NEW DELHI (TIP): India is to promote heritage lighthouses as tourist destinations. Out of fifteen heritage lighthouses having historical importance, in the first phase, Konhoji Angere lighthouse in Maharashtra will be taken up for development. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India’s Minister of Tourism Mr. K Chiranjeevi has sanctioned a special financial package of US$ 16.5 million (Rs. 1000 million) for restoration and reconstruction of the affected Government tourist facilities in Uttarakhand. […]
LONDON (TIP): British aviation investigators identified an emergency beacon made by Honeywell International Inc as a likely source of last week’s blaze on a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner and called for it to be turned […]
BANGALORE (TIP): Bangalore based IT services firm Infosys may have set the tone for the better story for the IT industry, but thes country’s largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have taken the […]
MOSCOW (TIP): The world’s economic crisis response team will grapple with the prospect of more market volatility as finance ministers and central bankers gather in Moscow to chart a course towards recovery. The Group of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): President Pranab Mukherjee promulgated an ordinance allowing the Securities & Exchange Board of India to regulate any scheme involving pooling of funds under an investment contract as soon as the corpus touches […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India’s economy may grow slower than previously expected 6.5 percent for the year to March 2014, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. Manmohan Singh, speaking at an ASSOCHAM event, said his government would […]
Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor, Divya Dutta, Prakash Raj, Pavan Malhotra, Yograj Singh, Rebecca Breeds Direction: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Genre: Biopic Duration: 3 hours 8 minutes STORY: A film inspired by the legendary Indian athlete, […]
KABUL (TIP): Insurgents pulled over a minivan with eight young laborers on their way to work at a US base in eastern Afghanistan on july 18, forced them out and then shot them dead, officials […]
DHAKA (TIP): A special tribunal sentenced a senior leader of an Islamic political party to death on July 17 for his role in the kidnapping and killing of people involving Bangladesh’s independence war against Pakistan […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The already poor religious freedom environment for Christians, Ahmadis and Hindus has continued to deteriorate in Pakistan over the last eighteen months, according to a US body that monitors violations of religious freedom […]
EDISON, NJ (TIP): A fund raiser to rebuild the flood ravaged Uttarakhand where there has been a massive loss of life and property was organized at Akbar restaurant here on July 12. The fundraiser was […]
On Friday, July 12, the United Nations Assembly listened spellbound to 16-year-old Malala, who was shot by the Talibans in Pakistan for attending school. Malala urged the governments to ensure free and compulsory education. Excerpts […]
KIROV, Russia (TIP): A Russian court on Friday released opposition leader Alexei Navalny from custody less than 24 hours after he was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to five years in prison. The release came […]
SYDNEY (TIP): After a 16- year absence from Australia, national carrier Air India will start direct flights between the two countries using its new fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft from August 29. Air India […]
LONDON (TIP): A severe and prolonged heatwave is believed to have killed up to 760 people in England in the past nine days. Temperatures in parts of the country reached as high as 32 degree […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): At least two people were killed and five others injured july 11 when a powerful motorcycle bomb exploded near a mosque in Pakistan’s north-western province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, police said. The bomb was planted […]
KOLKATA (TIP): Japanese automobile manufacturer Isuzu Motors’ local subsidiary Isuzu Motors India entered into an agreement with Hindustan Motors (HM) on Friday for contract manufacturing of Isuzu sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and pickup trucks. According […]
Chennai (TIP): The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and US-based institutional investor Northern Lights Capital Group will together bring in $100 million investment in India’s clean energy sector via Nereus Capital. This is the […]
Hyderabad (TIP): The India-Israel free trade agreement, which is close to being concluded, will have far reaching implications on both the countries going beyond trade volumes, according to Alon Ushpiz, Israeli Ambassador to India. Speaking […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) will now be able to enter Indian markets faster and register themselves more quickly with the regulator accepting the recommendations of the Chandrasekhar committee report. While the time required […]
Cast: Ranveer Singh, Sonakshi Sinha, Barun Chanda, Adil Hussain Direction: Vikramaditya Motwane Genre: Romance Duration: 2 hours 20 minutes STORY: In a village, a young archaeologist falls in love with a landlord’s daughter. Their union […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A report published by the British newspaper Guardian on july 11 claimed that Microsoft not only provided users data to National Security Agency (NSA) in the US but also worked with spies […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The federal government on july 11 reported a rare surplus of $116.5 billion in June, the largest for a single month in five years. The gain kept the U.S. on track for its […]
WASHINGTON (TIP) : China said on July 11 that its Tibetan and Uighur minorities enjoyed happiness and “unprecedented” freedom as it hit back at US criticism by urging Washington to examine its own record. “China […]
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