BEIJING (TIP): Less than onefourth of Chinese like India, found a survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Center. The attitude of the Chinese towards Pakistan though somewhat better, is not hugely favourable. The findings underscore […]
KHAR (TIP): One of the two Taliban militants suspected of attacking a teenage girl activist was detained by the Pakistani military in 2009 but subsequently released, intelligence officials said. Malala Yousufzai, 14, was shot and […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan government was forced to drop a move to seek parliament’s support for action against militants in the wake of the Taliban attack on teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, due to stiff opposition from […]
THE HAGUE (TIP): Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, whose iconic ‘Emmanuelle’ role symbolized the sexual revolution of the 1970s and who spent years fighting drug addiction, has died aged 60 after a battle with cancer. “She […]
WASHINGTON: Gen Joseph Dunford, the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps and a combat veteran who led a regiment in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has been nominated by President Barack Obama as his new […]
DHAKA (TIP): Former Bangladeshi army chief Harunur Rashid surrendered before a court on Thursday, days after the cancellation of the bail granted to him and four others in a major money laundering case. Rashid, currently […]
YANGON (MYANMAR) (TIP): Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi declared her willingness on Monday to serve as president, and her party’s intention to amend the constitution to allow her to do so. Suu Kyi […]
KARACHI: A mob led by Islamic clerics ransacked the home of a teenage Christian boy in Pakistan’s Karachi city and set fire to furniture and some other household articles after he was accused of sending […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): After weeks of wrangling, Pakistan Supreme Court on Wednesday approved a third draft of a letter that will ask Swiss authorities to revive graft cases against Asif Ali Zardari, with the government making […]
MALE (TIP): Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed was on Tuesday freed by a court where he appeared after an overnight detention and was given 25 days to answer allegations of abusing power while in office. […]
GENEVA: Nepal should proceed with long-delayed plans to investigate its 10-year civil war ending in 2006 which saw abuses by both sides, UN high commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay said. “Perpetrators of serious violations […]
LONDON (TIP): Seven Royal Marines from the British Royal Navy (RN) have been arrested on suspicion of murder, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have confirmed. The arrests by the Royal Military Police are apparently […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Russia has said it would deliver the refurbished aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov to India in the fourth quarter of 2013 and attributed the delay to a malfunction in the boiler of the […]
CARACAS (TIP: Incumbent Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won Sunday’s presidential election with 54.42 percent of the vote, while opposition leader Henrique Capriles has accepted defeat and congratulated the socialist president. Speaking to supporters at his […]
KABUL (TIP): UN agencies in Afghanistan on Thursday called for protecting Afghan girls against child marriage, even as the tradition remains rampant in the country. More than 46 percent of Afghan women are married before […]
LONDON (TIP): A Georgian woman who claimed to be 132-years-old – making her the world’s oldest human being ever – has died, The Independent reported. Antisa Khvichava claimed to have been born July 8, 1880, […]
BEIJING (TIP): There is a thriving black market in China — for sperm. With the country’s only 11 sperm banks unable to meet the needs of childless couples, many donors are pitching in with sperm […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Hundreds of Walmart workers rallied across dozen cities in the US, protesting against low wages and alleged unjust labour practices and have threatened to go on a nationwide strike on November 23, the […]
BEIJING (TIP): China will overtake Japan as the world’s second-wealthiest nation after the US in the next five years, says a global report on personal wealth. According to the “Global Wealth Report 2012”, the US […]
DURHAM (TIP): A scientist who has spent his career at Duke University, Robert Lefkowitz, will share the 2012 Nobel Prize for chemistry with a Stanford University researcher he trained in the 1980s. Lefkowitz, 69, and […]
BEIJING (TIP):Writer Mo Yan, whose complex world of fiction often reminds readers of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, pipped bookmaker’s favourite Japanese Haruki Murakami to become the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel […]
STAMFORD, CT (TIP): The recently crowned Miss India Connecticut, Ronita Choudhuri, traveled to Guatemala with AmeriCares this week to tour the humanitarian organization’s aid programs. The West Hartford native was one of 75 supporters who […]
AMMAN (TIP): Jordan’s King Abdullah on Thursday dissolved the country’s pro-government rubber stamp parliament, a constitutional move to pave the way for elections expected early next year. The announcement was made on the eve of […]
LONDON (TIP): With an IQ of 162, a 12-year-old schoolgirl in UK has been rated brainier than even Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Olivia Manning, from Liverpool, has been accepted into Mensa, the largest and […]
London (TIP): The Metropolitan Police have arrested four persons, including a 40-year-old woman, in connection with the stabbing of retired Lt Gen K S Brar, who had led Operation Bluestar 28 years ago to flush […]
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