India
Dutt gets four more weeks to surrender
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on April 17 granted four more weeks to film actor Sanjay Dutt for his surrender to serve 3.5 years in jail, holding that the CBI had no business to […]
Year: 2013
India
Mayawati Woos Upper Castes Ahead Of Ls Polls
LUCKNOW (TIP): With an eye on upper caste vote bank, BSP chief Mayawati announced names of 36 candidates for Lok Sabha polls, 18 of whom are Brahmins. Seeking to exploit the upper caste card to […]
India
BJP slams JPC draft report
NEW DELHI (TIP): Slamming the leakage of the draft JPC report on 2G scam as a “gross breach of Parliamentary propriety”, BJP on April 18 said its contents appeared like Congress documents where attempts have […]
India
J&K Minister Slaps Bureaucrat
SRINAGAR (TIP): A Jammu & Kashmir minister’s guards allegedly thrashed a bureaucrat after he slapped him thrice in the state’s Kishtwar town on Thursday. Kishtwar Development Authority chief executive officer Riaz Ahmad Choudhary said the […]
India
Forgotten mathematics legend Vashishtha Narayan Singh back in academia
PURNIA (TIP) : Legendary mathematician VashishthaNarayan Singh, who had been languishing in penury, has joined the BhupendraNarayanMandal University (BNMU) in Madhepura as a visiting professor. The 67-year-old Singh started work on April 17 after the […]
India
Indian American Devotee Ramalinga Raju Donates $3 Mn To Tirumala Temple
TIRUPATHI (TIP): In a princely offering, an NRI devotee from US donated $ 3 Mn to the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at nearby Tirumala. M Ramalinga Raju, an entrepreneur based in the United […]
Europe
Prachanda meets Xi, seeks more Chinese aid for Nepal
BEIJING (TIP): Nepal’s Maoist leader PushpaKamalDahal alias Prachanda sought more financial and technical aid from China during his first meeting with the country’s new President Xi Jinping. Hailing the “traditional friendship” between the two countries, […]
Europe
North Korea lays out tough pre-conditions for talks
SEOUL: North Korea laid down rigid preconditions on Thursday for dialogue with Seoul or Washington, including the withdrawal of UN sanctions and a guaranteed end to South Korea-US joint military drills. The list of demands […]
Europe
Bhullar’s Death Sentence-International NGO’s File “Urgent Appeal” With United Nations
NEW YORK (TIP): Seeking United Nations intervention, international human rights NGOs have approached UN’s Special Rapporteur on Torture after the denial of commutation plea by the Supreme Court of death row convict Devenderpal Singh Bhullar. […]
Europe
Election council to audit vote in Venezuela
CARACAS (TIP): Venezuela’s electoral council announced Thursday night that it would audit the 46 percent of the vote not scrutinized on election night in a concession to opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, who said he believed […]
Europe
Veerappan Proves Mast Cells Have Critical Role In Initializing Pulmonary Fibrosis
NEW YORK (TIP): Pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic, deadly disease that affects five million people worldwide. It is irreversible, its cause is poorly understood, and it has a median survival of only about three years. […]
Europe
N KOREA TRIP: LSE Students Blame Institute For Risk
LONDON (TIP): Students from London School of Economics have started receiving email threats from North Korea after it was revealed that a BBC crew came with them undercover filming from within the secretive state. The […]
United States
Older Adult Volunteers honored
AAPI INFIGHTING TO THE FORE AAPI is a representative organization of American physicians of Indian Origin. The 30 year old organization has a membership of more than 52,000. AAPI claims proximity with the centers of […]
United States
Bank of America Profits up in Q1, but Mortgage Income falls and EPS come up short
NEW YORK (TIP): Bank of America BAC -3.66% recorded net income of $2.6 billion in the first quarter, significantly above last year’s $653 million, on $23.7 billion in revenue. Earnings of 20 cents per share […]
United States
Governor Cuomo Nominates Mta Chairman & Ceo
ALBANY (TIP): Governor Andrew M. Cuomo nominated , April 12, Thomas F. Prendergast to serve as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Mr. Prendergast has served more than three years […]
United States
GOPIO Condemns Bombings in Boston
NEW YORK (TIP): The Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) expresses strong and unequivocal condemnation of the bombings on April 15, 2013 directed against innocent victims in Boston, Massachusetts, USA that killed three […]
United States
Alien Tort Statute’s extra-territorial wings clipped and Charles Dickens Smiles
NEW YORK (TIP): The Alien Tort Claim Act or ATS violated the core principle of respectful co-existence by and between sovereigns/nations in the comity of nations – and invited retaliatory reciprocity whereby other nations could […]
United States
“GANG OF EIGHT” Senators formally file Immigration Bill -Border security is the cornerstone of immigration reform
WASHINGTON (TIP): A bipartisan group of senators formally filed legislation early Wednesday, April 17 calling for border security as the cornerstone of immigration reform. The bill also would prevent undocumented immigrants from reaching full legal […]
United States
Gun background check compromise, assault weapon ban fail in Senate
WASHINGTON (TIP): The centerpiece proposal on background checks in the proposed changes to a gun control bill failed to win enough support in the Senate April 17. The vote on the so-called Manchin-Toomey amendment was […]
Business & Economics
Looking East, Looking West: U.S. Support for India’s Regional Leadership
Today, I’d like to talk about India’s growing influence, felt in the East through its “Look East” policy and in the west, particularly as we move toward the transition in Afghanistan. I’ll highlight how India’s […]
Featured
China-Pakistan nuclear axis- India factor behind their game plan
Last month Beijing confirmed its plans to sell a new 1,000 megawatt nuclear reactor to Pakistan in a deal signed in February. This pact was secretly concluded between the China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) and […]
Featured
Terror in Bangalore Learn from Boston
April 17 blast in Bangalore and the Boston terror attack, which happened a day before, offer interesting parallels. While it was the first terror strike after 9/11 in the US, in India terrorism remains a […]
United States
Chidambaram, Aamir In Time’s 100 Most Influential Global List
NEW YORK (TIP): Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and actor Aamir Khan have been named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people in the world in its annual list of global achievers that also […]
India
New norms for sensitive treatment of rape victims
MUMBAI (TIP): The comprehensive protocol on the examination of sexual assault victims has recommended doing away with the insensitive twofinger test and unscientific practices such as giving undue importance to the build of the victim. […]
India
Team Including Indian Develops Tamiflu Rival
NEW DELHI (TIP): An Indian researcher is part of a team led by a renowned Japanese scientist that has developed a new way of making the only known drug used for treating bird and swine […]