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Year: 2016
Business & Economics
New app that alerts users about call drops
NEW DELHI (TIP): Seeking to cash in on the call drop menace, a Pune-based startup claims to have launched a mobile application that will alert caller about possibility of call drop after analysing a host […]
Business & Economics
Now Reddit lets you block online bullies
NEW DELHI (TIP): Reddit has taken a stand against online harassment with the new block tool. To curb harassment on the “web’s front page”, Reddit’s “block user” option hopes to change Reddit’s reputation as a […]
Business & Economics
INDIA COMMISSIONS FIRST SEMI HIGH-SPEED TRAIN
AGRA (TIP): Rishu Anand is a business consultant working in Delhi and, like many excited over the launch of Gatimaan Express, took the train’s maiden trip to Agra on April 5. A frequent traveller to […]
Business & Economics
Cut in repo rate may lead to cheaper home, vehicle loans
NEW DELHI (TIP): The cut in repo rate, measures to enhance liquidity in the banking system and the new methodology to calculate lending rates will give banks a freer hand in transmitting the reduction in […]
Business & Economics
Business & Economics
Pfizer scraps $160 billion merger with Allergan
NEW YORK (TIP): US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said Wednesday it was abandoning plans for a $160 billion merger with Allergan, citing new US rules cracking down on tie ups aimed at saving on taxes. The […]
Business & Economics
PM Modi launches ‘Stand up India’ to promote financial inclusion
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Stand up India scheme to enable Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and women entrepreneurs to access loans, setting a target of creating 2.5 lakh such entrepreneurs across […]
Other News
World T20: Three titles in 2016
Unbelievable. An astonishing end to a remarkable match. A thoroughly entertaining, enthralling competition was given a fitting finale with a display of stupendous strokes from West Indies’ Carlos Brathwaite. All great tournaments should end with a […]
Other News
VASANTA NAVARATRI | THE 9 HOLY NIGHTS OF SPRING
Navaratri (“nava” + “ratri”) literally means “nine nights.” This ritual is observed twice a year, in spring and in autumn. “Vasanta Navaratri” or Spring Navaratri is nine days of fast and worship that Hindus undertake during […]
Europe
Out today, the Pope’s guide to love, sex, marriage
VATICAN CITY (TIP): : Pope Francis issues one of the most eagerly awaited documents of his pontificate on April 8, a treatise on marriage and the family following two gatherings of Catholic bishops that exposed […]
Asia
Featured
The New York Indian Film Festival
The New York Indian Film Festival was the first festival in the United States devoted to Indian films and has grown to be the largest and most influential, helping to set up several other Indian […]
India
CONSPIRACY THEORIES FLOAT AFTER NAMDHARI MATRIARCH’S MURDER
LUDHIANA (TIP): After Namdhari sect matriarch and the widow of former sect head Satguru Jagjit Singh was gunned down, many followers on blamed a “third party”, which purportedly wants the family running the sect to […]
India
Strategist wants Priyanka as UP poll mascot
NEW DELHI (TIP): Backed by an internal survey that promised positive outcome, poll strategist Prashant Kishor held discussion with the Congress’s first family of Gandhis on the prospects of projecting Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as the […]
India
Jaitley targeted by Congress, AAP on Panama Papers leaks
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress and AAP on April 7 targeted finance minister Arun Jaitley on the Panama Papers issue, demanding a judicial probe into the allegations about some Indians setting up offshore entities in a […]
India
JD (U) – RLD MERGER EYES ALLIANCE WITH CONGRESS IN UP
NEW DELHI (TIP): The forthcoming merger of Ajit Singh’s RLD with Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) is just the beginning of a larger experiment that may see the JD(U) and Congress trying to replicate a Bihar-like grand […]
United States
Utah teacher Brianne Altice defends relationship with teenage student
ALTICE (TIP): A teacher who was jailed after she admitted sexual contact with three of her students has reportedly defended her relationship with one of the victims, saying she helped to improve his grades. Brianne […]
Asia
Europe
NATO critical to security of United States: Barack Obama
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama has said Nato is “critical” to the security of America and its allies in Europe, a virtual rejection of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump‘s views that the intergovernmental military alliance […]
United States
Father who ‘left crying baby in hot car to get lap dance’ charged with child abuse in the US
SAN FERNANDO (TIP) A man who allegedly left his baby daughter locked in a hot car while he got a lap dance has been charged with child abuse in the US. Auwin Dargin, 24, pleaded […]
Asia
After F-16s, US to give attack choppers to Pakistan
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Obama administration on Monday awarded a $170 million contract to Bell Helicopter of Texas to manufacture and deliver nine AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters to Pakistan, continuing the US policy of arming a […]
Asia
JUD RUNS ‘PARALLEL’ SHARIA COURT IN LAHORE
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) has set up a Sharia court in Lahore to dispense “speedy justice”, taking up citizens’ complaints and issuing summons carrying a warning of strict action in […]
Asia
Yet another critic of radical Islam killed in Bangladesh
DHAKA (TIP): A 28-year-old Bangladeshi law student who was critical of radical Islamists has been hacked to death here by machete-wielding militants, the latest in a series of attacks on secular bloggers and activists in […]
Asia