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Month: January 2015
Europe
BILL GATES FOUNDATION TO TURN HUMAN FAECES INTO POTABLE WATER
HOUSTON (TIP): With an aim to prevent diseases caused by contaminated water supply, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has joined hands with a US firm to develop a plant which can turn human faeces into potable […]
United States
India
India
Video clip shows Naxals training to gun down choppers
RAIPUR (TIP): A rare video footage of Maoists purportedly showing the rebels conducting a ‘commando-style’ training to gun down helicopters, used to ferry security personnel and VIPs in Chhattisgarh’s worst insurgency-hit Bastar region, has been […]
United States
Brooklyn Sikh missing in Mexico is found dead
NEW YORK (TIP): The Brooklyn man Hari Simran Singh Khalsa, 25, who had gone missing Tuesday, December 30 while hiking in the mountains outside Tepoztlan was found dead. His body was found Friday, January 2 […]
United States
Other News
Australian Open prize money hits record $32 million
MELBOURNE (TIP): Australian Open organisers said Friday they had raised the prize money for the year’s first Grand Slam to a record Aus$40 million (US$32 million), with the singles winners taking home Aus$3.1 million each. […]
India
GOVT REFUSES TO DECLASSIFY NETAJI FILES, SAYS WILL HIT INTERNATIONAL TIES
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government has refused to declassify at least 87 top secret files containing information about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, essentially on grounds that they are of “sensitive nature” that could be a […]
India
Armed forces women to march on for first time
NEW DELHI (TIP): The armed forces for the first time will have all-women marching contingents, apart from their regular ones, in the Republic Day parade on the majestic Rajpath this year, which will have US […]
United States
Needles, Birth Control go missing from NYC school health centers: Comptroller’s audit
ALBANY (TIP): New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli said , January 8, that an audit of the New York State Department of Health (DOH) found that medications and potentially hazardous medical supplies were unaccounted […]
India