POLITICS & POLICY
An Indian-American has been elected as a Republican delegate for a record fourth consecutive term to the party’s July convention in Cleveland which would formally nominate real-estate tycoon Donald Trump as its presidential candidate. Sampat […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Donald Trump fired his hard-charging campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, in a dramatic shake-up designed to calm panicked Republican leaders and reverse one of the most tumultuous stretches of Trump’s unconventional White House […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders admitted that he will not be Democratic candidate for the White House as he indirectly recognised Hillary Clinton’s victory in the race for the party’s presidential nomination for the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A drained and dwindling group of Democrats, some draped in blankets and toting pillows, carried their remarkable House floor sit-in past daybreak June 23, disrupting the business of Congress in the wake of […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Indian National Overseas Congress, USA hosted Benny Behnan, a prominent Congress leader and Ex-MLA from Kerala at an informal get-together in Jamaica Estates, New York. The event provided a great opportunity to […]
NEW ORLEANS (TIP): 40-year-old Indian-American economic development professional has declared his candidacy for the US Senate from Louisiana. Abhay Patel, from New Orleans, is one of the six Republicans to have entered into this race […]
LONDON (TIP): The UK has voted to leave the European Union after 43 years in a historic referendum. Leave won by 52% to 48% with England and Wales voting strongly for Brexit, while London, Scotland […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The U.S. Supreme Court split 4-4 Thursday, June 23 over a challenge to President Barack Obama’s immigration policy, a result that prevents the administration from putting the program into effect during the rest […]
CHAMLIYAL BORDER (TIP): Batting for revival of the India-Pakistan reconciliation process to bring about peace in Jammu & Kashmir, chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on June 23 said if hostilities between the two neighbours can become […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): Millions of Indians on June 21 morning stretched and twisted their bodies and performed breathing exercises to celebrate the second International Yoga Day, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Chandigarh urging people to […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Speaking on “The Cats Roundtable” Sunday radio show on AM 970 New York hosted by John Catsimatidis, Frank @BarneyFrank said his fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton would win the election because “in the end […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): About 200 pages of what looks to be opposition research on Donald Trump stolen from the Democratic National Committee’s files were dumped online Wednesday, June 15, according to Gawker, which published some of […]
NEW YORK (TIP): On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal’s Laura Meckler and Colleen McCain Nelson broke the news that Hillary Clinton is vetting Elizabeth Warren for the vice presidency – but not vetting Bernie Sanders. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders promised in a video address on June 15 night to continue his political revolution, declining to concede the Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton despite losing a majority of votes […]
NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday suspended MLA Alka Lamba @LambaAlka from the post of party spokesperson, for two months. Lamba was reportedly removed as AAP spokesperson over her statement that Gopal Rai was […]
NEW DELHI/MUKTSAR (TIP): The ghost of anti-Sikh riots continued to haunt Congress leader Kamal Nath despite his giving up charge of poll-bound Punjab with his political rivals stepping up attack and demanding filing of a […]
KATHMANDU, NEPAL (TIP): A general strike called by a small communist party demanding that the government release its supporters detained after previous protests has shut down schools, markets and transportation in Nepal. Police says 28 […]
This weekend’s tragedy in Orlando – the worst mass shooting in our nation’s history – was not only an act of terrorism, but an unspeakable hate crime directed at our LGBTQ brothers and sisters. The nation’s […]
Opinion & Perspective: Perceptions do matter and sometimes even win elections. No party realizes it better than the Congress, now reduced to less than 50 seats in the Lok Sabha. When it set about setting its […]
ALLAHABAD (TIP): The Two-day conclave of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) concluded here Monday, June 13. High on the agenda was a strategy for the 2017 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa. […]
The Indian government is going to be America’s “great ally” and there is a need to nurture this relationship, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Paul Ryan told the Council on Foreign Relations, where Republicans unveiled a […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): Punjab Deputy Chief Minister and Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal on June 9 asked the opposition to stop spreading canards about a ban on the release of ‘#UdtaPunjab’ movie. “It is absurd even […]
LONDON (TIP): Brexit campaigners accused the government of trying to rig the EU referendum and threatened legal action on June 9 as former London mayor Boris Johnson squared up for the campaign’s first TV debate. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Election Commission of India on Thursday decided against countermanding Rajya Sabha polls in Karnataka on the ground that the sting videos did not present enough evidence to support the charges of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh was on June 9 questioned by the CBI in connection with allegations of acquiring wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income. Singh (81) appeared before […]
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