WASHINGTON (TIP): Republican presidential front-runner Donald Front is holding forte in New Hampshire with a double digit lead over his nearest rival Marco Rubio while Democratic presidential aspirant Bernie Sanders has a massive lead over […]
DALLAS (TIP): In a scathing ruling issued last month a state judge in Lubbock declared that prominent Dallas trial lawyer Bill Brewer committed misconduct when he used so-called push polling to improperly influence potential jurors […]
MOUNTAINVIEW, CA (TIP): As one of Google’s earliest search pioneers steps down and the company’s leader in artificial intelligence takes his place, analysts say the move signals the company’s desire to make its search engine […]
JERSEY CITY, NJ (TIP): A group of Indian-Americans supporting Donald Trump have decided to campaign and run advertisements in New Hampshire after the Republican presidential front-runner suffered a shock defeat in Iowa. A decision in […]
Many people involved in the massive evacuation of Indian expatriates from Kuwait in 1990 are disappointed at the mischaracterization of the role of the politicians, diplomats and airline officials in Airlift, a new Hindi film based […]
When the creative impulse of a young engineer is stifled and the dreams of transcending the “fatal accident” of his birth shattered, there is a disturbing aspect to his struggle for justice and equality, the grave […]
The Supreme Court hearing in the political row in Arunachal Pradesh has thrown up three interesting issues concerning a Governor’s role under the Constitution. The first is about a Governor’s powers. Though it is too early […]
WASHINGTON(TIP): The University of Chicago has established a professorship for the study of Sanskrit with a $3.5 million gift from an Indian-American couple to help it advance the study of the Indian subcontinent. The Anupama […]
WICHITA, KAN (TIP): Envision recently announced that it has awarded two new postdoctoral fellowships including one to Indian American Arun Kumar Krishnan, Ph.D., for research to be conducted at its Envision Research Institute (ERI), based here. His studies are expected to […]
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. (TIP): The Executive Committee of the Advisory Board of Lehigh Valley LaunchBox, a University- and community-sponsored business accelerator program, approved and announced $50,000 in micro grants to 13 projects for the program’s […]
EDISON, NJ (TIP): Yoga (Surya Namaskar) marathons, presentations, pledges to stay fit during the rest of 2016 by hundreds of Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS) volunteers and yoga enthusiasts marked the concluding ceremonies of the 9th […]
BERGEN COUNTY, NJ (TIP): A 25-year-old Indian woman in the US has been sentenced to three years’ probation for money laundering and faces imminent deportation for her role in a $170,000 phone scam in which […]
MERCER COUNTY, NJ (TIP): A 47-year-old Indian-American woman in New Jersey has been arrested on charges of murdering her mother-in-law in their residence. Tasneem Diwan was arrested on Friday, a day after she allegedly struck […]
DES MOINES (TIP): The races for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations are taking shape now that brave Iowans have had their say. In some cases, the results confirmed conventional wisdom. In others, it totally […]
NEW YORK (TIP): President Barack Obama, in his first presidential visit to a mosque in the United States, said Wednesday, Feb 3, he was seeking to rebut “inexcusable political rhetoric against Muslim-Americans” from Republican presidential […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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