All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) supremo Mamata Banerjee, also known as Didi (elder sister in the Bengali language), sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the third term on 5 May 2021 […]
Kerala took a left turn again with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan bucking the four-decade-old electoral trend of the state that sees power alternating between the two main groupings. Winning 98 out of 140 seats, the […]
NEW YORK (TIP): From cash to medicines to oxygen supplies, Indian American organizations are mobilizing resources for Covid-19 relief in India hit by a devastating second wave of the pandemic with 260,000 new cases in […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Associations of Indians In America (AIA) NY, the oldest and largest association of Asian Indians in America unanimously elected its new president Harish Thakkar and the new board for the year […]
NEW DELHI / NEW YORK (TIP): Australian PM Scott Morrison offered all help during a conversation with PM Narendra Modi but did not relent on a travel ban that has stranded at least 9,000 Australians […]
The proposed rule was notified in the Federal Register on September 11, 2020 during Donald Trump’s term as president WASHINGTON (TIP): The US government on Friday, May 7, withdrew a Donald Trump-era proposal which sought […]
DES MOINES (TIP): The Des Moines, Iowa, -based Sehgal Foundation said it was shipping out 200 oxygen concentrators to seven Indian states on May 6, 2021. The shipment of the medical equipment was made possible […]
Paramjit Aujla SACRAMENTO (TIP): For Indian Americans living thousands of miles away from the country of their origin, the past few weeks have been nothing short of harrowing. As India continues to be in the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Following the Biden administration’s offer to help India, currently in the middle of a cataclysmic Covid surge, some civil rights activists and lawyers based in the United States and abroad have demanded more […]
Registering a steady increase, the active cases have increased to 30,84,814 Caught unawares, India accepts aid from the world for the first time in 17 years NEW DELHI (TIP): India saw a record single-day rise […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Indiaspora, a nonprofit community of global Indian diaspora leaders, has raised USD 1 million towards COVID-19 relief efforts within the last 48 hours as the organization announced on Friday to launch the “Help […]
Myanmar (TIP): Food insecurity is rising sharply in Myanmar in the wake of the military coup and deepening financial crisis with millions more people expected to go hungry in coming months, the United Nations said […]
Kathmandu (TIP): The Nepal government has introduced new regulations for mountaineers planning to scale Mt Everest, in a bid to prevent overcrowding at the base camps and climbing trails. As per the new rules, expedition […]
Dhaka (TIP): An influential hardline cleric of an Islamist group was on Sunday arrested in Bangladesh on charges of instigating deadly violence in the Muslim-majority country. According to officials, a joint team of police and […]
Lahore (TIP): The banned radical Islamist party Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) on Monday released 11 police hostages after the first round of talks with the Imran Khan government, which buckled under the pressure of the terror […]
Moscow (TIP): Police rounded up more than 1,700 protesters on Wednesday as Russians in dozens of cities took part in rallies organised by allies of hunger-striking Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny over his failing health in […]
Berlin (TIP): The European Union needs to engage with China despite many differences instead of opting for a more isolationist approach, Germany said on Wednesday. “In the EU, we have been describing China as a […]
Moscow (TIP): Russia’s Defence Minister on Thursday ordered troops back to their permanent bases following massive drills in Crimea that involved dozens of navy ships, hundreds of warplanes and thousands of troops in a show […]
London (TIP): Entrenched prejudices, preconceptions and pervasive racism of contemporary imperial attitudes meant that nearly 50,000 Indian soldiers who died fighting for the British Empire during the World War I (WWI) were not commemorated the […]
Jerusalem (TIP): A Syrian missile exploded in southern Israel on Thursday, the Israeli military said, in an incident that triggered warning sirens near the secretive Dimona nuclear reactor and an Israeli strike in Syria. An […]
Sydney (TIP): Australia said a decision to cancel two accords between Victoria state and China on the Belt and Road Initiative was taken to ensure consistency in foreign relations and was not aimed at any […]
LONDON (TIP): Indian-origin billionaire brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa have acquired a popular British fast-food chain, Leon, as part of what they described as their goal to grow their foodservice operations in Britain. The Issa brothers, […]
NEW YORK (TIP): No foul play is suspected in the death of an Indian American mathematician working with cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence whose body was found floating in New York’s Hudson River. The dead man […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): “I don’t believe for a second that you will actually do this,” she lectured the lawmakers of the House Oversight Committee’s environmental subcommittee. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg warned U.S. lawmakers Thursday, April […]
NEW YORK (TIP): U.S. President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 50%-52% by 2030 relative to 2005 levels, in a clean break with the Trump administration policies on […]
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