BOSTON (TIP): Police on May 16 morning evacuated several buildings at Harvard Business School’s campus following a bomb threat, local media reported. Harvard authorities too tweeted an alert, saying, “Alert: Police are evacuating multiple buildings […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Two Chinese tactical aircraft carried out an “unsafe” intercept of a US military aircraft on May 17, the Pentagon said in a statement on Wednesday. The incident took place in “international airspace” as […]
New Delhi (TIP): President Pranab Mukherjee, who will visit Beijing and Guangzhou next week, is likely to do his bit to nudge China to stop shielding terrorists based in Pakistan from United Nations sanctions. “India […]
New Delhi: Interpol has said Enforcement Directorate’s request to issue a red corner notice (RCN) against businessman Vijay Mallya is under review. In response to TOI’s query on the RCN request against Mallya, made last […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a fresh salvo at RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, BJP MP Subramanian Swamy has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking immediate sacking of the former IMF Chief Economist while alleging he […]
Ambassador Riva Ganguly Das took over as India‘s Consul General in New York on March 7, 2016. A little over two months later, in her first ever exclusive interview to a publication in the United […]
CARACAS: Called “mad as a goat” by Uruguay’s Jose Mujica this week, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro retorted laughingly on Thursday that the former president was right – but he was only crazy with love for […]
LONDON (TIP): London’s new mayor Sadiq Khan has invited US presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to visit the UK and meet his family in a bid to end their ongoing feud about his plan […]
DUBAI (TIP): A mother of six in Saudi Arabia has burnt her house after learning that her husband had gone abroad for a second honeymoon, a media report said today. The woman, who has been […]
LONDON (TIP): Inspired by the ‘liquid wire’ technique in spider webs, scientists have created novel composite fibres which extend like a solid and compress like a liquid. Pulling on a sticky thread in a spider’s […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The Indian subsidiary of UK banking major HSBC on Thursday said it will reduce the number of branches in the country by almost half, a move that could result in job deployments for […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Wal-Mart and some smaller retailers surged Thursday following strong quarterly results, while the broader US market retreated on worries about higher interest rates. Wal-Mart Stores jumped 9.6 percent after reporting better-than-expected first-quarter […]
LONDON (TIP): Oil prices extended their retreat Thursday after hawkish US Federal Reserve meeting minutes strengthened the dollar and a weekly report showed rising US crude stockpiles. Prices hit 2016 highs Wednesday due in part […]
Buddha Purnima is traditionally known as Vesak or Vesakha since it falls in the month of Vaishakh according to lunar calendar. It is a festival that marks the birth, enlightenment and death of Gautam Buddha. This […]
LONDON: Former champion Roger Federer withdrew from the French Open on Thursday, citing fitness issues, as his record run of appearing at 65 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments came to an end. The 34-year-old world number […]
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