New Delhi (TIP): The Union government should reduce the age for trying people as adults under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act from 18 to 16 to check increasing crimes against children, […]
New Delhi (TIP): The Indian Air Force is set to raise a second squadron of the Rafale combat aircraft in mid-April and it will be based in Hasimara air base in West Bengal, official sources […]
New Delhi (TIP): After Nikita Jacob and Shantanu Muluk, another climate activist Shubham Kar Chaudhari was given interim relief by a Delhi court in the toolkit case related to farmers’ protest. Chaudhari has been given […]
New Delhi (TIP): The Supreme Court on Friday, March 12, ruled that any persons employed with the central or state governments could not be appointed as election commissioners “across the length and breadth of the […]
Nagpur (TIP): Amidst a sharp spike in coronavirus cases in Maharashtra, Nagpur on Thursday became the first city in nine months to return to a state of complete lockdown. Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray warned […]
Kolkata (TIP): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who was allegedly pushed by unknown miscreants while campaigning for West Bengal assembly elections in Nandigram, has suffered severe bone injuries in her left ankle and foot, […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday, March 11, claimed India was “no longer” a democratic country, quoting media reports on Swedish Institute’s democracy report that downgraded India. “India is no longer a democratic country,” he […]
Denmark, Norway, and Iceland have paused use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine while investigators look into several cases of blood clots among vaccinated people. Denmark has halted its use of the coronavirus vaccine for at least […]
The overall number of global Covid-19 cases has topped 118.4 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.60 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Friday, March 12, […]
India on Thursday, March 11, logged 22,854 new Covid-19 cases, the highest in nearly three months as well as this year, as Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu continued to fuel the pandemic […]
Paris (TIP): Activists laid flowers near the Iranian Embassy in Paris on Monday to show support to a women’s rights campaigner sentenced to prison after handing out flowers to women on the Tehran metro while […]
Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) (TIP): A series of explosions at military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 20 persons and wounded more than 600 others, the authorities said. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said the explosion […]
Beijing (TIP): China is planning to spend big in Tibet as its new Five-Year Plan has allocated about $30 billion to ramp up the infrastructure in the remote Himalayan province, including building new expressways and […]
London (TIP): Prince William said on Thursday that Britain’s royals were not racist after Meghan, wife of his younger brother Harry, said one unnamed member of the family had asked how dark their son Archie’s […]
London (TIP) : Britain’s growing ranks of cats and dogs could be left staring at empty bowls after Sainsbury’s, the nation’s second biggest supermarket group, warned of a shortage of pet food pouches. In emails […]
Moscow (TIP): Russia said on Wednesday it was slowing down the speed of Twitter in retaliation for its alleged failure to remove banned content and threatened a total block if the U.S. platform did not […]
Jakarta (TIP): A tourist bus plunged into a ravine on Indonesia’s main island of Java after its brakes apparently malfunctioned, killing at least 27 people and injuring 39 others, police and rescuers said on Thursday. […]
Peshawar (TIP): A Pakistan high court on Thursday said it would order the government to ban social media app TikTok in the country, a lawyer representing Pakistan’s telecommunications regulator said. A high court in the […]
Lahore (TIP): Pakistan’s former premier and senior Opposition leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has accused Prime Minister Imran Khan of receiving PKR 700 million from a business tycoon of Balochistan to make him a Senator. “Mohammad […]
Myanmar (TIP): Myanmar’s military government on Thursday alleged that deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi had accepted illegal payments, while eight people were killed when security forces opened fire on protests against the coup, witnesses […]
Nirpal Singh Shergill LONDON (TIP): An Indian-origin company director has been handed an 11-year ban on operating firms after the UK’s Insolvency Service found that he had incorrectly claimed grants worth around 635,000 pounds from […]
LONDON (TIP): A 13-year-old Indian-origin schoolgirl has become the youngest to be selected for the UK team which will compete at the prestigious European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad to be hosted by the eastern European country […]
Nirpal Singh Shergill LONDON (TIP): The design for a sculpture of an early 20th century Sikh fighter pilot, cricketer and golfer from Oxford University has been approved for a new memorial to be erected in […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Amid lingering doubts about the Covid-19 vaccine, the Ad Council and the Covid Collaborative have launched the “It’s Up to You” campaign featuring celebrities like Indian American medical expert Sanjay Gupta. The campaign […]
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