HONOLULU(TIP): Improving US cooperation with China is critical to maintaining stability and security in the Asia-Pacific as well as combating the effects climate change, US secretary of state John Kerry said. Wrapping up an eight-day, […]
BEIJING (TIP): A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for killing six people after discovering that his wife had extramarital affairs with two different men. Shao Zonggi (38) had shot nine people using a […]
SEOUL (TIP): As Francis became the first pope in 25 years to visit South Korea on August 13, Seoul’s never-timid rival, North Korea, made its presence felt by firing three short-range projectiles less than an […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): An Indianborn American researcher plans to introduce her pioneering range of speedy wound-healing products in the country to benefit the poor. Molecular biologist Chanda Zaveri ran away from Kolkata 30 years ago […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Vijay Jolly, BJP Global Convener, Overseas Affairs is on US Tour from August 18 to 30. During this period he will be crisscrossing the US, visiting Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, New […]
Robin Williams, the versatile actor whose madcap comic style made him one of television and film’s biggest stars, was found dead on Monday from an apparent suicide at his home in Northern California. He was […]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian territories: Israeli jets bombed targets across Gaza on Thursday, retaliating to Palestinian rocket attacks in spiraling violence that left a truce extension teetering on the brink of collapse. The resumption of hostilities […]
LAHORE (PAKISTAN (TIP): A Pakistani court on August 13 restrained a cricketerturned politician and a Canada-based populist cleric from launching a march on Islamabad in an unconstitutional way, a lawyer said. The Lahore high court’s […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan’s government has deployed thousands of security personnel and put up barricades to deny entry to protesters who want to march into Islamabad. Cricketer-turned-politician and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Adani Power will buy Lanco Infratech’s 1,200-MW imported coal-fired power plant at Udupi in Karnataka in a deal valued at more than Rs 6,000 crore, marking the biggest acquisition in India’s thermal […]
KABUL (TIP): A suicide attacker targeting a Nato troop convoy in Kabul on August 11 killed four civilians and wounded at least seven others, Afghan officials said, as emergency services rushed to the scene. “At […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suggested that World Bank should help India in making a visible impact on reducing mass poverty in the underdeveloped regions of the country to show a perceptible […]
COLOMBO (TIP): The term of a Sri Lankan government-appointed panel probing the cases of missing persons during the three-decade war with the LTTE has been extended by nearly seven months.President Mahinda Rajapaksa extended the term […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Modi government has made it clear it would not open the doors for FDI in multi-brand retail in India. Commerce minister Nirmala Seetharaman said in Rajya Sabha on August 13 that […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Foreign mountaineers will have to spend more for the insurance cover of their Sherpa guides to climb any Himalayan peak in Nepal including Mount Everest, the government said. Wedged between India and China, […]
SINGAPORE (TIP): Oil prices rose in Asia on Aug 12 on reviving fears of supply disruptions in the Middle East, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for September delivery rose 14 cents to […]
NEW YORK (TIP): McDonald’s says a key sales figure fell 2.5 per cent in July, dragged down by persistent weakness in the US and the impact of a food safety scandal in China. The world’s […]
By George Abraham “The biggest challenge India is facing today is the majoritarian view of democratic governance. Unfortunately, a large segment of the voting public along with a significant section of the NRIs seem to […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has charted a fresh investment plan to tap into India’s fast-growing consumer internet story more than a decade after he took bets on domestic digital properties like […]
By Dr. Vinayshil Gautam Technological independence has to emerge as an important element of the national axiom. “A nation’s skill formation on technology handling cannot be mortgaged to another nation’s need for technology transfer and […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Dark clouds of political unrest hung over the solemn celebrations of Independence of Pakistan on Thursday, August 14. President Mamnoon Hussain said the country was in a state of war and terrorism was […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Indian Army Naib Subedar Patan Kumar Poddar became the victim of his carnal desires and greed for money. The 40-year-old Poddar,who was posted at 151 MC/MF detachment at the Secunderabad railway station, was […]
ERBIL (TIP): Sunni militants captured the Mosul dam, the largest in Iraq, on Thursday, August 7, as their advances in the country’s north created an onslaught of refugees and set off fearful rumors in Erbil, […]
GAZA/JERUSALEM (TIP): Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip resumed rocket fire into Israel on Friday after Egyptian-mediated talks in Cairo failed to extend a 72-hour truce in a nearly month-long war. As police said rocket-warning […]
ZURICH (TIP): A secretary who posted nude pictures of herself in the Swiss parliament to more than 11,000 followers on Twitter told a newspaper on Wednesday that she did not believe she had broken any […]
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