A new smartphone app that allows users to help find a cure for cancer while they are asleep, by pooling their device’s computing power, has been launched in Australia. Taking the fight against cancer from the laboratory […]
Here’s good news for all those who’ve postponed their cataract operations because of fear. Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have discovered a new chemical that could be added to eye drops to help clear up cataracts, […]
Do you know how vital it is for us to sleep better every night? People are more likely to experience a rapid decline in kidney function if they don’t get enough sleep, says a new study. Shorter sleep […]
The route to drug addiction for most women could begin with doctor-prescribed painkillers, a new study warns. In the study involving over 500 patients in Canada, the researchers found that more than half (52 percent) of […]
TORONTO (TIP): Hindus are highly concerned after reports of vandalism of Shri Ram Dham Hindu Temple in Kitchener in Ontario (Canada). There were reports of smashing of windows of Shri Ram Dham Hindu Temple on […]
International students have F1 visas, which allow them to study, but not work in America. International students are limited to on-campus graduate student assistant jobs for a maximum of 20 hours per week. American Bazaar, an […]
Many of the visas are given out through a lottery, and a small number of giant global outsourcing companies had flooded the system with applications, significantly increasing their chances of success. Congress set up the […]
The Islamic State group issued a new 12-minute video Monday, November 16, threatening to attack all nations involved in bombing IS positions in Syria and Iraq. One man in the video threatened to target the United States in the same […]
After militants with AK-47 rifles and suicide explosives vests shattered the peaceful revelry of Paris on Friday night, November 13, killing dozens of civilians in restaurants and at a concert hall, France seemed intent on […]
The major focus during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Manila, Philippines on November 18th and 19th would be on the Paris terror attacks though it is a trade promotion group that does not delve […]
France’s military launched “massive” retaliatory airstrikes against Islamic State sites in Syria on Sunday night, November 15, saying French aircraft struck a command center and training camp at Raqqa. President François Hollande, who vowed to be […]
LONDON: A man is being held on charges of attempted murder after he pushed a Muslim woman into the path of an oncoming train in London’s Piccadilly Circus station. The video footage of the incident shows […]
TORONTO: Canada’s newly-appointed Sikh Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has allegedly faced racist remarks by a soldier on social media, prompting the Canadian Armed Forces to launch a probe. The military declined to identify the soldier or […]
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 […]
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