YANGON (TIP): Myanmar’s Union Election Commission, on October 13, said that it is cancelling byelections that were scheduled for later this year to fill 35 empty parliamentary seats. Commission chairman Tin Aye made the surprise […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): When she was barely into her mid-20s and just couple years out of law school (NYU), Vanita Gupta represented 46 African- Americans who had been convicted by an all-white jury in Texas in […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Iraqi capital Baghdad is not facing immediate danger from Islamic State jihadists despite battlefield gains by the group in the country’s west and recent car bombings in the city, the US military […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US secretary of state John Kerry on October 16 called for a resumption of the Israel- Palestinian peace process, saying the talks were vital in the fight against extremism. “It is imperative that […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Secretary general Ban Kimoon said that a trust fund he launched to provide fast and flexible funding for the fight against Ebola has only $100,000 in the bank. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama authorized calling up military reservists for the US fight against Ebola in west Africa on October 16, as lawmakers criticized his administration’s efforts to contain the disease at home. Obama’s […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): Award-winning US stage and screen actor Neil Patrick Harris will host the next Oscars show, organizers announced. The star, who has hosted both Broadway’s Tony and TV’s Emmy awards shows in the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US FBI director James Comey on October 16 made his strongest comments yet about encryption features built into new cell phones by Google Inc and Apple Inc, warning they could hurt law enforcement […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday he and his wife were donating $25 million to help US efforts to contain the deadly Ebola epidemic. “The Ebola epidemic is at a critical turning […]
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (TIP): At least three exit polls put the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead but short of a clear majority in Maharashtra and Haryana on Wednesday, a ringing endorsement of the so-called ‘Modi magic’ […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to carry out the first expansion of his council of ministers along with a bureaucratic shake-up in the next few weeks. Sources said an expansion of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Union government on Friday filed an application in the Supreme Court, saying it cannot disclose details of foreign accounts held by Indians which are governed by bilateral double taxation avoidance treaties. […]
MANESAR (TIP): The chief of the National Security Guard (NSG), the country’s elite counter-terror force, warned on October 16 of possible “multi-city multiple attacks” on India from a combine of global terror groups like al-Qaeda […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): After China’s objection to India’s plan of building a 2,000-km long road along the border in Arunachal Pradesh, Home Minister Rajnath Singh stated on October 16 that no one should threaten India. […]
BALASORE (TIP): India’s indigenously developed nuclear capable sub-sonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’, which can strike targets more than 700km away, was on October 17 test-fired from a test range at Chandipur in Odisha. “The missile was […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A Universal Account Number (UAN) for Provident Fund (PF) accounts, unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 16, will help over four crore PF account holders to better manage their PF […]
awarded $160,000 in UK court LONDON (TIP): A deaf and mute girl smuggled to Britain and kept as a slave for almost a decade must be paid £1,00,000 ($1,60,000) by her captors, a court ruled […]
SHANGHAI (TIP): Chinese Communist Party censors have blocked the website of Britain’s national broadcaster, the BBC said in a statement, as tensions rise in Hong Kong between pro-democracy protesters and police. broadcaster said that the […]
LONDON (TIP): Novelist John Grisham apologized on October 16 for saying in an interview that many men imprisoned for child pornography offences in the US probably just had too much to drink and “pushed the […]
CAIRO (TIP): At least two policemen were killed and 8 others injured in an explosion in Egypt’s restive Sinai peninsula, official said October 17. The explosion occurred in west Al-Arish city in north Sinai October […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): A New Zealand immigration official sparked a race row after rejecting a woman’s visa application for a job, saying New Zealanders are unlikely to hear Indian radio. The case came to light after […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Venezuela won coveted seats at the UN security council on October 16, but Turkey suffered a humbling defeat in its bid to join the world’s “top […]
HONG KONG (TIP): Riot police moved in on a Hong Kong pro-democracy protest zone in a dawn raid on October 17, taking down barricades, tents and canopies that have blocked key streets for more than […]
SEOUL: North Korea’s state media on Friday reported another public appearance by leader Kim Jong-Un, his second in four days after an extended absence that has seen him re-emerge with a walking stick. The North’s […]
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