Karina Kohli of New York was crowned Miss India USA 2015 during a glittering beauty pageant held on December 6th at the Royal Albert’s Palace, Fords, New Jersey. Karina, 18, is studying acting at New […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India has agreed to buy a high-speed bullet train from Japan, in an attempt to transform its creaking rail system. Japan will build India’s first bullet train and provide a $12bn package […]
DELHI (TIP): An Indian woman has named her baby “Uber” after giving birth in a car belonging to the taxi aggregation service. The woman, identified as Babli, told media she called Uber after emergency calls […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US Congress has imposed a special fee of up to $4,500 on the H-1B and L-1 visas popular among Indian IT companies to fund a 9/11 healthcare act and biometric tracking system. […]
An incident that shook the conscience of India. It was a blot on humanity, it was a test of the Justice system & our morality. It was reflective of the barbarity that ‘humans turned animals’ […]
As the governments of India and Pakistan work towards normalizing ties between the two countries, anti-humanity groups (JuD) start with their rants in hopes of destabilizing future talks. Hafiz Saeed questions India on 26/11, says no concrete proof in 26/11 attacks […]
Mumbai: Ailing legendary actor Dilip Kumar, 93, was on Sunday, December 13, presented the Padma Vibhushan — India’s second highest civilian award — by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh at the thespian’s residence in suburban Bandra for his […]
DALLAS, TX (TIP): The 2nd annual DFW South Asian Film Festival kicks off its programming from February 19th to 21st, 2016, at locations in downtown Dallas and Plano. The opening night film, Miss India America, will screen on Friday, Feb. 19th at the Hoglund Foundation Theater of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Refusing to call the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) an exhibition event, Spanish superstar Rafael Nadal says he would be back to compete in it next year too but conceded that tournaments […]
MANCHESTER (TIP): High on confidence after two knockout wins, star Indian boxer Vijender Singh will face his most experienced opponent so far when he squares off against Bulgarian Samet Hyuseinov in his third professional bout […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, the nation’s biggest carmaker by sales, plans to raise prices of its cars by up to 20,000 rupees ($300), starting January 1, to offset cost increases and unfavourable foreign exchange rates, a company spokesman said on […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): At the World Trade Organisation (WTO) headquarters in Geneva, there have been voices— largely from the US — suggesting that a new category of countries be created apart from the three main […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The bullet train accident in China four years ago along with low-cost finance and a promise to have a substantial ‘Make in India’ component and transfer of technology clinched the deal for […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Another turn in the Sheena Bora murder as misappropriation of funds & money laundering comes up in a report published by Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). The report alleges Indrani Mukerjea […]
MUMBAI (TIP): A former journalist & social worker S Balakrishnan bought underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s Mumbai restaurant for Rupees 4.28 crores in an auction of the property on December 9. The government auctioned the restaurant […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Minister of Defense of India Manohar Parrikar made an official visit to the United States at the invitation of US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter from December 7-10, 2015 that included visits to […]
CHICAGO (TIP): Farha Sayeed of Chicago has been bringing laurels through her love for an array of arts and crafts and her contributions to welfare of downtrodden, thereby emerging as a role model for women […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): As External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj walked past the Pakistani media waiting in the Foreign Office corridor on Dec 9 evening, she was asked, “Ma’am, koi breakthrough hai.” Standing behind a lectern, she didn’t […]
The lessons learnt from the Indo-Pak joint statement at Ufa finally produced a breakthrough in Islamabad. The clincher was the hush-hush meeting in Bangkok. It produced a joint statement clearly spelling out all issues both sides […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives on a three day visit to India on December 11. He comes with the conviction that Japan and India have “a bilateral relationship with the greatest potential in […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Students of an elite military-run university in Pakistan have been trained to use social media sites in support of banned terrorist groups like LeT and JuD which have been protected and supported by […]
STAMFORD, CT (TIP): AmeriCares has deployed medical teams to Tamil Nadu, where relentless flooding closed schools and a major airport in Chennai and claimed at least 269 lives. The first team, organized by the AmeriCares […]
New Delhi: Alibaba Group’s wholesale trading platform Alibaba.com said on Monday, December 7, that India is one of its fastest-growing markets with about 4.5 million registered users. The Chinese e-commerce giant is taking the Indian market […]
NEW DELHI: Non-resident Indians, especially those living in the UK and Qatar, will be reached out to by a government-supported trust to raise funds for ‘Swachh Bharat’ and ‘Clean Ganga’ projects. India Development Foundation of Overseas […]
The attacks this year on rationalists by fundamentalist groups and right-wing religious groups are highly deplorable. It is obvious that all is not well in India. Something is going wrong, and it is clearly evident […]
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