New Delhi (TIP): India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) on Thursday, Nov 12, emphasised the need to build on convergences and synergy to maintain peace and security in the Indo-Pacific, against the […]
New Delhi (TIP): Russia on Thursday, Nov 12, backed India’s assertion that Pakistan shouldn’t raise bilateral matters at platforms such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), saying these groupings are focused on multilateral cooperation to […]
New Delhi (TIP): Micro-blogging site Twitter on Thursday, Nov 12, night removed the Display Picture (DP) of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. It, however, reinstated the picture after some time. It turned out that Twitter […]
New Delhi (TIP): India and China remain engaged in resolving the current crisis at the border but are also pushing to settle “other outstanding issues” said the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday, Nov […]
Lucknow (TIP): Ayodhya is all set for the fourth Deepotsav on Friday as the administration plans to set a new Guinness World record of lighting 551,000 earthen diyas at 28 ghats in the temple town. […]
After complaints from several people, including the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, against Arundhati Roy’s ”Walking with the Comrades” being part of its English syllabus for post graduation course, a state-run university in Tamil Nadu has […]
New Delhi (TIP): India’s daily cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) remained below 50,000 for the sixth consecutive day on Friday, Nov 13, with the 44,879 cases and 547 fatalities reported in the last 24 […]
Guru Hargobind, the son of Guru Arjan Dev, was the sixth Guru of the Sikhs. The period of his pontificate (1606- 1645) is of great significance in the history of the development of Sikhism. He […]
The day marks the release of Guru Hargobind, along with 52 Hill Princes held in captivity by the Mughal ruler in Gwalior, and his return to Shri Harimandir Sahib in Amritsar. When Hindus and others […]
The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 52.6 million, while the deaths have surged to 1,291,920, according to the Johns Hopkins University.As of Friday (Nov 13) morning, the total caseload and death toll […]
Lockdowns and other restrictions are starting to stem the spread of Covid-19 in some, but not all, European countries, authorities have said, and the continent’s hospitals remain under heavy pressure that is unlikely to ease […]
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 92% effective at protecting people from COVID-19 according to interim trial results, the country’s sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesday, as Moscow rushes to keep pace with Western drugmakers in […]
Lahore (TIP): A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has handed down 32 years of imprisonment to Yahya Mujahid, spokesperson of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s Jammat-ud-Dawah (JuD) terror group, in two terror financing cases. The Anti-Terrorism Court […]
Addis Ababa (TIP): Ethiopia’s military has defeated local forces in the west of Tigray state, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday, accusing his foes of atrocities during a week of fighting that threatens to […]
Berlin (TIP): A nurse has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of attempted murder following allegations that he gave three patients overdoses of drugs they weren’t supposed to receive in hopes of heroically rescuing them, […]
Beijing (TIP): China has hosted a vice-ministerial-level meeting with Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka on controlling the COVID-19, expanding its first such meeting held in July involving Islamabad, Kathmandu and Kabul. Chinese Vice Foreign […]
Kathmandu (TIP): India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and Nepal’s Urban Development Minister Krishna Gopal Shrestha on Thursday jointly witnessed the ground-breaking ceremony to mark the beginning of the construction of an Integrated Check […]
Yerevan/Baku/Ankara (TIP): Thousands of Armenian demonstrators, chanting “Nikol is a traitor”, demanded Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resign on Wednesday over a ceasefire that secured territorial advances for Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh after six weeks of fighting. […]
Geneva (TIP): An extremely rare, purple-pink diamond mined in Russia, which Sotheby’s described as “a true wonder of nature”, sold for $26.6 million Swiss francs on Wednesday, the auction house said. Sotheby’s had estimated that […]
London (TIP): A nurse accused of killing eight babies and trying to kill another 10 at a hospital in northwest England was remanded into custody Thursday, a day after she was charged with murder and […]
Tehran (TIP): Iran’s intelligence ministry arrested a leader of a separatist group allegedly involved in the killing of dozens of people during a military parade in 2018, state-run IRNA news agency reported on Thursday. The […]
Sao Paulo (TIP): In the famously traffic-choked streets of Brazilian megalopolis Sao Paulo, two men have invented a novel way of getting from point A to B—and they are raising a lot of eyebrows in […]
London (TIP): Britain on Thursday said China had broken its main bilateral treaty on Hong Kong by imposing new rules to disqualify elected legislators in the former British colony, cautioning that it would consider sanctions […]
Facebook had announced the ban as part of measures to combat misinformation on its site NEW YORK (TIP): Facebook Inc expects that its post-election ban on political ads will last another month, according to an […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week to 709,000, a still-high level but the lowest figure since March and a sign that the job market might be slowly healing. […]
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