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Month: May 2015
Other News
Business & Economics
Business & Economics
SpiceJet to raise more funds, increase fleet size
NEW DELHI (TIP): Low-cost carrier SpiceJet Ltd, which came close to collapsing in December after running out of cash to pay its creditors, is looking to raise an additional 3 billion rupees ($47 million) and […]
Business & Economics
M&M buys 33% in farm gear arm of Mitsubishi
MUMBAI (TIP): The $17-billion automotives-to-software Mahindra Group (M&M) is buying a 33% stake in Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi’s tractors and agricultural equipment division for $25 million, making the Indian major’s first foray in the manufacturing sector […]
Business & Economics
Business & Economics
Idea eyes $1.2bn deal to sell towers
MUMBAI (TIP): Idea Cellular, part of the Aditya Birla Group, is working on a Rs 7,580-crore ($1.2 billion) deal to sell its independent towers, drawing the interests of Malaysia’s Axiata, Bharti Infratel and American Tower […]
Europe
London welcomes record 17.4 million international visitors in 2014
LONDON (TIP): London welcomed more international visitors than ever before in 2014, with the city’s cultural attractions and world class sporting events proving irresistible draws for millions, according to new figures released on May 20 […]
Europe
No ‘slanguage’ bar: 6,500 trending words now legit in Scrabble
LONDON (TIP): The next time you want to outplay your opponent in a game of scrabble, go for a slang. Chances are that they would be the highest scoring new words. Thousands of slang words, […]
Europe
Europe
Europe
Europe
Asia
Asia
Asia
Asia
Asia
2 Bangladeshi war criminals to spend life in jail
DHAKA (TIP): A special tribunal in Bangladesh today sentenced two men, including an 84-year-old, to prison for the rest of their natural lives for committing war crimes and siding with the enemy during the country’s […]
Featured
International Day of Yoga – A GLOBAL CELEBRATION
Yoga has been growing exponentially – and organically -worldwide in the past few decades, but credit goes to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking the initiative to get United Nations to declare June 21 as […]
Featured
Secrets of the bin Laden ‘treasure-trove’ – 106 documents released
In his final years hiding in a compound in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden was a man who at once showed great love and interest in his own family while he coldly drew up quixotic plans […]
India
CENTRE BACKS JUNG; KEJRIWAL SAYS BJP AGAIN LOST TODAY
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Centre, throwing its full weight behind lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung in his ongoing tussle with Arvind Kejriwal government, on May 22 amended a 1993 notification to clarify that Anti-Corruption Bureau shall […]
Indian Americans
President Obama names Indian-American Yale Professor to key administrative post
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama has named an Indian-American professor from Yale University as a member of the prestigious National Council on Humanities. The nomination of Akhil Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science […]
United States
Freddie Gray death: Grand Jury indicts police officers
BALTIMORE (TIP): The indictments came after prosecutors presented evidence to a grand jury for two weeks, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby said. Gray’s death last month after allegedly suffering a devastating spinal injury while […]
Business & Economics
Featured
PM’s pledges can’t be implemented in a year
The media is being flooded with assessments of the Prime Minister’s “first year”in office. Has he taken the bull by the horns or has he been gored by an untamed beast? Fashionable as these exercises are, […]