NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Mayor Bill de Blasio on Feb. 17 pledged that the city would spend more than $9 million in “language access” programs including translation and interpretation services in 2016, and that the […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Muslim Democratic Club of New York (MDCNY), on February 16, 2016, voted to endorse United States Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Presidential Primary. Sanders received unanimous support in a vote […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Hillary Clinton has said she is not sure if the US is ready to elect its first woman president even as the Democratic presidential front-runner emphasised that there has been a “big improvement” […]
ROWLAND HEIGHTS (CALIFORNIA) (TIP): Three students from China were sentenced on Feb 17 to years in prison after prosecutors said they stripped, beat and burned two classmates. The defendants and victims were “parachute kids” who […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): North Korea’s recently launched satellite is once again tumbling in orbit, after stabilizing briefly, according to a US official and other sources. The satellite update came as a key congressional watchdog agency said […]
UNITED STATES (TIP): An outbreak of fighting at a UN peacekeeping base sheltering civilians in South Sudan has killed at least seven people and injured 40, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday. The seven […]
Dear President Obama, The untimely demise of Mr. Justice Scalia is a grave loss to our Republic, as he, single-handedly, made us honor the Constitution as our collective Founding Fathers originally intended. J. Scalia, of Sicilian ancestry, was […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan hanged 324 people last year to rank third worldwide in terms of executions, but the vast majority of those put to death had no links to militant groups or attacks, rights groups said […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil S Wickremesinghe on Feb 19 made it clear that his government was not averse to international participation in investigating the alleged war crimes in his country, but said […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): At least nine tribal police personnel and seven terrorists were killed in three separate incidents at a tribal agency in Pakistan’s restive northwestern region bordering Afghanistan. The first incident occurred at Karpa Latri […]
What is the issue at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi? A radical left-wing student group as vocal and abusive as RSS/Parivar organized a function to discuss the ‘judicial murder of’ of Afzal Guru as […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Ambassador Arun Singh, India‘s envoy to the United States, inaugurated the curtain raiser for the 34th annual convention of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) during a solemn […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The University of Pennsylvania recently announced that the student team ‘Fermento’ of the Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science won the Grand Prize at the 2016 Y-Prize Competition. […]
HICKSVILLE, NY (TIP): Hicksville Middle School’s Meteorites robotics created last year has made tremendous progress, reaching the finals in the FIRST LEGO Robotics Competition. The South Asian dominated team comprises: Somya Mehta, Sejal Gupta, Rishika […]
WASHINGTON(TIP): President Barack Obama will become the first sitting U.S. President to visit Cuba in 88 years, when he visits Havana, Cuba in March as part of a broader trip to Latin America. He will […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Mrs. Riva Ganguli Das, presently Ambassador to Romania, Albania and Maldova has been named to succeed Ambassador Dnyaneshwar M Mulay who has been moved to External Affairs Ministry where he will head […]
My father’s words jumped at me when I read the phrase, “outward professions of faith.” He was a mayor as well as a respected uncle of the town, and everyone came to him with their […]
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