On the full moon night following Dusshera / Durga Puja, Goddess Lakshmi is ceremonially worshipped at home to pray for her blessings. Lakshmi is the Goddess of light, beauty, good fortune and wealth who descends […]
LONDON (TIP): Researchers have developed a tiny camera that can be clipped to clothes or worn on a necklace, and takes a picture every 30 seconds, allowing users to record their daily lives. The camera, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): New vaccines being developed by scientists from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway may eliminate the need for needles as they can be delivered via a nasal spray, or as on […]
Insignificant in visible light, halo stars are big in the infrared background. When the known galaxies and stars in the right panel are subtracted, what remains is the cosmic infrared background shown at left. Astronomers […]
The peace prize awarded by the Nobel Committee to the European Union in 2012 has outraged and baffled many, and many more have derided it as shameful, absurd, satirical and a joke. The reason for […]
In the context of the ongoing debate on Kudankulam, the question of nuclear liability has come to the fore again. As a person who has been engaged with this question almost 50 years ago, I […]
Amid domestic political opposition by various states and political parties, the Indian government issued a notification clearing the way for the implementation of economic reforms. New Delhi announced massive set of reforms viz. 100 percent […]
I wish to thank our readers for recognizing that we have done a service to the community by raising the issue of the undemocratic character and composition ff the Federation of Indian Associations, popularly known […]
WOODBRIDGE, NJ (TIP): Woodbridge Police asked for public’s help in finding a missing 13-year-old girl who was last seen at 4 a.m. in the apartment she shares with her parents in the Colonial Gardens Complex […]
BEIJING (TIP): Less than onefourth of Chinese like India, found a survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Center. The attitude of the Chinese towards Pakistan though somewhat better, is not hugely favourable. The findings underscore […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama has conceded that al-Qaida is still active, despite the fact that its top leadership has been decimated in the last few years. “It’s true that al-Qaida is still active, […]
KHAR (TIP): One of the two Taliban militants suspected of attacking a teenage girl activist was detained by the Pakistani military in 2009 but subsequently released, intelligence officials said. Malala Yousufzai, 14, was shot and […]
cWASHINGTON (TIP): At least 20 people have died and another 257 have been infected by the outbreak of deadly meningitis, linked to a contaminated drug, a federal health agency has said. The disease has now […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan government was forced to drop a move to seek parliament’s support for action against militants in the wake of the Taliban attack on teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, due to stiff opposition from […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The school attended by the US President Barack Obama’s daughters was briefly evacuated following a phoned-in threat of a suspicious bag lying on the campus. The suspicious bag, which created panic in the […]
THE HAGUE (TIP): Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, whose iconic ‘Emmanuelle’ role symbolized the sexual revolution of the 1970s and who spent years fighting drug addiction, has died aged 60 after a battle with cancer. “She […]
Shri Guru Guru Nanak Dev Ji Maharaj blessed His devotees with a place to offer prayers to our Gurus and Guru Nanak Darbar of Long Island was consecrated in Hicksville, New York on October 3rd, […]
LONDON (TIP): Nasa’s Curiosity rover on Mars is apparently littering on the Red planet. Pictures beamed back by the rover show a bright object lying in the Martian dirt, and a closer look suggests the […]
LONDON (TIP): Astronomers have discovered a new intriguing exoplanet about the mass of the Earth, orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri star system – the nearest to our planet. It is also the lightest […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A new research by UC Davis researchers has discovered that the key chemical process that corrects for potential visual errors in low-light conditions. Understanding this fundamental step could lead to new treatments for […]
NEW YORK (TIP): US prosecutors want Rajat Gupta, a former Indian- American director of Goldman Sachs Group, jailed for up to 10 years, but his lawyers suggest he could repay for his “shocking” crimes with […]
Anew theory put forward by Harvard scientists suggests the moon was once part of the earth that spun off after a giant collision with another body. In a paper published on Wednesday in the journal […]
NEW YORK (TIP): In a surprise move, Citigroup’s Indian American chief executive Vikram Pandit stepped down Tuesday, October 16, ending his tumultuous five-year reign atop the banking giant that he had nursed to recovery through […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri denied the reports that he has been tipped to succeed Ambassador Nirupama Rao in Washington. The Indian Panorama sources in […]
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