ISTANBUL (TIP): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that US State Secretary John Kerry intends to visit this month, in what would be the first trip by a top Western dignitary since a failed putsch. […]
TEHRAN (TIP): Iran has executed a group of 20 “terrorist” Sunni prisoners for committing several murders and undermining national security, state media reported. “These people had committed murder… killed women and children, caused destructions and […]
GANDHINAGAR/NEW DELHI (TIP): Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on August 2 submitted her resignation to Governor O P Kohli hours after the BJP Parliamentary Board accepted her offer to quit and authorised party president Amit Shah […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a setback to the AAP government’s campaign for “full statehood” to Delhi, the Delhi High Court Thursday ruled that the Capital “continues to be a Union Territory” under the administrative control of […]
MUMBAI (TIP): A British era bridge on the Mumbai-Goa National Highway collapsed in the wee hours of August3 due to excessive rains in the Konkan region in Maharashtra. Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis also arrived at […]
KANPUR (TIP): All 14 policemen at a police post in Kanpur were suspended and a murder case was filed against one of them, after a young Dalit man was found dead in custody. Kamal Valmiki, […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): The Aam Aadmi Party on August 4 released its first list of candidates for 19 constituencies for Punjab Assembly elections scheduled early next year, nominating senior lawyers H S Phoolka and Himmat Singh […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has officially ruled that Rohith Vemula, the research scholar of the University of Hyderabad whose suicide on January 17 this year created a nationwide uproar, was […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to reach out to citizens through his first-ever ‘townhall’ style event on August 6. A new PMO app to enable mobile users to connect with […]
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 […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress president Sonia Gandhi underwent surgery on her dislocated left shoulder on August 4. She had collapsed during a rally in Varanasi on Wednesday .Such was the impact of her fall that […]
The intrusion into the Democratic National Committee’s computers, allegedly by Russian hackers, has put a renewed spotlight on Donald Trump’s connections to Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has slammed […]
Right now (July), polls suggest that Hillary Clinton will win the presidential election, but I think Donald Trump actually has a much better chance of winning than most people seem to think. Donald Trump would […]
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 […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Tristate Chapter of Indo American Press Club (IAPC) was inaugurated July 29 by Dilip Chauhan, Director of Southeast/Asian Affairs for Nassau County Comptroller, at a colorful meeting at Tyson Center in […]
SEATTLE (TIP): Indian-American Pramila Jayapal has swept an open Congressional primary in Washington State with 38.2 per cent of the votes and could make history as the first woman from the community to be elected […]
NEWARK, NJ (TIP): An Indian man who touched the privates of a female passenger while she was asleep on a plane has been charged with abusive sexual conduct. Veerabhadrarao Kunam, 58, of Visakhapatnam, India, is […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Four Indian-origin persons have been named among Americas top wealth advisors by Forbes on a list of 200 members who collectively manage USD 675 billion. Raj Sharma and Ash Chopra, both working […]
The Consulate General of India in New York is where every Indian living in New York visits at least once a year. The Consulate is planning a grand Event to celebrate the 70th Independence of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Though 62 percent of poll respondents say they see Clinton as dishonest, they nevertheless view the former secretary of state as more qualified for the highest office in the land than the brash, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): After being subject to months of haggling and histrionics, the Goods & Services Tax (GST) finally had its historic day in the Rajya Sabha with the passage of the Bill to amend […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): India’s Home minister Rajnath Singh used the Saarc Home Ministers’ meeting in Pakistan on August 4 to seek the “strongest” action against countries that back terrorism and pilloried those who eulogize terrorists, delivering […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The pro-immigration advocacy group led by Michael Bloomberg is already shifting its focus to 2017, with a new campaign launching Wednesday, August 3, focused largely on making the economic case for overhauling […]
We have a tradition in the United States. When you lose an election, you take the L, and you move on. It’s what John Adams did after he lost to Thomas Jefferson in the 1800 […]
WASHINGTON: In a first, the Federal Aviation Administration has given license to a private US company, co-founded by an Indian American, to launch a spacecraft and land on moon in 2017. This breakthrough US policy […]
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