QUEENS, NY (TIP): Queens Borough President Melinda Katz has announced an allocation of over $5 million of her Fiscal Year 2016 discretionary capital funds to provide SMART Boards, laptop computers and other tech devices to […]
NEW ORLEANS (TIP): A 74-year-old Indian-American motel owner, July 1, pleaded guilty to benefiting financially from sex traffickers who beat women for prostitution in the rooms he rented them at inflated rates. Kanubhai Patel, who […]
RIYADH (TIP): Saudi Arabia on July 2 officially opens a billion-dollar aviation gateway aimed at Muslim pilgrims, in the kingdom’s first airport privatization. Local media said King Salman would inaugurate the Prince Mohammad bin Abdul […]
BEIJING (TIP): Hong Kong is unlikely to follow the US example of allowing gay marriages, its Equal Opportunities Commission has said. The political system in the city, which is witness to pro~democracy agitation, is not […]
PATNA (TIP): Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on July 2 began JD(U) campaign for upcoming assembly elections through a programme called “Har Ghar Dastak” to seek feedback about the work done by the state government […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A parliamentary panel has pitched for 100 per cent hike in salary and daily allowances of MPs and 75 per cent raise in the pension of ex-MPs apart from facilities for their […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The White House on Wednesday lifted a 40-year ban on visitors taking photos, and much-prized selfies, on tours of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Tourists to “the People’s House” on Wednesday were greeted with a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Those with undisclosed overseas wealth have another 90 days to come clean with the government opening the compliance window on July 1. Under the one-time officer, the compliance scheme will be open […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): More than 5,000 people were evacuated from their homes after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in Tennessee overnight and spectacularly caught fire, firefighters and officials said on July 2. The train derailed […]
LONDON (TIP): Grappling with a 150-million-pound budget deficit, the BBC on Thursday announced it is axing more than 1,000 jobs, as senior management services are sacrificed in a massive drive expected to save 50 million […]
DHAKA (TIP): Some 30,000 Indian soldiers guarding the border with Bangladesh have a new mandate under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government this year — stop cattle from crossing illegally into the Muslim-majority neighbour. Roughly every […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government is expected to limit deposits under the proposed gold deposit scheme at 100 grams to deal with concerns that the plan meant to put brakes on import of the precious metal […]
Indian American Teacher Darshan Jain is one of the 108 teachers named by President Barack Obama as recipients of the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Mr. Jain currently serves as the director of […]
South Carolina (TIP) Jul 1: Again a black church in the South went up in flames Tuesday, June 30, night, this time historic Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal in Williamsburg County, South Carolina — 20 years […]
Rome July 1 (TIP): Italy has decided to enter into international arbitration with India over the case of two Italian marines accused in the 2012 shooting of two Indian fishermen. The foreign ministry said on […]
In its latest ‘Inside India’ report, Moody’s Investors Service said the consensus view on India’s economic growth prospects is relatively optimistic and in line with Moody’s baseline forecast of 7.5% expansion in current fiscal. The […]
According to new research led by Indian American Dr. Shivani Patel of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia – Half of heart disease deaths in the United States are caused […]
Indian shuttlers Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa won the Canada Open women’s doubles title after upstaging the top-seeded Dutch pair of Eefje Muskens and Selena Piek in the summit clash here. The third-seeded Indian pair […]
New York (TIP) July 1: The M&A Advisor, a New York-based advisory firm offering intelligence about merger and acquisition activity, recognized the winners of the 6th annual “40 Under 40 Emerging Leaders Awards” on June 29th, New […]
“Canada and India share extremely strong relations. Now, we are focusing on trade and agricultural technology in India,” said Nadir Patel, High Commissioner for Canada to India. He was speaking at a special session ‘India-Canada […]
CHANDIGARH: Nadir Patel, Canadian high commissioner to India, highlighted possibility of greater educational collaboration with not just Indian students studying on Canadian campuses but also vice versa coming true. “At present we have 46,000 Indian […]
“Mastizaade” is an upcoming sex comedy movie starring Tusshar Kapoor and Vir Das in the lead alongside Leone with Ritesh Deshmukh as a guest appearance. “Mastizaade” had been banned by both Examining Committee (EC) and the Revising Committee […]
Indian American Professor Emeritus R. Paul Singh who has held dual appointments in the departments of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and of Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis, has been named […]
CBS News reports (Jun 26) that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security had issued a bulletin warning of possible attacks. The outlet notes that the bulletin is unrelated to the attacks in France, Tunisia and Kuwait. The bulletin comes […]
Purdue University researchers, including an Indian American, have found molecules that shut down the activity of an enzyme essential to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus replication. The virus is in the international spotlight again […]
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