NEW YORK, NY (TIP): The Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations hosted the traditional Republic Day reception on Thursday, January 23, with President of the General Assembly John Ashe. Permanent Representative Ambassador Asoke […]
MONTREUX (SWITZERLAND) (TIP): Peace talks intended to carve a path out of Syria’s civil war got off to a rocky start on January 23 as a bitter clash over President Bashar Assad’s future threatened to […]
LONDON (TIP): A university in the UK has become the first public varsity in the world to allow students to pay their tuition fees with the digital currency bitcoin. Students at Cumbria University attending two […]
LONDON (TIP): Five terror suspects, including the one who allegedly plotted a Mumbai style attack in London, are set to be freed within days. Restrictions on their movements under the Terrorism Prevention Investigation Measure (T-PIM) […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Ennore Port Limited (EPL), Chennai and Ford India Private Limited have signed an agreement for export of Ford cars though the Ennore port for a period of 10 years. Speaking on the […]
BENGALURU (TIP): After Facebook’s acquisition of Bangalore-based Little Eye Labs earlier this month, it’s Google that has now bought a three-year-old startup that had two Indians — Vish Ramarao and Naveen Jamal — as co-founders […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has instructed advancing the planned commissioning of 100,00 Megawatt (Mw) of solar power generation capacity to 2027, against the originally envisaged target of 2031. The long-term target for […]
B.V. Rao, editor of Governance Now, explains the name and the phenomenon – Time’s Now’s Arnab Goswami – to a childhood friend who lives in Canada. Readers will surely find the piece a refreshing reading. […]
MOSCOW (TIP): US President Barack Obama spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin by telephone on Tuesday, and the leaders discussed an internationally sponsored conference on Syria, the Kremlin said in a statement. The conference […]
The word “prodigy” in the title of this column is used as a notable happening and an act so extraordinary as to inspire wonder. India’s unusual tough response over the arrest of its diplomat Devyani […]
KUWAIT CITY (TIP): UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon warned on January 15 that nearly half of Syria’s population needs urgent humanitarian help, as aid groups urged access for relief delivery to civilians trapped by the […]
NEW YORK (tip): To those who complain that opera is an elitist indulgence served up to snobs in dinner jackets, New York’s latest world premiere may come as something of a shock. Inspired by the […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain’s newspapers were on Wednesday left mystified by their French counterparts’ reluctance to quiz President Francois Hollande over claims of an affair, concluding “they do things differently” across the Channel. Britain’s rowdy media […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain has granted asylum to an atheist from Afghanistan due to fears he would be prosecuted back home, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind, his lawyers said […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese police said eight people have been arrested in connection to an explosion which killed 15 people at a gambling site in Kaili City of southwest China’s Guizhou Province. It has not cited […]
LONDON (TIP): Veteran British presenter Dave Lee Travis sexually assaulted young women while live on television and in his radio studio, prosecutors told his trial on January 14. The 68-year-old former BBC star, one of […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain is recruiting an army of amateur historians to sift through more than 1.5 million pages of diaries written by World War I army officers, published online for the first time 100 years […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the drive to curb corruption in public life will become harsher and “all dirty hands will be caught”. The President called corruption a disease that has to […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): Oxford University has apologized after an administrator accidentally emailed a list of all the poorly performing students’ marks to their peers on Wednesday. The email disclosed the names of students who were awarded […]
BEIJING (TIP): A tortoise beat a rabbit in a skiing competition held for pets and their owners in China, a report said on January 13. Cats and dogs faced off against a menagerie including a […]
CAIRO (TIP): Polls across Egypt closed on Wednesday evening, state media reported, after a second and final day of voting on a draft constitution that could pave the way for a presidential bid by army […]
DHAKA (TIP): Sheikh Hasina was sworn in on Sunday for her second straight term as Bangladesh’s prime minister and third overall, following one of the most violent elections in the country’s history. Hasina took the […]
COLOMBO (TIP): The US on Sunday pressed Sri Lanka to probe alleged rights abuses by its army through independent and credible investigations after a top American diplomat recorded eyewitness accounts of serious “abuses” during the […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A small fire on Wednesday broke out at a military hospital in Rawalpindi, where former Pakistani military ruler General Pervez Musharraf is under treatment. The cause of the blaze, which broke out at […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has said Indian Army chief General Bikram Singh’s statement on ceasefire violations was provocative and regrettable. In a clear warning to Pakistan, General Bikram Singh said on Monday any militant who crosses the […]
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