TIP (Secondary Research): Europacific Growth Fund, the largest foreign portfolio investor (FPI) in India was born seven years before liberalisation ushered foreign investment into Indian equity markets. Today, it holds $131 billion in assets under management; […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Iran nuclear deal is not intended to push Tehran’s regime to reform but to prevent it building a bomb, secretary of state John Kerry told skeptical US lawmakers on July 31. In […]
MIAMI (TIP): Hillary Clinton will urge US lawmakers on Friday to lift the trade embargo against Cuba, arguing that Republican opposition to normalizing ties reflects the past’s “failed policies,” her campaign said. Clinton, the frontrunner […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to ban the possession of large-capacity gun magazines on July 29, following San Francisco to become the second major city in California to take that […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian-American Mary Thomas, a government attorney in Florida, has said that she will run for the US Congressional elections in November 2016. If elected, Thomas, whose parents arrived in American from India in […]
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY (TIP): An attorney for Republican presidential contender Donald Trump apologized on Tuesday for making the incorrect assertion that “by the very definition, you can’t rape your spouse.” In a story published on Monday night […]
CHICAGO (TIP): A white Ohio police officer who shot a black man during a routine traffic stop was charged with murder on Wednesday in what prosecutors called a “senseless” act motivated by anger. The case […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Malik Ishaq, the dreaded chief of banned Sunni sectarian outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was gunned down along with his two sons and 11 others early on July 30 morning by police in an alleged exchange […]
New Delhi (TIP): India would retain its “demographic dividend” for the next 85 years and a steady rise in the population will make India surpass China by 2022 to become the world’s most populated nation, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US authorities opened a probe on July 31 into the killing of a beloved lion in Zimbabwe, as the American doctor who hunted the big cat remained in hiding amid mounting global outrage. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US has issued a worldwide travel caution for its citizens including in India in the wake of increased threat coming in particular from the expanding global presence of the Islamic State. In […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States and other stakeholders in Afghanistan are scrambling to organize a response to the sudden disclosure that Taliban chief Mullah Omar has been dead for sometime and a council of the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A Delhi court on July 30 fixed August 14 for hearing a case in which the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a closure report giving a clean chit to Congress […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): After eight years, the defence ministry has cancelled the 2007 global tender to buy 126 fighter jets for the Indian Air Force, whose squadron strength nosedived in the last decade. “The Request […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on July 30 said the three terrorists killed in Dinanagar town of Gurdaspur district in Punjab had infiltrated from Pakistan and warned the neighboring country that any […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Yakub Memon has been executed but he has left behind a litigation record that will be difficult to break – his petitions were dealt with by as many as 14 judges of […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The hanging of Yakub Memon on July 30 in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts in which 257 people lost their lives and over 700 were injured, is the first execution of death sentence […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress on July 30 scrambled to disown the controversial remarks of its party leaders Digvijaya Singh and Shashi Tharoor over the hanging of Yakub Memon. With finance minister Arun Jaitley pouncing on […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a significant move that will save millions of animals, Nepal’s Gadhimai temple trust on July 29 announced a ban on animal sacrifice at the Gadhimai festival, the world’s biggest animal sacrifice […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 24 people July 30 and left more than a dozen missing as homes were swept away in three districts of quake-hit Nepal. Rescuers are still […]
Is China’s rise as a military power a threat to international, or even regional security? To answer this question one has to carefully consider not just geopolitical realities but also China’s strategic outlook in an increasingly […]
Phone calls between relatively low-level diplomats are normally not newsworthy. But Monday’s conversation between U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin on the simmering conflict in Ukraine is an […]
YANGON (TIP): Myanmar on July 30 ordered the release of thousands of prisoners including 210 foreigners, officials said, the latest in a series of amnesties under the reformist government that have seen sentences quashed for […]
Despite the cordial meetings between PM Modi and President Xi’s and their photo ops on the sidelines of the BRICS and SCO summits, India has been drawing the red line with China on its concerns. Official […]
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