There were the six children, their mother and her boyfriend in Houston, Texas. The nine worshippers in a church in Charleston, South Carolina. The 53-year-old father who tried to stop three men ransacking a metalworker’s minivan […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Assemblyman David Weprin (D – Richmond Hill) joined Governor Andrew Cuomo, U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Congressman Gregory Meeks & other elected officials at the 1199SEIU United […]
NEW YORK (TIP): U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, (D-NY), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and its Subcommittee on Asia, Jan 5 issued the following statement condemning the terrorist attacks against India. “I condemn […]
NEW YORK (TIP): “Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation – USA” (known as ‘Ekal-USA’) had record setting fund-raising in 2015. It raised over $6 million in USA aloneand it has satellite Organizations in 10 different countries. Moreover, Ekal […]
FLUSHING, NY( TIP) Council Member Peter Koo stated, January 7, in a statement to The Indian Panorama that he thanked Mayor Bill de Blasio for his order to provide six weeks of paid parental leave […]
MINEOLA, NY (TIP): An Interfaith Candle Light Vigil was organized January 1 at the steps of Nassau County Executive building. A number of people belonging to Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, faiths and of diverse […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama has promised his final State of the Union address next week will focus on issues “beyond the next election” and skip the traditional list of the year’s legislative goals. Facing […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Eight years after aggressively defending his wife during her first presidential campaign, Bill Clinton was unusually understated and subdued Monday during his first solo swing back in New Hampshire for Hillary Clinton, restraining […]
SACRAMENTO (TIP): US authorities said on Thursday that two people have been arrested on terrorism-related charges in California and Texas, including a refugee from Iraq who is charged with lying to federal investigators about his […]
MIAMI (TIP): The United States just experienced the hottest December in modern times, and 2015 as a whole was the second warmest on record, US government scientists said on Thursday. The report from the National […]
BROOKLYN, NY (TIP): A 27-year-old man was fatally shot outside a Brooklyn city housing complex Wednesday, January 6, cops said. Ernest Sene was shot once in the chest outside the Albany Houses on St. Marks […]
HARLEM, NY (TIP): A 21-year-old man was shot in the face while two others were also injured in Harlem early Wednesday, January 6, cops said. The three men, ages 19, 21, 41, were confronted by […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Wiping his tears as he remembered first grader children killed in a mass shooting, at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newton, CT , an emotionally charged President Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 5 ordered […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Mayor Bill de Blasio announced, January 6, a $15 minimum wage for all City government employees and employees who provide contracted work for the City at social service organizations – meaning that by the end of 2018, approximately 50,000 additional employees will see their wages boosted […]
NEW YORK (TIP) Syed Akbaruddin, a 1985 batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, has assumed charge as Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He succeeds Asoke K Mukerji who has retired. This is his first-ever […]
POTUS unveiled new restrictions on gun purchases at the White House, saying the “constant excuses for inaction” have to stop. He was introduced by Mark Barden, whose son Daniel was killed in the 2012 massacre at Sandy […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who has been mentioned as a possible 2016 vice presidential pick, will deliver the Republican response to President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address. Haley, the first female […]
WASHINGTON: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday released his first television commercial in the 2016 race for the White House with a 30-second spot highlighting his stance on Muslims, immigration and terrorism. The ad […]
The US expects Pakistan will take actions against the perpetrators of the terror attack on IAF base in Pathankot, a top American official said, hours after Islamabad said it is working on the “leads” provided […]
TRENTON, NJ (TIP): A Glen Rock attorney and former federal prosecutor became the county’s top law enforcement official on Monday, January 4, the first change in leadership in Bergen County in 14 years, says a […]
Indian American Padmasree Warrior, one of Silicon Valley’s high-profile women executives, has been appointed as the U.S. based chief executive officer of a Chinese firm ‘NextEV’ which is building an electric car to compete with American […]
An Indian American foundation, The Georgina Joshi Foundation Inc., has given a $1 million gift to Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music for a state-of-the-art audio recording studio. The new facility, to be named the Georgina Joshi […]
SAN FRANSISCO: A 68-year-old Sikh man was stabbed to death in California’s Fresno city on January 1, prompting police to launch a hate crime probe into the city’s first homicide. Gurcharan Singh Gill, an employee […]
A group of self-described militiamen continue to occupy a federal building in the remote high desert of the US state of Oregon in protest against a prison sentence for local ranchers accused of burning government […]
New York, NY (TIP): Earlier today, January 4, State Senator Tony Avella and Assembly Member Michael G. DenDekker held a press conference celebrating the passage of their Fines and Forfeitures bill, S.5046A/A7230A, into law. When […]
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