Chaitra Navaratri (March 31st to April 7th 2014), or the nine (nava-) nights (- ratri) of Durga, are celebrated in the first nine days of the bright half of the month of Chaitra (starting from […]
HOUSTON (TIP): Police in Houston find more than 100 people crammed into a 1,500-square-foot, single-family house while searching for a woman who was reported missing. Most are from Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador Houston […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Federal Reserve is set to trim its bond-buying stimulus for a third time in a row on Wednesday, and will probably rewrite its guidance on when it might eventually raise interest rates. […]
Maha Shivratri, the night of the worship of Lord Shiva, occurs on the 14th night of the new moon during the dark half of the month of Phalguna. It falls on a moonless February night, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US housing starts recorded their biggest drop in almost three years in January as harsh weather disrupted activity, but the third month of declines in permits hinted at some weakness in the housing […]
ABILENE, TX (TIP): Tiffany Klapheke was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday, February 13 for the starvation death of her 22-month-old daughter, who was found dead in her crib inside a squalid home while […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Boosted by a $20-billion foreign fund inflow and strong gains in exporters like software and pharma sectors, which benefited from a weak rupee, the sensex closed nearly 9% up in 2013, ending a […]
DALLAS (TIP): The North Texas economy has grown at “moderately strong pace” this year through October and is outperforming the state, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The Dallas-Fort […]
The Sikh celebration of the return of the sixth Nanak from detention in the Gwalior Fort coincides with Hindu festival of Diwali. This coincidence has resulted in similarity of celebration amongst Sikhs and Hindus. The […]
With simple ideas that do not require big bang reforms, India can weather the storm caused by global and domestic economic factors, believes the author. There are ways of looking at India’s present economic woes […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Obama signed the legislation to reopen the government October 16 night, soon after the House passed the bill earlier adopted by the Senate. An agreement struck by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. […]
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (TIP): US private employers added 176,000 jobs in August and new claims for jobless benefits fell last week, which could bolster expectations the US Federal Reserve will begin winding down a bondbuying stimulus […]
America’s never-ending war on terrorism is almost always depicted in the mainstream media as a military and intelligence agency fight on a global battlefield. But it is also a propaganda war where the public is […]
MOSCOW (TIP): The world’s economic crisis response team will grapple with the prospect of more market volatility as finance ministers and central bankers gather in Moscow to chart a course towards recovery. The Group of […]
Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor, Divya Dutta, Prakash Raj, Pavan Malhotra, Yograj Singh, Rebecca Breeds Direction: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Genre: Biopic Duration: 3 hours 8 minutes STORY: A film inspired by the legendary Indian athlete, […]
AKHUN BABA (TIP): When 16-year-old Tahira was murdered in a horrific acid attack last year, her poverty-stricken parents got no justice. Pakistan officials slammed the door on their faces and the police refused to listen. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): America as a whole has regained all the household wealth it lost to the Great Recession and then some, thanks to higher stock and home prices. The average household still has a long […]
BANGALORE (TIP): In hilarious slip-ups in the Aadhaar card enrolment process, some cards have ended up with pictures of an empty chair, a tree or a dog instead of the actual applicants. Asked about the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Maoists had used 27-30 kg of explosives during the recent attack on the Congress convoy in Chhattisgarh, according to media reports. Reportedly, the initial forensic report revealed that Naxals used commonly found […]
Abstract: A decade after the military intervention that dislodged the Taliban-Al Qaeda combine, peace and stability continues to elude Afghanistan. There is still no consensus in Western capitals on what constitutes the ‘end-state’ in Afghanistan. […]
China’s lust for oil, minerals, rare earths, fish and desire for an alternative northern sea route boils the Arctic Geopolitics! Iceland is a small, sparsely populated island nation with a population of only 320,000 and […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Nearly all of the nation’s largest banks won permission to return cash to shareholders Thursday, March 14 but the Federal Reserve imposed conditions on Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase’s plans to raise […]
BEIJING (TIP): Disgraced former senior Chineseleader Bo Xilai is refusing to cooperate with agovernment investigation into him and has stagedhunger strikes in protest and at one point was treated inhospital, sources with knowledge of the […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Experts are not ruling out the possibility of a military takeover in Pakistan after the country’s top court ordered the arrest of the PM. Antigovernment protesters continue with their sit-in outside parliament. An […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The Sensex rose more than 2 percent to new seven-month highs on Sept 14 after the government announced a hike in diesel prices and after the Federal Reserve announced a new asset purchase […]
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