New Delhi (TIP): The revamped Union Cabinet, in its first meeting on Thursday, July 8, approved Rs 23,123 crore Covid-19 emergency response package to boost health infrastructure and paediatric care across all 736 districts in […]
A French court has reportedly allowed Britain’s Cairn Energy to seize 20 Indian Government properties in Paris to recover an arbitration award of $1.7 billion (over Rs 12,600 crore) even as the Finance Ministry here […]
The much-awaited Union Cabinet expansion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term has finally taken place. In one of the biggest ministry expansions in India’s history, 36 new ministers have been inducted, seven promoted to […]
Britain reported the highest daily number of new Covid cases since January 29 on Tuesday, and the greatest number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test since April 23. Recent figures showed that […]
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan expects some five lakh fresh Afghan refugees in case of a civil war in neighbouring Afghanistan, according to a media report here on July 7, amidst the Taliban militants gaining rapid strides […]
Kabul (TIP): The Taliban’s march through northern Afghanistan gained momentum overnight with the capture of several districts from fleeing Afghan forces, several hundred of whom fled across the border into Tajikistan, officials said July 5. […]
Yangon (TIP): Myanmar security forces killed at least 25 persons on July 8 in a confrontation with opponents of the military junta at a town in the centre of the Southeast Asian nation, two residents […]
Kathmandu (TIP): Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains across Nepal have left at least 38 people dead, including seven children, and wounded over 50 others in the last 20 days, the Home Ministry […]
Hong Kong (TIP): Hearings in the trial of 47 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists charged under a Beijing-imposed national security law have been extended to September. The activists, aged 23 to 64, appeared in court on […]
Nkandla (South Africa) (TIP): South African former President Jacob Zuma turned himself in to police on July 7 to begin 15 months in jail for contempt of court, the culmination of a long legal drama […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE (TIP): Haiti’s security forces were locked in a fierce gun battle on July 7 with assailants who assassinated President Jovenel Moise at his home overnight, plunging the already impoverished, violence-wracked nation deeper into chaos. […]
Tehran (TIP): Iran on July 7 hosted the first significant talks in months between Taliban and Afghan Government representatives, a surprise meeting that comes as the US completes its withdrawal from Afghanistan and districts fall […]
Beijing (TIP): A Chinese gene company selling prenatal tests around the world developed them in collaboration with the country’s military and is using them to collect genetic data from millions of women for sweeping research […]
Kaduna (TIP): Kidnappers who abducted more than 100 students from a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kaduna state warned that the children could starve unless parents supply them with food, parents and the head of the […]
DUBAI (TIP) A 19-year-old Indian-origin student died after he crashed his car into a tree in the UAE, according to a media report on Thursday, July 8. Ibad Ajmal was driving the car when the […]
SINGAPORE(TIP): Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong wore a turban and greeted an audiencewith ‘Sat Sri Akaal’ while inaugurating a Gurdwara at Silat Road in Singapore. Parminder Singh, CXO-Mediacorp, shared a clip of the incident […]
Since the coronavirus outbreak, the CMP sectors have been severely affected by restrictions on the inflow of migrant workers SINGAPORE (TIP): Migrant workers from India will be brought into Singapore on a “small scale” and […]
He performed a sequence of Silambam – a traditional martial art form practiced in India since the 4th century BC SINGAPORE (TIP): An Indian man in Singapore has won the top prize in a government-initiated […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian American diaspora on Tuesday, July 6, expressed grief over the death of Father Stan Swamy and described him as a social worker who dedicated his life to serving poor tribals in India. […]
HOUSTON(TIP):Neha Parikh, the Indian American former president of the travel website Hotwire, has been appointed as the new CEO of Waze, a crowd-sourced navigation app and a subsidiary of tech giant Google. Neha, 41, a […]
Third woman of Indian descent to fly into space will be a mission specialist on Virgin Galactic’s ‘Unity 22’ flight. WASHINGTON (TIP) July 5: Indian American Sirisha Bandla is all set to fly off into […]
I.S. Saluja NEW DELHI (TIP): In a balancing act and to refurbish the image of the government, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, reshuffled his ministry, dropping 12 ministers and inducting 15 cabinet ministers and […]
ATLANTA (TIP) July 5: Dr. Anupama Gotimukula assumed charge as the President of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), during the 39th annual Convention of America’s largest ethnic physician organization in Atlanta on […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Founded in 1964, the White House Fellowship is a non-partisan programme that brings young leaders into the federal government to provide first-hand experience working at the highest levels of government India’s Ambassador to […]
I.S. Saluja MUMBAI (TIP): Dilip Kumar, the Bollywood icon, hailed as the “Tragedy King” and one of Hindi cinema’s greatest actors, died Wednesday, July 7, in a Mumbai hospital after a prolonged illness. He was […]
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