BEIJING (TIP): Sri Lanka’s new president held talks March 26 with Chinese leader Xi Jinping amid a push to recalibrate his predecessor’s strongly pro-China policies and a review of major Chinese projects in the island […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistani jet fighters killed 30 militants allied to the Pakistani Taliban in a missile attack in the mountainous northwestern Khyber region on March 24, including the group’s spokesman, intelligence officials said. The air […]
COLOMBO (TIP): A lawyer says Maldives’ jailed ex-president Mohamed Nasheed will not appeal his 13-year sentence because the court has not released all documents from the first hearing to prepare a case. Hassan Latheef said […]
KABUL, Afghanistan: Hundreds marched on Monday in the Afghan capital, demanding justice for a woman beaten to death last week by a Kabul mob over false allegations she had burned a Quran — a vicious […]
Ram Navami or the birthday of Lord Rama falls on the 9th day of the bright fortnight of the month of Chaitra (March-April). Ram Navami is one of the most important festivals of the Hindus, particularly […]
MIAMI: Two-time Miami Open winner Victoria Azarenka defeated Spain’s Silvia Soler-Espinosa 6-1, 6-3 on Wednesday to set up a second round meeting with Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic. Former world number one Azarenka made her name with […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Ace midfielder Sardar Singh will lead a full strength Indian men’s hockey team in the 24th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup to be held in Ipoh, Malaysia from April 5 to 12. The […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa’s Curiosity rover has found nitrogen on the surface of Mars, a significant discovery that adds to evidence the Red Planet could once have sustained life, the space agency said. By drilling into […]
LONDON (TIP): The UK Supreme Court today ruled that the 27 highly sensitive letters written by Prince Charles to the government can be published, in a potential setback for the future king. The UK’s highest […]
SANAA (TIP): The Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces launched a fresh air strike against military targets in Yemen’s capital Sanaa and the southern province of Taiz on March 26 night, sources told Xinhua. The airstrike in […]
BEIJING (TIP): China’s government and the tourism industry are both excited about the prospects of India offering visa-on-arrival facility to Chinese tourists. Industry sources said this will result in more than doubling the number of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In an effort to make best use of the “golden opportunity” that the party has, with a majority government at the Centre to showcase, BJP chief Amit Shah has been holding meetings […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reach Ottawa on April 14, ending a 42-year-long hiatus in bilateral visit by an Indian prime minister to Canada. Indira Gandhi was the last Indian prime minister […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Is it all over for Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav? By all indications, yes. The reconciliation efforts within APP have gone nowhere. Sources inside the party say it has been a dialogue […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Taking to task the previous Congress government of Bhupinder Singh Hooda in Haryana, a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has alleged that land rules were relaxed, ignored on more […]
CHICAGO (TIP): A recent video showing classmates taunting a Sikh student on a Georgia school bus – one of them calling the student a “terrorist” – and the 2012 shooting at a Sikh temple in […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Six US lawmakers along with leading advocacy groups have welcomed the inclusion of Sikh, Hindu, and Arab American communities in the Department of Justice’s hate crimes tracking effort. This is the final step […]
The black flag of Isis has replaced the white ones of the Taliban in a swathe of areas, including in Helmand. That is where UK forces spent eight years at a cost of more than 450 […]
Governments apologising for acts committed generations ago do give a veneer, even if superficial, of turning a new page on the blemished past, but there’s competing politics involved. For the large Punjabi community in Canada, the […]
NEW YORK (TIP): “As chair of the Diwali Stamp Project and president of Association of Indians in America-NY, having celebrated the largest Diwali in North America -per New York Times about 200,000 celebrants – I […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): A fiery explosion Thursday, March 26 afternoon in Manhattan’s East Village injured at least 19 people, damaged four buildings and led to the collapse of at least one of them. Neighborhood […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The New York Times reports that the New York Police Department has faced its share of pushback on social media, most memorably when it solicited photos of police interactions on Twitter under […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The trend of Indians returning from abroad to work here has picked up pace with the recovery in the country’s economy. Counter intuitively this is even as the monetary benefit that these executives […]
NEW YORK (TIP): There are 11 Indian-Americans in the Forbes’s list of top venture capitalists – people who put their money on a good idea, see it become a business and stay or cash out […]
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