BEIJING (TIP): Nearly 100 million Chinese tourists visited foreign countries last year, and they are likely to extend their lead as the world’s biggest-spending travellers, state media reported on Thursday. A total of 97 million […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (TIP): North Korea on January 9 dismissed a South Korean proposal to resume reunions of families separated by war, but used an unusually mild tone that indicated it still wants better ties […]
● It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times! ● Gold is the only metal that doesn’t rust, even if […]
India and China inked the crucial Border Defence Cooperation Agreement in October to ease the strained relationship between the two countries. The agreement is the outcome of a series of talks following diplomatic tensions arising […]
There was an unusual spike in ceasefire violations and infiltration attempts across the border this year. With some describing it as the worst bout of fighting between the two sides in the last 10 years, […]
HANGU, PAKISTAN (TIP) : A 14- year-old boy is being hailed as a hero in Pakistan for tackling a suicide bomber — dying at the main gate of his school and saving schoolmates gathered for […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Pakistan government on Friday offered to bring former military ruler Pervez Musharraf’s ailing mother from Dubai in a special aircraft as a humanitarian gesture so that the two could be reunited. The […]
KABUL: A Taliban suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed vehicle next to a Nato military convoy in Kabul on Friday, officials said, though no details about casualties were immediately available. The attack occurred on a main […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is among the few parliamentarians who are billionaires, revealed statements of assets and liabilities of lawmakers for the year 2012-13 issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh security forces on Wednesday laid a siege around the residence of opposition BNP chief Khaleda Zia, ahead of a massive anti-government rally planned in the capital demanding postponement of the January 5 […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal’s Maoists have agreed to join the country’s constituent assembly, ending a weeks-long impasse after they initially rejected the result of last month’s elections, a senior party leader said on December 22. “We […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Meera, a brilliant Pakistani film actress associated with Bollywood for sometimes now, was on short visit in New York in connection with a charitable hospital that she is setting up in Pakistan. […]
MUMBAI (TIP) : The turf war between Big Pharma and generic companies, which was largely restricted to exorbitantly priced drugs for cancer and HIV. is now spilling over to chronic and lifestyle problems. In yet […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Despite global economic slowdown , India’s exports to the US and Europe have grown in the first seven months of the current fiscal year, government data showed Wednesday. “In the first seven […]
NEW DELHI: RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has taken a bold gamble betting on a possible softening of food inflation to help him avert a rate hike for now and support slowing growth. Fresh arrival of […]
MUMBAI (TIP): To offer a hedging option to investors who are getting a negative real rate of return due to high inflation, RBI governor Raghuram Rajan said the apex bank will launch the consumer price […]
The martyrdom of the four sons of Guru Gobind Singh, the founder of Sikh religion is one of the most tragic and yet most glorious part of the proud community’s history.The Sikhs have a long […]
” The visa fraud allegedly committed by Devyani Khobragade was in fact committed by Sangeeta Richard as she misrepresented her terms of employment to the US Embassy during her interview with the Consular officer to […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): A Sikh leader and six of his accomplices were on Thursday found guilty by a New Zealand court of forging election documents in a bid to win a local body poll in 2010. […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami party has called for a nationwide dawn-to-dusk general strike on Sunday in protest of the execution of its leader Abdul Quader Mollah. The announcement to observe the general strike, a day […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Thousands of cable television operators across Pakistan are continuing to show Bollywood films and Indian TV content despite the Lahore high court ban. The operators are citing their high popularity and demand in […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): The main lawyer for a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden fled Pakistan on december 11 after receiving death threats from militants, his colleagues said. The lawyer […]
SANAA, YEMEN (TIP): Missiles fired by a US drone slammed into a convoy of vehicles travelling to a wedding party in central Yemen on December 12, killing at least 13 people, Yemeni security officials said. […]
RAHAT, ISRAEL (TIP): Israel on December 12 suspended a contentious bill aimed at resettling nomadic Bedouin Arabs into government-recognized villages after a series of objections rendered the plan politically untenable. The man behind the ambitious […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Pakistan Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday and handed over an invitation from Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to visit Pakistan. Shahbaz Sharif, the younger brother […]
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