HUNTINGTON, NY (TIP): Chapel Hill: Huntington, New York, a community of 200,000 on Long Island, has won this month’sNoisy Dozen award from Noise Free America for tolerating excessive noise, especially from gas-powered leaf blowers. Life […]
Council Member Mark S. Weprin Expresses Concern about Recently Published Property Tax Assessments For Co-Ops and Condos NEW YORK CITY (TIP): The New York City Department of Finance (DOF) recently published tentative property tax assessments for […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Lawyers for victims of the Sept. 11 attacks say they have new evidence that agents of Saudi Arabia “directly and knowingly” helped the hijackers, including sworn testimony from the so-called 20th hijacker […]
EDISON, NJ (TIP): Photo Editor of SnapsIndia Mohammed Jaffer, a proud Hyderabadi of Jersey City, traveled with US President Barack Obama as a member of the 100-plus White House Press Corps that included White House […]
BAYSIDE, NY (TIP): State Senator Tony Avella, on February 5, announced the hire of a new South Asian representative. Fulfilling a campaign promise, Senator Avella joined South Asian community leaders to announce that his office […]
KIEV (TIP): US secretary of state John Kerry is in Ukraine to show support for the embattled government as the Obama administration weighs sending arms to Kiev to help it fight Russian-backed separatists. Amid […]
CAMBRIDGE (TIP): Harvard University has instituted a total ban on professors having sex with undergraduate students, strengthening language it said didn’t reflect its expectations on appropriate relationships between faculty members and students. Harvard said […]
FREDERICK (TIP): Two students were shot outside a public high school in Maryland on February 4 night while a basketball game was being played inside, sending game watchers running for cover as frantic parents rushed […]
WASHINGTON: Declaring the internet critical for the nation, a top US regulator on february 4 proposed an unprecedented expansion of federal power to ensure providers don’t block or slow web traffic for America’s countless users. […]
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS (TIP): A three-time convicted robber who helped engineer the biggest prison break in Texas history was executed February 4 evening for killing a suburban Dallas police officer while the notorious gang was on […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A still-classified section of the investigation by congressional intelligence committees into the September 11, 2001, attacks has taken on an almost mythic quality over the past 13 years — 28 pages that examine […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Pope Francis will address a joint meeting of the US House and Senate on Sept. 24, becoming the first pontiff to do so, House Speaker John Boehner said on February 5. “We’re […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama on February 5 called the Dalai Lama a “good friend” and an inspiration for freedom. The president, speaking at a closely watched prayer event in Washington with the […]
Consulting firm chosen to conduct EIA on proposed NPCIL 1,000-MW reactors at Mithivirdi lacks accreditation, say sarpanches GANDHINAGAR (TIP): Heads of four villages in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district have written an open letter to United States […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): LC Goyal on February 5 took charge as the new Union home secretary replacing Anil Goswami who had resigned on February 4. Anil Goswami was given the marching orders after he […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Painting a dismal picture of the economy during the last six months of 2014, IndiaInc said not much had changed on the ground at the industry level during the period falling within […]
PATNA (TIP): JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav on February 5 called for a meeting of party MLAs on Saturday amid whispers that chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi might have to resign well before the legislature party […]
KOLKATA (TIP): Within hours of getting bail in the Saradha case, Srinjoy Bose quit Trinamool Congress and announced he was resigning as Rajya Sabha MP as well. Srinjoy’s quitting is a blow to Trinamool […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on February 5 turned down a plea for initiating contempt proceedings against West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for staging a protest against CBI probe in the Saradha chit […]
BEIJING (TIP): China is planning to build three more aircraft carriers for deployment in the disputed South China Sea amid the escalating maritime stand-offs with its neighbours and the US’ big push into Asia-Pacific. […]
BEIRUT (TIP): At least 66 people were killed on February 6 as Syria’s regime pounded a rebel stronghold with air strikes after a barrage of opposition fire hit the capital Damascus, a monitor said. […]
LONDON (TIP): Four Indians have made it to the top 100 global rich list, as the country records for the first time more billionaires than Britain and Russia. The world now has a record […]
Sure you have waited for long to go for that vacation and enjoy a little tanning session. But then when you come back home you realise that the little tan sessions went too ahead leaving you […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama on Thursday, February 5, said the “acts of intolerance” experienced by religious faiths of all types in India in the past few years would have shocked Mahatma Gandhi. […]
TAIPEI (TIP): The pilot of a doomed TransAsia plane, hailed as a hero for his actions in the final moments before a crash that killed 31 people, was still holding the joystick in the plane’s […]
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