EIGHT KILLED AFTER MAGNITUDE 5.5 EARTHQUAKE HIT CHINA’S NORTHWEST XINJIANG (TIP): Eight people were killed when an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 struck in China’s northwest Xinjiang region on May 10, the official Xinhua news agency said, with photographs […]
HACKERS CAME, BUT THE FRENCH WERE PREPARED PARIS (TIP): Everyone saw the hackers coming. The National Security Agency in Washington picked up the signs. So did Emmanuel Macron’s bare-bones technology team. And mindful of what happened in […]
Monitor says air strikes kill 11 people north of Syria’s Raqqa BEIRUT (TIP): Air strikes killed at least 11 people, including four children, in a village north of the Syrian city of Raqqa overnight, a war monitoring […]
China’s Silk Road forum latest effort to boost Xi Jinping’s stature BEIJING (TIP): China will seek to burnish President Xi Jinping’s stature as a world-class statesman at an international gathering centered on his signature foreign policy effort envisioning a future world […]
Tensions rise between Saudi rulers and clerics over cultural reforms JEDDAH (TIP): When senior Saudi cleric Abdulaziz al-Tarifi told his almost one million Twitter followers that musical instruments were ungodly, it helped spark a hashtag among likeminded Saudis that “the people […]
British PM May vows energy price cap if re-elected LONDON (TIP): British Prime Minister Theresa May vowed on May 9 to introduce a cap on domestic energy prices that would cut tariffs for around 17 […]
KREMLIN SAYS ‘TOO EARLY’ TO SPEAK OF THAW IN RUSSIA-US TIES MOSCOW (TIP): The Kremlin said on Thursday it was too early to speak of a thaw in ties with Washington, a day after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met […]
THREE OF BRITAIN’S FOUR WEALTHIEST ARE INDIANS LONDON (TIP): The wealthiest persons in Britain are India-born, according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2017 which places the Hinduja brothers Srichand and Gopichand+ at the top of 134 billionaires. The brothers’ […]
NEW SMARTWATCH CAN MOVE IN FIVE DIRECTIONS WASHINGTON (TIP): Scientists have developed a new smartwatch with a display that moves in five different directions — dramatically improving functionality and addressing limitations of today’s fixed-face watches. The watch, named Cito, has the […]
MASSIVE LAVA WAVES SPOTTED ON JUPITER’S MOON IO LOS ANGELES (TIP): Scientists have detected two massive waves sweeping across the largest lava lake on Jupiter’s moon Io — the most volcanically active body in our solar system. Taking advantage of a rare […]
Hubble captures massive galaxy cluster in stunning detail WASHINGTON (TIP): The Hubble Telescope has beamed back a stunning image of a massive galaxy cluster located six billion light years away, which shows extremely faint features that have never […]
ROBOT PERFORMS DELICATE EYE SURGERY ON SIX PATIENTS LONDON (TIP): A robot has been used to successfully perform a delicate eye surgery on six patients in a world- first trial which shows that robotic procedures can be more accurate than […]
UTTARAKHAND Nestled in the lap of the Himalayas Uttarakhand is one of the most beautiful northern states of India located on the southern slope of the Himalayan range. Mighty Himalayan peaks and glaciers are on its north where it […]
Laughing Buddha PARVEEN CHOPRA MANAGING EDITOR, THE SOUTH ASIAN TIMES Two days before destiny and a brutal accident snatched him from us, I had the good fortune of enjoying Karan Beri’s hospitality at his welcoming home in Bangalore, […]
Flower that withered DR VK RAJU FOUNDER, EYE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA Karan was interested in helping our Eye Foundation of America from the first time we met. He embodied “service above self’ (Rotary International motto). In his […]
Love of India took him back GEORGE ABRAHAM CHAIRMAN, INDIAN NATIONAL OVERSEAS CONGRESS When I learned of the passing away of Karan Beri in a brief message from Prof. Saluja, it was simply shock and disbelief […]
A tech whiz no more “Whom the gods love, die young.” Karan (Kay) Beri was President of RIC Technology & Services Pvt. Ltd. Bengaluru, and Founder of Opinio Media Inc. as well as a Director of The Indian […]
TRIBUTE TO MOTHER Mothers are everything for us when we are small…our lives revolve around her. For everything that we need we call mother. To protect us from all perceivable dangers we want her around us. To […]
BSF jawan injured as Pakistan again violates ceasefire JAMMU (TIP): Pakistani troops on Friday violated the ceasefire by firing mortars along the International Border in Jammu district, leaving a BSF jawan injured. BSF troops posted along the border […]
NEXT PRESIDENT LIKELY TO BE FROM BJP; HERE’S WHY NEW DELHI (TIP): The YSR Congress has announced support for BJP in the presidential election, further bolstering the ruling camp’s numbers for the key contest and nearly ensuring that a nominee of the […]
PM Modi in Lanka to re-emphasise traditional Buddhist connect NEW DELHI/COLOMBO (TIP):Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Colombo on May 11 on a two-day visit which is mainly aimed at reinforcing the traditional connect between India and Sri Lanka at […]
IF TRIPLE TALAQ INVALID, SUGGEST WAY OUT: SC NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on May 11 asked the Centre and Muslim women petitioners who have challenged the validity of triple talaq to suggest a possible way out if the […]
‘Obama warned Trump against Flynn as national security adviser’ WASHINGTON (TIP): Former U.S. President Barack Obama warned then- President-elect Donald Trump not to give the post of national security adviser in his administration to Michael Flynn who was eventually fired […]
US TEACHER RIPS OFF 8-YEAR-OLD GIRL’S HIJAB, FIRED NEW YORK (TIP): A teacher at a US school has been fired after he allegedly ripped the hijab off an 8-year-old girl’s head for “misbehaving” in class. Oghenetega Edah, 31, demanded […]
Running for US President ‘a real possibility’, says Priyanka Chopra’s Baywatch co-star ‘The Rock’ WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian actor Priyanka Chopra may one day be able to say she acted with a US Presidential candidate. That’s because her Baywatch co-star Dwayne ‘The […]
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