KABUL (TIP): An Afghan official says Taliban gunmen killed eight people in an ambush in a province east of the capital, Kabul. Sarhadi Zwak , a spokesman for the governor of Laghman Province, says the […]
DHAKA (TIP): A leader of fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party was sentenced to death today by a special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh for commiting murders and rapes, including that of Hindu women, during the independence war […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): China on July 17 pledged to provide$10 million to all-weather friend Pakistan for the rehabilitation of people displaced due to military operations in the restive tribal region, officials said. The agreement to provide […]
BEIJING (TIP): The Chinese authorities informed the Indian embassy on July 16 that the Indian detainee held for “links to terror group” along with eight others was being charged for violating criminal laws that could […]
ATHENS (TIP): Greece got a triple dose of good news on Thursday, when creditors agreed to open talks on a third bailout package, to give the country an interim loan to cover its debts, and […]
BEIRUT (TIP): Islamic State militants have punished at least 94 people including five teenagers, accusing them of violations during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, a rights group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on July […]
HRABOVE, UKRAINE (TIP): Residents of the Ukrainian village where a Malaysian airliner was shot down with 298 people aboard a year ago began a procession to the crash site on Friday, while the Australian prime […]
LONDON (TIP): An eccentric American showman wanted to buy the 16th Century Stratford-upon-Avon house where British playwright William Shakespeare was born and have it shipped, brick by brick, to New York in the 1800s. Showman […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) and US-based aircraft maker Boeing on Wednesday signed a strategic framework agreement here to collaborate in the sphere of aerospace and defence manufacturing as well as explore the […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Japanese auto major Honda Cars India Limited (HCIL) expects its newly launched third generation Honda Jazz to rev up the company’s sales and help it register a double digit growth in FY16 surpassing […]
ATHENS (TIP): Greece’s parliament early on Thursday strongly approved a bill of tough reforms demanded by the country’s creditors in return for a new bailout, according to official results. A final count showed 229 lawmakers […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): In 1999, Infosys brought global attention to Indian IT when it listed on the Nasdaq. It was then software services. Sixteen years later, an Indian software product company, InMobi, has created a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): E-commerce major Snapdeal today re-launched Shopo, a mobile-based open marketplace which will allow small businesses to list their products without paying any commission. Snapdeal had acquired Shopo in mid-2013 for an undisclosed amount. […]
“The 100 Indian-based companies surveyed for the study have made an aggregate $15.3 billion investment in their U.S. operations. That, in turn, has created 91,000 jobs in the U.S., which by any measure is a […]
ATHENS (TIP) : After all the brinkmanship, including holding of a referendum, Greece has finally agreed to the conditional bailout package offered to it, thus averting an exit from the eurozone and setting a precedent […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US retail sales unexpectedly fell in June as households cut back on purchases of automobiles and a range of other goods, raising concerns the economy was slowing again. Tuesday’s weak retail sales report, […]
Weddings are very special and this Christian wedding has gone viral on social media for a very different reason. Frank Gregoire, The Groom, a Canadian, struck a special note –by singing the popular Hindi song […]
NEW DELHI (TIP) : The bonhomie emerging from the meeting between the Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Ufa last weekend appeared too good to be true. Perhaps for […]
Iran and six world powers sealed a historic accord to curb the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme in return for ending sanctions, capping two years of tough diplomacy with the biggest breakthrough in decades. Diplomats reached […]
Salman Khan’s “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” has become the first film revolving around the Indo-Pak theme to get a clearance for a screening in Pakistan this Eid. The Pakistan Central Censor Board has given a go ahead […]
Four Indians are among 32 young leaders named by a prestigious global non-profit organization as its 2015 class of young leaders, focused on shaping a brighter future for the Asia-Pacific region and confronting the most […]
IKEA, world’s largest furniture retailer, has purchased a 13 acre land close to the IT hub in Hyderabad’s HITEC city. This first land purchase is part of their larger objective of expansion by setting up […]
New Delhi (TIP) July 14: The foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) today cleared 23 FDI proposals out of the 47 proposals which were considered in the meeting. The proposals cleared includes Bandhan, Catholic Syrian Bank, […]
Microsoft will cut 7,800 jobs and take a $7.6 billion impairment charge as it attempts to revive its flagging phone hardware business. The company paid $7.3 billion for Nokia’s phone business in April 2014, seeking […]
A man was beheaded and several others injured on Friday in a suspected Islamist attack on a gas factory in Isere, in the Rhone-Alps region of France, which was declared a “terrorist” act by President […]
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