WASHINGTON (TIP): The Pentagon has warned to take legal action against a former Navy SEAL who has written a first person account of the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, saying […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Ahead of Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie’s visit, New Delhi Thursday reiterated that Arunachal Pradesh was an integral part of India and backed freedom of navigation in South China Sea, a territory […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide completed almost a record long spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS), reported NASA. NASA Flight Engineer Williams and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Flight […]
TEHRAN (TIP): The Syrian conflict sharpened divisions saw the NAM summit’s first walkout on Thursday, with the Syrian delegation rising in protest against the Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s characterization of the crisis there as an […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): China’s defense minister is due to visit India next week to seek deeper military ties, in a rare trip seen as a sign Beijing wants to stabilize its heavily fortified Himalayan border […]
QUEENSLAND (TIP): India Under-19 skipper Unmukt Chand hit an unbeaten 111 in seamer-friendly conditions to lead India to a six-wicket win over Australia in the final of the World Cup at the Tony Ireland Stadium […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): India wrapped up a comfortable victory over New Zealand inside four days by bowling the visitors out for 164 to win by an innings and 115 runs in Hyderabad. Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin picked […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Eating bananas could well be the next best thing in the fight against anaemia soon. Indian and Australian researchers have joined hands to develop iron-rich bananas that could help women with iron deficiency. […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Automotive components maker Piolax India, a subsidiary of Piolax of Japan, inaugurated its first Indian facility at the Sri City multi-product special economic zone in Andhra Pradesh. The plant is slated to commence […]
Guru Arjan the Fifth Sikh Guru compiled the original version of the Guru Granth Sahib. The Guru’s older brother Prithi Chand as well as others had started passing off some of his own compositions as […]
TAMPA (TIP): The United States on Thursday slapped sanctions on Pakistanbased terror group Lashkar-e- Toiba’s top eight commanders, including Mumbai terrorist attack mastermind Sajid Mir and its founder Hafiz Saeed’s son. Announcing the sanctions, the […]
TEHRAN (TIP):Iran has created a new category of martyrs – nuclear scientists it says were killed by Israelis. And what better way to unveil this than at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit. In the driveway […]
SINGAPORE (TIP): An Indian-origin judge has been named as the new chief justice of Singapore, making him the first from the community to head the courts. Sundaresh Menon, presently Singapore’s judge of appeal, will assume […]
There will always be crazy guys. Trigger happy murderers and butchers will continue to lurk, looking for an opportunity to shed blood. In recent times, we have seen that happen. In January 2011 Rep. Gabrielle […]
LAHORE (TIP):A new school atlas published by the government of Pakistan’s Punjab province has shown Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and the Gilgit-Baltistan region as Indian territories. The education authorities rushed to recall the atlas from all elementary […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): India-born American surgeon Jayant Patel who was recently freed from jail after an Australian high court quashed his conviction of manslaughter and grievous bodily harm to his patients, will face another trial. Patel, […]
Rural spending outpaced urban consumption in the two years up to 2011-12, the first time in nearly 25 years, according to a study by Crisil Research. This, according to Crisil, was fuelled by a strong […]
In yet another instance of India Inc occupying a larger seat in the global league tables,three out of the top 10 fastest-growing generic companies globally are now from India. Besides being an indication of the […]
If the US/West, despite their attachment to alliance-based politics, actively explore partnerships with India on issues of shared interest, India, despite its antipathy for military alliances and its “nonaligned” predilections, should have no difficulty in […]
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been describing the large-scale killings of members of the principal minority community in 2002 under the very nose of his government as a “spontaneous reaction” of a people whose […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain has given up its threat to enter Ecuador’s London embassy to arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Ecuador’s president has said, says an August 26 BBC report. Rafael Correa told reporters “we consider […]
By Maya Mirchandani Tehran (TIP): It could simply be lore now, but if the story Jugal Kishore, the principal of Tehran’s new Kendriya Vidyalaya told us is true, Iran’s province of Zahedan was named for […]
New Delhi (TIP): The Supreme Court on Aug 31 ordered the Sahara conglomerate to refund Rs. 17,400 crore it had raised from millions of small investors, reaffirming an order from market regulator Securities and Exchange […]
AMPA, FL (TIP): Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan has come under fire for alleged inaccuracies during his convention debut in Tampa, Florida. Mr. Ryan attacked the president for making cuts to the Medicare healthcare program, […]
Interests, values, and history all suggest that the natural political home for Indian-Americans is the GOP,” declares Sadanand Dhume in a bold essay on theAmerican Enterprise website. The resident fellow at the conservative think tank […]
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