JOSHIMATH (TIP): As the helicopter weaves through the mountains along the Alaknanda valley to this roadhead to Badrinath, what you see can shake the stoutest heart. Village after village lies in ruins. Broken roads, damaged […]
BEIJING (TIP): China is according high importance to national security adviser Shiv Shankar Menon’s visit to the country, with Premier Li Keqiang and foreign minister Wang Yi among those scheduled to meet him. Menon will […]
NEW YORK (TIP): US fashion photographer Bert Stern, famous for his photos of Marilyn Monroe taken six weeks before her death, has died in New York, his partner said. He was 83. “Bert Stern passed […]
BOSTON (TIP): Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev downloaded bomb-making instructions from an al-Qaida magazine, gathered online material on Islamic jihad and martyrdom and later scrawled anti-American messages inside the boat where he lay wounded, […]
TORONTO (TIP): A Hindu temple in Canada has been vandalized by two men armed with baseball bats, outraging the country’s minority community which termed it as a “hate crime”. Video recordings show the men smashed […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden might voluntarily return to the United States if given assurances of his constitutional rights, his father said in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder. Lonnie […]
CAIRO (TIP): Two offices of the Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of President Mohamed Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood, were torched today as rival rallies were held across Egypt. FJP offices were set alight in […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Eight soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in the restive Thai south early on June 29 morning, an army spokesman said. Another four people — two soldiers and two civilians — were […]
KABUL (TIP): An early morning insurgent attack on Afghanistan’s presidential palace on June 25 has been put down with all the assailants killed, Kabul’s police chief said. General Ayoub Salangi told Reuters the gunfight ended […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): There’s a new anxiety in the top echelons of New Delhi about what’s arguably India’s only friendly neighbour, Bhutan. As the hill kingdom takes another baby step in its transition from monarchy […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama announced on June 27 the suspension of US trade privileges for Bangladesh because of concerns over labor rights and worker safety that intensified after hundreds died there in the global […]
DAKAR (TIP): US President Barack Obama heads to South Africa on June 28 hoping to see ailing icon Nelson Mandela, after wrapping up a visit to Senegal that focused on improving food security and promoting […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The last thing President Barack Obama wants to do is turn Edward Snowden into a grand enemy of the state or a hero who speaks truth to power. In the shifting narrative of […]
YANGON (TIP): The Buddhist extremist movement in Myanmar, known as 969, portrays itself as a grassroots creed. Its chief proponent, a monk named Wirathu, was once jailed by the former military junta for anti-Muslim violence […]
ORLANDO (TIP: South Africa’s ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela is showing “great improvement”, his former wife said on June 28 as his countrymen continued to pray for the speedy recovery of the 94-year-old former president. […]
TOKYO (TIP): Japan is expected to pull missile units deployed around its capital off of alert status because it believes the threat of a launch from North Korea has subsided. Media reports said the units […]
BEIJING (TIP): An attractive Chinese female student’s graduation pictures have proved so popular that they caused her university website to crash after being uploaded onto the homepage. The website of one of China’s top universities […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Disappointed over Pakistan’s slow pace of trial in Mumbai terror attack case, a top US lawmaker has demanded that the seven suspects, including LeT operational commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, be handed over to […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A group of 14 lawmakers has requested the State of California to induct Dalip Singh Saund, the first Indian to be elected to Congress, into the California Hall of Fame. The group led […]
WASHINGTON (TIP) US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel expressed regret to an Indian-American college professor on Friday, June 21 after jokingly asking him if he was Taliban during a question-answer session following an event at the […]
An insightful note on the potential adverse effects of current policies on gold trade in India. India is one of the largest buyers of gold in the world. More than 90 per cent of this […]
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman makes the case for shining a light on the “dark money” in state politics, proposing new regulations for nonprofits to disclose their political spending The scandal embroiling the Internal Revenue Service […]
Real estate prices crucial for economy “As land prices are generally a significant component of house prices, reforms in this sector help in safety and stability of the financial system. After all, housing accounted for […]
As the world observed U.N. Public Service Day on June 23, it was hard to miss the perfect storm brewing across the globe. Disenchantment with public service delivery has engulfed Brazil, Greece, Turkey and South […]
SACRAMENTO, CA (TIP): 28-yearold Indian-American Gurpreet Singh Gosal has been convicted of murder of another person from the community outside a gurdwara in Sacramento. Gurpreet Singh Gosal was convicted of killing Parmjit Pamma Singh, 26, […]
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