PESHAWAR (TIP): The sex scandal that has brought down CIA chief David Petraeus may be causing heartache in the Washington security establishment but the affair has prompted laughter among the Taliban. Petraeus resigned last week […]
KARACHI (TIP): The case pertaining to Sindh High Court’s (SHC) suo moto action against interior ministry’s notification against the day-long ban on use of motorcycles in Karachi was being heard in the SHC on Friday, […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Defense secretary Leon Panetta has ordered the US military’s top brass to look for any gaps in ethics training as he lamented lapses in judgment by officers that could “erode public confidence in […]
BUENOS AIRES (TIP): Argentina has passed a bill to increase the prison time for femicide to life sentence, media reports said on November 15. During the voting session late Wednesday, all the 222 lawmakers that […]
YANGON (TIP): Myanmar ordered 452 prisoners to be freed on Thursday in an apparent goodwill gesture ahead of a historic visit by US President Barack Obama, but activists criticized the move for failing to focus […]
In November 2010, President Obama visited India for three days. In addition to meeting with top Indian business leaders and announcing deals between the two countries worth more than $10 billion, the president declared on […]
NEW DELHI: Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday described violence in west Myanmar between Buddhists and Muslims as a “huge international tragedy” and said illegal migration from Bangladesh had to be stopped. Suu Kyi, on […]
NEW ORLEANS/WASHINGTON (TIP): BP Plc will pay $4.5 billion in penalties and plead guilty to felony misconduct in the Deepwater Horizon disaster,which caused the worst U.S. offshore oil spill ever. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder […]
BEIJING (TIP): Long-anointed successor Xi Jinping assumes the leadership of China at a time when the ruling Communist Party is confronting slower economic growth, a public clamor to end corruption and demands for change that […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India will take up with Ireland the issue of death of an Indian woman dentist there after doctors allegedly refused to terminate her 17-week-long pregnancy on the ground that it was a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP on November 14 asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the government to spell out why the alleged land scam involving Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra was not being […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Katherine Boo won the National Book Award for nonfiction on November 15 for her first book, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity,” which […]
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Sonakshi Sinha, Sanjay Dutt, Juhi Chawla Direction: Ashwni Dhir Genre: Comedy Duration: 2 hours 20 minutes STORY: A strapping sardaar travels home (Punjab) from UK, to claim ancestral property; only to be […]
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan,Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma Direction: Yash Chopra Genre: Romance Duration: 3 hours STORY: Through a personal diary account a carefree media professional discovers that a Indian Army man who fascinates her has […]
COIMBATORE (TIP): As part of its efforts to reach out to clients in the US, IT solutions company MindTree Ltd opened a delivery centre in Gainesville, Florida. It is the first delivery centre outside India […]
KOLKATA (TIP): In a bid to expand its global footprint, Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) has become the first institute in India to tie up with CEMS, an international alliance of management institutes across 28 […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister of Belarus Mikhail Myasnikovich has invited Indian industry to invest in his country. Addressing a joint business meeting here on Wednesday, the visiting dignitary said there were several sectors, including […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Stanford Graduate School of Business is looking to kindle the innovative mindset of students by launching new courses for entrepreneurs across the world, with support from Silicon Valley experts. The institute will soon […]
Cast: Kunal Kapoor, Huma Qureshi, Rajesh Sharma, Vinod Nagpal, Dolly Ahluwalia Direction: Sameer Sharma Genre: Comedy Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes STORY: On-the-run from the London mafia, Omi returns to his ancestral village – a […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): House Speaker John Boehner and other Republicans in Congress said Thursday, November 8 that they want to consider broad changes to immigration laws next year, after an election in which Hispanic voters turned […]
The pre-election polls suggested that the 2012 US Presidential Election is a cliff hanger, too close to call. In fact, on percentages it was so, but a look at the final electoral college votes tally […]
ISLAMABAD (tip): Authorities have agreed to allowmobile phone services between Pakistan and India though certain issues remain to be settled, a Pakistani parliamentary panel has been informed by officials. The standing committee on commerce of […]
On November 5, 2008, Barack Obama, an African-American, made history when he was elected the 44th president of the United States. The world’s oldest democracy had finally broken the race ceiling and a ‘man of […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): Two mobile jammers have been installed on Golden Temple’s first floor to curb cell phone usage in the sanctum sanctorum of the shrine. SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar told TOI on Friday that […]
New Delhi (TIP): State-owned explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will sell 26 per cent stake in its KG Basin exploration block, KG-DWN-2004/6, to Japanese oil and gas explorer Inpex Corporation, a company statement […]
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