TORONTO: Sikh leaders in North America blame conversions, drugs and migration for the decline in the growth rate of Sikh population in India from 1.9 percent to 1.7 percent as per the 2011 census. “While […]
NEW DELHI: In an assessment shared by India with Australia at a meeting of their joint working group on counter-terrorism here on last Thursday, August 28, as many as 10 Indian youths are reported to be currently […]
TIP September 3: According to media reports, in a controversial statement, senior CPI leader Atul Anjan has accused Sunny Leone’s condom advertisements for the rising number of rape cases in India. The report further stated that […]
Common anaesthetics used during surgeries may help combat viral and bacterial infections in the lung, including influenza and pneumonia, researchers including an Indian American, Krishnan Chakravarthy of Johns Hopkins Institute of Nanobiotechnology have found. A report on the […]
skyTran, cofounded by Indian engineer Ankur Bhatnagar, a path-breaking transportation company headquartered in California, has received financial investment from Google chairman Eric Schmidt. Bhatnagar, a BTech engineer from IIT-Roorkee and an MTech from IIT-Kanpur is the sole Indian […]
MIT Technology Review recently released the 2015 edition of its “35 Innovators Under 35” list, which included four young inventors of Indian origin. The annual list is broken up into six categories: biotechnology and medicine; computer […]
An Indian-origin Sikh migrant driver in Australia has been named ‘Australian of the Day’ for feeding the homeless in Darwin for the past three years. Tejinder Singh works by day as air conditioner mechanic and […]
NEW YORK: A 37-year-old Indian-origin man, who was once one of “America’s Most Wanted” for a 1999 murder of a man, has pleaded not guilty to the crime. Balkumar Singh was arrested in Trinidad in […]
An influential Indo-US business advocacy group has called for expanding the number of the work visas granted to foreign technology professionals every year. “One of the areas where the US has to look at is […]
Indian American scientist & professor Sona Patel, Ph.D. of Seton Hall’s School of Health and Medical Sciences is conducting a new research that could one day make early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other […]
August 28, 2015 New York: Zee TV, the No.1 South Asian Network will now be available on Jadoo TV in Canada. The company has reached a subscriber licensing agreement for its flagship networks Zee TV […]
Ranakpur is named after Rana Kumbha whom Dharna Sah, a Jain businessman, approached when he had the vision of his great temple to ask for the land for its construction. Renowned for some marvelously carved Jain […]
HONG KONG (TIP): The commodities giant BHP Billiton spent heavily for years, mining iron ore across Australia, digging for copper in Chile, and pumping oil off the coast of Trinidad. The company could be confident […]
VIENNA (TIP): Iran appears to have built an extension to part of its Parchin military site since May, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report on Thursday delving into a major part of its […]
The Delhi woman who sued Uber after accusing one of its drivers of raping her in India has voluntarily ended her lawsuit against the company, according to a court filing on Tuesday, September 1, 2015. […]
A special CBI court on Monday convicted four municipal corporation officials and two directors of a private company in the Commonwealth Games street-lighting scam case. This the first conviction in the 2010 Commonwealth Games scam […]
An Alabama police officer went on trial Tuesday, September 1, 2015 on a federal charge of using excessive force against an Indian man who was thrown down and partially paralyzed during a confrontation in a suburban neighborhood. […]
The American Federation of Muslims of Indian Origin (AFMI) has honoured India-born entrepreneur and philanthropist, Frank Islam with the “Pride of India” award. India’s Consul General in New York Dnyaneshwar M. Mulay conferred the award […]
Shaolin Chandam, a 25-year-old Indian national has been shot dead outside his house during an altercation in Hampton, Virginia. Shaolin was from Manipur and was shot several times during an argument in LaSalle Gardens in Hampton […]
Indian American entomologist Sarjeet Gill is one of only 10 new fellows elected this year as Fellows of the Entomological Society of America for 2015. Gill is a distinguished professor of cell biology and neuroscience at […]
NEW YORK: An Indian-origin teen, arrested for playing music from his phone on a subway platform in New York, plans to sue the NYPD after a judge quashed the criminal case, a media report said today. […]
A 33-year-old Indian IT manager has pleaded guilty to sending damaging computer code to servers at his former employer, causing a loss of USD 5000 to firm’s intellectual property. Nikhil Nilesh Shah of New Jersey […]
Bollywood music composer Aadesh Shrivastava, who is admitted to a suburban hospital here, is in a critical condition and is battling cancer. Aadesh, 48, has been in the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Andheri for […]
Now that the dust has settled down on the planned, and then cancelled, meeting between the National Security Advisors (NSAs) of India and Pakistan, one can calmly and rationally analyse the reasons for and assess […]
Dear editor: I read with interest the editorial of professor Saluja and the article by Publy in the Independence Day Special 2015. The great statesman and Indian ambassador to USA in 1977, Nani Palkhivala, had […]
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