70% CHANCE OF THERE BEING 13 TO 20 NAMED STORMS, 7 TO 11 LIKELY HURRICANES, 3 TO 6 LIKELY MAJOR HURRICANES The six-month hurricane season “officially” begins on June 1, though of course, storms follow […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The ruling BJP in Gujarat has swept five of the six seats — two Lok Sabha and three assembly seats — to which bypolls were held last Sunday, while the JD(U) in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP) Chief ministers belonging to parties not partners or allies of the ruling UPA alliance at the centre on June 5 expressed strong reservations over the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), arguing […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): CBI investigators were stumped on June 5 when former railway minister Pawan Bansal claimed his nephew Vijay Singla was acting independently in an alleged case of cash-for-appointment scandal despite telephone intercepts showed […]
Abrilliant career diplomat, a much honored multilingual prolific writer and a celebrity in his own right, Mr. Dnyaneshwar Mulay aroused a lot of expectations in USA even as his name surfaced as the Consul General […]
NAY PYI TAW (TIP): Myanmar’s prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday said that she aspires to be the president of Southeast Asian country although the Constitution bars her from contesting elections in 2015. […]
TBILISI (TIP): Seven Georgian troops were killed and nine were wounded in a suicide attack in Afghanistan when insurgents attacked their base, the pro-Western Caucasus country’s army chief said on Thursday. “Seven military servicemen were […]
PALM SPRINGS (CALIFORNIA) (TIP): President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping, seeking a fresh start to a complex relationship, are retreating to a sprawling desert estate for two days of talks on highstakes issues, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): America as a whole has regained all the household wealth it lost to the Great Recession and then some, thanks to higher stock and home prices. The average household still has a long […]
WASHINGTON (TIP):Warm, fuzzy superlatives may be in vogue to describe current US-India ties, but when it comes to protecting its national interest and cutting edge intellectual property,Washington gives no quarter, even to its so-called “natural […]
NAY PYI TAW (MYANMAR) (TIP): The proposed trilateral highway covering India, Myanmar and Thailand is expected to be operational by 2015- 16, commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma said on june 7. Leading a business […]
SAVAR, BANGLADESH (TIP): A seamstress trapped in the rubble for 17 days after Bangladesh’s garment factory disaster in April emerged from hospital today, saying she felt “great” and was looking forward to a new job […]
CARDIFF (TIP): In the middle of all the madness surrounding cricket, if there’s one man having a blast, he’s Shikhar Dhawan. Confined to the first-class circuit for years, tagged a wasted talent and blamed for […]
Rajasthan Royals Run Risk Of Franchise Termination NEW DELHI (TIP): Another IPL team owner has been caught betting. After Chennai Super Kings principal and the inoperative BCCI chief S Srinivasan’s son in law, Gurunath Meiyappan, […]
LONDON (TIP): Queen Elizabeth’s 91- year-old husband Prince Philip has been taken to a London hospital for “an exploratory operation following abdominal investigations”, Buckingham Palace said June 6. The British monarch’s husband is expected to […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain on Ju ne 6 announced its first ever financial compensation for those tortured under its rule. In a development that could pave the way for many other claims from around the world […]
LONDON (TIP): Air India flights landing in Britain’s biggest airport will now have to watch out how noisy their aircraft are. Heathrow has become the first major airport that has decided to name and shame […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila announced on Thursday they are divorcing after nearly 30 years of marriage. The Putins made the statement on state television after attending a ballet performance […]
ISTANBUL (TIP): Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for an immediate end to mass protests against his rule but urged supporters to “go home” after they staged a major show of strength welcoming him […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain would restart the transfer of detainees captured in Afghanistan to the local authorities later this month. The process was suspended in November last year after it emerged the prisoners were being mistreated […]
“Forces of destabilization are as active today as they were earlier. They are anxiously waiting for the withdrawal of the US-led troops from Afghanistan next year. The new scenario that will emerge in Afghanistan can […]
“Pakistan has paid a heavy price for the slow pace of the change-over from a secret government to a transparent one. A closed system of governance undermines one of the salutary gifts of democracy – […]
India’s appeasement policy won’t help It is high time the PMO and the MEA gathered courage to speak on the South China Sea and the issues having a bearing on national security, particularly in forums […]
IF you can spell words such as pathognomonic, doryline, melocoton, kaburi, conquistador, flibbertigibbet, humuhumunukunukuapuaa, physiognomy, weissnichtwo and gobbledegook, you might have stood a chance at the annual American spelling competition, but then this year you […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): An Indian- American cardiologist has pleaded guilty to charges that he falsely recorded the severity of patients’ illnesses in order to receive payment for numerous heart procedures. Sandesh Rajaram Patil, 51, a former […]
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