DHAKA (TIP): A top leader of Bangladesh’sfundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami was on Feb 5 sentencedto life by a special tribunal here for “crime againsthumanity” committed during the 1971 independence waragainst Pakistan, sparking riots that claimed at leastone […]
BOSTON (TIP): A blizzard ofpotentially historic proportionsthreatened to strike the northeastwith a vengeance on Friday, with up to2 feet (0.6 meters) of snow forecastalong the densely populated corridorfrom the New York City area to Bostonand […]
SEOUL (TIP): Kim Jang-soo, the national securityoffice chief for incoming President Park Geun-hye, isexpected to face tough strategic challenges in copingwith North Korea as the belligerent neighbor threatensto stage a nuclear test despite repeated internationalwarnings.Kim, […]
LAHORE (TIP): A sprawling highsecurityprivate residence for PakistaniPresident Asif Ali Zardari, complete withbomb-proof structures and a landing stripfor small jets and helicopters, is nearingcompletion here.The compound in Bahria town, spreadover some 25 acres, is named […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): US coffee chain Starbucks, which opened its seventh store in the country on Wednesday, expects India to be among the top five global markets for the company in the long term. John […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Indian Potash Ltd (IPL) has signed a contract with Belarusian Potash Company (BPC) to import 1 million tonne of muriate of potash (MOP) at $427 a tonne this calendar year. The pricing […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Gross Direct Tax collection during April-January of the current fiscal (F.Y. 2012- 13) was up by 7.02 percent at Rs. 4,55,125 crore as against Rs. 4,25,274 crore in the same period last […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Indian manufacturers and natural resources companies will spend Rs 40,800 crore on IT products and services in 2013, an increase of 9.1% over 2012 revenue of Rs 37,400 crore, according to Gartner, Inc. […]
BENGALURU (TIP): Tata Advanced Materials Ltd (TAML) has signed an MoU with UK-based Strongfield Technologies Ltd, manufacturer and supplier of high-tech components and equipment for defence and space applications. The MoU also facilitates the design, […]
BEIJING (TIP): Stepping up itscrackdown against self-immolation protestsin Tibet, China has detained 70 suspects fora string of suicides in November last year,coinciding with the once-in-a-decadeleadership change in China’s rulingCommunist Party.A total of 70 people have […]
TOKYO (TIP): Japan on Thursdayprotested against what it said was aviolation of its northern airspace bytwo Russian fighter jets engaged inwhat may have been a calculatedrebuke of Japanese territorial claims.The brief incursion, whichprompted Japan to […]
DHAKA (TIP): A top leader of Bangladesh’s fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami was today sentenced to life by a special tribunal here for “crime against humanity” committed during the 1971independence war against Pakistan,sparking riots that claimed at least […]
TOKYO (TIP): Japan’s Meteorological Agency (JMA)said on Wednesday it expects a 20 cm (8 inch) tsunami toreach the country at around 4.30pm (0730 GMT) after a strong earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands earlier in […]
DHAKA (TIP): Scores of people are missing after ferry carrying around 100 passengers sank in a river in Bangladesh on Feb 7, officials said.”So far we have gathered that the ferry was carrying around 100 […]
GONGXIAN, CHINA: Pushingthrough scores of passengers in theaisle of a cramped train at BeijingWest station, Chen Guolan couldbarely contain her excitement atjoining the world’s largest annualhuman migration.”I have been so busy working awayall year, and […]
HONIARA (TIP): Strong aftershocks hampered effortsto reach tsunami-hit villages in the Solomon IslandsFriday, as the death toll after an 8.0-magnitude earthquakerose to nine, with many more reported missing.Officials said damage on Ndende island in the […]
Chinese Spring Festival, also called Lunar New Year,has more than 4,000 years of history. Being one ofthe traditional Chinese festivals, it is the grandestand the most important festival for Chinese people. It isalso the time […]
MILWAUKEE (TIP): AnIndian spiritual guru hasbeen found guilty by a federaljury of selling religiousworker visas to Indians forover USD 30,000 each toenable them to enter the USfraudulently.Sagarsen Haldar (31) alsoknown as Gopal Hari Das,identified himself […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Defining the battlelines for 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the Sangh Parivar has decided that the BJP will focus on development and decisive leader agenda, while the affiliated groups — such as the […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Ten IndianAmerican high school students areamong the 40 finalists in the 2013Intel Science Talent Search.Students will compete March 7-13in Washington, D.C., for $630,000 inawards, with the top winnerreceiving $100,000 from the IntelFoundation.New […]
Senate committees will soon be asked to vote on President Obama’s nominees to head the departments of State and Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency. Many, if not most, of the senators’ questions will be […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): An explosion in amarket in northwestern Pakistan on Friday,February 1, killed at least 21 people andwounded 33 in what the police described as asuicide bombing.The Pakistani Taliban claimedresponsibility for the attack in Hangu, […]
Justice Verma and his two colleagues on the commission set up to examine laws dealing with sexual abuse and terror have served the nation well in making a thorough examination of the subject in its […]
Cast: Nushrat Bharucha, Kartik Tiwari, Sunny Singh Nijjar Direction: Luv Ranjan Genre: Romance Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes STORY: Should you get married to someone you barely know, just to make your parents happy or […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Teachers backed by the breakaway CPNMaoistfaction in Nepal have forcibly shut down a local schoolallegedly for including Indian course syllabus as part of theircurriculum.Some 3,000 students have been left in the lurch after […]
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