NEW DELHI (TIP): He runs global internet giant, but the question that stumped Sundar Pichai on his first India visit as Google CEO was whether the popular mobile operating system Android can be named after […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): World Bank has approved a loan of US$ 1.5 billion to Government of India for its Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) Support Operation Project which is aimed at ensuring all citizens in rural areas […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): Pakistan’s leader, speaking beneath portraits of children killed by Taliban bullets, called Dec 16 for vengeance as the country marked the first anniversary of a school massacre that killed 151 people in its […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal’s parliament on Wednesday passed a long-delayed law to pave the way for rebuilding after April’s massive earthquake, ending months of bickering that paralysed reconstruction despite donor pledges of billions in aid. The […]
YANGON (TIP): Myanmar’s feared former junta leader Than Shwe has endorsed his one-time nemesis Aung San Suu Kyi as a “future leader” of the country, according to his grandson. Than Shwe, a postal clerk turned […]
DHAKA (TIP): She’s one of the most talked-about women in Bangladesh today and also one of the most admired and reviled. Tureen Afroz is the person responsible for sending the 1971 war criminals to the […]
MADRID (TIP): A Spanish policeman was killed in an attack near the country’s embassy in Kabul on Friday, prime minister Mariano Rajoy said in a statement on his party’s Twitter account. Rajoy had said earlier […]
The controversy over the CBI searching the office of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal perfectly illustrates why politicians must not get involved with sports administration, especially cricket, which is flush with money and vulnerable to corruption. […]
The Heart of Asia Conference (HOAC) in Islamabad last week was bookended by two devastating attacks in Kandahar and Kabul. As Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was being honoured with a 21-gun salute in Islamabad, the […]
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Sheena Bora wanted to stop pretending as sister of the key accused and her mother, Indrani Mukerjea before her murder in 2012, her fiance Rahul Mukerjea has said in his statement before magistrate. Indrani had […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US Federal Reserve raised, December 17, interest rates by 0.25 percentage points – its first increase since 2006. For almost a decade money has been cheap – some would argue too cheap. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday, December 15, accepted Russia’s long-standing demand that President Bashar Assad’s future be determined by his own people, as Washington and Moscow edged toward putting aside […]
VATICAN (TIP): Pope Francis has paved the way for Mother Teresa, the Nobel Prize winning Catholic missionary, to become a saint, according to a news report. Pope Francis has recognized a second medical miracle attributed […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India has agreed to buy a high-speed bullet train from Japan, in an attempt to transform its creaking rail system. Japan will build India’s first bullet train and provide a $12bn package […]
DELHI (TIP): An Indian woman has named her baby “Uber” after giving birth in a car belonging to the taxi aggregation service. The woman, identified as Babli, told media she called Uber after emergency calls […]
CENTRAL ISLIP, NY (TIP): Long Island restaurateur Harendra Singh was, on Thursday, December 17, sent to jail until his trial. He was earlier re-arrested by FBI agents Wednesday, December 16, on a charge of violating […]
BHOPAL (TIP): The NHRC has issued a notice to the Union Ministry of Defence over security risk to the city of Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. The notice was issued after taking suo motu cognizance of […]
NEW DELHI: In a brave homage to her daughter, the mother of the December 16 gangrape victim today took her name in public, and said people who commit heinous crimes like rape should hang their heads […]
Mumbai (TIP): Ravi Subramanian, an Air India technician, died on Wednesday, December 16, after he was sucked into the engine of a parked plane at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. The accident happened as the […]
CHENNAI: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has added another country to its client list for commercial satellite launches after Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C29) put in orbit six Singapore satellites on Wednesday. Antrix Corporation, the […]
University of South Florida (USF) has started doctoral grants for Indian students in honor of President A.P.J. Kalam. President Kalam was a strong advocate for young people and a passionate supporter of clean energy and […]
TIP NEWSWIRE: The names of at least six individuals with an Indian connection figure in the list of unclaimed bank accounts made public by Switzerland on Wednesday. Besides names and addresses, one entry also lists […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Sundar Pichai, the Indian-origin CEO of Google, said that the company will build a new campus in Hyderabad to enhance capabilities, on Wednesday, December 16. Regarding the company’s expansion plans in India, […]
TORONTO: A 40-year-old Indian-origin woman is facing murder charges for stabbing to a woman death in the heart of Toronto, police said. Rohinie Bisesar stabbed the victim at a Shoppers Drug Mart in Toronto’s financial district […]
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