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 […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A strong earthquake of 6.7 magnitude on August 10 jolted several parts of Pakistan. The epicentre of the quake was in the border region of Afghanistan and Tajikistan at the depth of about […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Indian-origin Harvard student, Aran Khanna was denied a chance to intern at Facebook after the company learned that one of his creations exposed a critical flaw in its Messenger service, Boston.com reported. […]
DHAKA (TIP): Detectives in Bangladesh’s capital have arrested two suspects in connection with the killing of a secular blogger by suspected Muslim militants last week. Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman Muntasirul Islam said Friday they picked […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): A mild quake measuring 4 on the Richter Scale rocked Nepal early on August 14, triggering panic among the people who rushed out of their houses. The epicenter of the tremor was at […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): The World Food Programme (WFP) is working to provide emergency food assistance to 435,000 people in Myanmar. “A one-month supply of rice, chickpeas, cooking oil, salt and, in some cases, a one-week […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Two earthquakes of moderate intensity jolted the Nepalese capital Kathmandu on Tuesday morning, triggering panic among people who rushed out of buildings. A 4.3 magnitude aftershock was recorded at 10.24 am local time, […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Wipro Chairman Azim Premji and HCL founder Shiv Nadar are the only two Indian tycoons in the top 20 richest people in the world of technology, according to an inaugural list by […]
NEW YORK (TIP): An Indian-American woman entrepreneur and community activist in the Tri-state area, Pam Kwatra, President of Kripari Marketing, was named member of New York City’s Economic Development Corporation’s (NYCEDC) Board of Directors by Mayor Bill de Blasio […]
HICKSVILLE, NY (TIP): The doyen of the Sikh community, Sardar Ishar Singh Bindra left for his heavenly abode on Wednesday, 12th August , 2015. Sardar Bindra has been associated with many social, religious and charitable […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The three week long monsoon session of Parliament proved to be a complete washout even as the penultimate day of the session witnessed one of the bitterest debates in the history of […]
Indian-Origin Sundar Pichai, 43, was named CEO of a newly organised Google, becoming only the third chief executive of the company after Mr Schmidt and cofounder Larry Page. “Really excited about the vision and brilliance of […]
New York Aug 13 (TIP): Indian American Chess whiz Akshat Chandra, a 15-year-old International Master, from New Jersey, won the United States Junior Chess Championship (an invitation-only event reserved for the highest ranked juniors under 20 in the […]
Bangalore August 13 (TIP): Indian rupee breached 65 against US dollar, its weakest since September 2013. The rupee has remained under pressure ever since China has devalued yuan on Tuesday. The rupee resumed higher at 64.72 as against […]
DALLAS (TIP) — Indian American Dr. Amit Pandya of the UT Southwestern Medical Center, has improved a technique to transplant pigment cells that can repair the affected area of skin discoloration from vitiligo. Vitiligo affects about two million people in […]
MARSEILLE: McDonald’s France was forced to apologize on August 12 following the emergence of an internal note reportedly ordering staff not to hand out food to “tramps” at a restaurant on the swish Cote d’Azur. […]
WASSHINGTON (TIP): Faced with evolving cyber challenges, India and the US have decided to join hands in combating cyber crime and bolster their cyber security partnership in various strategic spheres to achieve “concrete outcomes”. “Cybersecurity is […]
SAN DIEGO (TIP): Facial recognition software, which American military and intelligence agencies used for years in Iraq and Afghanistan to identify potential terrorists, is being eagerly adopted by dozens of police departments around the country […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has fired his mission chief in the Central African Republic amid “disturbing allegations” of sexual abuse, even as he reposed “full confidence” in the Indian diplomat Atul Khare, […]
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