ISLAMABAD (TIP): A powerful bomb went off outside a mosque in the port city of Karachi on Friday, leaving four people dead and 23 injured. The explosion occurred in Karachi’s Delhi Colony area as worshipers […]
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Afghanistan): Flash floods in northern Afghanistan after two days of torrential rain have killed more than 80 people, officials said on Friday, with scores more missing as helicopters searched for stranded villagers. Local officials […]
SAVAR: She was the “miracle” seamstress, plucked from the rubble of the world’s worst garment factory disaster 17 days after her factory collapsed. One year on, she has married and found a new job. Reshma […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghanistan is set to announce preliminary presidential election results on Saturday, with former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah ahead in early counting but below the 50-per cent vote required to avoid a run-off. Abdullah […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal’s agitating Sherpa mountain guides on April 25 agreed to resume work on Mount Everest following negotiations with the government on their demands in the wake of the avalanche that killed 16 of […]
Remarks made by Nisha Desai Biswal, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, at Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, FL on April 25, 2014 Thank you, Dr. Singh, for your warm welcome. It is […]
JINDO/MOKPO (TIP): Angry relatives of more than 200 people, mostly children, missing inside a sunken South Korea ferry demanded authorities act now to raise the vessel and hit out at officials, including the country’s president, […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Cadbury India, a name which has had a sweet connect with consumers for over six decades now, will soon be rechristened Mondelez India, after its US-based parent company Mondelez International (written as Mondelcz […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States has urged the Indian government that emerges from ongoing elections to follow economic policies that encourage investment, saying Washington would like to see bilateral trade grow to $500 billion a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): IT services firm HCL Technologies on Thursday posted 59 per cent increase in net profit at Rs 1,624 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2014. The Noida-based firm had posted a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Central Bureau of Investigation has summoned some senior executives of the Aditya Birla Group for examination in connection with a case registered against the group’s chairman, Kumar Mangalam Birla, and former […]
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Parth Bhalerao, Boman Irani, Sanjay Mishra Direction: Nitesh Tiwari Genre: Drama Duration: 2 hours 35 minutes STORY: Our good-hearted ghost with a dost is back. This time he’s all set for some […]
KABUL (TIP): A leading Taliban peace negotiator has been placed under house arrest in the United Arab Emirates, officials said on April 18, dealing a blow to President Hamid Karzai’s efforts to jump-start a nascent […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): In one of the most distressing tragedies ever en route Mount Everest, 12 Nepalese Sherpa guides were killed and four missing after an avalanche swept down on them on Friday. Officials said the […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepalese government has filed a case against 13 Maoist cadres for their alleged involvement in the murder of a 16-year-old school boy in 2004 during the decadelong civil strife in the country, prompting […]
In May 2005, as Indian and Pakistani Track I negotiators were reaching a ‘settlement deal’ on the forbidden Siachen Glacier, the then Chief of the Army Staff Joginder Jaswant Singh made an unexpected public statement. […]
What’s wrong with Nato ships docked in New Russia’s Sevastopol port aka Ukraine? None. It means no nation has anything to worry, and the rule of law is operational and citizens can demand, and are […]
Dear Editor, In my view because of India’s non-alliance policy towards America the US India relationship always at neutral level. During the past 45 years since 1968, many times Americans from the mainstream have asked […]
DONETSK (UKRAINE) (TIP): A day after an international deal in Geneva to defuse the East-West crisis in Ukraine, pro-Russian separatists vowed not to end their occupation of public buildings and Washington threatened further sanctions on […]
KUALA LUMPUR (TIP): The search for missing flight MH370 is at a “critical juncture”, Malaysia’s transport minister said on April 20, two days after Australia’s premier said a submersible device had one week to find […]
SHANGHAI (TIP): The death toll from a flooded coal mine in southwest China has risen to 20 with the recovery of another 14 bodies nearly two weeks after the accident, state media reported. Mining accidents […]
COLOMBO (TIP): A day after three key operatives of the banned LTTE were killed in a major military operation in Sri Lanka’s north, the government on April 19 justified maintaining troops in the former war […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A special Pakistani court on April 19 rejected ex-Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf’s plea seeking his trial before a military tribunal. It instead summoned him to appear before it on March 11. Musharraf, 70, […]
LONDON (TIP): British researchers have called for making tests taken by foreign doctors who want to work in the NHS to be made harder to pass as half of all foreign doctors in Britain do […]
© The Indian Panorama