NEW DELHI (TIP): The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are set to double their tuition fee from the academic session beginning this summer after HRD Minister Smriti Irani approved an increase of 122 per cent […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): China has voiced support for India’s decision to file an appeal against a recent WTO ruling which held the government’s power purchase agreements with solar firms as “inconsistent” with international norms. Environment […]
LONDON (TIP): Scientists have developed a system, inspired by insect eyes, that may allow drones to adjust their speed to their surroundings and fly on their own – without human intervention and control. After studying […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): A series of massive supernova explosions near our solar system showered the Earth with radioactive debris between 3.2 and 1.7 million years ago, a new study has found. Scientists found radioactive iron-60 in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Search giant Google is believed to working on improving voice searches in poor network or connectivity zones in India. According to an Economic Times report , the company’s engineers are busy developing […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Seeking to cash in on the call drop menace, a Pune-based startup claims to have launched a mobile application that will alert caller about possibility of call drop after analysing a host […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Reddit has taken a stand against online harassment with the new block tool. To curb harassment on the “web’s front page”, Reddit’s “block user” option hopes to change Reddit’s reputation as a […]
AGRA (TIP): Rishu Anand is a business consultant working in Delhi and, like many excited over the launch of Gatimaan Express, took the train’s maiden trip to Agra on April 5. A frequent traveller to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The cut in repo rate, measures to enhance liquidity in the banking system and the new methodology to calculate lending rates will give banks a freer hand in transmitting the reduction in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government is considering setting up specified pharmaceutical zones to boost domestic manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), in order to reduce the country’s dependence on China for the raw material that […]
NEW YORK (TIP): US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said Wednesday it was abandoning plans for a $160 billion merger with Allergan, citing new US rules cracking down on tie ups aimed at saving on taxes. The […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Stand up India scheme to enable Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and women entrepreneurs to access loans, setting a target of creating 2.5 lakh such entrepreneurs across […]
Unbelievable. An astonishing end to a remarkable match. A thoroughly entertaining, enthralling competition was given a fitting finale with a display of stupendous strokes from West Indies’ Carlos Brathwaite. All great tournaments should end with a […]
Navaratri (“nava” + “ratri”) literally means “nine nights.” This ritual is observed twice a year, in spring and in autumn. “Vasanta Navaratri” or Spring Navaratri is nine days of fast and worship that Hindus undertake during […]
NEW YORK (TIP): In an undercover operation set up by the US government to catch visa fraud, US law enforcement agencies have arrested around 21 people, including 10 Indian Americans. The students now face probable […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Panama Papers is a global investigation into the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the world’s rich and powerful use to hide assets and skirt rules by setting up front companies […]
MANILA (TIP): Dengue fever infects 390 million people each year, and kills as many as 25,000, according to the World Health Organization. The disease could soon see these numbers decline as the Philippines start administering […]
New Delhi, April 7 | The Supreme Court on Thursday directed beleaguered liquor baron Vijay Mallya to disclose to it all his assets—movable and immovable and tangible and intangible—and other interests in India and abroad by […]
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has approached probe agencies of some foreign countries, including the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in connection with its probe into the Pathankot terror attack. The help of the […]
A mysterious, hidden planet that could be sitting on the edge of our solar system might be linked with periodic extinctions on Earth, according to a researcher. The unconfirmed planet might trigger comet showers, bringing […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): American scientists have created in a lab the smallest viable genome existing in nature with just enough essential genes for an organism to function and reproduce on its own, in a major step […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A new male contraceptive injection may provide rapid, durable and potentially reversible birth control for about a year without the need for condoms, a new study has claimed, ahead of its first human […]
LONDON (TIP): According to a new study, a drug used in the treatment of diabetes can increase bladder cancer risk. What’s worse is that the risk increases with the rising duration of use and dose. […]
You may want start working out to turn back your ageing clock as a recent study has found that oldies, who exercise regularly, end up with metabolically younger muscles. University of Guelph’s Geoff Power showed that […]
LONDON (TIP): Young mothers in the UK are getting babies as young as five months old hooked on junk food even before they learn to chew, scientists, led by an Indian-origin researcher, have found. Researchers […]
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