LONDON (TIP): Climbing 95 floors in 43 seconds flat? Even Usain Bolt couldn’t do that. The world’s fastest elevators with a speed of 72 km/hour is coming up in China. Until today the record holder […]
SEOUL (TIP): North Korea will gain “nothing” by making threats, US President Barack Obama said on Friday, warning it of sanctions with “more bite” if it went ahead with a fourth nuclear test. Speaking in […]
ALLAHABAD (TIP): The dilemma of not being able to vote is being faced by many stalwarts in 2014 general elections. Prominent leaders like Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Murli Manohar Joshi […]
AMETHI (TIP): Former Army chief and BJP’s candidate from the Ghaziabad seat, V K Singh, on Friday accused the Manmohan Singh government of weakening the Indian Army. Singh, who was here to campaign for party […]
PATNA (TIP): It was an alliance that nearly didn’t take place and now it’s the one to watch out for in Bihar. RJD and Congress have come together after they split in 2009, having realized […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): With the proclamation imposing President’s rule in Andhra Pradesh due to lapse this month-end on account of its non-ratification by Parliament, the Union Cabinet on April 25 recommended dissolution of the state […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of the Congress party on April 25 raised the pitch against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, accusing him of treating Indian voters like primary schoolchildren. […]
BHUBANESWAR (TIP): A team of Odisha police is likely to visit Delhi next week to interrogate two Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives, who did a ‘recce’ of Bhubaneswar, Puri and Cuttack in January. The two IM […]
MACHILIPATNAM, AP (TIP): Some BJP supporters allegedly hurled eggs at Union Minister and AP Congress election campaign committee chief K Chiranjeevi during a public meeting here on April 25 after his remarks against Narendra Modi […]
PATHANKOT(TIP): Seeking to woo farmers, Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on April 25 promised that minimum support price will be fixed to ensure 50% profit for agriculturalists and a major irrigation programme […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on April 25 put on hold the release of seven assassins of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and other life convicts such as Devender Pal Singh Bhullar by referring […]
EC’s largest liquor seizure in India was made in state AHMEDABAD (TIP): In Gujarat, liquor is banned — but prohibition seemed to be on the rocks when the biggest volume of alcohol seizures in India […]
SURAT (TIP): Buddhist Society of India’s Surat chapter on April 25 held a dharna to demand legal action against chief minister Narendra Modi’s younger brother Prahlad Modi for comparing him with Gautam Buddha. Prahlad Modi, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Delhi Police succumbed to anti-Sikh sentiments in 1984, thus abetting rioting and arson, a sting operation by news portal Cobrapost revealed Tuesday, April 22. The expose triggered a political row. The […]
New Delhi (TIP): Former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and 17 others were on April 25 chargesheeted in a special court by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case relating […]
GONDA (TIP): It seems that no one can stop Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma from spewing venom against BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. A day after the Election Commission issued a show-cause notice to […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): In a move that has left the Congress redfaced, the BJP on April 25 inducted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s youngest brother Daljit Singh Kohli into the party. This was done at BJP’s prime […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The suspension of peace talks between Israel and Palestinians delivered the harshest blow yet to secretary of state John Kerry’s ambitious, if perhaps quixotic, hope of ending the decades-long impasse at the cost […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed rules on Thursday that would ban the sale of e-cigarettes to anyone under 18, but would not restrict flavoured products, online sales or advertising, which […]
RANCHI (TIP): Former chief minister and leader of opposition in Jharkhand Arjun Munda has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission accusing the state government of deploying security forces to gain undue favour in the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Russian aircraft have entered Ukrainian airspace on several occasions in the past 24 hours, Pentagon spokesman colonel Steve Warren said on April 25, without offering further details. Warren called upon Moscow to “take […]
SRINAGAR (TIP): A Major and an army jawan were killed in a six-hour gun-battle with three militants holed up in a house in Shopian district of south Kashmir, an army spokesman said. The house in […]
SEOUL (TIP): It’s official: even though they are involved in the worst east-west clash since the Cold War, Barack Obama would save Vladimir Putin from drowning. Obama on Friday delivered his answer to a question […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Outgoing Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam does not mind being the first Lokpal or taking up any other post-retirement job if the decision is taken unanimously and without controversy. “If it […]
A teenager in Tennessee, US, attempted to smuggle a loaded handgun into prison by concealing it inside her vagina, according to the police. The 19-year-old teenage girl known as Dallas Archer was arrested at around […]
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