KOLKATA (TIP):West Bengal governor M K Narayanan rejected CPM’s argument that he did not know about the functioning of their party by saying that he has been an avid student of Karl Marx, Engels and […]
AMRITSAR: The Shiromani GurdwaraParbandhak Committee (SGPC) has written a letter to Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari urging him to direct officials of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi to entertain the SGPCrecommended passports for […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Bharti group chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal and Essar promoter Ravi Ruia on April 11 appeared before a special CBI court in response to the summons issued by the court in the case […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The hearing for Sri Srinivasan’s confirmation as federal judge, the first ever Indian- American to serve the post, began Wednesday, April 10. However, he is quipped to move up to the US supreme […]
YORK, Pa (TIP): Authorities in central Pennsylvania have released the names of the Indian American man and woman killed in an apparent murder-suicide, AP reported last week. Police in York County say the bodies of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.8 trillion budget plan that hopes to tame galloping deficits by raising taxes on the wealthy and trimming America’s most popular benefit programs. In aiming for a […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A man who lived like a hermit for nearly three decades in a makeshift camp in the Maine woods could be responsible for more than 1,000 burglaries for food and other staples, police […]
IRVING, TX (TIP): At least two people were killed and more than 40 hospitalized Thursday, April 11 when a charter bus swerved off the northbound lanes of President George Bush Turnpike near Dallas, hit a […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Leaders have reached a deal on the first major overhaul of the nation’s immigration system in years. And despite concerns from immigrant advocates, it puts border security before amnesty. A landmark immigration reform […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US federal agency, which received nearly 124,000 applications for the H-1B visas, has used lottery to determine who all would be given the most sought after work visas among IT professionals. The […]
KOCHI (TIP): A Navy officer’s wife has filed sexual harassment charges against her husband and his colleagues. The Kochi police filed a case against the ten Navy officers following woman’s complaint. The officer’s wife was […]
LUCKNOW (TIP): In a move suggesting growing differences between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has withdrawn the ‘VIP’ status of Raebareli and Amethi with regard to […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): After a week of sometimes bizarre scrutiny of candidates for Pakistan’s election, fears are growing that the process has failed to weed out the bribetakers and tax-dodgers it was meant to target. Pakistanis […]
KARACHI (TIP): A Pakistani grocer standing in historic polls next month was shot dead on Thursday in a drive-by killing in the southern city of Hyderabad, police said. Fakhrul Islam, 46, a candidate for the […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM/NEW DELHI: Thousands of Indians, especially Malayalis employed in Saudi Arabia, may be impacted by a new work policy of the kingdom that seeks to reserve a certain percentage of jobs for locals. According to […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US Senate voted Thursday to debate the nation’s most ambitious gun safety legislation in almost two decades, after a bipartisan group of lawmakers agreed on expanding background checks.With relatives of the 20 […]
Immigration Reform Bill on anvil is a welcome news. A bipartisan group of senators, known as the “Gang of Eight,” has apparently worked in close cooperation for months now and the reports emanating suggest there […]
Excitement over last week’s installment of Preet Bharara’s Political Greed Indictment show caused breathless stories, and many editorials to issue. The editorials, all, use a polite “workingwithin- the-system” incremental approach to incredulously nudge the corrupt […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh’s prime minister has ruled out a new blasphemy law despite a mass campaign by Islamists to introduce the death penalty for bloggers whom they accuse of insulting the Prophet Mohammed. As part […]
KOLKATA (TIP): The Bangladesh government on Thursday sent a strong message to the opposition for its provocative religious campaign by arresting Mahmudur Rahman, executive editor of pro-BNP newspaper ‘Dainik Amar Desh’, and slapping charges of […]
KABUL (TIP): A NATO helicopter crashed in a field in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing two American service members. The US-led International Security Assistance Force said the cause of the crash is under investigation but […]
DHAKA (TIP): At least 20 people have been injured in clashes between police and activists near Bangladesh’s capital on the second day of a national strike called by opposition parties. ATN Bangla TV station says […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka needs to get serious about post-war reconciliation and account for war crimes if it needs to avoid grief, US Ambassador Michele J. Sison has said. Painting a grim picture of the […]
A website recently published that Sushmita Sen and Wasim Akram are reportedly tying the knot. The two, who were rumoured to be seeing each other, never openly admitted to their relationship. But fresh reports of […]
Sri Lankan beauty Jacqueline Fernandez, who forayed into Bollywood in 2009, says she finds inspiration in British-born actress Katrina Kaif, who has carved her own niche and battled language problems to become the “success” that […]
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