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Dear editor: I read with interest the editorial of professor Saluja and the article by Publy in the Independence Day Special 2015. The great statesman and Indian ambassador to USA in 1977, Nani Palkhivala, had […]
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ANDROID WEAR UPDATE BRINGS INTERACTIVE WATCH FACES
Android Wear update brings interactive watch facesA new Android Wear update adds official support for interactive watch faces, allowing for even more at-a-glance information for you to digest on your smartwatch. Now, it can really show […]
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NOW, MOBILE APP TO TRACK YOUR KID’S SCHOOL BUS
PUNE (TIP): Parents will be able to keep up with details of their child’s school bus, its driver and attendant as well as the school committee, formed under the state’s school transport policy, through a […]
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NASA probe sends stunning images of dwarf planet
WASHINGTON (TIP): NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has delivered the closest-yet views of the dwarf planet called Ceres that show the small world’s features in unprecedented detail. The new images show Ceres’ tall, conical mountain, crater formation […]
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SOON, SOLID-STATE BATTERIES THAT CAN LAST FOREVER
New batteries could hold much more charge, last pretty much forever and not be liable to blowing up like existing technology, according to researchers. MIT and Samsung scientists claim that using solid-state batteries will be much […]
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RE-USABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE TO BE TESTED THIS YEAR, SAYS ISRO CHIEF
AHMEDABAD (TIP): In a major technology demonstration which will cut down cost of satellite launches significantly, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will flight test an indigenously developed re-usable satellite launch vehicle for the first […]
United States
Comptroller Stringer calls on the public to find more than one thousand workers who owed $3.7 billion
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): With Labor Rights Week just days away, on Wednesday, August 19, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer enlisted the help of the public to identify more than one thousand workers who […]
United States
Satnam Singh Parhar is endorsed by Taxi Drivers Medallion Association
BELLEROSE, QUEENS (TIP): The Taxi Drivers Medallion Association has endorsed Satnam Singh Parhar for City Council District 23 in the September 10th Democratic Primary, Parhar announced, August 25. The association represents more than 6,000 medallion […]
United States
Indian Consulate’s Outreach – At Your Doorstep – in Buffalo
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): With an aim to strengthen ties with the local Indian Community in Buffalo, New York, the Indian Consulate organized an outreach program for the Indian community on consular, economic, cultural, banking and […]
India
CENTRAL GOVT ANNOUNCES 98 SMART CITIES
NEW DELHI (TIP): The union government on August 27 released the list of 98 cities that will be developed under the Smart Cities mission. These cities together have a population of 13 crore, accounting for […]
India
LAW COMMISSION ALL SET TO RECOMMEND ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Law Commission of India will soon recommend abolition of death penalty in the country, said a report on August 28. The Law Commission has prepared a 272-page draft report that has […]
India
Census 2011: Hindus dip to below 80% of population; Muslim share up
NEW DELHI (TIP): The percentage of Muslims in the country’s population increased 0.8 percentage points between 2001 and 2011 to 14.23% or 17.22 crore. In the previous decade, i.e. between 1991 and 2001, their share […]
India
Sheena Bora murder case: When Indrani Mukerjea broke down during questioning
MUMBAI (TIP): Arrested media baron Indrani Mukherjea, accused of murdering her daughter Sheena Bora, on August 27 broke down during questioning by the Mumbai Police. According to a report, Indrani started crying when she was […]
India
BANGLADESH EXPORT ADDS TO ONION CRISIS
MALDA (TIP): Just when the Indian government is planning to take the import route to keep supply of onions on the common man’s platter steady, the pricey commodity is being sold at almost half the […]
India
Bihar polls: BJP may finalise seat sharing by September
PATNA (TIP): Under pressure from its allies in Bihar to finalise the seat-sharing arrangement for the upcoming Assembly polls, the BJP indicated on Thursday that it would seal the deal in the first week of […]
India
POWERED BY INDIGENOUS ENGINE, ISRO LAUNCHES HEAVIEST SATELLITE
BANGALORE (TIP): India’s space agency ISRO crossed another milestone August 27 afternoon, launching its first 2,000-kg-plus satellite on a launch vehicle powered by an indigenous engine. The 2,117-kg GSAT-6 communication satellite flew into space on […]
India
3 killed, 16 injured in Pak firing in Jammu & Kashmir
JAMMU (TIP): Three civilians were killed and nine injured on Friday in heavy and indiscriminate shelling by Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. “Three civilians were killed and nine injured in indiscriminate shelling by […]
India
Another Pak militant held in Kashmir
JAMMU (TIP): Another Pakistani militant was captured and four more were shot dead in a fierce gunbattle deep in the Rafiabad jungles of Baramulla as the Army and the Jammu and Kashmir Police wound up […]
India
Give greater rights to children below 6 years: Law Commission of India
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Law Commission of India on Wednesday recommended amending the Constitution to ensure that children below six years of age are protected from “all forms” of neglect, harm and exploitation. The Commission […]
India
From Nitish turf, Kejriwal targets PM Modi
In the run-up to the Bihar Assembly polls, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal travelled to Patna on Thursday and threw his weight behind Chief Minister Nitish Kumar by calling him a sushashak (good administrator) during […]
United States
Pentagon probing alleged distorting of war intelligence
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Pentagon’s inspector general is investigating an allegation that the U.S. military command overseeing the anti-Islamic State campaign distorted or altered intelligence assessments to exaggerate progress against the militant group, a defense official […]
United States
US civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson dies at 104
MONTGOMERY: Amelia Boynton Robinson, a US civil rights activist who nearly died while helping lead the Selma, Alabama civil rights march in 1965, championed voting rights for blacks and was the first black woman to […]
COUNTER TERRORISM
California to organize parade to honour heroes who thwarted France train attack
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA (TIP): Three young men who disarmed a gunman on a high-speed train bound for Paris will get a heroes’ welcome in their hometown in California, the mayor of Sacramento said on Monday. “Big […]
Politics
Obama caught between Clinton, Biden ambitions
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama is caught between the White House aspirations of two of his closest advisers: Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. For months, White House officials […]
Asia
13 KILLED IN PAKISTAN ROAD ACCIDENTS
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least 13 people were killed and 16 injured in two separate road accidents in Pakistan on August 25, local media reported. Samaa TV said that in the first accident, a van-oil tanker […]