LONDON: For the first time in modern times, Queen Elizabeth is facing a rebellion – from the workers at her favourite castle – Windsor. Staff at Windsor Castle have voted to take industrial action in […]
ROME (TIP): As many as 41 migrants drowned after a small boat carrying refugees sank in the Mediterranean, Italian media said on April 16, days after 400 were lost in another shipwreck.Four survivors told Italian […]
BEIJING: China is reviewing its approach towards the 2008 Mumbai terror attack carried out by Pakistani terrorists. It feels “awkward” about its own neutral stance, which has caused grave dissatisfaction in India. The revelation came […]
LONDON (TIP): India’s foremost mental health expert who spends most of his time between Goa and London has now been named as among TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. Professor Vikram Patel, […]
Krish arrived in USA (Chicago) in the summer of 2009 and it was only in early 2010 that he resumed his ‘hobby’ of painting, after a break of almost 15 years. He was born and raised in Kolkata, […]
VANCOUVER (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Initiative sign pacts and agreements” continued during his Canada visit where India inked a deal with Canada for supply of uranium for its nuclear reactors, capping negotiations on safeguards […]
SRINAGAR (TIP): Buckling under pressure from alliance partner BJP, the PDP-led government in Jammu and Kashmir on April 17 arrested separatist leader Masarat Alam Bhat in connection with the raising of Pakistani flags during a […]
KOLKATA (TIP): The Nehru regime snoop reports that have rocked the country are only a trickle from the reams of classified documents on Netaji still locked away in a ‘secret cell’ in Kolkata. Sixty-four files […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Chinese President Xi Jinping will launch energy and infrastructure projects worth $46 billion on a visit to Pakistan next week as China cements links with its old ally and generates opportunities for firms […]
AGRA (TIP): Pointing out a string of security lapses during Bangladeshi President Abdul Hamid’s visit to India last December, Dhaka has complained to New Delhi that he was taken to the Taj Mahal in a […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Over 120 people have been killed and 1,281 injured in Thailand as thousands began their annual journey to their hometowns to celebrate the three-day water festival of Songkran heralding the Thai New Year. […]
HANOI, VIETNAM (TIP): Vietnamese authorities say they are searching for two pilots who went missing on a training exercise. The Ministry of Defense said in a statement on its website late Thursday that the pilots […]
MALE (TIP): A former Maldivian defence minister has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of detaining a senior judge, the same case in which ex-president Mohamed Nasheed has also been jailed under […]
The death of Günter Grass on Monday, April 13, a giant German writer of the post-World-War-II era, a novelist, playwright, poet, fine draftsman and a sculptor, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1999, has […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Aam Aadmi Party has initiated move to take disciplinary action against rebel leaders who held ‘Swaraj Samvad’ recently. The political affairs committee of AAP has concluded that the rebels have committed indiscipline, […]
OnApril 12, Hillary Clinton moved one step closer to becoming the first-ever woman President of the United States. The 2016 election will be her second presidential run. To succeed this time she will have to eschew the theme of“inevitability” […]
For two countries that Prime Minister Stephen Harper calls “natural partners” in a new global economy, Canada and India might appear to share a rather meek business relationship. Not even one per cent of Canadian exports currently […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Thousands of demonstrators, including many fast-food workers, protested in New York demanding a minimum wage of $15 an hour to escape poverty in America’s largest city. Fast-food workers were joined by airport, […]
NEW YORK (TIP): U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) has been selected to serve as an Assistant Whip in the House of Representatives. Meng was appointed to the position by House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD), […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos has broken his silence on a New York Times report published Wednesday, April 14, that federal investigators are looking into the his dealings and those of […]
NEW YORK (TIP): “Phoolan Devi: The Bandit Queen”, a multi-media chamber opera by Shirish Korde, a Uganda born composer of Indian descent, is set for its world premier shows in New York City on June […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): The City Council passed a bill, April 16 that will ban most employers from using credit histories to screen job candidates. The bill passed the Council by a vote of 47 […]
MATHURA (TIP): Christian priests in Mathura on April 17 raised security concern after an attack on the 95-year-old St. Mary’s Church in Agra on April 16. The priests fear that they, too, could be attacked […]
BEIJING (TIP): China’s annual economic growth slowed to a six-year low of 7.0 per cent in the first quarter as demand stayed weak, meeting analyst forecasts but fanning expectations that authorities will roll out more […]
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