SHANGHAI (TIP): Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has agreed to invest $1.25 billion in Chinese online food delivery service Ele.me, leading business weekly Caixin reported on Friday. The report, citing unidentified sources, said Alibaba will obtain a 27.7% stake in […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Just over a week after Samsung paid Apple more than $548 million for infringing the patents and designs of the iPhone, Apple has asked a U.S. court to force its biggest smartphone […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): On December 27 evening, on the eve of founder Dhirubhai Ambani’s 83rd birthday and amid a lot of star-studded attraction, Mukesh Ambani launched Reliance Jio, the group’s 4G telecom service, for over […]
BAI: In the aftermath of the Maggi crisis, Nestle India is aggressively trying to increase the consumption of its flagship instant noodles brand eying double digit growth, a top company executive said. It is also […]
LAHORE (TIP): Bollywood film-maker Madhur Bhandarkar, who traversed borders to attend this year’s Rafi Peer International Film Festival (RPIFF) in Lahore, received a warm welcome and a top prize at the event. He was overjoyed […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet here on January 14-15 to prepare a schedule of meeting for the comprehensive dialogue, Advisor on foreign affairs Sartaj Aziz has said even as he […]
DHAKA (TIP): Amid sporadic violence, thousands of people today queued up in Bangladesh to vote in the first-ever local body polls on party lines, joined by opposition BNP which had boycotted the 2014 general elections. […]
KABUL (TIP): A suicide car bomb attack killed at least one civilian on Monday near the Kabul international airport, Afghan government officials said. Another 13 civilians were wounded in the attack, Kabul Police Chief Gen. […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Legendary Sri Lanka cricketers Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene have apologised for ‘unruly scenes’ witnessed during an Enrique Iglesias concert in Colombo on December 20. The concert of the pop star was organised […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal will grant free visas to visitors from neighbouring China as the Himalayan nation seeks to rebuild its tourist industry after two devastating earthquakes in April that killed nearly 9,000 people. The first […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): A mild tremor measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale rocked central Nepal on Monday. The aftershock was recorded at 3.52am with epicentre at Dolakha district, 85km east of Kathmandu, according to the National […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least 23 people were killed and 60 wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a government office gate at Mardan in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Police officer […]
NEW YORK (TIP): As a prelude to “Indiasoft 2016” the Consulate General of India in association with the Electronics and Software Export Promotion Council (ESC), New Delhi, organized curtain raiser discussion and presentation on Indiasoft […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The news of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise stopover in Pakistan on Friday, December 25, took everyone by surprise. A move that is seen to have reset the relationship between the […]
The government has responded to a petition calling for presidential hopeful Donald Trump to be banned from the UK after he proposed a temporary halt on Muslims entering the US. More than 500,000 people have […]
A glut of oil, the demise of OPEC and weakening global demand combined to make 2015 the year of crashing oil prices. The cost of crude fell to levels not seen for 11 years – […]
Shah Noor, a recent transplant to California from Maryland, was driving through a nearby community one evening with his wife and stopped at a 7-Eleven to get some milk. A police car pulled up with […]
New Delhi: Seeking to boost entrepreneurship at the grassroots level, the Action Plan of the ‘Start-up India, Stand-up India’ will be unveiled on January 16 said Prime Minister Narendra Modi through his last radio address for 2015. He […]
India has paid over ₹400 crore in the last four years as commitment charges to the Asian Development Bank, Japan, Germany and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) for unutilised external loans taken […]
Jwala Rambarran, Indian-origin Central Bank Governor of Trinidad and Tobago, has been removed for being “discourteous” to the government by making public details about foreign exchange and recession. The 47-year-old embattled governor, the second person […]
December 26: Describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise visit to Lahore as a significant development in the ties between India and Pakistan, mainstream American media today said it was likely to add momentum to a […]
NEW DELHI: The news of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise stopover in Pakistan on Friday took everyone by surprise. A move that is seen to have reset the relationship between the two nuclear-armed neighbors, paving the way for […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Sundar Pichai, global chief executive at Goggle, the giant search engine, believes India will become a bigger market for the company than the US sometime in the middle of 2016. In an […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Mahindra & Mahindra and Tech Mahindra agreed to buy Italian car designer Pininfarina SpA in a deal worth about euro 168 million ($185 million), underscoring the Indian vehicle maker’s international ambitions. M&M, together […]
BENGALURU (TIP): Infosys Ltd has bought a minority stake in Delaware, US-based start-up Whoop, which makes activity trackers, for $3 million, the software services firm said on Monday. The deal, which marks the Indian company’s […]
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