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NEWLYWEDS’ GUIDE TO DOING UP THEIR NEST
His was a clumsy bachelor pad and hers a girly den before the two got married and moved into their romantic nest. Looking simply at the bare walls and empty spaces of a house can […]
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CADBURY’S LARGEST PLANT IN ASIA-PACIFIC TO COME UP IN AP
HYDERABAD (TIP): Cadbury India on November 27 signed a memorandum of understanding with the Andhra Pradesh Government that will see it set up its largest manufacturing plant in the Asia-Pacific region. The proposed plant, which […]
Business & Economics
HERO GROUP TO OPEN UNIVERSITY
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Hero Group on Wednesday announced the launch of BML Munjal University, a fully residential university, spread across 5 lakh sq ft on the Delhi-Jaipur Highway near Manesar. “The university will be […]
Business & Economics
ADANI PORTS SIGNS MOU WITH BELGIAN PORT OF ZEEBRUGGE
MUMBAI (TIP): Adani Ports & SEZ Ltd (APSEZ), India’s largest private port developer, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Belgian Port of Zeebrugge on November 27 to get access to European markets. “The […]
Business & Economics
LONDON INVITES KERALA START-UPS
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM (TIP): Start up in London, develop in India. This is the message from London and Partners, the metropolis’s official promotional organisation, to start-ups based in Kerala.Set up business there and get back home to […]
Business & Economics
INDIA, BELGIUM AGREE TO ENHANCE COOPERATION IN RENEWABLE ENERGY
NEW DELHI (TIP): India and Belgium have agreed to work on signing an MOU to enhance cooperation in renewable energy. This was discussed at a bilateral meeting between Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Minister for New and […]
Business & Economics
MHRD to provide for 5000 faculty positions in higher education
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Ministry of Human Resource Development proposes to provide for 5000 faculty positions in the higher education under the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) during the current Five Year Plan, ending 2017. […]
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CHINESE COMPUTER RETAINS ‘WORLD’S FASTEST’ TITLE
LONDON (TIP): A computer in the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (Pune) has been declared the 44th fastest machine in the world, capable of 719 trillion calculations per second. In all, 12 Indian computers have […]
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NASA FINDS GRANITE ON MARS
LONDON (TIP): Researchers from the US space agency NASA have said that granite – an igneous rock common on Earth— could be found in abundance on Mars. For years Mars was considered geologically simplistic consisting […]
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Car mechanic invents device to ease childbirth
NEW YORK (TIP): The idea came to Jorge Odon as he slept. Somehow, he said, his unconscious made the leap from a YouTube video he had just seen on extracting a lost cork from a […]
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SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
|| 4 || 2 || 11 || AASAA: As many mistakes as the son commits, his mother does not hold them against him in her mind. || 1 || O Lord, I am Your child. […]
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THE ESSENCE OF THANKSGIVING
Expression of gratitude is the ultimate balancing act in everyone’s life. We know whom we receive the good from and offer our gratitude. The absence of a simple thank-you creates an imbalance in the relationship […]
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India Seeks Congressional Help over Immigration Bill
WASHINGTON (TIP): India has sought Congressional help in addressing its concerns over certain alleged discriminatory provisions of the comprehensive immigration bill, which if passed into law would adversely impact Indian IT companies. “One of the […]
United States
26/11 intended to provoke Indo-Pak war: US expert
WASHINGTON (TIP): As the fifth anniversary of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks approaches, US counter-terrorism expert Bruce Riedel says the horrific Lashkar-e- Tayyeba assault, aided and abetted by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Al Qaeda, was […]
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Jobs key for world’s 49 poorest countries: UN
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): The population in the world’s 49 poorest countries is projected to double to 1.7 billion by 2050 and job creation will be crucial to prevent increasing poverty, social unrest and mass international […]
Europe
Afghanistan-US reach draft security agreement
KABUL/WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States and Afghanistan on November 20 reached a draft agreement on a crucial security pact, a day before thousands of Afghan elders are set to debate whether to allow US troops […]
Europe
Historic call: UK PM rings up Rouhani
LONDON (TIP): In a historic first, David Cameron on November 19 became the first British PM to call an Iranian president in more than a decade. Cameron spoke to Hassan Rouhani by telephone on Tuesday […]
Europe
Karzai wants US president to acknowledge army’s errors
NEW YORK (TIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants a letter written by US President Barack Obama that will acknowledge military mistakes made during 12-year war in his country in return for allowing American counterterrorism raids […]
Europe
Volcano raises new island far south of Japan
TOKYO (TIP): The Japanese coast guard and earthquake experts say a volcanic eruption has raised a new island in the seas to the far south of Tokyo. Advisories from the coast guard and the Japan […]
Europe
Silvio Berlusconi expelled from Italian parliament
ROME (TIP): The Italian Senate on November 27 expelled three-time ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi from Parliament over his tax fraud conviction, ending, for now, his two-decade legislative run but not his political career. Berlusconi has warned […]
Europe
Iran invites inspectors to visit Arak nuclear site, says the International Atomic Energy Agency
VIENNA (TIP): The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will accept Iran’s invitation to send inspectors to visit its Arak heavy-water production plant on December 8, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said Thursday, November 28. “We […]
Europe
China’s recent behaviour has been unsettling to neighbours: US officials
WASHINGTON (TIP): Recent actions by China concerning air space over the East China Sea have worried its neighbors and US Vice-President Joe Biden will raise the issue during a visit to Beijing next week, senior […]
India
26/11 ATTACKS / Five years on, Pak’s ‘sham’ trial continues
NEW DELHI (TIP): Exactly a month back when Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met US President Barack Obama in Washington, the first thing the American leader inquired about was the progress in the trial of […]
India
Abu Salem gets 7-year RI in fake passport case
Hyderabad (TIP): A special CBI court awarded seven-year rigorous imprisonment to extradited gangster Abu Salem in a fake passport case. Third special court judge for CBI cases MV Ramana Naidu had on November 18 held […]