Fired dishwasher shoots chef; takes hostages in Charleston CHARLESTON, S.C. (TIP): Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg said a hostage situation in a Charleston, South Carolina, restaurant has ended with the gunman being shot by police, says […]
Dera Chief’s followers protest; Violence breaks out; curfew imposed in many places in Punjab PANCHKULA, HARYANA (TIP): Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was found guilty of rape by a special CBI court […]
CHICAGO (TIP): An Indian-American executive was racially abused and told to “go back to India” after he said that he will not support President Donald Trump’s economic agenda after Trump appeared to defend white supremacists […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The landmark verdict of the Supreme Court ruling on right to privacy as a fundamental right was on August 24, 2017 welcomed by jurists and senior advocates who termed it as “progressive” […]
BENGALURU (TIP): Nandan Nilekani, the 62-year-old co-founder of India’s second-largest software services exporter, returned to the Infosys board after an 8-year hiatus on Thursday, August 24, as the firm’s chairman, a move that investors expect […]
25 floats, dozens of marching bands and dancing groups; thousands cheering with tricolor in hands NEW YORK (TIP): Thousands of people from the Indian diaspora converged in the heart of New York, on August 20, […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Thursday announced that an inquiry commission headed by a retired High Court judge would be constituted to probe the death of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in December last year. A decision on […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): A first-of-its-kind ‘Partition Museum’ bringing alive memories of the Independence era in the form of photos, artefacts and documents was today inaugurated in the historic city of Amritsar – the transit point of the massive migration on […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hit out at the government for not being able to keep its promises and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted to create a “Swachh Bharat” (Clean India) but people wanted […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The country’s defence acquisition council (DAC) on Thursday gave the green light to a proposal to buy six Apache AH64E attack helicopters for the army from the United States. The Boeing-manufactured helicopters and associated equipment cleared by the council are expected to cost around […]
BENGALURU (TIP): Infosys Ltd, in a surprise announcement, said Vishal Sikka has resigned as CEO citing a stream of distractions and disruptions in recent months, pushing down shares of the second-largest Indian IT services firm almost 8 per cent on Friday. UB […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP received the lion’s share – Rs 705.81 crore – of Rs 956.77 crore that corporate houses donated to five national parties between 2012-13 and 2015-16, a report by a Delhi-based nonprofit pushing for poll reforms […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP today set the ball rolling for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, fixing an individual target of “at least 360- plus” seats and winning constituencies (around 120 or so) where it had never won or had […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Japan came out in full support for India in its protracted military stand-off with China at Doklam, near the Sikkim-Tibet-Bhutan tri-junction, saying no country should use unilateral forces to change the status quo on the ground. Acknowledging the […]
“India is in the top ten nations with the widest socio-economic gap. It is an economically, socially and politically failed state for majority of its 1.3 billion citizens; who cannot solve its socio-economic, religious and […]
NEW YORK CITY, NY (TIP): As a part of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of Independence Day of India and India@70 series, Consul General Sandeep Chakravorty, rang the opening bell at NASDAQ on Tuesday, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Career diplomat Nikolay Kudashev has been appointed as Russia’s new ambassador to India, the Russian embassy here said. Kudashev, a specialist in South East Asia, is currently the Deputy Director General Secretariat […]
EDISON (TIP): Victory 2017, the coordinated campaign between Murphy for Governor and the New Jersey Democratic State Committee, announced the hiring of two veteran state political operatives including Indian American Amit Jani, who will undertake […]
FREMONT (TIP): An Indian American Mahendra Prasad, 55, of Fremont, was sentenced Aug 14 by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay $328,000 in restitution for his […]
MIAMI (TIP): A Miami resident of Indian origin was sentenced to 40 months in prison on Aug 15, to be followed by three years of supervised release for his role in defrauding victims in an […]
NEW YORK CITY, NY (TIP): An Indian American executive Avaneesh Krishnamoorthy, who worked as a vice president and risk management specialist for a Manhattan-based investment bank pled guilty Aug 10 to a criminal Information charging […]
STANFORD (TIP): Stanford electrical engineering Professor emeritus Thomas Kailath will be given the Marconi Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his many transformative contributions to information and system science, as well as his sustained […]
EDISON, NJ (TIP): Kailash Kher, award-winning Indian pop-rock and Bollywood playback singer, was hosted at TV Asia Aug 17 for a live interactive session and a community reception. Kher, who was recently conferred the Padma […]
NEW YORK CITY, NY (TIP): Consul General Sandeep Chakravorty unfurled the National Flag at the Consulate premises in the morning of 15 August. The unfurling of the flag was followed by the playing of the national […]
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