A US federal judge sentenced Babulal Bob Bera, the 83-year-old father of the only Indian American Congressman, Amerish Ami Bera, on Thursday to a year and a day in prison for fraudulently funding his son’s […]
WASHINGTON: As Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton targets to break the “highest glass ceiling” in the US, three Indian-Americans figure in a list of 19 women who could make history if elected to the US […]
WASHINGTON: Two Indian-American women have been selected for the prestigious White House Fellow programme that offers first-hand experience of working at the highest levels of the US federal government. Astrophysicist Anjali Tripathi from California and […]
BALOCHISTAN: Pro-India protests have been staged by residents of Balochistan, condemning cases filed by Pakistan government against three Baloch leaders who praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s August 15 Independence Day speech. Cases have been filed against […]
NYC: An Indian-origin woman faces 25 years to life in prison in the NYC for strangling her 9-year-old step-daughter to death as federal prosecutors charged her with murder and her ex-husband for obstructing the investigation. Arjun Shamdai […]
DALLAS (TIP): Completed in December, the 430m-long bridge cost$3.4m (£2.6m) to build and stands 300m above ground, state news agency Xinhua reported. It has been paved with 99 panes of three-layered transparent glass. And according […]
NEW YORK (TIP): New York Police said late on Monday, August 15, that Oscar Morel, 35, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder over the deaths of Imam Maulana Akonjee, 55, and Thara Uddin, […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Breadth and depth, newness and eternity will color this year’s Sri Chinmoy Poetry Festival, to be held Saturday, August 20, at 8 p.m. at the Sri Chinmoy Aspiration-Ground Meditation Garden in […]
NEW YORK (TIP): New York based America Tamil Sangam presented its highest honor -Tamil Ratna Award – on maestro AR Rahman at the United Nations General Assembly Hall on Monday, August 15, thehistoric day of […]
STAMFORD, CT (TIP): AmeriCares is deploying medical teams to Assam and Bihar, where relentless flooding has killed more than 90 people and forced nearly 1 million into relief camps. The first teams, organized by the […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Sushil Kumar Shinde, a former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and a former Minister of Home Affairs of India formally inaugurated the Maharashtra Chapter of INOC, USA on Aug. 16, 2016, at […]
A case of sedition has been registered against Amnesty International India in Bangalore after it organized an event to highlight alleged human rights violations in Kashmir. Charges under the very ambiguous Section 124-A of the IPC have […]
In these four years, I also saw with, some disquiet, forces of divisiveness and intolerance trying to raise their ugly head. Attacks on weaker sections that militate against our national ethos are aberrations that need to […]
Donald Trump’s criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Pakistani American parents of the United States Army Captain Humayun Khan who was killed in action in Iraq, has raised red flags in the South Asian community. Trump […]
Hillary will be an extension of Obama Administration a proven anti-India administration. Since April 2015 to March 2016 only Obama gave most sophisticated military hardware worth of $ 1.62 Billion to Pakistan despite strong opposition from […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan’s minister for planning, reforms and development Ahsan Iqbal has said that those protesting against the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor+ (CPEC) will be charged under anti-terrorism laws. Quoting minister Ahsan Iqbal, Gilgit-Baltistan National Congress […]
KATHMANDU, NEPAL: An overcrowded bus veered off a mountain highway in Nepal on Monday, killing at least 33 people and injuring 28 others in one of the country’s deadliest bus crashes in recent years. Injured […]
DHAKA (TIP): In a relief to Bangladesh’s former premier and opposition leader Khaleda Zia, a court today granted her bail in nine cases, including one for sedition and others for a deadly transport blockade. Metropolitan […]
NEW YORK (TIP): An artists’ collective took credit for exposing Donald Trump to unflattering scrutiny on August 18, saying it was responsible for a life-sized nude statue of the Republican presidential candidate that turned up […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh’s central bank has said it is withholding findings of investigations into the cyber theft of$81 million from its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to avoid tipping off the […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lankan financial crime police arrested the eldest son of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa on August 15 on suspicion of laundering money, his lawyer said, the latest legal difficulty for the once-powerful family. […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on ICT cooperation between the Sri Lankan Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure and Huawei Sri Lanka during the visit to Huawei’s headquarters in Shenzhen […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Afghan Taliban has freed the crew of a Pakistani helicopter that crash-landed in Afghanistan’s Logar province on August 4, Pakistani intelligence officials have said. Six Pakistanis and a Russian pilot, who were […]
WASHINGTON M(TIP): The release on websites this week of what appears to be top-secret computer code that the National Security Agency has used to break into the networks of foreign governments and other espionage targets […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched an investigation on August 16 into accusations peacekeepers in South Sudan failed to respond properly to an attack on a Juba hotel by uniformed men who […]
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