Colombo (TIP): Sri Lankan President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has ordered a 10-day nation-wide lockdown from August 20 night, amidst mounting pressure from medics and the powerful Buddhist clergy to curb the raging third wave of Covid-19 […]
Karachi (TIP): Its curtains down for Pakistan’s “iron lady” Dr Seemin Jamali, who has treated hundreds of victims of terror attacks and other crisis situations in her over three decades of service and takes pride […]
Kathmandu (TIP): Nepal’s main opposition CPN-UML, the largest communist party in the country, has officially split, with one of its factions led by dissident leader Madhav Kumar Nepal applying for registering a new political party […]
KUALA LUMPUR (TIP): Former Malaysian Deputy PM Ismail Sabri Yaakob moved closer on August 19 to forming the next government after securing a parliamentary majority from the same coalition that collapsed earlier this week. Muhyiddin […]
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan is issuing visas upon arrival to all diplomats, foreigners and journalists who want to leave Kabul over security concerns. Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on August 18 that since Sunday, 900 […]
Beijing (TIP): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has vowed to hold officials accountable over mistakes during recent floods that led to the deaths of hundreds of people in a major provincial capital, including 14 who were […]
Beijing (TIP): China’s national legislature on August 20 formally endorsed the three-child policy mooted by the ruling Communist Party, in a major policy shift aimed to prevent a steep decline in birth rates in the […]
VIENNA (TIP): Iran has accelerated its enrichment of uranium to near weapons-grade, the UN atomic watchdog said in a report on august 15, a move raising tensions with the West as both sides seek to […]
London (TIP): The UK government on Tuesday updated its official travel advisory for India to reflect the country’s upgraded status under the Covid-19 based traffic light system, no longer advising against “all but essential travel”. […]
Gayatri Jayanti is observed as the birth anniversary of Goddess Gayatri, the Goddess of Veda. Being the Goddess of all Veda, Goddess Gayatri is also known as Veda Mata. This year, Gayatri Jayanti falls on […]
Sikkim situated in the Eastern Himalayan region with an area of 7,096 sq km and altitude ranging from 300m to 8,586m above sea level is a wonderland blessed with natural abundance from icy cold deserts, […]
SINGAPORE (TIP): Afghanistan’s currency reserves are mostly held in foreign accounts and are probably inaccessible to Taliban rulers, leaving the country desperately low on dollars, Ajmal Ahmady, who led the central bank until the capture […]
Bengaluru (TIP): Application program interface (API) development platform Postman on Wednesday said it raised $225 million at a valuation of $5.6 billion, a little over a year after it entered the unicorn club with a […]
Facebook and a team of African and global telecoms companies will add four more countries to its world’s largest subsea cable project, widening the build project in Africa earlier than planned, they said in a […]
Crisil Ratings on Wednesday said a broad-based recovery is on for India Inc currently, and upgraded its credit quality outlook to ‘positive’ from the earlier ‘cautiously optimistic’. It said the credit ratio, which illustrates the […]
New Delhi (TIP): The education sector in India was attacked significantly more compared to other industries in the month of July globally, experiencing 5,196 attacks per week on average, a new report has showed. By […]
Google has introduced two new stylish Designer Collections, plus new accessory choices, for Fitbit Sense and Versa 3 smartwatches. Fitbit’s latest Designer Collection features styles from Brother Vellies, a luxury accessory brand built on the […]
Micro-blogging platform Twitter is testing a new feature for users to flag tweets containing misinformation around politics, Covid-19/health or any other category. The new feature is available for some users in the US, Australia and […]
Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif are currently busy filming Tiger 3. The pair will be heading to Russia on Wednesday in order to shoot the international portions of the actioner. Salman and Katrina will be […]
Actor Riteish Deshmukh on Monday announced he is set to make his digital debut with a quirky coming-of-age Netflix film Plan A Plan B co-starring Tamannaah Bhatia. Directed by Shashanka Ghosh and written by Rajat […]
New Delhi (TIP): Farmers affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will stage a nationwide agitation on September 8 to demand guaranteed remunerative prices for their produce. On […]
Chandigarh (TIP): Haryana home minister Anil Vij on Friday, August 20, informed the state assembly that during the ongoing agitation against agriculture laws, two farmers had been booked for sedition, while 136 other protesting farmers […]
The land that is now Afghanistan has a long history of domination by foreign conquerors and strife among internally warring factions. At the gateway between Asia and Europe, this land was conquered by Darius I […]
Afghanistan is in a state of disarray as the Taliban seized control of the country at a lightning speed following the pullout of troops by the United States and Nato. Within weeks, the Taliban swept […]
August 20 1597: Dutch East India Company’s first ship returned from East Asia. 1828: The first session of Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s Brahmo Samaj was held in Calcutta (now Kolkata). 1897: Ronald Ross identified […]
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