NEW DELHI (TIP): Two months after it took over the investigation in the multi-layered Vyapam (Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal) scam, CBI sleuths on Thursday conducted raids at around 40 places in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Searches […]
Ms Arunima Sinha of Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) is the first Female Amputee of the world to climb Mount Everest. She is also the first Indian Amputee to climb Mount Everest. She reached the summit of Mount […]
DELAWARE (TIP): Police in Delaware are being asked to explain how officers shot dead an armed man who was sitting in a wheel chair. Wilmington police said in a news release that they encountered the […]
SANAA (TIP): A suicide bomber struck a mosque in Yemen’s rebel-held capital on Thursday in an attack targeting Shiites that killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens during holiday prayers. There was no immediate […]
CALIFORNIA: An Indian couple in California is facing a lawsuit over the behaviour of their 11 year old autistic son. It has forced them to give up their house in which they had lived for seven […]
MECCA, SAUDI ARABIA (TIP): A stampede has killed at least 717 people and injured hundreds more at the hajj in Saudi Arabia in one of the worst-ever tragedies at the annual Muslim pilgrimage. It was […]
FLORENCE (TIP): Italian archaeologists trying to solve the mystery behind one of the world’s most famous paintings have said they had found bits of bone which could have belonged to the `real’ Mona Lisa. The […]
Thanks to a fan club with a £180 million kitty, the supersonic airliner may soon return to the skies. Club Concorde, a group of ex-pilots, airline executives, engineers and Concorde enthusiasts have unveiled their plan to […]
BHAGALPUR (TIP): Disgruntled BJP leaders in Bihar’s silk city, Bhagalpur, have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi questioning him for calling Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi ‘shahzada’ when his own party is promoting nepo-tism in the […]
CAPE CANAVERAL (TIP): Get ready for a rare double feature this weekend, starring our very own moon. A total lunar eclipse will share the stage with a so-called supermoon on Sunday night or early Monday, […]
LONDON (TIP): A French firm has designed a conceptual shelter for future astronauts on Mars that would be 3D-printed on the red planet using local materials. Resembling an igloo from the surface, the shelter, dubbed […]
SEOUL (TIP): Oil prices pared some losses on Thursday after sharp falls overnight on an unexpectedly large buildup in US gasoline stocks and seasonally tepid demand. The global benchmark November Brent contract had climbed 44 […]
Five years ago, the book world was seized by collective panic over the un certain future of print. As readers migrated to new digital devices, e-book sales soared, up 1,260% between 2008 and 2010. Print sales […]
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