WELLINGTON (TIP): Air transport across New Zealand was disrupted on Friday as gale force winds lashed much of the country, uprooting trees, causing power blackouts and closing roads. Air New Zealand cancelled all flights to […]
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY (TIP): Gunfire erupted on Wednesday in a Louisville condominium building, leaving three people dead and a fourth person seriously injured, authorities said. The fourth person was hospitalized with what appeared to be life-threatening […]
ATHENS (TIP): Greece’s coalition leaders failed to agree to on how to resume state television broadcasts during their third round of talks this week, deepening a nine-day impasse that has renewed fears of political instability […]
A prospective Afghan political deal crafted by US secretary of state John Kerry and Pakistan army chief Ashfaq Kayani threatens to sink Afghan president Hamid Karzai. As the Taliban set up an office in Doha […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Afghan Taliban are ready to free a US soldier held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their senior operatives imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay as a conciliatory gesture, a senior spokesman […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (TIP): Hundreds of thousands of people rallied across Brazil on June 20, as a protest movement over the quality of public services and the high cost of staging the World Cup gathered […]
LONDON (TIP): One of the most important documents of the Jain community has been declared a global treasure by Unesco. Shantinatha Charitra – a text written in Sanskrit, that describes the life and times of […]
BEIJING (TIP): China has rejected a US move to downgrade it in the ranking of nations making significant efforts to control human trafficking, saying Washington’s assessment lacked objectivity. Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said […]
HIGHWOOD RIVER (TIP): As many as 100,000 people could be forced from their homes by heavy flooding in western Canada, Calgary city officials said, while mudslides forced the closure of the Trans-Canada Highway, isolating the […]
A chartered private jet is ready to bring US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden to Iceland from Hong Kong, a businessman connected to whistleblowing website WikiLeaks said on June 23. “Everything is ready on our side […]
A man convicted in a murder trial that hinged on a paralysed victim blinking his eyes to identify his shooter was sentenced today to 36 years to life in prison. A jury last month convicted […]
Unfortunately for Mangano’s opponents in the county executive race, the large amounts of money given to Mangano and the Hicksville club have already been spent. By the time Andrew Cuomo’s Campaign Finance Bill passes, Mangano […]
While perhaps not as headlinegrabbing as the public corruption scandals that have recently ensnared New York state and city lawmakers, campaign finance violations continue to be a recurring epidemic. Arecent study conducted by the New […]
The apparent rewarding of family members and associates of county officials with patronage jobs and county contracts has been endemic to Nassau County dating back to the reign of former county Republican leader Joseph Margiotta. […]
“Ed had never managed anything. He was not town supervisor or mayor, and some felt [Mangano] should’ve brought in somebody who had done that,” said an expert in Nassau County politics who asked not to […]
The common thread tying together the Hicksville Republican Club and Mangano’s campaign is Rob Walker. How did a relatively unknown former lawmaker rise to his current position of power in Nassau County? One could say […]
The Hicksville committee also listed separate American Express payments of $2,206 and $1,792 in 2012 for a Myrtle Beach golf fundraiser for the Mangano campaign. Yet the invitation for the fundraiser, sent by Walker on […]
Eager to avoid a repeat of his party’s 2009 debacle, Nassau County Democratic Committee Chairman Jay Jacobs last summer commissioned his staff to begin opposition research of Mangano. Among the areas he directed them to […]
SINGAPORE (TIP): Ravi Kumar, an IIT alumnus, was on June 19 appointed Dean of the Nanyang Technological University’s Business School here, with the prestigious institution describing him as an academic heavyweight with a good blend […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Chandigarh-born 46-yearold Srinivasan was sworn in a judge in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, the second most powerful court in the United States after the Supreme Court on […]
NEW YORK (TIP): World’s first flying car, developed in 1949 by an American designer, is up for sale for nearly $1 million. Developed by inventor Moulton Taylor, the unique Aerocar could not only fly, it […]
DOHA (TIP): A fresh effort to end Afghanistan’s 12-year-old war was in limbo on Thursday after a diplomatic spat about the Taliban’s new Qatar office delayed preliminary discussions between the United States and the Islamist […]
PANAJI (TIP): BJP senior leader Venkaiah Naidu said that the party’s senior leader LK Advani will arrive in Goa on Saturday to attend the national executive meeting and the media should not read too much […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain would restart the transfer of detainees captured in Afghanistan to the local authorities later this month. The process was suspended in November last year after it emerged the prisoners were being mistreated […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India, the world’s fourth largest steel maker, logged 5.86 per cent growth in production in 2012-13 – the highest among major global producers, World Steel Association has said. According to WSA, India […]
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