Having been involved in cases dealing with Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victims Protection Act, I have a thought or two for consideration. Nations should be wary of passing laws that have extra-territorial reach as […]
One major problem is fitting Afghanistan into an effective regional framework. Neither the SAARC nor the SCO nor the Istanbul Process is willing to assume a leadership role At last count, there were some 1,365 […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Comcast says it has agreed to buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion in a deal that would combine the two biggest cable companies in the United States. If the deal is […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), the overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), has signed separate agreements with two consortiums of international banks to raise $ 2.5 billion by way […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan, on Thursday, said growth was still very weak. Nevertheless, it was stabilising on the back of a good harvest, strengthening exports, and some early […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): After 10 days of intense bidding, eight telecom companies, including Bharti Airtel and Vodafone India, on Thursday, bought spectrum worth a total of Rs.61,162.22 crore against the government’s estimate of Rs.47,933 crore. […]
Queens Borough President Melinda Katz addressed the 31st Annual Legislative Forum of the Queens Interagency Council on Aging (QICA) on Friday, February 7. QICA is a boroughwide coalition of more than one hundred organizations and […]
Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, during an event at Queens Borough Hall on Monday, February 10, presented United War Veterans Council (UWVC) executive director Patrick Gualtieri and other UWVC representatives with cards and gifts donated […]
Lakhwinder Singh Lakhi is a household name in the districts of Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala in Punjab. An Akali leader, he has recently been elected President of the Punjab Unit of All India Lobana Samaj. He […]
Dr.Shakir Mukhi President (AFMI) and Founding Member of Nargis Dutt Foundation who was popular among Indian Americans died after a brief illness in New York on Friday, February 7th, 2014. He was a philanthropist who […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Premium bike brand DSK Hyosung. on February 6, indicated that it would stick to the mid-size category of the motorcycle market (above 250 cc to 650 cc) owning to cost and operating […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): PCP Motors, a division of Kolkata-based Paracoat Products, is gearing up for a plunge into the fledgling caravan or motor home market in the country with the launch of its Terra Home […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): HCL Corporation, on February 6, announced its foray into the healthcare sector with the launch of HCL Healthcare that seeks to address the entire spectrum of healthcare needs, providing healthcare delivery, innovative […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The third round of spectrum auction commenced for the fifth day on February 7 with Delhi witnessing an upward revision in prices for both the premium 900 Mhz and 1800 MHz band. […]
“Hysteria and groupthink prevail over professionalism in covering non-western countries”, says the author. The observation that wealth, power and influence are shifting from the West to some key emerging actors among the rest has become […]
MEN LIKE BADSHAH KHAN COME ONLY EVERY 100 YEARS Author of 5 books and director of countless documentaries and films, Teri McLuhan offered to the world some of the most heart-rending stories that are easy […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): Google is selling Motorola’s smartphone business to Lenovo for $2.9 billion, a price that makes Google’s biggest acquisition look like its most expensive mistake. The deal announced on January 29 will rid […]
CHENNAI (TIP): With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently banning the use of remittance funds in any form towards overseas foreign exchange trading, banks have swung into action. The ban also includes trading over […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India’s leading GSM service provider Bharti Airtel has posted an increase in its data ARPU (Average Revenue per Unit) at Rs 75 in the third quarter of 2014, against Rs 70 in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Tata Group is set to ink an agreement with the government to sell 1,200 trucks to the defence forces in a deal valued at close to Rs 1,000 crore. In addition, […]
INDIA MUST PLAY A PROACTIVE ROLE FOR LONG-TERM SECURITY AND STABILITY It would be in India’s interest to readily join cooperative efforts aimed at maintaining stability. India has acquired robust military intervention capabilities and is […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Ennore Port Limited (EPL), Chennai and Ford India Private Limited have signed an agreement for export of Ford cars though the Ennore port for a period of 10 years. Speaking on the […]
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