15 years ago, this month, a prime minister of India had traveled to the United States for the annual United Nations General Assembly mela. During that visit, he found time to attend a Vishwa Hindu Parishad event in Staten […]
Defying the Supreme Court and saying she was acting “under God’s authority,” Ms. Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky denied marriage licenses to gay couples on Tuesday [09/01/15]. Ms. Davis has preferred to go to […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan on Sept 10 reiterated its stance for talks with India saying there would be no talks with New Delhi unless the issue of Kashmir was on the agenda. “Any formal talks with […]
KARACHI (TIP): Police in Pakistan say gunmen have shot dead two journalists in separate attacks in the country’s violent port city of Karachi in the last 24 hours. Police say the first attack on Sept […]
MALE, MALDIVES (TIP): A team of human rights lawyers said Sept 10 they will seek international sanctions and travel bans against the Maldives as part of its efforts to secure the release of the country’s […]
LOIKAW (Myanmar) (TIP): Thousands thronged to see Aung San Suu Kyi’s first rally on Sept 10 as the Myanmar opposition leader launched her bid for historic November elections by touring a remote eastern region seen […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Ang Kami Sherpa is one of Nepal’s most experienced “ice doctors” — the mountaineers who brave Mount Everest’s treacherous Khumbu icefall to prepare it for the climbing season — but even he is […]
HOUSTON (TIP): All 172 people on board a British Airways plane had a miraculous escape Sept 11 after an engine of the aircraft burst into flames on the runway just before taking off from Las […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A US judge said on Wednesday congressional Republicans could move forward with parts of a lawsuit that alleges executive overreach by President Barack Obama’s administration in implementing his signature healthcare law. US District […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A turbaned Sikh who has lived in America for years after becoming a naturalized US citizen was subjected to a bloody assault in a Chicago suburb on Sept 9 in an apparent hate […]
HOUSTON (TIP): All 172 people on board a British Airways plane had a miraculous escape Sept 10 after an engine of the aircraft burst into flames on the runway just before taking off from Las […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama along with vice president Joe Biden and several of his cabinet ministers are all set for a high-level engagement with the Indian leadership in a series of meetings later […]
TEXAS (TIP): Police say a 4-month-old boy died but his sister survived after their father left them in a hot car for at least 40 minutes in South Texas. Corpus Christi Police Sergeant Marc Harrod […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): There’s a new quinoa restaurant in San Francisco where customers order, pay and receive their food and never interact with a person. The restaurant, Eatsa, is almost fully automated. There are no […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): California is set to become the sixth American state to approve euthanasia, a controversial issue in the United States fueled by the recent suicide of a woman suffering from terminal cancer. “This […]
GENEVA (TIP): At least 850,000 people are expected to cross the Mediterranean seeking refuge in Europe this year and next, the United Nations said on Sept 9, giving estimates that already look conservative. The UN […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Sonia Gandhi set the tone for the meeting in her inaugural remarks as she launched a frontal attack on Prime Minister Modi, terming his promises as nothing more than “hawa baazi” (hot […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The next time guns boom from across the border in Jammu, India will not fire back immediately. Similarly, if Pakistan receives fire from India, it would spend the next hour establishing contact […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sept 11 inaugurated a new terminal at Chandigarh airport which will handle both domestic as well as international flights. Modi dedicated to the nation the modern facility which […]
NEW DELHI (TIP)): A galaxy of super-rich chief executives, techies, entrepreneurs, investors with global giant companies like Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Adobe are lined up to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his two day […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Nine years after seven RDX bombs kept in Mumbai suburban trains exploded killing 188 people, a MCOCA court here today convicted 12 persons in the serial blasts case. Delivering the verdict, the Special […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on Sept 11 sought response from Centre and National Investigating Agency (NIA) on a plea challenging removal of Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case and alleging […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Food and eating habits have by no means been at the centre of Maharashtra’s politics for the past many a decade. However since the BJP government came to power last year, food particularly […]
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The […]
From the Chopras, it was the Punjabi American Night at Eisenhower Park in Long Island. This annual event is organized by an indefatigable Mohinder Taneja, a former Director with Nassau County. The objective of this […]
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