CHICAGO, IL (TIP): The Akshaya Patra Foundation will be holding its 2016 Chicago Benefit Event on Saturday, May 7th. The Mayor of the Village of Burr Ridge, Mickey Straub, will be the honorary host of […]
Americans are generally known for having a positive outlook on life, but with the countdown for November’s presidential election now well under way, polls show voters are angry. This may explain the success of non-mainstream […]
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference,” the 20th-century theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once famously wrote. Arguably, this very much […]
NEW YORK CITY, NY (TIP): Directed by the Oscar-winning Director Jeffrey Brown and Produced by Emma Thompson, “Sold” is a compelling story that spotlights the horrific business of sex trafficking. An adaptation of the bestselling […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi, tennis star Sania Mirza and actor Priyanka Chopra are among the probable contenders for TIME magazine’s annual list of the most influential people in the world., says a […]
JAMAICA, NY(TIP): The third-annual Vaisakhi 5K race, scheduled for April 24, 2016, has increased its runner capacity to 1,000 runners. The success of last year’s race-which had a capacity of only 500 runners-and the announcement […]
(Dallas, Texas – March 30, 2016) Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently appointed Arun Agarwal, CEO of Nextt, the Dallas-based leader in the U.S. home textile industry, to the Product Development and Small Business Incubator (PDSBI) Board for a term set […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A team of Indian scientists from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School has made an important breakthrough by developing a nano-technology which will help monitor the effectiveness of cancer […]
PROFILE At a time when majority of foreign banks in USA are struggling to cope with federal regulations, Bank of Baroda is forging ahead with innovative programs to help its customers. Not many banks can claim […]
WALES (TIP):Scotland and Wales are in preliminary talks to split away from the UK and form a new country if Britain votes to leave the European Union in June. The extraordinary proposal has been discussed […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): Google has unveiled a new landline telephone service aimed at helping consumers stay connected in the Internet cloud. The new Fiber Phone service will be made available to a few US markets […]
LONDON (TIP): Forgot your passport on way to the airport? Relax as De La Rue, a Britain-based commercial banknote printer and passport manufacturer, is working on a technology that can store “paperless passports” in smartphones. […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Embattled liquor baron Vijay Mallya’s proposed ‘sweetener’ deal of Rs 4,000 crore has not gone down well with bankers. Mallya offered on Wednesday to repay more than half of the Rs 7,000 crore […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The government has decided to monitor the utilisation and management of capital expenditure by public sector units (PSUs) on a monthly basis. Besides, it is also keeping an eye on the investments of […]
BEIJING (TIP): China’s manufacturing activity expanded in March for the first time in nine months, official data showed on Friday. The official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), which tracks activity in factories and workshops, rebounded to […]
CANBERRA (TIP): Pegging India’s GDP growth rate at 7.6 per cent for the fiscal 2015-16, finance minister Arun Jaitley today said it is “much less” than its potential and expressed hope for better numbers next […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The Reserve Bank on Wednesday relaxed overseas borrowings norms to help companies raise funds for infrastructure projects in the country. The central bank said it has reviewed the extant external commercial borrowing (ECB) […]
Gangaur is a festival celebrated in the Indian state of Rajasthan and some parts of Gujarat, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh. Gangaur is colourful and one of the most important festivals of people of Rajasthan and […]
Gudi Padwa, the first Holy festival which marks the beginning of the New Year, new month and new day for the Hindus falls on Chaitra Shukla Pratipada. (8th April 2016) It is known as Gudhi Padwa (in […]
MUMBAI (TIP): “It could have been a different ball game if I were out.” Lendl Simmons called it as he saw it. One line question, one line answer. The reference was, of course, the two […]
MUMBAI (TIP): In what was a surprise move that left the pack of media assembled in the basement of the Wankhede Stadium stunned and clamouring to take photos with their smartphones, MS Dhoni responded to […]
BENGALURU (TIP): With an eye on the Olympics, the India hockey team skipper Sardar Singh on Thursday said that the upcoming tournaments like Sultan Azlan Shah Cup and Champions Trophy will serve as important preparatory […]
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 […]
NEW YORK (TIP): An India-born academician has been named by the UN Human Rights Council as an adviser to one of its working groups on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): The Nepal army chief, General Rajendra Chhetri left on a week-long visit of China on Sunday, the day Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli returns from his official tour of the neighbouring country. This […]
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