India 503 (Pujara 204, Vijay 167, Maxwell 4-127) beat Australia 237 for 9 dec (Clarke 91, Wade 62, Jadeja 3-33, Bhuvneshwar 3-53) and 131 (Ashwin 5-63, Jadeja 3-33) by an innings and 135 runs HYDERABAD […]
Yet another party in Long Island to bid farewell to Ambassador Prabhu Dayal was hosted by one of the leading Medical practitioners of New York and a prominent member of American Association of Physicians of […]
February 18 evening witnessed quite a hustle & bustle at the Muttontown home of Zinda Singh and wife Tina Shah Singh. Friends of the Singh family had gathered to bid farewell to a very dear […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Joe Crowley, the cochairman of Congressional group on India and Indian-Americans, the India Caucus, has come up with an initiative to track the hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus and Arab Americans. He […]
NEW YORK (TIP): After a distinguished diplomatic career spanning 39 years, Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, hung up his gloves on February 28. Three days before demitting office, Ambassador […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center officially launched its upcoming exhibition, “Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation” at the Indian Consulate in New York, February 28. The event also marked […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): As Chuck Hagel took over as Barack Obama’s new defense secretary amid a controversy over his comments on India’s role in Afghanistan, Pentagon – the US defense department headquarters – said that Hagel […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Bank of India sponsored a concert in the ornate ball room of the Indian Consulate here February 24, by Varsha Joshi, a well known singer in the Tri-state area of New York, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Finance Minister P. Chidambaram appealed to people not to buy so much gold as a way of reducing hefty imports, speaking on television a day after his 2013/14 budget surprised traders by […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A man who has been deeply loved and admired for his gentle and polite ways and for his readiness to help the Indian American community, Ambassador Prabhu Dayal hung up his gloves, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A retired American General has expressed the view that the United States is “diplomatically paralyzed” in dealing effectively with Pakistan on the issue of Afghanistan’s future since Islamabad remains paranoid about closer Afghan-India […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Ambassador Nirupama Rao met Congressman Ted Poe from Texas on February 28, 2013 at Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. Congressman Ted Poe is serving his 5th term in the U.S. House of Representatives, […]
Prior to 1947, Ferozepore in Punjab was a thriving transportation town with great rail and road connectivity with the provincial capital of Lahore and the industrial and commercial capital of Amritsar. Both links were via […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Never before has a finance minister rejected populist giveaways so decisively in an election year. Never before has a finance minister sought to win the next elections not through tax breaks and […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Two senior Indian diplomats posted in New York retired on February 28. Ambassador Hardeep S. Puri, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations retired after a brilliant diplomatic career spanning 39 years. […]
CHENNAI (TIP): India clinched the first Test against Australia with a comfortable eight-wicket victory to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series on Tuesday with their spinners taking all the 20 wickets for only […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Former Australia captain Greg Chappell has rated MS Dhoni’s double-century in Chennai as his best in Tests. Dhoni’s knock of 224 tilted the scales in India’s favour, according to Chappell, and helped them […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Retiring Consul General PrabhuDayal and his wife Chandini Dayal hosted a party onFebruary 15th at the Consulate of India to celebrate Mr.Dayal’s 60th birthday and to bid farewell to the couple’sfriends in […]
Q. In your time as the Consul General ofIndia in New York, what were the mostsignificant highs and lows that youexperienced? Well, New York is the center of theUniverse. Although I have served in manyother […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Foreign Secretary Mr. Ranjan Mathai completed a series of very useful and important interactions at the State Department, including a brief call upon the new U.S. Secretary of State,Mr. John Kerry here on […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The twin blasts at Hyderabad aresuspected to be the handiwork of IndianMujahideen(IM) commander Riyaz Bhatkal. Althoughintelligence agencies are in no rush to jump to ajudgment, their suspicion of IM’s role is derived […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): British PrimeMinister David Cameron visited the site ofa colonial-era massacre in India onFebruary 20, describing the episode as”deeply shameful” while stopping short of apublic apology.On the last leg of a three-day trip aimedat […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Bharat Bandh:Nation-wide strike hit banking andtransport sector day two of nationwidestrike. While banking services were onFebruary 21 paralysed with ATMs runningout of cash in metro cities and publictransport disrupted during the Centraltrade […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): An India-born research scientist has driven the last forgotten nail in the coffin of slavery in the United States, a shameful casket that was thought to be long buried after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation […]
Ajanta and Ellora are the pride of Maharashtra. The rock-cut caves of both these sites are world famous and illustrate the degree of skill and artistry that Indian craftsmen had achieved several hundred years ago. […]
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