LONDON (TIP): Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, the first turban-wearing Sikh elected Member of Parliament in Britain, had a productive meeting in the UK Parliament with Caroline Rowett, the British Deputy High Commissioner to India. Expressing his […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka is not in the position to hold a snap presidential election this year because of the ongoing economic crisis and the government’s focus is on debt restructuring, Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawardena […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Recent fierce fighting between Myanmar’s army and local militant groups has killed at least 26 civilians, including six children, in area east of the capital, according to reports on June 15 by a […]
COLOMBO (TIP): A group of Sri Lankan Army doctors have set a Guinness World Record by removing the world’s largest kidney stone, surpassing the previous record registered by Indian doctors in 2004. The stone, removed […]
KARACHI (TIP): The coastal regions of Pakistan were on high alert on June 15 with over 82,000 people being evacuated to safer places in the southern Sindh province as Cyclone Biparjoy, currently classified as a […]
BRUSSELS (TIP): International donors said June 15 they would commit $10.3 billion in aid for millions of Syrians battered by war, poverty, and hunger, both at home and as refugees abroad. The pledges by 57 […]
MONTREAL (TIP): A semi-trailer truck and a bus carrying seniors collided in central Canada’s Manitoba province on June 15, killing at least 15 people and injuring 10 more, authorities said. Canadian police said on Twitter […]
TOKYO (TIP): Japan’s age of consent was raised from 13, among the world’s lowest, to 16 years old on June 16 as lawmakers passed key reforms to sex crime legislation. The reforms, which also clarify […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (TIP): Most of the 108 people who drowned after a boat broke apart in north-central Nigeria were women and their children, survivors and local authorities told The Associated Press on Thursday as search […]
SEOUL (TIP): North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles, South Korea’s military said June 15, shortly after Pyongyang warned of an “inevitable” response to ongoing US-South Korea joint military drills. South Korea and the United […]
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damages. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said there was no tsunami threat, based on available information WELLINGTON (TIP): A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific island […]
LONDON (TIP): British Indians Priti Patel and Kulveer Singh Ranger have been rewarded in former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s honors list, which came hours before he stepped down as an MP. The honors list, […]
Annecy, France (TIP) : A Syrian national wounded four young children and an adult in a knife attack in a park in the southeastern French town of Annecy on June 8, police said, and some […]
HALZOUN (TIP): Huddled inside a tent in rebel-held northwestern Syria, Umm Khaled says she fears her baby will die unless she gets specialist treatment in neighbouring Turkey for a congenital heart defect. Seriously ill Syrians […]
TORONTO (TIP): A Canadian parliamentary committee has voted unanimously to urge the border services agency to stop the deportation of nearly 700 Indian students who were duped by unscrupulous education consultants in India to enter […]
KARACHI (TIP): Pakistan’s cash-strapped government unveiled a 14.5 trillion rupee (around $50.5 billion) budget on June 9, with over half set aside to service 7.3 trillion rupees of debt. Pakistan’s economy has been stricken by […]
Badakhshan (TIP): A bomb exploded on June 8 in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province killing a former Taliban police official. The official identified as Safiullah Samim, was killed during a memorial ceremony for a deputy governor […]
KFARCHOUBA (LEBANON) (TIP): Israeli soldiers fired tear gas to disperse scores of protesters who pelted the troops with stones along the border with Lebanon on June 9, leaving some Lebanese demonstrators and troops suffering breathing […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh has shut thousands of schools as it struggles through its lengthiest heatwave in half a century, with widespread power cuts only compounding locals’ misery. Temperatures in the South Asian nation’s capital of […]
Kherson (TIP) : Russian forces on June 8 shelled a southern Ukrainian city, Kherson, that was inundated in a catastrophic dam collapse, Ukrainian officials said, forcing a suspension of some rescue work hours after President […]
MADRID (TIP): The bodies of two migrants were found on a beach in southeastern Spain after 132 other people arrived in two boats on June 9, a government official said. José María Martín, a central […]
RENK (SOUTH SUDAN) (TIP): When fighting erupted in Sudan, Rosa Yusif Elias escaped on foot with her seven children over the border to her homeland, South Sudan, where she thought they would be safe. Instead, […]
LONDON (TIP): An Indian-origin woman has been banned from teaching by the UK’s Department of Education for a minimum of two years for concealing charges of fraud against her from a school where she joined […]
SINGAPORE (TIP): An Indian-origin has won SGD18,888 in cash at the company’s dinner-and-dance event in the hit South Korean survival drama Squid Game, where players compete to win life-altering rewards, but minus the deadly stakes. […]
LONDON (TIP): Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, the daughter of Maharaja Duleep Singh – the last ruler of the Sikh empire – and the goddaughter of Queen Victoria, was honored with a commemorative Blue Plaque in […]
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