NEW YORK (TIP): The Washington Post and ABC News, January 30 morning, bring an early look at the leader board for the 2016 presidential nominations. The fact that Hillary Clinton is the front-runner for the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Delhi Government on January 29 decided on a probe by a Special Investigation Team into the 1984 anti- Sikh riots, two days after Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said some of the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on Friday, January 31, stayed the execution of Khalistani terrorist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar and agreed to review its judgment by which it had rejected the 1993 Delhi bomb blast […]
PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD (TIP): The former interim chief of the Pakistani Taliban was among 50 militants, including 36 foreign fighters, killed in heavy air strikes in the lawless North Waziristan region, military sources said on January 24. […]
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): Afghanistan’s president demanded on January 21 that the United States no longer carry out military operations or air strikes and must jump-start peace talks with the Taliban before his country signs a […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): At least six Pakistani tribal policemen, escorting a Spanish cyclist, were on January 24 killed and the tourist critically injured as militants tried to abduct him in the highly volatile southwest Balochistan province. […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Strike by doctors in Nepal to push for reforms in medical education entered the third day on January 22 despite the Supreme Court ordering them to resume services in hospitals across the country. […]
SINGAPORE (TIP): Rattled by the December 8 riots in Little India, the Singapore government now plans a nationwide restriction on consumption of liquor in public places. Deputy PM Teo Chee Hean, who also handles home […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Interfaith Council for Community Development hosted a welcome party for Melinda Katz, the new Queens Borough President. The event was held at Richie Rich Palace hotel at Richmond Hill on Thursday, January […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Indian-American professor Rakesh Khurana has been appointed dean of the prestigious Harvard College, becoming the latest addition to a long list of Indianorigin academicians assuming leadership roles at renowned global universities. Khurana, […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): As part of the Republic Day 2014 celebrations, the Consulate General of India in association with Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New York, is screening a film on Frontier Gandhi Badshah Khan on […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): When Neel Kashkari was drafted by the Bush administration in 2008 to oversee the massive bailout program following the mortgage meltdown, an online wiseacre quipped: “Seriously? The guy overseeing the $700 billion is […]
Award-winning Educator Brings Classroom Experience to City Hall NEW YORK, NY (TIP): Council Member Daniel Dromm was elected as the NYC Council’s Education Committee chairperson at a meeting in City Hall on January 22. Daniel […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Cops raced to a stretch of road along Park Hill Ave. in Clifton around 6:15 p.m. and found two men on the pavement with gunshot wounds, officials said. A 34-year-old man was […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): Mayor Bill de Blasio, facing one of the first flashpoints of his weeks-old tenure, initially defended what he called a “coordinated, intense, citywide response” to a storm he said caused a […]
TRENTON, NJ (TIP): Federal prosecutors in New Jersey conducting a preliminary inquiry into accusations that aides to Gov. Chris Christie shut down access lanes to the George Washington Bridge as political retribution have issued grand […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Despite an apparent wave of Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) till recently, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would have won 200-odd seats if the general elections were held in January 2014, […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Legendary Telugu actor and film producer Akkineni Nageswara Rao, also known as ANR, died January 22 in Hyderabad at the age of 90. Dada Saheb Phalke Award winner ANR, who is the father […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): The Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations hosted the traditional Republic Day reception on Thursday, January 23, with President of the General Assembly John Ashe. Permanent Representative Ambassador Asoke […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): Mayor Bill de Blasio named January 21, the new heads of the Department of Small Business Services and the Health and Hospitals Corporation, pledging to deepen each agency’s connections to neighborhoods […]
KIEV (UKRAINE) (TIP): Ukrainian opposition leaders issued a stark ultimatum to President Viktor Yanukovych on January 22 to call early elections within 24 hours or face more popular rage, after at least two protesters were […]
BANGUI (TIP): Seven people died in inter-religious attacks and reprisal killings in Central African Republic’s capital Bangui on January 22, a human rights campaigner said, underlining the challenge the new interim president faces in restoring […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): The Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations hosted the traditional Republic Day reception on Thursday, January 23, with President of the General Assembly John Ashe. Permanent Representative Ambassador Asoke […]
MONTREUX (SWITZERLAND) (TIP): Peace talks intended to carve a path out of Syria’s civil war got off to a rocky start on January 23 as a bitter clash over President Bashar Assad’s future threatened to […]
LONDON (TIP): A university in the UK has become the first public varsity in the world to allow students to pay their tuition fees with the digital currency bitcoin. Students at Cumbria University attending two […]
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