LONDON (TIP): British police have made two further arrests and searched multiple properties as they widened their investigation into May 22 fatal hacking to death of a British soldier in broad daylight on a busy […]
DHAKA (TIP): The defects and errors that led to the world’s deadliest garment-industry accident extend from the swampy ground the doomed Rana Plaza was built on, to “extremely poor quality” construction materials, to the massive, […]
KATHMANDU, NEPAL (TIP): A Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world’s third highest mountain. The five disappeared on Monday on Mount Kanchenjunga, and bad weather was preventing a rescue […]
BEIJING (TIP): China on Thursday refused to give any guarantees that its investments in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir would not go up merely out of respect for Indian sensibilities. The signal came from the Chinese foreign […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday he had given a “wish list” of military equipment to India during his visit this week, presenting a conundrum for New Delhi as it weighs […]
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS (TIP): The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks on Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders – a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and […]
SYDNEY (TIP): Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said that she would look into the issue of allowing Sikhs in her country to wear the turban while at work and also while riding motorcycles. “We […]
BEIJING (TIP): North Korea’s authorities have opened the border town of Sinuiju to Western tourists, Chinesebased travel agencies said, despite international tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear test in February. The move opens up the possibility of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama sought on Thursday to advance the US beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than […]
“So to the indifferent inquirer who asks why Memorial Day is still kept up we may answer, it celebrates and solemnly reaffirms from year to year a national act of enthusiasm and faith. It embodies […]
CHICAGO, IL (TIP): Renowned dancerchoreographer Leela Samson led a Bharata Natyam troupe of eight talented dancers from Kalakshetra (Chennai) in presenting Spanda (Vibration) on Saturday, May 4, 2013 at the Metea Valley High School in […]
MILWAUKI (TIP): On February 1, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin sentenced Arvind Ahuja, a Milwaukee neurosurgeon, to serve three years of probation and to pay a fine of $350,000 […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): India’s Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, on an official visit to the United States, continued dialogue in to another day on May 21 with senior US Government leaders including Secretary for Homeland Security […]
CAMBRIDGE, MA (TIP): Grassroots Indigenous rights heroes too often go unrecognized. Yet their efforts to promote the rights of their peoples and protect their traditions, languages, and resources are critical to cultural survival. On April […]
The writing is on the wall as China does not have good track record of strategic comfort and reliability vis-a-vis India. The current incidence of Chinese incursion into Indian territory in Daulat Beg Oldie region […]
The devastating tornado that ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, killing at least 24 people including eight children, is one of the worst human tragedies in America in recent years . When disaster strikes, sometimes you can’t […]
Sharif will face three major challenges when he comes to power. He will have to restore electricity and boost the economy. He will have to deal with domestic terrorism. And he will have to work […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Passion for geography runs deep in Sathwik Karnik’s family. When he was about 6, his mother began challenging Sathwik and his older brother, Karthik, to her version of hide-and-seek – using an atlas. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The major highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific Northwest region collapsed Thursday evening, dumping at least a handful of vehicles and people into a river, the Washington […]
SARATOGA, CA (TIP): An 18-year-old Indian-American girl has invented a super-capacitor device that could potentially charge a cell phone in less than 20 seconds. Eesha Khare from Saratoga in California was awarded the Young Scientist […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Friends in Adoption (FIA), a licensed, not-forprofit domestic infant adoption agency with a 30 plus year history, is holding a number of free adoption information meetings throughout New York State, to educate […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A many as 21 lawmakers have lent their support to the Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination. Srinivasan, […]
THE GALLERY OF CROOKS AND ROGUES NEW YORK (TIP): Shady politicians and their backroom deals cost taxpayers at least $49,710,630.64 – enough cash to build two schools, bankroll the New York Islanders or pay for […]
Ashok Kumar Yadav, a Haryana Cadre India Administrative Service officer was recently in New York. He was visiting to study the new technologies available for production of fertilizers in Haryana. The Yadav couple stayed with […]
Vijay Goradia of Houston was named by Houston Technology the Honoree of the Year for his entrepreneurial drive that has resulted in his company, Vinmar International Inc, a 34 year-old petrochemicals marketing group, to become […]
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