WASHINGTON (TIP): The widely-expected promotion of Indian American judge Sri Srinivasan to the US supreme court has been complicated by the politics of the day. The Obama administration is proposing another judge for the job […]
STORY: A married and elderly couple – Kate Mercer (Rampling) and Geoff Mercer (Courtenay) – live a comfortably retired life in the British countryside. They are also still very much in love with each other. One […]
NEW YORK (TIP): New York on March 3 opens the most expensive train station in the world, on the site of the World Trade Center destroyed 14 years ago in the 9/11 attacks. Twelve years […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Thank you, Tihar. You took in an “anti-national” and sent out a national treasure. Kanhaiya Kumar on March 3 night exploded on the collective consciousness of India, sending an electrifying spark down the […]
JAMMU (TIP): After two-month suspense, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti has said that she is not ‘stubborn’ and hinted that the party would be going ahead with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to form […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In the wake of death of four Indian women in strife-torn Yemen’s Aden city, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on March 4 appealed to all Indians living in “danger zones” to return home.”I […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The US health regulator has refused entry of 11,664 Indian products, including drugs, into the American market between January 2011 and February 2016, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. “According to refusal report […]
WASHINGTON DC (TIP): Indian American Rep. Ami Bera, D-Sacramento received endorsements from the California Democratic Party Feb. 27, during the state convention. Bera won his endorsement, gaining nearly 90 percent of the vote. Fifty people […]
LAHORE (TIP): A Pakistani man was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday for allegedly posting religiously offensive material on his Facebook page, lawyers in the case said. Rizwan Haider, 25, was convicted in […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): In an effort to address Nepal’s post-earthquake housing crisis, a new initiative is underway to harness the Himalayan country’s abundant bamboo resource to rebuild its devastated communities and promote sustainable livelihoods. On April […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan’s finance minister on March 3 said that his country will never roll back its nuclear programme despite financial hardship and threat of mounting external debt. Ishaq Dar was briefing the Senate, the […]
JALALABAD (TIP): At least 10 people were killed and over 40 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a market in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Kunar today, officials said. “A suicide bomber riding […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Finance minister Arun Jaitley unveiled what appeared to be a pro-poor budget on February 29, announcing higher spending in the rural economy to fire demand. But the minister also promised to pursue […]
Rs 1,000 crore allocated for new EPF (Employees’ Provident Fund) scheme Rs 38,500 cr allocated for MNREGA in 2016-17, the highest ever if entire amount is spent Rs 2.87 lakh crore will be given as grants-in-aid […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Finance minister Arun Jaitley’s budget speech focused on the social sector more than before, but it failed to reflect amply in fund allocation to key ministries such as education, health, poverty alleviation […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced a host of changes in the tax structure in the Budget for 2016- 17 that made cars, cigarettes and air travel expensive, while footwear, solar lamps and […]
“This Budget is pro-village, pro-poor, pro-farmer. The main focus is to bringing about qualitative change in the country. There will be a big change in the lives of common people. Several steps have been taken […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Farmers can continue to get cheap farm loans with finance minister Arun Jaitley raising the target for loan disbursal to them to Rs 9 lakh crore. Special focus has been given to […]
MEXICO CITY (TIP): There is no way Mexico would fund Donald Trump’s “terrible” plan to build a wall along its border with the United States if the Republican front-runner wins the US presidential election, the […]
MISSOURI (TIP): A man is suing a hotel for handing him the wrong keys to his room in a mix-up that saw him climb into bed with a nine-year-old girl -and eventually lose his highly […]
NEW DELH: India is all set to issue multi- city, multiple-entry business visa to businessmen of SAARC nations including Pakistan, beginning April 1, 2016. The business visa, to be called ‘India Business Card’ is expected […]
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): US Army General John W “Mick” Nicholson has taken command of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, inheriting America’s longest war and a vicious insurgency.
OSLO (TIP): For most people, becoming a billionaire is a dream that will never come to fruition before they die. That knowledge makes Alexandra Andresen’s entry onto the Forbes billionaires list all the more hard […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US military is “very close” to developing laser weapons for use on the battlefield, an army official has revealed. Speaking at a House of Representatives committee, military technology secretary Mary J Miller […]
Resident Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan has warned in several recent interviews that unless peace talks with Pakistan and the Taliban produce results in the next few months, his country may not survive 2016. Afghanistan is barely standing, […]
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