ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan’s election board barred on Friday former President Pervez Musharraf from contesting polls in one constituency and the Supreme Court agreed to look into a treason complaint against him, hurting his efforts to […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A total of 2,050 people were killed and another 3,822 injured in over 1,500 terrorist attacks across Pakistan last year, according to a report issued by a leading rights body on Thursday. The […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Charles Douglas-Hamilton could feel the goosebumps as the Jetstream 41 aircraft approached the world’s tallest mountain. Exactly 80 years ago, his grandfather, Douglas Douglas- Hamilton had created history when he flew over Mt […]
TOKYO (TIP): Japan and the United States have agreed on a plan that will see some land occupied by the US military returned to the islands in a bid to break the deadlock in a […]
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): An official says a bomb attached to a donkey has exploded, killing a policeman and wounded three civilians. Local government spokesman Sarhadi Zwak says the donkey blew up in front a police […]
COLOMBO (TIP): A group of unidentified men attacked the office of a Tamil newspaper in Sri Lanka’s former war zone on Wednesday, injuring several staffers and damaging equipment at the publication known for its government […]
GHAZNI, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): Gunfire from a helicopter operated by NATO forces killed four Afghan police officers in the eastern province of Ghazni, a district police chief said on Thursday. Civilian casualties are a source of […]
HERAT (TIP): Taliban militants stormed an Afghan court on Wednesday, killing at least 44 people in a bid to free insurgents standing trial, officials said, in the deadliest attack for more than a year. It […]
GATINEAU (TIP): A man has shot dead another man at a day care centre in Quebec then killed himself, and the 53 children present were evacuated unharmed. Police said some may have watched the killings. […]
JAYAPURA (TIP): A 7.2 earthquake struck the eastern Indonesian province of Papua, the US Geological Survey said, sending panicked crowds running into the streets. There were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning […]
Swami Durga Das lives for fellow human beings It was late in the morning last month when I walked in to Swami Durga Das’s modest office-cum-ashram, The River Fund, at Richmond Hill for an interview […]
JOHANNESBURG (TIP): Former South African President Nelson Mandela is “responding positively” to treatment for a recurring lung infection after being admitted to hospital on Wednesday night, the government said on Thursday. “He remains under treatment […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Iran, North Korea and Syria blocked adoption of a U.N. treaty that for the first time would regulate the multibillion-dollar international arms trade. An agreement required agreement by all 193 U.N. member […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain has advised its female tourists to be cautious while traveling in India in the wake of the rape of a Swiss tourist in Madhya Pradesh last week. “Our travel advice states that […]
NEW YORK (TIP): In the wintry darkness 23 years ago on a back street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a jewellry thief fleeing a botched robbery panicked and shot a Hasidic rabbi in the head. Four days […]
“Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities”. Very few people truly love their jobs let it alone be a passion. But the just sworn in new President of the prestigious Society of Indo-American […]
TEHRAN (TIP): Iran will “annihilate” the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa if it comes under attack by the Jewish state, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on March 21. “Every now and then […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Terming it as “politically motivated”, the Interpol has rejected Pakistan’s request to issue a Red Corner Notice against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in connection with Benazir Bhutto’s assassination case, days ahead of […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Four militants were killed when a US drone targeted a vehicle in the lawless north Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan on March 22. Staterun Radio Pakistan reported four persons were killed in the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US-sponsored draft resolution before the ongoing session of the UN Human Rights Council in ( UNHRC) “calls” the Sri Lankan government to conduct an “independent and credible” investigation into allegations of human […]
YANGON (TIP): Two people including a Buddhist monk were killed and at least three mosques were destroyed after riots broke out in a town in central Myanmar, police said. Around 200 people fought in the […]
GENEVA/COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka on Wednesday slammed the US-sponsored resolution at the UNHRC which it says seeks to “discredit” and “single out” the country over alleged human rights violations, terming it as “biased and politicised”. […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh President Mohammad Zillur Rahman, a close aide of the country’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, died on Wednesday at a Singapore hospital where he was being treated for kidney and respiratory problems, officials […]
“The Older Indian Organizations Haven’t Taken The Time To Understand What The Younger Population Want From Us. So We Would Like To Know From Them What They Would Like Us To Offer Them.”- Neal Modi […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh police on Thursday arrested a sub-district chairman and local leader of fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) for inciting attacks on Hindus and temples in southeastern Chittagong as minorities appeared to be targets of past […]
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