RANCHI (TIP): RJD chief Lalu Prasad and 26 other people convicted in the multi-crore fodder scam moved the Jharkhand high court against the CBI court’s judgment on October 17. Their lawyers filed separate appeals against […]
TUTICORIN (TIP): In an early morning operation, all the 35 members on board the US ship Seaman Guard Ohio, a floating armoury, were arrested by sleuths of Tamil Nadu’s Q branch, a state intelligence wing, […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): In a major development that could help restore normalcy in Seemandhra, the Andhra Pradesh government employees from the region on October 17 decided to call off their indefinite strike to oppose the central […]
JAMMU (TIP): Pakistani army pounded civilian areas along LoC by violating ceasefire for the ninth time in four days on October 17 resulting in injuries to four people, prompting retaliation from Indian troops. Police said […]
AYODHYA (TIP): The Uttar Pradesh government has put a ban on short messaging services (SMS) in Ayodhya to clamp down on Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s (VHP) ‘Sankalp Sabha’ scheduled for October 18, an official said. More […]
UNNAO (TIP): This dusty hamlet in the interior of Uttar Pradesh near the flowing Ganga river has suddenly become the centre of attraction for a battery of TV news channel reporters, Peepli Live style. Hordes […]
AHMEDABAD (TIP): Asaram, 72, was brought to Ahmedabad on a transit remand from a court in Jodhpur where he was lodged in a jail since August in another sexual assault case involving minor daughter of […]
BEIJING (TIP): China’s economic growth rebounded to 7.8 per cent in the latest quarter after a boost in government spending to reverse a sharp downturn. The data reported on Friday should ease pressure on communist […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Drug maker Wockhardt made a precautionary recall of five over-the-counter (OTC) medicines in the UK following the withdrawal of good manufacturing practices (GMP) certificate for its Chikalthana, Aurangabad, unit last week. After this, […]
MUMBAI (TIP): HCL Technologies (HCLT), India’s fourth-largest software services provider, saw its net profit grow 18.7% sequentially to Rs1,416 crore in the July-September quarter, notching up its eighth straight quarter of operating margin expansion. Its […]
MUMBAI (TIP): An early resolution to the US debt ceiling crisis and an end to US government shutdown augurs well for the Indian economy. “The early resolution is positive for Indian exports and there will […]
WASHINGTON: Consensus may be hard to find in Washington these days, but many corporate executives and economists seem to agree on one point: the biggest risk to the world’s largest economy may be its own […]
MALE (TIP)s: The Maldives returns to the polls on October 19 for another attempt to choose a president after judges annulled last month’s election results, deepening concern about political stability in the fledgling democracy. Regional […]
ATTARI (TIP): While candidly admitting that the media was more or less towing the line of security establishments and their policies while reporting contentious issues of Kashmir, Pakistani thinktanks opined that there were more to […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese rescuers have safely evacuated 86 tourists, including 13 foreigners, who were trapped in heavy snow at the north base camp of Mount Everest in central Tibet. The government of Tibet Autonomous Region […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan’s former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf has denied having ordered the Lal Masjid operation in 2007, even as a fresh petition was filed in a court seeking action against him under the […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): A suicide bomb attack in northwestern Pakistan killed at least eight people, including a provincial law minister, and injured 28 others on the first day of Eid-ul-Zuha. The attack happened on Wednesday evening […]
SYDNEY (TIP): Nearly 100 wildfires raged across Australia’s most populous state on Friday, killing one person, destroying dozens of houses and forcing hundreds of evacuations as the nation’s annual fire season got off to an […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal plans to hold hangouts with his supporters in the US and Canada later this month, seeking contribution from the Indian diaspora for nation building. Kejriwal would […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): Twenty-nineyear- old Delhi-born Simranpreet Lamba, the US army’s only enlisted Sikh soldier, has also now become the first of the community to be promoted to the corporal rank in America in three decades. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Rahul Gupta, 24, is being held on $2 million bond after a night of drinking and birthday celebrating ended in a bloody stabbing of Mark Edward Waugh on Sunday, October 13 morning inside […]
WASHINGTON: An exponent of Bharatanatayam, Ranee Ramaswamy was confirmed on October 17, as a member of the prestigious National Council on the Arts. Ranee founded the Ragamala Music and Dance Theatre in 1992 at Minneapolis, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden says he did not bring any secret documents with him to Russia when he fled there, ensuring Moscow had no access to the files. In an interview with […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US Senate has confirmed Indian- American woman administrator Nisha Desai Biswal as the assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, making her the first person from the community to hold […]
HOUSTON (TIP): Authorities in the US state of Florida have launched a massive manhunt for two murderers who were mistakenly released from prison after jailers were conned by forged court documents. Charles Walker and Joseph […]
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