MUMBAI: The Income Declaration Scheme (IDS), 2016, which closes on September 30, offers a chance to come clean, or else one must be ready to face consequences, indicated Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday. […]
LONDON (TIP): Scientists have identified a young star in the Milky Way located almost 11,000 light years away from Earth and 30 times more massive than our Sun, which could help understand how the most […]
Facebook is further automating its “trending” stories feature, a move that will scale back human input to prevent personal bias from influencing which stories get highlighted. The social media giant will rely more heavily on an […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has successfully tested two `air breathing’ scramjet engines as the first step to perfect a futuristic technology to launch missiles, inject heavier satellites in orbit, and fly […]
Vatican City (TIP): Affectionately called the “saint of the gutters” during her lifetime, Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be made an official saint of the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday (September 4), just 19 years […]
LONDON (TIP): A nine-month-old baby in the UK, born with a large hole in his heart and faced certain death has survived a marathon surgery when doctors stopped his tiny heart for 15 hours for […]
BEIJING (TIP): China is developing a new long-range bomber, the head of the Chinese air force was quoted as saying in state media on Friday, the latest move in its ambitious military modernisation programme. China […]
Mother Teresa will be canonized on September 4. The world seems to be converging at the Vatican to witness the historic occasion. President Obama has announced the presidential delegation for the ceremony. India, too, is […]
LONDON (TIP): A classified 60-yearold Japanese government document on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s death made public today concludes that the legendary freedom fighter died in a plane crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945, backing […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Was Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal always aware of the dubious background of certain legislators and chose to turn a blind eye until shamed publicly by the media? Why did he choose […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India and the US on Tuesday agreed to move forward on building six nuclear reactors and discussed ways to enhance cooperation in the field of atomic power and space. John Kerry, US […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha today indicated that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) would have been India’s had the country gone for a military solution rather than taking a “moral high ground”. He rued […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on September 1 told the Supreme Court that that he stood by his remarks blaming the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. The Congress […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Gujarat Tourism is offering 32 tourism projects to attract private investments at the forthcoming Incredible India Tourism Investor’s Summit (IITIS) to be held from September 21-23 in New Delhi. The total estimated […]
ATLANTA (TIP): The World Affairs Council of Atlanta and the American India Foundation [AIF] hosted, August 18, Dr. Rajeev Tayal, Executive Director of the Indo-US Science & Technology Forum [IUSSTF] for a breakfast presentation at […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): With the topic of U.S. jobs filled by foreign workers fanning the heat of the presidential campaign, Rep. Darrell Issa introduced, August 31, a bipartisan legislation designed to close loopholes in the H1-B […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): At least 12 people were killed and 52 wounded when two bomb blasts were detonated outside a district court in northwestern Pakistan on September 2, a rescue official said. “So far we recovered […]
COLOMBO (TIP): The Maldives announced on September 1 it is seeking former president Mohamed Nasheed’s arrest for failing to return to the troubled archipelago to complete a prison sentence after receiving medical treatment in Britain. […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh’s top court on August 31 rejected a final appeal by the leader of an Islamist party against a death sentence over atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence, lawyers said, meaning […]
COLOMBO (TIP): The brother of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was among eight persons against whom the Sri Lankan graft commission filed a corruption case on for causing a loss of nearly US$ 75 million to […]
KUALA LUMPUR (TIP): Malaysia on September 1 reported its first suspected case of Zika, a 58-year-old woman believed to have contracted it in neighbouring Singapore where more than 100 cases have been confirmed. The Malaysian […]
MARYLAND (TIP): Indian American owned health care informatics company CTIS led by its founders Raj and Bharti Shah, have collaborated with the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education and Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical […]
SAN DIEGO, CA (TIP): Physician Naga Raja Thota, 62, a pain specialist with an office in El Cajon, was arrested Wednesday, August 31, morning and charged with distributing oxycodone and other highly addictive drugs without […]
WOODBRIDGE, NJ (TIP): On August 14, at the Annual India Day parade, a member of the Asian Indian community was sworn in to serve the Fourth Ward on the Woodbridge Township Council. Woodbridge is the […]
QUEENS, NEW YORK(TIP): In what apparently is a hate crime, a previous life was lost in Queens. Nazma Khanam, a businesswoman died after she was attacked in Jamaica Hills. Mayor Bill de Blasio condoling her […]
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