WASHINGTON (TIP): Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has for the first time edged out his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in a latest poll even as majority of respondents have an high unfavorable opinion of […]
HOUSTON (TIP): A “wanted” Osama bin Laden poster, signed by US Navy SEAL Team 6 which carried out the raid in Pakistan to kill the then al-Qaeda chief, has been auctioned for a whopping $100,000 […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders split primary wins in Kentucky and Oregon respectively on May 15 as they continued an internecine electoral slugfest that is driving Democratic Party grandees to despair. Party stalwarts […]
BOSTON (TIP): Police on May 16 morning evacuated several buildings at Harvard Business School’s campus following a bomb threat, local media reported. Harvard authorities too tweeted an alert, saying, “Alert: Police are evacuating multiple buildings […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Two Chinese tactical aircraft carried out an “unsafe” intercept of a US military aircraft on May 17, the Pentagon said in a statement on Wednesday. The incident took place in “international airspace” as […]
New Delhi (TIP): President Pranab Mukherjee, who will visit Beijing and Guangzhou next week, is likely to do his bit to nudge China to stop shielding terrorists based in Pakistan from United Nations sanctions. “India […]
New Delhi: Interpol has said Enforcement Directorate’s request to issue a red corner notice (RCN) against businessman Vijay Mallya is under review. In response to TOI’s query on the RCN request against Mallya, made last […]
JAIPUR (TIP): The BJP government in Rajasthan changed “old and boring” school curriculum to evoke nationalism, education minister Vasudev Devnani said on Thursday amid a raging controversy over alleged attempts to black out Congress leaders from […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP’s big win in Assam will not immediately benefit the party in increasing its tally in the Rajya Sabha as there will not be any vacancy in the Upper House from […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a fresh salvo at RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, BJP MP Subramanian Swamy has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking immediate sacking of the former IMF Chief Economist while alleging he […]
Ambassador Riva Ganguly Das took over as India’s Consul General in New York on March 7, 2016. A little over two months later, in her first ever exclusive interview to a publication in the United […]
LONDON (TIP): A woman who said she wanted to marry the terrorist known as “Jihadi John” has been jailed for four and a half years for spreading Isis propaganda. Zafreen Khadam was jailed at Sheffield […]
ISTANBUL (TIP): Turkey’s governing party on Thursday formally tapped Binali Yildirim as its candidate to lead the party and become the country’s next premier. The spokesman of the ruling Justice and Development Party , Omer […]
CARACAS: Called “mad as a goat” by Uruguay’s Jose Mujica this week, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro retorted laughingly on Thursday that the former president was right – but he was only crazy with love for […]
TAIPEI (TIP): Tsai Ing-wen was sworn in as Taiwan’s first woman president on Friday, with the export-driven economy on the ropes and wary Communist Party rulers in China watching for any move towards independence by […]
LONDON (TIP): London’s new mayor Sadiq Khan has invited US presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to visit the UK and meet his family in a bid to end their ongoing feud about his plan […]
DUBAI (TIP): A mother of six in Saudi Arabia has burnt her house after learning that her husband had gone abroad for a second honeymoon, a media report said today. The woman, who has been […]
COLOGNE (TIP): Humans could set foot on Mars within decades if they wanted to, according to the German astronaut who has been tapped to become his country’s first commander of the International Space Station. Alexander […]
LONDON (TIP): Inspired by the ‘liquid wire’ technique in spider webs, scientists have created novel composite fibres which extend like a solid and compress like a liquid. Pulling on a sticky thread in a spider’s […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Europa ocean on Jupiter’s icy moon may have the Earth-like balance of chemical energy necessary for life, even if the moon lacks volcanic hydrothermal activity, a new Nasa study suggests. Europa is […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The Indian subsidiary of UK banking major HSBC on Thursday said it will reduce the number of branches in the country by almost half, a move that could result in job deployments for […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Wal-Mart and some smaller retailers surged Thursday following strong quarterly results, while the broader US market retreated on worries about higher interest rates. Wal-Mart Stores jumped 9.6 percent after reporting better-than-expected first-quarter […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Newly-designed currency notes are likely to circulate in the country soon with the Reserve Bank of India board on Thursday recommending a new set of designs for the banknotes. “The Central Board […]
LONDON (TIP): Oil prices extended their retreat Thursday after hawkish US Federal Reserve meeting minutes strengthened the dollar and a weekly report showed rising US crude stockpiles. Prices hit 2016 highs Wednesday due in part […]
Buddha Purnima is traditionally known as Vesak or Vesakha since it falls in the month of Vaishakh according to lunar calendar. It is a festival that marks the birth, enlightenment and death of Gautam Buddha. This […]
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