WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States and other stakeholders in Afghanistan are scrambling to organize a response to the sudden disclosure that Taliban chief Mullah Omar has been dead for sometime and a council of the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on July 30 said the three terrorists killed in Dinanagar town of Gurdaspur district in Punjab had infiltrated from Pakistan and warned the neighboring country that any […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a significant move that will save millions of animals, Nepal’s Gadhimai temple trust on July 29 announced a ban on animal sacrifice at the Gadhimai festival, the world’s biggest animal sacrifice […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 24 people July 30 and left more than a dozen missing as homes were swept away in three districts of quake-hit Nepal. Rescuers are still […]
Is China’s rise as a military power a threat to international, or even regional security? To answer this question one has to carefully consider not just geopolitical realities but also China’s strategic outlook in an increasingly […]
Phone calls between relatively low-level diplomats are normally not newsworthy. But Monday’s conversation between U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin on the simmering conflict in Ukraine is an […]
YANGON (TIP): Myanmar on July 30 ordered the release of thousands of prisoners including 210 foreigners, officials said, the latest in a series of amnesties under the reformist government that have seen sentences quashed for […]
Despite the cordial meetings between PM Modi and President Xi’s and their photo ops on the sidelines of the BRICS and SCO summits, India has been drawing the red line with China on its concerns. Official […]
LONDON (TIP): Prime Minister David Cameron faced heavy criticism on July 31 for saying a “swarm” of migrants was trying to come to Britain, as authorities in France struggle to stop them crossing the Channel. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Oxford English Dictionary has launched a search to find the first recorded use in English of the word ’email’. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), which began tracking the English language in 1857, […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Turning the tables on Islamic State online recruiters, three Chechen girls allegedly swindled over $3,000 by conning them into giving money on the pretence that they would use it to travel to Syria […]
LONDON (TIP): London is the third most expensive city to live in, coming just behind super-wealthy cities in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. According to figures from Expatistan, which uses crowdfunded data to create a […]
BEIJING (TIP): The system of electronic visas for Chinese citizens, which was promised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Beijing last May has come into effect on Thursday. This will help Chinese, who are not […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): Indian nationals living in New Zealand are being targeted by callers posing as immigration officials demanding money, prompting authorities to warn Indians not to fall into their trap. The scammers have been using […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Barack Obama is inviting Pakistan beleaguered Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to the White House in October, raising the prospect of a second such visit in two years despite the US President reneging on […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan would include proof of alleged Indian involvement in the Taliban attack on a Peshawar army school last year, which killed 152 people mostly kids, in a dossier that it would handover to […]
BAMIYAN, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): Trudging halfway up a jagged goat trail, guide Mohammad Ibrahim extolled the panoramic view — a vast, ancient landscape of russet-hued cliffs that is on the frontline of Afghan efforts to jumpstart […]
YANGON (TIP): The Myanmar government and armed ethnic minority groups resumed critical talks on Wednesday to reach a nationwide ceasefire agreement that would end six decades of fighting before an upcoming general election that threatens […]
COLOMBO (TIP): The Maldives parliament said on July 23 it has sacked the country’s vice-president and accused him of treason, as international concern mounts over the state of democracy on the honeymoon islands. Lawmakers voted […]
“Westphalian sovereignty is the principle of international law that each nation state has sovereignty over its territory and domestic affairs, to the exclusion of all external powers. The principle of non-interference in another country’s domestic affairs, […]
Moscow: India and Russia seek to increase trade to US$ 30 billion by 2025 from US$ 9.5 billion last year, by overcoming challenges of inadequate connectivity, language barriers, visa barriers and regulations. Both countries recently reached […]
On November 10, 2010, President Obama announced US support for admitting India into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). And in May 2011, prior to the June 2011 NSG Consultative Group (CG) and Plenary meetings at […]
TORONTO: In a possible “targeted attack”, a 20-year-old Indian-Canadian has been shot dead inside a car in Canada’s Calgary city, media reports said. Steven Sharda was discovered with fatal gunshots in a car on July 11 […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Amid heightened tension along their border resulting in casualties on both sides, India on July 16 warned Pakistan of “effective and forceful” response to unprovoked firing and cross-border terrorism. India’s blunt message […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Earthquake-hit Nepal is planning to train 50,000 workers in a bid to carry out massive reconstruction works, the biggest skill development programme as the country braces for the slowest economic growth rate in […]
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