DAMASCUS (TIP): Tens of thousands of Syrians were reported to have fled their homes on February 4 as regime troops pressed a major Russian-backed offensive around second city Aleppo. Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, speaking […]
MUZAFFARABAD (TIP): Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, on Wednesday praised last month’s terror attack at Indian Air Force’s base in Pathankot and encouraged similar attacks against India. Addressing […]
LAHORE (TIP): Even as Pakistan has reportedly asked for more evidence from India in the Pathankot airbase terror attack, terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) has openly dared India once again. According to an article reportedly published […]
KABUL (TIP): As the Afghan government goes into a new spell of talks with the Taliban on Saturday, Kabul appears to have “dropped” the “red lines” that had earlier defined the Kabul-Taliban negoitiatons. Violence by […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Lifting an unofficial ban, Sri Lanka’s national anthem was on Thursday sung in Tamil at a ceremony here to mark the the country’s independence day, in an effort to achieve reconciliation with the […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): An unwieldy coalition of lawmakers trying to implement Nepal’s first democratic constitution is finding common cause with protesting minority groups, isolating Prime Minister KP Oli and increasing the risk his government could fall […]
MAXICXO (TIP): The world’s fattest man has died of a heart attack at the age of 38 after reportedly drinking more than six energy drinks a day. Andres Moreno, from Ciudad Obregon in Mexico, reached […]
WASHINGTON: The United States will spend $7.5 billion – a 50 per cent increase – to fund the fight against the Islamic State group, defense secretary Ashton Carter said on Tuesday. “Because we are accelerating […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton promised not to send US troops to war-torn Iraq or Syria if elected saying it would be a “terrible mistake”, but refused to give any “blanket statement” on […]
NEW YORK (TIP): UN panel has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been ‘arbitrarily detained’ in the Ecuadorian embassy in London calling upon the UK and Sweden to end Assange’s deprivation of liberty. “The Working Group […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): French embassy in Delhi has said there was no ban on wearing turbans in public space while reacting to a charge by a Sikh organization that the community has been fighting for […]
BANGKOK: Add aging western bridge players to the list of desperadoes in Thailand’s seaside resort of Pattaya, a sin city rife with prostitution, corruption and foreign and home-grown gangsters. The bridge players, mostly British but […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): A teenage suspect discussed with a British accomplice packing a kangaroo with explosives before setting it loose on Australian police officers, prosecutors alleged on Thursday. Sevdet Ramadan Besim was ordered in the Melbourne […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama directed his national security advisers on Thursday to counter efforts by Islamic State to expand into Libya and other countries, the White House said. Islamic State militants have taken […]
BEIRUT (TIP): The powerful Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its local allies have drawn up plans for a major attack to seize the final stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border held by Islamic State jihadists, a […]
PARIS (TIP): A French police official says a man found to be carrying two handguns has been arrested at a hotel at Disneyland Paris. The official said no one was injured during the arrest on […]
SHANGHAI (TIP): Chinese shares fell sharply again on Wednesday after plunging in the previous session, taking losses in 2016 to nearly 25 percent or 13 trillion yuan ($2 trillion). The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index was […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Maruti Suzuki reported a 27% growth in net profit in the quarter ending December 31, 2015 on the back of higher sales and cost reduction initiatives. Earnings in the period stood at […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Patanjali Ayurved, the home-grown foods-to-FMCG player that recently took on Swiss multinational giant Nestle by launching its own noodle brand, is eating into the market share of another MNC giant, Colgate Palmolive, in […]
TOKYO (TIP): The Bank of Japan on January 29 introduced a negative interest policy in a move to boost a stumbling recovery in the world’s third-largest economy. The central bank said it is imposing a […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan on Thursday revived the debate on the method of calculating gross domestic product (GDP), saying there are problems as it only talks about growth and […]
RIYADH (TIP): A government minister has urged Saudi Arabia to do a “better job” of trumpeting its human rights successes during an official visit to the country, less than a month after it carried out […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): When President Barack Obama secretly authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to begin arming Syria’s embattled rebels in 2013, the spy agency knew it would have a willing partner to help pay for the […]
WASHINGTON: Terrorist safe havens inside Pakistan, providing shelter to terrorist outfits like the Taliban and the Haqqani network, is a serious problem, a top US general nominated to be the commander of NATO forces in […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan on January 28 accused India of “hurling unsubstantiated terror allegations” at it, saying it undermines efforts to eliminate terrorism from the region in a “collaborative manner”. At his weekly news briefing here, […]
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