KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): Afghanistan’s once-thriving Sikh community is dwindling fast as many choose to leave the country of their birth to escape what they say is growing intolerance and discrimination. Once boasting as many as […]
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The Hong Kong government has reportedly dropped plans to scrap visa-free entry for Indians after representations from Indian officials and businessmen said such a move could seriously jeopardise businesses and tourism. Recent media reports quoting […]
India-born Steve Rai has been appointed the new deputy chief constable of Canada’s Vancouver Police Department. Vancouver Police chief Adam Palmer announced yesterday that Mr Rai has joined the department’s executive team as the new […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Massive preparations are underway to commemorate the first International Day of Yoga on Sunday, June 21 at the United Nations and other locations in New York. Giving out details of the […]
Prime Minister Modi has surprised his own people and, no doubt, external observers, by his foreign policy activism since he took office. In his year in power he has travelled abroad 16 times- and 19 if […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): Militants blew up a primary school for boys early this morning in Pakistan’s volatile Bajaur Agency bordering Afghanistan. No casualty was reported as no one was inside the building when the explosion took […]
DHAKA (TIP): A top Bangladesh Islamist leader could be executed within months after the Supreme Court on June 17 upheld his death sentence for war crimes during the country’s 1971 battle for independence against Pakistan. […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Four moderate earthquakes with magnitudes between 4 and 5.2 jolted Nepal early on June 17, taking the total number of aftershocks to 320 after the devastating earthquake struck the country on April 25. […]
LAHORE (TIP): : Pakistan’s ISI had held Osama bin Laden prisoner for nearly six years in Abbottabad and handed him over to the US in a staged raid, a media report said on Wednesday in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Days after special forces of the Indian Army carried out cross-border strikes on three insurgent camps located in Myanmar, the neighbouring country has shifted six camps manned by various insurgent groups to […]
CAIRO (TIP): The knock on the door came just before midnight, a group of plainclothes police demanding that 29-year-old Fatma el-Sayed, an activist with one of Egypt’s secular opposition groups, come with them. Her father […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (TIP): South Korea said on June 18 that 23 people have died and more than 6,700 are isolated at homes and medical facilities as officials continue their efforts to put the MERS […]
BEIJING (TIP): More than 70 children of Chinese billionaires attended behavioural training classes after President Xi Jinping called for a ‘positive image’ of the young rich, as many of them came under flack for vulgar […]
Sixty years ago this month, an affair between the great Italian film director, Roberto Rossellini, then married to Ingrid Bergman, and a young Bengali woman, Sonali Dasgupta, wife of the filmmaker Harisadhan Dasgupta, made headlines in […]
SANTO DOMINGO (TIP): People waited anxiously in long lines throughout the Dominican Republic on June 17, eager to submit applications for legal residency before a midnight deadline and avoid possible deportation. Many had been waiting […]
BAGHDAD (TIP): Islamic State said on June 18 it had shot down an Iraqi fighter plane north of the city of Ramadi in Anbar Province. It was not immediately possible to independently confirm the claim […]
VATICAN CITY (TIP): Pope Francis said today that those who “close the door” to refugees seeking a safe haven in Europe should ask God’s forgiveness, as tensions rose in the EU over the migrant crisis. […]
LONDON (TIP): It’s a case of two down: the aisle. A crossword-loving lawyer hid a marriage proposal in The Times newspaper’s daily puzzle. Matthew Dick thought of the cryptic way of popping the question to […]
LONDON (TIP): Will you dare to cross a deep canal on a “printed” bridge? You may get a chance to try that soon. A 3D printing company based in Amsterdam has developed a revolutionary robotic […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): State-run NTPC has switched on an 800 MW hydel plant to join a select group of global peers who span the entire fuel chain — coal, gas, hydro power and renewables — […]
DETROIT (TIP): Honda Motor Co Ltd said it will recall 1.39 million Accord and Civic model sedans with potentially faulty front passenger-side air bags made by Japan’s Takata Corp. This will bring to about 2.3 […]
ATHENS (TIP): Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accused Greece’s creditors of trying to “humiliate” Greeks with more cuts as he defied a growing drumbeat of warnings that Europe was preparing for his country to leave the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): It’s official now. The government is reaching for the Sun by raising the target for adding solar power capacity five times to 100,000 mw by 2022. The Cabinet’s panel on economic affairs […]
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