NEW DELHI (TIP): Sharing a flight with a celebrity singer and having him croon hit Bollywood numbers over the in-flight announcement system may give many flyers an ultimate high, but don’t expect the Indian aviation […]
MAXICXO (TIP): The world’s fattest man has died of a heart attack at the age of 38 after reportedly drinking more than six energy drinks a day. Andres Moreno, from Ciudad Obregon in Mexico, reached […]
WASHINGTON: The United States will spend $7.5 billion – a 50 per cent increase – to fund the fight against the Islamic State group, defense secretary Ashton Carter said on Tuesday. “Because we are accelerating […]
NEW YORK: Dallas officials have confirmed the first case of Zika virus in the US being transmitted locally via sexual intercourse. Just one day after the World Health Organization deemed the virus as an international […]
DALLAS (TIP): In a scathing ruling issued last month a state judge in Lubbock declared that prominent Dallas trial lawyer Bill Brewer committed misconduct when he used so-called push polling to improperly influence potential jurors […]
Many people involved in the massive evacuation of Indian expatriates from Kuwait in 1990 are disappointed at the mischaracterization of the role of the politicians, diplomats and airline officials in Airlift, a new Hindi film based […]
When the creative impulse of a young engineer is stifled and the dreams of transcending the “fatal accident” of his birth shattered, there is a disturbing aspect to his struggle for justice and equality, the grave […]
The Supreme Court hearing in the political row in Arunachal Pradesh has thrown up three interesting issues concerning a Governor’s role under the Constitution. The first is about a Governor’s powers. Though it is too early […]
EDISON, NJ (TIP): Yoga (Surya Namaskar) marathons, presentations, pledges to stay fit during the rest of 2016 by hundreds of Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS) volunteers and yoga enthusiasts marked the concluding ceremonies of the 9th […]
NEW YORK (TIP): President Barack Obama, in his first presidential visit to a mosque in the United States, said Wednesday, Feb 3, he was seeking to rebut “inexcusable political rhetoric against Muslim-Americans” from Republican presidential […]
NEW YORK (TIP): UN panel has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been ‘arbitrarily detained’ in the Ecuadorian embassy in London calling upon the UK and Sweden to end Assange’s deprivation of liberty. “The Working Group […]
My India is a collection of op-ed articles and columns which deal with hot button issues relevant to modern India and which have appeared in mainstream Indian newspapers like the New Indian Express, the Hindustan Times, the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Inmates on death row facing imminent execution use more positive than negative words in their final statements, according to new research. In a new paper, Frontiers in Psychology, researchers Dr Sarah Hirschmuller and […]
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NEW DELHI (TIP): French embassy in Delhi has said there was no ban on wearing turbans in public space while reacting to a charge by a Sikh organization that the community has been fighting for […]
BANGKOK: Add aging western bridge players to the list of desperadoes in Thailand’s seaside resort of Pattaya, a sin city rife with prostitution, corruption and foreign and home-grown gangsters. The bridge players, mostly British but […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Noting that he has been maintaining a daily diary for years, President Pranab Mukherjee Thursday underlined the complexities a politician faces when he decides to bring out facts related to governance in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 23 unveiled 100 declassified documents on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose at the National Archives of India. The documents are still not available in the public domain, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Lutyens’ zone, already considered among the most pampered areas in India, has made it to the list of 20 cities to be turned into Smart Cities as part of the Modi government’s […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Going tough on non-performers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent out a stern message to government officials who have not corrected their professional conduct despite repeated warnings. During his monthly interaction with […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): A teenage suspect discussed with a British accomplice packing a kangaroo with explosives before setting it loose on Australian police officers, prosecutors alleged on Thursday. Sevdet Ramadan Besim was ordered in the Melbourne […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama directed his national security advisers on Thursday to counter efforts by Islamic State to expand into Libya and other countries, the White House said. Islamic State militants have taken […]
UDHAMPUR (TIP): Nine Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) cadres were on Wedenesday named in a charge sheet filed by National Investigation Agency in last year’s terror attack case in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur. Two Pakistani terrorists of LeT […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Centre on January 28 formed a one-man judicial commission headed by former Allahabad High Court judge Ashok Kumar Roopanwal to probe the suicide of PhD student Rohith Vemula in the University […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Mayor Bill de Blasio and Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced, January 27, an expansion of New York City’s outreach and engagement with community and ethnic media outlets across the five boroughs. Today’s […]
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