SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA (TIP): Three young men who disarmed a gunman on a high-speed train bound for Paris will get a heroes’ welcome in their hometown in California, the mayor of Sacramento said on Monday. “Big […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least 13 people were killed and 16 injured in two separate road accidents in Pakistan on August 25, local media reported. Samaa TV said that in the first accident, a van-oil tanker […]
HERAT (TIP): At least 11 people, most of them children, were killed in a series of explosions at an Afghan gas storage facility, which triggered a massive inferno in a nearby settlement for displaced people, […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): At least nine people, including six policemen, were killed and several others injured as thousands of ethnic protesters demanding a separate state in the proposed new Constitution on August 24 attacked police with […]
MALE (TIP): Mohamed Nasheed has been forcibly taken back to jail by police, a month after the former Maldivian president’s 13-year prison term was commuted to house arrest, his party claimed on August 24, describing […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): A Japanese climber will be the first to attempt to scale Mount Everest since a massive earthquake in April triggered avalanches that killed 18 climbers, shutting an industry that feeds thousands of people […]
ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (TIP): A Pakistani court on August 27 issued arrest warrant for former PM Yousuf Raza Gilani in a corruption case. The anti-corruption court issued the warrant against Gilani for his alleged involvement in […]
TORONTO: A 21-year-old Indo-Canadian woman has mysteriously gone missing from her house in Surrey, prompting police to intensify their search by seeking public help. Jessie Khatkar was reported missing on August 25 and was last seen […]
There is a statue of a marauding bull on the Wall Street. But, alas, the fella seems to be having a real bad time. Instead of charging and marauding – as evidenced by the sky-rocketing […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government may sell 10 per cent stake in Coal India this fiscal itself through a public offer, which could fetch around Rs 22,000 crore to the exchequer. The department of disinvestment […]
ATHENS (TIP): Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned on August 20, hoping to strengthen his hold on power in snap elections after seven months in office in which he fought Greece’s creditors for a better bailout […]
SHANGHAI (TIP): Chinese authorities warned that cyanide levels in the waters around the Tianjin Port explosion site had risen to as much as 277 times acceptable levels although they declared the city’s potable water was […]
BEIRUT (TIP): Islamic State militants have demolished a monastery in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Thursday, in a strategically located town the jihadist group wrested from government control earlier this […]
BERLIN (TIP): German lawmakers overwhelmingly approved another bailout for debt-ridden Greece on Wednesday, August 19, removing the last major obstacle for Athens to receive an emergency infusion of funds to avoid an imminent default, a […]
BEIJING (TIP): Millions of Chinese couples and love seekers celebrated Qixi, the Chinese valentine day on Thursday, in a variety of ways. The occasion also saw some headline grabbing events including famous pop singer, Jon […]
CHICAGO (TIP): A US mother in Ohio admitted killing her three young sons in separate incidents over the past 13 months because her husband paid more attention to the boys than a daughter, police said. […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Pyongyang has asked the UN Security Council to hold an urgent meeting to discuss joint US-South Korean military exercises, the North Korean mission to the United Nations said. North Korean Ambassador Ja […]
LONDON (TIP): Two treasure hunters have claimed to have found a mysterious Nazi train which had disappeared on its way to Germany from Hungary in 1945 carrying guns, gems and other valuable items, including paintings […]
FUKUSHIMA (TIP): A retired Israeli medical professor thinks she has discovered a meth od for vaccinating against the effects of a nuclear fallout, and has been slowly poisoning herself in a bid to prove it. […]
LONDON (TIP): King’s College London has come out in open support of re-introducing post study work visa for Indian students in the UK. Recent data showed that the number of Indian students coming to study […]
DUBAI (TIP): There are about 700 flights every week from India to the Gulf region, the largest to any foreign region, and yet it took 34 years for an Indian Prime Minister to visit it, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Senior BJP leader and former foreign minister Yashwant Sinha on Thursday called for declaring Pakistan high commissioner as persona non grata for “crossing all lines” of diplomatic etiquette by indulging in provocative […]
The proposed talks between the National Security Advisors of India and Pakistan this Sunday, which were decided at a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Ufa, have come under […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe will be sworn-in as Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister on August 20, returning to the office for a fourth term after his party won the closely contested general election. Wickremesinghe’s United National Party (UNP) […]
KARACHI (TIP): Pakistani authorities are investigating officials at the national identity database for allegedly issuing ID cards to militants, including some linked to al-Qaida, in return for bribes as small as $100. The country’s main […]
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