Business & Economics
Month: February 2013
United States
NSF Director Subra Suresh Named Carnegie Mellon University President
WASHINGTON (TIP): PresidentBarack Obama’s top Indian-Americanscience official, Subra Suresh, hasresigned as director of the NationalScience Foundation (NSF) to becomethe president of Carnegie MellonUniversity (CMU).Obama had appointed Suresh in 2010as head of NSF, a $7 billionindependent […]
Business & Economics
India
Anna Hazare’s Magic Is Working!
CVC reports a 100 per cent jump in corruption complaints in 2012 NEW DELHI (TIP: It’s a record thatwill bring a smile to the faces of AnnaHazare and likes. Their anticorruptionagitation might not havebrought down […]
Business & Economics
Net direct tax collections figures for April-January 2012-13 up by 12.49 per cent
NEW DELHI (TIP): Gross Direct Tax collection during April-January of the current fiscal (F.Y. 2012- 13) was up by 7.02 percent at Rs. 4,55,125 crore as against Rs. 4,25,274 crore in the same period last […]
Business & Economics
Indian manufacturing & natural resources industry to spend Rs 40,800 on IT in 2013
CHENNAI (TIP): Indian manufacturers and natural resources companies will spend Rs 40,800 crore on IT products and services in 2013, an increase of 9.1% over 2012 revenue of Rs 37,400 crore, according to Gartner, Inc. […]
India
Kejriwal’s Party To Launch Its Own News Channel
Channel will fight for the rights of common man NEW DELHI (TIP): Social activist Arvind Kejriwal‘sAam Aadmi Party (AAP) has announced its decision tolaunch its own news channel to focus on common issuesand propagate the […]
Business & Economics
India
4-Nation Gas Pipeline Plan Gets Fresh Push
NEW DELHI (TIP): Aiming to speedup implementation of the ambitiousTurkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline, theUnion Cabinet on February 7approved the setting up of a specialpurpose vehicle to build the 1,680-kmpipeline that terminates at Fazilka inPunjab.Tapi […]
Other News
Chaos ahead of us as solar ‘megastorm’ is brewing?
LONDON (TIP): A solar ‘megastorm’ , expected to hit Earth in the near future, could knock out the planet’s communication satellites, cause power cuts and disrupt crucial navigation aids and aircraft avionics , experts have […]
India
India
Sc Pulls Up Cbi In Babri Masjid Case
NEW DELHI (TIP): CBI’s submission in the BabriMasjid demolition case that senior BJP leader LKAdvani and others had committed a ‘national crime’drew a sharp reaction from the Supreme Court whichasked the agency not to use […]
India
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Avoid overdose of paracetamol to cut death risk
LONDON (TIP): The number of deaths and liver transplants, due to overdose of paracetamol — a drug commonly popped by Indians for fever and cough, has fallen by a whopping 43% in England and Wales, […]
India
FIR Against Union Minister For Vandalism Outside DM’s House
KOLKATA (TIP): An FIR was filedtoday against Union minister of stateAdhir Ranjan Chowdhury after theCongress supporters vandalised theofficial bungalow of Murshidabaddistrict magistrate Rajiv Kumar.They had assembled at the spot tosubmit a memorandum againstsuperintendent of police […]
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To fight germs, Australia bans kids from blowing out candles on b’day cakes
MELBOURNE (TIP): The iconic tradition of blowing out candles on birthday cakes may soon be passe — at least for Aussie kids! Australian children are to be banned from blowing out candles together on birthday […]
Europe
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Here’s Rex: World’s first bionic man is worth $1m
LONDON (TIP): Man has once again played God. The world’s first bionic man Rex, created using nearly $1 million-worth of state-of-the-art limbs and organs — synthetic blood from Sheffield University, prosthetic legs and ankle from […]
Europe
Europe
Top Jamaat Leader Jailed For Life In Bangladesh; Riots Follow
DHAKA (TIP): A top leader of Bangladesh‘s fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami was today sentenced to life by a special tribunal here for “crime against humanity” committed during the 1971independence war against Pakistan,sparking riots that claimed at least […]
Europe
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Life Of Shirdi Saibaba
Shri Saibaba of Shirdi lived between 1838 and 1918, whose real name, birthplace and date of birth are not known. An Indian spiritual guru and a fakir that transcended the barriers of religions, Saibaba of […]
Europe
More Than 50 People Missing After Ferry Sinks In River In Bangladesh: Officials
DHAKA (TIP): Scores of people are missing after ferry carrying around 100 passengers sank in a river in Bangladesh on Feb 7, officials said.”So far we have gathered that the ferry was carrying around 100 […]
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Is Rest Doing Virat Kohli Any Good?
NEW DELHI (TIP): Has the BCCI missed a trick by not including Virat Kohli in the Rest of India squad for the Irani Cup, or even the India A and Board President’s XI teams which […]
Europe