]
United States
US raps India on SC cop-out on gay sex
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Obama administration on December 11 came out sharply against the Indian Supreme Court‘s decision that has led to re-criminalizing gay sex, and urged New Delhi to advance freedom, including rights for LGBTs. […]
India
11 MPs willing to lobby for oil major for money
A Cobrapost investigation exposes 11 MPs who were willing to write letters of recommendation to promote a fictitious oil exploration company for money NEW DELHI (TIP): An investigative website, in an expose, has revealed names […]
United States
Pope is Time’s person of the year, gay activist runner-up
WASHINGTON (TIP): At a time India‘s Supreme Court ruled, in effect, that consensual homosexual engagement in India is illegal, Time magazine has chosen Edith Windsor, the pioneering American lesbiangay rights activist, as its Person of […]
India
APEX COURT SEES RED OVER MISUSE OF BEACONS
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme court on December 11 set a onemonth deadline for the police across the country to remove the red lights and sirens from all unauthorised vehicles and allow their use only […]
United States
India
AFTER BJP SAYS ‘NO’, LT. GOVERNOR INVITES AAP
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Bharatiya Janata Party onDecember 12 declined to form a government in Delhi, citing “lack of a clear mandate”. It would sit in the opposition keeping in view the party’s “high moral […]
India
AP Assembly rocked by protests over Telangana Bill
HYDERABAD (TIP): Both Houses of the Andhra Pradesh legislature were rocked by protests on December 13 as the legislators from Telangana, across party lines, demanded immediate debate on the Bill for a separate State. The […]
Europe
Yemen wedding party hit by US drone strike, 13 killed
SANAA, YEMEN (TIP): Missiles fired by a US drone slammed into a convoy of vehicles travelling to a wedding party in central Yemen on December 12, killing at least 13 people, Yemeni security officials said. […]
Other News
THE BHAGAVAD GITA
Death and transmigration of soul Just as a person puts on new garments after discarding the old ones; similarly, the living entity (Spirit, Atma, Jeev, Jeevaatma) acquires new bodies after casting away the old bodies. […]
Europe
India
Lalu Prasad granted bail by SC in fodder scam
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a huge respite to Lalu Prasad Yadav, the Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief in connection with the fodder scam case. December 13 was […]
India
Lokpal missing from agenda, Anna criticizes Centre
PUNE (TIP): Social crusader Anna Hazare, who is on an indefinite fast at Ralegan Siddhi, has criticized the Union government for abdicating its responsibility towards the Jan Lokpal bill. He said the bill has not […]
India
MATTER OF PERSONAL FREEDOM: RAHUL ON SC GAY VERDICT
NEW DELHI (TIP): After Congress chief Sonia Gandhi expressed her disappointment with the Supreme Court order on the gay rights issue, party vice president Rahul Gandhi said “these matters should be left to individuals”. Asked […]
India
TELANGANA BILL: AP GETS 6 WEEKS’ TIME
President sends bill back to Centre, which will now send it to Andhra assembly NEW DELHI (TIP): The Andhra Pradesh Assembly has been given six weeks’ time to take a call on the state reorganisation […]
Other News
WHEELING YOUR WAY TO GOOD HEALTH
Regarded as a great form of aerobic exercise, cycling is an activity any one can take up. It’s also the best way to take in the countryside… When it comes to your fitness, it’s time […]
India
India
WILL SUPPORT NILEKANI IF HE FIGHTS ELECTIONS, SAYS INFOSYS VICE-CHAIRMAN GOPALAKRISHNAN
Media reports indicate the possibility of Nilekani as a wild card entry to political arena as the Prime Ministerial candidate of Congress NEW DELHI (TIP): Infosys vice-chairman and CII president S Gopalakrishnan on Thursday said […]
Other News
Ways to drink more water
While we all know water is essential to our basic wellbeing, not many of us can manage to gulp down more than a daily dose of one or two litres. Water, after all, is plain […]