LONDON (TIP): Engineers are developing a new technology which would allow you to ‘smack’ the screen of your mobile and silence its ringing. Software giant Microsoft has patented the idea, suggesting it will find its […]
Plastics are now being extensively used for the packaging of foods and beverages. This is evident on the supermarket shelves: Cooking oil is packed in plastic packets, water in plastic bottles stacked up on store […]
If nuts can help stave off Alzheimer’s, what else is good for your mind? Here are some ways to keep your brain healthy It is the ticking timebomb that will affect 1.7 million of us […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Hundreds of demonstrators protesting against the anti-Prophet Muhammad film stormed the diplomatic enclave in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday. Authorities were forced to call in the army to control the situation which threatened […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Last week’s deadly assault on a US diplomatic mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi was a “terrorist attack” but probably not a pre-planned operation, a senior US official said. The attack, which […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Any hope Pakistan may have nurtured that a visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could open the door for a “deal” on Siachen has been dashed, with Army chief Gen Bikram Singh […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A Queens couple scammed the city out of more than $35,000 by faking attendance records at their publicly funded day-care program, the special schools investigator announced September 18. Nareesa and Saied Mohammed […]
LONDON (TIP): There could be many more habitable planets in the universe than previously thought, suggest new computer models. It is believed that for water to exist in its life-giving liquid form, a planet had […]
Karachi/Islamabad (TIP): Two devastating fires engulfed a garment factory in Karachi and a shoe unit in Lahore killing at least 314 persons, including women and children, in one of the worst industrial accidents in Pakistan. […]
Washington (TIP): “9 Eleven”, a Bollywood-style thriller by Indian American director Manan Singh Katohara, has won the Best Narrative Feature Award at the 2012 Third World Independent Film Festival (TWIFF). The San Francisco festival celebrates […]
DUBAI (TIP): Al-Qaida on September 13 posted an online video of two plane hijackers of the September 11, 2001 suicide attacks, which they said were part of a war to drive US forces out of […]
KOCHI (TIP): Kerala may get an Indian Institute of Technology during the 12th Plan. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here on Wednesday that the Centre is seriously considering a proposal to set up an IIT […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Biting the bullet, the government Sept 13 hiked diesel prices by a steep Rs 5.62 per litre and restricted the supply of subsidized cooking gas to 6 cylinders per household in a […]
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