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Give up Beef and save the Planet
There is a big debate about global warming and carbon foot prints in the Group of Twenty (also known as the G-20 or G20) and other forums and India listens to western lectures on dangers of […]
Asia
Will Pakistan be able to counter expanding extremism?
Pakistan continues to be a major target of terrorism, most recently demonstrated by the attack on Bacha Khan University, which killed 20 people. Only a week before, three attacks in close succession at a UN-backed […]
Europe
Russian forces ‘could take eastern European capitals in three days’
RIGA (TIP): Russian forces could reach the outskirts of the Baltic capitals in less than 60 hours because Nato lacks the forces to defend its eastern-most members, new analysis has shown. According to several war […]
Europe
Man dies in house fire after leaving his iPhone charging overnight
LONDON (TIP): A man died in a house fire caused by the overheating of an iPhone 5 battery which was plugged in to charge overnight, an inquest heard. Marek Kruger, 53, who was bedbound due […]
Asia
Australian churches to offer refuge to asylum seekers
SYDNEY (TIP): Australian church leaders on february 4 said they would offer sanctuary to asylum seekers facing removal to a remote Pacific detention camp, vowing to defy the government’s harsh immigration rules. The asylum seekers, […]
Americas
Racist slur hits Canada’s Sikh mantri in House
TORONTO (TIP): Canada’s first Sikh defence minister Harjit Sajjan has been heckled in Parliament with an opposition member shouting that MPs needed an “English-to-English” translation as he spoke, an act dubbed as “racist”. Veteran Conservative […]
Europe
British Parliament is Sovereign over European Union Laws: David Cameron
LONDON (TIP): Prime Minister David Cameron said on February 4 he would seek to assert the sovereignty of the British parliament over European Union laws as he concludes his renegotiation of ties with the bloc. […]
Asia
Unpaid and angry, some Chinese workers ditch holidays to protest
QIAN’AN/DONGGUAN (TIP): This year, laborer Fan Fu and 20 or so colleagues working on the Zixia Garden apartment complex in Hebei province have not joined China’s legion of migrant workers returning home to celebrate new […]
Middle East
Tens of thousands flee as Syria regime advances near Aleppo
DAMASCUS (TIP): Tens of thousands of Syrians were reported to have fled their homes on February 4 as regime troops pressed a major Russian-backed offensive around second city Aleppo. Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, speaking […]
Entertainment
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY IN TALKS FOR CAROL PRODUCERS’ COLETTE
Actress Keira Knightley is in negotiations to star in biopic ‘Colette,’ to be produced by behind Number 9 Films and Killer Films. ‘Still Alice’ director Wash Westmoreland is helming the project, reported Deadline. Bold Films will also […]
Entertainment
KIM BASINGER TO STAR IN ‘FIFTY SHADES’ SEQUEL
The ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ franchise found its first new cast member for the sequel, ‘Fifty Shades Darker’. Kim Basinger will play the key role of Elena Lincoln, Christian Grey’s business partner and former lover. It […]
Entertainment
Ranbir, Katrina avoid meeting each other at a Delhi event
Former flames Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif are slowly mastering the art of avoiding each other in public. Once Bollywood’s most talked about couples, the duo calling time on their relationship at the beginning of the new […]
Entertainment
MASTIZAADE | MOVIE REVIEW
STORY: Sex addicts, Sunny Kele (Tusshar) and Aditya Chotia (Vir Das) cannot get ‘enough of it’. When the two of them fall for identical twins, Lily and Laila Lele, their lives become an adventure. REVIEW: […]
Entertainment
SAINA WANTS DEEPIKA FOR HER BIOPIC
Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal wants actress Deepika Padukone to portray her in the upcoming biopic on herself. Calling her a “good” badminton player, Saina said Deepika is apt and can do full justice to the […]
India
BJP member among accused in mob attack on Tanzanian woman
BENGALURU (TIP): A member of the BJP is one of the accused in the mob attack on a young Tanzanian woman, who was allegedly stripped, assaulted and paraded naked last week, an HT report said. […]
India
CBI CAN NOW PROSECUTE CHAVAN IN ADARSH CASE
MUMBAI (TIP): The ghost of the 2010 Adarsh Housing Society scam on February 4 came back to haunt former CM Ashok Chavan as Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao granted sanction to the CBI to prosecute […]
India
PM CONFIRMS SIACHEN DEATHS, SALUTES SOLDIERS
SICHEN (TIP): The Army has now given up hope of rescuing alive any of the 10 soldiers whose post in the Northern Siachen Glacier got buried under “a massive ice-wall avalanche” on Wednesday, even as Pakistan […]
India
SUPREME COURT TO BCCI: CARRY OUT ALL LODHA COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court of India on Feb. 4 suggested to the Board of Control for Cricket in India that it accept all the recommendations of the Justice Lodha Committee relating to structural […]
India
Maneka Gandhi calls for mandatory fetal gender tests
NEW DELHI (TIP): Maneka Gandhi, the Women and Child Development minister of India said in a speech on Monday, Feb 1, that recording the sex of a fetus from the start of pregnancy and then […]
India
COURT DISMISSES PETITION AGAINST LORD RAMA, LAXMANA
SITAMARHI (TIP): A district court here has dismissed a petition seeking registration of case against Lord Rama and his brother Laxmana over banishing goddess Sita to exile in a forest, saying the issue is “beyond […]
Asia
HAFIZ SAEED CALLS FOR MORE ATTACKS ON INDIA
MUZAFFARABAD (TIP): Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, on Wednesday praised last month’s terror attack at Indian Air Force’s base in Pathankot and encouraged similar attacks against India. Addressing […]
Asia
JeM Chief dares India: says ‘have prepared an army’
LAHORE (TIP): Even as Pakistan has reportedly asked for more evidence from India in the Pathankot airbase terror attack, terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) has openly dared India once again. According to an article reportedly published […]
Asia
Afghanistan seems to have dropped old ‘red lines’ before talks with Taliban
KABUL (TIP): As the Afghan government goes into a new spell of talks with the Taliban on Saturday, Kabul appears to have “dropped” the “red lines” that had earlier defined the Kabul-Taliban negoitiatons. Violence by […]
Asia
On Independence Day, Lanka lifts unofficial ban on Tamil national anthem
COLOMBO (TIP): Lifting an unofficial ban, Sri Lanka’s national anthem was on Thursday sung in Tamil at a ceremony here to mark the the country’s independence day, in an effort to achieve reconciliation with the […]
Asia
Isolated Nepal PM could be toppled by constitution crisis
KATHMANDU (TIP): An unwieldy coalition of lawmakers trying to implement Nepal’s first democratic constitution is finding common cause with protesting minority groups, isolating Prime Minister KP Oli and increasing the risk his government could fall […]