Australian PM Tony Abbott makes surprise visit to Afghanistan
CANBERRA (TIP): Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on October 28 to mark the impending…
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(Update 12 minutes ago)Two Indians among three arrested in Nepal poll candidate murder
KATHMANDU (TIP): Two Indian nationals were among three people arrested for the murder of a constituent assembly election candidate in…
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Doctor who helped track Osama bin Laden ‘not a hero’: Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan has told the US that Shakil Afridi, the jailed doctor who helped the CIA track al-Qaida chief…
Read MoreChina making N-reactor copies to sell to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (TIP): China will be able to sidestep global nuclear commerce rules when it sells its third generation nuclear reactors…
Read MorePakistan military blames India for truce violations
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Faced with India's charges of continued ceasefire violations, Pakistan's military on October 23 blamed Indian troops of targeting…
Read MoreAt least six killed as bomb hits Pakistan passenger train: Officials
QUETTA, PAKISTAN (TIP): A bomb hit a passenger train in Pakistan's restive southwest on October 20 killing at least six…
Read MoreFormer Pakistan PM, officials deny US drone collusion
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistani officials and former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on October 23 denied a report that they had…
Read MoreBoy who killed Nazi dad at age 10 to be sentenced
SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA (TIP): The blond boy was 10 when he put a gun to the head of his sleeping…
Read MoreBangladesh factory tragedy orphans vent grief
SAVAR, BANGLADESH (TIP): Orphans who lost their parents when a garment factory complex collapsed in Bangladesh vented their grief and…
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Army deployed for Nepal poll security
KATHMANDU (TIP): The Nepal Army was deployed in the country on October 20 to ensure that the November 19 polls…
Read MoreOPPOSITION TO REJECT POLLS UNDER HASINA: KHALEDA ZIA
DHAKA (TIP): Rejecting Premier Sheikh Hasina's proposal for an allparty government to oversee Bangladesh's next general election, opposition leader Khaleda…
Read MoreAfghan election candidates warned over phone bombs
KABUL (TIP): Afghanistan's intelligence service on October 21 warned candidates in the 2014 presidential election that mobile phones, computers and…
Read MoreSomdet Phra Nyanasamvara, Thai Buddhism’s supreme patriarch, dies at 100
BANGKOK (TIP): Thai doctors say the supreme patriarch, the head of the country's Buddhist monks, has died. He was 100.…
Read MoreIndia ends eightyear- old ban, starts supplying arms to Nepal
KATHMANDU (TIP): Ending an eight-year-old ban on military supplies, India has handed over some of the equipment, including vehicles and…
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Indian-American Emily Shah crowned Miss New Jersey USA
WASHINGTON (TIP): 18-year-old Indian-American Emily Shah has won Miss New Jersey USA 2014 title, following in the footsteps of Nina…
Read MoreUS Congress set to celebrate Diwali
WASHINGTON (TIP): Thanks to the initiative of bipartisan Congressional Caucus on India and Indian- Americans, US lawmakers are set to…
Read MoreThree Indian-Americans elected to US Institute of Medicine
WASHINGTON (TIP): Three Indian-Americans have been elected members of the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM), including Subra Suresh, who has…
Read MoreNRI couple arrested in Saudi Arabia on black magic charges
KENDRAPARA, ODISHA (TIP): An NRI couple has been arrested in Saudi Arabia on charges of practising black magic, official sources…
Read MoreSikh organization given 450k pounds to fund research
LONDON (TIP): A lottery fund in Britain has provided 450,000 pounds to a Sikh organization to fund research into regimental…
Read MoreUS Gujarati association’s extreasurer charged with theft
NEW YORK (TIP): A former treasurer of a Gujarati community non-profit association in the US has been charged with stealing…
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GERMANY SUMMONS US AMBASSADOR OVER CLAIM NSA BUGGED MERKEL’S PHONE
BERLIN (TIP): Germany's foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, has called the US ambassador to a personal meeting to discuss allegations that…
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Presidential polls in Maldives on October 19
MALE (TIP)s: The Maldives returns to the polls on October 19 for another attempt to choose a president after judges…
Read MoreContemplate over degrading environment issues of Kashmir too: Pakistan thinktanks
ATTARI (TIP): While candidly admitting that the media was more or less towing the line of security establishments and their…
Read More86 stranded tourists rescued near Mt Everest
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese rescuers have safely evacuated 86 tourists, including 13 foreigners, who were trapped in heavy snow at the…
Read MoreMusharraf denies any role in Lal Masjid operation
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan's former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf has denied having ordered the Lal Masjid operation in 2007, even…
Read MoreSuicide bomber kills Pak minister, 7 others
PESHAWAR (TIP): A suicide bomb attack in northwestern Pakistan killed at least eight people, including a provincial law minister, and…
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RAGING AUSTRALIAN WILDFIRES DESTROY HOMES, KILL 1
SYDNEY (TIP): Nearly 100 wildfires raged across Australia's most populous state on Friday, killing one person, destroying dozens of houses…
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Hillary Clinton gets a parking ticket from London traffic warden
LONDON (TIP): Hillary Clinton may be tipped as a future US president, but that did not impress a London traffic…
Read MoreBritain opens its nuclear industry to Chinese investors
BEIJING (TIP): Britain opened the door to Chinese investors taking majority stakes in future nuclear plants on Thursday as finance…
Read MoreNew Zealand’s Eleanor Catton wins Man Booker Prize
LONDON (TIP): Eleanor Catton has become the youngest writer to ever win a Man Booker prize. The 28-year-old New Zealander's…
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