NEW DELHI (TIP): Seeking to check gold smuggling, the government, on March 6, tightened baggage rules, requiring inbound Indian passengers to provide details such as source of funds for importing the metal as well as […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Indian e-tailer Flipkart has hit the $1 billion in sales– a feat that it has managed to achieve before its own target and in roughly the same time it took online giant […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) on March 6 laid the foundation stone for a bus-making facility at its existing plant in Oragadam, near Chennai. The new facility will become operational in the second […]
NAIROBI (TIP): Kenya’s two biggest telecoms operators, Safaricom and the local unit of Bharti Airtel, have made a joint bid for the smallest operator, Indian group Essar Communications’ Yu, the industry regulator said. The Communications […]
LONDON (TIP): Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is planning to invest 100 million pounds into a new factory in Saudi Arabia to make 100,000 cars a year to meet the booming demand in the […]
London (TIP): The price of gold is the highest it’s been in four months as tensions escalate over Russia sending troops into Ukraine. Traders often consider gold a safer investment in times of political or […]
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SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): A California businessman was convicted on Wednesday of stealing DuPont trade secrets to help a stateowned Chinese company develop a white pigment used in a wide range of products. In a San […]
Yangon (TIP): Myanmar security forces arrested on Thursday one of the main leaders of the campaign against military rule after ramming him with a car as he led a motorbike protest rally, friends and colleagues […]
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VADODARA (TIP): The wife of one of the two Indians who were allegedly confined in a guest house in Iran’s Zanjan city by a private firm has decided to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi and […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): An Indian doctor, convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage patient while working at an Australian hospital, has lost his bid to stay in the country. A federal court judge dismissed Suhail Durani’s plea […]
LONDON (TIP): In a landmark vote, the European parliament has voted in favor of a resolution to criminalize the purchase of sex. On February 26, 343 members of the European Parliament backed a proposal placed […]
BRUSSELS (TIP): Nato has registered a first in its long history, with five women among the defense ministers who turned up on Wednesday to attend a policy—making meeting at the alliance’s headquarters. The latest woman […]
LONDON: A large number of men in Britain are now becoming victims of domestic violence. Each year, at least 1.2 million women become victims of domestic violence. Around 784,000 men have now been found to […]
BEIJING (TIP): A man in a smog- ridden northern city has become the first person in China to sue the government for failing to curb air pollution, a state-run newspaper reported on February 26. China’s […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Thailand’s anticorruption agency is to bring charges of negligence against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday as antigovernment protesters demand her ouster in a violence-pocked standoff that is slipping out of control. Intermittent […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US secretary of state John Kerry on February 26 compared tough new anti—gay laws enacted in Uganda to anti—Semitic legislation in Nazi Germany or apartheid in South Africa. “You could change the focus […]
AMMAN: Jordan warned on Wednesday that it might review a 1994 peace treaty with Israel after Israeli MPs began a debate on allowing Jewish prayers at Jerusalem’s sensitive Al—Aqsa mosque compound. “If Israel wants to […]
LONDON (TIP): Pakistan is all set to beat India in becoming an associate member at Cern ( European Organization for Nuclear Research), the world’s largest particle physics laboratory that recently found the God Particle. A […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The minority Hindu community in Pakistan is struggling to protect its temples and the land around them from the land mafia, a media report said on Wednesday. Most of the Hindu inhabitants migrated […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Eighty skeletal remains have been dug out of a mass grave in a former LTTE stronghold in Sri Lanka, fuelling speculation that the bodies are of Tamil civilians who disappeared during the war […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh protested on Sunday to India about the “distortion” of historical facts regarding the 1971 Liberation War in the new Indian film ” Gunday” and requested authorities to stop its screening. “The government […]
Devyani Khobragade and her pending motion to dismiss charges based upon UN letter How Devyani was arrested and Richard family was evacuated to United States, with prior pending legal proceedings in India affecting them, remain […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Tech Mahindra, on Thursday, said it had signed an agreement BASF to acquire the IT and consultancy services business of the chemical giant in a bid to strengthen its presence in Western […]
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