ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistani officials and former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on October 23 denied a report that they had approved US drone strikes on the country’s soil.Washington Post on october 21 quoted leaked secret […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Violence against a Muslim minority in Myanmar is feeding a wider anti-Muslim feeling that poses a serious threat to the country’s dramatic economic and political reforms as it emerges from half a […]
SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA (TIP): The blond boy was 10 when he put a gun to the head of his sleeping neo-Nazi father and pulled the trigger. It was over in an instant for Jeff Hall, […]
STRASBOURG (France): Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate and long-time political prisoner, has finally collected the European Union’s 1990 Sakharov prize for human rights. In October 21 stirring ceremony, European Parliament President […]
SAVAR, BANGLADESH (TIP): Orphans who lost their parents when a garment factory complex collapsed in Bangladesh vented their grief and anger at leading western retailers on Thursday as the country marks 6 months of the […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): The Nepal Army was deployed in the country on October 20 to ensure that the November 19 polls happen smoothly. According to army spokesman Brigadier General Jagdish Chandra Pokhrel, the army has been […]
DHAKA (TIP): Rejecting Premier Sheikh Hasina’s proposal for an allparty government to oversee Bangladesh’s next general election, opposition leader Khaleda Zia said her BNP party would not participate in the poll process without a nonparty […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghanistan’s intelligence service on October 21 warned candidates in the 2014 presidential election that mobile phones, computers and cameras given to them as gifts could contain hidden bombs. More than 20 candidates have […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Thai doctors say the supreme patriarch, the head of the country’s Buddhist monks, has died. He was 100. Chulalongkorn hospital doctors say Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara died on October 23 from an infection in […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Ending an eight-year-old ban on military supplies, India has handed over some of the equipment, including vehicles and arms, it had pledged to provide to Nepal ahead of crucial polls to be held […]
Is the US president veering toward isolationism? Or will he proudly carry the banner of exceptionalism? The recent Obama-Putin tiff over American exceptionalism reignited an ongoing debate over the Obama Doctrine: Is the president veering […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): 18-year-old Indian-American Emily Shah has won Miss New Jersey USA 2014 title, following in the footsteps of Nina Davuluri, who was crowned Miss America recently. Emily would now compete for the Miss America […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Thanks to the initiative of bipartisan Congressional Caucus on India and Indian- Americans, US lawmakers are set to have their first-ever Diwali reception to celebrate the Indian festival of lights. An invitation to […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Three Indian-Americans have been elected members of the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM), including Subra Suresh, who has become the only current university president to be elected to all three US national academies. […]
KENDRAPARA, ODISHA (TIP): An NRI couple has been arrested in Saudi Arabia on charges of practising black magic, official sources said here on October 22. Seikh Nizam and Noor Jehan, originally from Odisha’s Kendrapara township, […]
LONDON (TIP): A lottery fund in Britain has provided 450,000 pounds to a Sikh organization to fund research into regimental histories of Sikh soldiers in the British Indian Army during World War I. The United […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A former treasurer of a Gujarati community non-profit association in the US has been charged with stealing $85,844 from its bank accounts. Girishcha Patel, 58, a resident of Franklin Township of Somerset […]
BERLIN (TIP): Germany’s foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, has called the US ambassador to a personal meeting to discuss allegations that US secret services bugged Angela Merkel’s mobile phone, reports The Guardian. The decision to call […]
JAMMU (TIP): Pakistani army pounded civilian areas along LoC by violating ceasefire for the ninth time in four days on October 17 resulting in injuries to four people, prompting retaliation from Indian troops. Police said […]
BEIJING (TIP): China’s economic growth rebounded to 7.8 per cent in the latest quarter after a boost in government spending to reverse a sharp downturn. The data reported on Friday should ease pressure on communist […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Drug maker Wockhardt made a precautionary recall of five over-the-counter (OTC) medicines in the UK following the withdrawal of good manufacturing practices (GMP) certificate for its Chikalthana, Aurangabad, unit last week. After this, […]
MUMBAI (TIP): HCL Technologies (HCLT), India’s fourth-largest software services provider, saw its net profit grow 18.7% sequentially to Rs1,416 crore in the July-September quarter, notching up its eighth straight quarter of operating margin expansion. Its […]
MUMBAI (TIP): An early resolution to the US debt ceiling crisis and an end to US government shutdown augurs well for the Indian economy. “The early resolution is positive for Indian exports and there will […]
MALE (TIP)s: The Maldives returns to the polls on October 19 for another attempt to choose a president after judges annulled last month’s election results, deepening concern about political stability in the fledgling democracy. Regional […]
ATTARI (TIP): While candidly admitting that the media was more or less towing the line of security establishments and their policies while reporting contentious issues of Kashmir, Pakistani thinktanks opined that there were more to […]
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