India welcomes lawmakers’ backing WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian ambassador S. Jaishankar has welcomed US lawmakers plea to end US defence department’s presumptive ban on Sikh Americans serving in the US military with their beards and turbans. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): About 70 Indian passports have reportedly been stolen from a private company, to which the Indian Consulate in the US city of San Francisco has outsourced various visa and passport related services. The […]
DHAKA (TIP): The World Twenty20 steps up a gear on Friday as cricket’s top eight sides enter the fray, with India looking to maintain their all-win record against Pakistan in the second round’s standout clash. […]
DHAKA (TIP): Suresh Raina has a special bond with England. In 2006, when he was still in his teens, he played critical knocks in the middle-order (Faridabad and Indore) and stitched key partnerships with MS […]
CHENNAI (TIP): The seventh edition of the IPL will be flagged off in the UAE, which will host the first 20 matches, but the tournament is likely to come back to India from May 1. […]
BHUBANESWAR (TIP): If you thought only candidates are logging on to various social networking sites, hold on. The election commission has logged on to social networking site Facebook to appeal to voters to cast their […]
NEW DELHI: From deep sea to You Tube. After battling geographical bumps to keep its Andhra offshore field going, Reliance Industries Ltd is now engaged a bitter fight for eyeballs. India’s biggest private oil company […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Central Government will sell 4.2 crore shares or 9 per cent stake in Axis Bank on Friday. The merchant bankers for the deal have proposed the price band at Rs.1,290-1,357 per […]
CHENNAI: (TIP) Finnish handset maker Nokia will not manufacture its recently launched Nokia X phone at its Chennai plant, which has become the focal point of a Rs.21,000-crore tax dispute, according to people with direct […]
MUMBAI (TIP): With 40 stores in 17 months of its operations, India is the fastest growing market in the history of the Seattle-based iconic American coffee chain Starbucks, according to a company statement. The US-based […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered 10 FIRs against six companies for allegedly defaulting on loans from state-run banks. The companies against whom the agency has filed FIRs include Deccan […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a countrywide crackdown, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday arrested five people possessing medical degrees from Russia and China and obtaining recognition from Medical Council of India through allegedly fraudulent […]
NEW YORK/JALANDHAR/ (TIP): Strongly arguing to dismiss case filed against Congress party in a US court for serious human rights violations pertaining to November 1984 massacre of Sikhs, Congress counsel invoked issue of India’s sovereignty […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The conventional narrative in India about the 1962 war has largely revolved around portraying the Chinese as the unbridled “aggressors”, who ripped apart the nascent “Hindi- Chini bhai-bhai” construct forever. The reality […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka on March 19 claimed that most of the 47 member countries of the UN Human Rights Council are under pressure to back a tough US-sponsored resolution that has called for an […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepalese students protesting at fuel price rises set a parked bus on fire and vandalised other vehicles on March 19 during a strike in the capital Kathmandu, leading police to make more than […]
The US courts do have jurisdiction as the alleged crime (visa fraud) was committed on the US. The Indian Panorama sought the view of Attorney Anand Ahuja on the statement of MEA spokesperson after US […]
Alightning fast re-indictment on March 14th, within 2 days of a judge’s dismissal, speaks to the Prosecutor’s rebuke of those who misunderstand law and chose to personalize their disrespect, while continuing to seek to hold […]
The private sector in India “hopes that everything would be hunky dory once the pro-business Modi becomes the PM. Unfortunately, problems of India are not confined to big business only. There are millions (45 per […]
Iam reminded of Antony’s words in Julius Caesar: “Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?” Yes, here was a Khushwant. When comes such another? A literary monarch who literally held sway over the literary […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Susmita Roye, an Indian- American associate professor of English at the Delaware State University, has been named as a recipient of the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Award for Faculty. The award has […]
HOUSTON: A 27-year-old Indian-origin woman in the US state of Texas has been found guilty of causing arson that killed her husband two years ago. Shriya Bimal Patel was convicted on Monday of dousing her […]
INOC and NRI-SAHI Team cite deplorable conditions upon visiting the Muzaffarnagar refugee camps Ateam consisting of George Abraham, Chairman and Harbachan Singh, General Secretary of the INOC (I) (Indian National Overseas Congress (I), USA) along […]
Isee positive things happening in India, and it is good. An increasing number of Muslims are contesting elections as Indians – and not as a Muslims. This is a positive movement of inclusiveness on the […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Rajasthan Association of North America (RANA) International Convention Committee had its kick off meeting at Bombay Palace, New York, on March 9, 2014, announcing the Convention dates, venues and various Committee Members […]
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