MUMBAI (TIP): India is finally ready with an indigenous model to predict long range and seasonal rainfall. In the next six months, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, will be able to operationalise […]
LONDON (TIP): The world’s first supersonic car which aims to run at 1000 miles per hour (1,609km/h) will be unveiled to the world later this month. Speed enthusiasts will for the first time be able […]
In a first, a robotic exoskeleton device has enabed a 39-year-old former athlete, who had been completely paralysed for four years, to control his leg muscles and take thousands of steps, scientists in the United States […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India may soon be able showcase to the world a solar train, which uses a mix of thermal power and solar energy generated from panels on its roof. Science and technology minister […]
ANKARA(TURKEY) (TIP): Aylan Kurdi, whose 3-year-old body was captured face-down in the surf in images that have horrified the world, set out for Europe only after Canada rejected his family’s refugee application, a Canadian lawmaker […]
ANKARA (TIP): Iran’s supreme leader said on September 3 he favoured a parliamentary vote on its nuclear deal reached with world powers and called for sanctions against Tehran to be lifted completely rather than suspended, […]
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (TIP): A failure to handle the migrant crisis effectively could adversely affect the “idea of Europe”, Germany’s labour minister said on Thursday, calling for a fairer distribution of refugees within the European Union. Speaking […]
Actress Julia Roberts made a rare appearance with her three children and husband Danny Moder. She was seen smiling away as she posed next to twins Phinnaeus and Hazel, both 10, and youngest son Henry, […]
Actress Sonakshi Sinha, who is currently shooting for her film “Akira”, says she has broken her own record by reaching the set very early. The “Dabangg” actress, who is also judging the TV show “Indian Idol Junior” […]
Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut says she is single and is in no mood to enter into a relationship as she is primarily committed to her work. In the past, the national award winning actress was reportedly […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Jolting the Nitish Kumar-led grand alliance in Bihar, the Samajwadi Party walked out of the fold on September 3 saying it had been “insulted” by the offer of only five seats against […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Amid a growing concern in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) about the changing demographic profile of India, one of the top leaders of its affiliate Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has demanded that […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 4 paid rich tributes to the teaching community of the country and hailed the role of mothers in shaping the lives of their children. He also […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Five Chinese Navy ships are sailing in international waters in the Bering Sea off Alaska, the Pentagon said, in an apparent first for China’s military that came as US President Barack Obama toured […]
MILWAUKEE (TIP): Cities across the nation are seeing a startling rise in murders after years of declines, and few places have witnessed a shift as precipitous as this city. With the summer not yet over, […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): A Bay Area man who found a$20 bill on a street outside San Francisco International Airport used it to play the California lottery and won $1 million, a lottery spokesman said on […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A retired NASA astronaut has written an article lamenting that the US, “the country that kissed the moon and is roving Mars” has to pay Russia to be able to get to the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): In a new Islamic State video, jihadist fighters are shown flaunting the American M16 rifles that may have been seized by them from Iraqi soldiers or found in weapons caches dropped by the […]
KARACHI (TIP): A Pakistani court on September 3 rejected a petition to send back to India a deaf-mute woman who lost her family when she wandered over one of the world’s most militarized borders as […]
DHAKA (TIP): Five militants of an al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Bangladesh were today charged with murder for hacking to death an atheist blogger who is among the four secular writers killed in brutal attacks this […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Two months after foreign countries and international agencies pledged $4.1 billion to help Nepal recover from its worst natural disaster, the government has yet to make arrangements to receive the money and has […]
DHAKA (TIP): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused Pakistan, the US and Canada of non-cooperation in repatriating the fugitive convicted killers of her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. “(Of the convicts’ sacked lieutenant colonels) Rashid, […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka’s Parliament on September 3 recognized an ethnic Tamil lawmaker as the opposition leader for the first time in decades in what is seen a positive step toward postwar reconciliation with the […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Four murder convicts were hanged to death on September 3 in separate jails in Pakistan’s Punjab province, the media reported. Three of the convicts – Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Boota, and Faqeer Muhammad – […]
The UPA government was rightly thrown out for its poor performance on the economic front (among other fronts). The NDA government was voted in with a massive mandate which – despite its insistence to the contrary […]
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