SAVAR, BANGLADESH (TIP): Orphans who lost their parents when a garment factory complex collapsed in Bangladesh vented their grief and anger at leading western retailers on Thursday as the country marks 6 months of the […]
DHAKA (TIP): Rejecting Premier Sheikh Hasina’s proposal for an allparty government to oversee Bangladesh‘s next general election, opposition leader Khaleda Zia said her BNP party would not participate in the poll process without a nonparty […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghanistan‘s intelligence service on October 21 warned candidates in the 2014 presidential election that mobile phones, computers and cameras given to them as gifts could contain hidden bombs. More than 20 candidates have […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Thai doctors say the supreme patriarch, the head of the country’s Buddhist monks, has died. He was 100. Chulalongkorn hospital doctors say Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara died on October 23 from an infection in […]
Is the US president veering toward isolationism? Or will he proudly carry the banner of exceptionalism? The recent Obama-Putin tiff over American exceptionalism reignited an ongoing debate over the Obama Doctrine: Is the president veering […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Backing India‘s concerns over the slow pace of progress in the 26/11 case in Pakistan, US President Barack Obama, October 24, asked the visiting Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif why the trial of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): 18-year-old Indian-American Emily Shah has won Miss New Jersey USA 2014 title, following in the footsteps of Nina Davuluri, who was crowned Miss America recently. Emily would now compete for the Miss America […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Three Indian-Americans have been elected members of the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM), including Subra Suresh, who has become the only current university president to be elected to all three US national academies. […]
KENDRAPARA, ODISHA (TIP): An NRI couple has been arrested in Saudi Arabia on charges of practising black magic, official sources said here on October 22. Seikh Nizam and Noor Jehan, originally from Odisha’s Kendrapara township, […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A former treasurer of a Gujarati community non-profit association in the US has been charged with stealing $85,844 from its bank accounts. Girishcha Patel, 58, a resident of Franklin Township of Somerset […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): A Newsday report published October 23 gives Bill de Blasio a 3 to 1 ratio in New York City Mayoral election. It says New York City voters are poised to choose […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Sikhs For Justice, a Human Rights Organization based in New York has claimed that on the occasion of 29th anniversary of 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi, a petition signed by around […]
BANGALORE (TIP): Legendary playback singer Manna Dey died at a city hospital early on October 23 morning, after prolonged illness. Dey, 94, who was admitted to Narayana Hrudayalaya five months ago for respiratory problems, died […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): Sonia Gandhi’s attorney Ravi Batra submitted to the court of Judge Brian M. Cogan, October 21 that Mrs. Gandhi was at a hospital for treatment of an undisclosed medical condition and […]
DALLAS (TIP): Dallas based Indian American entrepreneurs Satish and Yasmin Gupta have made a $ 12 million donation to University of Dallas. The gift, the single largest in the 57 year old history of the […]
Bill Clinton for Tom Suozzi: Rudy Giuliani for Mangano LONG ISLAND, NY (TIP): Nassau County Executive election has reached an all time high feverish pitch. Both Mangano and Suozzi are leaving nothing to chance. If […]
BUSAN (TIP): A new format that gives movie-goers a panoramic 270 degree view will be rolled out by South Korea‘s biggest cinema chain this month, using the walls of theatres as additional screens. Screen X, […]
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