LONDON: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today personally conveyed his condolence to NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul, whose son Angad died a few days ago after falling from his penthouse in central London. Prime Minister Modi, who […]
TORONTO: Andhra-born Dipika Damerla, who is the first Indian-origin woman minister in Canada’s biggest province of Ontario, is blazing a trail in community service. If thanks to her efforts Indian-Canadians in the neighbouring Mississauga just enjoyed […]
NEW DELHI: With eyes set on the 2017 Punjab Assembly polls, a delegation of AAP leaders has flown to Canada to woo the NRI Punjabi Indian community settled in the North American country in a bid […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The World Bank has approved a USD 500 million loan to cash-strapped Pakistan for energy sector reform in the country reeling under frequent power cuts. The loan, scheduled to be issued in April, […]
DHAKA, BANGLADESH (TIP): Omi Rahman Pial has changed homes five times in the last three months. He hasn’t seen his young daughter in weeks and is afraid to be seen on the streets of Dhaka, […]
SITTWE, MYANMAR (TIP): Noor Bagum would have liked to have voted for Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) but, like the majority of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, she took no part […]
QUETTA (TIP): Pakistan authorities have halted funding to hundreds of “ghost schools” and fired 450 absentee teachers, with officials vowing on Nov 10 to launch a crackdown on the practice in the southwestern province of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): An American college police chief has come under fire for reportedly claiming that most cases of rape are “women waking up the next morning with a guilt complex”. Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College’s student […]
PARIS (TIP): Terrorists, in the form of masked suicide bombers and gunmen, November 13 evening, launched a series of terror attacks in and around Central Paris which left over 160 people dead across six sites, including at […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama will huddle with the leaders of Germany, Britain, Italy and France next week in hopes of making “incremental progress” in the fight against the Islamic State group, the White House […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Pentagon said late Thursday that it had targeted Mohammed Emwazi, a member of the Islamic State often referred to as Jihadi John, in an airstrike near Raqqa, Syria. Peter Cook, the Pentagon press […]
CHICAGO (TIP): All nine people on board a private corporate jet were killed when it crashed into an apartment building in Akron in the US state of Ohio, the owner and operator of the plane […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The White House condemned the “horrific terrorist” twin bomb blasts claimed by the Islamic State extremist group that killed 41 people in Beirut on Nov 12. “Such acts of terror only reinforce our […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government is fast losing patience with military veterans who continue to protest against what they say is a “diluted” one rank, one pension (OROP). Holding that attempts by some to burn their medals was “an insult” to the nation, defence minister Manohar Parrikar […]
LONDON (TIP): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in London, November 12 on his three-day maiden visit to the United Kingdom. “My visit to UK is the first Prime Ministerial visit in almost a decade. […]
CALIFORNIA(TIP): A California man who found his long-lost twin brother has died of cancer at 82-years-old. In 1933, Jack Yufe was born in Trinidad with his identical twin brother but 6-months later the boy’s parents […]
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama pledged his government’s support to France on Friday after a series of attacks in Paris, but said he did not yet know the details of what had happened and that […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): Facebook launched a check-in feature to let people know that friends in Paris were safe after a series of bombings and shootings in the French capital killed at least 120 people on […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Home minister Rajnath Singh will undertake a five-day visit to China starting November 19 to discuss border irritants, terror concerns and security liaisoning. Singh, who will be touring Beijing and Shanghai, is […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): With cow and cow protection hog the headlines these days it’s the buffalo which faces discrimination. In the Annual Buffalo Carnival in Hyderabad there’s a Murrah buffalo ‘Yuvraj’ which needs a special […]
CHANDIGARH: It is not for the first time that a convicted killer has been ‘appointed’ as jathedar of the highest temporal body of Sikhs — the Akal Takht. Ironically, it was the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak […]
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) is contemplating to pick eminent Sikh kathavachak (preacher) Giani Pinderpal Singh (49) as the Akal Takht jathedar to replace the beleaguered Giani Gurbachan Singh. The development comes in the […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): Police registered a case of sedition on November 13 against the organisers of Sarbat Khalsa, or congregation of the Sikh faithful, in Punjab’s Chabha village on November 10 where controversial resolutions were adopted […]
BENGALURU (TIP): Three days after a VHP sympathizer was killed during violence in Madikeri, right-wing groups blocked roads in several parts of Karnataka and blocked traffic as part of a statewide protest. Skirmishes and stabbings […]
HICKSVILLE, NY (TIP): Justice Roy S Mahon of Supreme Court of State of New York handed out a verdict, November 11, 2015, in the case filed by Krishna Mehta, a Long Island CPA against Kamlesh […]
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