If you spend hours navigating various social media platforms —and that’s all of us, really — you may have noticed something oddly familiar. All of them — Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram — have been […]
The director of a West Virginia development group and a mayor are under scrutiny after a racist post about first lady Michelle Obama attracted a backlash and prompted calls on social media for both women […]
Washington (TIP): The US Army issued an apology Wednesday after its official Twitter account posted a tweet saying Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “lies once every 3 minutes, 15 seconds.” The post, which included a […]
LONDON: Pays to be polite! A Spanish cafe owner has put in place a novel policy to promote good manners under which rude customers are charged more while prices are cut for those who say […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): We all have appreciated our external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj’s timely interventions and speedy responses on social media. She’s one of the most active foreign ministers in the world on Twitter with […]
SYLMAR, UNITED STATES (TIP) : Kuba the tiger paces in his cage, pawing at the metal floor and growling. He’s in a bad mood. A huge wildfire in suburban Los Angeles forced his evacuation Friday […]
LONDON (Wire Services) A UK-based Sikh charity has won widespread praise for taking proactive action in distributing bottles of water to passengers stranded at a UK border crossing over the weekend. Khalsa Aid volunteers swung […]
The attempted coup by the armed forces in Turkey has been foiled. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan communicated via social media to address the country. President Erdogan, an avowed enemy of social media who […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Terming IS as a tool in the hands of anti-Islam forces, Muslim organizations representing all schools of Islamic thought, July 8, condemned the terror attack in the holy city of Madinah, resenting it […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): America’s shame was live broadcast to the world on a chilling July 7 evening with yet another shooting involving a white cop targeting a black male. The 9 minutes and 30 seconds video […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A high-profile Pakistani cleric who posed for selfies with a controversial model famed for her suggestive photos has been suspended from a senior government committee, the country’s religious affairs ministry said, rebuking him […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) Commissioner Julie Menin and J-School Dean Sarah Bartlett will hold a press event on Monday, June 27 at 12:00 Noon at the City […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): An influential lawmaker of Pakistan’s ruling coalition has been booked for allegedly verbally abusing and trying to physically attack a woman rights activist during a live TV debate on honour killing. The ugly […]
SAO PAULO (TIP): With less than two months to go before the world’s top athletes and hundreds of thousands of sport lovers head to Rio de Janeiro for Olympics 2016, the city’s reputation has taken […]
BHOPAL (TIP): IAS officer Ajay Singh Gangwar and Barwani district Collector, who praised the country’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in a Facebook post, was transferred by Madhya Pradesh government. Gangwar was transferred as […]
NEW DELHI: Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau notched up another signal honour as a liberal humanist by pledging to make a full apology in the House of Commons for a century-old slight against Indians, mainly […]
New Delhi, April 7 | The Supreme Court on Thursday directed beleaguered liquor baron Vijay Mallya to disclose to it all his assets—movable and immovable and tangible and intangible—and other interests in India and abroad by […]
BHOPAL (TIP): Police arrested two people in Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone district for allegedly posting a morphed image of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on social media to ridicule the Sangh’s recent decision to change […]
BEIJING (TIP): In a shocking incident, a Chinese couple allegedly sold their 18-day-old baby daughter for $3530 to buy an iPhone. A Duan, father of the child, from Fujian Province in country’s southeast found a […]
ENGLAND (TIP): People who use social media accounts under other names to harass and attack others should be charged, according to the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service. The new rules could allow for the prosecution of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP):At least two out of the seven video clips of the alleged ‘anti-national’ sloganeering in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on February 9 and 11 have been ‘doctored,’ according to forensic reports accessed by […]
Q: What’s at stake? A: Iranians will elect a Parliament that passes laws and a clerical council, the Assembly of Experts, that is technically in charge of naming a successor to the supreme leader when […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP):: A pretty 15-year-old girl strikes a pose and pouts at the camera on her phone, so far so Generation Z, but unlike her teenage counterparts in the West, she stops short of posting […]
MINEOLA: He runs one of America’s largest suburban counties and has repeatedly deflected questions about federal probes of political cronies and personal friends. But until last week, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano never had to […]
NEW YORK: Soumitra Dutta, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, will become the dean of the prestigious Cornell University’s new College of Business to be established during the 2016-17 academic year as a […]
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