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Gold demand in India goes up by 15% in Q1 CY2015

May 15, 2015 - 3:18 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

MUMBAI (TIP): The World Gold Council (WGC) on May 14 announced that the demand for gold in India continues to be stable with a 15 per cent increase in Q1 Calender Year 2015 at 191.7 […]

UK House to discuss growing Indian clout

May 15, 2015 - 1:21 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

LONDON (TIP) : Britain’s House of Lords is all set to debate one of the most prominent new trends in British politics – the growing clout of the Indian vote as seen in the recently […]

No contest: Kazakh prez wins polls with 97.7% votes

May 1, 2015 - 12:49 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

ASTANA (TIP): Nursultan Nazarbayev, the only president Kazakhstan has ever seen since its birth some 24 years ago, won another mandate on April 26 by a margin that’d make words like ‘landslide’ and ‘overwhelming’ sound […]

India’s Land Acquisition Act: Bonanza for Rulers & their Financiers

Apr 23, 2015 - 8:39 pm EDT Dave Makkar 0

India has a long history of its ruler’s fascination with farm land. Whether it was ancient Kings or Moghuls or British invaders turned rulers as well as the current rulers after independence; every one has […]

Northern Ireland fields first-ever Sikh candidate for UK polls

Apr 11, 2015 - 10:44 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

LONDON (TIP): A 31-year-old Sikh politician will be the first Indian-origin candidate to contest in the UK General Elections from Northern Ireland on May 7. Amandeep Singh Bhogal, who was born in Jalandhar, is already […]

End of turban trouble in UK

Apr 3, 2015 - 1:31 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

CHANDIGARH (TIP): In the run up to general elections in the UK scheduled for early May, the 7.5-lakh strong Sikh community there has got a gift in the shape of a new law that allows […]

Giriraj Singh had kicked up a row with his remarks asking whether Congress would have accepted Sonia Gandhi’s leadership had she not been white-skinned.

Case against Giriraj Singh for racist remark

Apr 3, 2015 - 12:50 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

NEW DELHI (TIP): A complaint was filed against Union Minister Giriraj Singh in a district court on April 2 by a Congress worker for his racist remarks against Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Sanjay Kumar Singh […]

NFIA Honorees (L to R) : Navneet S. Chug, Mark E. Pulido (Mayor of City of Cerritos),. Deepak Viswanath ( Son of Dr.. B.N. Viswanath) , Rangaesh Gadsalli, Ashok Madan ( NFIA President Elect ) N. K. Mishra (Embassy of India ), Aparna Hande, Venkatesan Ashok ( Consul General of India ), Sohan P. Joshi ( NFIA President), Amrapali Ambegaokar, Dr. Bharat H. Barai, Lal K. Motwani ( Chair NFIA Foundation), K.V. Kumar, Drs. Radha & S. Giridharan ( Receiving HHH Award) Samita Das, Rita Sahai and Rajen Anand ( NFIA past President) Back Row: Abraham Thomas ( ( Founding President NFIA) and Kewal Kanda (Event Coordinator)

US Congresswomen in Los Angeles applaud the services of NFIA

Mar 20, 2015 - 1:26 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

LOS ANGELES (TIP): The National Federation of Indian American Associations (NFIA), which is the largest umbrella organization in the US, representing over 3.5 million Americans who trace their roots to India, held its 18th biennial […]

Status Quo in Israel

Mar 20, 2015 - 12:51 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

The re-election of Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu after his Likud Party secured the first place with 30 out of the 120 seats in the 2015 Israeli legislative elections came as a bit of a surprise. […]

SONIA RALLIES CONGRESS BEHIND MANMOHAN

Mar 13, 2015 - 12:01 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

NEW DELHI (TIP): Sonia Gandhi on March 12 morning led the Congress party in a solidarity march to the residence of Manmohan Singh who has been summoned as an accused in a coal-scam case, a […]

A welcome climb down – After speaking up, Modi must act

Feb 20, 2015 - 7:13 am EST @theindpanorama 0

The Obama visit and the Delhi verdict seem to have had some pleasant side-effects. President Obama’s sermons on religious tolerance have not been dismissed as unwarranted or treated as interference by the Modi government. These have, […]

DAY AFTER DEEPAK PAREKH FIRE, JAITLEY DEFENDS GOVT

Feb 20, 2015 - 6:01 am EST @theindpanorama 0

NEW DELHI (TIP): Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Feb 19 countered the criticism over “growing impatience” in the corporate sector and instead said that the Narendra Modi government has been criticized for moving “too fast”. […]

Pervez Musharraf claims “I brought ‘real’ democracy to Pakistan”

Feb 19, 2015 - 11:21 am EST @theindpanorama 0

Musharraf the Ex. Pakistan Army chief and the Ex. President of Pakistan (Musharraf become president after a military coup in Pakistan) said in an exclusive interview with Indian media channel Zee News “People assume that just […]

Indian-American Ravi Patel announces Congressional bid from Iowa

Feb 19, 2015 - 3:46 am EST @theindpanorama 0

2nd generation Indian-American Ravi Patel announces to run for the House of Representatives from Iowa, becoming the second Democrat to enter the race from 1st Congressional District in the State for the 2016 elections. “I […]

Interview on Prof. Indrajit S Saluja on the 1984 Sikh riots to PTC

AAP Now Mute on 1984 Sikh riots – Sikhs want justice, not compensation

Feb 16, 2015 - 11:42 am EST I. S. Saluja 0

It is too late and too little. The Sikh community, seething with anger at not being done justice is further enraged at the government grant of a paltry sum of INR 500,000 as compensation for […]

THE RISE, FALL AND RISE OF AAP

Feb 13, 2015 - 10:14 am EST @theindpanorama 0

Aam Aadmi Party or Common Man’s Party; abbreviated as AAP is an Indian political party, formally launched on 26 November 2012. It came into existence following differences between the activists Arvind Kejriwal and Anna Hazare regarding whether […]

DELHI ELECTIONS – AAP TROUNCES BJP IN DELHI

Feb 13, 2015 - 9:46 am EST @theindpanorama 0

NEW DELHI (TIP): Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party surged to a landslide win in Delhi that surpassed the wildest of expectations and left a routed Bharatiya Janata Party licking its wounds in the city-state from […]

Sonia seeks four weeks to respond to CIC notice

Feb 13, 2015 - 8:40 am EST @theindpanorama 0

NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress president Sonia Gandhi has sought four weeks time to respond to a notice of the Central Information Commission seeking an explanation on why her party had not complied with the commission’s […]

BJP keeps options open in Bihar power struggle

Feb 13, 2015 - 8:38 am EST @theindpanorama 0

NEW DELHI (TIP): BJP is keeping its options open of supporting Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi in the trust vote he has to face on February 20. “We are keeping our options open,” senior […]

J&K STALEMATE ENDS AS PDP, BJP SEAL ALLIANCE

Feb 13, 2015 - 8:32 am EST @theindpanorama 0

SRINAGAR (TIP): The PDP-BJP alliance is all set to put an end to the Governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir and finally provide the state a government. According to an NDTV report, the two parties […]

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