If you are suffering from obesity, reducing the time spent on watching television or playing computer games may be as important as doing exercise to reduce the risk of diabetes and heart diseases, suggests new research. […]
LONDON (TIP): Parts of the UK are expected to be colder than the South Pole this weekend, forecasters say. Warnings of snow and ice have been issued for some areas, with temperatures set to plunge […]
LONDON: Britain is home to some of the world’s iconic museums – the British museum alone attracting nearly seven million people last year. But data released on Thursday has some worrying findings for British museums. […]
JAKARTA (TIP): Indonesians were shaken but refusing to be cowed a day after a deadly attack in a busy district of central Jakarta that has been claimed by the Islamic State group. In a new […]
BAGHDAD (TIP): Saudi Arabia has reopened its embassy in Baghdad, with its ambassador submitting his credentials at the foreign ministry, after a closure that lasted 25 years. The kingdom had closed the embassy in 1990, […]
BEIJING (TIP): Five people were killed and seven injured January 14 in an explosion at a fireworks factory in central China just weeks ahead of the Chinese New Year, authorities said. The Tongxu county government […]
BERLIN (TIP): An irate local politician in Germany’s southern state of Bavaria has dispatched a bus filled with dozens of refugees on a 7-hour journey to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office in Berlin as a protest […]
LONDON (TIP): Alan Rickman once famously said “I am the character you are not supposed to like”. His advice however fell on deaf ears. Rickman should have been alive to see how much he was loved […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia: The secretary general of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has condemned the bombings and gun attacks in Jakarta and expressed “his solidarity with the government and people of Indonesia.” A statement released by […]
BEIJING: Days after China passed a new law that for the first time permits its military to venture overseas on counter-terror operations, its marines began exercises in the western deserts of Xinjiang, more than 2,000 […]
For years, advocates and community based organizations have urged the New York City Department of Education to increase the translation and interpretation services to public school parents and guardians with limited English proficiency. On Monday, I […]
Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon likes to keep her beauty regime to the minimum and just rely on healthy food items and plenty of water. Sarandon said, “I am of the generation that was baking bread and […]
Actress Kate Hudson puts her incredible shape down to an alkaline diet. The 36-year-old actress said she keeps her body in top condition by following an alkaline diet, which focuses on balancing pH levels and acidity, reported […]
STORY: Danish is chasing Wazir, an assassin linked to politician Qureshi who’s threatening elderly chess master Pandit Dhar – in this game of life and death, who’s playing whom as a pawn? REVIEW: So, Wazir […]
In a recent interview, while replying to why she feels celebrities often get misinterpreted for their statements, Kangana Ranaut said that people expect her to be ‘sati-savitri’, but being today’s woman she is a ‘total badass,’ […]
Priyanka Chopra is on top of the world. She recently bagged the ‘Favourite Actress in a New TV Series’ at the People’s Choice Awards for her portrayal of FBI agent Alex Parrish in ABC’s ‘Quantico’, becoming […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Prominent Indian Americans attended the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas – 2016 celebrations hosted by the Embassy of India in Washington, DC, on January 8. The event was well attended with enthusiastic participation by the Indian-American […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a leading US think tank, has announced the launch of its sixth international centre to produce high-quality public policy research about critical national, regional, and global issues. Based […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Donald Trump refused to budge over his call to ban all Muslims from entering the US even as Republican presidential rivals questioned his controversial stance, with Jeb Bush wondering if the frontrunner also […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The dreaded Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack on a Pakistani media house that had injured one person. Unidentified assailants riding a motorbike lobbed a hand grenade on ARY […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan on Wednesday set up a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) comprising security and military officials to probe whether any Pakistani individual or organization was involved in the Pathankot terror attack in India. The […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal’s last monarch Gyanendra Shah has not paid his electricity dues for the last 10 years, the state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority said on Wednesday. Gyanendra, after vacating the Narayan Hiti Royal Palace here […]
TORONTO (TIP): A Canadian who was held by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2010 has been released. Canadian foreign minister Stephane Dion said in a statement on Monday that efforts to secure the release of […]
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s new government on Saturday presented its plan for a new constitution aimed at devolving power and preventing the sort of ethnic tensions that led to a long and bitter civil war that […]
When Republicans gather for their next thought process before the primaries in 2016, one of the main issues all the candidates should be required to address is what each thinks of the controversial statements and arguments […]
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