STORY: A family of four move into a new bungalow, only to realise that they might have creepy company, the kinds you can’t see, only hear … Bhooottt!!! MOVIE REVIEW: Ready for a night-walk on […]
WASHINGTON: Gen Joseph Dunford, the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps and a combat veteran who led a regiment in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has been nominated by President Barack Obama as his new […]
DHAKA (TIP): Former Bangladeshi army chief Harunur Rashid surrendered before a court on Thursday, days after the cancellation of the bail granted to him and four others in a major money laundering case. Rashid, currently […]
YANGON (MYANMAR) (TIP): Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi declared her willingness on Monday to serve as president, and her party’s intention to amend the constitution to allow her to do so. Suu Kyi […]
KARACHI: A mob led by Islamic clerics ransacked the home of a teenage Christian boy in Pakistan’s Karachi city and set fire to furniture and some other household articles after he was accused of sending […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): After weeks of wrangling, Pakistan Supreme Court on Wednesday approved a third draft of a letter that will ask Swiss authorities to revive graft cases against Asif Ali Zardari, with the government making […]
MALE (TIP): Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed was on Tuesday freed by a court where he appeared after an overnight detention and was given 25 days to answer allegations of abusing power while in office. […]
GENEVA: Nepal should proceed with long-delayed plans to investigate its 10-year civil war ending in 2006 which saw abuses by both sides, UN high commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay said. “Perpetrators of serious violations […]
JOHANNESBURG (TIP): Striking miners killed one man by setting him on fire on Thursday while another was shot and seriously wounded in rekindled labor unrest in South Africa that saw police firing tear gas and […]
LONDON (TIP): Seven Royal Marines from the British Royal Navy (RN) have been arrested on suspicion of murder, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have confirmed. The arrests by the Royal Military Police are apparently […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Russia has said it would deliver the refurbished aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov to India in the fourth quarter of 2013 and attributed the delay to a malfunction in the boiler of the […]
CARACAS (TIP: Incumbent Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won Sunday’s presidential election with 54.42 percent of the vote, while opposition leader Henrique Capriles has accepted defeat and congratulated the socialist president. Speaking to supporters at his […]
KABUL (TIP): UN agencies in Afghanistan on Thursday called for protecting Afghan girls against child marriage, even as the tradition remains rampant in the country. More than 46 percent of Afghan women are married before […]
LONDON (TIP): A Georgian woman who claimed to be 132-years-old – making her the world’s oldest human being ever – has died, The Independent reported. Antisa Khvichava claimed to have been born July 8, 1880, […]
BEIJING (TIP): There is a thriving black market in China — for sperm. With the country’s only 11 sperm banks unable to meet the needs of childless couples, many donors are pitching in with sperm […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Hundreds of Walmart workers rallied across dozen cities in the US, protesting against low wages and alleged unjust labour practices and have threatened to go on a nationwide strike on November 23, the […]
BEIJING (TIP): China will overtake Japan as the world’s second-wealthiest nation after the US in the next five years, says a global report on personal wealth. According to the “Global Wealth Report 2012”, the US […]
DURHAM (TIP): A scientist who has spent his career at Duke University, Robert Lefkowitz, will share the 2012 Nobel Prize for chemistry with a Stanford University researcher he trained in the 1980s. Lefkowitz, 69, and […]
BEIJING (TIP):Writer Mo Yan, whose complex world of fiction often reminds readers of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, pipped bookmaker’s favourite Japanese Haruki Murakami to become the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Iraq, which is set to become one of the major oil producers in the world, could also become India’s strategic energy partner, International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Chief Economist Fatih Birol said. Speaking […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The total approximate earnings of Indian Railways on originating basis during first six months of the financial year 2012- 13 i.e. 1st April to 30th September 2012 were Rs. 58649.83 crore compared […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals on Tuesday launched the authorised generic cevimeline hydrochloride 30 mg capsules in the US market under an agreement with Daiichi Sankyo. Cevimeline hydrochloride is meant for the treatment of symptoms […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the Government plans to offer affordable electricity to all households in the country in the next five years. “More than 1,00,000 villages in the country […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Reserve Bank of India has decided to continue the enhanced all in cost ceiling for external commercial borrowing or ECBs and trade credits. The all-in-cost ceiling includes arranger fee, upfront fee, […]
STAMFORD, CT (TIP): The recently crowned Miss India Connecticut, Ronita Choudhuri, traveled to Guatemala with AmeriCares this week to tour the humanitarian organization’s aid programs. The West Hartford native was one of 75 supporters who […]
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