Cipla set to buy American business of Hetero Drugs for $550 million
MUMBAI (TIP): India's third-largest drug maker Cipla is buying the American business of Hyderabad-based Hetero Drugs as it seeks to…
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INDIA READY WITH INDIGENOUS MODEL TO PREDICT RAINFALL
MUMBAI (TIP): India is finally ready with an indigenous model to predict long range and seasonal rainfall. In the next…
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Pak court rejects bid to send disabled Indian back
KARACHI (TIP): A Pakistani court on September 3 rejected a petition to send back to India a deaf-mute woman who…
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Bangladesh charges 5 militants over blogger murder
DHAKA (TIP): Five militants of an al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Bangladesh were today charged with murder for hacking to death…
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Four months after quakes, Nepal fails to spend any of $4.1 billion donor money
KATHMANDU (TIP): Two months after foreign countries and international agencies pledged $4.1 billion to help Nepal recover from its worst…
Read MoreHasina criticises Pak, US over coup convicts’ repatriation
DHAKA (TIP): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused Pakistan, the US and Canada of non-cooperation in repatriating the fugitive convicted…
Read MoreFor the first time in decades, Tamil lawmaker becomes Sri Lanka’s opposition leader
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka's Parliament on September 3 recognized an ethnic Tamil lawmaker as the opposition leader for the first…
Read MorePakistan hangs four murder convicts: Reports
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Four murder convicts were hanged to death on September 3 in separate jails in Pakistan's Punjab province, the…
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Long Beach International Film Festival from September 24th to 27th
LONG BEACH, NY (TIP): Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano announced, September 3, that the 2015 Long Beach International Film…
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Pakistan to push for resumption of Afghan-Taliban talks
Islamabad: Pakistan is likely to persuade Afghanistan to resume talks with the Taliban after their parleys were snapped due to power struggle…
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Indian American engineer Ankur Bhatnagar’s startup skyTran gets investment from Eric Schmidt
skyTran, cofounded by Indian engineer Ankur Bhatnagar, a path-breaking transportation company headquartered in California, has received financial investment from Google chairman Eric Schmidt.…
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CHINA FALTERS, AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IS FORCED TO ADAPT
HONG KONG (TIP): The commodities giant BHP Billiton spent heavily for years, mining iron ore across Australia, digging for copper…
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13 KILLED IN PAKISTAN ROAD ACCIDENTS
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least 13 people were killed and 16 injured in two separate road accidents in Pakistan on August…
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Blasts at Afghan gas storage facility kill 11, mostly children
HERAT (TIP): At least 11 people, most of them children, were killed in a series of explosions at an Afghan…
Read MoreProtests over Nepal statute kill at least 9
KATHMANDU (TIP): At least nine people, including six policemen, were killed and several others injured as thousands of ethnic protesters…
Read MoreCops `forcibly’ take Maldives ex-president Nasheed to jail
MALE (TIP): Mohamed Nasheed has been forcibly taken back to jail by police, a month after the former Maldivian president's…
Read MoreNepal opens Everest expedition after earthquake
KATHMANDU (TIP): A Japanese climber will be the first to attempt to scale Mount Everest since a massive earthquake in…
Read MorePak court orders arrest of ex-PM Gilani
ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (TIP): A Pakistani court on August 27 issued arrest warrant for former PM Yousuf Raza Gilani in a…
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Is financial apocalypse around the corner?
There is a statue of a marauding bull on the Wall Street. But, alas, the fella seems to be having…
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GOVT MAY OFFLOAD 10% IN COAL INDIA THIS FISCAL
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government may sell 10 per cent stake in Coal India this fiscal itself through a public…
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Birla to buy two Lafarge India cement units
Birla Corp. Ltd on Monday said it had agreed to acquire two cement assets from the local arm of Lafarge…
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UAE to invest Rs 5 lakh crore in India
Abu Dhabi/Dubai: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has agreed to increase its investment in India to Rs 5 lakh crore (US$…
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Australia’s FAL Food and Beverages to enter India & export from India
Australia’s FAL Food and Beverages, which makes the Coco Joy, Juiced Up and Aqua Hero beverages, on Monday said it…
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RJio to bring out 4G handsets in Sept before its 4G beta launch
Reliance Jio is set to launch 4G-enabled handsets in the second week of September, ahead of the formal launch of…
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CHINA DEVALUES YUAN THIRD TIME IN A ROW, MARKETS ON THE EDGE
BEIJING/NEW DELHI (TIP): China set the reference rate for its currency more than one percent lower against the US dollar…
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India’s economic data brings cheer amid worries over stalled reforms
NEW DELHI (TIP): India's retail inflation cooled to a record low in July and annual growth in industrial production hit…
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IRCTC gets into medical tourism in a big way
KOLKATA (TIP):The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) Ltd, East Zone, has got into medical tourism in a big…
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INDIA INCREASES IMPORT DUTY ON STEEL
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (TIP): A day after devaluation of the Chinese yuan, the government on August 12 announced a 2.5%increase in…
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Global Indians – 13 Global CEOs
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has all along been appreciative of the struggles and achievements of NRIs. His close association with a…
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Azim Premji, Shiv Nadar among World’s 20 Richest People in Tech: Forbes
NEW YORK (TIP): Wipro Chairman Azim Premji and HCL founder Shiv Nadar are the only two Indian tycoons in the…
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