New York TIP: New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo recently announced the 2017 winners of the Carey Gabay Scholarship Program. Two Indian American Students – Jasleen Kaur from Ozone Park, Queens and Avik Kadakia from […]
TIP: Micro-blogging website Twitter has hired Indian-born Sriram Krishnan, a former top executive from Facebook and Snap, as its Senior Director of Product. “I’m going to be joining Twitter and become a part of #theflock to work with the fantastic […]
WASHINGTON TIP: — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) resumed premium processing today for all H-1B visa petitions subject to the Fiscal Year year (FY) 2018 cap. The FY 2018 cap has been set at 65,000 […]
Mississippi TIP : A Mississippi State assistant professor of chemical engineering is receiving a prestigious early career research award, along with $750,000 in research funding, from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Neeraj […]
New York TIP: India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had a Ministerial Trilateral meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Japan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Taro Kono in New York on Sept 18. […]
18-year-old Sukhleen inducted as private after combat training KAPURTHALA (TIP): Less than a year after moving to the US with her family, 18-year-old Begowal girl Sukhleen Dhillon has been inducted as a private in the […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India opener Shikhar Dhawan has been released from the team for the first three ODIs against Australia to attend to his wife, who is unwell. “Team India opener Shikhar Dhawan has requested to be released from the team for the first three […]
LAHORE (TIP): Pakistan took a giant step towards reviving international cricket at home with a 20-run victory over the World XI in a match before excited crowds amid tight security. The T20 match, accorded international status by the International Cricket […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Virat Kohli and Steve Smith are on even keel as far as leadership qualities are concerned, feels former Australia skipper Michael Clarke even though he rates the Indian captain as a slightly better ODI batsman. Asked who […]
GANDHINAGAR (TIP): Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corp on Thursday announced fresh investments of around Rs 3,800 crore in Gujarat to add a third car production plant. The company along with its partners Toshiba and Denso will also invest around Rs 1,150 crore […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Gold on Sept 14 took strength from a positive trend overseas by surging Rs 650 per 10 grams to seize the Rs 31,000 level, driven up by fresh local buying. But silver fell sharply […]
The announcement came just 10 days after VW and its local partners agreed to recall 1.82 million vehicles owing to a faulty fuel pump BEIJING (TIP): Volkswagen will recall almost five million vehicles in China over airbag concerns, Chinese authorities […]
Story A bunch of squirrels influenced by the leader of the pack, Surly, are used to leading an easy-lazy life in the lush green Liberty Park. They happily invade an out of business nut shop and feed themselves without […]
Another photographer has sued model Kendall Jenners company Kendall Jenner Inc over the controversial t-shirt line, which featured photographs of musical icons with their own likenesses superimposed. According to a report, photographer Al Pereira has filed a lawsuit against Kendall Jenner […]
Actor-producer Reese Witherspoon slammed sexism prevalent in Hollywood, saying big studios are uninterested in making films with ‘female-driven material’. The 41-year-old actor said she had a tough time finding a distributor for her film ‘Gone Girl’ initially, but things smoothened after the book became […]
CAST: Bobby Deol, Sunny Deol, Shreyas Talpade, Sonali Kulkarni DIRECTION: Shreyas Talpade GENRE: Drama DURATION: 2 hours 11 minutes STORY Set in a North Indian village, three distinct men – local goon Arjun (Shreyas), retired army officer Jagawar […]
Contrary to the perception that Indians are making their presence felt in Hollywood, actor Tisca Chopra says “we have not yet begun in the West”. The 43-year-old actor says only two Indian artistes – Priyanka Chopra and Irrfan Khan […]
Her over a decade-long journey in Bollywood has seen many a triumph, including her three National awards, and Kangana Ranaut said if her career ends now, she has nothing to lose as she has a huge success story for […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan’s election commission has issued a bailable arrest warrant against cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan for repeatedly failing to appear before it in a contempt case. The Election Commission of Pakistan was hearing a case against 64-year-old Khan filed […]
KUTUPALANG, UKHIA (BANGLADESH) (TIP): Akhira Dhar sits in stony silence in one corner of the makeshift camp for Rohingya refugees. Her glazed eyes have a blank stare that seems oblivious of the bustle in the camp as a fresh wave […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The sequence of events that followed the disqualification of ex-PM Nawaz Sharif from office by the Supreme Court in the Panama Papers case has exposed a rift within the Sharif family and the ruling PML-N over the question of […]
SRINAGAR (TIP): The state police, the Army and the CRPF, in a joint operation, killed Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Abu Ismail, the mastermind of the Amarnath yatra attack, and his accomplice on the outskirts of Srinagar on September 14. Around […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Karti Chidambaram refused to appear before the CBI in the Aircel-Maxis case, his lawyer said. The agency had called Karti for questioning today in connection with the foreign investment clearance given in 2006 in the Aircel-Maxis deal when his father P […]
The World Bank-brokered water talks with Pakistan are taking place over Thursday and Friday, in Washington DC. Since the Pathankot and Uri attacks last year, Delhi has discouraged any kind of dialogue unless cross-border terrorism comes to an end. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Placing the onus on schools for the safety of students on their premises, the Central Board of Secondary Education today issued new security-related guidelines that included a psychometric test for the teaching and non-teaching staff. Psychometric […]
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