New York
America’s most ambitious municipal identification program launched
IDNYC acceptance by more than 10 financial institutions and the complete package of card benefits, including entertainment and BigAppleRx prescription discounts NEW YORK (TIP): Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito launched, January […]
Duo completes toughest rock climb using just hands and feet
WASHINGTON (TIP): Two American climbers have become the first men in history to free-climb the south-eastern face of El Capitan in California‘s Yosemite National Park, considered the world’s toughest rock climb. Tommy Caldwell, 36, and […]
IN B.G. VERGHESE’S DEATH, Indian Journalism lost its best
A hero of mine is no more. Veteran Indian journalist B.G. Verghese passed away on December 30, 2014, at the age of 87. Indians will always be indebted to him for the stupendous contribution he […]
Residents reject plans to build mosque in Flushing
NEW YORK (TIP): A proposal to build a mosque in Flushing was withdrawn January 13, after it came under fire from residents and members of Community Board 7 who criticized the proposal, citing violations of […]
Governor Cuomo meets with Police Union leaders: Sources
NEW YORK (TIP): Cuomo met privately with Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch and Detectives’ Endowment Association head Michael Palladino on Tuesday, January 13, sources said. Cuomo spokeswoman Melissa DeRosa confirmed the governor met with […]
MARIO CUOMO LAID TO REST
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Former Governor Mario Cuomo was laid to rest in New York January 7 after a funeral and wake that was attended by prominent politicians, including former President and First Lady Bill […]
Brooklyn Sikh missing in Mexico is found dead
NEW YORK (TIP): The Brooklyn man Hari Simran Singh Khalsa, 25, who had gone missing Tuesday, December 30 while hiking in the mountains outside Tepoztlan was found dead. His body was found Friday, January 2 […]
Needles, Birth Control go missing from NYC school health centers: Comptroller’s audit
ALBANY (TIP): New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli said , January 8, that an audit of the New York State Department of Health (DOH) found that medications and potentially hazardous medical supplies were unaccounted […]
IALI Home Dream is now a historic Reality
LONG ISLAND, NY (TIP): India Association of Long Island (IALI) has now a Home and the long cherished dream of the Indian Community and past presidents for almost four decades became a reality on Monday […]
AGAIN, WHITE COP KILLS BLACK MAN IN US
WASHINGTON (TIP): The familiar script of a white cop on hair-trigger alert gunning down a black man surfaced again on December 23 night less than five miles from Ferguson, Missouri, where a similar case in […]
Community mourns loss of innocent lives in Peshawar school carnage
LONG ISLAND, NY (TIP): The local community mourned on December 17 at the Nassau County Executive office ceremonial chamber, the loss of innocent lives of 142 children in a brutal and cowardly attack on a […]