U.S. President Barack Obama will award Indian-American Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, the 2014 National Humanities Medal, which honors those who have widened the public’s engagement with literature and “deepened the nation’s understanding of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Five Chinese Navy ships are sailing in international waters in the Bering Sea off Alaska, the Pentagon said, in an apparent first for China’s military that came as US President Barack Obama toured […]
MILWAUKEE (TIP): Cities across the nation are seeing a startling rise in murders after years of declines, and few places have witnessed a shift as precipitous as this city. With the summer not yet over, […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): A Bay Area man who found a$20 bill on a street outside San Francisco International Airport used it to play the California lottery and won $1 million, a lottery spokesman said on […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A retired NASA astronaut has written an article lamenting that the US, “the country that kissed the moon and is roving Mars” has to pay Russia to be able to get to the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): In a new Islamic State video, jihadist fighters are shown flaunting the American M16 rifles that may have been seized by them from Iraqi soldiers or found in weapons caches dropped by the […]
ALBANY, NY (TIP): Staff from New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli’s office will attend community events around the state this month to help residents search for lost and forgotten money, also known as unclaimed […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Dr. L. Subramaniam, India’s acclaimed violinist, composer and conductor and Sri Chinmoy Centre International together offered a free Manhattan concert in tribute to Sri Chinmoy on August 29 at the Baruch […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The 20th Hindu Unity Day (Hindu Sangathan Divas) was celebrated with enthusiasm and grandeur in New York on August 30th. Hindu Unity Day, a gift to community from Narain Kataria and Arish […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): On sept 2 afternoon, Van Hecht-Nielsen had just finished painting the elbow of a 180-foot-tall Pope Francis overlooking Madison Square Garden, when he took a break for lunch. Standing near Penn Plaza Park, […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Young people from DRUM – Desis Rising Up & Moving and Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ), September 3, kicked off a rally with chants of “There is No Excuse, for […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Ravi Batra, chair, National Advisory Council on South Asian Affairs has welcomed September 8 SNIE. In a statement released to The Indian panorama, Batra said, ” Unlike the Dick Chaney-solicited discredited […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): It is all but assured the international agreement, which took years to craft, will play out at least for the rest of Obama’s presidency. When the Senate returns from its August recess after […]
NEW YORK (TIP): “Not only Ambassador Mulay or Ambassador Mukerji but you all are India’s ambassadors”, Mrs. Mahajan said to a gathering of Indian Americans. She was speaking at a dinner reception she hosted to […]
NEW YORK (TIP): More than a century after first-class passengers aboard the ill-fated Titanic ate grilled mutton chops and custard pudding in an elaborate dining room, the ship’s last luncheon menu is expected to fetch […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Meeting the long pending demand of native Americans in Alaska, US President Barack Obama has decided to rename the highest mountain in North America as ‘Denali’ instead of its existing name of ‘Mt […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama secured a landmark foreign policy victory over ferocious opposition from Republicans and the government of Israel when Democratic Sen Barbara Mikulski became the 34th vote in favor of the Iran […]
TORONTO: Sikh leaders in North America blame conversions, drugs and migration for the decline in the growth rate of Sikh population in India from 1.9 percent to 1.7 percent as per the 2011 census. “While […]
Common anaesthetics used during surgeries may help combat viral and bacterial infections in the lung, including influenza and pneumonia, researchers including an Indian American, Krishnan Chakravarthy of Johns Hopkins Institute of Nanobiotechnology have found. A report on the […]
skyTran, cofounded by Indian engineer Ankur Bhatnagar, a path-breaking transportation company headquartered in California, has received financial investment from Google chairman Eric Schmidt. Bhatnagar, a BTech engineer from IIT-Roorkee and an MTech from IIT-Kanpur is the sole Indian […]
NEW YORK: A 37-year-old Indian-origin man, who was once one of “America’s Most Wanted” for a 1999 murder of a man, has pleaded not guilty to the crime. Balkumar Singh was arrested in Trinidad in […]
An influential Indo-US business advocacy group has called for expanding the number of the work visas granted to foreign technology professionals every year. “One of the areas where the US has to look at is […]
Indian American scientist & professor Sona Patel, Ph.D. of Seton Hall’s School of Health and Medical Sciences is conducting a new research that could one day make early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other […]
An Alabama police officer went on trial Tuesday, September 1, 2015 on a federal charge of using excessive force against an Indian man who was thrown down and partially paralyzed during a confrontation in a suburban neighborhood. […]
The American Federation of Muslims of Indian Origin (AFMI) has honoured India-born entrepreneur and philanthropist, Frank Islam with the “Pride of India” award. India’s Consul General in New York Dnyaneshwar M. Mulay conferred the award […]
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