NEW YORK (TIP): Seeking United Nations intervention, international human rights NGOs have approached UN’s Special Rapporteur on Torture after the denial of commutation plea by the Supreme Court of death row convict Devenderpal Singh Bhullar. […]
CARACAS (TIP): Venezuela’s electoral council announced Thursday night that it would audit the 46 percent of the vote not scrutinized on election night in a concession to opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, who said he believed […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic, deadly disease that affects five million people worldwide. It is irreversible, its cause is poorly understood, and it has a median survival of only about three years. […]
LONDON (TIP): Students from London School of Economics have started receiving email threats from North Korea after it was revealed that a BBC crew came with them undercover filming from within the secretive state. The […]
AAPI INFIGHTING TO THE FORE AAPI is a representative organization of American physicians of Indian Origin. The 30 year old organization has a membership of more than 52,000. AAPI claims proximity with the centers of […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Bank of America BAC -3.66% recorded net income of $2.6 billion in the first quarter, significantly above last year’s $653 million, on $23.7 billion in revenue. Earnings of 20 cents per share […]
ALBANY (TIP): Governor Andrew M. Cuomo nominated , April 12, Thomas F. Prendergast to serve as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Mr. Prendergast has served more than three years […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) expresses strong and unequivocal condemnation of the bombings on April 15, 2013 directed against innocent victims in Boston, Massachusetts, USA that killed three […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Alien Tort Claim Act or ATS violated the core principle of respectful co-existence by and between sovereigns/nations in the comity of nations – and invited retaliatory reciprocity whereby other nations could […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A bipartisan group of senators formally filed legislation early Wednesday, April 17 calling for border security as the cornerstone of immigration reform. The bill also would prevent undocumented immigrants from reaching full legal […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The centerpiece proposal on background checks in the proposed changes to a gun control bill failed to win enough support in the Senate April 17. The vote on the so-called Manchin-Toomey amendment was […]
Today, I’d like to talk about India’s growing influence, felt in the East through its “Look East” policy and in the west, particularly as we move toward the transition in Afghanistan. I’ll highlight how India’s […]
Last month Beijing confirmed its plans to sell a new 1,000 megawatt nuclear reactor to Pakistan in a deal signed in February. This pact was secretly concluded between the China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) and […]
April 17 blast in Bangalore and the Boston terror attack, which happened a day before, offer interesting parallels. While it was the first terror strike after 9/11 in the US, in India terrorism remains a […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and actor Aamir Khan have been named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people in the world in its annual list of global achievers that also […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The comprehensive protocol on the examination of sexual assault victims has recommended doing away with the insensitive twofinger test and unscientific practices such as giving undue importance to the build of the victim. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): An Indian researcher is part of a team led by a renowned Japanese scientist that has developed a new way of making the only known drug used for treating bird and swine […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A young Indian- American economist whose pioneering work on education was cited by President Obama in last year’s State of the Union address has won a prestigious award that is often called the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian- Americans and the Muslim community in the US joined their shocked countrymen in condemning the Boston bomb blasts that killed three persons and injured about 140. “We hope that the perpetrators will […]
There are many viewpoints that are located around the town and many visitors can be seen at these places. Undoubtedly, it continues to be the jewel crest of Meghalaya Cherrapunjee seems to be a place […]
Ileana D’Cruz, who shot to fame with Barfi! has been roped in by Sanjay Leela Bhansali for his next film, Gabbar. The project is a remake of 2002 Tamil film Ramana and marks the Bollywood […]
Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Pooja Salvi, Gaelyn Mendonca, Evelyn Sharma Direction: Rohan Sippy Genre: Romantic Comedy Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes STORY: All the world’s a stage for theatre actor Ram Parmar. In […]
Kangana Ranaut, who was shooting in the Chambal Valley for her next film, Revolver Rani, almost had an encounter with the dacoits that the area is (in) famous for. The actress was returning to Gwalior […]
Gwyneth Paltrow probably has plenty of fans, but it seems the blonde beauty has even more haters as she has topped the list of the 20 Most Hated Celebrities in Hollywood. The gorgeous and perfectly […]
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis shared a romantic getaway over the weekend as they toured Bruges and Belgium in a horse-drawn carriage. The former ‘That ’70s Show’ co-stars took in the sights of the cobblestone […]
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