SMALL STATION WITH A BIG SECRET Forget strawberries. Mahabaleshwar hides a market for brides-to-be among others. The sweating Mumbaikar has a choice of hill stations, but Mahabaleshwar, eight hours away, tops the list for its […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Bioengineers at the University of California, Davis, have invented a waterproof fabric that whisks away sweat using microfluidic technology. The new fabric works like human skin, forming excess sweat into droplets that drain […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Disney researchers have developed a new humanoid robot that is able to recognise when a person is handing them objects and predicting where to make the hand-off. The robot can receive an object […]
LONDON (TIP): Scientists believe they have for the first time found evidence of the existence of other universes by analyzing data gathered by the European Space Agency’s Planck spacecraft. Theories that our universe could be […]
CHENNAI/MUMBAI (TIP): The IPL fixing scandal has reached the doorstep of Indian cricket’s powerful boss and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) owner N Srinivasan’s family — quite literally. A day after a report about the police […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar has claimed that more players from different IPL teams are involved in the spot-fixing saga that has rocked the entire nation. Kumar said that they have concrete […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The raging spot-fixing saga in the IPL turned murkier with controversial Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf being withdrawn by the ICC from next month’s Champions Trophy in UK for his alleged role in […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Mobile phone services were suspended in the Pakistani capital and nearby Rawalpindi for the second day on may 23 as part of extraordinary security measures put in place to ensure an incident-free visit […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Prime Ministerdesignate Nawaz Sharif on Thursday sought civil nuclear technology to overcome Pakistan’s energy crisis during a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. Sharif called on Li at a hotel here this morning […]
Entrepreneur, community representative, teacher, cultural advisor, mother. These are a few tags that go with Malini Shah. A woman of very high repute, Malini Shah tells Pooja Premchandran of The Indian Panorama about her ventures […]
LONDON (TIP): British police have made two further arrests and searched multiple properties as they widened their investigation into May 22 fatal hacking to death of a British soldier in broad daylight on a busy […]
DHAKA (TIP): The defects and errors that led to the world’s deadliest garment-industry accident extend from the swampy ground the doomed Rana Plaza was built on, to “extremely poor quality” construction materials, to the massive, […]
KATHMANDU, NEPAL (TIP): A Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world’s third highest mountain. The five disappeared on Monday on Mount Kanchenjunga, and bad weather was preventing a rescue […]
BEIJING (TIP): China on Thursday refused to give any guarantees that its investments in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir would not go up merely out of respect for Indian sensibilities. The signal came from the Chinese foreign […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday he had given a “wish list” of military equipment to India during his visit this week, presenting a conundrum for New Delhi as it weighs […]
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS (TIP): The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks on Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders – a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and […]
SYDNEY (TIP): Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said that she would look into the issue of allowing Sikhs in her country to wear the turban while at work and also while riding motorcycles. “We […]
BEIJING (TIP): North Korea’s authorities have opened the border town of Sinuiju to Western tourists, Chinesebased travel agencies said, despite international tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear test in February. The move opens up the possibility of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama sought on Thursday to advance the US beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than […]
“So to the indifferent inquirer who asks why Memorial Day is still kept up we may answer, it celebrates and solemnly reaffirms from year to year a national act of enthusiasm and faith. It embodies […]
CHICAGO, IL (TIP): Renowned dancerchoreographer Leela Samson led a Bharata Natyam troupe of eight talented dancers from Kalakshetra (Chennai) in presenting Spanda (Vibration) on Saturday, May 4, 2013 at the Metea Valley High School in […]
MILWAUKI (TIP): On February 1, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin sentenced Arvind Ahuja, a Milwaukee neurosurgeon, to serve three years of probation and to pay a fine of $350,000 […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): India’s Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, on an official visit to the United States, continued dialogue in to another day on May 21 with senior US Government leaders including Secretary for Homeland Security […]
CAMBRIDGE, MA (TIP): Grassroots Indigenous rights heroes too often go unrecognized. Yet their efforts to promote the rights of their peoples and protect their traditions, languages, and resources are critical to cultural survival. On April […]
The writing is on the wall as China does not have good track record of strategic comfort and reliability vis-a-vis India. The current incidence of Chinese incursion into Indian territory in Daulat Beg Oldie region […]
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