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UN TRUST FUND TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ANNOUNCES OVER USD 8 MILLION IN GRANTS IN 18 COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES
NEW YORK (TIP): The United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) announced, November 22, USD 8 million in grants to 17 initiatives in 18 countries and territories. First-time grant recipients […]
Substantial Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: Report
WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States has been the world’s largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) since 2006. Every day, foreign companies establish new operations in the United States or provide additional capital to established […]
Senate confirms Indian American to key arts position
WASHINGTON: An exponent of Bharatanatayam, Ranee Ramaswamy was confirmed on October 17, as a member of the prestigious National Council on the Arts. Ranee founded the Ragamala Music and Dance Theatre in 1992 at Minneapolis, […]
Britain opens its nuclear industry to Chinese investors
BEIJING (TIP): Britain opened the door to Chinese investors taking majority stakes in future nuclear plants on Thursday as finance minister George Osborne signed a deal aimed at helping find the billions of pounds needed […]
Ratan Tata, 8 Indian- Americans inducted in US engineering academy
WASHINGTON (TIP): Leading Indian industrialist Ratan Tata has been inducted into the prestigious US National Academy of Engineering in the US for his “outstanding contributions to industrial development in India and the world”. Tata, chairman […]
India looks to the Diaspora with a lot of Expectations – BOB CMD Mundra
Bank of Baroda Chairman and Managing Director, Mr. S.S. Mundra visited New York from September 16th to 18th. It was his first visit to New York after he took over as Chairman and Managing Director […]
Recast Security Council
It needs to become more relevant The 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) comes at a time when the world is looking at the UN for answers to many complex issues. The […]
Sunil Dutt(1929-2005)
Founding Patron of Nargis Dutt Memorial Foundation Afilm artist, director and producer, agriculturist, political and social worker, and fighter against religious fanaticism, Sunil Dutt was born in 1929 in Jhelum (now in Pakistan). Mr. Dutt […]
Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri in Booker shortlist for her fiction ‘The Lowland’
NEW YORK (TIP): Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri has made it to this year’s Man Booker Prize shortlist for her new fiction ‘The Lowland’, an intimate portrayal of two brothers set in Kolkata of the 1960s. […]
