NEW YORK: ICICI bank CEO Chanda Kochhar is among three Indians selected for this year’s Asia Game Changer awards given by Asia Society to honour “true leaders making a positive contribution to the future of Asia.” […]
An Oregon police officer who outed his chief for making racist remarks in response to a black woman’s complaints is now claiming that he and his family are fearful for their lives, Agence France-Presse reports. The […]
The police chief of Surf City, North Carolina was abruptly forced into retirement on Tuesday, Sep 15, 2015 after an emergency meeting with city commissioners regarding an angry Facebook rant the chief posted about the […]
Actor Anupam Kher, was presented a “Certificate of Recognition” by the California legislature for his dedicated efforts towards helping the community, which was displaced from the Kashmir valley due to militancy 25 years ago. Humbled […]
In a first, researchers from Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California, led by an Indian-American researcher, have for the first time developed a way to selectively and noninvasively activate brain, heart, muscle and other cells using ultrasonic […]
Swetha Prabhakaran, an Indian American teen entrepreneur and founder CEO of Everybody Code Now!, will receive the prestigious ‘Champions of Change’ award at the White House for empowering the community by imparting Internet coding through […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A new CNN/ORC poll has found that Hillary Clinton’s lead in the race for the Democratic nomination has fallen to just 10 points, and at the same time, her advantage against the top […]
An American man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison on charges of hate crime, for brutally hitting an 82-year-old Sikh with a steel rod outside a gurdwara in the US state of California […]
LONG ISLAND, NY (TIP): In what could be seen as a decisive action by FBI against Harendra Singh, a prominent Long Island restaurateur, FBI agents arrested him on multiple criminal charges at dawn Wednesday, September […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The great Bihar Battle is on. The Election Commission on Wednesday, September 9, announced the dates for Bihar assembly polls. The five-phase election will be held in October-November; the first phase will […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Dealing a decisive defeat to Republicans’ attempts to derail the controversial Iran deal, Senate Democrats on Thursday, September 10, successfully blocked a measure meant to kill President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Prof. P J Kurien, Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha was honored by the Indian National Overseas and its Kerala Chapter OICC(Overseas Indian Cultural Congress) at a reception given in Flushing, New York, […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Just in time for the kickoff of New York Fashion Week on Thursday, September 10, Roopal Patel has been named the fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, effective immediately. In her […]
NEW YORK: (TIP) An Indian-origin entrepreneur has been named among the most promising businesswomen of 2015 by Fortune magazine in its annual recognition of 10 women innovators, groundbreakers and game changers. Payal Kadakia is the […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Facebook on Thursday, August 27, to announce a momentous record for the social network: 1 billion users in one day. “This was the first time we […]
QUEENS, NY (TIP): According to the Board of Elections website, with 99 percent of the vote in, Grodenchik has 1,856 votes in the race. His nearest challenger, Bob Friedrich, has 1,554. Rebecca Lynch is in […]
15 years ago, this month, a prime minister of India had traveled to the United States for the annual United Nations General Assembly mela. During that visit, he found time to attend a Vishwa Hindu Parishad event in Staten […]
The recent arrest and indictment of Harendra Singh of Singh Hospitality Group on multiple criminal charges has focused on the human weakness for amassing wealth by hook or by crook. The charges against Singh include bribery […]
Defying the Supreme Court and saying she was acting “under God’s authority,” Ms. Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky denied marriage licenses to gay couples on Tuesday [09/01/15]. Ms. Davis has preferred to go to […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan on Sept 10 reiterated its stance for talks with India saying there would be no talks with New Delhi unless the issue of Kashmir was on the agenda. “Any formal talks with […]
KARACHI (TIP): Police in Pakistan say gunmen have shot dead two journalists in separate attacks in the country’s violent port city of Karachi in the last 24 hours. Police say the first attack on Sept […]
MALE, MALDIVES (TIP): A team of human rights lawyers said Sept 10 they will seek international sanctions and travel bans against the Maldives as part of its efforts to secure the release of the country’s […]
LOIKAW (Myanmar) (TIP): Thousands thronged to see Aung San Suu Kyi’s first rally on Sept 10 as the Myanmar opposition leader launched her bid for historic November elections by touring a remote eastern region seen […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Ang Kami Sherpa is one of Nepal’s most experienced “ice doctors” — the mountaineers who brave Mount Everest’s treacherous Khumbu icefall to prepare it for the climbing season — but even he is […]
HOUSTON (TIP): All 172 people on board a British Airways plane had a miraculous escape Sept 11 after an engine of the aircraft burst into flames on the runway just before taking off from Las […]
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