New Delhi (TIP)- The Reserve Bank of India hiked its key lending rate by 50 basis points to pre-pandemic levels of 5.40 per cent on Friday, a third increase in a row to tame surging […]
New Delhi (TIP)-The Union Cabinet on Wednesday, August 3, approved India’s updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) incorporating Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Panchamrit’ strategy announced at the Glasgow conference aiming to strengthen global efforts to tackle […]
New Delhi (TIP)- Distribution of freebies inevitably leads to “future economic disaster”, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Wednesday, August 3, where it came out in full support of a PIL against the practice […]
African-American singer Mary Milben, who is known for her moving rendition of ‘Om jai jagadish hare’ and ‘Jana gana mana’, is travelling to India to attend the celebrations related to the country’s 75th anniversary of […]
New Delhi (TIP)- Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday, August 5, said that members of Parliament cannot be exempted from being arrested in criminal cases when a session of the House is underway, […]
New Delhi (TIP)- Dressed in all black, Congress leaders took to streets on Friday as they held a nationwide protest against price rise, unemployment, and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) hike on essential items. […]
As India marks its 75 years of independence, search giant Google has found its way to narrate the story of India’s achievements online. Google, on Friday, launched an online project,’ India ki Udaan’ that will […]
Kyiv (TIP): Orthodox chants of mourning resounded in a packed central Kyiv cathedral on August 5 as Ukraine buried an agricultural tycoon with his wife after they were killed in a missile strike that hit […]
Johannesburg (TIP): More than 80 men suspected of the gangrapes of eight women and the armed robbery of a video production crew in the South African town of Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg, appeared in court […]
London (TIP): The family of a comatose British boy at the centre of a life-support battle said on August 3 that it has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in a last-ditch bid […]
Nescopeck (Pennsylvania) (TIP): Fire tore quickly through a house in Pennsylvania, killing seven adults and three children and horrifying a volunteer firefighter who arrived to battle the blaze only to discover the victims were his […]
Ottawa (TIP): Canada said on August 5 it would temporarily ban the import of restricted handguns from August 19 in a move designed to indirectly achieve goals of a gun control legislation proposed in May. […]
Colombo (TIP): The Sri Lankan police on August 4 set an August 5 deadline for the protesters to remove all illegal tents and camps at Galle Face, the epicentre of protests here against the previous […]
Kabul (TIP) : The Islamic State (IS) militant group on August 5 claimed responsibility for a deadly blast in a Shi’ite residential area in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, the group said. The Afghan police said at […]
Lahore (TIP) : A 1,200-year-old Hindu temple here in the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province has been formally opened to the public after it was reclaimed from a Christian family following a lengthy court battle, […]
Islamabad (TIP): Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished southwestern province of Balochistan among the hardest hit, […]
By Mabel Pais Kaushiki Chakraborty’s SAKHI in Concert August 13, 7PM Carnegie Hall 881 7th Ave, New York, NY 10019 Sangeet Natak Academy Awardee KAUSHIKI CHAKRABORTYwith her all-female group SAKHI Thought Process Coming from the […]
Steps to limit freebies or to discourage populism should come through Parliament A general concern over ‘freebies’ pushing the economy to ruin or unviable pre-election promises adversely affecting informed decision-making by voters seems reasonable. However, […]
Nassau County’s ongoing mission to address the opioid addiction crisis is one of the most important and most heart-wrenching issues I contend with as a mother and the ranking member of the Nassau County Legislature’s […]
CHARLOTTE (TIP) : Indian American Dimple Ajmera who became the first Asian-American and youngest woman to be elected to Charlotte, North Carolina City Council in 2017, has been re-elected. In the at-large race on July […]
DALLAS (TIP): Gowri Natarajan Sharma, has become the first person of color and the first Indian American to be elected president of the board of trustees of Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), among the 10 […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Dr. Ponisseril Somasundaran, an Indian American professor of engineering at Columbia University, has been elected Chair of the Hoover Board of Award commemorating the civic and humanitarian achievements of engineers. Named in honor […]
If we look at what BJP was under the long leadership of Atal Behari Vajpayee who was India’s Prime Minister three times and we look at what BJP has become under the leadership of Narendra […]
India needs grassroots, representative politics, not identity politics Even the Hindi heartland would dump Hindutva if a credible alternative offers hope and change. “Even when political Hinduism is pitted against political Islam — as in […]
India’s record on violations against Journalists has been among the worst in recent times. A nation, said to be the “beacon of hope” and the “largest democracy” in the world dropped eight laces to 150 […]
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