MOSCOW (TIP): Russian President Vladimir Putin, on December 3, vowed Turkey’s leadership would be made to regret the downing of one of Moscow’s warplanes as the top diplomats from both countries held their first high-level […]
PARIS: The issue of climate finance continues to be a major sticky point with the G77 and China, a group of 134 developing countries including India, strongly objecting to the attempts made by the rich […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Emerging markets guru Mark Mobius said India could overtake China in the Templeton Emerging Markets group’s equity investments over the next five years, given the strong growth prospects of Asia’s third-largest economy and […]
LONDON (TIP): Weak inflation data spurred hopes the European Central Bank could deliver more stimulus this week, though European bourses traded in a tight range on December 2, Frankfurt and Paris ceding spartan ground while […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) left policy rates unchanged at its final monetary policy review for 2015, even as it confirmed that an economic recovery was on, and appears “sustainable”. The central […]
WASHINGTON: Students of an elite military-run university in Pakistan have been trained to use social media sites in support of banned terrorist groups like LeT and JuD which have been protected and supported by the […]
PARIS (TIP): Leading Imam Hassan El Alaoui says “The whole issue is not about Muslims, but about terrorists. It’s an issue of security for everyone.” France is likely to close up to 160 mosques in […]
DHAKA (TIP): A framed black and white photograph of bodies lying in what looks like a swamp hangs in the living room of Shyamali Nasreen Choudhury’s single-storied house at Dhaka’s upscale Dhanmondi. It has been […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal’s Indian-origin Madhesi leaders on Monday submitted their 11-point demand to the goverment during their first meeting with Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to end the political logjam, but no breakthrough emerged from […]
BRUSSELS (TIP): Nato will keep some 12,000 troops in Afghanistan for an extra year in 2016 to prevent the country again becoming a terrorist safe haven, alliance head Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday. Nato’s resolute […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan today said that creating exception to grant India membership of Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) would adversely impact the non-proliferation regime and regional peace and stability, as it demanded an equitable, non-discriminatory approach for […]
A senior commander of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has been killed in US drone strikes in Afghanistan’s Khost province, Pakistani intelligence officials told Al Jazeera. Khalid Mehsud – alias Khan Said Sajna – was killed with […]
LoNDON: An expert in “The Adventures of Tintin” comic book series has been named as Britain’s first ever professor of “graphic fiction and comic art”. Benoit Peeters, 59, a French graphic novelist and critic, will […]
JAMMU (TIP): PoK would remain with Pakistan and India should understand it, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah said on Nov 27, triggering a huge controversy. “The Pakistan-occupied Kashmir will remain a part […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Large white tents and tin shacks scatter the hills near Kathmandu. They house some of the thousands who lost their homes in the devastating earthquake in April -and are the most visible sign […]
YAGON/HPAKANT(MYANMAR) (TIP): : A disregard for the rule of law in the jade mining industry in Myanmar had made accidents such as the landslide that killed more than 100 people at the weekend a common occurrence, […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least two people were killed and three injured in a bomb attack on a convoy of a federal minister in northwest Pakistan on Thursday evening, local media reported. The incident took place […]
BERLIN (TIP): Volkswagen says it will take less than an hour to bring 1.6 and 2.0 liter turbodiesel engines in Europe into line with emissions rules. The German automaker has pledged to fix 11 million […]
BENGALURU (TIP): In a major boost to the Indian SMEs that are a part of the Amazon Global Selling programme, 1,00,000 goods from India have been shipped to the US in preparation of the forthcoming […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain announced a fresh round of deep cuts to public spending Wednesday, but dropped a plan to reduce welfare payments for the poorest and spared the police from savings after the Paris attacks. […]
BENGALURU (TIP): Tata Motors showcased four new construction and mining commercial vehicles, from its Construck range at construction equipment exhibition EXCON 2015. The new vehicles showcased are the Tata Prima 3138.K 32 CuM Coal Tipper, […]
PARIS (TIP): The ringleader behind the November 13 attacks in Paris had plans to strike Jewish targets and to disrupt schools and the transport system in France, according to sources close to the investigation. Abdelhamid […]
BEJING (TIP): The killings of Chinese citizens by Islamic militants in Syria and Mali place President Xi Jinping in a quandary: How can Beijing respond effectively without betraying its strict stance against intervention? The dilemma […]
KIEV (TIP): Russia has begun to restrict coal supplies to Ukraine, energy minister Volody myr Demchyshyn told Ukrai ne’s parliament on Friday days after the Kremlin threa tened to punish Kiev for a po wer […]
LONDON (TIP): ISIS is almost universally detested across the Middle East, Asia and Africa, even in Muslim-majority countries, a new poll has shown. Despite rhetoric about supposed “sympathy” for the terrorist group among Muslims in […]
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