WASHINGTON (TIP): The Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO)-Metropolitan Washington Chapter, in collaboration with the Aligarh Alumni Association (AAA), Washington, organized 8th Annual Independence Day Mushaira-Kavi Sammelan on Saturday, 22nd August 2015 at […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Eleven Republican candidates vying for the party nomination on the road to the White House battered each other in a three-hour debate on Sept 15 night at the end of which, the sole […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): Legendary musician Elton John’s phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned out to be a hoax by two TV presenters. Komsomolskaya Pravda, a Russian celebrity prankster known as “Vovan” -whose […]
A US drone strike in Pakistan’s volatile South Waziristan tribal region today killed at least seven militants and injured two others. “A vehicle close to a militant compound was the target of the strike in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet CEOs of top global companies with collective worth of nearly $4 trillion — twice the size of India’s GDP — in New York on September 24 […]
Update : Sep 20, 2015: BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmiya Dies Of Cardiac Arrest – Full report to Follow KOLKATA (TIP): BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya was rushed to the BM Birla Heart Research Institute he complained of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government may have removed his name from the VVIP no-frisking list, but Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra will not be frisked by security personnel at any Indian airport while […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Five months after India announced the deal to purchase 36 Rafale fighter jets “off the shelf” from France, much of the expectations from the big-ticket deal appears to have evaporated due to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a setback for the Manohar Lal Khattar government in Haryana, the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the state law providing that a candidate aspiring to contest the panchayat elections should have […]
The four-year wait is over for the Rugby Fans who will see the 2015 World Cup where New Zealand will try to defend their title against England, Australia, South Africa, Wales and more, with the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Sending a strong message amidst concerns over mounting curbs on individual liberties, the Supreme Court on September 17 said that “a ban cannot be forced down somebody’s throat” and that the “spirit […]
LUCKNOW (TIP): The Samajwadi Party (SP) on September 17 joined hands with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and two other outfits and announced the formation of a ‘Third Front’ for the Bihar assembly elections. Party […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Election expenses of several candidates did not match their party’s expenditure declaration according to an analysis by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). Among those whose election expenses were either more or less […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library executive council accepted its director Mahesh Rangarajan’s resignation on September 17, giving the Modi government a free hand to appoint its nominee to the post. Rangarajan […]
Come September, and we have been used to expecting to come across an announcement of the annual gala of Nargis Dutt Memorial Foundation. A much awaited signature event of the Foundation for 31 years, it […]
LONDON (TIP): A British IS member living in Syria has complained about the “bad manners” of Arab fellow militants he says steal his shoes, eat like children and don’t queue. In an online blog Omar Hussain, […]
SANTIAGO, CHILE (TIP): A strong 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Chile’s coast on Wednesday, shaking buildings in cities around the country and forcing the authorities to evacuate residents along the 2,690-mile coast after tsunami warnings were […]
MECCA (TIP): About 1,000 Asian pilgrims were evacuated early on Sep 17 from their hotel in the Saudi city of Mecca, hit by a fire that injured two people, the civil defence agency said. Firefighters […]
BANGKOK (TIP): The good news for the Chinese visitor to Bangkok was that a doctor had successfully removed a foreign object from her large intestine that could have damaged her digestive system. The bad news […]
JUBA (TIP): At least 85 people were killed in South Sudan when a crowd tried to gather fuel from an oil tanker that had veered off the road on its way to a region west […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): One of the two Indians, who were abducted in Sirte in war-torn Libya, has managed to flee from captivity. Sources said Pravash Ranjan Samal, hailing from Odisha, escaped from the captors and […]
NANGCHEN (TIP): A 2000-year-old lost stupa, one of the 19 built with Lord Buddha’s relics sent by Emperor Ashoka to China, has been renovated and restored with religious rites by an Indian monk in this […]
ROME (TIP): An Italian woman who discovered her husband was cheating bit off his mistress’s finger in a street brawl which the Naples police described as fairly routine, albeit unusually violent. The revenge attack came […]
MELILLA (SPAIN) (TIP): In September 2005, hundreds of African migrants stormed the barbed wire fences in the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in Morocco, seeking to make their way into Europe. Five died and […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): China appears to be carrying out preparatory work for a third airstrip in contested territory in the South China Sea, a US expert said on September 12, citing satellite photographs taken last week. […]
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