HOUSTON (TIP): Consul General Harish Parvathaneni and Mrs. Nandita Parvathaneni hosted, January 31, a reception at Hilton Houston Post Oak in celebration of India’s 67th Republic Day. A number of Elected Officials and their representatives […]
NEW YORK (TIP): UN panel has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been ‘arbitrarily detained’ in the Ecuadorian embassy in London calling upon the UK and Sweden to end Assange’s deprivation of liberty. “The Working Group […]
My India is a collection of op-ed articles and columns which deal with hot button issues relevant to modern India and which have appeared in mainstream Indian newspapers like the New Indian Express, the Hindustan Times, the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Inmates on death row facing imminent execution use more positive than negative words in their final statements, according to new research. In a new paper, Frontiers in Psychology, researchers Dr Sarah Hirschmuller and […]
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NEW DELHI (TIP): French embassy in Delhi has said there was no ban on wearing turbans in public space while reacting to a charge by a Sikh organization that the community has been fighting for […]
BANGKOK: Add aging western bridge players to the list of desperadoes in Thailand’s seaside resort of Pattaya, a sin city rife with prostitution, corruption and foreign and home-grown gangsters. The bridge players, mostly British but […]
Airlift has one of Akshay Kumar’s best performances – along with other sterling acts. Rich Indian-origin businessman Ranjit Katyal (Akshay) loves profits and dislikes the idea of India. But Ranjit’s golden life in the desert […]
STORY: Teachers Vidya Sawant (Shabana Azmi) and Jyoti Thakur (Juhi Chawla) impart knowledge and values to students in a middle-class school. However, when an ambitious shrew becomes the principal, they are forced to wage a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Noting that he has been maintaining a daily diary for years, President Pranab Mukherjee Thursday underlined the complexities a politician faces when he decides to bring out facts related to governance in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 23 unveiled 100 declassified documents on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose at the National Archives of India. The documents are still not available in the public domain, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Lutyens’ zone, already considered among the most pampered areas in India, has made it to the list of 20 cities to be turned into Smart Cities as part of the Modi government’s […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Going tough on non-performers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent out a stern message to government officials who have not corrected their professional conduct despite repeated warnings. During his monthly interaction with […]
SRINAGAR (TIP): Quietly and without fuss, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti and her mother Gulshah Mufti, widow of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, vacated the Jammu & Kashmir CM’s official residence last week, a senior government official said. […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): A teenage suspect discussed with a British accomplice packing a kangaroo with explosives before setting it loose on Australian police officers, prosecutors alleged on Thursday. Sevdet Ramadan Besim was ordered in the Melbourne […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama directed his national security advisers on Thursday to counter efforts by Islamic State to expand into Libya and other countries, the White House said. Islamic State militants have taken […]
BEIRUT (TIP): The powerful Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its local allies have drawn up plans for a major attack to seize the final stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border held by Islamic State jihadists, a […]
PARIS (TIP): A French police official says a man found to be carrying two handguns has been arrested at a hotel at Disneyland Paris. The official said no one was injured during the arrest on […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Eyebrows were raised when actress and BJP MP Hema Malini was alloted land in Andheri for setting up a dance academy. Now in what could add fuel to the fire it transpires that […]
UDHAMPUR (TIP): Nine Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) cadres were on Wedenesday named in a charge sheet filed by National Investigation Agency in last year’s terror attack case in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur. Two Pakistani terrorists of LeT […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Centre on January 28 formed a one-man judicial commission headed by former Allahabad High Court judge Ashok Kumar Roopanwal to probe the suicide of PhD student Rohith Vemula in the University […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Mayor Bill de Blasio and Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced, January 27, an expansion of New York City’s outreach and engagement with community and ethnic media outlets across the five boroughs. Today’s […]
History, despite Francis Fukuyama’s prediction of it having ended, was made on Saturday, January 16th 2016 inthe “Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu”, aka Chinese Taipei, aka Republic of China or the de […]
LONG ISLAND, NY (TIP): For the first time in the history of India Association of Long Island (IALI), the oath & inauguration ceremony was organized in Suffolk County where IALI was born 37 years ago. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Mixed martial arts fighter Ronda Rousey is “not a nice person.” The golf swing of actor Samuel L. Jackson is “not athletic.” A lectern in the Oval Office “looks odd” and the mobile […]
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