ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistani Taliban on December 11 criticized Nobel laureate Malala Yoususzai, saying the teenage activist has entered into an agreement with “satanic forces” to promote western culture and destroy Pakistan. In its first reaction […]
COLOMBO (TIP): A Sri Lankan military transport aircraft crashed near the capital Colombo on Decmeber 12 killing four people on board and injuring another crew member, police said. The Antonov AN-32 aircraft slammed into a […]
KATMANDU, Nepal: Police say an overcrowded bus has plunged off a mountain road in Nepal, killing at least 17 people and injuring 50 more. Police official Kesh Bahadur Shahi said Monday that the bus veered […]
HONG KONG (TIP): Hong Kong police arrested pro-democracy activists and cleared most of the main protest site on december 11, marking an end to more than two months of street demonstrations in the Chinese-controlled city, […]
KANSAS CITY (MISSOURI) (TIP): A Missouri man, criticized after he killed an albino deer that had been a community favorite, said on December 11 he would have the aging animal stuffed and would give away […]
GENEVA (TIP): A clinical trial of an Ebola vaccine developed by Merck and NewLink has been halted temporarily as a precautionary measure after four patients complained of joint pains, the University of Geneva Hospital said […]
BELGIUM (TIP): There are few things people agree on in linguistically divided Belgium, but an effort to get Belgian potato fries recognized as global cultural heritage and put it on a par with Peking opera […]
Julia Roberts has been appointed as the new face of Givenchy. The brand’s first shot of Spring 2015 campaign shows the 47-year-old actress in a black and white picture, boasting natural beauty in a sleek […]
Hollywood beauty Angelina Jolie has had an amazing 2014 after getting married and releasing her movie ‘Unbroken’. The 39-year-old actress-director is thrilled that her new movie ‘Unbroken’ is getting Oscar buzz. When asked if she’s […]
Cast: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, Ben Kingsley, María Valverde, Sigourney Weaver, Indira Varma Direction: Ridley Scott Genre: Action Duration: 2 hours 32 minutes Story: Moses (Bale) learns about who he really is and […]
LONDON (TIP): America’s closest allies – Britain has strongly condemned the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) use of brutality and deception to interrogate “terror suspects” post-9/11 attacks as made public by a Senate Intelligence Committee report. […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese social media users have pulled out details of the December 2012 Nirbhaya case in New Delhi to draw comparisons with assault and molestation of a woman in Henan province in central China. […]
BEIRUT (TIP): A correspondent working for Al Jazeera Arabic died while covering battles in southern Syria, the pan-Arab news network said on its website on December 11. He was the fourth Syrian journalist to die […]
CAPE TOWN (TIP): South Africa will increase diesel and gas imports and sign a private sector coal-fired power plant deal as it seeks to stem chronic electricity shortages, the cabinet said on December 12. South […]
LONDON ()TIP): Around 423 criminals from India are presently living in Britain. Data revealed by Britain’s National Audit Office has shown that as of March 2014, 10,650 criminals from overseas have been living in UK. […]
LONDON (TIP): A 73-year-old Indianorigin man,who headed an extremist Maoist sect in the UK, was on Thursday charged for enslaving three women in his home here for 30 years.Aravindan Balakrishnan is charged with 25 offences […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Russia’s richest man says he is returning a Nobel prize he bought at auction for $4.7 million just days ago to the man who put it on the block: controversial American geneticist James […]
UNITED NATIONS: India’s economic growth is expected to improve to 6.3 per cent in 2016 with the country leading economic recovery in South Asia, according to a United Nations report. The UN World Economic Situation […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Beleaguered lowcost carrier Spicejet seems to have received a temporary breather from the government, official sources told FE. With the loss-making airline making an interim payment of Rs 5 crore on Wednesday […]
TOKYO (TIP): Honda Motor Co said it would recall an estimated 400,000 vehicles globally as a precautionary measure to replace potentially deadly air bag inflators made by Takata Corp. The recall follows a similar move […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Tata Power, the power generator led by Cyrus Mistry, is buying a 540-megawatt (MW) thermal power plant in Maharashtra to ramp up capacity, highlighting how a lot of India’s recent merger and acquisition […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Germany’s drug regulator has banned the sale of 80 generic medicines with immediate effect on grounds of “deficiencies” in the clinical trials conducted by domestic pharma company GVK Biosciences. The ban comes after […]
BHUBANESWAR (TIP): ‘When you fall down, you gotta pick yourself back up’. This seems to be the Indian hockey team’s motto these days. The critics dismissed them when they lost their first two matches but […]
BHUBANESWAR (TIP): Putting their disappointing pool campaign behind, an inspired Pakistan notched up their first win over the Netherlands in 16 years, stunning the World Cup and Olympic silver medallist 4-2 to reach the semifinals […]
OSLO (TIP): It was a proud moment for an “Indian father and a Pakistani daughter” to stand together to accept the applause of a gathering of royals, dignitaries, family members and others in the vast […]
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