MUMBAI (TIP): Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani is close to signing two, separate deals to deleverage the telecommunications business. The billionaire industrialist is combining Reliance Communications’ (RCom) wireless business with Aircel, which will make the […]
BENGALURU (TIP): The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), founded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, is making its first investment in Asia in Bengaluru-based Byju’s, a learning app. CZI will co-invest in the […]
BEIJING (TIP): Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed on Monday to cooperate in world oil markets, saying they will not act immediately but could limit output in the future, sending prices higher on hopes the two […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Following in the footsteps of global automakers, Mahindra & Mahindra is partnering with Ola for providing as many as 40,000 cars to the ride-hailing startup over the next two years. Drivers on the […]
ISTANBUL (TIP): Washington and Ankara are ready to work together to push Islamic State jihadists out of their de facto capital of Raqa in northern Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in comments published […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Three years before the 2008 global financial crisis, an Indian economist named Raghuram G Rajan+ presciently warned a skeptical audience of top economic thinkers that excessive risk threatened the entire global financial system. […]
NEW YORK (TIP): US stocks were little changed early Wednesday ahead of Apple’s expected launch+ of a new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus , and the Federal Reserve’s “Beige Book” report assessing economic conditions […]
A six-year-old Indian girl has won praise for her brave attempt at stopping an axe-wielding robber, who attacked an employee at her father’s store in New Zealand in a burglary. Sarah Patel was captured on […]
Gross domestic product growth dipped to 7.1% in the quarter ended June, a disappointing performance but one that still trumps the 6.7% posted by China in its most recent quarter. The slowdown comes as unease […]
India is on the path of becoming a “pivot” for high-tech world manufacturing even as global manufacturing growth is expected to remain low in 2016 due to weakened financial support for productive activities, a new […]
President Barack Obama has nominated a Pakistani-American, the first Muslim on the federal judiciary bench for the US District Court of Columbia. “I am pleased to nominate Mr Qureshi to serve on the US District […]
HANGZHOU, China – Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sept. 5 told the G20 summit here that Pakistan was spreading terror in South Asia and using terrorism as an instrument of state policy. He also appealed the […]
NEW DELHI — Bangladeshi authorities executed a top Islamist party leader convicted of war crimes involving the nation’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan, AP reports. Mir Quasem Ali, a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was […]
Srinagar — Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Sept. 5 hit out at Kashmiri separatist leaders who refused to talk to some MPs from an all-party team, saying their conduct defied the spirit of “Kashmiriyat.” The […]
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called Barack Obama a “son of a whore” on Monday, September 5, as he vowed not to be lectured by the US leader on human rights when they meet in Laos, […]
Ahead of the all party delegation’s visit to the valley, Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti in a post on Facebook has suggested that the Indian government “reach out to separatists” as a part […]
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday attached RS 6,630 crore worth properties belonging to loans defaulter Vijay Mallya, Times Now reported. Considered to be one of the biggest attachments by the ED till now, […]
LONDON: Keith Vaz, a well know Indian-origin lawmaker in Britain, was today embroiled in a sex scandal after a newspaper claimed he had paid for male sex workers. The Labour MP from Leicester since 1987, who is […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Reliance Industries Ltd’s (RIL) telecom unit will start offering services from 5 September, but the commercial launch will be about three months later in 31 December. While the company has stated an altruistic […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A recent Congressional report has revealed that US security assistance to Pakistan has declined by nearly 73% since 2011, after the country’s ties turned sour with Pakistan. The capping on US’ security assistance […]
MUMBAI: The Income Declaration Scheme (IDS), 2016, which closes on September 30, offers a chance to come clean, or else one must be ready to face consequences, indicated Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday. […]
Vatican City (TIP): Affectionately called the “saint of the gutters” during her lifetime, Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be made an official saint of the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday (September 4), just 19 years […]
LONDON (TIP): A nine-month-old baby in the UK, born with a large hole in his heart and faced certain death has survived a marathon surgery when doctors stopped his tiny heart for 15 hours for […]
BEIJING (TIP): China is developing a new long-range bomber, the head of the Chinese air force was quoted as saying in state media on Friday, the latest move in its ambitious military modernisation programme. China […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha today indicated that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) would have been India’s had the country gone for a military solution rather than taking a “moral high ground”. He rued […]
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