Davos 21 January – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the first-ever High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment to provide thought leadership and mobilize concrete actions aimed at closing economic gender gaps that persist around the […]
WASHINGTON: An Indian-origin convenience store owner in the US has become a celebrity overnight after he sold one of the three Powerball winning lotteries with a record jackpot of $1.6 billion. Lottery officials confirmed one jackpot-winning […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A hotline between the director general of military operations (DGMO) in Indian and Chinese armies is likely to come up within months. “Surveys were carried out to set up the hotlines between the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has found similarities in the Pathankot terror attack and last year’s July 27 Dinanagar attack in which militants had attacked a police st-ation. To probe it further, […]
Barmer (TIP): When she became the first girl from her family to become a graduate, 25-year-old Neetu Meghwal wished that her groom came riding a mare, something that no Dalit in her village had dared […]
2016 has begun with a sudden escalation of tension between Iran, the leading Shia power, and its regional rival, Saudi Arabia, the leading Sunni power. Such escalation, unless addressed, can have serious adverse consequences for regional stability and peace […]
FLORIDA (TIP): A Florida woman has sued Twitter for allowing the social media platform to be used by Islamic State (ISIS) militant group to spread its messages all over the world. Twitter is being sued […]
NEW YORK (TIP): American business magazine Fortune has apologized for juxtaposing image of Amazon.com President Jeff Bezos as the likeness of Lord Vishnu over the cover of its January one international edition, which upset the […]
NEW YORK (TIP): In continuation of an Advisory issued on 23 December 2015 in connection with instances of denial of entry by the US Immigration authorities to Indian students having valid student visas to pursue […]
EDISON, NJ (TIP): Arts for Peace Awards Organization launched the Arts 4 Peace Awards 2016 on Tuesday, January 5th, 2016 hosted by the Edison Hotel in Edison, NJ. Arts 4 Peace Awards are the first […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Al Jazeera America will shut down its news channel despite spending heavily to break into the US market. Al Jazeera CEO Al Anstey said the business model “is simply not sustainable in light of […]
In an unexpected drama at Delhi’s celebratory rally for the Odd-Even plan, a woman threw ink at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today, as he took the stage to address a gathering at Chhatrasal Stadium […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): TomTom, the Amesterdam-based technology company, is all set to return to India with another set of its smartwatches after exactly a year. The company had launched its GPS fitness watches with heart-rate […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Google Search has been including a lot of features to make its search engine easier, intuitive and fun to use. After launching the image search option, now the California-based Internet major is […]
Next time you wan to talk to someone in Chinese Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish, just call them on Skype. Or text in 50 different languages and the recipient will receive the […]
Middle-aged adults who drink sugary beverages like soda and coke every day are likely to have higher amount of a particular type of body fat that may affect diabetes and heart disease risk, a new study […]
If you are suffering from obesity, reducing the time spent on watching television or playing computer games may be as important as doing exercise to reduce the risk of diabetes and heart diseases, suggests new research. […]
LONDON (TIP): Parts of the UK are expected to be colder than the South Pole this weekend, forecasters say. Warnings of snow and ice have been issued for some areas, with temperatures set to plunge […]
LONDON: Britain is home to some of the world’s iconic museums – the British museum alone attracting nearly seven million people last year. But data released on Thursday has some worrying findings for British museums. […]
JAKARTA (TIP): Indonesians were shaken but refusing to be cowed a day after a deadly attack in a busy district of central Jakarta that has been claimed by the Islamic State group. In a new […]
BAGHDAD (TIP): Saudi Arabia has reopened its embassy in Baghdad, with its ambassador submitting his credentials at the foreign ministry, after a closure that lasted 25 years. The kingdom had closed the embassy in 1990, […]
BEIJING (TIP): Five people were killed and seven injured January 14 in an explosion at a fireworks factory in central China just weeks ahead of the Chinese New Year, authorities said. The Tongxu county government […]
BERLIN (TIP): An irate local politician in Germany’s southern state of Bavaria has dispatched a bus filled with dozens of refugees on a 7-hour journey to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office in Berlin as a protest […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia: The secretary general of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has condemned the bombings and gun attacks in Jakarta and expressed “his solidarity with the government and people of Indonesia.” A statement released by […]
BEIJING: Days after China passed a new law that for the first time permits its military to venture overseas on counter-terror operations, its marines began exercises in the western deserts of Xinjiang, more than 2,000 […]
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