Britain has decided to revive the bridge of diplomacy with Iran. The foreign secretaries of Britain and Iran have reached a consensus to appoint their respective non-resident charge d’affaires tasked with implementing the building of […]
With the government having lurched into its first shutdown since the 1990s, many commentators are focusing on the potential ill effects that it might have for Republicans. Almost all of these analyses use the shutdowns […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Pakistan has appointed as its ambassador to the United States an envoy who was once expelled from New Delhi for “indulging in activities incompatible with his official status.” Typically, that’s officialese for spying, […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): Two former associates of John C. Liu, the New York City comptroller, managed to avoid lengthy prison sentences on Thursday, October 10, for their roles in attempting to funnel money to […]
Ayon, son of Nilesh and Malini Shah was married to Melissa on October 5. The wedding reception was largely attended. Tom Suozzi, a former County Executive of Nassau County who is contesting election for the […]
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 has been awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”.
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Canadian author Alice Munro. The Prize Committee hailed her as the “master of the contemporary short story.”
The 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded jointly to François Englert of Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium and Peter W. Higgs of University of Edinburgh, UK “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism […]
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 was awarded jointly to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof” for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in […]
Bank of Baroda Chairman and Managing Director, Mr. S.S. Mundra visited New York from September 16th to 18th. It was his first visit to New York after he took over as Chairman and Managing Director […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In an attempt to revive the struggling hydropower sector in the country, state-run NHPC has decided to take over private hydropower projects and is ready to invest equity worth Rs 20,000 crore […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has relaxed norms to raise funds from abroad. All types of companies are now allowed to avail trade credit facility from overseas for import of capital […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Newer technologies such as social media, analytics and cloud computing (SMAC) will help India’s IT-BPO industry cross $225-billion-mark in revenues by 2020, according to a CII report. These technologies have opened new […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): L&T Hyderabad Metro Rail Ltd put on display the first rail coach it received from the Hyundai-Rotem consortium. It announced that the elevated rail system would be fully managed remotely. These trains will […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): The UK Government has agreed to collaborate with Andhra Pradesh in sharing latest technologies and best practices in energy conservation and efficiency, according to a statement from the State Energy Conservation Cell. The […]
PARACHINAR (TIP): A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into the compound of a rival militant commander in northwest Pakistan on October 3, killing 15 people, a government official said. The commander, Nabi […]
KABUL (TIP): A former Islamist warlord who is said to be responsible for bringing al-Qaida to Afghanistan and who trained the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, announced he was running for president on October 3, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): It’s been a year since YouTube was banned in Pakistan last September. But that’s not a stray case of online censorship in the strife-torn country. Activists say that several other websites such […]
KATHMANDU: Two people, including a Chinese tourist, were killed on Thursday when an ultra-light aircraft crashed in bad weather in Nepal’s resort town of Pokhara. Pilot Stephen Shrestha and a Chinese national died when the […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A Pakistani passport is among the worst to travel on as the country’s citizens can only enter 32 countries without a visa, according to a survey. Pakistan shared its ranking with Somalia in […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Russia on October 3 evacuated all of its diplomats and their families from Libya, the day after a mob attack on the Russian embassy, and issued a warning to its citizens against visiting […]
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