XOOM ANNOUNCES INSTANT DEPOSIT SERVICE TO ICICI BANK ACCOUNTS IN INDIA Expands instant deposit service to one of India’s leading financial institutions NEW YORK/ SAN FRANCISCO, CA (TIP): Xoom Corporation (NASDAQ: XOOM), a leading digital […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates topped Forbes’ latest list of the 400 richest Americans for the 21st straight year. The list, released on Monday, was largely unchanged for 2014 and showed the rich […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Toyota said it was recalling about 690,000 Tacoma pickup trucks in the United States to fix a suspension system flaw that could result in vehicle fires. The safety recall covers model years 2005-2011 […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan has hinted at increasing the ceiling for foreign investment in government debt. The governor, however, ruled out India being part of JP Morgan bond indices […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): With auto industry continuing on the revival mode, major car makers including Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Honda, Toyota and M&M reported good domestic sales growth in September ahead of the festive season. Others […]
The Day 14 of Asian Games saw India’s unhindered supremacy in the Asian Games’ kabaddi competition continued after both the men’s and women’s teams successfully defended their respective gold medals with hard-fought final triumphs over […]
NEW DELHI (TIP) Still revelling in India’s triumph against Pakistan in the Asian Games hockey final, “The Wall of Indian Hockey” goalkeeper PR Sreejesh said that he had entered the field with an intuition to […]
Manju Bala’s wins silver medal in Asian Games 2014 after China’s Zhang Wenxiu fails dope test INCHEON (TIP): Indian athlete Manju Bala’s Asian Games women’s hammer throw bronze, which she won September 28, was upgraded […]
NEW DELHI(TIP): Hockey India (HI) congratulated its bronze medal winning women’s team and extended a grand welcome to them on their return here from the Incheon Asian Games. The team defeated Japan 2-1 to claim […]
NEW DELHI (TIP) She has offered unconditional apology for an emotionally-charged protest at the Asian Games but Indian boxer L Sarita Devi hoped that her outburst would ensure better judging at next month’s World Championship […]
NEW DELHI (TIP) Good news from kabaddi continues,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today as he congratulated the women’s and men’s kabaddi teams for winning gold medals in Incheon Asiad games today. In separate congratulatory […]
By S Nihal Singh “Behind the new approaches being made by the two countries to revive the elan of earlier years are the geopolitical realities of Asia and the balancing of the great power status […]
I.S. Saluja Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modiarrives in New York today, September 26, on afive day visit to USA. His visit, the first asPrime Minister, is being viewed as a powerful push to ensure […]
BENGALURU (TIP): “We have gone beyond the boundaries of human enterprise and innovation,” an exultant Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, standing alongside Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) scientists at the command center in the southern […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his five-day visit to the U.S. arrives at JFK Airport in New York today, September 26. He will spend two days in New York, during which he […]
The Prime Minister’s call for making India a manufacturing hub and creating jobs should boost small and medium enterprises as well By Charan Singh Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ campaign is creating waves […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Midfielder Harjeet Singh will lead the 18-member Indian Junior men’s hockey team in the 4th Sultan of Johor Cup, to be held in Johor Bahru, Malaysia from October 12-19, Hockey India announced […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): A Japanese construction company aims to build an elevator that will reach 96,000km into space — and it may be ready by 2050. Japanese construction giant Obayashi said that robotic cars powered by […]
LONDON (TIP): Faster, smaller, greener computers, capable of processing information up to 1,000 times quicker than currently available models, could be made possible by replacing silicon with phase-change materials, according to a new study. Researchers […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing an active “secondskin” spacesuit for future astronauts that incorporates small, spring-like coils that contract in response to heat. These spacesuits will give astronauts […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Your smartphone may tell if you are depressed, stressed or lonely, thanks to a first-of-itskind app that automatically tracks users’ mental health, academic performance and behaviour. The StudentLife app, which compares students’ happiness, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): An ultra-light electric car built by students at a US university has set a new land speed record in its class, besting the previous mark by nearly 80kmph. Electric Blue, an E1 streamliner […]
Orissa (renamed Odisha) is one of India’s less frequented states, as it’s predominantly rural and “off the beaten track”. However, tourist interest in Orissa’s eclectic combination of attractions is growing. Orissa offers picturesque national parks […]
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born in Porbandar, Gujarat, in North West India, on 2nd October 1869, into a Hindu Modh family. His father was the Chief Minister […]
A Hindu pracharak becomes Prime Minister of India. Here are milestones in his journey of ascension to the pinnacle of power through landslide election victory in the 16th General Election of the world’s largest democracy. […]
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