HYDERABAD (TIP): The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team of the United Kingdom put up a splendid show at the Air Force Academy, Dindigal on Nov 17. The Red Arrows also met their Indian counterparts during […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The reaction of world leaders has been a mixed one. They were pleased and shocked at Donald Trump’s stunning victory over Hillary Clinton, to become the 45th President of America. Major world […]
BERLIN (TIP): German authorities arrested five men Nov 9 on allegations they aided the Islamic State group in Germany by recruiting members and providing financial and logistical help. The federal prosecutor’s office said in a […]
LONDON (TIP): Five people were killed and more than 50 injured when a tram derailed in south London during an early morning rainstorm Nov 9, police said. Emergency workers were still at the scene of […]
LONDON: In a highly unusual statement, Prince Harry on Tuesday lashed out at the media for intruding on the privacy of his new girlfriend, American actress Meghan Markle. The 32-year-old royal said the press had […]
MOSCOW (TIP): A massive cyberattack has hit at least five of Russia’s largest banks, Moscow-based internet security giant Kaspersky said on Thursday. The country’s largest lender, state-controlled Sberbank, said it had been hacked into on […]
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA (TIP): Facing trial in Russia over the theft of a street-art drawing valued by its creator at $1.55, Nikita Kulachenkov, a Russian forensic accountant involved in anticorruption work, fled to Lithuania to avoid […]
London/New Delhi, Nov 7 (PTI) Websites of seven Indian missions in Europe and Africa were hacked today with the External Affairs Ministry saying it was aware of the “problem” and was trying to fix it. […]
BRUSSELS (TIP): Britain said on Oct 26 it will send fighter jets to Romania next year and the United States promised troops, tanks and artillery to Poland in Nato’s biggest military build-up on Russia’s borders […]
LONDON (TIP): Hailing the contribution of British-Indians, Prime Minister Theresa May has said she would highlight their success during her first official visit to India next month. May praised British-Indians in her message at the […]
JERUSALEM (TIP): A stone slab that many Christians believe once held the body of Jesus Christ after the crucifixion has been unveiled for the first time in centuries. National Geographic, which was filming the restoration […]
BRUSSELS (TIP): France warned Britain at the start of a European Union summit on Oct 20 that it would face a tough, unyielding opponent if it sought too many concessions during its negotiations to leave […]
PARIS (TI): Iraqi forces are “advancing faster than expected” in a major offensive to recapture Mosul from Islamic State jihadists, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Oct 20. “We are advancing faster than we […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Russia’s defence minister said Oct 20 that Moscow was extending a “humanitarian pause” in Aleppo scheduled to end at 1600 GMT by a further day. On the order of President Vladimir Putin, “a […]
LONDON (TIP): Adolf Hitler was a gibbering “super- junkie” whose veins were all but destroyed by thousands of opiate injections and the Nazi dictator’s heavy reliance on drugs was behind his “increasingly erratic” decision-making in […]
London: India’s relations with the UK will get stronger in the coming years due to the high level of interest the two governments have in promoting their bilateral strategic ties, Indian High Commissioner to the […]
LONDON (TIP): British Airways has signed a revenue-sharing agreement with Qatar Airways, allowing the pair to co-operate on scheduling and pricing, BA’s owner IAG said in a statement on Sept 28. State-owned Qatar Airways owns […]
BERLIN (TIP): Germany’s second largest lender Commerzbank said on Thursday it plans to cut 9,600 jobs, nearly a fifth of its workforce, by 2020 and withhold dividends to pay for a 1.1-billion-euro restructuring. The Frankfurt-based […]
NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands (TIP): Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a missile fired from a launcher brought into Ukraine+ from Russia+ and located in a village held by pro-Russian rebels, international prosecutors said on […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama will join other world leaders in attending the funeral of Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, the White House said sept 28. Obama, […]
Pakistan-born actor Marc Anwar is the latest to join the India-Pakistan tug of war. Unfortunately for him, he has been sacked from British TV show Coronation Street after posting racially offensive tweets against India. The […]
In a major boost to the Indian Air Force, India has signed a formal agreement with France to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets for $8.7bn, in a major defense deal. The deal was signed by […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): When a Punjabi woman is having tea, there’s nothing that can stop her from finishing her cuppa. So, when Karamjit Sangha, a 49-year-old Punjabi woman in the UK, was threatened by a […]
ATHENS (TIP): Most of the roughly 60,000 refugees and other migrants stranded in Greece are living in “appalling conditions” and face “immense and avoidable suffering,” rights group Amnesty International said in a report on Sept […]
MOSCOW (PTI): Allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin comfortably won a parliamentary election, early results showed on Monday, but low turnout suggested a softening of enthusiasm for the ruling elite 18 months before the next […]
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