TORONTO (TIP): A Hindu temple in Canada has been vandalized by two men armed with baseball bats, outraging the country’s minority community which termed it as a “hate crime”. Video recordings show the men smashed […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden might voluntarily return to the United States if given assurances of his constitutional rights, his father said in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder. Lonnie […]
CAIRO (TIP): Two offices of the Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of President Mohamed Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood, were torched today as rival rallies were held across Egypt. FJP offices were set alight in […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Eight soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in the restive Thai south early on June 29 morning, an army spokesman said. Another four people — two soldiers and two civilians — were […]
KABUL (TIP): An early morning insurgent attack on Afghanistan’s presidential palace on June 25 has been put down with all the assailants killed, Kabul’s police chief said. General Ayoub Salangi told Reuters the gunfight ended […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): There’s a new anxiety in the top echelons of New Delhi about what’s arguably India’s only friendly neighbour, Bhutan. As the hill kingdom takes another baby step in its transition from monarchy […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama announced on June 27 the suspension of US trade privileges for Bangladesh because of concerns over labor rights and worker safety that intensified after hundreds died there in the global […]
DAKAR (TIP): US President Barack Obama heads to South Africa on June 28 hoping to see ailing icon Nelson Mandela, after wrapping up a visit to Senegal that focused on improving food security and promoting […]
YANGON (TIP): The Buddhist extremist movement in Myanmar, known as 969, portrays itself as a grassroots creed. Its chief proponent, a monk named Wirathu, was once jailed by the former military junta for anti-Muslim violence […]
ORLANDO (TIP: South Africa’s ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela is showing “great improvement”, his former wife said on June 28 as his countrymen continued to pray for the speedy recovery of the 94-year-old former president. […]
TOKYO (TIP): Japan is expected to pull missile units deployed around its capital off of alert status because it believes the threat of a launch from North Korea has subsided. Media reports said the units […]
BEIJING (TIP): An attractive Chinese female student’s graduation pictures have proved so popular that they caused her university website to crash after being uploaded onto the homepage. The website of one of China’s top universities […]
An insightful note on the potential adverse effects of current policies on gold trade in India. India is one of the largest buyers of gold in the world. More than 90 per cent of this […]
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman makes the case for shining a light on the “dark money” in state politics, proposing new regulations for nonprofits to disclose their political spending The scandal embroiling the Internal Revenue Service […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved unrestricted sales of the Plan B One-Step morning-after pill, lifting all age limits on the emergency contraceptive. The move came a week after the […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Ruias-ownedEssar Steel on Thursday raised $1 billion or Rs 5,970 crore through external commercial borrowings (ECBs) to repay a part of its rupee-denominated debt, to guard itself from exchangerate volatility and save interest […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Despite weak demand in the industry, Sony India has managed to break into the top five markets in the Japanese giant’s global operations, riding on healthy sales of televisions. The upsurge — […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Software industry body Nasscom expects the country’s information technology (IT) services sector to grow 13-14 per cent in the current financial year and to touch $225 billion (Rs 13.22 lakh crore) by 2020. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India and China are looking to strengthen co-operation in the area of films and broadcasting, and are also exploring the potential of co-production of films. Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari led […]
Cast: Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Neha Sharma, Kristina Akheeva, Annu Kapoor, Johnny Lever, Anupam Kher Direction: Sangeeth Sivan Genre: Comedy Duration: 2 hours 35 minutes STORY: Pious Paramvir’s crooked father and brother, Dharam and […]
LONDON (TIP): In the biggest ever penalty on an individual trader, the UK financial sector regulator FCA today imposed a fine of nearly one million pounds on an Indian-origin realty broker for fraudulent sale and […]
DUBAI (TIP): A 24-year-old Indian man has been arrested here after he surrendered to the police in connection with the murder of his wife. The man murdered his wife in March with the help of […]
DUBAI: A Dubai-based NRI doctor who is also an entrepreneur has initiated a campaign in his native state to promote preservation of water using a cheap rain harvesting device made by a local Keralite, amid […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Afghanistan and Pakistan traded accusations in the UN Security Council on June 20 over the whereabouts of Islamist extremists on their porous border as the United Nations described increased tensions between the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Economic issues like intellectual property protection, local content restrictions and a continued cap on FDI are likely to be on top of his agenda when US Secretary of State John Kerry travels to […]
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