NEW DELHI (TIP): Delhi MLAs on December 3 approved a 400% increase in their salary, accepting in totality the recommendations made by an independent committee that proposed a monthly payout of Rs 2.35 lakh to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A disease-afflicted woman cannot seek divorce just to get some money even after getting consent from her husband for dissolution of marriage, the Supreme Court has said. The court said to a […]
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj may travel to Islamabad next week to attend a multilateral conclave on Afghanistan. Though the government has not yet officially announced Swaraj’s visit to Islamabad, sources said she herself might […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India and Pakistan may announce new dates for the talks between their Prime Ministers’ National Security Advisors, if External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj travels to Islamabad to attend a conclave on Afghanistan […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A soft-spoken but tough judge, Justice Tirath Singh Thakur on December 3 assumed office as Chief Justice of India after being sworn in by President Pranab Mukherjee. Justice Thakur’s term as 43 […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Demanding an apology from Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh for his controversial “dog” analogy after killing of two Dalit children in Haryana recently, BSP members today forced two adjournments […]
CHENNAI (TIP): After days of chaos, there was finally some relief for the flood-battered people of Chennai, as a break in rain overnight helped reduce water levels of the Adyar and Kumbh rivers, thus easing […]
NEW DELHI (TIP) Visiting Nepal Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister Kamal Thapa met Indian leaders at New Delhi on December 4. He extensively briefed them on the current Nepal crisis. Nepal Ambassador in India […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The juvenile convict, the youngest out of the six who gangraped and tortured a paramedical student in a moving bus in Delhi in 2012, will walk out of a special home on […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The world’s richest 10 percent of people are responsible for producing about half of all carbon emissions, and the average carbon footprint of the richest 1 percent is about 175 times that of […]
TAVARES, FL (TIP): After a successful project of developing 174 condos for seniors in Tavares, Florida, in two phases – one consisting of 54 condos and another consisting of 120 condos – Shantiniketan is venturing […]
COPENHAGEN (TIP): Danes have rejected adopting EU rules on cross-border policing in a referendum that could have seen the country take closer ties with the bloc, according to final results. Denmark’s centre-right government had wanted […]
LONDON(TIP): Britain has carried out its first airstrikes in Syria, hours after MPs voted overwhelmingly to authorize military action in Syria against ISIL. A British Ministry of Defence spokesman confirmed Four RAF Tornado jets were […]
LONDON (TIP): Muslim parents were considering taking legal action against a school which, they claim, forced their children to pray outside in rain and freezing temperatures. Dozens of Muslim youngsters claim they have been left […]
VIENNA: One of the suspected ringleaders of last month’s Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, travelled to Hungary where he “recruited a team” from unregistered migrants passing through, senior Hungarian government officials said December 3. “I can […]
BEIJING: Leaders of 25 media organisations from BRICS countries on Tuesday made a strong pitch for reaching consensus to help deal with issues like terrorism and climate change as well as rapid technological changes. Addressing […]
BAGHDAD (TIP): Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Iraq does not need foreign ground troops to defeat the Islamic State group, after Washington announced it would deploy special forces to fight the jihadists. Abadi did not […]
BLOOMBERG (TIP): Two decades ago, Tyler Xiong and his parents had to live in a commune guided by the strict socialist teachings of Mao Zedong. Today Xiong, a 28-year-old tech entrepreneur, voluntarily lives among 500 […]
MOSCOW (TIP): The arms trade adviser to President Vladimir Putin says Russia has begun delivering S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran, according to the Russian state news agency Tass. Tass quoted Vladimir Kozhin as […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Russian President Vladimir Putin, on December 3, vowed Turkey’s leadership would be made to regret the downing of one of Moscow’s warplanes as the top diplomats from both countries held their first high-level […]
PARIS: The issue of climate finance continues to be a major sticky point with the G77 and China, a group of 134 developing countries including India, strongly objecting to the attempts made by the rich […]
A relatively common condition associated with abdominal pain, heavy periods, and infertility may increase risk of miscarriage by over 75 percent, a new research has found. The study involving over 14,000 women in Britain looked at the […]
Studies show heart attacks and heart disease are under-diagnosed in women, as their symptoms do not match that of men. To prevent a heart attack from sneaking up on you, watch for these seven little-known signs […]
Scientists have found new evidence to prove that contraceptive pills these days could increase risk of clot formation in women. The results show that pills containing one of the newer types of progestogen hormone (drospirenone, desogestrel, […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): Scientists have developed a soft, flexible and stretchable keyboard using a type of rubber known as a dielectric elastomer that can be wrapped around any object. “Imagine a world where you drop something, […]
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