New Delhi (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday spoke to former Indian sprinter Milkha Singh and inquired about his health, reported ANI. Modi wished the legendary athlete a speedy recovery and hoped he will […]
New Delhi (TIP): India made its first advance commitments for a coronavirus vaccine under development, announcing a Rs 1,500 crore deal with Hyderabad’s Biological E to stockpile 300 million doses of its candidate that has […]
New Delhi (TIP): The government has constituted an expert group led by Prof Ajit Mishra, that will give recommendations on fixation of minimum wages and national floor minimum wage. “The Ministry of Labour & Employment […]
New Delhi (TIP): Days after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met key officials in the Biden administration in Washington DC, the US announced Thursday, June 3, that it will distribute Covid-19 vaccines to India as […]
New Delhi (TIP): India recorded 132,364 cases of the coronavirus disease in the last 24 hours, taking the nationwide infection tally to 28,574,350, according to the data from the Union ministry of health and family […]
Washington (TIP): The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 172 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.69 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Friday, June 4, […]
UK health authorities on Thursday added another region for surge testing following the identification of a “small number” of confirmed cases of the Delta variant of Covid-19 or the highly transmissible B1.617.2 mutation first identified […]
African countries have acquired around 53.5 million Covid-19 vaccines so far, according to the continent’s health authorities. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Thursday that 38.1 million Covid-19 doses […]
Confident of the availability of Covid-19 vaccines in the country, the Biden Administration has removed Defense Production Act priority ratings on AstraZeneca, Novavax and Sanofi vaccines, a top US official said. The move would let […]
Jerusalem (TIP): Israel’s Opposition parties on Thursday set the wheels in motion for a potential national unity government after clinching a last-minute agreement to oust Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-serving Prime Minister in the nation’s history. […]
LONDON (TIP): No new countries will be added to Britain’s green list for international travel when the number of quarantine-free destinations is updated later on June 3, The Sun reported. The newspaper, which did not […]
Melbourne (TIP): An Australian court on Friday ordered a dozen media firms to pay a total of A$1.1 million ($842,270) in fines for breaching a suppression order on reporting the conviction of former Vatican treasurer […]
Hong Kong (TIP): Hong Kong police arrested on June 4 an organiser of annual vigils for the victims of China’s 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, in what activists see as suppression of one of […]
Seoul (TIP): A South Korean industrial designer has come up with a satirical solution for “smartphone zombies” who can’t take their eyes away from their screen long enough to stop themselves walking into a wall […]
Sydney (TIP): Australia’s Victoria state authorities said on June 4 they had detected the highly infectious Delta Covid-19 virus variant for the first time in the latest outbreak in Melbourne, stoking concerns of a major […]
Berlin (TIP): A leading German cardinal and confidante of Pope Francis, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, offered to resign as archbishop on June 4 over the Catholic Church’s mishandling of clergy sexual abuse cases, declaring in an […]
Kathmandu (TIP): Nepal’s Opposition alliance on Sunday urged all state institutions not to support Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli government’s “unconstitutional” and “anti-democratic” activities and expressed hope that the Supreme Court’s verdict on the petitions […]
Kathmandu (TIP): Nepal has reported its first death from black fungus, while 10 others have been detected to be suffering from the deadly infection in various districts across the country, according to a media report […]
peshawar (TIP): The ancestral homes in Peshawar of Bollywood legends Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor are now owned by the Pakistan’s local government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, and will be converted into museums. According […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian-originTejinder Singh, a veteran White House correspondent and founder and editor of the India America Today newswire, has passed away in the US, the publication has announced. Singh founded India America Today, an […]
DUBAI (TIP): An Indian-origin student has received the UAE’s coveted 10-year Golden Visa, which is mostly reserved for prominent global personalities, for her merit and excellent academic credentials, according to a media report. Tasneem Aslam from […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Noted Indian-origin economist Kalpana Kochhar, who heads the Human Resources Department of the IMF, is retiring next month after serving for over three decades with the organization to join the Bill and Melinda […]
LONDON (TIP): An 11-year-old Indian-origin boy from southeast England, who has led daily Yoga classes for 40 children across 14 countries during the coronavirus lockdown, on Tuesday, June 1, received UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Back in March, after Donald Trump was banned from Facebook and Twitter for inciting an insurrection, his spokesperson Jason Miller appeared on Fox News and declared the following: “We’re going to see President […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch sided with liberal Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan Thursday, June 3, to endorse a narrow approach on how […]
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