KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): Afghanistan’s once-thriving Sikh community is dwindling fast as many choose to leave the country of their birth to escape what they say is growing intolerance and discrimination. Once boasting as many as […]
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New York (TIP):The Asia Foundation and the Lotus Circle, a community of individuals, foundations and corporations working together to advance the rights and opportunities of women in Asia, honored Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author Sheryl WuDunn as well as […]
Indian-American governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley has asked people of her state to stay calm and maintain peace, a day after the deadly shootout inside a historic black church in Charleston claimed nine lives. […]
The Hong Kong government has reportedly dropped plans to scrap visa-free entry for Indians after representations from Indian officials and businessmen said such a move could seriously jeopardise businesses and tourism. Recent media reports quoting […]
India-born Steve Rai has been appointed the new deputy chief constable of Canada’s Vancouver Police Department. Vancouver Police chief Adam Palmer announced yesterday that Mr Rai has joined the department’s executive team as the new […]
Delhi’s India Gate all decked up for Yoga Day: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who practices Yoga daily, launches the celebrations to mark the International Yoga Day. PM Modi made Yoga Day a key initiative of […]
WASHINGTON: Indian-American governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley today said the 21-year-old gunman who killed nine persons inside a historic black church in a hate crime should get the death penalty. “We will absolutely want […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Massive preparations are underway to commemorate the first International Day of Yoga on Sunday, June 21 at the United Nations and other locations in New York. Giving out details of the […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley sounded optimistic that foreign investors are going to make a large amount of investments in India,. The reason- they are highly satisfied with the reform process […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): As if the pain of Lalitgate involving Sushma Swaraj and Vasundhara Raje Scindia was not enough , Advani chose to inject a little more of it with his emergency remarks. Already in […]
LONG ISLAND, NY (TIP): India Association of Long Island (IALI), one of the oldest and largest Organizations serving the Indian community of Long Island celebrated, June 14, its 36th Annual Award and Fund-Raising Gala at […]
HICKSVILLE, NY (TIP): Friends for Good Health and Bobby Kumar honored a couple of politicians with Champion awards. The recipients of Champions for people in the government included Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, Town of Hempstead […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO International) held its 26th annual general meeting and commemorative dinner from June 5- 6, 2015 in New York with delegates representing several countries […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The FCC said that it is fining AT&T $100 million for misleading mobile customers about its “unlimited” data plans. AT&T (T, Tech30) subjected its unlimited data plan customers to significantly slower speeds after they used more than […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday, June 18, that he will close large parts of New York City’s two most celebrated parks to car traffic on weekdays. The closings in […]
ALBANY, NY (TIP): State Senator Tony Avella and Assembly Member James Brennan announced, June 17, that their bill to provide a means of nonprofit incorporation for organized groups affiliated with the Hindu, Sikh, and Islamic […]
NEW UORK (TIP): Hindus have commended His Holiness Pope Francis for his call to respect and protect environment in his 192-page first Encyclical “Laudato Si (Praise Be): on the Care of our Common Home” released […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A police source said that a wedding guest’s gun went off accidentally at New York’s swanky Waldorf Astoria Hotel and four people suffered minor injuries from debris. The incident happened last week […]
Prime Minister Modi has surprised his own people and, no doubt, external observers, by his foreign policy activism since he took office. In his year in power he has travelled abroad 16 times- and 19 if […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): Militants blew up a primary school for boys early this morning in Pakistan’s volatile Bajaur Agency bordering Afghanistan. No casualty was reported as no one was inside the building when the explosion took […]
DHAKA (TIP): A top Bangladesh Islamist leader could be executed within months after the Supreme Court on June 17 upheld his death sentence for war crimes during the country’s 1971 battle for independence against Pakistan. […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Four moderate earthquakes with magnitudes between 4 and 5.2 jolted Nepal early on June 17, taking the total number of aftershocks to 320 after the devastating earthquake struck the country on April 25. […]
LAHORE (TIP): : Pakistan’s ISI had held Osama bin Laden prisoner for nearly six years in Abbottabad and handed him over to the US in a staged raid, a media report said on Wednesday in […]
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