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 […]
NEW DELHI: India and the United States have sealed an agreement to jointly develop protective gear for soldiers against biological and chemical warfare, and another on building generators, defence officials said on Wednesday. The projects […]
By providing real-time histological data to endoscopists, Rice’s microendoscope can help rule out malignancy in cases that would otherwise require a biopsy. “While traditional endoscopy can rule out malignancy and eliminate the need for biopsies […]
With 11 children disappearing every hour in the country, the government will on June 2 roll out a web platform for people to directly report, track and upload information on missing children. The web portal […]
In the wake of UP FSDA finding monosodium glutamate and lead in excess of the prescribed limit in the instant noodles, a district court in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur directed the police today to register an First Information […]
An Indian national claiming to work with a Bollywood company was charged with visa fraud on arrival at a US airport, media reported. Sukhpal Veer Singh arrived at Kennedy Airport from Kuwait with a visa […]
Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday, four days after being re-elected to a fifth term. Blatter, 79, announced the decision at a news conference in Zurich, six days after the FBI raided a […]
JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY (TIP): HAB BANK, nation’s oldest and largest South Asian bank, hosted a luncheon for Jackson Heights Branch customers in Jackson Heights, NY, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. The event was organized in honor […]
Patel Brothers, undisputed king of the Indian Grocery business in the United States opened its record breaking historic 50th grocery store in East Windsor, New Jersey on Thursday, May 28th 2015. Honorable Mayor of the […]
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Police on Saturday clarified that British hotelier of Indian-origin Ranjit Singh Power has been murdered, but his body was yet to be recovered, rejecting initial reports that a body found in a Punjab forest […]
Two youths belonging to the Muslim community of a small Indian township south of Johannesburg have died allegedly fighting for the Islamic State, becoming one of the first South Africans to have died in Syria. […]
New Delhi (TIP): Narendra Modi will be travelling to Israel, the first by an Indian Prime Minister to the Jewish country with which bilateral defence cooperation is on an upswing. No dates have been finalised for […]
Beau Biden died of brain cancer at the age of 46 on Saturday. Beau, the son of Vice President Joe Biden, was being treated at the Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, at the […]
8-year-old girl, Jordin Barrett was killed Saturday evening after a car she was traveling in crossed one or two lanes of U.S. Highway 175 at Second Street, hit an embankment and flipped into floodwaters, authorities […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is investigating what the Pentagon called an inadvertent shipment of live anthrax spores to government and commercial laboratories in as many as nine states, […]
LINCOLN (TIP): Nebraska abolished the death penalty on May 27 in a landmark veto-override vote backed by an unusual coalition of conservatives who oppose capital punishment. Senators in the one-house Legislature voted 30-19 to override […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Moving closer to a formal announcement of his US presidential bid, Indian-American Bobby Jindal has slammed his fellow Republican and presidential aspirant Rand Paul for being “unsuited to be the commander in chief.” […]
ST PETERSBURG (RUSSIA) (TIP): Deep inside a four-story marble building in St Petersburg, hundreds of workers tap away at computers on the front lines of an information war, say those who have been inside. Known […]
LONDON (TIP): The oldest university in the English speaking world has got its first ever female head. Professor Louise Richardson, currently the principal and vice-chancellor of the University of St Andrews, has been nominated as […]
LONDON (TIP): The British Queen on May 27 announced at the opening of the UK parliament session that businesses that employ foreign labour will have to pay a new visa levy which will be used […]
BEIJING (TIP): The number of high net worth individuals (HNWIs) in China passed the one million mark for the first time last year following a surge in the “innovative industries” sector, a study has shown. […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): At least five young women from Australia have successfully joined the Islamic State and are among over a dozen similar cases from Melbourne most of whom have a “romanticised” view of the dreaded […]
ADEN (TIP): Saudi-led coalition strikes against Iran-backed Shiite rebels in Yemen’s second city Aden today and ground clashes killed at least 40 Huthis and their allies, the city’s deputy governor said. Residents reported non-stop air […]
BEIJING (TIP): Authorities have detained an obscure Chinese artist after he posted online a humorous portrait of President Xi Jinping, his wife said on Thursday. Judy Zhu said police accused her husband, Dai Jianyong, of […]
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