NEW DELHI (TIP): The Indian Mujahideen is planning to turn oilcarrying tankers into fireballs using magnetic explosive device for spectacular strikes, counter-terror officials familiar with the revelations made by the terror outfit’s top operative, Yasin […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Former home secretary R K Singh has said that he had offered to resign when his successor Anil Goswami was brought in as officer on special duty almost two months before the […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain’s newspapers were on Wednesday left mystified by their French counterparts’ reluctance to quiz President Francois Hollande over claims of an affair, concluding “they do things differently” across the Channel. Britain’s rowdy media […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain has granted asylum to an atheist from Afghanistan due to fears he would be prosecuted back home, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind, his lawyers said […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese police said eight people have been arrested in connection to an explosion which killed 15 people at a gambling site in Kaili City of southwest China’s Guizhou Province. It has not cited […]
LONDON (TIP): Veteran British presenter Dave Lee Travis sexually assaulted young women while live on television and in his radio studio, prosecutors told his trial on January 14. The 68-year-old former BBC star, one of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US Senate Intelligence Committee on January 15 released a report on the deadly 2012 assault on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, blaming the state department, the intelligence community and even the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama is expected to endorse changes to the way the government collects millions of Americans’ phone records for possible future surveillance, but he’ll leave many of the specific adjustments for Congress […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): A California appellate court refused on January 15 to overturn the conviction of Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Conrad Murray, who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of the pop […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain is recruiting an army of amateur historians to sift through more than 1.5 million pages of diaries written by World War I army officers, published online for the first time 100 years […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US military has suspended 34 officers in charge of launching nuclear missiles for cheating on a proficiency test, Air Force leaders said on January 15. The scandal at Malmstrom Air Force Base […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the drive to curb corruption in public life will become harsher and “all dirty hands will be caught”. The President called corruption a disease that has to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court today issued a notice to National Green Tribunal (NGT) Chairman Justice Swatanter Kumar on a PIL petition by a woman lawyer claiming that she was sexually harassed by Justice […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): Oxford University has apologized after an administrator accidentally emailed a list of all the poorly performing students’ marks to their peers on Wednesday. The email disclosed the names of students who were awarded […]
BEIJING (TIP): A tortoise beat a rabbit in a skiing competition held for pets and their owners in China, a report said on January 13. Cats and dogs faced off against a menagerie including a […]
CAIRO (TIP): Polls across Egypt closed on Wednesday evening, state media reported, after a second and final day of voting on a draft constitution that could pave the way for a presidential bid by army […]
DHAKA (TIP): Sheikh Hasina was sworn in on Sunday for her second straight term as Bangladesh’s prime minister and third overall, following one of the most violent elections in the country’s history. Hasina took the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Army Chief General Bikram Singh warned against revoking or diluting the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Jammu and Kashmir and said he was positive that recent talks with Pakistan and […]
COLOMBO (TIP): The US on Sunday pressed Sri Lanka to probe alleged rights abuses by its army through independent and credible investigations after a top American diplomat recorded eyewitness accounts of serious “abuses” during the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Delhi High Court restrained the media from publishing and telecasting the sexual harassment allegations levelled against National Green Tribunal (NGT) Chairman Swatanter Kumar by a woman lawyer. The alleged harassment took […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A small fire on Wednesday broke out at a military hospital in Rawalpindi, where former Pakistani military ruler General Pervez Musharraf is under treatment. The cause of the blaze, which broke out at […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has said Indian Army chief General Bikram Singh’s statement on ceasefire violations was provocative and regrettable. In a clear warning to Pakistan, General Bikram Singh said on Monday any militant who crosses the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) extended the special industrial package for Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand till 2017, a move that will boost industrialisation and create more employment in the two […]
KABUL (TIP): At least seven militants were killed in separate military operations in Afghanistan, the interior ministry said in a statement on January 14. The Afghan police, army and the National Directorate for Security (NDS) […]
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (TIP) : Police say a suicide attacker has struck a bus carrying police recruits in eastern Kabul, wounding at least six police. Kabul Police Chief General Mohammad Zahir Zahir says three civilians were […]
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