DOVER (TIP): British holidaymakers spent hours sweating in their cars as 15-hour queues snaked back from the port of Dover on July 23 due to heightened entry checks by French border police. Stationary vehicles tailed […]
BEIRUT (TIP): The Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra Front, announced on July 28 it was breaking ties with the global terror network, in a video showing its leader Abu Mohamad al-Jolani for the first time. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi may “get me killed”, Arvind Kejriwal said on July 27, unleashing one of the most severe attacks on him as the Delhi Chief Minister wondered if the country […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Controversial Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) lawmaker Bhagwant Mann on July 28 (Thursday) questioned the rationale of constituting a Parliamentary committee to probe his act of filming his way into Parliament. Mann appeared […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Former Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker Navjot Singh Sidhu is likely to join the Aam Aadmi Party on August 14 and plunge into the campaign for the Punjab assembly elections from the next […]
LUCKNOW (TIP): A Dalit couple was hacked to death in Uttar Pradesh on July 28 ( Thursday) for not repaying a loan of Rs 15. The incident occurred at Lakhani Mahaitipuri village in Mainpuri district, […]
SRINAGAR (TIP): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on July 28 claimed that the security forces were unaware of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani’s presence at the scene of the July 8 encounter. “How […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Home minister Rajnath Singh will visit Islamabad on August 3 and 4 to attend the meeting of home ministers and interior ministers of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc)?nations. This will […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Ahead of home minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Pakistan for SAARC interior minister and home minister conference, the Border Security Force and Pak Rangers met in Lahore for three days — from […]
BENGALURU (TIP): Normal life was thrown out of gear in several districts across north Karnataka as the ongoing agitation for Mahadayi waters took a violent turn on Thursday. While angry mobs attacked government offices and […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Rajasthan government Thursday offered protection to a key witness in the chinkara poaching case, and decided to appeal against Salman Khan’s acquittal in the Supreme Court, news channel NDTV reported. The […]
The growing clout of Indian-Americans in US politics came to spotlight as three leaders from the community took the center stage at the ongoing Democratic National Convention that anointed Hillary Clinton as party’s presidential nominee Neera […]
Democrats gathered in Philadelphia formally selected Tim Kaine as their US vice-presidential candidate, completing the party’s ticket for the November election. Kaine, a 58-year-old senator from the battleground state of Virginia, was nominated by voice vote […]
Independent former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg told divided Americans it was time to unite behind Hillary Clinton in order to defeat “demagogue” Donald Trump “Trump says he wants to run the nation like he’s […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called upon Niti Aayog to create a 15-year development plan, setting the stage for discontinuing the five-year plan system, a sixdecade old Soviet-era relic. “The time […]
MUMBAI (TIP): At 23% in 2015, India had one of the lowest foreign debt-to-GDP ratios among 83 emerging market (EM) countries, although it had risen from 17% in 2005. Even among the Asian countries covered […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Having failed to get a good valuation in the first attempt to auction the luxury jet of embattled businessman Vijay Mallya last month, the service tax department will re-auction it on August 18, […]
MUMBAI (TIP): RBI has imposed Rs 1 crore penalty on UCO Bank for flouting its instructions relating to opening of current accounts and providing bill discounting facilities to account holders without any borrowing facility with […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The total number of retail investors subscribing to mutual funds in India has reached a six-year high, according to latest data from the industry. This highlights the importance of equities as an investment […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain’s Lloyds Banking Group said it plans to eliminate 3,000 jobs and close 200 branches — the first big cuts announced since Britain voted to leave the European Union. Lloyds is expanding its […]
In 2012, Saina earned India its third medal at the London Olympics by clinching a bronze under fortuitous circumstances, when her opponent and world No 2 Xin Wang conceded the third-place play-off match due to a […]
KINGSTON (TIP): By his own charismatic admission, Usain Bolt is a living legend. But if the Jamaican sprint king pulls off only part of his stated goals in Rio de Janeiro, a whole new vocabulary of […]
PHILADELPHIA (TIP): US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on July 28 the challenges facing Americans demand steady leadership and a collective spirit, contrasting her character with what she described as a dangerous and volatile Donald […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): WikiLeaks released audio recordings on Wednesday, July 27, apparently hacked from the Democratic National Committee’s servers, including a message from an irate Hillary Clinton supporter demanding the party stop “bending over backwards” for […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Efforts to hammer out a consensus on the long pending Goods and Services Tax bill gathered momentum on July 28 for its likely tabling in the Rajya Sabha next week with the government […]
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