WASHINGTON: The last of the iconic 6.5-ounce Coke bottles has reached the end of the line in the US. The bottles, cast for the Minneapolis Coke bottling works in 1948 was the last glass returnable […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on October 11 at Panjab University here that “Seven out of 10 youth in Punjab have drug problems.” He said “A diplomat told me that 21st century’s Saudia […]
KUALA LUMPUR (TIP): A Malaysian court on Thursday dismissed an attempt by a group of transsexuals to challenge a law that bars Muslim men from wearing women’s clothes. Lawyers say it is the first known […]
JOHANNESBURG (TIP): Striking miners killed one man by setting him on fire on Thursday while another was shot and seriously wounded in rekindled labor unrest in South Africa that saw police firing tear gas and […]
LUCKNOW: The BSP chief Mayawati on October 11 said that the Congress-led UPA government at the centre has failed on all fronts but she will continue to support it. “It’s true that the UPA’s policies […]
LONDON (TIP): Seven Royal Marines from the British Royal Navy (RN) have been arrested on suspicion of murder, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have confirmed. The arrests by the Royal Military Police are apparently […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): SGPC’s controversial move honouring family members of the two assassins of General A S Vaidya in the Golden Temple complex came in for attack from Congress as well as the BJP. BJP, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Russia has said it would deliver the refurbished aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov to India in the fourth quarter of 2013 and attributed the delay to a malfunction in the boiler of the […]
CARACAS (TIP: Incumbent Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won Sunday’s presidential election with 54.42 percent of the vote, while opposition leader Henrique Capriles has accepted defeat and congratulated the socialist president. Speaking to supporters at his […]
KABUL (TIP): UN agencies in Afghanistan on Thursday called for protecting Afghan girls against child marriage, even as the tradition remains rampant in the country. More than 46 percent of Afghan women are married before […]
NEW YORK CITY: It was a celebrity-packed night as the stars came out for the red carpet gala premiere of Pyar Mein Kyun, a full-length Bollywood feature film made entirely in the United States. The […]
LONDON (TIP): A Georgian woman who claimed to be 132-years-old – making her the world’s oldest human being ever – has died, The Independent reported. Antisa Khvichava claimed to have been born July 8, 1880, […]
BEIJING (TIP): There is a thriving black market in China — for sperm. With the country’s only 11 sperm banks unable to meet the needs of childless couples, many donors are pitching in with sperm […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Hundreds of Walmart workers rallied across dozen cities in the US, protesting against low wages and alleged unjust labour practices and have threatened to go on a nationwide strike on November 23, the […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Consulate General of India in New York organized October 10 a Reception-cumdinner at the Consulate Ballroom in honor of E. Ahmed, Minister of State for External Affairs, to meet members of […]
BEIJING (TIP): China will overtake Japan as the world’s second-wealthiest nation after the US in the next five years, says a global report on personal wealth. According to the “Global Wealth Report 2012”, the US […]
DURHAM (TIP): A scientist who has spent his career at Duke University, Robert Lefkowitz, will share the 2012 Nobel Prize for chemistry with a Stanford University researcher he trained in the 1980s. Lefkowitz, 69, and […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Peter Kanhai, 18, Christopher Khan, 18, Darian Ramnarine, 18 and Neal Rajapa, 17, all of Queens, died in an accident on the Southern State Parkway Tuesday, October 9. While Peter Kanhai, Christopher […]
BEIJING (TIP):Writer Mo Yan, whose complex world of fiction often reminds readers of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, pipped bookmaker’s favourite Japanese Haruki Murakami to become the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Jackson Heights Market place is known as Little India. Once, the hub of Indian businesses, it now is more diverse in demographic character with Pakistani and Bangla Deshi businesses having elbowed their […]
UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK (TIP): UN Women expressed indignation and condemned the cowardly attack on Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old girl in Pakistan who was targeted for speaking out on the rights of girls to education […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a boost to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s profile ahead of the assembly elections, Britain has ended its official nocontact policy with the state after the 2002 riots and will be […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Former Indian captain Anil Kumble was on October 11 unanimously appointed chairman of ICC’s Cricket Committee by the game’s governing body, replacing West Indies great Clive Lloyd. “In Anil Kumble, we have a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Allegations of wrongdoing in land deals by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra and his “mango people” comment have found their way into the court with two PILs filed even as […]
MUMBAI (TIP): It was dance, music and masti galore at Amitabh Bachchan’s 70th birthday bash, says Shah Rukh Khan who shook a leg with the “birthday boy”. Vishal Dadlani called it a “stellar party” and […]
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