NEW YORK (TIP): The Justice Department, along withstate prosecutors, plans to file civil charges againstStandard & Poor’s Ratings Service, accusing the firm offraudulently rating mortgage bonds that led to thefinancial crisis, people briefed on the […]
NEW YORK (TIP): To cut costs, the US Postal Service has announced that it will endSaturday delivery of first-class mail beginning in August. It will continue to deliverpackages, and post offices that are open now […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): PresidentBarack Obama, presented theprestigious National Medal ofTechnology and Innovation to eminentIndian American RangaswamySrinivasan for his groundbreakingwork with laser.Rangaswamy received the awardalong with Samuel Blum and JamesWynne, for the pioneering discovery ofexcimer laser ablativephotodecomposition […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Ten IndianAmerican high school students areamong the 40 finalists in the 2013Intel Science Talent Search.Students will compete March 7-13in Washington, D.C., for $630,000 inawards, with the top winnerreceiving $100,000 from the IntelFoundation.New […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian-Americansmay have the distinction of being thehighest-per capita income group amongethnic communities but they lag far behindtheir European counterparts when it comesto owning a house in the US.According to the ‘HomeownershipAmong the Foreign-Born […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A former Indian Americanemployee of Galleon Group, who played a key role inthe conviction of hedge fund billionaire RajRajaratnam for insider trading, has been sentenced toone year in prison.Federal district judge Jed […]
Toyota officially recaptured the title ofworld’s largest automaker Monday, January28 as its final 2012 sales total toppedGeneral Motors, which held the lead in 2011. NEW YORK (TIP): Earlier in January, General Motors(GM, Fortune 500) announced […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): U.S.Congresswomen Carolyn Maloneyand Grace Meng will be joined byRanju Batra, President of theAssociation of Indians in America-NY February 2 at a press conferenceannouncing the introduction of aHouse Resolution calling for theissue […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Obama’s January 16 plan to curb gun violence in America has met with a mixed reaction, from a cautious endorsement to an outright rejection. Obama is asking Congress to implement mandatory background […]
As a patriotic Indian, my first reaction to the beheading of an Indian soldier by the Pakistanis was to shout on top of my voice for a tit for tat. I was simmering with rage […]
ALGIERS (TIP)- Thirty hostages and at least 11 Islamist militants were killed on Thursday when Algerian forces stormed a desert gas plant in a bid to free many dozens of Western and local captives, an […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A US court has given the go-ahead for exhumation of the body of an Indian-origin businessman in Chicago, who died of cyanide poisoning under mysterious circumstances days after he won a US […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States has said it favours a democratically elected civilian government in Pakistan and noted it is for the people of the country to determine their future in a just and transparent […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Hoteliers of Indian origin, who independently own over 8,000 properties in America valued at around $54 billion, are now keen on investing in various sectors in India including hospitality, healthcare and education. […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): Comptroller John C. Liu has hailed federal Judge Shira Scheindlin’s ruling, January 8, on Stop-and-Frisk. Liu, who has been fighting for the rights of common people, particularly the immigrants, said in […]
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