BERLIN (TIP): Volkswagen says it will take less than an hour to bring 1.6 and 2.0 liter turbodiesel engines in Europe into line with emissions rules. The German automaker has pledged to fix 11 million […]
BENGALURU (TIP): In a major boost to the Indian SMEs that are a part of the Amazon Global Selling programme, 1,00,000 goods from India have been shipped to the US in preparation of the forthcoming […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain announced a fresh round of deep cuts to public spending Wednesday, but dropped a plan to reduce welfare payments for the poorest and spared the police from savings after the Paris attacks. […]
BENGALURU (TIP): Tata Motors showcased four new construction and mining commercial vehicles, from its Construck range at construction equipment exhibition EXCON 2015. The new vehicles showcased are the Tata Prima 3138.K 32 CuM Coal Tipper, […]
GENEVA (TIP): Scientists in Switzerland have developed a 20 carat gold nugget that is thousand times lighter than conventional forms of the precious metal and can float on milk foam. Researchers led by Raffaele Mezzenga, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): NASA has successfully installed the first of 18 flight mirrors onto the James Webb Space Telescope, beginning a critical piece of the observatory’s construction to replace the Hubble Space Telescope in 2018. At NASA’s […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Mars’ largest moon, Phobos, is slowly falling towards the planet and is likely to be shredded into pieces that will be strewn about the red planet in a ring like those encircling Saturn […]
LONDON (TIP): In a first, doctors have used Google Glass to successfully restore the blood flow of a chronically blocked right coronary artery in a 49year-old patient. Virtual reality (VR) has potential to revolutionise some […]
PARIS (TIP): The ringleader behind the November 13 attacks in Paris had plans to strike Jewish targets and to disrupt schools and the transport system in France, according to sources close to the investigation. Abdelhamid […]
BEJING (TIP): The killings of Chinese citizens by Islamic militants in Syria and Mali place President Xi Jinping in a quandary: How can Beijing respond effectively without betraying its strict stance against intervention? The dilemma […]
KIEV (TIP): Russia has begun to restrict coal supplies to Ukraine, energy minister Volody myr Demchyshyn told Ukrai ne’s parliament on Friday days after the Kremlin threa tened to punish Kiev for a po wer […]
LONDON (TIP): ISIS is almost universally detested across the Middle East, Asia and Africa, even in Muslim-majority countries, a new poll has shown. Despite rhetoric about supposed “sympathy” for the terrorist group among Muslims in […]
BEIJING (TIP): An imprisoned 71-year-old Chinese journalist has had her sentence reduced to five years from seven following an appeal, her lawyer said today. Gao Yu appealed her April conviction for leaking state secrets at […]
LONDON (TIP): A high-flying businessman has quit his job, taking a 90% pay cut, so he can show his terminally ill daughter around the world. John Silk, from Croydon, South London, who successfully managed his […]
STORY: James Bond is hunting the terrifying ‘Pale King’ – but what happens when Bond discovers the villain is a shadowy spectre from his own past? REVIEW: So, Spectre is one of Bond’s most thrilling […]
Actress Emily Browning, who plays the role of actor Tom Hardy’s wife Frances Shea in crime thriller film “Legend”, says she loved her character as what she does in the film is something that not many […]
Nicole Kidman and James McAvoy took home the top prizes at this year’s London Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Kidman’s turn as British chemist Rosalind Franklin in Anna Ziegler’s drama “Photograph 51 landed her the Best Actress […]
STORY: This ambitious venture has 11 intertwined stories running in the same narrative about a filmmaker K and his many muses. MOVIE REVIEW: This film can be best described as a bizarre, underwhelming hotch-potch. Though […]
Actress Soha Ali Khan, whose mother and yesteryear screen icon Sharmila Tagore donned a bikini on-screen in the 1960s, says hitting the gym may not have been a trend back then, but a fit frame has […]
Bollywood actress Vidya Balan, who considers Kolkata as her second home, returned to the city today to shoot for her next film, Te3n. Produced by Sujoy Ghosh, the Hindi film is the first movie for which […]
Uttar Pradesh: An ISI agent today has been arrested from Meerut Cantt area by Special Task Force team of Uttar Pradesh, who has some sensitive documents related to Indian Army. IG Sujit Pandey of UP STF […]
In the Rig Veda the goddess Usha is consistently associated with and often identified with the dawn. She reveals herself in the daily coming of light to the world. She has been described in the Rig […]
NEWYORK (TIP): On Oct. 19, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a proposal for “Improving and Expanding Training Opportunities for F-1 Nonimmigrant Students with STEM Degrees and Cap-Gap Relief for All Eligible F-1 Students.” […]
It was some 2 years ago that I came across Dr. VK Raju. I hadn’t heard of him though I should have. It is a journalist’s task to have information about people-good and bad. Dr. […]
As a young boy I attended Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Shakhas. I loved to go there to play and wield lathi. It provided me an opportunity to prove my strength and superiority. As part of our training, we […]
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