Year: 2022
Giuliani meets with January 6 committee
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump‘s onetime personal attorney and a lead architect of his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, on Friday, May 20, met with the House select committee […]
Chicago entrepreneur jailed for a year for illegally exporting computer equipment to Pakistan
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): A Chicago-based executive of Pakistani origin has been sentenced to a year in prison for illegally exporting computer equipment to a Pak nuclear research agency, the Department of Justice said on Wednesday, […]
Democratic US lawmakers seek pathway to citizenship for documented ‘Dreamers’
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): A group of eminent Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday, May 18, rejuvenated their push to provide a pathway to citizenship to some 250,000 documented ‘dreamers’, a significant majority of whom are Indian Americans. […]
American family convicted of forcing Pakistani woman into forced labour
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP) An American family of Pakistani origin was convicted on Friday , May 13, of domestic forced labour on a Pakistani woman for 12 years, federal prosecutors said. A federal jury found the […]
Biden expresses support for Sweden and Finland to join NATO
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): President Biden on Thursday, May 19 expressed unequivocal support for Sweden and Finland to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, saying that the two democratic countries “meet every NATO requirement and then […]
Washington, D. C. Think Tank to Host Indian American Leaders for Panel Discussion on Diaspora Geopolitics
WASHINGTON, D.C (TIP): HinduPACT Executive Director Utsav Chakrabarti and CHINGARI Director Rakhi Israni will speak on a panel at the Gold Institute for International Strategy (GIIS) on May 25 titled, “How the Indian American Diaspora […]
THE HECTOR FONTANEZ SCHOOL IN THE BRONX RECEIVES NYC EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT’S READY SCHOOL OF THE YEAR AWARD
NEW YORK (TIP): Students and staff were honored during NYC Emergency Management’s “Ready School of the Year” award ceremony, presented to P.S. 103, the Hector Fontanez School in the Bronx on Wednesday, May 18. Throughout […]
Navjot Singh Sidhu sentenced to 1-yearrigorous imprisonment in 1988 road rage case: surrenders
NEW DELHI/ PATIALA /NEW YORK (TIP): Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu surrendered before a court in Patiala on Friday, May 20, a day after being sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court in […]
29 phones tested for Pegasus spyware: Supreme Court
Court gives more time to its panel to submit probe report NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on Friday, May 20, said its technical committee had so far received and tested 29 mobile devices suspected […]
Biden on Asia trip with global issues and tech on agenda
PYEONGTAEK, SOUTH KOREA (TIP): US President Joe Biden on Friday, May 20, opened his Asia trip by highlighting the computer chip shortage that has bedeviled the world economy, touring a Samsung computer chip plant that […]
“Videshi” Punjab is all set to go to polls
“Punjabis love diversity, be it in making a choice of their immigrant destination or politics. Their ability to relocate and adjust to new environments are tremendous. Many of them may not be able to read […]
Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan starrer ‘Anand’ set for remake
Filmmaker Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s classic ‘Anand’, starring the then superstar Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan, is set for a remake helmed by Sameer Raj Sippy, grandson of the film’s original producer, N.C. Sippy, and Vikram Khakhar. […]
Tamannaah says she had equal belief in Himmatwala and Baahubali
Opening up about the missteps she took in the Hindi film industry, Tamannaah has said that she believed in Himmatwala as much as she did in SS Rajamouli’s Bahubali. Tamannnaah also said in a new […]
GST Council’s proposals not binding on Centre, States: SC
New Delhi (TIP)- The Supreme Court on Thursday, May 19, in a judgment championing the importance of “cooperative federalism” for the well-being of democracy, held that Union and State legislatures have “equal, simultaneous and unique […]
