WASHINGTON (TIP): Bill Gates is something of a model for education skeptics. Gates — like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Oprah Winfrey — dropped out of college. If they didn’t need a college degree, the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Hackers broke into US government computers, possibly compromising the personal data of 4 million current and former federal employees, and investigators were probing whether the culprits were based in China, US officials said […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A judge on June 4 formally granted a retrial for the man convicted of killing Chandra Levy, the Washington intern whose case became a national sensation after she was romantically linked to a […]
BRUSSELS (TIP): The United Nations launched an appeal on Thursday for half a billion dollars in international aid to help tackle a worsening humanitarian crisis in Iraq triggered by the conflict with Islamic State militants. […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan has seen a major fall in polio cases this year, officials said June 5, as a military operation has allowed vaccinators to reach areas previously off-limits because of militant attacks. The World […]
MYANMAR (TIP): Myanmar’s navy has briefly detained journalists who tried to reach a remote island where more than 700 migrants were being held after their ship was found drifting off the country’s southwestern coast. Some […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Four mild aftershocks were recorded in Nepal June 5, nearly five weeks after the country’s worst quake killed nearly 9,000 people. A 4.5 magnitude tremor was recorded at 5.38 pm with epicentre at […]
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): Nine people including seven Afghan aid workers were killed when militants attacked a guesthouse in northern Afghanistan around midnight June 3, officials said. “Those killed in Zari district of Balkh province include […]
JAKARTA (TIP): Nearly 3,000 people have been evacuated from their homes after Indonesia upgraded the threat posed by a volcano on Sumatra to the highest possible level, an official said June 5. Authorities raised the […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on June 5 launched a (Pakistani) Rs 45 billion ($441,804,600) bus service network here with a commitment to revolutionize the transport and infrastructure system of the country. Launched […]
[quote_box_right]”The key to attracting much needed investment in the country is predictability and transparency in areas like tax and intellectual property. When these principles are consistently applied, business will boom for both the US and India as […]
It seems unlikely that ideas that have powered physics can also help us understand radical Islam. But let us not forget that the emergence of the so-called Islamic State has necessitated an urgent need for new […]
The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, scored most in foreign policy in his first year in power. No one anticipated Modi’s natural flair for diplomacy, to which he has brought imagination and self-assurance. Modi has been more […]
Tests conducted in Kerala, West Bengal, UP and Delhi have reportedly found that Maggi noodles contain an undeclared taste enhancer called monosodium glutamate (MSG) and lead levels beyond the permissible limits. This is bound to worry […]
STAMFORD, CT (TIP): Stamford Dollars for Scholars presented scholarship to 25 high school students on June 1st evening at a ceremony held at the University of Connecticut, Stamford Campus. Attended by Stamford Mayor David Martin […]
EAST MEADOW, NY (TIP): Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano announced, May 29, that Nassau County and TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank®, will celebrate our nation’s independence by presenting a spectacular fireworks show and […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Influential American lawmakers have pushed for removing of restrictions on export of natural gas to India and sought to implement the civil nuclear deal to meet the country’s ever-growing energy needs. Referring to […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan has suffered at least$107 billion losses due to terrorism plaguing the country for well over a decade, according to official data. The data was part of the annual national Economic Survey issued […]
RICHMOND HILL (NEW YORK (TIP): The Richmond Hill Punjabi Merchants’ Association, with Chairman Jaswinder Singh Johl and President Pritam Singh Gilzian, gave the residents of New York a memorable afternoon of great singing by Punjab’s singing […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Clinton Foundation, facing heavy scrutiny of its fund-raising during Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, released on Thursday, May 28, a list of paid speeches by the Clintons that generated at […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): NYC SUMMER STEM 2015 is a new citywide program to provide students who just completed grades 2, 7, and 10 with free, full-day, high-quality STEM instruction. SUMMER STEM will serve 1,200 […]
For the first time in decades, the number of immigrants coming to the United States from China and India outnumbers those coming from Mexico. It’s a historic shift that has caught the attention of service providers across […]
The Turkish government is building a new $100 million mosque and cultural center in Lanham, Maryland, a suburb of Washington DC to cater to the needs of the city’s large Muslim population. Spread over 15 […]
At least five flights were targeted by phoned-in bomb threats Tuesday, June 2, government sources told NBC News. The threats weren’t considered credible. Four of the five flights — among them one from San Diego to […]
A-grade star cast. Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar and Shilpa Shetty along with cricketer Virat Kohli and wrestler Sushil Kumar will be the brand ambassadors for Yoga Day on June 21. The show stopper […]
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