In 1930, Adolf Hitler established the headquarters of the National Socialist German Workers‘ Party in an upscale part of Munich. On Thursday April 30, the 70th anniversary of the city’s liberation by US troops, the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US economic growth braked more sharply than expected in the first quarter as harsh weather dampened consumer spending and energy companies struggling with low prices slashed spending, but there are signs activity is […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Entrepreneurs keen on setting up new enterprises will be able to incorporate one by filing just one form starting May 1 against eight separate forms earlier, as part of the government’s drive to […]
NEW DELHI: Country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) reported a 29.6 per cent rise in total sales in April at 1,11,748 units against 86,196 units in the corresponding period last year. The company said […]
SEOUL (TIP): Samsung Electronics Co. said its first-quarter net income has plunged 39%as the smartphone business saw its profit shrink to less than half from a year earlier. The company reported Wednesday that its January-March […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (TIP): Nasa’s pioneering Messenger spacecraft ended its four-year study of the planet Mercury on Thursday by crashing into the planet’s surface, scientists said. Flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics […]
LONDON (TIP): Scientists have been able to track the entire process of what happens inside lithium-ion batteries that leads to their overheating and exploding. “Understanding how Li-ion batteries fail and potentially cause a dangerous chain […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Scientists have for the first time successfully implanted a groundbreaking 3D-printed device to save the lives of three babies in the US suffering from a life-threatening condition that prevents normal breathing. All the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): We’ve all heard it — that loud “Crack!” when someone pulls on stiff knuckles. But what happens to make that sound? It’s something that scientists have puzzled over for decades. A new study has […]
The word Rudraksha has its etymological beginnings in the two Sanskrit words “Rudra” and “Aksha” meaning Lord Shiva and Teardrops respectively. According to “Shiva Purana”, Lord Shiva once went into deep meditation for the well being of all […]
A 33-year-old Indian-American woman Purvi Patel has recently been sentenced to 30 years in prison in Indiana for feticide and child maltreatment. The verdict makes Patel the first woman in the U.S. to be charged, convicted and […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Morehead-Cain Foundation is home of the first merit scholarship program in the United States recently announced the names of the 59 new Morehead-Cain scholars who will attend the University of North […]
WASHINGTON: Now you don’t have to be a good shooter to hit the mark. The US military has successfully tested self-steering “smart” bullets that have a real-time guidance system to track targets and can change […]
The first HIV home testing kit to be approved for use in the UK has gone on sale today. The kit, made by the company BioSure UK, can provide results within 15 minutes and does […]
NEW DELHI: Things appear to be going from bad to worse for Vijay Mallya, once known as ‘King of Good Times’, with the board of a company he nurtured into India’s largest liquor maker asking […]
Pune, India April 24th 2015. Calyx group, one of the leading real estate companies has set a new trend across the property industry. Their exciting offers and spectacular constructions have bagged sale of more than […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): While the Modi government is allaying perceptions of tax terrorism among foreign investors and projecting a pro-poor stand to counter opposition allegations, a peculiar clause in the Finance Bill can undo its […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The Reserve Bank of India has revised the priority sector lending norms which direct banks to lend to certain segments by prescribing targets as a percentage of their total business. The new norms […]
LONDON/NEW YORK (TIP): US and British regulators fined Deutsche Bank$2.5 billion and its British subsidiary pleaded guilty to criminal wire fraud on Thursday as it became the eighth financial group to settle allegations of rigging […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Yes Bank is gearing up to become the third Indian bank to have its shares listed on American stock exchanges. The youngest private bank has received a go-ahead from its board to raise […]
PARIS (TIP): Physicists said they have fine-tuned an atomic clock to the point where it won’t lose or gain a second in 15 billion years – longer than the universe has existed. The “optical lattice” […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa scientists have joined the hunt for extraterrestrial life and will adapt a global climate model to simulate conditions on potentially habitable exoplanets. The effort by Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) […]
LONDON (TIP): The world’s first malaria vaccine has passed its final test but the results haven’t been emphatic. The results demonstrated that vaccination with RTS,S, followed by a booster dose administered 18 months after the […]
India has a long history of its ruler’s fascination with farm land. Whether it was ancient Kings or Moghuls or British invaders turned rulers as well as the current rulers after independence; every one has […]
LONG ISLAND, NY (TIP): “Stay in school” was the clear sentiment from Eduardo Porter’s keynote speech at SUNY Old Westbury’s 11th Annual Faculty Conference, hosted by the Teaching and Learning Resources Committee on Friday, April […]
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