FORDS, NJ (TIP): Addressing a group of Indian Americans at Royal Albert’s Palace here, November 16, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan called upon nonresident Indian community to be partners in the development of India. She […]
Harnessing a potential for the country’s good Harnessing the potential of Indians living abroad for long is a tried method for Mr. Modi. As Chief Minister of Gujarat, he tapped into the rich Non-Resident Indian’s […]
Disregarding threats of non cooperation from Republican Speaker Boehner and his overzealous colleagues, President Obama has exhibited courage and announced executive actions to fix at least a part of the universally recognized broken immigration system. […]
The very first verse in Quran reads, “1:2 (Asad) All praise is due to God alone, the Sustainer of all the worlds (that exist),” and the very last chapter opens with this line, “114:1 (Ali) […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan’s fiery cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri on November 20 returned to the country with a “new strategy” against the government, nearly a month after he went abroad abruptly ending protest against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on November 20 that Pakistan will consult Kashmiri leaders before entering into any dialogue with India. Sharif made the remarks in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan occupied Kashmir while speaking […]
KABUL (TIP): An Afghan man and his girlfriend were each given 100 lashes in public for having sex outside of marriage, officials in the eastern Afghan province of Kapisa told EFE news agency. Dozens of […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa called early elections on November 20 seeking an unprecedented third six-year term in office amid signs of a drop in popularity and demands of his powers to be […]
KUALA LUMPUR (TIP): A minister in Malaysia’s Kelantan state has suggested that a ‘mini’ guillotine could be used to amputate those convicted of stealing in the Muslim state, which is ruled by a fundamentalist party. […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The death toll from a rare pre-winter snowstorm rose to 10 in the northeastern United States on November 20, paralyzing communities for days and dumping more than six feet of snow near […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States plans to increase non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine, including deliveries of the first Humvee vehicles, having decided for now not to provide weapons, US officials said. The increase in non-lethal […]
WASHINGTON: (TIP) Immigrants from the three countries at the center of West Africa’s Ebola crisis are being offered work permits and temporary protection from deportation. US Citizenship and Immigration Services says immigrants from Sierra Leone, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A man charged with raping a 101-year-old woman has said he did not plan the alleged sexual assault and “would have worn a condom” if he had, according to police. The 20-year-old from […]
TALLAHASSEE, Florida: A gunman opened fire at a major university in Florida early Thursday, leaving three people injured, before officers killed the shooter, police said. The latest episode of America’s epidemic of gun violence, happened […]
BOCA RATON (TIP): A Florida woman who came forward November 20 became the fourth in recent weeks to say Bill Cosby gave her pills that made her feel groggy then forced himself on her sexually. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US military action in Iraq has a better chance of success than the last war there because American troops are playing a supporting role to local forces from the start, top officer General […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Mike Nichols, a nine-time Tony Award winner on Broadway and the Oscar-winning director of influential films such as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” “The Graduate,” and “Carnal Knowledge,” died on November 19 at […]
CHANDIGARH, HISAR (TIP): Controversial godman Rampal and his close aides have been booked for murder on November 20. They have been blamed for the six deaths at Rampal’s Satlok Ashram near Barwala during the clashes […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): After a threenation tour of Myanmar, Australia and Fiji that was spread over nine days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the New Delhi aiport on November 20 morning. He was received […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In an unprecedented order, the Supreme Court on November 20 ordered CBI director Ranjit Sinha to completely keep off the 2G case as it found prima facie “credible” the charges that he […]
RAIPUR (TIP): It was not just antibiotics laced with rat poison (zinc phosphide) that was administered on victims of botched surgeries at Bilaspur health camps, local anaesthesia injected on women at the Gaurella camp in […]
Kolkata (TIP): A day before he was scheduled to appear for questioning at the CBI office in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam,West Bengal Transport and Sports Minister Madan Mitra was on November 20 […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A Canadian patent protection may be blocking an Ebola vaccine even as the world is struggling to stop the spread of the deadly virus. Almost a decade ago, Canada developed probably the […]
MEXICO CITY (TIP): Tens of thousands of people angry at the presumed massacre of 43 students marched in Mexico City on Nov 20, many chanting for President Enrique Pena Nieto’s resignation in another day of […]
GILLINGHAM (TIP): Britain’s anti-EU UKIP party won its second seat in parliament on November 21, defeating Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives in a special election six months before what is shaping up to be a […]
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