NEW YORK (TIP): The FCC said that it is fining AT&T $100 million for misleading mobile customers about its “unlimited” data plans. AT&T (T, Tech30) subjected its unlimited data plan customers to significantly slower speeds after they used more than […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday, June 18, that he will close large parts of New York City’s two most celebrated parks to car traffic on weekdays. The closings in […]
ALBANY, NY (TIP): State Senator Tony Avella and Assembly Member James Brennan announced, June 17, that their bill to provide a means of nonprofit incorporation for organized groups affiliated with the Hindu, Sikh, and Islamic […]
NEW UORK (TIP): Hindus have commended His Holiness Pope Francis for his call to respect and protect environment in his 192-page first Encyclical “Laudato Si (Praise Be): on the Care of our Common Home” released […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A police source said that a wedding guest’s gun went off accidentally at New York’s swanky Waldorf Astoria Hotel and four people suffered minor injuries from debris. The incident happened last week […]
Prime Minister Modi has surprised his own people and, no doubt, external observers, by his foreign policy activism since he took office. In his year in power he has travelled abroad 16 times- and 19 if […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): Militants blew up a primary school for boys early this morning in Pakistan’s volatile Bajaur Agency bordering Afghanistan. No casualty was reported as no one was inside the building when the explosion took […]
DHAKA (TIP): A top Bangladesh Islamist leader could be executed within months after the Supreme Court on June 17 upheld his death sentence for war crimes during the country’s 1971 battle for independence against Pakistan. […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Four moderate earthquakes with magnitudes between 4 and 5.2 jolted Nepal early on June 17, taking the total number of aftershocks to 320 after the devastating earthquake struck the country on April 25. […]
LAHORE (TIP): : Pakistan’s ISI had held Osama bin Laden prisoner for nearly six years in Abbottabad and handed him over to the US in a staged raid, a media report said on Wednesday in […]
SACRAMENTO (TIP): In California’s capital city of Sacramento this month, stark black billboards loomed over highways and faded commercial strips, offering solace to the troubled: “Looking for the answers in life?” one asked. “Discover Muhammad.” […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): “In America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take,” joked American politician Adlai Stevenson, sometimes described as the greatest president US never had. An already packed field of White […]
BERKELEY, CALIF (TIP): A 21st-birthday party thrown by a group of visiting Irish college students turned tragic early June 15 when the fifth-floor balcony they were crammed onto collapsed with a sharp crack, spilling them […]
CALIFORNIA (TIP): When most of us share a photo of our dinner on Facebook, it’s usually to show off how delicious it looks – not because it resembles mistakenly deep-fried vermin. But that’s exactly why […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): American lawmakers cutting across party lines passed legislation on June 15 aimed in part at strengthening intelligence and security ties between India, Israel, and the US, ahead of PM Narendra Modi’s visit to […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US Senate voted on June 15 to ban torture during interrogations, a measure aimed at ending brutal techniques that were used on terror suspects following the 9/11 attacks of 2001. The measure […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): BJP patriarch L K Advani’s statement that “forces that can crush democracy are stronger” made in the context of the Emergency imposed by the Indira Gandhi government in 1975, created a buzz in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A day after it filed an FIR against former Union Textiles Minister Shankarsinh Vaghela, the CBI June 18 registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) against former Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh and his […]
JAIPUR (TIP): Amid raging Lalitgate row, Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje on June 19 cancelled her visit to Punjab where she would have come face-to-face with BJP president Amit Shah for the first time since […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Days after special forces of the Indian Army carried out cross-border strikes on three insurgent camps located in Myanmar, the neighbouring country has shifted six camps manned by various insurgent groups to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme court on June 19 granted bail to jailed Sahara group chief Subrata Roy but said he would be released from Tihar Jail only after the group paid up Rs 10,000 […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Non-governmental organisations will soon have to start furnishing details of foreign funds received and utilised by them for ‘civil rights advocacy’, a new category created by the home ministry to ascertain whether […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): From Bollywood actors to world leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes it a point to wish them on their birthdays on Twitter. Today, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi added to that list. […]
PURI (TIP): The four deities in the 12th century Jagannath temple in Puri were replaced earlier this week with new ones after 19 years with four temple servitors infusing life into them, marking the end […]
Father’s day is a festival inaugurated in the early 20th century to honor fathers and forefathers. This festival is celebrated in many countries all across the world to express gratitude for fathers. This festival is celebrated […]
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