BEIJING (TIP): About 250,000 Chinese journalists will be given on-the-job training under a specially designed program by the government’s media agency, which also implements laws on censoring and “guiding” the media. The move suggests greater […]
Britain has decided to revive the bridge of diplomacy with Iran. The foreign secretaries of Britain and Iran have reached a consensus to appoint their respective non-resident charge d’affaires tasked with implementing the building of […]
With the government having lurched into its first shutdown since the 1990s, many commentators are focusing on the potential ill effects that it might have for Republicans. Almost all of these analyses use the shutdowns […]
It’s not just the canceled trip. Other factors are limiting the ability of the U.S. to focus on the Asia-Pacific. Senior U.S. administration officials have been at pains in recent weeks to demonstrate how Washington’s […]
The arrest of “Sant Sri Asaram Ji Bapu” on charges of rape has provoked strong reactions. The majority has condemned the conduct of Asaram and his son, Narayan Sain. But then there are Baba’s devotees […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Pakistan has appointed as its ambassador to the United States an envoy who was once expelled from New Delhi for “indulging in activities incompatible with his official status.” Typically, that’s officialese for spying, […]
DENVER (TIP): Scott Carpenter, who in 1962 became the fourth US astronaut in space and second American to orbit the Earth, died on Thursday in Colorado at age 88 of complications from a stroke, his […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Republicans offered a plan to President Barack Obama on Thursday that would postpone a possible US default in a sign the two sides may be moving to end the standoff that has shuttered […]
LONG ISLAND, NY (TIP): The India Association of Long Island (IALI) recently celebrated through its Women’s Forum its monthly event for October. It was a burst of riotous color and sound as the festive season […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Hindu Center, Flushing organized a wonderful musical evening, mesmerizing performance by a great artist Falguni Shah and her husband Dr. Gaurav Shah, on September 29th, 2013 at Hindu Temple auditorium in Flushing. […]
UN Women and World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scoutsput youth at the center of efforts NEW YORK, NY (TIP): On the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child, UN Women and […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): Two former associates of John C. Liu, the New York City comptroller, managed to avoid lengthy prison sentences on Thursday, October 10, for their roles in attempting to funnel money to […]
MINEOLA, NY (TIP): While the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) currently limits the types of Medicaid investigations permitted by the County to medical transportation, pharmacy and durable medical equipment only, […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): Weeks after Bank of India Chief Executive of US operations B.B. Joshi who was transferred as Executive Director of Bank of Baroda in Mumbai, the new incumbent has finally taken over. […]
Ayon, son of Nilesh and Malini Shah was married to Melissa on October 5. The wedding reception was largely attended. Tom Suozzi, a former County Executive of Nassau County who is contesting election for the […]
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 has been awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”.
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Canadian author Alice Munro. The Prize Committee hailed her as the “master of the contemporary short story.”
The 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded jointly to François Englert of Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium and Peter W. Higgs of University of Edinburgh, UK “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism […]
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 was awarded jointly to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof” for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Leading Indian industrialist Ratan Tata has been inducted into the prestigious US National Academy of Engineering in the US for his “outstanding contributions to industrial development in India and the world”. Tata, chairman […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) concluded that France has violated the religious freedom of 57 year old Shingara Mann Singh when he was asked to remove his turban for his passport […]
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