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SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
CONTD FROM Vol 7 ISSUE 31 || 1 || O bride of natural beauty, offer your loving prayers to the Lord. The Lord is pleasing to my mind and body; I am intoxicated in my […]
India
Superstar Salman Khan to Face Homicide Charge
MUMBAI (TIP): A Mumbai court has ruled that Bollywood movie star Salman Khan will be tried for homicide for his alleged involvement in a fatal road accident more than 10 years ago. One man was […]
India
Narayana Murthy recalled from Retirement to lead Infosys again
BENGALURU (TIP): : Struggling IT major Infosys has recalled its founder N.R. Narayana Murthy and returned control of the company that has disappointed investors with poor earnings in the last nine quarters and losing ground […]
India
China hosts Antony, Sharif
NEW DELHI (TIP): Desperate to play ‘peace-broker’ in India-Pakistan ties, China on July 4 hosted Defence Minister AK Antony and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif separately, but projected it as a rare diplomatic event. As […]
India
MAOISTS STRIKE AGAIN, KILL TOP COP, 5 POLICEMEN IN JHARKHAND
RANCHI (TIP): Armed Maoists on July 3 ambushed a police convoy killing a superintendent of police and five others near the West Bengal- Jharkhand border. The attack took place in a jungle stretch between Kathikund […]
India
Bansal named CBI witness
NEW DELHI (TIP): Former Union Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, whose nephew Vijay Singla and nine others have been chargesheeted by the CBI in the Rs 10 crore cash-for-post bribery case, has been named as […]
India
Rescue operation over in Badrinath
Dehradun (TIP): The mammoth multi-agency rescue operations to evacuate all stranded pilgrims and tourists in the flood-ravaged Uttarakhand concluded on July 3 with a group of 155 persons being evacuated from Badrinath. In all, around […]
United States
Narayana Murthy recalled from Retirement to lead Infosys again
BENGALURU (TIP): : Struggling IT major Infosys has recalled its founder N.R. Narayana Murthy and returned control of the company that has disappointed investors with poor earnings in the last nine quarters and losing ground […]
United States
Remodeled Antuns by Minar hosts Rahat Fateh Ali Khan in Hicksville, NY
NEW YORK (TIP): The newly-renovated Antuns by Minar in Hicksville, New York hosted singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for a media night recently. The well-attended media event saw a brief performance by Rahat Fateh Ali […]
Business & Economics
MOVIE REVIEW -GHANCHAKKAR
Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Vidya Balan, Rajesh Sharma, Namit Das Direction: Raj Kumar Gupta Genre: Thriller Duration: 2 hours 19 minutes STORY: A Maharashtrian thief married to an aggressive Punjabi woman carries out a bank heist. […]
United States
Man with guns, explosive devices arrested in Seattle
SEATTLE (TIP): Law enforcement is investigating a Nevada man who was driving a stolen pickup truck that contained a cache of dangerous weapons. The man, who was arrested Wednesday, June 3 night near the University […]
United States
Politically connected ex-Mutual Bank president barred from banking
CHICAGO (TIP): Amrish Mahajan, former president of failed Mutual Bank of Harvey and a major fundraiser for imprisoned former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, has been barred from future participation in the banking industry under a newly […]
United States
Vivek Wadhwa named to Time’s List of Top Tech Thinkers
NEW YORK (TIP): Vivek Wadhwa, who holds academic appointments at Singularity University, Stanford University and Duke University, and last year was named to Foreign Policy magazine’s list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers, was named […]
Indian Americans
National GOP launches Indian American Executive Council
CHICAGO (TIP): The National Republican Congressional Committee has formed an Indian American Executive Council to “facilitate communication between NRCC and the Indian American community” and to “advise the Republican Party on key issues important to […]
Indian Americans
Indian American convicted for the Largest Hepatitis-C Outbreak in Vegas
LAS VEGAS (TIP): Dipak Desai, a former Indian American doctor has been convicted of 27 criminal charges against him. The former Las Vegas doctor and Endoscopy clinic owner is responsible for the largest hepatitis C […]
Europe
Indian American honored with Healthcare Visionary of the Decade Award
MUMBAI (TIP): Mukesh Hariawala, an Indian American Cardiac Surgeon has been honored with the prestigious Indian Healthcare Visionary of the Decade award. A Harvard trained and internationally acclaimed Surgeon and Healthcare Economist, Hariawala was acknowledged […]
United States
Visiting Parliamentarians Felicitated
LONG ISLAND, NY (TIP): At a special gathering held on 25th June 2013 here Mrs. and Subba Rao Anumolu hosted the Telugu Association of North America (TANA)’s felicitation of 12 Indian parliament members who were […]
United States
UN Women Partners with Geena Davis on firstever Global Gender in Film Research Study
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): UN Women is partnering with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media on a global study to analyze the depiction and representation of female characters in family films. The Geena […]
Europe
Statue of Sri Chinmoy and The Eternal Peace Flame Dedicated in Oslo, Norway
OSLO (TIP): Norwegian leaders joined with ambassadors and representatives of 21 nations for the dedication ceremony of the statue of “Dreamer of World- Peace” Sri Chinmoy and The Eternal Peace-Flame at the worldfamous Holmenkollen ski […]
United States
Top American Technology Companies hail passage of US Immigration Bill
WASHINGTON (TIP): CEOs representing top American technology companies including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco have hailed the passage of the comprehensive immigration reform bill by US Senate, arguing that this would give a big boost […]
Business & Economics
Egypt: The True Revolution has begun
The fast developing situation in Egypt and the rapid ouster of President Mohamed Morsi has puzzled many and belied the expectation of those who thought that the revolution started two and a half years ago […]
Business & Economics
Egypt coup: the military has not just ousted Morsi; it has ousted democracy
While millions of Mohamed Morsi’s opponents continue to celebrate his ousting, they ignore the long term fallout of the army’s intervention on state and society. The soft coup is fraught with risks and widens the […]
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Egypt’s Morsi, Lincoln and Janis Joplin
Agender-insulted Tunisian lit himself up and ignited the Arab Spring. Social media (SM) gave it wings. Egypt’s Morsi and the Brotherhood came to power in Tahrir q e and caused the unhappy ending of our […]
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Thank you, Governor
New Yorkers must be grateful to Governor Cuomo for announcing on Ju ly 2 the formation of the “Commission to Investigate Public Corruption” under the Moreland Act and Executive Law Section 63(8) to probe systemic […]
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Snowden’s PRISM: Friends Looking Out for Friends Or Spying and Breach of Privacy
Eddie Snowden has unleashed into the sunlight a core shadowy principle of statecraft, which Ronald Reagan in the midst of his warm engagement with Mikhail Gorbachev seeking to end the Cold War and the falJ […]