New Delhi (TIP)- India on Thursday, Jan 6, dismissed Pakistan’s fresh offer to host the long-pending summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc), saying there is no consensus that will allow the […]
Dehradun (TIP) : A Delhi University student pursuing graduation in science, he was in his hometown Kotdwar in Pauri Garhwal district when Mumbai Police arrested him in connection with the web-based hate app case. Mayank […]
Bengaluru (TIP) : India’s home-grown testing kit OmiSure, developed by the Tata Medical and Diagnostics (Tata MD) to identify the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in samples taken from the nose and throat, was approved by […]
Lohri is a popular winter folk festival celebrated in the northern region of the country, particularly in Punjab. Every year, it falls on January 13. This is the time the Sun starts moving towards the […]
07 JANUARY 1967 Irrfan Khan, who rejuvenated the characters of Hindi cinema world, stepped into the world. 1980 After less than three years of the overthrow of power due to emergency, the people of India […]
“Vivekananda, original name Narendranath Datta, Datta also spelled Dutt, (born January 12, 1863, Calcutta [now Kolkata]—died July 4, 1902, near Calcutta), Hindu spiritual leader and reformer in India who attempted to combine Indian spirituality with […]
“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”-Mahatma Gandhi January 7 January 7, 1714 – A patent was issued for the first typewriter […]
JOHANNESBURG (TIP): The first report of the much-awaited South African Commission of Inquiry into State Capture has confirmed the influence that former President Jacob Zuma had in supporting the now-defunct newspaper The New Age (TNA) […]
HAMILTON COUNTY, CINCINNATI (TIP): With Aftab Pureval set to become Cincinnati’s first Indian American mayor on Tuesday, January 4, Pavan Parikh, another attorney of Indian descent has been chosen to succeed him as Hamilton County […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Indian American Jeremy Cooney, who made history in 2020 as the first Asian American elected to state senate from upstate New York, says he is going to run for a second term. […]
COLUMBIA CITY, SC (TIP): Dr Aditi Srivastava Bussells, a first-generation Indian American immigrant, made history Tuesday as she was sworn in as a Columbia City Council member in South Carolina. Bussells, who won the 7-member […]
Indian Americans in Biden administration number around 50 now WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): President Joe Biden has nominated four more Indian Americans for key posts, pushing the number of people of Indian descent working in Biden-Harris […]
The three-day annual Shaheedi Sabha (Jor Mela) was held in the sacred memory of Guru Gobind Singh’s two younger sons- Zorawar Singh and Fateh Singh, who were buried, alive in a brick wall here. The […]
On the brink of a new year, the world faces a daunting array of challenges: the resurgent Covid-19 pandemic, the climate emergency, the struggle between democracy and authoritarianism, humanitarian crises, mass migration, and trans-national terrorism. […]
2021 had its share of highs and lows, but what we’re choosing to focus on as the year comes to a close are the Indians who broke barriers and reached significant milestones in their chosen […]
As 2021 comes to an end, the world has been abuzz with new developments in Covid-19 pandemic or anything related to it, but there were Indian-origin techies, actors and entrepreneurs who made a lasting impact […]
The global anti-pandemic fight in 2021 was full of twists and turns: a string of new and cunning variants, a yawning immunization gap between high- and low-income nations, and a distractive politicization of origin-tracing have […]
With the Covid pandemic unrelenting in its second year, the grim reaper found his way into many famous homes taking away their residents. Untimely demises due to death by suicide to accidents, we bid adieu […]
While India was already battling with the COVID-19 pandemic this year, climate change-induced natural disasters like floods, cyclones have also been making lives miserable for people in India and sometimes even life-threatening. A flashback at […]
Natural disasters kill an average of 60,000 people per year and are responsible for 0.1 per cent of global deaths, according to data. With climate change becoming more and more evident, we bring to you […]
The year 2021 has been one of the busiest years for NASA in low-Earth orbit. The space agency also made progress on its Artemis plans for the Moon, and had a very active year exploring […]
Pandemic rages amid vaccination In 2021 as the vaccines were rolled out across the world, the COVID-19 surge continued unabated as large portions of the world continued to remain unvaccinated. The Omicron variant detected in […]
While people bid adieu to the ‘unlucky 2020’ that was touted to be the cursed and worst year in many decades, and ushered in 2021 with hopes of normalcy, the year proved to be even […]
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella organisation of 32 farmer unions, on December 9 decided to call off its year-long protest at New Delhi’s borders against three contentious farm laws which have now been […]
One good thing can be said about 2021: it wasn’t as tumultuous as 2020, which put in a claim to be the worst year ever. That, however, may be damning with faint praise. Yes, the […]
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