MELVILLE, NY (TIP): Rajasthan Association of North America (RANA) celebrated DIWALI on Sunday October 8 at the Huntington Hilton Hotel. The gathering included about 360 prominent guests of Rajasthani descent. The occasion reflected a festive mood and […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Mayor Bill de Blasio may please take note that the Indian festival of Diwali has now grown beyond a community festival and has become a festival of New York City. The amazing gathering […]
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Veteran musician and Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan expressed hope that the new generation understands the spiritual nature of Indian classical music and will continue to keep the tradition alive. […]
ALLAHABAD (TIP): In a welcome reprieve to Talwars, the Allahabad High Court, on October 12, reversed a CBI court judgment and acquitted dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar of the charge of murdering their 14-year-old […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Donald Trump on Thursday, October 12, used his presidential powers to weaken Obamacare after fellow Republicans in Congress had failed to repeal the 2010 law which he loathed no end and have […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Veteran left-arm pacer Ashish Nehra has made a comeback in the 15-member Indian team while selectors once again ignored senior spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja for the threematch T20 series against Australia, starting October 7. The selectors decided to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): On the eve of his coaching career’s biggest assignment, India coach Luis Norton de Matos was asked about his last-minute message to his team. The 63- year-old Portuguese coach turned towards India captain Amarjit Singh Kiyam, sitting next […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Shares of India’s Reliance Communications tumbled as much as 7.8% in early trade on Tuesday to an all-time low after the company scrapped a proposed merger of its wireless arm with rival Aircel, raising doubts about a debt-reduction plan. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Rajnish Kumar, 59, the senior most of the managing directors at State Bank of India (SBI), will become the 25th chairman of the country’s largest lender, succeeding Arundhati Bhattacharya, who is set to retire on 6 October. The government on Oct […]
The EU turned the screw on US tech giants Wednesday, ordering Amazon to repay Luxembourg 250 million euros in back taxes and referring Ireland to the top EU court for failing to collect billions from Apple. Europe’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Home and auto loan rates are unlikely to change, after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) left its key policy rate unchanged on Wednesday, citing higher risks to inflation. The central bank slashed its growth forecast and raised […]
BENGALURU (TIP): PhonePe, Flipkart’s payments platform, has received a capital infusion of about Rs 255 crore, as per filings with the Registrar of Companies (RoC). The development comes after Flipkart’s closure of the blockbuster funding of $4 billion […]
The airline will study the commercial viability of using amphibious planes that can take-off and land from short, unimproved strips of land as well as water bodies NEW DELHI (TIP): Soon you can land on water or small […]
BEIJING (TIP): China on Oct 2 opened a 409-km new expressway costing about $5.8 billion linking Tibet’s provincial capital Lhasa with Nyingchi, which is close to Arunachal Pradesh border. The 409-km toll-free expressway has linked the two major cities […]
MOSCOW (TIP): The Russian defence ministry on Wednesday suggested the United States was supporting Islamic State jihadists, enabling them to mount counteroffensive attacks in eastern Syria. “The main thing preventing the final defeat of ISIL in Syria is not […]
MOSCOW (TIP): Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, on a landmark visit to Russia, and President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a slew of arms and energy deals as the key US ally seeks to deepen cooperation with Moscow. The leaders of […]
LONDON (TIP): Divisions over the future of British Prime Minister Theresa May burst into the open on Oct 6 with allies saying she should carry on and a former Conservative Party chairman claiming the support of 30 lawmakers for a plot […]
BAGHDAD (TIP): Iraqi forces have captured the town of Hawija and the surrounding area from Islamic State, the military said in a statement on Oct 6. With the capture of Hawija, the militants’ last stronghold in northern Iraq, […]
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA (TIP): Newly formed Tropical Storm Nate was blamed on Thursday for at least 22 deaths in Central America as it dumped rain across the region on a path that would carry it toward a potential landfall on the US […]
STOCKHOLM (TIP): Kazuo Ishiguro, the British author of “Remains of the Day”, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy said on Thursday, honouring an “exquisite novelist” a year after giving it to singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. […]
CAST: Philip Ng a, Xia Yu, Billy Magnussen, Qu Jingjing DIRECTION: George Nolfi GENRE: Drama STORY A story about the legendary showdown between Bruce Lee and his nemesis, the martial artist Wong Jack Man. REVIEW Bruce […]
Monica Bellucci is set to star in sci-fi horror Nekromancer, the latest film from brothers Kiah and Tristan Roache- Turner (Wyrmwood). The Italian actress, who has starred in The Passion of the Christ, Spectre and Irréversible, will join Ben O’Toole […]
Hollywood star Julia Roberts said in then beginning of her career she was singularly focused and making it big in movies was her only priority. In an interview, Roberts said, “I was my priority, a selfish little brat running […]
CAST: Varun Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Taapsee Pannu DIRECTION: David Dhawan GENRE: Comedy DURATION: 2 hours 30 minutes STORY Raja (Varun) and Prem (Varun, again) are conjoined twins, who have similar reflexes. They are separated at birth by a […]
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