WASHINGTON (TIP): The India-US dialogue, which was marred by the row over the arrest of diplomat Devyani Khobragade, is likely to get back on track by March. US energy secretary Ernest Moniz will be on […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The difference between the street and Parliament blurred on February 13 as pepper spray, shards of broken glass, uprooted microphones and brawls turned Lok Sabha into a battlefield between supporters and rivals […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): About 3.3 million people enrolled in private Obamacare health coverage through new US healthcare marketplaces from October 1 to February 1, the Obama administration said on February 12. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office […]
MUMBAI (TIP): MNS chief Raj Thackeray on February 13 wangled a promise from CM Prithviraj Chavan to shut down 22 toll plazas immediately and unveil a new policy before the poll model code of conduct […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghanistan released 65 alleged Taliban fighters from jail on Thursday despite condemnation from the United States, which says the men could return to the battlefield to launch strikes against NATO and Afghan forces. […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain has announced a “red warning” – informing public and emergency responders of “severe or hazardous weather which has the potential to cause danger to life or widespread disruption”. Large sections of the […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): A day after Nepal got its new democratically elected prime minister, differences between two biggest political parties have surfaced over allocation of ministerial portfolios. The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist- Leninist), the […]
CANNIBAL (TIP): Police arrested 11 people and closed a restaurant after two human heads wrapped in cellophane were discovered at a hotel restaurant that had been serving human flesh. A tip-off led police to the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US intelligence chief said on February 11 he does not expect Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sign a security agreement with the United States that would allow American troops to stay after […]
MADRID (TIP): Police found the body of a migrant on a beach in Ceuta on February 12, bringing to 11 the number of people who drowned trying to swim to the Spanish territory from Morocco, […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): Pakistani police have said that militants have killed nine members of an anti-Taliban militia in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Police official Jamal Khan said some 25 militants attacked the militia chief’s house […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least 11 people were killed and 25 wounded after three bombs went off in quick succession inside a cinema hall in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on february 11 The attack took […]
BEIJING (TIP): A strong and shallow 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck China’s far western region of Xinjiang on February 12, but in a sparsely populated area, the US Geological Survey said. The tremor was only 12.5 kilometres […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Skeletal remains of at least 50 people have been dug out from a mass grave discovered in northeastern Sri Lanka, amid speculation that the remains were of Tamil civilians who had disappeared during […]
One major problem is fitting Afghanistan into an effective regional framework. Neither the SAARC nor the SCO nor the Istanbul Process is willing to assume a leadership role At last count, there were some 1,365 […]
LONDON (TIP): Ugly scenes in the British parliament during its most televised Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQ) are upsetting voters, a Hansard Society survey has revealed. It revealed “noisy”, “childish”, “over the top” and “pointless” were […]
Arab Spring protests not in vain After three years of turmoil and bloodshed in the Middle East and North Africa, where is the Arab Spring? Apart from the relatively tiny state of Tunisia, where it […]
BEIJING (TIP): An animal keeper startled visitors to a zoo in China’s Henan province when he took a tiger for a walk through the public area of the zoo. It happened on February 11. The […]
LONDON (TIP): Ugly scenes in the British parliament during its most televised Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQ) are upsetting voters, a Hansard Society survey has revealed. It revealed “noisy”, “childish”, “over the top” and “pointless” were […]
Even for a country with a long and unedifying history of parliamentary pandemonium, nothing can be as shameful and disgraceful as the use of pepper spray by a member on his peers to disrupt proceedings. […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Comcast says it has agreed to buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion in a deal that would combine the two biggest cable companies in the United States. If the deal is […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), the overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), has signed separate agreements with two consortiums of international banks to raise $ 2.5 billion by way […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan, on Thursday, said growth was still very weak. Nevertheless, it was stabilising on the back of a good harvest, strengthening exports, and some early […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): High-speed trains in India could be a reality soon, with Indian Railways (IR) focusing on bringing new technology for modernisation of trains. The first high-speed rail (300-350 km/hour) will likely connect Mumbai […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): After 10 days of intense bidding, eight telecom companies, including Bharti Airtel and Vodafone India, on Thursday, bought spectrum worth a total of Rs.61,162.22 crore against the government’s estimate of Rs.47,933 crore. […]
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