BOSTON (TIP): Former President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton are being honored during the Harvard School of Public Health’s centennial celebration. At Thursday’s ceremony in Boston, the former president will receive a Centennial Medal […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Months after the US military was hit with a $37 billion budget cut that threw it into turmoil and confusion, the Pentagon is headed into the new fiscal year facing a similar threat […]
DETROIT (TIP): Detroit was operating on a “razor’s edge” and had no options to avoid running out of cash and filing bankruptcy, the city’s top adviser testified on Thursday in a trial to determine whether […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif trooped into the White House on October 21 for a meeting with President Obama in the face of multiple repudiations from the United States over Islamabad’s pet peeves: […]
(CALIFORNIA) TIP): A 13-yearold California boy carrying a replica of an assault rifle to a friend’s house was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy who believed the gun was real, authorities said. The incident […]
STRASBOURG (France): Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate and long-time political prisoner, has finally collected the European Union’s 1990 Sakharov prize for human rights. In October 21 stirring ceremony, European Parliament President […]
SAVAR, BANGLADESH (TIP): Orphans who lost their parents when a garment factory complex collapsed in Bangladesh vented their grief and anger at leading western retailers on Thursday as the country marks 6 months of the […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): The Nepal Army was deployed in the country on October 20 to ensure that the November 19 polls happen smoothly. According to army spokesman Brigadier General Jagdish Chandra Pokhrel, the army has been […]
DHAKA (TIP): Rejecting Premier Sheikh Hasina’s proposal for an allparty government to oversee Bangladesh’s next general election, opposition leader Khaleda Zia said her BNP party would not participate in the poll process without a nonparty […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghanistan’s intelligence service on October 21 warned candidates in the 2014 presidential election that mobile phones, computers and cameras given to them as gifts could contain hidden bombs. More than 20 candidates have […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Thai doctors say the supreme patriarch, the head of the country’s Buddhist monks, has died. He was 100. Chulalongkorn hospital doctors say Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara died on October 23 from an infection in […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Ending an eight-year-old ban on military supplies, India has handed over some of the equipment, including vehicles and arms, it had pledged to provide to Nepal ahead of crucial polls to be held […]
Is the US president veering toward isolationism? Or will he proudly carry the banner of exceptionalism? The recent Obama-Putin tiff over American exceptionalism reignited an ongoing debate over the Obama Doctrine: Is the president veering […]
With India’s ascent in global hierarchy and American attempts to carve out a strong partnership with India, China’s need for Pakistan is only likely to grow. A rising India makes Pakistan all the more important […]
The Border Defense Cooperation Agreement signed during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to China is without doubt a constructive step towards resolving the boundary dispute. The BDCA itself is not a gamechanger: it simply reinforces […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Backing India’s concerns over the slow pace of progress in the 26/11 case in Pakistan, US President Barack Obama, October 24, asked the visiting Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif why the trial of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): 18-year-old Indian-American Emily Shah has won Miss New Jersey USA 2014 title, following in the footsteps of Nina Davuluri, who was crowned Miss America recently. Emily would now compete for the Miss America […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Thanks to the initiative of bipartisan Congressional Caucus on India and Indian- Americans, US lawmakers are set to have their first-ever Diwali reception to celebrate the Indian festival of lights. An invitation to […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Three Indian-Americans have been elected members of the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM), including Subra Suresh, who has become the only current university president to be elected to all three US national academies. […]
KENDRAPARA, ODISHA (TIP): An NRI couple has been arrested in Saudi Arabia on charges of practising black magic, official sources said here on October 22. Seikh Nizam and Noor Jehan, originally from Odisha’s Kendrapara township, […]
LONDON (TIP): A lottery fund in Britain has provided 450,000 pounds to a Sikh organization to fund research into regimental histories of Sikh soldiers in the British Indian Army during World War I. The United […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A former treasurer of a Gujarati community non-profit association in the US has been charged with stealing $85,844 from its bank accounts. Girishcha Patel, 58, a resident of Franklin Township of Somerset […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): A Newsday report published October 23 gives Bill de Blasio a 3 to 1 ratio in New York City Mayoral election. It says New York City voters are poised to choose […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Sikhs For Justice, a Human Rights Organization based in New York has claimed that on the occasion of 29th anniversary of 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi, a petition signed by around […]
BANGALORE (TIP): Legendary playback singer Manna Dey died at a city hospital early on October 23 morning, after prolonged illness. Dey, 94, who was admitted to Narayana Hrudayalaya five months ago for respiratory problems, died […]
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