WASHINGTON (TIP): A bloody resurgence of al-Qaida in Iraq is prompting Baghdad to ask the US for more weapons, training and manpower, two years after pushing American troops out of the country. The request will […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The assemblage on one platform of leaders from parties other than the Congress and the BJP is no precursor to another third front experiment. It’s at best an anti-BJP, non-Congress ideological bulwark […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): To insulate the bureaucracy from political interference and to put an end to frequent transfers of civil servants by political bosses, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre and the States […]
LONDON (TIP): Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, two former editors of Rupert Murdoch’s now defunct News of the World tabloid, were having an affair at the time their reporters are accused of hacking into phones, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Ace fighter pilot Air Marshal Arup Raha has been appointed the next Chief of the Indian Air Force. He will succeed Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, also a fighter pilot, on December […]
BANGKOK (TIP): A former Thai prime minister and his deputy vowed on October 29 to fight any legal charges against them for their alleged role in the death of anti-government demonstrators during a bloody 2010 […]
NIAMEY (TIP): The corpses of 92 migrants, most of them women and children, have been found in northern Niger after their vehicles broke down attempting to cross the vast Sahara desert, authorities said on october […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Eyeing an upper hand in a baroque regional power game after the withdrawal of US troops next year, the Afghan government tried to work with the Pakistan Taliban with the “ultimate” goal […]
MOSCOW (TIP): US security leaker Edward Snowden is set to start a new job at a major Russian website, three months after the fugitive was given asylum in Russia, his lawyer said on October 31. […]
DHAKA (TIP): At least four persons were killed as fresh violence erupted on October 29 across Bangladesh on the final day of a 60-hour opposition strike demanding a caretaker regime to oversee the next general […]
BEIJING (TIP): A Chinese policeman was arrested after he allegedly shot a woman dead and injured another in China’s southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Head of Pingnan County’s public security bureau, where the policeman worked, […]
CANBERRA (TIP): Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on October 28 to mark the impending end of Australia’s military involvement in the conflict, his office said. Abbott arrived at the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The law forbids a “foreign company” to make any donation to political parties even if it has an Indian subsidiary. Yet, the home ministry and the two leading parties, Congress and BJP, […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Two Indian nationals were among three people arrested for the murder of a constituent assembly election candidate in Bara district in southern Nepal in October. Police said on Sunday that Mohamed Alam, a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s claim that UPA had forgotten Sardar Patel till this year is far off the mark. The government’s publicity arm, directorate of advertising and visual publicity (DAVP), […]
WASHINGTON (TIP: Enrollment in health insurance plans on the troubled Obamacare website was very small in the first couple of days of operation, with just 248 Americans signing up, according to documents released on October […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Leaders of a Senate panel that oversees US intelligence issues said on October 31, it has approved a plan to scale back how many American telephone records the National Security Agency can sweep […]
MAHBUBNAGAR (TIP): Forty-five passengers were charred to death as a private luxury bus burst into flames after its fuel tank caught fire in Mahbubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh early on October 30. “Charred bodies of […]
RANCHI (TIP): Anything close to 300-run mark is always tough to chase down but India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni backed his batsmen to overhaul the 296-run target set by Australia in the fourth ODI which […]
Irony was the constant refrain of Manna Dey’s life. A world happy to sway to jingles could not always appreciate the steeped-in-classicism kalaam of Manna Da. Not blessed with the rare yodelling skills of Kishore […]
LONDON (TIP): Astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy known to man to date. They have also confirmed this galaxy was created within 700 million years after the Big Bang, raising interesting questions about the […]
LONDON (TIP): An Indian aero acoustics scientist has finally worked out why and how a kettle actually whistles – a problem which has puzzled scientists for more than 100 years. A team of British researchers […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A Japanese company has developed a crafty wallet to keep your spending in check – if you are short on cash, it rolls away when you reach for it. The “Living Wallet,” […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa’s gen-next laser communication system has made history using a pulsed laser beam to transmit data over the 384,633 kilometres between the Moon and Earth. The data transmission was accomplished at a recordbreaking […]
Nestled at an altitude of 3,500 meters above the sea level, between the Kunlun Mountain Range in the north and the main Great Himalayas to the south, is a small, yet bustling town of Leh. […]
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