KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal’s mountaineering community was celebrating the first conquest of Mount Everest 64 years ago June 29, as well as this year’s climbing season during which hundreds scaled the world’s highest peak. A ceremony later Monday marking […]
DHAKA (TIP): Cyclone Mora hit Bangladesh on May 29 packing winds of up to 117 kilometres per hour (73mph) after authorities evacuated hundreds of thousands of people from low-lying coastal villages. The severe cyclonic storm made landfall on […]
COLOMBO (TIP): International aid arrived into Sri Lanka on May 31 as the death toll from the island’s worst floods and landslides in well over a decade climbed to 202. Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake said 16 countries […]
BEIJING (TIP): India and Pakistan’s admission to the Beijing-backed Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will be formalised at the grouping’s summit in Kazakhstan next week, China said on June 1. “The members states of the SCO are accelerating the […]
KABUL/ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Afghan intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), said on Thursday that early findings showed the Haqqani network with the assistance of Pakistan’s ISI carried out the attack in Kabul that killed at least 90 people. “These terrorists […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) stayed Kulbhushan Jadhav+ ‘s death sentence, Pakistan on June 1 said that the Indian national would not be executed until he has exhausted his mercy appeals. Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria+ released a statement which […]
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (TIP): The US has sent a navy warship near an artificial island built by China in the disputed South China Sea as part of the first “freedom of navigation” operation under President Donald Trump, prompting Beijing to strongly condemn the “provocative […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): As concerns abound in India over Nepal’s decision to join China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR), Nepal has come out strongly to underscore the significance of its ties with India, saying no country can change its geography. While […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ on Wednesday resigned after a brief stint of nine months, honouring a power sharing understanding reached between his party and the ruling partner Nepali Congress. Prachanda, 62, announced his resignation while […]
KANDAHAR (TIP): At least 10 Afghan soldiers were killed when militants attacked their army base in the southern province of Kandahar, the defence ministry said Tuesday, in the latest attack on Western-backed forces. “Last night the enemies of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated outgoing prime minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ for the successful conduct of local elections there. Modi conveyed his felicitations to Prachanda in a phone call last evening, the […]
By Mabel Pais NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Preity Uupula, a former Miss India International, said of Shen Yun, “The energy was very powerful in the room. (For) some of the pieces, I just closed my eyes and I felt […]
SEOUL (TIP): North Korea’s missile program is progressing faster than expected, South Korea’s defense minister said on May 15, hours after the UN Security Council demanded the North halt all nuclear and ballistic missile tests and condemned Sunday’s test-launch. The reclusive […]
BEIJING (TIP): The China-made attack helicopter Z-19E made its deput flight from the Harbin airport on May 18 marking a major step towards the country’s entry into the global market for combative choppers. Also called the “Black Whirlwind,” […]
TOKYO (TIP): The Japanese government on May 19 approved a one-off bill allowing ageing Emperor Akihito to step down from the Chrysanthemum Throne, in the first such abdication in two centuries. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet signed off […]
BEIJING (TIP): China says it has reached agreement with the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations on the rough outline of a legally binding code of conduct designed to prevent clashes in the strategic South China […]
SEOUL (TIP): South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on May 14 there was a “high possibility” of conflict with North Korea, which is pressing ahead with nuclear and missile programmes it says it needs to counter US aggression. The comments came […]
UNITED NATIONS: US Ambassador Nikki Haley accused North Korea on Tuesday of intimidating the entire international community with its nuclear program, military ability and cyberattacks, and said any country that doesn’t implement UN sanctions is supporting Pyongyang’s actions. “No […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday participated in the International Vesak Day celebrations in the Sri Lankan capital, the biggest festival of Buddhists. Modi, on his second visit to Sri Lanka in two years, was received by […]
BEIJING (TIP): Nepal is in talks with China to build a cross-border rail link that may cost up to $8 billion, and funding could be expected after Nepal formally signed up to Beijing’s Belt and Road initiative, a […]
Six killed as Bangladesh police raid militant hideout DHAKA (TIP): Police in Bangladesh raided a militant hideout on Thursday sparking a clash in which five suspected militants and a fire fighter were killed in blasts that the militants set […]
Sri Lanka refuses permission for Chinese submarine to dock at Colombo port: Sources COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has rejected China’s request to dock one of its submarines in Colombo this month, two senior government officials said on Thursday as Prime Minister […]
Indian-American children wrongfully retained by mother in Singapore, court rules NEW DELHI (TIP): The apex court has ruled that two Indian-American children were wrongfully retained in Singapore by their mother who had found work here, according to a report by […]
BEIJING (TIP): China vowed to remain a good neighbour to North Korea on May 4, despite a rare and stinging critique in Pyongyang’s state media of its main diplomatic protector and economic benefactor. Beijing offered […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese scientists have built the world’s first quantum computing machine that goes beyond the early conventional or classical computers, paving way to the realisation of quantum computing. Scientists announced their achievement at the […]
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