Actor Jennifer Lawrence says she is taking a year off and in her free time she will work towards motivating young people to focus on politics. The 27-year-old actor says she will step back from the spotlight in 2019 […]
Vidya Balan picked powerful women characters even before “female centric cinema” became mainstream in Bollywood and the actor, who has pioneered a change in the concept of the Hindi film heroine in the last decade, says her choices are often guided […]
Actress Kangana Ranaut will don khadi outfits in her upcoming film ‘Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi’. In a statement, Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) said the attire of the lead cast of the movie is being sponsored by it. The movie showcases the […]
Parineeti Chopra, who will be sharing screen space for the first time with Akshay Kumar, says she is excited to work with the superstar in “Kesari”. The film, being directed by Anurag Singh, will see Akshay essaying the role […]
MUMBAI (TIP): After 70 years of Independence power supply has finally reached Elephanta Caves near Mumbai. A 7.5-km long undersea cable has brought electricity to the world-famous Gharapuri Isle, which houses the UNESCO world heritage site. “It’s a […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Kamal Haasan’s telegenic charm was on full display on Feb 21 night when he told a rapturous crowd of supporters in Madurai that his new party would be called the Makkal Needhi Maiam. The Tamil words roughly translate into People’s […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Relative to India, China is a late entrant in the Maldives, a key Indian Ocean nation and the only SAARC member-state Prime Minister Narendra Modi is yet to visit. But China may well have stolen […]
KOHIMA (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi today expressed firm resolve that the “Act East Policy” would be made a reality to connect people of the North- East with South East Asian countries to ensure speedy development. He emphasised that the development of the North-East […]
The army chief also defended Shopian firing by forces, saying stone-pelters were hampering military operations NEW DELHI (TIP): Army chief General Bipin Rawat said Indian army will give Pakistan a reply “sooner rather than later” for the February 10 terror attack […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India has been ranked 81st on the global corruption perception index for 2017, released by Transparency International, which named the country among the “worst offenders” in terms of graft and press freedom in the Asia Pacific region. The […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Congress will not declare its chief ministerial face ahead of the Rajasthan Assembly polls, party general secretary in-charge for the state Avinash Pande said on Thursday, stressing that it has been the party’s “tradition”. He […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Central Bureau of Investigation on Feb 22 arrested Rotomac promoter Vikram Kothari and his son Rahul Kothari on charges of cheating a consortium of seven banks by siphoning off bank loans to the tune Rs 2,919 crore. […]
President Trump seems convinced that more guns in the hands of more people can secure school and community. In his listening session with survivors of Stoneman Douglas High School Parkland, Florida shooting which resulted in death of 17 young students, Trump […]
MINEOLA, NY (TIP): Human Rights Commission of Nassau County organized, February 20th, a vigil for the victims of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida. County Executive Laura Curran, Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder, Legislator John […]
LONG ISLAND, NY (TIP): At a Nargis Dutt Cancer Foundation Board of Directors meeting held last month, the Board elected Andy Mansukhani as President of the Foundation. The Directors called upon their former President to […]
EDISON, NJ (TIP): Bollywood Actor Abhishek Bachchan was in New Jersey on Feb 15 in connection with Magic Bus Fundraiser held at Albert Palace in Edison, new Jersey. Our photographer Mohammed Jaffer who has known […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Job growth in New York City has outpaced the nation and New York state since the end of the recession, according to a report released today by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. […]
DALLAS (TIP): The fight over Texas Central Railway — aka. the Texas Bullet Train — rests on many of the contentious fault lines that shape the Lone Star State. City interests versus rural identity. Urban […]
By Mabel Pais “It was really after the 2016 election, that Beau (Willimon, playwright) went in and changed the political surround. And, what it did because the stakes of the world got higher, it just really […]
India’s biggest lender, State Bank of India has reported 1,069 loan fraud cases in the last five financial years but has not disclosed the amount. That is the magnitude of “accepted failure” in SBI under […]
Billy Graham played multiple roles on the world stage as a spiritual leader. He was the most admired religious leader in the world. He was considered to be America’s pastor and a pastor to US […]
By Arvind Panagariya and B Venkatesh Kumar With approximately one year left before voting for the next Lok Sabha elections begins, you would expect the government to be seized by populism. Not the Modi government. […]
The first videographed discussion took place at a senior center in New York By Mukund Mehta, President, Indo-American Senior Center, New York NEW YORK (TIP): Ashok Vyas, President of Insight for Creativity LLC — dedicated […]
NRA: Guns are the problem, do something SUNRISE, FLORIDA (TIP): Survivors of the massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, took center stage, Feb 21, at a town hall hosted by CNN as […]
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