By Zahid Hussain “The Karachi airport attack once again exposed the vulnerability of our security system. The sense of urgency in Islamabad was not commensurate with the scale of the crisis”, says the author. The […]
BAGHDAD/ARBIL (TIP): Iraqi Kurds took control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk on June 12 after government forces abandoned their posts in the face of a sweeping Sunni Islamist rebel push towards Baghdad that […]
Pakistan condemns US drone strikes in Waziristan ISLAMABAD (TIP): A missile strike from a suspected US drone has targeted a compound in a northwestern tribal district in Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing at least […]
KUNDUZ, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): Flash floods have killed around 60 people in northern Afghanistan, washing away hundreds of homes and forcing thousands to flee, officials said on Saturday warning that the death toll was expected to […]
KABUL: Nato says five service members have been killed in attack in southern Afghanistan. A statement from the international alliance on Tuesday says that all five soldiers died on Monday. It did not give further […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Floods caused by days of torrential rain have displaced over 100,000 people in Sri Lanka, latest government data showed on Friday. The Disaster Management Centre said that 26,688 families comprising 109,075 people have […]
KABUL (AFGHANISTAN (TIP)): Afghan police and soldiers are manning checkpoints at almost every intersection, searching vehicles and banning trucks from the streets, tightening security ahead of a weekend presidential election. Insurgents have intensified attacks ahead […]
When it comes to food, more often than not, presentation scores over all other factors. While investing in the latest crockery is always good, one can also try to re-use some old kitchen ware in […]
BANGALORE (TIP): IT major Infosys named Vishal Sikka, former executive board member SAP AG, as its first nonfounder Chief Executive Officer. The Vadodara-born, doctorate in computer science from Stanford, will take over from incumbent S.D. […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Reserve Bank of India has said that the country will soon have its first payment bank as prescribed by a committee headed by Nachiket Mor to look into financial inclusion. Speaking at a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Shares of Bharti Airtel slump 3.5% after Credit Suisse downgrades the stock to “underperform” from “neutral” and reduces the target price to Rs 265 from Rs 275, citing competition from rival Rel […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Led by smart performance of engineering goods, petroleum products and ready made garments, export growth hit a six-month high of 12.4 per cent in May. Exports rose to $28 billion during the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): With the new Indian government showing signs of economic reforms and brings in transparency in governance, the World Bank feels that the world’s third-largest economy could achieve a growth rate of 5.5 […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Voices against the government plan to slap antidumping duty on solar panels are getting stronger with Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari asking his commerce counterpart to drop the proposal as it would ‘escalate’ […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): Aaghaz-e-Dosti, a joint body comprising India-based Mission Bharatiyam and Pakistan-based The Catalyst, has released a list of Pakistani prisoners languishing in Indian jails on public domain. It will also release a list of […]
BRUSSELS (TIP): World leaders urged Vladimir Putin on June 4 to stop destabilizing Ukraine or face further sanctions as they met without a Russian president for the first time since the 1990s. Putin reached out […]
DAMASCUS (TIP): A little after 10pm on June 3 when Syrian People’s Assembly speaker announced Bashar al-Assad as the presidential election winner, his words found an echo on Damascus streets. Young men and women began […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese courts have sentenced nine people to death for terrorist activities in the northwestern Xinjiang region. Two others have been given death sentence with a two-year reprieve, which means the verdict will be […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama’s choice to be the top health official at the embattled veterans affairs department has withdrawn his nomination. The news comes amid a firestorm over long patient waits at military veterans’ […]
MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA (TIP): Fortyfive people were killed by suspected Boko Haram gunmen pretending to be preachers in a village near the group’s spiritual home in northeast Nigeria, two residents said on June 6. The attack […]
LONDON (TIP): The European Commission in its 2014 Convergence Report has proposed to the EU council of ministers that Lithuania can become the latest country to adopt the euro as its currency on January 1, […]
Amanhunt is under way in the Canadian city of Moncton after a gunman shot dead three members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and left two others injured. Residents of Moncton, a city of about […]
LONDON (TIP): Passengers will now receive superfast in-flight broadband wi-fi services while flying within the European Union. British satellite telecommunications firm Inmarsat which has been spearheading the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 announced […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): Another mega synthetic drug racket, believed to be part of Rs 6,000 crore ring run by kingpin Jagdish Bhola, was busted on June 5 after the arrest of two masterminds, including an Abohar-based […]
NEW YORK (TIP): An Indian-American architect has been ordered to pay thousands of dollars in compensation and penalty to settle a civil rights lawsuit, which alleged that a rental building designed by him and his […]
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