China’s lust for oil, minerals, rare earths, fish and desire for an alternative northern sea route boils the Arctic Geopolitics! Iceland is a small, sparsely populated island nation with a population of only 320,000 and […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Bilateral trade between India and Egypt may double to $10 billion in the next few years, said Egypt president Mohammed Morsi. President Morsi who is heading a high-level delegation of ministers and […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): India is the sixth most favourable nation for Americans, while at least eight out of 10 do not like Pakistan, making it the third most unfavourable nation after Iran and Korea, according to […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Russia hasaccused US diplomats of blocking a UNSecurity Council condemnation of a bombattack in the Syrian capital that left at least59 dead.Russia’s UN mission said the United States”encourages” militant attacks by blockingthe […]
BEIRUT (TIP): A car bomb killed 53people and wounded 200 in centralDamascus on Thursday when it blewup on a busy highway close to rulingBaath Party offices and the Russianembassy, Syrian TV said.Television footage showed charredand […]
MOSCOW (TIP) — A meteor shower rained down oncentral Russia, sowing panic as the hurtling spacedebris exploded in the air, blew out windows and leftseveral people injured, officials and agencies reported.”A meteorite disintegrated above the […]
TOKYO (TIP): Japan on Thursdayprotested against what it said was aviolation of its northern airspace bytwo Russian fighter jets engaged inwhat may have been a calculatedrebuke of Japanese territorial claims.The brief incursion, whichprompted Japan to […]
OSLO (TIP): Malala Yousafzai, theshot Pakistani schoolgirl-turned-iconof Taliban resistance, and ex-Easternbloc activists are among those knownto be nominated for this year’s NobelPeace Prize, as the deadline expiredon Friday.This year’s award will beannounced in October, butspeculation […]
Economy The economy of India is the tenthlargest in the world by nominal GDP and the third largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). The country is one of the G-20 major economies and a member […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The US is steadily muscling into the lucrative Indian defense market, giving jitters to traditional arms suppliers like Russia, Israel, France and the UK. Having already notched up arms sales worth $8 […]
Inits first major diplomatic engagement of the New Year, India hosted Iran’s supreme national Security Council secretary and chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, last week. Jalili was in Delhi at the invitation of the national […]
ALGIERS (TIP)- Thirty hostages and at least 11 Islamist militants were killed on Thursday when Algerian forces stormed a desert gas plant in a bid to free many dozens of Western and local captives, an […]
In July at least 37 people were killed by flood waters inand around the city of Beijing, China. In the rural andsuburban areas outside Beijing, many more people died inas a result of flooding, which […]
Indian sports received a huge setback and a major embarrassment when the International Olympic Association decided to suspend the Indian Olympic Association due to Government interference. This decision was on the cards after IOA decided […]
LONDON (TIP): Several international students, including some from India have been stranded in the UK without passports and are unable to get home for Christmas after the UK Border Agency asked them to reapply for […]
On December 6, Asadullah Khalid, Head of Afghanistan’s intelligence set-up, the National Directorate of Security, was seriously injured in a bomb attack by a Taliban suicide bomber posing as a peace envoy. President Karzai announced […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Large US firms have spent millions of dollars in 2012 itself to lobby for their Indian business interests along with other issues. Global retail giant WalMart, whose lobbying with US lawmakers for access […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Indian Consulate held a reception to celebrate Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish celebration. Hanukkah also known as Chanukah commemorates the rededication during the second century B.C. of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): The world’s highest mountain should not be hard to spot but American space agency Nasa has admitted it mistook a summit in India for Mount Everest, which straddles the border of Nepal and […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Finance minister P Chidambaram on December 14 said the government will take some more steps in the next few weeks to revive the economy and boost investment sentiments. “I am confident that […]
The list mostly includes US and European countries but China’s neighbours in South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka are missing BEIJING (TIP): China announced a 72-hour visa free stay in Beijing […]
With more than 700,000 Russians behind bars, there have been frequent complaints of sub-standard living conditions, torture, and disease in the prisons MOSCOW (TIP): A prison in Russia’s Urals region where inmates rioted last month […]
MOSCOW (TIP): A television news presenter aged 28 was shot dead in a city centre in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus, the latest deadly attack against a journalist in the region, officials said on Thursday. Meanwhile […]
NEW YORK (TIP): MoneyGram, a leading global financial services company officially launched a fun Holiday Campaign in some of the most iconic locations in New York City. The campaign ‘MoneyGram Melody’ is designed around the […]
In November 2010, President Obama visited India for three days. In addition to meeting with top Indian business leaders and announcing deals between the two countries worth more than $10 billion, the president declared on […]
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