WASHINGTON (TIP): Mike Nichols, a nine-time Tony Award winner on Broadway and the Oscar-winning director of influential films such as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” “The Graduate,” and “Carnal Knowledge,” died on November 19 at […]
SACRAMENTO (TIP): Amiresh ‘Ami’ Bera, the lone Indian American lawmaker in the US House of Representatives, managed to edge out his Republican opponent in a California race two weeks after the elections. Bera, who had […]
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (TIP): Xoom Corporation (NASDAQ: XOOM), a leading digital money transfer provider, is now offering instant deposits to Bank of Baroda bank accounts in India. This revolutionary service allows Xoom customers to instantly […]
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (TIP): Xoom Corporation (NASDAQ: XOOM), a leading digital money transfer provider, is now offering instant deposits to Kotak Mahindra Bank accounts in India. This revolutionary service allows Xoom customers to instantly deposit […]
MYfellow Americans, tonight, I’d like to talk with you about immigration. For more than 200 years, our tradition of welcoming immigrants from around the world has given us a tremendous advantage over other nations. It’s […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Kerala Center held its 22nd Annual Awards Banquet at the World’s Fair Marina in Flushing, New York city on November 15th. Attended by a sold out crowd of over 250 people […]
Mohammed Jaffer NEW YORK (TIP): Shots were fired on an ambulette in Flatland, Brooklyn,Wednesday , November 19 afternoon and one of the bullets struck an ambulance – injuring an elderly woman inside.As CBS2’s Dave Carlin […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Every year, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (November 25), we are reminded how every day, women and girls experience violence in their lives. Women are beaten […]
“Our immigration system is broken, and everybody knows it”: Obama I.S. Saluja WASHINGTON (TIP): Ignoring dire warnings of Republicans to “Emperor Obama” that his planned executive action to grant deportation relief to millions of undocumented […]
DALLAS (TIP): The Regional Transportation Council on Thursday, November 13, excluded a controversial rural toll road from its long-range plan and dropped efforts to involve the state Transportation Department in financing the divisive Trinity Parkway […]
DALLAS (TIP): Wind power set a new record in Texas in November with 10,301 megawatts of power generated, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Wind turbines set the record at 10:39 a.m. Nov. […]
DALLAS (TIP): Rick Perry ascended from Lieutenant Governor to Governor of Texas in December 2000 when thengovernor George Bush resigned after being elected the 43rd President of the United States. Perry will retire in January […]
NEW YORK (TIP): New York Premiere of Tirlok Malik’s new film On Golden Years was hosted by Indian American Forum, SVA Theater (School of Visual Arts), the filmmaker Tirlok Malik and the team of On […]
Prof. I.S. Sluaja By now a must attend gala for all engineers and architects of Indian origin, the SIAEA annual gala dinner is scheduled for November 15 at Grand Hyatt Hotel, Grand Central, New York. […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): New York City Council Members Rory I. Lancman, Jumaane D. Williams and Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. announced, November 12, the introduction of legislation making it a misdemeanor to perform a chokehold. […]
Actor calls on men and boys to join the UN Women’s HeForShe initiative, and mobilize for gender equality NEW YORK (TIP): UN Women, the United Nations organization dedicated to gender equality and women’s empowerment, announced, […]
All my life, I’ve dreamed of serving my country. But when I tried to enlist in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program at Hofstra University, I was told I couldn’t because of my religious […]
NAYPYITAW, MYANMAR (TIP): President Barack Obama received a hero’s welcome two years ago during his historic visit to Myanmar, whose rapid rebirth after decades of repression was a source of hope for the region and […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Two iconic Andy Warhol paintings of Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando sold for more than $151 million at auction in New York on Thursday, shattering pre-sale estimates by several million dollars. Pop-art […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): An intruder was able to scale the White House fence and enter the executive mansion in September because of major secret service failures including an agent who was distracted by a personal cellphone […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The uncensored contents of a letter sent from the FBI to Martin Luther King in which he is called an “evil, abnormal beast” and apparently encouraged to kill himself have been made public […]
CHARLESTON (TIP): Gay marriage advocates won another two victories on November 12 as the US Supreme Court allowed Kansas to become the 33rd US state where same-sex couples can wed and a federal judge struck […]
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (TIP): Tens of thousands of nurses across the United States staged protest rallies and strikes on Wednesday over what they say is insufficient protection for health workers dealing with patients possibly stricken with […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Republican lawmakers re-elected Mitch McConnell as their leader in the US Senate on November 12, ensuring him the powerful role of majority leader in the new Congress that begins in January. Meanwhile, President […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Obama will ignore angry protests from Republicans and announce as soon as next week a broad overhaul of the nation’s immigration enforcement system that will protect up to five million undocumented immigrants […]
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