During his China visit, Prime Minister Modi has been unusually forthright in speaking about the problems that hold back the India-China relationship. He probably feels that his desire to strengthen ties with China being so clear, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Kalki Koechlin-starrer disability drama “Margarita, with a Straw” has bagged the best feature film honor at the recently concluded Washington, D.C. International Film Festival. Kalki Koechlin, 31, plays a cerebral palsy patient in […]
MUMBAI (TIP): In one of the largest financing rounds for an Indian internet startup, taxi-hailing service Ola said it has raised $400 million – or around Rs 2,500 crore – led by Russian tech billionaire […]
The AAP rebel camp today claimed that rights activist Aruna Roy, a former comrade of Arvind Kejriwal from his RTI campaign days, would be attending a meeting called by them next week along with over […]
JAMMU (TIP): Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said the militants who carried out a Fidayeen attack on a police station in Rajbagh area of Kathua district came from across the border. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Delhi Police will question Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar as part of its investigations into the alleged murder of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar. Delhi Police Commissioner Bassi said on March […]
Senior Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi took to Twitter to take a dig at the Prime Minister and BJP over Alam’s release. “A party constantly speaking on nationalism & against separatism & terrorism in opposition now supine […]
BEIJING (TIP): A man was shot dead by police and another detained after a knife attack at a Chinese train station which left nine people wounded March 06, police said. The incident at the main […]
The 2015 budget “will further reignite our growth engine, signaling the dawn of a prosperous future,” wrote PM Modi on Twitter, referring to his government’s recently unveiled budget, widely viewed as business-friendly. On February 28, […]
BEIJING (TIP): Sheep or goat? China’s coming lunar new year has stirred a debate over which zodiac creature is the correct one— but Chinese folklorists dismiss the fixation on animals as missing the point. Traditional […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Websites containing jehadi propaganda and other offensive material needed to be blocked in public interest and for protecting the sovereignty and integrity of the country, the Centre told the Supreme Court on […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu shunned the populism of the past to deliver a reform-oriented railway budget on Thursday, February 26, that focused on modernizing an ageing network and improving amenities for the […]
KABUL (TIP): Taliban suicide attackers assaulted an Afghan police station February 10, killing one officer as a separate roadside bombing targeted a prominent female politician in the country’s east, authorities said. The attack on a […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A US man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly plotting an attack on Congress inspired by the ISIS jihadis, according to the Justice department and the FBI. Christopher Cornell, 20, was taken into […]
HERSHEY (TIP): A recently uncovered jihadist-inspired plot by a young American to massacre lawmakers in the US Capitol was discovered thanks to the government’s controversial surveillance programs, House Speaker John Boehner claimed on January 15. […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Columbia University economist Arvind Panagariya will be the first vice-chairman of the National Institution for Transforming India (Niti) Aayog, which will have two full-time members — economist Bibek Debroy and former DRDO […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The online gaming networks for Sony’s PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox consoles —hot gifts this Christmas — have gone dark in what hackers said was a coordinated attack. The outage started Christmas Day and […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The division and denial in Pakistan’s political class on terror was evident once again when former PPP minister Sherry Rehman said those engaged in the apologist narrative on terrorist attacks would be […]
KARACHI (TIP): Army chief Gen Raheel Sharif, arguably the most powerful man in Pakistan, tweeted on Wednesday, “Asked PM Nawaz Sharif to hang all terrorists. More than 3,000 terrorists should be hanged in next 48 […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The division and denial in Pakistan’s political class on terror was evident once again when former PPP minister Sherry Rehman said those engaged in the apologist narrative on terrorist attacks would be […]
BENGALURU (TIP): Central intelligence agencies are in town after a British news channel tracked down, the operator of one of ISIS’s most successful twitter account, Shammi Wintness, to Bengaluru. The man they identified as Medhi, […]
BEIJING: An Italian historian’s theory that Mona Lisa might be a Chinese slave and Leonardo da Vinci’s mother, making the 15thcentury polymath half-Chinese, sent online commentators into a frenzy on Wednesday. Angelo Paratico, a Hong […]
The very first verse in Quran reads, “1:2 (Asad) All praise is due to God alone, the Sustainer of all the worlds (that exist),” and the very last chapter opens with this line, “114:1 (Ali) […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa called early elections on November 20 seeking an unprecedented third six-year term in office amid signs of a drop in popularity and demands of his powers to be […]
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (TIP): Xoom Corporation (NASDAQ: XOOM), a leading digital money transfer provider, is now offering instant deposits to Kotak Mahindra Bank accounts in India. This revolutionary service allows Xoom customers to instantly deposit […]
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