When America’s leading companies look to hire top technology talent, their search often follows a well-worn path: Recruiters fan out to world-renowned institutions like MIT, Caltech and Stanford, or they solicit applications from community colleges […]
GWADAR (TIP): Pakistan’s army chief accused longtime regional rival India of seeking to undermine his country’s $46 billion project to build an economic corridor to transport goods from China’s western regions through the Pakistani deepwater […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan received at least $13 billion from the US since the September 11, 2001 attacks for logistic and other support in the war against terrorism, the country’s parliament was told. This was stated […]
The New York Indian Film Festival was the first festival in the United States devoted to Indian films and has grown to be the largest and most influential, helping to set up several other Indian […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama has said Nato is “critical” to the security of America and its allies in Europe, a virtual rejection of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s views that the intergovernmental military alliance […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Nuclear-armed Pakistan is a “very, very vital problem”, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said and asserted that the country needs to “get a hold of” its situation. “Pakistan is a very, very […]
Pakistan on Tuesday released a video in which an arrested Indian spy is heard confessing New Delhi’s alleged involvement in terrorist activities in Balochistan. Kulbushan Yadav says in the video that he had been directing […]
American presidential elections get international attention because of worldwide interest in who is going to become the most powerful leader on the international stage. The US presidential elections in 2012 were less exciting than usual, because […]
KABUL (TIP): At least 15 members of the Islamic State (IS) militant group were killed in airstrikes in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, the government said on Monday. “Acting upon confirmed intelligence reports, the […]
On Day #1, they want to repeal Obama care. Forget their hatred for the President, but look at their political meanness to deprive 22 Million Americans of their health insurance. Many of those Americans may be […]
JALALABAD (TIP): At least 10 people were killed and over 40 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a market in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Kunar today, officials said. “A suicide bomber riding […]
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): US Army General John W “Mick” Nicholson has taken command of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, inheriting America’s longest war and a vicious insurgency.
Resident Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan has warned in several recent interviews that unless peace talks with Pakistan and the Taliban produce results in the next few months, his country may not survive 2016. Afghanistan is barely standing, […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain’s Prince Harry will travel to Kathmandu next month on a maiden visit to Nepal and meet people affected by last year’s devastating earthquakes. The prince will visit Nepal between March 20 and […]
Pakistan continues to be a major target of terrorism, most recently demonstrated by the attack on Bacha Khan University, which killed 20 people. Only a week before, three attacks in close succession at a UN-backed […]
KABUL (TIP): As the Afghan government goes into a new spell of talks with the Taliban on Saturday, Kabul appears to have “dropped” the “red lines” that had earlier defined the Kabul-Taliban negoitiatons. Violence by […]
WASHINGTON: Terrorist safe havens inside Pakistan, providing shelter to terrorist outfits like the Taliban and the Haqqani network, is a serious problem, a top US general nominated to be the commander of NATO forces in […]
KABUL (TIP): As the fate of Helmand Province hung in the balance last month during a withering Taliban offensive, the province’s deputy governor, Mohammad Jan Rasoolyar, found his urgent pleas for help from the central […]
Four eminent Indian-Americans, including two women, have been nominated to the Democratic Party’s 2016 Convention Standing Committees which would formally announce its candidate for the presidential polls. Topping the list of Indian-Americans is Smita Shah, president […]
WASHINGTON: Over 14,000 of the 8.8 lakh Indians who travelled to the US on visitor or business visa in 2015 overstayed in the country, according to official figures. The data provided by the Department of Homeland […]
Masood Azhar, the stodgy, 5ft 3-inch Maulana, under detention for the audacious attack on Pathankot’s air base has had his eyes firmly set on India for two decades now. Most remember he was flown to […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The dreaded Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack on a Pakistani media house that had injured one person. Unidentified assailants riding a motorbike lobbed a hand grenade on ARY […]
TORONTO (TIP): A Canadian who was held by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2010 has been released. Canadian foreign minister Stephane Dion said in a statement on Monday that efforts to secure the release of […]
Members of a right-wing group (Hindu Sena) allegedly on Thursday vandalised the office of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) near Barakhamba Road in New Delhi area here, following which one person was arrested. The four activists […]
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for an attack on a Pakistani consulate in eastern Afghanistan today, which Afghan officials said left at least seven members of the security forces dead. In a statement translated by […]
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