BEIJING (TIP): An imprisoned 71-year-old Chinese journalist has had her sentence reduced to five years from seven following an appeal, her lawyer said today. Gao Yu appealed her April conviction for leaking state secrets at […]
LONDON (TIP): A high-flying businessman has quit his job, taking a 90% pay cut, so he can show his terminally ill daughter around the world. John Silk, from Croydon, South London, who successfully managed his […]
KABUL (TIP): A new road linking the Afghan capital with a trade hub near Pakistan has been stuck in the slow lane since a state-owned Chinese company took the contract to build it two years […]
KABUL (TIP): The Afghan defense ministry says a foreign national was among three people killed when Taliban insurgents ambushed a helicopter that made an emergency landing in northwestern Afghanistan. The ministry said the privately contracted […]
Ganesha says my devotee Bejan Daruwalla is cut to the bone. He is truly devastated. He is shattered. The blowing to smithereens of innocent lives, specially children, religious intolerance, violence, are the main causes for it. […]
An Indian-American man on board the Qatar Airways flight to Washington via Doha was offloaded at the Benazir International Airport in Islamabad around 3 a.m. on Friday after he claimed that there was a bomb […]
LAHORE: A 25-year-old waiter was killed for being late at a local hotel in Lahore’s Liberty Market, report Dawn. According to police officials, two unidentified customers came to Karachi Paratha Roll on Wednesday, November 25, […]
After a series of deliberations, the Board of Cricket Control of India (BCCI) and the PCB have reportedly agreed on Sri Lanka as possible venue. IPL Chairman and BCCI functionary Rajeev Shukla on Thursday, November […]
The diligently coordinated and utterly condemnable November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris killing 129 and wounding 352 innocent human beings have terrorized France and the rest of the West. The Islamic State (IS) claimed ‘responsibility’ […]
New Delhi: France President Francois Hollande is going to be India’s chief guest at the 67th Republic Day ceremony on January 26, 2016, according to a French daily Le Monde. Hollande’s presence will be seen […]
JOHANNESBURG: The Sikh community today got its first Gurudwara after an eight-year-long legal battle near Johannesburg. The 2,500 square metres Gurudwara was officially opened in the suburb of Sandton, the economic hub of the country, by […]
MONTREAL: Researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist and his team from Concordia University have developed a novel technology that harnesses electrical energy from blue-green algae that could be used to power cell phones and computers in future. […]
CAMBRIDGE, MA (Oct. 28, 2015) – Oxigen USA, Inc. is happy to announce the launch of Money Transfer to India with the best exchange rate guaranteed. Indian-Americans can now send money from New Jersey and […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The most popular man in public office in Pakistan does not give speeches on television, rarely appears in public and rejects news interviews. He is Gen. Raheel Sharif, the Pakistani army chief, who […]
The chances of reviving one of sport’s greatest rivalries virtually ended on Thursday, November 19, after Pakistan denied its cricket team the permission to play in India citing security concerns, scuttling plans for a proposed […]
Ola raised a $500 million Series F round from new investors Baillie Gifford and Didi Kuaidi and existing investors DST Global, Falcon Edge Capital, SoftBank Telecom Corp and Tiger Global Management bringing the Bangalore, India-based startup’s total funding to more […]
Two Indian-origin businessmen have been ranked by Forbes magazine among the richest entrepreneurs in America under the age of 40, a list that has been topped by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Vivek Ramaswamy, 30, a […]
New York: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and Google’s India-born CEO Sundar Pichai are among over 50 global leaders, business chiefs and pop icons named as contenders by Time magazine for […]
Activision Blizzard accquiers Candy Crush maker King Digital Entertainment by paying $5.9 billion, combining a console gaming power with an established player in the fast-growing mobile gaming field. Activision, which owns the extraordinarily successful “Call […]
Private equity funds committed $2.8 billion to Indian real estate projects in the first nine months of 2015, global real estate consultancy firm Cushman & Wakefield and Global Real Estate Institute said in a report. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In its report submitted to the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on November 19, the Seventh Central Pay Commission has recommended an overall increase of 23.55 per cent in pay, allowances, and […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The Reserve Bank on Thursday said its prior approval will be required for acquisition of shares or voting rights in a private bank for increasing the aggregate holding to 5% or more, as […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): German automaker Volkswagen, tainted by an emissions scandal, said it will present US authorities tomorrow with plans for bringing its vehicles outfitted with pollution-cheating software into compliance with regulations. “We’re hopeful we’ll […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Exporters from labour-intensive, small and medium sectors can now avail bank loans at three per cent lower rates with the government on Wednesday approving the long-awaited interest subsidy scheme to boost exports. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government on Nov 18 approved 10 per cent stake sale in the state-owned Coal India. This is expected to garner Rs 20,000 crore as part of government’s aim to raise Rs […]
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