NEW DELHI (TIP): The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are set to double their tuition fee from the academic session beginning this summer after HRD Minister Smriti Irani approved an increase of 122 per cent […]
A cricket match The controversy kicked off with the alleged celebration of India’s loss in the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup against West Indies. As it often happens, many Kashmiris celebrated India’s defeat against […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Five companies of central paramilitary forces numbering 600 soldiers guarding about 1,500 students. That’s almost one soldier for every two students. Welcome to Srinagar’s National Institute of Technology (NIT), which has become […]
LONDON (TIP): David Cameron has admitted he did have a profitable stake in his father’s offshore investment fund, but sold it for around £30,000 before he became Prime Minister. The admission comes five days after […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): China has voiced support for India’s decision to file an appeal against a recent WTO ruling which held the government’s power purchase agreements with solar firms as “inconsistent” with international norms. Environment […]
ISTANBUL (TIP): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday warned the European Union that Ankara would not implement a key deal on reducing the flow of migrants if Brussels fails to fulfil its side of […]
AMMAN (JORDAN) (TIP) : Syrian rebel forces on Thursday took over a town near the Turkish border that had been the main stronghold of the jihadist group Islamic State (ISIS) in the northern Aleppo countryside, […]
LONDON (TIP): Scientists have developed a system, inspired by insect eyes, that may allow drones to adjust their speed to their surroundings and fly on their own – without human intervention and control. After studying […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): A series of massive supernova explosions near our solar system showered the Earth with radioactive debris between 3.2 and 1.7 million years ago, a new study has found. Scientists found radioactive iron-60 in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Search giant Google is believed to working on improving voice searches in poor network or connectivity zones in India. According to an Economic Times report , the company’s engineers are busy developing […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Seeking to cash in on the call drop menace, a Pune-based startup claims to have launched a mobile application that will alert caller about possibility of call drop after analysing a host […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Reddit has taken a stand against online harassment with the new block tool. To curb harassment on the “web’s front page”, Reddit’s “block user” option hopes to change Reddit’s reputation as a […]
AGRA (TIP): Rishu Anand is a business consultant working in Delhi and, like many excited over the launch of Gatimaan Express, took the train’s maiden trip to Agra on April 5. A frequent traveller to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The cut in repo rate, measures to enhance liquidity in the banking system and the new methodology to calculate lending rates will give banks a freer hand in transmitting the reduction in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government is considering setting up specified pharmaceutical zones to boost domestic manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), in order to reduce the country’s dependence on China for the raw material that […]
NEW YORK (TIP): US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said Wednesday it was abandoning plans for a $160 billion merger with Allergan, citing new US rules cracking down on tie ups aimed at saving on taxes. The […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Stand up India scheme to enable Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and women entrepreneurs to access loans, setting a target of creating 2.5 lakh such entrepreneurs across […]
Unbelievable. An astonishing end to a remarkable match. A thoroughly entertaining, enthralling competition was given a fitting finale with a display of stupendous strokes from West Indies’ Carlos Brathwaite. All great tournaments should end with a […]
Navaratri (“nava” + “ratri”) literally means “nine nights.” This ritual is observed twice a year, in spring and in autumn. “Vasanta Navaratri” or Spring Navaratri is nine days of fast and worship that Hindus undertake during […]
VATICAN CITY (TIP): : Pope Francis issues one of the most eagerly awaited documents of his pontificate on April 8, a treatise on marriage and the family following two gatherings of Catholic bishops that exposed […]
BEIJING (TIP) : About 10 robots employed as chefs and waiters in restaurants in China have been fired after their owners found them not smart enough. Employing artificial intelligent robots in restaurants has not proved […]
The New York Indian Film Festival was the first festival in the United States devoted to Indian films and has grown to be the largest and most influential, helping to set up several other Indian […]
LUDHIANA (TIP): After Namdhari sect matriarch and the widow of former sect head Satguru Jagjit Singh was gunned down, many followers on blamed a “third party”, which purportedly wants the family running the sect to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Backed by an internal survey that promised positive outcome, poll strategist Prashant Kishor held discussion with the Congress’s first family of Gandhis on the prospects of projecting Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress and AAP on April 7 targeted finance minister Arun Jaitley on the Panama Papers issue, demanding a judicial probe into the allegations about some Indians setting up offshore entities in a […]
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