Report & photos by Zia Khan DALLAS (TX): The rain and the muddy ground failed to dampen the spirit of Indian Americans in Dallas to celebrate the 68th Independence Day of India on Saturday, August […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The protest in Pakistan appears to have reached a crossroads. Late August 20th evening, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Imran Khan addressed his supporters at a massive rally in Islamabad, hours after his deadline […]
LONDON: The first recorded case of an Indian travelling to Switzerland for “suicide tourism” has now been confirmed. In a first of its kind study, researchers in UK have confirmed tremendous spike in a worrying […]
KIEV, UKRAINE (TIP): A Ukrainian official said nine troops were killed in overnight fighting in the streets of the town of Ilovaysk, which lies just east of the rebel stronghold Donetsk. Anton Herashchenko, an adviser […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese authorities have arrested “nearly a thousand” members of a banned religious group. The crackdown comes after members of Quannengshen, or the Church of Almighty God, thrashed a woman to death inside a […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Thailand’s coup leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha was appointed prime minister on August 21 by a legislature he hand-picked, giving the army chief a veneer of legitimacy even while the military presses on with […]
Kashmiri separatists are stakeholders: Pakistan envoy NEW DELHI (TIP): Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Basit has justified his meetings with Kashmiri separatists, describing them as “stakeholders”, and indicated that his country will not budge from its […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and seven others, chargesheeted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a 2G scam-related money laundering case, were on Aug 20 granted bail by a […]
PUNE (TIP): World-renowned yoga guru and founder of the Iyengar School of Yoga B K S Iyengar passed away here early on August 20 morning following illness. 96-year-old Iyengar had been ailing since some time […]
New Delhi (TIP): India and Japan will seek to end impasse over the supply of Japanese US-2 amphibian aircraft to the Indian Navy during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Tokyo from August 31 to […]
AHMEDABAD (TIP): US President Barack Obama’s congratulatory telephone call to Narendra Modi after the Lok Sabha results brought about a thaw in the frosty relationship between the US and the Prime Minister, interim US Ambassador […]
After Hooda, jeers for Jharkhand CM at PM function * Prithviraj Chavan skips Modi event NEW DELHI (TIP): Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on August 21 boycotted both the government functions in Nagpur and refused […]
MADURAI (TIP): Three men allegedly severed the hand of a 17-year-old teenager in Virudhunagar district on August 19 because he disrespected one of them — the husband of a village panchayat president. Police said Karthik, […]
GUWAHATI (TIP): Two people were killed and at least seven were injured in Golaghat town in Assam on Wednesday after police fired to stop an armed mob of thousands from attacking a police station. The […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on August 20 slammed the Narendra Modi government for peddling the schemes and policies of UPA as its own, saying the rival which came to power by selling […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Gurdwaras across the country convened in Washington D.C. August 16-17for an unprecedented grassroots meeting called by the newly formed National Sikh Campaign (NSC) to shape the Sikh image in America. Over 100 Representatives […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): OFBJP Global Convenor Vijay Jolly arrived here August 20th, from Vancouver to a rousing welcome at LA Int’l Airport. OFBJP US President Chandra Kant Patel, LA Convenor P. K. Nayak along with […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): ‘I will free Pakistan from the dictatorship of Nawaz Sharif who is the fake prime minister,’ says Imran. And Sharif does not want to let go. With the result, there is terrible uneasiness […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Metro Washington, DC, Chapter of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO-Metro DC) sponsored a Yoga in Dance program at a capacity filled auditorium of a community center in Rockville, […]
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): The US and its allies are growing increasingly concerned as Afghanistan shows signs of unraveling in its first democratic transfer of power from President Hamid Karzai. With Iraq wracked by insurgency, Afghanistan’s […]
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (TIP): Sri Lanka will not grant visas to UN investigators probing war crimes allegedly committed during the island’s decades-long separatist conflict, President Mahinda Rajapakse said on August 19. “We will not allow […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): As tens of thousands of protesters advanced on the Pakistani capital last week to demand his resignation, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif dispatched two emissaries to consult with the army chief. He wanted to […]
KATMANDU (TIP): Nepalese authorities said Monday they feared an outbreak of diseases as they attempt to reach thousands of people stranded by flooding that has already killed more than 100 people. The swirling floodwaters have […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): American fighter jets and drones continued to pound Islamic State militants in Iraq on August 20, and military planners weighed the possibility of sending a small number of additional US troops to Baghdad, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Despite outrage at home and abroad over the grisly beheading of an American journalist, President Barack Obama is unlikely to deepen military involvement in Iraq or Syria and will instead stay the course […]
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