KARACHI (TIP): Violence rocked Pakistan’s biggest city as 13 people were killed in targeted shootings including five suspected Taliban activists, a Shia scholar and two Moroccan students at a religious seminary. Police said the spate […]
BRUSSELS (TIP): Nato’s chief says any Afghan government representative, not only President Hamid Karzai, could sign a security pact with the United States so that thousands of coalition troops could stay in Afghanistan after 2014. […]
MIRANSHAH, PAKISTAN (TIP): The new head of the Pakistani Taliban has returned to the country’s tribal areas, a spokesman for the militants said on December 2, after several years based in Afghanistan. Hardline cleric Maulana […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India called for free and fair elections in Bangladesh, stressing that stability of the neighbouring country had implications for the entire region. “We hope that the forthcoming elections will respond to the […]
VIENNA/MEXICO CITY (TIP): Mexican police have found dangerous radioactive medical material stolen by thieves that the United Nations said could provide an ingredient for a “dirty bomb,” the country’s national nuclear safety commission CNSNS said […]
LONDON (TIP): The UK high court here began a three-day hearing of a compensation claim case by a British man paralysed during the Mumbai terror attacks five years ago.Wheelchair-bound Will Pike is suing the owners […]
LONDON (TIP): The editor of Britain’s Guardian newspaper, Alan Rusbridger, is to appear before lawmakers today to defend his newspaper’s publication of intelligence documents leaked by former US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden. Parliament’s home affairs […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Struggling to put a check on drunken driving, one of the three main reasons of road deaths, the US has fast tracked its plan to introduce an advanced technology in vehicles that […]
BEIJING (TIP): China on December 4 said 55 airlines from 19 countries have accepted its Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the East China Sea. Beijing’s announcement aims to demonstrate the success of its ADIZ […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain has called for stern action against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad for the appalling human rights violations that have been carried out, with his consent. The United Nations for the first time on […]
In their own long-term interest, all political parties must jointly agree to stop sponsoring criminal candidates, says the author. Criminality in politics, or more pointedly, criminals sitting in our Parliament and legislatures, is an issue […]
NEW DELHI (TIP):Speaking on the Textile Conclave 2013, Chairman, AEPC said that India’s garment exports would be touching 60 US $ billion in the next 3 years, with the help of Government support. Dr. Sakthivel […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Apollo Tyres Ltd has said it has closed a deal with Japan’s Sumitomo Rubber Industries to sell its South African business for $60 million. According to a statement issued here, Sumitomo will […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): After contracting for three consecutive months, manufacturing activity saw an eight-month high expansion in November on rising domestic orders, according to the widelytracked HSBC Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI). The HSBC PMI for […]
PUNE (TIP):India is the only country outside of the US to be making the new bike, which is built on the completely new “Street” platform. Also, it will be the first Harley Davidson product to […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Cadbury India on November 27 signed a memorandum of understanding with the Andhra Pradesh Government that will see it set up its largest manufacturing plant in the Asia-Pacific region. The proposed plant, which […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Hero Group on Wednesday announced the launch of BML Munjal University, a fully residential university, spread across 5 lakh sq ft on the Delhi-Jaipur Highway near Manesar. “The university will be […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Adani Ports & SEZ Ltd (APSEZ), India’s largest private port developer, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Belgian Port of Zeebrugge on November 27 to get access to European markets. “The […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM (TIP): Start up in London, develop in India. This is the message from London and Partners, the metropolis’s official promotional organisation, to start-ups based in Kerala.Set up business there and get back home to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India and Belgium have agreed to work on signing an MOU to enhance cooperation in renewable energy. This was discussed at a bilateral meeting between Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Minister for New and […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Ministry of Human Resource Development proposes to provide for 5000 faculty positions in the higher education under the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) during the current Five Year Plan, ending 2017. […]
KABUL/WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States and Afghanistan on November 20 reached a draft agreement on a crucial security pact, a day before thousands of Afghan elders are set to debate whether to allow US troops […]
LONDON (TIP): In a historic first, David Cameron on November 19 became the first British PM to call an Iranian president in more than a decade. Cameron spoke to Hassan Rouhani by telephone on Tuesday […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants a letter written by US President Barack Obama that will acknowledge military mistakes made during 12-year war in his country in return for allowing American counterterrorism raids […]
TOKYO (TIP): The Japanese coast guard and earthquake experts say a volcanic eruption has raised a new island in the seas to the far south of Tokyo. Advisories from the coast guard and the Japan […]
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