NEW DELHI (TIP): The Election Commission is set to announce assembly polls in Haryana within the next fortnight, with polling likely to be held in mid-October in a single phase. Sources indicated that the schedule […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): President Pranab Mukherjee was satisfied with the “evidence” provided by the Narendra Modiled Centre against Mizoram Governor Kamla Beniwal to sack her. The President has jotted down in his own hand that […]
NEW DELHI: Former BJP leader Jaswant Singh has been admitted to the ICU of Army Research and Referral Hospital here after he slipped at his residence and sustained head injury. The 76-year-old former defence minister […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India and Australia have completed negotiations for the much awaited civil nuclear agreement, which is likely to be signed during the visit of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott early next month. It […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Indian Army Naib Subedar Patan Kumar Poddar became the victim of his carnal desires and greed for money. The 40-year-old Poddar,who was posted at 151 MC/MF detachment at the Secunderabad railway station, was […]
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon on Tuesday confirmed that a US general was killed in an attack in Afghanistan — the highest-ranking American fatality since the 9/11 attacks. The US defence department also identified the assailant, who […]
ERBIL (TIP): Sunni militants captured the Mosul dam, the largest in Iraq, on Thursday, August 7, as their advances in the country’s north created an onslaught of refugees and set off fearful rumors in Erbil, […]
CALIFORNIA: A couple married for almost 62 years have died on the same day in Bakersfield, California. Don and Maxine Simpson passed away within four hours of each other last month at their granddaughter’s home, […]
GAZA/JERUSALEM (TIP): Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip resumed rocket fire into Israel on Friday after Egyptian-mediated talks in Cairo failed to extend a 72-hour truce in a nearly month-long war. As police said rocket-warning […]
ZURICH (TIP): A secretary who posted nude pictures of herself in the Swiss parliament to more than 11,000 followers on Twitter told a newspaper on Wednesday that she did not believe she had broken any […]
WASHINGTON: US intelligence officials were considering on Tuesday whether to ask the department of justice to open a criminal investigation into the suspected leak of a classified counter-terrorism document to a website, a US official […]
VATICAN CITY (TIP): Pope Francis’ upcoming trip to South Korea will provide him with an unusual opportunity to speak directly to the Chinese leadership: His plane is due to fly through Chinese airspace, and Vatican […]
LOS ANGELES: A Los Angeles man is seeking damages from the estate of Michael Jackson, alleging that the late `King of Pop’ sexually abused him as a child during the late 1980s. James Safechuck, 36, […]
LONDON: Losing weight can make you healthier but it may also increase your risk of depression, a new study has found. Weight loss significantly improves physical health but effects on mental health are less straightforward, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The brazen killing of an American two-star general in an Afghan “insider attack” is raising new concerns in Washington that U.S. forces, when the combat mission ends in December, could leave behind a […]
HOUSTON: The US Army and a defense attorney say military investigators have begun questioning Bowe Bergdahl about his disappearance in Afghanistan that led to five years in captivity by the Taliban. Eugene R. Fidell says […]
ATLANTA (TIP): An Indian American infectious diseases specialist, Dr. Jay Varkey, a physician at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, is the one in charge of treating the Ebola virus-infected aid worker Dr. Ken Brantly […]
WASHINGTON (TIP) : High-speed rail was supposed to be President Obama’s signature transportation project, but despite the administration spending nearly $11 billion since 2009 to develop faster passenger trains, the projects have gone mostly nowhere […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A quarter of U.S. families feel they are under economic stress due to the aftershock of the Great Recession and most do not expect their wages to increase in the next year, according […]
WASHINGTON (TIP) : US health authorities have eased safety restrictions on an experimental drug to treat Ebola, a move that could clear the way for its use in patients infected with the deadly virus. Canadian […]
ABrazilian married couple, who have both searched for their mothers who abandoned them as children, have discovered the two women they were looking for was infact the same person while live on air, making them […]
KATHMANDU: Nepal government on Wednesday declared dead the 123 people missing in the country’s worst landslide in over a decade, taking the death toll from the disaster to 156, as the search for the bodies […]
COLOMBO: The term of a Sri Lankan government-appointed panel probing the cases of missing persons during the three-decade war with the LTTE has been extended by nearly seven months. President Mahinda Rajapaksa extended the term […]
KABUL: A local official says an Afghan policeman has turned his gun on his colleagues at a checkpoint in the south, killing seven policemen. The shooting was the latest among socalled insider attacks in which […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday rejected allegations from Kabul that it was involved in terrorist attacks and insurgent activities on Afghan soil. Foreign office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said in her weekly briefing that Afghanistan has been […]
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