NEW YORK (TIP): New York based America Tamil Sangam presented its highest honor -Tamil Ratna Award – on maestro AR Rahman at the United Nations General Assembly Hall on Monday, August 15, thehistoric day of […]
STAMFORD, CT (TIP): AmeriCares is deploying medical teams to Assam and Bihar, where relentless flooding has killed more than 90 people and forced nearly 1 million into relief camps. The first teams, organized by the […]
A case of sedition has been registered against Amnesty International India in Bangalore after it organized an event to highlight alleged human rights violations in Kashmir. Charges under the very ambiguous Section 124-A of the IPC have […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Sushil Kumar Shinde, a former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and a former Minister of Home Affairs of India formally inaugurated the Maharashtra Chapter of INOC, USA on Aug. 16, 2016, at […]
In these four years, I also saw with, some disquiet, forces of divisiveness and intolerance trying to raise their ugly head. Attacks on weaker sections that militate against our national ethos are aberrations that need to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): We all have appreciated our external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj’s timely interventions and speedy responses on social media. She’s one of the most active foreign ministers in the world on Twitter with […]
JAIPUR (TIP): Machhli, the tigress who won hearts and became one of the icons of the “Save the Tiger” movement in India, passed away on Thursday at the age of 19. She had reportedly not […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (TIP):: For the second time in less than 24 hours, India have been assured an Olympic medal. Earlier on August 18, wrestler Sakshi Malik ended nearly two weeks of frustration, disappointment and […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (TIP): It was just the perfect day for India at the Games here on August 18. The hangover of Sakshi Malik’s bronze was still there when PV Sidhu smashed her way into […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (TIP):Two of India’s 2016 Olympians, gymnast Dipa Karmakar+ and shooter Jitu Rai, have been recommended for this year’s Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India’s highest honour in sports. The Khel Ratna is […]
With the topic of U.S. jobs filled by foreign workers fanning the heat of the presidential campaign, Rep. Darrell Issa has introduced bipartisan legislation designed to close loopholes in the H1-B temporary visa program to ensure that only the most highly […]
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (TIP) Ashok Hemal, M.D., professor of urology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, has received the Sushruta Award from the Indian American Urological Association (IAUA). This annual award is given to a physician who has […]
Jennifer Rajkumar, an attorney at Sanford Heisler Kimpel LLP and a district leader on the West Side, New York, is hoping to win a seat to the New York State Assembly. The young Indian American, who […]
BEIJING/WASHINGTON: Soaked in patriotism, hundreds of Indians today proudly marked the country’s 70th Independence Day, as the national flag fluttered and the national anthem reverberated at Indian missions across the world. Indians in countries like […]
NEW YORK(TIP): Kesha Ram, D-Vt., the great great granddaughter of Ganga Ram, an Indian civil engineer known for building a network of health infrastructures in both India and Pakistan before partition, lost the race for […]
As an American proud of my Indian ancestry, and my name unchanged, I am more than merely delighted that these United States and India have found a durable rhythmic tune, geopolitical and strategic in nature, bound […]
For someone born on June 19, 2000, Kanak Jha has done well to fit in with the older crowds. This year, 16-year-old Kanak Jha picked up the paddle as the youngest member of the United […]
Home to the mighty Brahmaputra, Assam is the gateway to northeast India (NE) with its main city Guwahati flaunting its one major railway station and an international airport. But unlike what many think, Guwahati is not […]
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (TIP): While Rajya Sabha was debating the amendment to the Constitution for rolling out Goods and Services Tax (GST), the top management of a large company was closeted with consultants from a global tax […]
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India has set up a committee to study Indian household financing pattern and why they spend large sum of money on gold+ . The panel will look at various facets […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Bollywood film ‘Peepli Live’ co-director Mahmood Farooqui was on Aug 4 sentenced to seven years imprisonment by a Delhi court for raping a US researcher here last year. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv […]
Another ministerial meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has come and gone, this time in Islamabad, with people of its eight-member nations none the wiser about the purpose of the get-together. The […]
COLUMBUS, OHIO (TIP): The South Asian Dance Retreat supported by the Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise in collaboration with the Department of dance, The Ohio State University and Chennai’s very own dance academy, […]
JAIPUR: A convict’s son has scripted an extraordinary success story by preparing for IIT entrance exams while staying with his father in an 8×8 feet cell in an open jail in Kota for almost two years, because […]
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has recently received documents from the United States that support India’s claim regarding Pakistani terror group, Jaish-e-Mohammad’s involvement in the Pathankot IAF base attack. According to a report in Times of India, […]
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