MALE (TIP)s: The Maldives returns to the polls on October 19 for another attempt to choose a president after judges annulled last month’s election results, deepening concern about political stability in the fledgling democracy. Regional […]
ATTARI (TIP): While candidly admitting that the media was more or less towing the line of security establishments and their policies while reporting contentious issues of Kashmir, Pakistani thinktanks opined that there were more to […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese rescuers have safely evacuated 86 tourists, including 13 foreigners, who were trapped in heavy snow at the north base camp of Mount Everest in central Tibet. The government of Tibet Autonomous Region […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan’s former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf has denied having ordered the Lal Masjid operation in 2007, even as a fresh petition was filed in a court seeking action against him under the […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): A suicide bomb attack in northwestern Pakistan killed at least eight people, including a provincial law minister, and injured 28 others on the first day of Eid-ul-Zuha. The attack happened on Wednesday evening […]
SYDNEY (TIP): Nearly 100 wildfires raged across Australia’s most populous state on Friday, killing one person, destroying dozens of houses and forcing hundreds of evacuations as the nation’s annual fire season got off to an […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal plans to hold hangouts with his supporters in the US and Canada later this month, seeking contribution from the Indian diaspora for nation building. Kejriwal would […]
CHANDIGARH (TIP): Twenty-nineyear- old Delhi-born Simranpreet Lamba, the US army’s only enlisted Sikh soldier, has also now become the first of the community to be promoted to the corporal rank in America in three decades. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Rahul Gupta, 24, is being held on $2 million bond after a night of drinking and birthday celebrating ended in a bloody stabbing of Mark Edward Waugh on Sunday, October 13 morning inside […]
WASHINGTON: An exponent of Bharatanatayam, Ranee Ramaswamy was confirmed on October 17, as a member of the prestigious National Council on the Arts. Ranee founded the Ragamala Music and Dance Theatre in 1992 at Minneapolis, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden says he did not bring any secret documents with him to Russia when he fled there, ensuring Moscow had no access to the files. In an interview with […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US Senate has confirmed Indian- American woman administrator Nisha Desai Biswal as the assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, making her the first person from the community to hold […]
HOUSTON (TIP): Authorities in the US state of Florida have launched a massive manhunt for two murderers who were mistakenly released from prison after jailers were conned by forged court documents. Charles Walker and Joseph […]
NEW YORK (TIP): For years, the tech billionaire Pierre M Omidyar has been experimenting with ways to promote serious journalism, searching for the proper media platform to support with the fortune he earned as the […]
The author feels that there are a number of vital issues which are unlikely to be settled within the tenures of either Obama or Singh, leaving a lingering note of ambivalence in the US-India relationship […]
Defense Trade to be the Driving Engine Contrary to the forecasts of doom and gloom and the skepticism surrounding his visit to Washington, the third Manmohan- Obama Summit meeting on September 27 has been quite […]
The financial markets worldwide felt relieved after the US Congress reached an agreement shortly before the deadline was to expire on Wednesday. A debt default would have raised the cost of borrowings for the US. […]
SEATTLE (TIP): Kshama Sawant, trained as a computer engineer in her native India and now a professor of economics, is running for a seat on the City Council of Seattle under an unambiguously far-left banner. […]
LONDON (TIP): Hillary Clinton may be tipped as a future US president, but that did not impress a London traffic warden who slapped her vehicle with an £80 (95-euro, $130) parking fine. The former US […]
BEIJING (TIP): Britain opened the door to Chinese investors taking majority stakes in future nuclear plants on Thursday as finance minister George Osborne signed a deal aimed at helping find the billions of pounds needed […]
LONDON (TIP): Eleanor Catton has become the youngest writer to ever win a Man Booker prize. The 28-year-old New Zealander’s book The Luminaries – an 832-page murder mystery based on the gold rush in the […]
Apensioner who trafficked a 10-year-old deaf and mute girl into Britain, keeping her in his cellar to claim benefits, was convicted on October 15 of repeatedly raping her. Ilyas Ashar, 84, was found guilty of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Amidst widespread frustration surrounding the US shutdown and reckless brinkmanship over the debt limit, an Indian-American leader, seeking his maiden Congressional bid, has introduced a vision of bold government reform agenda. One of […]
HOUSTON (TIP): An Indian-American couple has established a tier one scholarship worth more than USD 100,000 in the prestigious University of Houston. Renu Khator, system chancellor and president of the University of Houston, and her […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Louisiana’s Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, plans to create a policy-focused nonprofit group to help Republicans shed their image as “the party of no.” The group called “America […]
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