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 […]
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ (TIP): The Indian American community in New Jersey is set to welcome hundreds of participants arriving from India, Canada and various parts of USA at a three day International Hindi Conference of […]
NEW YORK (TIP): In the first week of March, ‘Parinam Kumbh’ (meaning ‘assessment’) of “Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation”, was convened at Dhanbad, Jharkhand, the birth place of ‘Ekal’, 25 yrs ago. More than2,200 delegates from dozen countries […]
MINEOLA, NY (TIP): Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano today issued a Deadly Drug Alert to warn the public of narcotic fentanyl reemerging in the State of New York and Nassau County. Earlier this month, […]
SYDNEY (TIP): India were bowled out for 233 runs while chasing the mammoth total of 328 runs against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground. India started their tour in early December with a loss to […]
More than one million homes across Britain could be heated using green Scandinavian-style technology that takes heat from nearby rivers and canals and pumps it into the home, the government will announce soon. The energy secretary […]
MADRID/MUMBAI (TIP): A rescue plan for Sahara was thrown into disarray on Wednesday, when Spanish bank BBVA SA denied offering a credit line to the bank, scuppering the conglomerate’s claims it would use it to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Aiming to tap into the upbeat investor sentiment, mutual fund houses have filed draft papers with market regulator Sebi to launch over 50 New Fund Offers. Since the beginning of the year, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): State Bank of India (SBI) on Thursday said it will dilute its stake in its general insurance venture SBI General to 49 percent in favour of its foreign partner, with the enactment […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government said would boost imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to improve electricity generation and revive plants worth billions of dollars to fuel economic expansion. India’s plan to import LNG will […]
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