Q. In your time as the Consul General ofIndia in New York, what were the mostsignificant highs and lows that youexperienced? Well, New York is the center of theUniverse. Although I have served in manyother […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Louisiana’s Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal is laying the groundwork for a likely presidential bid and using his state as a testing ground for policies that play well with national conservatives, according to a […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): A dazed childwith blood pouring down her foreheadand a 60-year-old man shrieking withpain summed up the scene in the cityhospitals as hundred of injured peoplepoured in with torn limbs, shrapnelwounds and blood-spattered bodiessoon […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Foreign Secretary Mr. Ranjan Mathai completed a series of very useful and important interactions at the State Department, including a brief call upon the new U.S. Secretary of State,Mr. John Kerry here on […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The twin blasts at Hyderabad aresuspected to be the handiwork of IndianMujahideen(IM) commander Riyaz Bhatkal. Althoughintelligence agencies are in no rush to jump to ajudgment, their suspicion of IM’s role is derived […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): British PrimeMinister David Cameron visited the site ofa colonial-era massacre in India onFebruary 20, describing the episode as”deeply shameful” while stopping short of apublic apology.On the last leg of a three-day trip aimedat […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States has strongly condemned the terrorist bombings in Hyderabad Feb. 21 that killed more than a dozen people and offered assistance in investigation if requested by the Indian government. “We condemn […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Hillary Clinton has signed up for speaking circuit and will charge a whopping $200,000 per appearance, an amount more than her annual salaray as the US Secretary of State. The $200,000-per-speech fee will […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Bharat Bandh:Nation-wide strike hit banking andtransport sector day two of nationwidestrike. While banking services were onFebruary 21 paralysed with ATMs runningout of cash in metro cities and publictransport disrupted during the Centraltrade […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): An India-born research scientist has driven the last forgotten nail in the coffin of slavery in the United States, a shameful casket that was thought to be long buried after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation […]
Ajanta and Ellora are the pride of Maharashtra. The rock-cut caves of both these sites are world famous and illustrate the degree of skill and artistry that Indian craftsmen had achieved several hundred years ago. […]
MULTAN (TIP): Pakistan police are investigating thecountry’s ambassador to the United States for allegedlycommitting blasphemy in a television show three yearsago, officers said Thursday. Sherry Rehman, an ally ofPresident Asif Ali Zardari, who has been […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Former Nepalese crown prince Paras Shah is inintensive care in Thailand after suffering a heart attack, the Nepaleseembassy in Bangkok said Wednesday.Shah, 42, who had been living in Thailand, was admitted to hospitallate […]
Mila Kunis has said that she is tempted to turn her back on Hollywood and start a family with her boyfriend Ashton Kutcher. The Black Swan actress, 29, believes her industry is too “fickle” to […]
MALE (TIP): Amidst continuing stand-off between the governmentand the former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed, who remainedholed up in the Indian mission here for the eighth day, a high-levelteam of the Indian foreign office arrived here […]
Cast: Megan Charpentier, Jessica Chastain, Isabelle Nélisse, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Direction: Andrés Muschietti Genre: Horror STORY: A father abandons his two little daughters in the woods. Their uncle finds them and gets them home after five […]
Socialite Kim Kardashian is curious – about how it feels like to have sex with her. The 32-year-old, who is expecting her first baby with boyfriend Kanye West, expressed her strange thought on her reality […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh haslaunched a crackdown onInternet sites for “hurtingreligious feelings” in themajority Muslim nation amidprotests by Islamic groupsagainst bloggers seen as anti-Islamic, officials said onThursday.Giasuddin Ahmed, vicechairman of the country’stelecommunications regulator,told AFP at least […]
Playing it cautiously, director Prabhudeva is attempting to stay clear of any stray news pertaining to Ramaiya Vasta Vaiya. However, since the film is being shot in Punjab, curiosity got the better of us and […]
NEW YORK (TIP): An Indian-American lawyer, who liedabout her work experience and shaved nearly 20 years offher age in an effort to be admitted to the British bar, hasbeen convicted by a New York judge.The […]
Director Vishwas Patil’s Rajjo talks about the issue of mujra houses that are dying a slow death in today’s world of competition and the changing social order. Kangana Ranaut, who plays a mujrawali in the […]
PM Cameron’s admission of colonialshame, while short of an apology orreparations to the heirs of thoseslaughtered, is welcome by all who insistthat history must be honest and not a tool ofadded insult to those who […]
Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Neha Sharma, Nasser Direction: Vinnil Markan Genre: Romantic Comedy Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes STORY: Damsel in distress moves into bad neighbourhood and is bailed out by a golden-hearted, lovelorn don. Of […]
Just as Herodotus is the father ofhistory, Thucydides is the father ofrealism. To understand thegeopolitical conflict zones of the 21stcentury, you must begin with the ancientGreeks. Among the many importantlessons Thucydides teaches in his Historyof […]
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