INDIANAPOLIS (TIP): The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis (CMI), said to be world’s largest children’s museum, in partnership with National Geographic, is displaying a statue of Hindu Lord Ganesh in its current Sacred Journeys exhibition. This […]
CANBERRA: A lost, overgrown sheep found in Australian scrubland was shorn for perhaps the first time on Thursday, yielding 40 kilograms (89 pounds) of wool — the equivalent of 30 sweaters — and shedding almost […]
WEST JAVA (TIP): Dating just got harder for Indonesian teenagers in West Java, with a local leader on September 3 threatening to ban late-night trysts and marry off young couples caught out after dark. If […]
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 […]
An Indian-origin Sikh migrant driver in Australia has been named ‘Australian of the Day’ for feeding the homeless in Darwin for the past three years. Tejinder Singh works by day as air conditioner mechanic and […]
August 28, 2015 New York: Zee TV, the No.1 South Asian Network will now be available on Jadoo TV in Canada. The company has reached a subscriber licensing agreement for its flagship networks Zee TV […]
VIENNA (TIP): Iran appears to have built an extension to part of its Parchin military site since May, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report on Thursday delving into a major part of its […]
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA (TIP): Three young men who disarmed a gunman on a high-speed train bound for Paris will get a heroes’ welcome in their hometown in California, the mayor of Sacramento said on Monday. “Big […]
TORONTO: A 21-year-old Indo-Canadian woman has mysteriously gone missing from her house in Surrey, prompting police to intensify their search by seeking public help. Jessie Khatkar was reported missing on August 25 and was last seen […]
ATHENS (TIP): Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned on August 20, hoping to strengthen his hold on power in snap elections after seven months in office in which he fought Greece’s creditors for a better bailout […]
SHANGHAI (TIP): Chinese authorities warned that cyanide levels in the waters around the Tianjin Port explosion site had risen to as much as 277 times acceptable levels although they declared the city’s potable water was […]
BEIRUT (TIP): Islamic State militants have demolished a monastery in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Thursday, in a strategically located town the jihadist group wrested from government control earlier this […]
BERLIN (TIP): German lawmakers overwhelmingly approved another bailout for debt-ridden Greece on Wednesday, August 19, removing the last major obstacle for Athens to receive an emergency infusion of funds to avoid an imminent default, a […]
BEIJING (TIP): Millions of Chinese couples and love seekers celebrated Qixi, the Chinese valentine day on Thursday, in a variety of ways. The occasion also saw some headline grabbing events including famous pop singer, Jon […]
CHICAGO (TIP): A US mother in Ohio admitted killing her three young sons in separate incidents over the past 13 months because her husband paid more attention to the boys than a daughter, police said. […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Pyongyang has asked the UN Security Council to hold an urgent meeting to discuss joint US-South Korean military exercises, the North Korean mission to the United Nations said. North Korean Ambassador Ja […]
LONDON (TIP): Two treasure hunters have claimed to have found a mysterious Nazi train which had disappeared on its way to Germany from Hungary in 1945 carrying guns, gems and other valuable items, including paintings […]
FUKUSHIMA (TIP): A retired Israeli medical professor thinks she has discovered a meth od for vaccinating against the effects of a nuclear fallout, and has been slowly poisoning herself in a bid to prove it. […]
LONDON (TIP): King’s College London has come out in open support of re-introducing post study work visa for Indian students in the UK. Recent data showed that the number of Indian students coming to study […]
DUBAI (TIP): There are about 700 flights every week from India to the Gulf region, the largest to any foreign region, and yet it took 34 years for an Indian Prime Minister to visit it, […]
NEW YORK (TIP): In a statement to The Indian Panorama, Air India Regional Manager for Americas, Rishi Kant Singh said that Air India launched direct flights between Varanasi and Sharjah on August 17. This will […]
LONDON (TIP): A group of over 20 men stormed a gurdwara here and stopped an inter-faith wedding between a Sikh bride and non-Sikh white groom. Members of the Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara in Southall, […]
LONDON (TIP) Diana, princess of Wales thought US presidential candidate Donald Trump gave her “the creeps” after he attempted to woo her after her divorce from Prince Charles. The BBC TV presenter Selina Scott, who […]
HELSINKI (TIP): Swedish prosecutors on Aug 13 dropped cases of lesser sexual misconduct against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange but said they still want to question him on accusations of rape made after his visit to […]
BERLIN (TIP): Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State (IS) jihadists in northern Iraq have reported being attacked with chemical weapons in recent days, the German defence ministry has said. The allegations, deemed “plausible” by a US […]
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