KATHMANDU (TIP) : Former Prime Minister of Nepal and Nepali Congress president Sushil Koirala passed away due to Pneumonia at his residence early on February 12. He was 79. Koirala, who was elected Prime Minister […]
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NEW DELHI – Lance Naik Hanumanthappa Koppad died here Feb. 11, three days after he was found miraculously alive under 35 feet of ice for six long days in the treacherous Siachen glacier. President Pranab […]
The irony is complete, India has no reported cases of the dreaded Zika virus infection, but is the first country in the world to have ready for testing not one but two vaccines against the […]
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate are expected to visit Taj Mahal in April this year. It will be the first time after Lady Diana who visited 24 years ago that […]
India’s economy grew at an average rate of 7.5% in 2015, faster than the 6.9% growth in China, official figures show. In recent history it has been unusual, but not unprecedented, for India to grow faster […]
NEW YORK: A tweet by Facebook board member Marc Andreessen implying that Facebook’s Free Basics is the same as colonialism created a storm on Twitter on Wednesday, with many Indians lashing out against him on […]
MUMBAI – Pakistani-American terrorist-turned-informant David Coleman Headley Feb. 11 said Thane collegian Ishrat Jahan, shot dead in an alleged shootout with police in 2004, was a Lashkar-e-Taiba member and hinted that she could have been […]
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, has made a new controversial claim, saying that he possessed some classified information proving that Osama Bin Laden is still alive. Snowden, who lives as a fugitive in Russia […]
In the first deposition on a terror act from foreign soil, Pakistani-American LeT operative David Headley on Monday told a court via video-link that Pakistani terrorists attempted to attack Mumbai twice before the 26/11 strikes that killed 166 people […]
DUBAI (TIP): The International Cricket Council is all set to scrap the controversial constitutional amendments, which gave executive clout and financial power to India, Australia and England, with its Shashank Manohar-led Board recommending complete overhaul […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): Wrestler-actor Sangram Singh on Febryary 4 launched ‘Champion’s Pro Kushti’ aimed at tapping into the talent pool in the interiors of the country. “The motive behind the whole exercise is to once again […]
MANCHESTER (TIP): Star Indian boxer Vijender Singh’s fourth professional bout was rescheduled from February 13 to March 12 but the venue of the fight remains Liverpool. The reason for rescheduling this fight was an injury […]
For the past 5 months, thousands of recent foreign science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates of U.S. universities who hold jobs in the United States under a program known as Optional Practical Training (OPT) have worried […]
With palaces that still evoke the grandeur of their regal past, in literally every hamlet, and the Thar desert’s never-ending sand dunes that appear like golden-hued paintings, there’s no shortage of places to visit in Rajasthan […]
If the cosmos of sound (sabda-prapanca) enfolds all creation and what is beyond it, it must naturally be immensely vast. However voluminous the Vedas are, one might wonder whether it would be right to claim […]
OM or Aum is of paramount importance in Hinduism. This symbol (as seen in the image on the right) is a sacred syllable representing Brahman, the impersonal Absolute of Hinduism —omnipotent, omnipresent, and the source of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India’s booming online marketplace business has attracted a new wave of merchants and sellers from countries such as China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and the US. In fact, thousands of sellers are […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India’s growth potential is much higher than seven per cent and can be eight to nine per cent, American economist Nouriel Roubini said on Saturday, pointing out that the reforms being undertaken […]
MUMBAI (TIP): RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has made a strong pitch for allowing inefficient organizations to die even as he called for a safety net for individuals. Rajan’s statement assumes significance in the backdrop of […]
MANILA (TIP): Gold stayed near a three-month top on Thursday after marking its best day in two weeks, buoyed by expectations that global economic and financial headwinds could make it tough for the US Federal […]
WELLINGTON (TIP): The Trans-Pacific Partnership, one of the world’s biggest multinational trade deals, was signed by 12 member nations on Thursday in New Zealand, but the massive trade pact will still require years of tough […]
LONDON (TIP): An international team of scientists –recently returned from a 47-day research expedition to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean – have collected an unprecedented sequence of rock samples from the shallow mantle of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A long standing environmental mystery appears to have been solved – and it may contain lessons for today’s runaway global warming. Scientists have long puzzled over the fact that twenty thousand years […]
How about brushing your teeth and seeing Google Now cards on your restroom mirror? No, this is not a tease, well, at least for one Googler. Google software engineer Max Braun has designed such a […]
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