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Year: 2015
Business & Economics
GLOBAL MEDICAL TOURISM MARKET TO RISE OVER $ 30 BN BY 2019: RESEARCH
HOUSTON (TIP): Global medical tourism market will rise to $ 32.5 billion by 2019 on account of rising healthcare costs in developed countries, like the US and improved standards of healthcare technology and services in […]
Business & Economics
Nearly 38,000 firms set up in eight months of new Companies Act
NEW DELHI (TIP): Spread across diverse sectors, nearly 38,000 new firms have been registered in the first eight months of the new companies law coming into force in April last year. Out of the total […]
Business & Economics
SEBI WIELDS NEW POWERS; RECOVERS DUES IN OVER 100 CASES
NEW DELHI(TIP): Using its enhanced powers, capital markets regulator Sebi has managed to recover dues in more than 100 cases over the past one year out of the 500 cases in which attachment orders were […]
Europe
7 militants killed in Pakistan blast inside militant hideout
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least seven militants were killed inside their hideout on Friday in a high-intensity explosion in Pakistan’s restive tribal region, officials said. The blast occurred in a compound in Sundana Teera area of […]
Europe
Europe
Europe
Europe
Europe
7 MILITANTS KILLED IN PAKISTAN BLAST INSIDE MILITANT HIDEOUT
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least seven militants were killed inside their hideout on Friday in a high-intensity explosion in Pakistan’s restive tribal region, officials said. The blast occurred in a compound in Sundana Teera area of […]
Europe
LAKHVI GRANTED BAIL AGAIN, BUT WILL REMAIN IN JAIL
ISLAMABAD (TIP): An Islamabad court on January 9 granted bail to Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the mastermind of 2008 Mumbai terror attack, in a six-year kidnapping case. The court granted bail to Lakhvi against surety bonds worth […]
United States
Bob McDonnell, ex-governor of virginia, jailed for 2 years for corruption
RICHMOND (VIRGINIA) (TIP): Former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell has been sentenced to two years in prison for taking money and gifts in exchange for promoting a dietary supplement while he was in office. McDonnell, a […]
United States
Cop fatally shoots man at US airport amid confrontation
COLUMBUS, OHIO (TIP): A Columbus airport official says a police officer fatally shot a man during a confrontation just outside the terminal. David Whitaker, a Columbus Regional Airport Authority vice-president, says the man was shot […]
United States
Obama visits French embassy after Charlie Hebdo attack
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama visited the French embassy in Washington on Thursday to honour the 12 victims of the Islamist attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Obama, fresh from a […]
Business & Economics
Vistara airline to launch on January 9
MUMBAI (TIP): Tata Group is set to launch its full-service Vistara airline on 9 January, more than 60 years after the Indian government nationalised the group’s airline business and following two previous aborted attempts to […]
United States
India
KARUNANIDHI RE-ELECTED DMK PRESIDENT FOR ELEVENTH TIME
CHENNAI (TIP): A general council meeting of the DMK here on January 9 unanimously reelected former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi as party president for the eleventh time. The general council also reelected K […]
Business & Economics
Additional spectrum case: Relief to Sunil Mittal, Ravi Ruia
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a relief to Bharti Cellular Ltd CMD Sunil Bharti Mittal and Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia, the Supreme Court on January 9 set aside the order of the special court summoning […]
United States
Ban appoints Khare as under-secretary-general
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday, January 7, appointed a veteran Indian diplomat and UN official, Atul Khare, as the Under-Secretary-General for Field Support, making him one of the two highest-ranking Indians at […]
United States
Education
Business & Economics
GHAR WAPSI AND MODI’S UNPARALLELED SUCCESS
We are publishing this humorous piece at a time of heightened communal tension in India. Ever since the new government of Narendra Modi came in to power, Hindu extremists have repeatedly said that all Muslims […]
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India
United States
MARIO CUOMO LAID TO REST
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Former Governor Mario Cuomo was laid to rest in New York January 7 after a funeral and wake that was attended by prominent politicians, including former President and First Lady Bill […]