NEW DELHI (TIP): India may soon be able showcase to the world a solar train, which uses a mix of thermal power and solar energy generated from panels on its roof. Science and technology minister […]
ANKARA(TURKEY) (TIP): Aylan Kurdi, whose 3-year-old body was captured face-down in the surf in images that have horrified the world, set out for Europe only after Canada rejected his family’s refugee application, a Canadian lawmaker […]
ANKARA (TIP): Iran’s supreme leader said on September 3 he favoured a parliamentary vote on its nuclear deal reached with world powers and called for sanctions against Tehran to be lifted completely rather than suspended, […]
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (TIP): A failure to handle the migrant crisis effectively could adversely affect the “idea of Europe”, Germany’s labour minister said on Thursday, calling for a fairer distribution of refugees within the European Union. Speaking […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Jolting the Nitish Kumar-led grand alliance in Bihar, the Samajwadi Party walked out of the fold on September 3 saying it had been “insulted” by the offer of only five seats against […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Amid a growing concern in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) about the changing demographic profile of India, one of the top leaders of its affiliate Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has demanded that […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 4 paid rich tributes to the teaching community of the country and hailed the role of mothers in shaping the lives of their children. He also […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Five Chinese Navy ships are sailing in international waters in the Bering Sea off Alaska, the Pentagon said, in an apparent first for China’s military that came as US President Barack Obama toured […]
MILWAUKEE (TIP): Cities across the nation are seeing a startling rise in murders after years of declines, and few places have witnessed a shift as precipitous as this city. With the summer not yet over, […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): A Bay Area man who found a$20 bill on a street outside San Francisco International Airport used it to play the California lottery and won $1 million, a lottery spokesman said on […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A retired NASA astronaut has written an article lamenting that the US, “the country that kissed the moon and is roving Mars” has to pay Russia to be able to get to the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): In a new Islamic State video, jihadist fighters are shown flaunting the American M16 rifles that may have been seized by them from Iraqi soldiers or found in weapons caches dropped by the […]
KARACHI (TIP): A Pakistani court on September 3 rejected a petition to send back to India a deaf-mute woman who lost her family when she wandered over one of the world’s most militarized borders as […]
DHAKA (TIP): Five militants of an al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Bangladesh were today charged with murder for hacking to death an atheist blogger who is among the four secular writers killed in brutal attacks this […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Two months after foreign countries and international agencies pledged $4.1 billion to help Nepal recover from its worst natural disaster, the government has yet to make arrangements to receive the money and has […]
DHAKA (TIP): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused Pakistan, the US and Canada of non-cooperation in repatriating the fugitive convicted killers of her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. “(Of the convicts’ sacked lieutenant colonels) Rashid, […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka’s Parliament on September 3 recognized an ethnic Tamil lawmaker as the opposition leader for the first time in decades in what is seen a positive step toward postwar reconciliation with the […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Four murder convicts were hanged to death on September 3 in separate jails in Pakistan’s Punjab province, the media reported. Three of the convicts – Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Boota, and Faqeer Muhammad – […]
The UPA government was rightly thrown out for its poor performance on the economic front (among other fronts). The NDA government was voted in with a massive mandate which – despite its insistence to the contrary […]
On both sides of the India-Pakistan border, columns were written after the aborted National Security Advisers’ meeting. Most retired Indian diplomats and analysts argued that flip-flops on Pakistan betrayed the absence of coherence and strategy. Journalist-apologists […]
ALBANY, NY (TIP): Staff from New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli’s office will attend community events around the state this month to help residents search for lost and forgotten money, also known as unclaimed […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Dr. L. Subramaniam, India’s acclaimed violinist, composer and conductor and Sri Chinmoy Centre International together offered a free Manhattan concert in tribute to Sri Chinmoy on August 29 at the Baruch […]
LONG BEACH, NY (TIP): Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano announced, September 3, that the 2015 Long Beach International Film Festival (LBIFF) will be celebrating its 4th Anniversary with a new line up of exciting […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The 20th Hindu Unity Day (Hindu Sangathan Divas) was celebrated with enthusiasm and grandeur in New York on August 30th. Hindu Unity Day, a gift to community from Narain Kataria and Arish […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): On sept 2 afternoon, Van Hecht-Nielsen had just finished painting the elbow of a 180-foot-tall Pope Francis overlooking Madison Square Garden, when he took a break for lunch. Standing near Penn Plaza Park, […]
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