Marked as a national holiday on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States, Thanksgiving celebrates the harvest and other blessings of the past year. It is believed that Thanksgiving is modelled on a […]
26 NOVEMBER 1949 The supreme law of the country adopted our constitution. 2009 The Constitution of India adopted the Constitution. 1960 Telephone STD service started between Lucknow and Kanpur for the first time in India. […]
Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, lies in the middle of the Heritage Arc. This bustling city, famed for its Nawabi era finesse and amazing food, is a unique mix of the ancient and the […]
New Delhi (TIP): In welcome trends that signal a decline in adverse sex selection, the ratio of women to men has crossed the 1,000 mark for the first time. Sex ratio of India’s total population […]
New Delhi (TIP): Five days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the decision to repeal the three contentious farm laws against which the farmers had been protesting for a year, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday, […]
New Delhi (TIP): The government has listed 26 Bills for introduction in Parliament’s winter session starting on November 29. Here is a look at some of the proposed laws: – Farm Laws Repeal Bill, 2021, […]
Hours after South African authorities announced they had detected a new variant of the novel coronavirus with a “very unusual constellation” of mutations, the Union Health Ministry on Thursday directed states to rigorously screen and […]
New Delhi (TIP) : Nudged by the Supreme Court to do a “high-level policy rethink”, the Union government has decided to review the Rs 8 lakh annual income limit to identify economically weaker section (EWS) […]
Brussels (TIP): Concerned by the misuse of political advertising to undermine elections, the European Union on November 25 unveiled plans to help people better understand when they are seeing such ads online and who is […]
Stockholm (TIP) : Shortly after Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson was elected by Parliament as Sweden’s first female Prime Minister, she tendered her resignation after facing the harsh reality of having to lead a minority […]
Moscow (TIP): A fire at a coal mine in Russia’s Siberia killed 11 people and injured more than 40 on November 25, with dozens of others remaining trapped, authorities said. Efforts to rescue those trapped […]
Lahore (TIP): A Muslim man and his three sons in Pakistan’s Punjab province have been booked under the tough blasphemy laws over an argument with a cleric who had refused to make an announcement about […]
Berlin (TIP): Three German parties have reached a deal to form a new government that will end the era of longtime Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to Olaf Scholz, who is poised to replace her. Scholz, […]
Colombo (TIP): A ferry with 20 people board capsized in eastern Sri Lanka on November 23, killing at least six students, the Navy said. Six students drowned while 17 others survived by swimming at Kinniya’s […]
Rome (TIP): National Geographic magazine’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the West’s evacuation of Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country, the Italian government said on November 25. […]
Colombo (TIP): Sri Lanka’s former police chief Pujith Jayasundera was on November 22 indicted with 855 charges of criminal negligence for failing to act despite receiving prior intelligence warnings in the 2019 Easter Sunday terror […]
SINGAPORE (TIP): A 26-year-old Indian-origin man was on Monday sentenced by a Singapore court to eight years of corrective training and 24 strokes of the cane for supplying weapons, including a baton and a samurai […]
CHICAGO (TIP): Dr. Suresh Reddy, an Indian American neuro interventional radiologist and a past president of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), has assumed charge as the president of Indian American Medical […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): As many as 20 South Asians, all but a couple of them Indian Americans, won in the November polls pulling off several historic victories from school boards to state legislatures. “We are […]
EDISON, NJ (TIP): Ishan Shah, government affairs manager at Quest Diagnostics, has become president of the New Jersey Leadership Program (NJ Lead) that seeks to encourage South Asian youth in the state to get involved […]
SINGAPORE (TIP): An Indian-origin man in Singapore has been sentenced to 10 months and four weeks in prison for performing a sex act on a minor. P Asokan Pappu Pachan, 57, pleaded guilty to a […]
On her maiden visit to Asia, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai held bilateral meetings with Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and relaunched the U.S.-India Trade Policy Forum (TPF). A lot has transpired in the […]
TMC is encroaching on the Opposition space at the national level as Mamata eyes a larger role West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s national ambitions are intriguing and daring. Soon after she led the Trinamool […]
“Though the agitation had nothing to do with Sikhs or Sikhism, yet the larger participation of Punjab farmers, who are mostly Sikhs, and the whole hearted support from various democratic organizations the world over, provided […]
“There is an urgent need for honest journalism to speak the truth to power in India and within the Diaspora. The primary function of journalism is to connect, inform and educate the public. Unless the […]
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