KABUL (TIP): Afghanistan’s rival presidential candidates signed a deal to share power in a unity government on Sunday, capping months of turmoil over a disputed election that destabilised the nation at a crucial time as […]
KATMANDU: Doctors say Nepal’s former king has suffered a heart attack and has been hospitalized. Dr Bharat Rawat at the Norvic Hospital in Katmandu said Gyanendra Shah was brought to the hospital Saturday night. He […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted the death sentence of Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a top Islamist preacher whose sentencing last year triggered the deadliest political violence in the country’s history, , to life […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Pope Francis may make a 17th century priest Sri Lanka’s first Roman Catholic saint during his trip next year, making good on his promise to give Asia more saints as models for the […]
JERUSALEM (TIP): Clashes raged in east Jerusalem on October 30 after police shot dead a Palestinian accused of trying to kill a Jewish hardliner, prompting officials to close the flashpoint al-Aqsa mosque compound. Israel said […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): A newly-built gurdwara has become target of anti-Islamic slurs after it was vandalized and painted with obscene messages in Australia’s Perth city. The multi-million dollar Sikh shrine in Bennett Springs was painted with […]
OUAGADOUGOU (TIP): Around 30 people were killed and more than 100 injured in violence that rocked Burkina Faso on Thursday, leading opposition figure Benewende Sankara told AFP. It was not clear if the toll related […]
BEIJING (TIP): The Communist Party of China has kicked out a tycoon from its top political advisory body who criticized the chief executive of Hong Kong C Y Leung during the pro-democracy protest. Hong Kong-based […]
BRUSSELS (TIP): Ukraine, Russia and the European Union signed a deal on October 30 on the resumption of Russian natural gas supplies to Ukraine for winter after several months of delay during the conflict in […]
LONDON (TIP): A 24-year-old Indian-origin taxi driver, who is also a bhangra singer, has been jailed for nine months for a sex attack on a passenger in the English town of Nottingham. Dhanraj Singh was […]
SURUC, TURKEY/BEIRUT (TIP): A first group of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters entered the besieged Syrian town of Kobani on Thursday to help push back Islamic State militants who have defied US air strikes and threatened […]
KARACHI (TIP): At least 16 cabin crew members of Pakistan’s national carrier have disappeared in the last five months in Canada after going there on international flights. Four cabin crew of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghan security forces said on Thursday they have captured two senior leaders of the feared Haqqani network, a hardline group behind sophisticated attacks on Afghan and Nato forces. Anas Haqqani, the son of […]
KATMANDU (NEPAL) (TIP): Nepalese officials closed a section of a popular Himalayan trekking route on October 20 after rescuers, overwhelmed with last week’s snowstorms that killed 38 hikers, had to bring to safety new climbers […]
KARACHI (TIP): Queen of Pop Madonna’s school in Karachi has opened its gates to students. The 56-year-old “Material Girl” singer took to Twitter to announce that the Dream Model Street School has so far admitted […]
KARACHI (TIP): Armed robbers have raided one of Pakistan’s leading charities and stolen $400,000 in cash as well as five kilos of gold, police said on Monday. At least eight robbers struck at the Edhi […]
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan military has identified 2,377 “legitimate claimants” to handback a considerable stock of gold and jewellery it seized in the final battle against the LTTE more than five years ago. Rejecting accusations levelled […]
LONDON (TIP): Prince William’s wife Kate attended her first official royal engagement here on October 22 to greet the president of Singapore since it was announced that she is pregnant with her and the Duke […]
OTTAWA (TIP) : Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledged more surveillance and detention powers for security forces in Canada on october 23 after a gunman killed a soldier and rampaged through parliament before being shot […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Russian investigators detained four more staff members on Thursday at the Moscow airport where the CEO of French oil giant Total died when his plane collided with a snow plough. Those detained include […]
BEIJING (TIP): The United States is damaging stability in the Asia-Pacific region by positioning a missile defence radar in Japan, China said on Thursday. Japan, an ally of the United States, has voiced growing anxiety […]
BEIJING (TIP): Afghanistan’s newly-elected President Ashraf Ghani has chosen China as his first destination abroad after taking over office, signifying Beijing’s influence in the war-torn country where the US troops are battling to control Taliban […]
LONDON: Britain has warned its citizens against the proverbial Delhi belly this Diwali. In an advice issued for travellers going to India to stay healthy during Diwali, Public Health England (PHE) and the National Travel […]
LONDON (TIP): Air traffic in Britain was sent into a tizzy with UK’s largest airport cancelling over 100 flights due to stormy weather. The tail end of Hurricane Gonzalo, which caused damage in Bermuda this […]
Here are two unique pictures that capture the love affair between the United States and India. Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney decided to don an Indian Saree at the Indian Ambassador S. Jaishankar’s dinner reception to […]
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