Shraddha Kapoor had heard a lot aboutthe ‘O’ Show in Las Vegas, but eventhough she had a very hecticschedule, she made sure to catch it on herfirst day off.The young actor has been currentlyshooting with […]
SYDNEY (TIP): Newly-appointed captain Virat Kohli became the highest Indian run getter in a Test series in Australia after notching up an unbeaten 140 in the fourth and final cricket match of the ongoing series […]
On the western coast of India, the state of Gujarat is the “Jewel of the West” in India. In Gujarat, one of India’s most industrialized and prosperous states, you find the modern milieu and the […]
HOUSTON (TIP): Global medical tourism market will rise to $ 32.5 billion by 2019 on account of rising healthcare costs in developed countries, like the US and improved standards of healthcare technology and services in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Spread across diverse sectors, nearly 38,000 new firms have been registered in the first eight months of the new companies law coming into force in April last year. Out of the total […]
NEW DELHI(TIP): Using its enhanced powers, capital markets regulator Sebi has managed to recover dues in more than 100 cases over the past one year out of the 500 cases in which attachment orders were […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least seven militants were killed inside their hideout on Friday in a high-intensity explosion in Pakistan’s restive tribal region, officials said. The blast occurred in a compound in Sundana Teera area of […]
CAIRO (TIP): Egypt said January Thursday it is to hold parliamentary elections from March 21 but analysts said the new legislature will offer no meaningful opposition to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s iron-fisted rule. The elections, […]
PARIS (TIP): French anti-terrorism police converged on an area northeast of Paris on January 8 after two brothers suspected of behind an attack on a satirical newspaper were spotted at a petrol station in the […]
TAJI BASE, Iraq (TIP): A team of camouflage-clad Iraqi soldiers lines up near the door of a one-storey house north of Baghdad with rifles ready, preparing to enter and search it. For now, there are […]
BEIJING (TIP): China punished 17 officials in Xinjiang for security lapses surrounding deadly explosions and riots in September, state media said, as the Communist Party boss in the western region warned the fight against “terrorism” […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least seven militants were killed inside their hideout on Friday in a high-intensity explosion in Pakistan’s restive tribal region, officials said. The blast occurred in a compound in Sundana Teera area of […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): An Islamabad court on January 9 granted bail to Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the mastermind of 2008 Mumbai terror attack, in a six-year kidnapping case. The court granted bail to Lakhvi against surety bonds worth […]
RICHMOND (VIRGINIA) (TIP): Former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell has been sentenced to two years in prison for taking money and gifts in exchange for promoting a dietary supplement while he was in office. McDonnell, a […]
COLUMBUS, OHIO (TIP): A Columbus airport official says a police officer fatally shot a man during a confrontation just outside the terminal. David Whitaker, a Columbus Regional Airport Authority vice-president, says the man was shot […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama visited the French embassy in Washington on Thursday to honour the 12 victims of the Islamist attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Obama, fresh from a […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Tata Group is set to launch its full-service Vistara airline on 9 January, more than 60 years after the Indian government nationalised the group’s airline business and following two previous aborted attempts to […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): The Consulate General of India, New York, held its 11th Media India Lecture on Friday December 19, 2014, with the guest speaker Charles R Kaye, Co-CEO of Warburg Pincus. Consul General […]
CHENNAI (TIP): A general council meeting of the DMK here on January 9 unanimously reelected former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi as party president for the eleventh time. The general council also reelected K […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a relief to Bharti Cellular Ltd CMD Sunil Bharti Mittal and Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia, the Supreme Court on January 9 set aside the order of the special court summoning […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday, January 7, appointed a veteran Indian diplomat and UN official, Atul Khare, as the Under-Secretary-General for Field Support, making him one of the two highest-ranking Indians at […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): The Consulate General of India, New York, celebrated the Indian – Jewish festival of re-dedication and the miracle of oil, Hanukkah, on Tuesday 23rd December, 2014. Several eminent members of the […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña announced, January 8, the launch of the 2015 Community and Citywide Education Council elections and encouraged parents across the city to participate and have […]
We are publishing this humorous piece at a time of heightened communal tension in India. Ever since the new government of Narendra Modi came in to power, Hindu extremists have repeatedly said that all Muslims […]
2014 has not been very different from its predecessors. It has been, like all other years preceding it, a year of mixed events of diverse hues. In India, on the political front, the year proved […]
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