Snapshot Total expenditure of budget 2017-18 is 21.47 lakh crore Fiscal deficit at 3.2 per cent of GDP for year starting April 1. Remain committed to achieve 3% in following year Defence Expenditure excluding pensions […]
MUMBAI (TIP): India’s annual budget is one of the nation’s most closely watched events-not just for the numbers, but for the political message during a speech that runs for about 90 minutes. The thrust of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Finance minister Arun Jaitley indicated in his Budget speech on February 1 that India’s education sector would take a reform path in 2017-18. From focusing on learning assessment in schools and revamping […]
PARTS USED FOR MANUFACTURING OF LED LIGHTS WILL ATTRACT BASIC CUSTOMS DUTY 5 PER CENT AND CVD OF 6 PER CENT FROM NIL EARLIER NEW DELHI (TIP): Smokers and tobacco consumers will have to pay […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has quit US President Donald Trump’s council of business leaders, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. Kalanick wrote to his employees that he’d spoken with […]
The Trump administration has no plans to come out with an executive order on H-1B visas, a prominent Indian-American donor and supporter of the US President claimed today, contradicting media reports that have generated anxiety […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Republican Hindu Coalition expressed full support for President Donald Trump’s actions banning visas for seven Muslim countries. Trump had banned the admissions of all refugees for 120 days and citizens of seven Muslim-majority […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Donald Trump on Feb 2 warned Israel that constructing new settlements “may not be helpful” to Middle East peace efforts, striking a tougher line with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Trump […]
A top official of the Pakistan government said on Wednesday that an FIR would soon be lodged against Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, currently in house arrest under an anti-terrorism law. The crackdown on […]
Pakistan has neglected to resolve trans-border water issues and delayed presenting the cases of dispute with India to the Water Commission related to the Indus Waters Treaty, a United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) report said […]
The Trump presidency in the U.S. is less than two weeks old, but it is already clear that it represents an unusually fierce assault on civic, political, and moral values “President Trump is not an […]
“Today, our politics has become so divisive and toxic that any ‘reform’ becomes suspect. There is no ‘JRD’ today who would be able to tell the Prime Minister that he would be funding his political rivals. […]
The Union Budget for 2017-18 is in line with the BJP’s changed political stance of wooing the poor and shedding its “suit-boot-ki-sarkar” image. The Modi government has changed track and turned to the side where […]
A multiracial, multicultural group of Americans at No Frills Grill & Sports Bar in Fort Worth, Texas , February 3, 2017
On January 19th, 2017 ZEE TV Americas held a press conference/community event in New Jersey for the launch of 2 New Networks – ZEE ALWAN & ZEE AFLAM targeting the Arab audiences in the USA. […]
NEW YORK (TIP): New York City Democrats were at Queens College on January 21st, 2017 for the swearing in ceremony of Dr. Neeta Jain as the Democratic District Leader for Assembly District 25, Part B […]
Bharati Mukherjee, whose works examined the Indian American immigrant experience, died on Saturday, January 28, at the New York University Hospital. Mukherjee was suffering from rheumatoid arthritis in the past few years. She suffered from […]
Indian-American lawmakers have slammed the US-based Republican Hindu Coalition for supporting President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, which they alleged takes the country backwards “towards dark times”. “As the most senior Indian-American member of […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): The Consulate General of India, New York will host the first outreach event of 2017 on 7th February in TV Asia in Edison, New Jersey. There will be a session ‘Ask […]
Mac Duggal’s First NYFW Show to be Presented in Association with Arts Hearts Fashion NEW YORK (TIP): Mac Duggal, LLC will stage its first ever New York Fashion Week show with its Fall/Winter 2017 collection. This […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Two Indian Americans – Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee and late Stanford neurosurgeon Dr. Paul Kalanithi were among those longlisted for 2017 Wellcome Book Prize. Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher, a […]
MIAMI, FL (TIP): A 29-year-old Indian American man and another person have been charged with pretending to be US tax officials and falsely representing victims from the department to pay money to their bank accounts, […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Indian American actor Kal Penn launched a fundraising campaign to aid Syrian refugees after being asked to leave the US by an online troll. The 39-year-old “House” star launched a Crowdrise.com appeal […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Suhag Shukla, Executive Director, Legal Counsel, and co-founder of the Hindu American Foundation (HAF), and Sapreet Kaur, Executive Director of Sikh Coalition have been named among twelve “faith leaders to watch in 2017” […]
Award-winning Hollywood film producer and Wimbledon tennis player, Ashok Amritraj has been appointed the United Nations in India Goodwill Ambassador for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Chairman and CEO of the Hyde Park Entertainment Group, […]
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