LONDON (TIP): An Indian-origin teacher in the UK has dramatically given birth to a baby boy in a classroom after she went into labour while in school. Diane Krish-Veeramany, 30, went into labour, a week […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan’s government has increased security of the father of the country’s nuclear programme Abdul Qadeer Khan amid fears of an Abbottabad-type raid which killed Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden. Khan’s posh Islamabad’s […]
JAFFNA (TIP): Ananthi Sasitharan, a candidate in the September 21 elections to the Northern Province council in Sri Lanka, is a teacher by profession. She is also the wife of an LTTE militant – one […]
JAFFNA (TIP): Despite the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime in Sri Lanka being seen as responsible for war crimes and mass displacement of Tamils in the north, the ruling party’s prospects of winning some seats are bright. […]
DHAKA, BANGLADESH (TIP): Local media are reporting that Bangladeshi police have opened fire on supporters of the country’s largest Islamic party, leaving one man dead. The party members are enforcing a general strike to protest […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): With Maldives Supreme Court admitting a plea seeking annulment of the first round of elections in the Indian Ocean archipelago, in which former president Mohamed Nasheed has emerged as the front runner […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The mother of the gunman who shot dead 12 people at a US navy base this week said september 19, she doesn’t know why Aaron Alexis opened fire, but she is glad he […]
CHICAGO (TIP): Chicago authorities said that 11 people, including a 3-year-old child, were injured when a gunman opened fire on people in a park located in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. Chicago fire department […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US secretary of state John Kerry said on September 19, it was essential that a Russia-US deal on eradicating Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal be enforced and that the UN Security Council must act […]
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS (TIP): A former street gang member was executed on Septmber 19 evening for his involvement in a gang ambush in which four women were gunned down 11 years ago. Robert Gene Garza, 30, […]
“Egypt was a state that emerged quickly – over that time one has immense social change.” Dr Michael Dee University of Oxford Anew timeline for the origin of ancient Egypt has been established by scientists. […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): Pakistan intelligence officials say a pair of missiles launched by a US drone hit a militant hideout near the Afghan border and killed six suspected militants. The officials say the missile hit a […]
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has issued a legislative decree that gives minority Hindus and Sikhs a seat in the country’s next parliamentarian election. A statement on September 4 from the presidency said […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghan authorities say police killed two militants in an early morning shootout at a Shiite Muslim mosque in Kabul. Details were sketchy in the immediate hours after the clash on September 5, but […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The All India Radio (AIR) has handed over to Pakistan the recordings of two important speeches by the country’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) is planning to broadcast these speeches, […]
LONDON (TIP): Gilbert Taylor was a master of black and white and a master of different universes. Taylor, the influential “Star Wars” cinematographer who worked on a number of stellar films alongside some of the […]
LONDON (TIP): A royal expert has claimed in his new book that the Princess of Wales wanted to take her young sons, William and Harry away from the royal family to start a new life […]
BEIJING (TIP): General Khalid Shameem Wynne, chairman of Pakistan’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC), met Chinese vicepremier Zhang Gaoli in Beijing on Aug 29. The meeting came just days before Pakistan is expected to […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Aug 25 stressed the need for Pakistan’s help in arranging peace talks with the Taliban in a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who assured him of […]
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (TIP): Pakistan on August 29 overturned a 33-year jail term handed down to a doctor who helped CIA agents find al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, a decision which may result in a new […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The 33-year jail term given to Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track Osama Bin Laden, was on Aug 29 overturned by an official who ordered a fresh trial. Frontier […]
COLOMBO (TIP): A Sri Lankan cabinet minister has questioned the impartiality of visiting United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay, accusing her of supporting ethnic Tamil separatists because of her own Tamil background. Pillay is […]
DAMASCUS (TIP): Foreign Secretary William Hague has said for the first time that the “atrocity” in Syria “was a chemical attack” carried out by Assad forces. Hague said that the chances of the attack being […]
TORONTO, CANADA (TIP): Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal cancelled his planned 10-day visit to Canada on Thursday, August 30 after the Canadian government said that they will not offer any immunity to him […]
An electoral candidate who won a place on a city council in Iran has reportedly been barred from taking up the seat because she is too attractive. During the polls in the city of Qazvin, […]
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