A summit of all European Union members planned for Sunday has been cancelled as “very difficult” talks over a third bailout deal for Greece continue. All 28 leaders, including David Cameron, had been expected to […]
MasterCard recently announced the appointment of two Co-Presidents for the Asia/Pacific region – Ling Hai and Ari Sarker. The reorganization is in recognition of the growing importance of Asia/Pacific as a whole as it houses two of the […]
Five teenage girl students from Bengaluru won the Technovation challenge at a global pitch event at San Francisco city in the US. Sanjana Vasanth, N. Anupama, Mahima Mehendale, Swasthi P. Rao and B. Navyashree, all […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US economy’s stumble at the start of 2015 is dragging down the world’s growth prospects, the International Monetary Fund said on July 9. The IMF forecasts 3.3 per cent global growth this […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Country’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India on Thrusday said its compact car Celerio has achieved one lakh sales mark in the domestic market in less than 1.5 years after its launch in […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): New applications for US unemployment insurance benefits rose last week to their highest level since February, suggesting some slowdown in the labor market recovery. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 15,000 to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India and the United States signed a tax information sharing agreement on Thursday, under a new US law meant to combat offshore tax dodging by Americans as well as by Indians stashing […]
ATHENS/FRANKFURT (TIP): The Greek government sent a package of reform proposals to its euro zone creditors on July 9 in a race to win new funds to avert bankruptcy and will seek a parliamentary vote […]
LAHORE (TIP): Two militants linked to Tehreek-i- Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been arrested here for “facilitating” a suicide bomber, who blew himself up at the Wagah border minutes after the popular flag-lowering ceremony last year, killing […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal’s deputy Prime Minister Bamdev Gautam has expressed confidence that a new constitution will be promulgated in the country in two months and said the devastating earthquake on April 25 brought the quibbling […]
KABUL (TIP): The Afghan intelligence agency on July 9 said a third top IS commander in Afghanistan was killed in a US drone strike in the country’s east this week. Shahidullah Shahid, a former member […]
DHAKA: At least 17 people were killed on Friday in a stampede during a handout of free clothes at a factory in the northern Bangladeshi city of Mymensingh, police said. The stampede erupted when hundreds […]
JAKARTA (TIP): Four airports in Indonesia were shut on July 10 due to an ash cloud from a volcanic eruption in East Java. According to the country’s flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, Bali’s Denpasar International Airport […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) prime minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed has warned Islamabad against any attempt to convert Gilgit-Baltistan into a federal province. “Gilgit-Baltistan is part and parcel of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution July 8 that would have condemned the 1995 massacre of Muslims at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war as a “crime of genocide,” saying that singling out the […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The news that the United States has finally decided to amend its regulations to allow the dependent spouses of the specialized H-1B visa holders to work was hailed with jubilation by Indian […]
THE HAGUE (TIP): The Philippines has appealed to an international tribunal to declare China’s claims to most of the South China Sea illegal, warning the integrity of United Nations’ maritime laws is at stake. In […]
SANTA CRUZ(BOLIVIA) (TIP): Pope Francis on July 9 urged the downtrodden to change the world economic order, denouncing a “new colonialism” by agencies that impose austerity programs and calling for the poor to have the […]
LONDON (TIP): A judge says Britain has been stunned by revelations about child sexual abuse, warning that the true scale of the crime has been underestimated and one in 20 children may have been a […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain’s first Asian woman peer -Baroness Flather – has raised a storm by telling the House of Lords that couples who are getting married should be forced to have a DNA test first […]
RIYADH (TIP) (Saudi Arabia): Saudi Arabia’s prince Saud al-Faisal, who was the world’s longest-serving foreign minister with 40 years in the post until his retirement this year, has died, the ministry spokesman said July 9. […]
Bureaucrats have social status and power. They also possess personal knowledge of the rules. So, as a reasonably educated Indian citizen knows, it is pointless to argue with a bureaucrat: one can only plead with […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US economy added 223,000 net new jobs in June, the Labor Department said on Thursday in a mixed report on the jobs market. The unemployment rate fell to 5.3 percent, the lowest […]
Greeks have voted and have rejected the “ridiculed” austerity demands of Europe’s creditor powers by a stunning margin, sweeping aside warnings that this could lead to the collapse of the banking system. The final result […]
HONG KONG (TIP): Asian markets retreated on July 3 ahead of the weekend’s Greek referendum that could decide its eurozone future, while Shanghai plunged more than seven percent, at the end of a torrid week […]
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