There she goes again. Anything for publicity — and brazen be damned! That’s Mallika Sherawat for you, ladies and gentlemen (remember her last accent-bhara ‘India is sooo conservative’ Cannes interview?), the lady who jumps, or […]
STORY: Three married men plan to get up to some bachelor pranks during their college reunion. Do they go all the way or do they chicken out? REVIEW: Grand Masti stakes its claim to being […]
Bollywood’s favourite yoyo dieter Vidya Balan is at it again. This time the actress is on a dieting spree to shed the pounds for her next venture with Emraan Hashmi. Vidya had cut a rather […]
LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI (TIP): A Muzaffarnagar court on September 18 issued non-bailable arrest warrants against a BSP MP, two MLAs each of the BJP and the BSP and 11 other political and community leaders for allegedly […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh on September 19 sought cancellation of bail granted to former Army chief Gen V K Singh, who is facing criminal defamation charges, saying he had levelled false […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The CBI, probing the Adarsh society case,said that there was nothing on record to show that Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde had a role in the alleged scam by allotting flats to ineligible […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Muzaffarnagar riots threaten to bring apart the ambitious social coalition that Mulayam Singh Yadav has been attempting with aggressive polarization politics and anti-quota rhetoric. The post-riot anger among Muslims has raised […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): BJP will emerge as the single largest party in the coming parliamentary elections, a survey has claimed. “BJP has emerged as a clear winner across the country, (more so in north and […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India and Japan have charted out a roadmap to boost investment between the two countries. In a meeting headed by the Union Minister of Commerce & Industry Shri Anand Sharma and Mr. […]
BENGALURU (TIP): US-based e-commerce major eBay Inc on September 19 inaugurated a new global development centre in India. The development centre, the company’s 16th such centre globally, is spread across 1,50,000 sq ft. “We have […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Tech Mahindra has signed an agreement with Volvo Car Corporation (Volvo Cars). The IT company will provide the automobile company with a service to maintain and develop a range of applications that can […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Aided by a rebound in capital goods production, the country’s industrial output grew a better-thanexpected 2.6 per cent in July compared with the same period last year. This was a fourmonth high. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): How much the nearly century-old Miss America pageant has declined in salience is best illustrated by this joke on Jay Leno’s late night show following the crowning of Indian-American Nina Davuluri last weekend: […]
LONDON (TIP): An Indian-origin teacher in the UK has dramatically given birth to a baby boy in a classroom after she went into labour while in school. Diane Krish-Veeramany, 30, went into labour, a week […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): India and the US are destined to be partners on the world stage because of shared values and outlooks, a top US official told Indian officials ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): Indian American actor Vivek Shah, who sent extortion threats to several high-profile people including Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, has been sentenced to seven years and three months in prison. The 26-year-old actor, […]
CHICAGO (TIP): A judge sentenced a business traveler from suburban Chicago to nine months in prison Sept. 11 for groping a passenger in flight while she slept in a seat next to him. The victim […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The White House said on September 19it was possible that President Barack Obama would meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in New York next week if Tehran signaled it was serious about giving […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Republicanrun US House of Representatives voted to cut spending on food stamps for the poor by $40 billion over 10 years on September 19, defying a veto threat from the White House […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan’s government has increased security of the father of the country’s nuclear programme Abdul Qadeer Khan amid fears of an Abbottabad-type raid which killed Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden. Khan’s posh Islamabad’s […]
JAFFNA (TIP): Ananthi Sasitharan, a candidate in the September 21 elections to the Northern Province council in Sri Lanka, is a teacher by profession. She is also the wife of an LTTE militant – one […]
JAFFNA (TIP): Despite the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime in Sri Lanka being seen as responsible for war crimes and mass displacement of Tamils in the north, the ruling party’s prospects of winning some seats are bright. […]
DHAKA, BANGLADESH (TIP): Local media are reporting that Bangladeshi police have opened fire on supporters of the country’s largest Islamic party, leaving one man dead. The party members are enforcing a general strike to protest […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): With Maldives Supreme Court admitting a plea seeking annulment of the first round of elections in the Indian Ocean archipelago, in which former president Mohamed Nasheed has emerged as the front runner […]
The truth about the economy is different The middle class today is feeling insecure because the public services are poor and most people are saving 30 per cent to 40 per cent of their incomes […]
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