NEW DELHI (TIP): The Union Cabinet has approved raising the quota of subsidised LPG (cooking gas) to 12 cylinders per household in a year from current nine, Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily announced at a press […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Both houses of the Andhra Pradesh legislature, by a voice vote on January 30, rejected the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill 2013 on creating a separate Telangana state but this may not deter the […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Former Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf’s treason trial was on January 29 adjourned for a day after his lawyers sought time to go through prosecution’s objections to his medical report. Musharraf’s counsel Anwar Mansoor […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A ceremony to launch teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai’s book at a Pakistan university has been scrapped on the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government’s intervention on the grounds that it could not provide security for the […]
COLOMBO: Thousands of protesters from opposition parties, human rights groups, trade unions and media groups marched on Monday in Sri Lanka’s capital in a rare show of dissent against the government. They held separate marches […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Despite a wave of deadly attacks unleashed by the Taliban across the country in recent months, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on January 29 announced the formation of a four-member committee to pursue peace […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghanistan said on January 28 it expects to release within two weeks a first batch of alleged Taliban prisoners, who the US says are responsible for dozens of NATO and Afghan deaths. Kabul […]
KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress president Sushil Koirala January 28 became the favourite to be Nepal’s new prime minister after he was elected the leader of the Nepali Congress parliamentary party defeating his competitor Sher Bahadur Deuba, […]
INDIA MUST PLAY A PROACTIVE ROLE FOR LONG-TERM SECURITY AND STABILITY It would be in India’s interest to readily join cooperative efforts aimed at maintaining stability. India has acquired robust military intervention capabilities and is […]
India must resist the unilateral US control of internet governance India’s long-term interests lie in advancing the cause of democratizing global internet governance. We need to free ourselves from the existing situation where advocates for […]
Obama promised a ‘year of action’ during which he would raise the minimum wage and tackle economic inequality. US President Barack Obama also used his State-of-the-Union Address to bring in a dash of reality into […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): Oscars organizers have withdrawn a best song nomination from a composer in a rare move because he emailed voting members to highlight his candidacy, which is strictly banned for Academy executives. “Alone […]
NEW YORK (TIP): THE WEEK magazine a leading weekly from USA and UK has selected 10 works of literature that were exceptionally hard to write. Among them Indian author and poet Sri Chinmoy’s book Transcendence […]
DENVER (TIP): Using evidence obtained under the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program violates a terror suspect’s constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure, the suspect argued on January 29 in a court document filed […]
President Obama invoked the struggles faced by a wounded army ranger as he urged the US Congress on Tuesday to work with him to tackle big problems such as boosting the economy and promoting justice […]
SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA (TIP): A schoolteacher was arrested on January 29 after hundreds of living and dead pythons in plastic bins were found stacked floor to ceiling inside his stenchfilled suburban California home. As investigators […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Joe Biden said on Wednesday he was not yet sure if he would run for president but that his decision would not be directly influenced by prohibitive Democratic favorite Hillary Clinton. The US […]
ATLANTA (TIP): Icy chaos gripped the US south on Wednesday after a rare winter storm that killed at least six people, stranded children in their schools overnight and paralyzed travel in several states, including hundreds […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US has said that it is confident that Pakistan is well aware of its responsibilities regarding its nuclear weapons. “The United States is confident that Pakistan is well aware of its responsibilities […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama will meet Jordan’s King Abdullah II at an exclusive California estate next month, the White House said on January 29. The talks, likely to focus on Syria’s refugee crisis […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): A report commissioned by the UN education agency says at least 250 million of the world’s 650 million primary school age children are unable to read, write or do basic mathematics. The […]
TULSA (TIP): A 16 year old Texas girl who plummeted more than 3,000 feet to the ground in an Oklahoma skydiving accident survived and is recovering from her many injuries, a doctor said Tuesday, January […]
DALLAS (TIP): Energy Transfer Partners of Dallas contends that Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners broke its commitment to jointly build a pipeline from Cushing, Okla., to Houston. Energy Transfer Partners argues that Enterprise and Enbridge Inc. […]
DALLAS (TIP): A Dallas police officer accused of sexually abusing a woman while on duty and in uniform, has been arrested. Officer La’Cori Johnson, 28, allegedly forced a woman to perform oral sex on him […]
AUSTIN (TIP): The state only slightly reduced big funding gaps between richer and poorer school districts last year, a representative for hundreds of districts told a judge Wednesday, January 29. Wayne Pierce, executive director of […]
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