WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama will not accept action by Congress that “locks in” sequestration spending constraints, White House budget director Shaun Donovan said on March 12 as Republicans prepare to release their budget […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Empowered by a technology developed by the CIA, the US Justice Department uses secret airborne devices that mimic cellphone towers to track American citizens while hunting criminal suspects, a media report has said. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Obama on Wednesday nominated career diplomat David Hale as the US ambassador to Pakistan amid continuous misgivings about the country’s commitment to fight terrorism, fueled by new disclosures that Islamabad tried to […]
LONDON (TIP): A domestic inquiry into alleged war crimes committed during the Sri Lankan civil war may be set up in less than a month, President Maithripala Sirisena said on his trip to Britain. He, […]
TORONTO (TIP): Canadian immigration officials have arrested a Pakistani man who they say was plotting to attack the US consulate and other buildings in Toronto’s financial district. The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada said […]
DHAKA (TIP): The wife of an American blogger and critic of religious extremism who was hacked to death in Dhaka last month said that police stood nearby when the couple were attacked on a university […]
LETPADAN, MYANMAR (TIP): Myanmar police beat students with batons and detained some of them as they broke up a group of about 200 protesters who had been locked in a standoff with security forces for […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has inaugurated a new session of parliament, praising the country’s security forces in his speech. Ghani made an address Saturday as parliament reconvened. He said insurgents who tried to […]
What the senators did could technically count as treason. The good news is that Republicans in the Senate have noticed that their government is involved in a negotiation with Iran to prevent it acquiring a nuclear […]
It is fitting that the 30th anniversary of India’s defining victory in the World Championship of Cricket, which was celebrated this week, has coincided with the current team’s stirring run in the World Cup. Sunil Gavaskar’s […]
Describing Hinduism in India as “anti-human rights” and accusing former Afghan President Hamid Karzai of helping “India stab Pakistan in the back,” General Musharraf acknowledged on February 13 that “Pakistan had its own proxies” in Afghanistan and […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done well by focusing on Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri Lanka for diplomatic engagement, something that was long awaited. It has been 28 years since an Indian PM made a stand-alone visit […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director Rajat Gupta said his insider-trading conviction should be thrown out because prosecutors failed to prove their case under a sweeping appeals court ruling last year, says […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Women’s Education Project (WEP) will honor Kayce Freed Jennings of The Documentary Group and the film Girl Rising with WEP’s Red Bangle Award. The ceremony will be held on March 16th at […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Neither Hillary Clinton nor anyone working for her read tens of thousands of emails she stored on a private server to identify personal emails before she deleted 31,830 of them, says a […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A New York University initiative to provide higher education to prison inmates will be led by an Indian-American professor. The Prison Education Program announced March 2, will bring college education to jailed […]
NEW YORK (TIP): If we look at the headlines or the latest horrifying YouTube clip, today – International Women’s Day – may seem a bad time to celebrate equality for women. But alongside the stories […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States government will start accepting petitions for the H-1B visas, the most sought after work visa for Indian IT professionals, from April 1, an official release said. The congressionally mandated cap […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The contentious Land bill on March 10 passed the Lok Sabha test after the government carried out nine amendments to it and persuaded most of its allies to support, setting the stage […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a sensational twist to the Hindalco coal block allocation case, a special court here on March 11 summoned former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as an accused while summarily rejecting the CBI closure […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Arun Kumar Singh, a 1979 batch Indian Foreign Service officer, has been named ambassador to the United States in place of S Jaishankar, who took over as foreign secretary on January 28. […]
NEW YORK (TIP): An Indian American woman, who was convicted in 2013 of harboring an illegal immigrant at her upstate New York mansion for over five years and subjecting her to slave-like conditions, has lost […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Officials in the US have sparked controversy by approving a powdered alcohol that can be mixed into drinks, snorted or even sprinkled onto food. Federal regulators last year briefly gave the green light […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM (TIP): Kerala Assembly on March 13 witnessed unprecedented and ugly scenes as opposition members went on a rampage destroying Speaker’s podium and indulged in scuffle with the watch-and-ward staff even as Finance Minister K […]
MIAMI (TIP): Seven US Marines and four aircrew were missing and presumed dead Wednesday after their army helicopter crashed during a night training exercise in Florida, military officials said. The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was […]
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