When it comes to big-fat weddings – both in India and abroad, 2012 had quite a few to boast of. Several celebrities tied the nuptial knot this year. Ritesh Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza rang in […]
AA RE PRITAM PYAARE Aa Re Pritam Pyaare is one of the most well choreographed, well executed and enthusiastic item dance number of this year, 2012. Performance by Shakti Mohan, Mariam Zakaria and Mumaith Khan […]
“The King of Good Times’ was hit by one crisis after another in 2012. A series of events that led saw half the fleet of KFA grounded and several members of its staff going on […]
With a view to check burgeoning subsidy, the government decided to cap supply of subsidized LPG cylinders to six cylinders per year per household. Any requirement over and above the six subsidised bottles would have […]
Erstwhile finance minster Pranab Mukherjee introduced the highly controversial law against tax avoidance through foreign investments in his Union Budget speech. GAAR, or the General Anti Avoidance Rules, entails rules and laws that targets entities […]
The Sensex has surged 24.90% in calendar 2012 so far (till 17 December 2012). From a 52-week low of 15,135.86 on 20 December 2011, the Sensex has risen 27.61%. The S&P CNX Nifty has also […]
What a cliff-hangar it was! Even Hollywood could not have provided this sort of dramatic script. First, it was Senate which passed, in the early hours of Tuesday, January 1 Fiscal Cliff deal potentially averting […]
New York City Comptroller John C. Liu offered the following statement on the Congressional agreement to avoid the so-called Fiscal Cliff and its effect on New York City taxpayers: “We will have to wait and […]
My thoughts, perforce, turn to India. It is not that there is not much here in USA to engage my attention. In fact, USA is probably going through one of the worst times in history. […]
Adam Lanza, clad in ‘black battle fatigues and a military vest’ picked up the deadliest arms as if to wage a battle against his enemies and thus become a ‘martyr’ to the memory of his […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian- American Srikanth Srinivasan is among the 33 federal judges renominated by the US President Barack Obama for the US Court of Appeals, January 4, 2013. Srinivasan is the only Indian American re-nominated […]
Pakistan’s relations with two of its neighbors-India and Afghanistan – are strained, and a third border, with Iran, marks the Sunni-Shia divide within Islam. Domestic social services are in decline. Governance is widely conceded to […]
KANSAS CITY (TIP): A Kansas man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple so they could have a child said on Wednesday he is shocked the state is now trying to make him pay child […]
HOUSTON (TIP): Utpala Dubey, an Indian American engineer settled in Houston has been honored with the “Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman 2012” medal by the government of India and the Non-Resident Indians (NRI) Welfare Society of […]
MONROE (TIP): Classes resumed on January 3, for the students of the Connecticut school where gunman Adam Lanza last month killed 20 children and six adults before killing himself. It was the second largest school […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Tehrik-e- Taliban Pakistan has stated that it is willing to declare ceasefire if the Pakistan government withdraws from the US-led war on terror and forms a new foreign policy in accordance to […]
NEW YORK (TIP): An Interfaith meeting was organized in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy Sunday, December 16th at the Hindu Temple Society of North America in Flushing. Prayers were offered for […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The US Department of State has weighed in favor of CM Badal in the pending human rights violation lawsuit before the Federal Court of Wisconsin. The Special agents from the Diplomatic Security […]
EDISON, NJ (TIP): The annual general body meeting of the Federation of Indian Associations (Tri-State) was held on Saturday, December 22nd 2012 at TV Asia Auditorium, Edison, NJ, says a Press Release issued by FIA. […]
BEIRUT (TIP): Dozens of tortured bodies have been found in a flashpoint district of Damascus, a watchdog reported on Monday, in one of the worst atrocities in Syria’s 21-month conflict. The report from the Syrian […]
CAIRO (TIP): Egypt on December 30 dropped treason charges against top opposition leaders including ex-IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei, extending an olive branch to the leaders who had accused President Mohamed Morsi of trying to muzzle […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Hindus have applauded Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu recently elected to 113th United States (US) Congress, for taking the Oath of Office on ancient Hindu scripture Bhagavad-Gita (Song of the Lord), who […]
LONDON (TIP): Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher has been discharged from hospital after she underwent a bladder surgery early last week, a media report said on December 30. The 87-year-old baroness had spent Christmas […]
DUBAI (TIP): The Yemen-based branch of al-Qaida has offered a bounty for anyone who kills the US ambassador to Yemen or an American soldier in the impoverished Arab state, a group that monitors Islamist websites […]
NEW DELHI (tip): The sixth accused — alleged to be the most brutal of the lot — has been left out of the chargesheet. According to some reports, he will attain majority in five months. […]
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