Prime Minister Narendra Modi has all along been appreciative of the struggles and achievements of NRIs. His close association with a number of NRIs all across the world is well known. There is no country in […]
WASHINGTON: Twenty of the 22 Indian Sikh asylum-seekers, who were on hunger strike for over two weeks at a detention centre in Florida protesting against alleged unfair practices by immigration department, have been released on […]
While some have a high opinion of India’s growth story since its independence, some others think the country’s performance in the six decades has been abysmal. It’s arguably true that the Five-Year Plans did target specific […]
TOKYO (TIP): A US army helicopter crashed during a training mission on Wednesday while landing on a Navy ship off of Japan’s southern island of Okinawa, injuring seven people and damaging the aircraft, officials said. […]
BERLIN (TIP): Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State (IS) jihadists in northern Iraq have reported being attacked with chemical weapons in recent days, the German defence ministry has said. The allegations, deemed “plausible” by a US […]
PATNA (TIP): The JDU and RJD will contest on 100 seats each in the 243-member Bihar Assembly elections, scheduled to take place in September-October, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar announced on August 12 . The […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Aug 13 hit out at Congress for disrupting Parliament, saying the party’s tactics demonstrated its dependence on power and the anti-democratic mindset which led to Emergency in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The monsoon session of Parliament, which saw protests between the government and the opposition, has been a complete washout. A day after intensified sloganeering by the Congress party and war of words […]
LUDHIANA/NEW DELHI (TIP): India’s ‘Cycle Man’ and founder of Hero Cycles Om Prakash Munjal died at Dayanand Medical College and Hospital in Ludhiana on August 13 morning after a brief illness. He was 86 and […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A 19-member strong team of leading business organizations of Haryana will form a part of the delegation led by Chief Minister Manohar Lal to United States (US) and Canada during his ten […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Security agencies have warned about a possible 26/11 style influx of terrorists from the sea and an attack on BJP offices, asking the forces to remain alert on the occasion of Independence […]
During his Independence Day speech in 2013, a year before he delivered his first speech as prime minister from the Red Fort, Narendra Modi delivered his speech as Gujarat chief minister in a college in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The India-Pakistan NSA-level dialogue which is meant to address “all issues connected to terrorism” is all set to take place as proposed by India on August 23-24. While Indian officials said they […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Pakistan’s high commissioner to India Abdul Basit said on August 14 his country will not “abandon” Kashmiris in their “legitimate struggle” for freedom. “Aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir could neither […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Hilary emails issue boils over and over again, with politicians and now the issue is before the courts, too. And Hilary camp keeps offering explanations. The latest explanation has come from the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Long before Lucy Mercer, Kay Summersby or Monica Lewinsky, there was Nan Britton, who scandalized a nation with stories of carnal adventures in a White House coat closet and endured a ferocious backlash […]
PENNSYLVANIA (TIP): Police in Pennsylvania have arrested a beauty queen for faking cancer. Miss Pennsylvania champion, Brandi Lee Weaver-Gates, of Bellefonte was charged with theft by deception and receiving stolen property. The 23-year-old allegedly would […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Cuban dissidents, so long the center of US policy toward the island, won’t be invited to Secretary of State John Kerry’s historic flag-raising at the US Embassy in Havana on Friday, vividly illustrating […]
CHICAGO (TIP): A 3-year-old boy in the US has become the youngest mayor of a small US town and has been advised by his elder brother who has held the post previously to be nice […]
NEW YORK (TIP): In the series of outreach program the Consulate organized an outreach program for the Indian community on consular, economic, cultural, banking and tourism matters at Concord & Nashua in New Hampshire on […]
NEW YORK (TIP): With an aim to strengthen ties with the local Indian community in Buffalo, Consul General of India, New York, Ambassador Dnyaneshwar M Mulay, would be leading a delegation of high-ranking diplomats, and […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Six militants who plotted and aided Pakistan’s worst ever terrorist attack at a Peshawar school are set to be hanged after Army Chief General Raheel Sharif confirmed their death sentences. The men, belonging […]
HICKSVILLE, NY (TIP): On a benign Sunday, August 9, the 4th IDPUSA Independence Day Parade set off from the usual starting point in Patel Plaza and headed off to the usual destination on North Broadway, […]
KABUL (TIP): An apparent suicide car bombing at a busy roundabout near the entrance to Kabul’s international airport on Monday killed at least four people and wounded another 15, officials said. A huge plume of […]
COLOMBO (TIP): The Maldives has arrested seven foreigners who left the country illegally by trawler and were headed for a US military base on Diego Garcia, a minister said on August 11. The foreigners were […]
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