OnApril 12, Hillary Clinton moved one step closer to becoming the first-ever woman President of the United States. The 2016 election will be her second presidential run. To succeed this time she will have to eschew the theme of“inevitability” […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Thousands of demonstrators, including many fast-food workers, protested in New York demanding a minimum wage of $15 an hour to escape poverty in America’s largest city. Fast-food workers were joined by airport, […]
NEW YORK (TIP): U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) has been selected to serve as an Assistant Whip in the House of Representatives. Meng was appointed to the position by House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD), […]
NEW YORK (TIP): “Phoolan Devi: The Bandit Queen”, a multi-media chamber opera by Shirish Korde, a Uganda born composer of Indian descent, is set for its world premier shows in New York City on June […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): The City Council passed a bill, April 16 that will ban most employers from using credit histories to screen job candidates. The bill passed the Council by a vote of 47 […]
MATHURA (TIP): Christian priests in Mathura on April 17 raised security concern after an attack on the 95-year-old St. Mary’s Church in Agra on April 16. The priests fear that they, too, could be attacked […]
MUMBAI (TIP): A day after Salman Khan’s defence team questioned how the actor’s medical examination and blood extraction was done in five minutes, defence counsel Shrikant Shivade on Thursday alleged that the examination of the […]
MUMBAI (TIP): With slaughter of bulls and bullocks being banned, a section of dairy farmers in Maharashtra have mooted the idea of giving milch animals ID tags on the lines of ‘Aadhar’ cards to track […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government is looking at ensuring “zero casualty” during natural disasters through proper mitigation measures but has warned states against “artificial suppression” of data on death and destruction. The suggestion is part […]
BEIJING (TIP): A Chinese court has sentenced a journalist accused of leaking an internal Communist Party document to a foreign website to seven years in prison, her lawyer said on Friday, a ruling that reflects […]
HOUSTON: A major fire broke out in a Gurudwara in Houston, Texas causing heavy damages to the building. The blaze started around 9.15 pm yesterday at the Guru Ravidas temple off Boone and Village […]
Today, The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, the premier graduate school fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants, announced their 2015 recipients. The thirty recipients, called “Fellows”, were selected for their potential […]
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama signed a bill into law on Thursday that repairs the formula for reimbursing Medicare physicians after Congress, in rare bipartisan fashion, passed a fix earlier this […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday expressed serious concerns over the violations of human rights in Indian-occupied Kashmir and called for resolving the issue in the light of United Nations (UN) resolutions. Speaking at a weekly press […]
WASHINGTON: Chennai born Raja Rajeswari, who came to America when she was 16, has become the first person of Indian descent to be named as a criminal court judge in New York City. Ms Rajeswari, […]
PLACERVILLE (CALIFORNIA) (TIP): A 95-year-old California man has become the world’s oldest active pilot. The Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday that Guinness World Record keepers confirmed that a flight last month by Peter Weber Jr. qualified […]
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